Science Fiction

Triplanetary

E. E. Smith

This is a science‑fiction saga that begins with a sweeping cosmological premise: two galaxies pass through…

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne

Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island is a science‑fiction adventure that begins with a dramatic, almost…

The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle

The story opens as a first‑person narrator, a newspaper reporter named Malone, recounts a recent expedition…

Pellucidar

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The work is a science‑fiction adventure that begins with a self‑referential letter from a desert‑traveling…

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

H. G. Wells

The volume is a collection of short, speculative tales by H. G.

A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future

John Jacob Astor

The work is a speculative romance set in the far‑future, blending scientific imagination with a narrative of…

Skylark Three

E. E. Smith

Skylark Three is a 1930s science‑fiction adventure that picks up the saga of the original Skylark of Space.

A Pail of Air

Fritz Leiber

A short‑story collection by Fritz Leiber, A Pail of Air places its first tale in a frozen, sunless world…

The Cosmic Computer

H. Beam Piper

The Cosmic Computer is a mid‑century science‑fiction adventure that opens with Conn Maxwell, a Terran…

Astounding Stories, March, 1931

Various

Astounding Stories, March 1931 is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine, printed by the Readers’ Guild in New…

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Cory Doctorow

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a science‑fiction tale that folds the glitter of Walt Disney World into…

The Big Trip Up Yonder

Kurt Vonnegut

The piece is a science‑fiction short story that opens in a cramped, over‑populated future apartment where a…

Little Fuzzy

H. Beam Piper

The story opens on the arid cliffs of the planet Zarathustra, where veteran field‑operator Jack Holloway is…

The Monster Men

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The opening of The Monster Men places the reader in the cramped, fever‑dream laboratory of Professor Arthur…

The Lost Continent

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

The Lost Continent is a blend of adventure, speculative archaeology, and early‑twentieth‑century scientific…

Astounding Stories, July, 1931

Various

Astounding Stories, July 1931, is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine that opens with Jack Williamson’s short…

The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes

H. G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells’s 1899 science‑fiction novel, revised from its original serial form and…

Micro-Man

Forrest J. Ackerman

The story opens with a narrator whose idle thoughts on Plato give way to a startling observation on a…

Armageddon—2419 A.D.

Philip Francis Nowlan

Armageddon, 2419 A.D. is a science‑fiction war story that begins with a striking premise: a man from the…

Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931

Various

Astounding Stories of Super‑Science January 1931 is a periodical anthology that gathers the speculative tales…

Beyond Lies the Wub

Philip K. Dick

Beyond Lies the Wub is a short‑fiction piece by Philip K.

All Around the Moon

Jules Verne

All‑Around‑the‑Moon is a speculative adventure that blends science‑fiction with a detailed, almost…

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930

Various

Astounding Stories of Super‑Science, November 1930, is a pulp‑era science‑fiction magazine that opens with a…

The Skylark of Space

Smith, E. E. (Edward Elmer); Garby, Lee Hawkins

The Skylark of Space is a pioneering work of science‑fiction that launches its narrative with a laboratory…