Science fiction books

Starman's Quest

Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg’s Starman’s Quest launches readers into a future where humanity has finally mastered…

Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner

Ellsworth Douglass

The work is a turn‑of‑the‑century speculative adventure that begins with a newspaper‑style report on the…

Possessed

Cleveland Moffett

Cleveland Moffett’s Possessed is a speculative tale that blends early‑twentieth‑century occult intrigue with…

Spacehounds of IPC

E. E. Smith

Spacehounds of IPC is a science‑fiction adventure that launches straight into the bustling launch‑pad of the…

Edison's Conquest of Mars

Garrett Putman Serviss

Garrett P. Serviss’s Edison’s Conquest of Mars is an early science‑fiction novel that blends speculative…

The Mystery of the Green Ray

William Le Queux

The Mystery of the Green Ray is a wartime adventure that begins on a lazy Bank Holiday in August 1914, when…

Het Geheimzinnige Eiland De Verlatene

Jules Verne

Dit verhaal, geschreven door Jules Verne, combineert science‑fiction met een avontuurlijke overlevingsroman.

The Status Civilization

Robert Sheckley

The story opens with a terse exchange between a bureaucratic official and a newly arrived prisoner,…

Islands of Space

John W. Campbell, Jr.

Islands of Space is a hard‑science adventure that launches its readers aboard an Earth‑built…

Med Luftskib til Mars: Fantastisk Fremtidsfortælling

Meyn, Niels; Klingsey, August

Bogen er en tidlig science‑fiction‑fortælling, der følger fire forskere og en ingeniør, mens de debatterer…

Eight Keys to Eden

Mark Clifton

Mark Clifton’s Eight Keys to Eden is a science‑fiction novella that plunges the reader straight into the…

The Wonder

J. D. Beresford

The Wonder is a speculative tale that begins inside a railway carriage, where the narrator’s attention is…

My Shipmate—Columbus

Stephen Marlowe

The novel is a science‑fiction tale that folds a classroom debate about Christopher Columbus into a broader…

Star Surgeon

Alan Edward Nourse

The opening places you in a bustling interstellar airport where Dal Timgar, a spindly Garvian medical…

The Last Man

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The work is a speculative narrative that blends nineteenth‑century travelogue with a vision of a future…

Doctor Jones' Picnic

S. E. Chapman

Doctor Jones' Picnic is a speculative adventure that blends science‑fiction imagination with a quasi‑romantic…

Space Prison

Tom Godwin

Space Prison is a hard‑boiled science‑fiction tale that thrusts its readers into the immediate aftermath of a…

Pagan Passions

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

Pagan Passions is a science‑fiction novella that thrusts the reader straight into a bizarre, almost…

The Galaxy Primes

E. E. Smith

The Galaxy Primes is a space‑faring adventure that blends science‑fiction speculation with a sharply comic,…

Second Variety

Philip K. Dick

The story opens in a bleak, ash‑strewn battlefield where a lone Russian soldier scrambles up a ruined hill…

Wandl the Invader

Ray Cummings

Wandl the Invader is a mid‑century science‑fiction adventure that opens in the summer of 2070, when a…

The Planet Strappers

Raymond Z. Gallun

The Planet Strappers is a mid‑century science‑fiction tale that opens in a small Minnesota hobby shop, where…

The eternal moment, and other stories

E. M. Forster

The volume gathers a handful of early‑twentieth‑century short pieces by E. M.

Ten From Infinity

Paul W. Fairman

Ten From Infinity is a science‑fiction novella that opens on a bustling Manhattan street, where a pedestrian…