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Short Fiction
Clifford D. Simak
A collection of short fiction by Clifford D. Simak, ordered by date of original publication.
The Jewels of Aptor
Samuel R. Delany
Four companions travel to the mysterious island of Aptor in search of a jewel.
Short Fiction
Andre Norton
A collection of fantasy and science fiction short fiction by Andre Norton.
Metropolis
Thea von Harbou
In a futuristic dystopian city, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a revolutionary activist.
Star Hunter
Andre Norton
On the unexplored jungle world of Jumala the sole survivor of a spaceship crash is heir to a fortune, or has been made to believe so.
Key Out of Time
Andre Norton
While searching a distant world of shallow seas and archipelagos for traces of a galactic civilization, a group of explorers get stranded in the past and face a dangerous enemy.
R.U.R.
Karel Čapek
The development of artificial beings in huge quantities to act as workers and soldiers leads to disaster for mankind.
The Time Traders
Andre Norton
A young criminal volunteers for a government project at a secret base.
Short Fiction
Philip K. Dick
A collection of short works by science fiction legend Philip K. Dick.
The Survivors
Tom Godwin
A group of humans stranded on a deadly planet try to survive the harsh conditions and take revenge on the aliens that left them there.
Short Fiction
Ray Bradbury
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Ray Bradbury ordered by date of publication.
Short Fiction
Robert Sheckley
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Robert Sheckley ordered by date of publication.
Short Fiction
Charles Beaumont
A collection of short fiction by Charles Beaumont.
Short Fiction
Henry Kuttner
A collection of short fiction by Henry Kuttner, ordered by date of original publication.
Gladiator
Philip Wylie
A young man, given superhuman abilities by his scientist father, tries to find purpose and use for his powers.
Short Science Fiction
Isaac Asimov
A collection of short science fiction by Isaac Asimov, ordered by date of original publication.
Short Fiction
Walter M. Miller Jr.
A collection of short fiction by Walter M. Miller Jr., ordered by date of original publication.
Short Fiction
R. A. Lafferty
A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by R. A. Lafferty ordered by date of publication.
Search the Sky
Frederik Pohl
A man visits several worlds as he attempts to discover why humanity is dying out.
Short Fiction
Mack Reynolds
A collection of science fiction short stories by Mack Reynolds ordered by date of publication.
Stand by for Mars!
Carey Rockwell
Young Tom Corbett finally realizes his dream of becoming a Space Cadet but soon he and his classmates find themselves fighting to stay alive in the harsh Martian desert.
Short Fiction
Cordwainer Smith
A collection of short stories by Cordwainer Smith ordered by date of publication.
Planet of the Damned
Harry Harrison
A planetary champion finds himself employed to solve another planet’s pressing problem.
Short Fiction
Algis Budrys
Science fiction short stories by author Algis Budrys.
Short Fiction
Manly Wade Wellman
A collection of horror and science fiction stories by Manly Wade Wellman.
Short Fiction
Poul Anderson
A collection of science fiction short stories by Poul Anderson ordered by date of publication.
The Big Time
Fritz Leiber
A motley collection of servicemembers escape a plot as two mysterious factions wage an epic war across time itself.
Short Fiction
Frederik Pohl
A collection of science fiction stories by Frederik Pohl ordered by date of publication.
Short Fiction
Frank Belknap Long
A collection of short fiction by Frank Belknap Long, ordered by date of original publication.
Plague of Pythons
Frederik Pohl
A man navigates a world torn apart by bouts of spontaneous, unexplained possessions.
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
A scientist named Griffin creates a serum to render himself invisible and subsequently descends into madness.
Short Fiction
E. M. Forster
A collection of E. M. Forster’s short stories, ordered by date of their original publication.
Short Fiction
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Six classic science fiction short stories by Stanley Weinbaum.
Little Fuzzy
H. Beam Piper
On a planet being exploited for its resources, the discovery of a possibly-sentient native species creates consternation and conflict.
The Cosmic Computer
H. Beam Piper
A young man returns to his home planet with news about Merlin, the military super-computer rumoured to be hidden somewhere on his world.
Space Viking
H. Beam Piper
A tragic starfarer seeks revenge in this epic space opera.
Moving the Mountain
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A man recovers his awareness after thirty years abroad suffering from a head injury and returns home to find society utterly changed at its most fundamental levels.
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
A thousand years in the future, the builder of a spaceship discovers his emotions.
The Inheritors
Joseph Conrad
A young writer dabbling in journalism meets a strange, otherworldly woman with long-term political goals.
The Stainless Steel Rat
Harry Harrison
An intergalactic thief tries life on the side of the law.
Islands of Space
John W. Campbell
Four men become the first humans to travel to other galaxies.
Short Fiction
Fritz Leiber
A collection of Fritz Leiber short stories and novellas ordered by date of publication.
Voodoo Planet
Andre Norton
Dane Thorson travels to the safari planet Khatka and encounters an evil witch doctor.
Four-Day Planet
H. Beam Piper
A young reporter gets caught up in intrigue and adventure chasing tallow-wax bounties with the monster hunters on Fenris, a planet with a two-thousand-hour day and four-day year.
The Defiant Agents
Andre Norton
Rival colonies are stranded on an alien world, their memories mixed with those of their ancestors and pitted against each other by the Western and Soviet forces who sent them.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
Prompted by a mysterious Icelandic manuscript, a professor and his nephew, with the aid of a local guide, adventure to the center of the earth through the crater of a dormant volcano.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
A shipwrecked man is rescued by a boat and left on a strange island owned by a physiologist who experiments in vivisection.
Invaders from the Infinite
John W. Campbell
Three scientists join with an alien race to defeat an attacking force.
The Moon Pool
A. Merritt
A group of adventurers search for their friends, who were lost while exploring the otherworldly secrets of a monument discovered on a chain of island ruins.
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells
Two British men become the first humans to reach the Moon.
Plague Ship
Andre Norton
When the rest of their crew falls mysteriously ill after a trading mission, four low-ranking crew members must save their ship from being condemned to drift forever in permanent quarantine.
Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Three male explorers trek into a mysterious civilization populated entirely by women.
The Food of the Gods
H. G. Wells
Two scientists discover a substance which promotes rapid and extreme growth in plants, animals, and humans, leading to unexpected and alarming consequences.
Storm Over Warlock
Andre Norton
On a planet presumed devoid of intelligent life, and in a race to colonize worlds ahead of brutal beetle-like aliens, two surveyors take flight from their hunters and try to uncover the secrets of a place that seems ever less benign.
Short Fiction
H. G. Wells
A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells in a variety of genres ordered by date of publication.
The Skylark of Space
E. E. Smith
A scientist accidentally creates a way to travel to other star systems, while a rival scientist tries to steal all of his work.
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
A mysterious inventor travels to a land far off in time.
Star Born
Andre Norton
Two human protagonists find themselves on opposite sides of an inter-species war.
The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson
An account of the terrifying metaphysical haunting of a recluse’s secluded home.
The Black Star Passes
John W. Campbell
Three scientists from Earth invent space travel and meet extraterrestrial life, but then must defend the solar system from a new threat.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
James De Mille
A shipwrecked sailor travels through a portal to a lost world populated by fantastic creatures and a strange civilization.
Nordenholt’s Million
J. J. Connington
After a strain of bacteria causes the collapse of the world’s food supply, a plutocrat creates a refuge to try to ensure the survival of a chosen few.
Facing the Flag
Jules Verne
An engineer poses as an aide to a scientist whose invention of a world-conquering weapon drives him insane.
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
The first-person narrative of the Martian invasion of 19th-century Earth.
In the Days of the Comet
H. G. Wells
A strange comet collides with Earth, spreading vapors that change human consciousness in a variety of positive ways.
The Maracot Deep
Arthur Conan Doyle
A scientific expedition stumbles upon the remnants of Atlantis.
Beyond Thirty
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A young naval officer finds himself in a forbidden part of the world after storms waylay his ship.
Pellucidar
Edgar Rice Burroughs
An adventurer returns to the hollow interior of the Earth in search of his lost love.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
A London lawyer investigates the relationship between a brilliant scientist and a misshapen misanthrope.
The Land That Time Forgot
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Stranded U-boat survivors and their rescuers contend with dangerous beasts and prehistoric people in a strange lost world.
Back to Methuselah
George Bernard Shaw
Five linked plays explore human longevity and governance.
The Absolute at Large
Karel Čapek
An inventor builds an atomic engine which converts matter into energy, but has the unfortunate side-effect of liberating divinity into the world.
The Moon Maid
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A young man travels to the moon with a group of companions and discovers that it’s inhabited; in subsequent centuries, reincarnations of the same man deal with an invasion of the Earth by the malevolent inhabitants of the Moon.
At the Earth’s Core
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Two explorers burrow deep into the planet’s crust and emerge in a savage land inside a hollow Earth, where they have many adventures.
The World Below
S. Fowler Wright
A time traveler travels to Earth’s distant future in search of two predecessors lost in the same era.
Black No More
George Schuyler
A medical process that makes black people look white revolutionizes American society.
After London
Richard Jefferies
A young man tries to understand his place in the world as he explores a post-apocalyptic England.
Short Fiction
Clark Ashton Smith
A collection of short fiction by Clark Ashton Smith, ordered by date of publication.
First Lensman
E. E. Smith
Virgil Samms, the first individual to receive a Lens from the mysterious and powerful Arisians, works to create the Galatic Patrol to protect all adherents of Civilization from the threat of the Boskonians and their masters, the Eddorians.
The Night Land
William Hope Hodgson
A 17th-century gentleman is reincarnated on a far-future Earth where the sun has died, and scours the hellish landscape for his lost love.
Short Fiction
H. Beam Piper
A collection of science fiction stories by H. Beam Piper ordered by date of publication.
Uller Uprising
H. Beam Piper
450 years in the future, a shrewd general must quell an alien rebellion on a remote colonized planet.
Triplanetary
E. E. Smith
In a universe where all powerful alien races influence the fates of worlds, a war erupts between the Triplanetary League of the inner solar system, pirates led by a mysterious and malicious scientist, and technologically advanced aliens.
The Last Man
Mary Shelley
Love and war in future Europe are thrown into confusion by a global pandemic that obliterates humanity.
Armageddon 2419 A.D.
Philip Francis Nowlan
Adventure hero Buck Rogers battles the forces of the evil Han Empire in 2419 America.
The World Set Free
H. G. Wells
Facing the devastation of a nuclear world war, humanity unites under a world government.
Short Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe
A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, ordered by date of publication.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
A tragic scientist creates a monster in his laboratory.
Looking Backward
Edward Bellamy
A man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes up over a century later in a socialist utopia.
The Airlords of Han
Philip Francis Nowlan
Science fiction hero Buck Rogers continues his crusade against the evil Han empire.
The Purple Cloud
M. P. Shiel
A young adventurer embarks on a polar expedition, only to return to an unbelievably different world.
Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon
A human from the very distant future relates the whole history of mankind to a modern-day human.
The Coming Race
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
While exploring a mine, a man falls through a chasm into an underground world populated by a mysterious race.
Omega
Camille Flammarion
A comet threatens to collide with the Earth, perhaps bringing about the end of the world.
At the Mountains of Madness
H. P. Lovecraft
An Antarctic expedition reveals the horrifying reality of ancient myths in the depths of the continent.