Essential Science Fiction Anthology (Illustrated)

by Edwin A. Abbott, Edward Bellamy, Edgar Rice Burroughs

29 classic science fiction novels and stories, with table of contents. Contents:

The Island of Doctor Moreau- H. G. Wells
The Brick Moon- Edward Everett Hale
Flatland- Edwin A. Abbott
Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887- Edward Bellamy
The Gods of Mars- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Warlord of Mars- Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars- Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Chessmen of Mars- Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core- Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Land That Time Forgot- Edgar Rice Burroughs
The People that Time Forgot- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Out of Time's Abyss- Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Lost Continent- Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Monster Men- Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Outlaw of Torn- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Invaders from the Infinite- John Wood Campbell
Millennium- Everett B. Cole
Brigands of the Moon- Ray Cummings
Tarrano the Conqueror- Raymond King Cummings
Badge of Infamy- Lester del Rey
The Lost World- Arthur Conan Doyle
Space Prison- Tom Godwin
The Defiant Agents- Andre Alice Norton
Star Surgeon- Alan Nourse
Little Fuzzy- Henry Beam Piper
Adaptation- Dallas McCord Reynolds
The Galaxy Primes- Edward Elmer Smith
The Time Machine- H. G.Wells

Illustrated with 10 unique illustrations.

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About the author

People best know British theologian and writer Edwin Abbott Abbott for his imaginative satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884).

This English schoolmaster authored of the mathematical satire.

He was educated at the city of London school and at college of Saint John, Cambridge, where he as fellow took the highest honors in classics, mathematics, and theology. In 1862, he took orders. After holding masterships at school of king Edward, Birmingham, and at Clifton college, he succeeded G.F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of 26 years. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876.

He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Liberal inclinations of Abbott in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906).

More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk (1886), Philomythus (1891), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman (1892), and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Johannine Grammar (1906). Flatland was published in 1884.

Sources that say he is the brother of Evelyn Abbott (1843 - 1901), who was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece, are in error.

Reviews

[Mike Sobyra · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are classics. Although they are sometimes hard to get your head around, you have to try to read them with the time period of their conception. The major issue I have with most of these is that the only place on earth that heroes of the future can come from is the United States.