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The Time Machine (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as βThe Time Travellerβ tells the tale of his journey to the year 802,701 A.D. and beyond, where he witnesses the end of human civilization as we know it, as well as...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2) - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a...
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. - Philip Francis NOWLAN
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. - Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Author: Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it occurs to me that my memoirs of the 25th Century may have an equal interest 500 years from nowβparticularly...
Zanoni - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
Zanoni - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with Viola Pisani, a promising young opera singer from Naples, the daughter of Pisani, a misunderstood Italian violinist....
Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley - Lord Dunsany
Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
A coming of age story blended with a swashbuckling road trip through an mythical "golden age" of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given his expertise with sword and mandolin he...
The Ultimate Weapon - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
The Ultimate Weapon - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Author: John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his...
Abandoned - Jules Verne
Abandoned - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a wounded animal--one which must have been fired within the previous three months. The men propose to build a...
The Magic City - E. Nesbit
The Magic City - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Philip and Lucy discover that the city Philip has built using toys, books and household objects, has come alive. This is the account of their incredible adventures in those magical lands, where they meet characters from books and history, mythical...
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George EMERSON
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George EMERSON
- Author: Willis George EMERSON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a world peopled with giants....
A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughsβs Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandish society of ape-, tree- and lizardmen, red-, white-, yellowmen, brains on legs, strange bastions and...
The War in the Air - H. G. Wells
The War in the Air - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
War in the Air was written during a prolific time in H. G. Wells's writing career. Having withdrawn from British politics to spend more time on his own ideas, he published twelve books between 1901 and 1911, including this one. while many British...
Time and the Gods - Lord Dunsany
Time and the Gods - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
Lord Dunsany (24 July 1878 β 25 October 1957) was a London-born Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist notable for his work in fantasy. He was influenced by Algernon Swinburne, who wrote the line "Time and the Gods are at strife" in his 1866 poem "Hymn to...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2) - Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly of the beast-- that is, on board...
The Mabinogion, Volume 3 - Anonymous
The Mabinogion, Volume 3 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction
This is final volume of the Mabinogion. As with the other volumes, these Arthurian tales are translated from Welsh manuscripts and largely represent an earlier and more pagan period....
The Ghost Sonata - August Strindberg
The Ghost Sonata - August Strindberg
- Author: August Strindberg
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Drama
The Ghost Sonata (SpΓΆksonaten) is a play in three acts by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Written in 1907, it was first produced at Strindberg's Intimate Theatre in Stockholm on 21 January 1908... The Ghost Sonata is a key text in the...
Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The children's adventure story covers Gulliver's visits to the lands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. (Summary by Laurie...
Lilith - George MacDonald
Lilith - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy...
Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground - Ludvig, Baron HOLBERG
Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground - Ludvig, Baron HOLBERG
- Author: Ludvig Baron HOLBERG
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Satire / Science Fiction
Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as "Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum" (1741) is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian-Danish dramatist, historian, and essayist, born in...
King Arthur and His Knights - Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
King Arthur and His Knights - Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
- Author: Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian legends about Sir Lancelot, the Knights of the Round Table, Queen Guinevere, and the search for the Holy...
Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch - Eva Katherine GIBSON
Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch - Eva Katherine GIBSON
- Author: Eva Katherine GIBSON
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Annie Elfrida McLane lives in a little brown house of the South Dakota prairie, within sight of the Black Hills. Her father is a widower and prospects for gold there; Annie lives at home with her grandmother and the servants, Marthy Stubbs and Pete...
Hans of Iceland - Victor HUGO
Hans of Iceland - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Hans of Iceland was written in 1821 and is the very first novel written by young Victor, years before he became the great Hugo. It has all the ingredients of a gothic novel: dreadful murders by the hand of a human monster, a young hero in love with...
The Three Mulla-mulgars - Walter De la Mare
The Three Mulla-mulgars - Walter De la Mare
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Three monkey brothers, Thumb, Thimble, and Nod, are Mulla-mulgars or royal monkeys. As she dies, their mother gives them the enchanted Wonderstone for protection, and tells them to follow their father. They embark on a journey of fantastical...
David and the Phoenix - Edward ORMONDROYD
David and the Phoenix - Edward ORMONDROYD
- Author: Edward ORMONDROYD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on the mountain ledge. There stood an enormous bird, with a head like an eagle, a neck like a swan, and a...
The Red Hand - Arthur Machen
The Red Hand - Arthur Machen
- Author: Arthur Machen
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Two London gentlemen ponder the evolution of humankind as they investigate a modern-day murder committed with an ancient tool. - Summary by Wanda White...
The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Author: LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Elizabeth the same woman, is she married with children, is her husband a spy? These and many other questions are...
Five Children and It (Version 2) - E. Nesbit
Five Children and It (Version 2) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to...
The Scarecrow of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Scarecrow of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Fantastic Fiction
The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal favorite of the Oz books and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow,...
Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams - Annie DENTON CRIDGE
Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams - Annie DENTON CRIDGE
- Author: Annie DENTON CRIDGE
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The text features nine dreams experienced by a first-person female narrator. In the first seven dreams, she visits the planet...
An Arthurian Miscellany - Various
An Arthurian Miscellany - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
A collection of works that explore the rich and evocative legend of King Arthur. The exploits of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been a staple of British literature through the centuries, drawing together themes of pagan wizardry, the...
Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirely of Aryan women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social...
The Five Jars - M. R. JAMES
The Five Jars - M. R. JAMES
- Author: M. R. JAMES
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
The Five Jars is the only novel written by James, who is best known for his ghost stories. It is a peculiarly surreal fantasy apparently written for children. While he is out walking, the narrator is drawn to a remote pool, and finds a small box...
Lady Into Fox (Version 2) - David GARNETT
Lady Into Fox (Version 2) - David GARNETT
- Author: David GARNETT
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
An everyday tale of a young Victorian housewife who turns into a fox and the troubles her husband then has in dealing with her increasingly wild antics, that is, her essential fox nature. A unique take on the perennial tale of the troubles that must...
Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) - William Morris
Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
William Morris initiated the genre of high fantasy in a number of short novels written toward the end of his life. But he had already experimented with the genre much earlier in stories written for the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, which he...
The Adventures of Ulysses - Charles Lamb
The Adventures of Ulysses - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, "I have gained a...
With Her in Ourland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
With Her in Ourland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner. In Herland, three American young men discover a country inhabited solely by women, who...
The Ninth Man - Mary Heaton VORSE
The Ninth Man - Mary Heaton VORSE
- Author: Mary Heaton VORSE
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
A fictional town in Italy is conquered by a heartless tyrant. He issues a strange but cruel edict: in thirty days, each ninth person, chosen by lot, shall designate secretly whom he wishes put to death in the public place. (Summary by TriciaG)...
The Ball and the Cross - G. K. Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Religious Fiction
The Ball and the Cross is G. K. Chesterton's third novel. In the introduction Martin Gardner notes that it is a "mixture of fantasy, farce and theology." Gardner continues: "Evan MacIan is a tall, dark-haired, blue-eyed Scottish Highlander and a...
Mopsa The Fairy - Jean Ingelow
Mopsa The Fairy - Jean Ingelow
- Author: Jean Ingelow
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Jean Ingelow (1820 β 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord Tennyson as the first female Poet Laureate when he died in 1892. Mopsa the Fairy, written in 1869 is one of...
The Inheritors - Joseph Conrad
The Inheritors - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process. Written before the first World...
A Princess of Mars (Version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (Version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Romance
John Carter is mysteriously conveyed to Mars, where he discovers two intelligent species continually embroiled in warfare. Although he is a prisoner of four-armed green men, his Civil War experience and Earth-trained musculature give him superior...