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Lucian's True History - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
Lucian's True History - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Author: LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Genre: Satire / Science Fiction
One of the earliest works of science-fiction (nearly 2,000 years old). It has space travel (including war in space), lunar civilization, and aliens, along with more fantasy elements, such as the afterlife and Greek gods. A satire on contemporary...
The World with a Thousand Moons - Edmond HAMILTON
The World with a Thousand Moons - Edmond HAMILTON
- Author: Edmond HAMILTON
- Genre: Science Fiction
Other than boasting of having a thousand moons, this nasty planet could only brag of having the most numerous, vicious, mean, death dealing set of animals every encountered anywhere. The atmosphere was nice though if you didn't mind the screams of...
Short Science Fiction Collection 075 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 075 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Nequa or The Problem of the Ages - Jack Adams
Nequa or The Problem of the Ages - Jack Adams
- Author: Jack Adams
- Genre: Science Fiction
Nequa or The Problem of the Ages is one of the first feminist science fiction books published in the United States. It was first serialized in the newspaper Equity, and two editions were published in Topeka, Kansas in 1900. The voyage described in...
Short Science Fiction Collection 072 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 072 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
The Green Millennium - Fritz Leiber
The Green Millennium - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
From the classic science-fiction and fantasy author Fritz Leiber comes this intriguing tale of a green cat. From the author's introduction: "The world Phil Gish lived in was not a pretty one, and Phil didn't enjoy living in it. He was disillusioned,...
Snowball (Version 2) - Poul William Anderson
Snowball (Version 2) - Poul William Anderson
- Author: Poul William Anderson
- Genre: Science Fiction
Simon's new source of power promised a new era for Mankind. But what happens to world economy when anyone can manufacture it in the kitchen oven?... Here's one answer! and it isn't pretty - Summary by The publisher...
Warrior of Two Worlds - Manly Wade Wellman
Warrior of Two Worlds - Manly Wade Wellman
- Author: Manly Wade Wellman
- Genre: Science Fiction
"He was the man of two planets, drawn through the blackness of space to save a nation from ruthless invaders. He was Yandro, the Stranger of the Prophecy—and he found that he was destined to fight both sides." Another swashbuckler in space from...
Bullet With His Name - Fritz Leiber
Bullet With His Name - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
In "Bullet with His Name," two alien beings have come to give gifts to an Earthman. But this is not altruism; it is, rather, a test. "The fate of his race hangs on his reactions to [the gifts]." And one of the aliens mentions that he himself is "a...
Olga Romanoff - George GRIFFITH
Olga Romanoff - George GRIFFITH
- Author: George GRIFFITH
- Genre: Science Fiction
Olga Romanoff (1894) is a science fiction novel by the English writer George Griffith, first published as The Syren of the Skies in Pearson's Weekly. The novel continues (from The Angel of the Revolution) the tale of a worldwide brotherhood of...
Round the Moon (Version 2) - Jules Verne
Round the Moon (Version 2) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Science Fiction
Jules Verne’s sequel to his “From the Earth to the Moon” begins with a short chapter to catch you up, if you missed the first book. Then we join our three adventurers in their huge projectile as they gather themselves after the shock of being fired...
The Time Machine (Version 6) - H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (Version 6) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Time Traveller entertains the guests at a dinner party with the tale of his journey forward in time to A.D. 802,701 using his new invention, a time machine. The future of humanity is so disturbing that he decides to return to the present, only...
Legacy (Version 2) - James H. SCHMITZ
Legacy (Version 2) - James H. SCHMITZ
- Author: James H. SCHMITZ
- Genre: Science Fiction
Ancient living machines that after millennia of stillness suddenly begin to move under their own power, for reasons that remain a mystery to men. Holati Tate discovered them—then disappeared. Trigger Argee was his closest associate—she means to find...
Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings
Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of...
In the Clutch of the War-God - Milo HASTINGS
In the Clutch of the War-God - Milo HASTINGS
- Author: Milo HASTINGS
- Genre: Science Fiction / War & Military Fiction
In three parts, from Physical Culture magazine, July - September, 1911. In this story, the author warns of the coming of a world war between Japan and U.S. While the Japanese have a superior society, they suffer from food shortages and...
The First Men in the Moon (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
The First Men in the Moon (Version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the Moon is inhabited by a sophisticated...
An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future - Gregory Casparian
An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future - Gregory Casparian
- Author: Gregory Casparian
- Genre: Science Fiction
Described by io9 as “the first lesbian science fiction novel,” An Anglo-American Alliance is a quasi-farcical tale of love, transformation, and geopolitics set in the far-flung futuristic year of 1960. In it, the titular Anglo-American Alliance has...
Pillar of Fire - Ray Bradbury
Pillar of Fire - Ray Bradbury
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Science Fiction
"We cannot tell you what kind of a story this is. We simply cannot present it as we present other stories. It is too tremendous for that. We are very glad—and proud—to share it with you." - Summary by Planet Stories, Summer 1948...
A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent - Sarah Scott
A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent - Sarah Scott
- Author: Sarah Scott
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published before 1800
Utopian novel by Sarah Scott, published in 1762 describes women living in complete harmony. Summary by kathrinee...
Mists of Mars - George A. Whittington
Mists of Mars - George A. Whittington
- Author: George A. Whittington
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Wild West, reimagined as the Martian landscape, where law is defined by whoever has the biggest weapons, be they guns, ships, or things more mysterious. As stand-ins for Indigenous Americans, the Martians themselves. When Barry Williams, special...
The Green World - Hal Clement
The Green World - Hal Clement
- Author: Hal Clement
- Genre: Science Fiction
The planet was an enigma. Among the thousands of inhabitable planets that had been discovered and visited, Veridis alone seemed to defy the laws of planetary development and evolution. It was extremely young, barely 10 million years had passed since...
Unveiling a Parallel - Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
Unveiling a Parallel - Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
- Author: Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Science Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In this work of utopian science fiction from the Victorian era written by Two Women of the West, a moniker for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Marchant. A man travels to Mars to discover an Utopian world which is parallel to the Earth in some ways,...
Exile from Space - Judith Merril
Exile from Space - Judith Merril
- Author: Judith Merril
- Genre: Science Fiction
“Who was this strange girl who had been born in this place—and still it wasn't her home? ‘They’ worried about the impression she'd make”. “They” worried she would go and never come back. She was returning to a place that was not hers, with ways of...
Terror Out of Space (Version 2) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Terror Out of Space (Version 2) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
"An eerie story of a silver land beneath the black Venusian seas. A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad, of a menace without name or form, and of the man, Lundy, who fought the horror, his eyes blinded by his will....
Citadel of Lost Ships - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Citadel of Lost Ships - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
"It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System. Roy Campbell, outcast prey of the Coalition, entered its depths to seek haven for the Kraylens of Venus—only to find that it had become a slave trap...
Short Science Fiction Collection 074 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 074 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Cubs of the Wolf - Raymond Fisher JONES
Cubs of the Wolf - Raymond Fisher JONES
- Author: Raymond Fisher JONES
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
The Markovian Nucleus was once an existential threat to the council worlds, but then, in the space of only 70-80 years, their culture completely changed. They became model galactic citizens and everyone was too relieved to question their good...
Short Science Fiction Collection 073 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 073 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future - Cicely HAMILTON
Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future - Cicely HAMILTON
- Author: Cicely HAMILTON
- Genre: Science Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future is an early work of dystopian science fiction....
Adaptation - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
Adaptation - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Author: Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Genre: Science Fiction
In 1960 when this was published, the Cold War was at its height. Communism and Free Enterprise (Democracy) were locked in a ferocious struggle to prove that their political ideology was the best form of government for human kind. No holds were...
Short Science Fiction Collection 068 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 068 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Giants on the Earth - Captain S. P. Meek
Giants on the Earth - Captain S. P. Meek
- Author: Captain S. P. Meek
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Earth is ruled by cruel Jovian overlords and has been for 40 years. Earthlings are slaves who seethe with anger but are helpless in view of the Jovian's disintegrating ray weapons compared to their own swords. Will Earth be doomed to suffer this...
Lord of a Thousand Suns - Poul William Anderson
Lord of a Thousand Suns - Poul William Anderson
- Author: Poul William Anderson
- Genre: Science Fiction
A Man without a World, this 1,000,000-year-old Daryesh! Once Lord of a Thousand Suns, now condemned to rove the spaceways in alien form, searching for love, for life, for the great lost Vwyrdda. A great Poul Anderson story. - Summary by Poul Anderson...
The Push Of A Finger - Alfred Bester
The Push Of A Finger - Alfred Bester
- Author: Alfred Bester
- Genre: Science Fiction
Science fiction from the 50s by one of the masters, Alfred Bester. Society has committed itself to complete stability. Nothing is allowed to upset this stability, nothing that is not planned and approved and accounted for in advance. Yes, this is...
The Dragon Queen of Jupiter - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
The Dragon Queen of Jupiter - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
The French Foreign legion has been exported to Space as the Space foreign legion. They are fighting now on Jupiter and the natives, led by their Dragon Queen, are winning. Earth and Mars need places for people to live and grow food but Jupiter may...
The Begum's Fortune - Jules Verne
The Begum's Fortune - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Science Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendants of a French soldier who married the rich widow of an Indian prince. They both decide to go to America and...
The 64-Square Madhouse - Fritz Leiber
The 64-Square Madhouse - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
A machine of blinking lights and smelling of ozone is entered into a Grand Master chess tournament. One of the first of those things called computers. Would it be shamed by human genius or would it out think these human prodigies through sheer...
The Beast-Jewel of Mars - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
The Beast-Jewel of Mars - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
Following the suspicious death of his girlfriend, Captain Burk Winters sets off down the dangerous path of a Martian vice called 'Shanga'-- the Going Back. What starts out as an effort to rescue Jill Leeland will pit the former starship captain...
Hartmann the Anarchist, or the Doom of a Great City - Edward Douglas Fawcett
Hartmann the Anarchist, or the Doom of a Great City - Edward Douglas Fawcett
- Author: Edward Douglas Fawcett
- Genre: Science Fiction
A gem of nineteenth-century science fiction from mountaineer, philosopher and occasional novelist, Edward Douglas Fawcett. Stanley, a wealthy young socialist, is firmly opposed to revolution. But he finds himself on board the Attila, a coal-fired...
Queen Of The Martian Catacombs - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Queen Of The Martian Catacombs - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
This is the very first story with the Conan-like barbarian hero, Eric John Stark. There were more written by Brackett and all just as exciting so look for them if you like swashbuckling space stories. This is not the fantastical Mars of Burroughs,...
