Science fiction books

The Eyes Have It

Philip K. Dick

The piece is a short, humor‑laden science‑fiction story that opens with a narrator’s accidental discovery of…

The iron heel

Jack London

The Iron Heel is a speculative political novel that blends science‑fiction vision with a sharply observed…

Talents, Incorporated

Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster’s Talents, Incorporated is a science‑fiction tale that opens in the smoky heart of a…

Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch

Mary E. Bradley Lane

Mizora: A Prophecy presents itself as a speculative utopian narrative framed by a first‑person account that…

The Game of Rat and Dragon

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The piece is a science‑fiction short story that plunges the reader into a future where interstellar travel…

The Best Made Plans

Everett B. Cole

The opening of The Best Made Plans drops the reader into a single, breath‑holding scene that feels more like…

That Sweet Little Old Lady

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

The story is a mid‑century science‑fiction spy tale that drops the reader straight into a tense FBI briefing.

Greener Than You Think

Ward Moore

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

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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…

Darkness and Dawn

George Allan England

Darkness and Dawn is a science‑fiction tale that thrusts the reader straight into a ruined world of…

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 War in the Air

H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells’s The War in the Air is a speculative war story that blends early‑twentieth‑century…

The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The Coming Race is a Victorian‑era speculative adventure that blends science‑fiction, utopian vision and…

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…

Tono-Bungay

H. G. Wells

The novel is a sprawling satire that blends science‑fictional speculation with a biting critique of Victorian…

Micromegas

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Micromegas is a short, philosophical tale that blends science‑fiction travel with sharp satire.

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…

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…

From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It

Jules Verne

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…