Science fiction books

The tunnel thru the air: or, Looking back from 1940

William D. Gann

The work is a speculative narrative that blends religious reflection with an imagined future conflict.

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 First Men in the Moon

H. G. Wells

The opening places the narrator in a sun‑lit Italian garden, reflecting on how a series of accidental…

The Lost Continent

Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

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

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…

The Lord of the Sea

M. P. Shiel

Micro-Man

Forrest J. Ackerman

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

The Coming Conquest of England

August Niemann

The work is a speculative war narrative that imagines a future clash between the great powers of Europe and…

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…

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…

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…

The Purple Cloud

M. P. Shiel

The Purple Cloud is a speculative tale that begins with a framed correspondence from a dying physician, Dr.

The Metal Monster

Abraham Merritt

The story opens as a framed narrative of scientific intrigue and exotic travel.

After London; Or, Wild England

Richard Jefferies

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

James De Mille

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Cory Doctorow

Omnilingual

H. Beam Piper

The Defenders

Philip K. Dick

The Moon Pool

Abraham Merritt

The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror

George Chetwynd Griffith

Black no more: Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940

George S. Schuyler

First Lensman

E. E. Smith