Science Fiction

Greener Than You Think

Ward Moore

Greener Than You Think is a science‑fiction novella that launches with a rambling, first‑person monologue…

The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories

H. G. Wells

The collection gathers H. G. Wells’s short fiction, ranging from speculative science‑fiction to whimsical…

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Arthur Dekker Savage

The story opens on a restless evening in the sprawling, neon‑lit park of C Sector, where Allen Kinderwood, a…

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922

H. P. Lovecraft

The work is a nonfiction collection of essays by H. P. Lovecraft that examines the United Amateur Press…

The World Set Free

H. G. Wells

The World Set Free is H. G. Wells’s speculative war story, written in 1913 and first published in early 1914,…

The Marching Morons

C. M. Kornbluth

C. M. Kornbluth’s The Marching Morons opens in a modest pottery shop near Goose Lake, where Efim Hawkins is…

The Lani People

Jesse F. Bone

The story opens on the frontier world of Kardon, where a recent veterinary graduate, Jac Kennon, discovers a…

Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887

Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 is a speculative social narrative that frames a sweeping…

The Hyborian Age

Robert E. Howard

The work is a sweeping fantasy chronicle that frames the world of Conan by laying out an elaborate prehistory…

The Blind Spot

Hall, Austin; Flint, Homer Eon

The Blind Spot is a science‑fiction adventure born of the early‑1920s pulp era, first serialized in…

A Voyage to Arcturus

David Lindsay

The novel is a blend of science‑fiction adventure and psychological exploration, set up as a séance in a…

The Night Land

William Hope Hodgson

The Night Land is a sprawling work of speculative fiction that begins with a lyrical meditation on love,…

With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kip‑Kipling’s “With the Night Mail” reads as a speculative travelogue set in a future where the…

Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930

Various

Astounding Stories of Super‑Science is a 1930 pulp magazine that gathers a dozen short pieces by a range of…

Twelve Stories and a Dream

H. G. Wells

The volume is a collection of twelve short stories by H. G.

The Hanging Stranger

Philip K. Dick

The story opens on a weary evening in a small Midwestern town, following Ed Loyce, a forty‑year‑old TV‑shop…

The First Men in the Moon

H. G. Wells

The novel opens with a reflective, first‑person narrator who, after a string of business failures, retreats…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbott

Flatland is a speculative romance that uses the geometry of a two‑dimensional world to explore ideas about…

Ask a Foolish Question

Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley’s Ask a Foolish Question is a collection of speculative short stories that explores the…

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

H. G. Wells

The work is a speculative science‑fiction tale set in the late‑nineteenth‑century world of academic research.

Piper in the Woods

Philip K. Dick

The story opens as a routine military inquiry turns surreal on a newly‑established asteroid outpost.

At the Earth's Core

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Burroughs’s At the Earth’s Core is a hybrid of science‑fiction, fantasy adventure and speculative travel, set…

Shaman

Robert Shea

Robert Shea’s Shaman is a work of historical fiction that places a young Sauk warrior, Gray Cloud, at the…

When the Sleeper Wakes

H. G. Wells

The novel opens with a vivid encounter on a rugged Cornish coast, where the young artist Mr Isbister…