Enjoy this meticulously edited SF Collection, jam-packed with space adventures, dystopian apocalyptic tales and the greatest sci-fi classics: H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The War of the Worlds The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man… Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth 20.000 Leagues under the Sea The Mysterious Island… Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Last Man Edgar Wallace: Planetoid 127 The Green Rust… Otis Adelbert Kline: The Venus Trilogy The Mars Series Malcolm Jameson: Captain Bullard Series Garrett P. Serviss: Edison's Conquest of Mars A Columbus of Space The Sky Pirate… Arthur Conan Doyle: The Professor Challenger Series Francis Bacon: New Atlantis Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland Jack London: Iron Heel The Scarlet Plague The Star Rover… Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde George MacDonald: Lilith H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines She William H. Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land… Edgar Allan Poe: Some Words with a Mummy Mellonta Tauta… H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Cats of Ulthar Celephaïs Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887 Equality… Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Owen Gregory: Meccania the Super-State Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels William Morris: News from Nowhere Samuel Butler: Erewhon Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race James Fenimore Cooper: The Monikins Hugh Benson: Lord of the World Fred M. White: The Doom of London Ignatius Donnelly: Caesar's Column Ernest Bramah: The Secret of the League Arthur D. Vinton: Looking Further Backward Robert Cromie: The Crack of Doom Anthony Trollope: The Fixed Period Cleveland Moffett: The Conquest of America Richard Jefferies: After London Francis Stevens: The Heads of Cerberus Percy Greg: Across the Zodiac David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Stanley G. Weinbaum: Stories from the Solar System Edward Everett Hale: The Brick Moon Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster… C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne: The Lost Continent Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Three Go Back
This is an enormous compendium, but seemingly well curated, well edited, and easy to navigate for all its size.
In this review, “SRCO” means “separately read and commented on”:
* by H G Wells - The Time Machine (SRCO), The War Of The Worlds (SRCO), The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The First Men In The Moon, When The Sleeper Wakes, The Shape Of Things To Come, The Food Of The Gods, In The Days Of The Comet, A Modern Utopia, The War In The Air, The Chronic Argonauts, In The Abyss, The Star, The Crystal Egg;
* by Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (SRCO), Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, From the Earth to the Moon (SRCO), Around the Moon, Off on a Comet, Doctor Ox’s Experiment, The Steam House, An Express Of The Future, The Purchase Of The North Pole, The Clipper Of The Clouds, The Master Of The World, The Castle Of The Carpathians, In the Year 2889;
* by Edgar Allan Poe - A Descent into the Maelstrom, The Facts in the Case of Mr Valdemar, Some Words with a Mummy, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, Mellonta Tauta, The Conversation Of Euros And Charmion, The Colloquy Of Monos And Una;
* by Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (SRCO), The Last Man;
* by Edwin A Abott - Flatland;
* by Jack London - Iron Heel, The Scarlet Plague, The Star Rover, The Red One;
* by Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case Of Doctor Jekyll And Mr Hyde;
* by George MacDonald - Lilith;
* by H Rider Haggard - King Solomon’s Mines, She: A History Of Adventure;
* by William Hope Hodgson - The House On The Borderland, The Night Land;
* by H P Lovecraft - Beyond The Walls Of Sleep, The Doom That Came To Sarnath, The Cats Of Ulthar, Celephais, The Quest Of Iranon, The Other Gods, The Silver Key, The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath, The Colour Out Of Space, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Shadow Out Of Time;
* by Edward Bellamy - Looking Backwards 2000-1887, Equality, Dr Heidenhoff’s Process, Miss Ludington’s Sister;
* by Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court;
* by Owen Gregory - Meccania The Super-State;
* by Margaret Cavendish - The Blazing World;
* by Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels;
* by William Morris - News from Nowhere;
* by Samuel Butler - Erewhon;
* by Edward Bulwer-Lytton - The Coming Race;
* by James Fenimore Cooper - The Monikins: A Tale;
* by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland, With Her In Ourland;
* by Hugh Benson - Lord Of The World;
* by Fred M White - The Four White Days, The Four Days’ Night, The Dust Of Death, A Bubble Burst, The Invisible Force, The River Of Death;
* by Ignatius Donnelly - Caesar’s Collumn;
* by Ernest Bramah - The Secret Of The League;
* by Arthur Dudley Vinton - Looking Further Backward;
* by Robert Cromie - The Crack Of Doom;
* by Anthony Trollope - The Fixed Period;
* by Cleveland Moffett - The Conquest Of America;
* by Richard Jefferies - After London;
* by Percy Greg - Across The Zodiac;
* by David Lindsay - A Voyage To Arcturus;
* by Stanley G Weinbaum - A Martian Odyssey; Valley Of Dreams, Flight On Titan, Parasite Planet, The Lotus Eaters, The Planet Of Doubt, The Red Peril, The Mad Moon, Redemption Cairn, The Black Flame, Dawn Of Flame, The Adaptive Universe, The Circle Of Zero, Pygmallion’s Spectacles;
* by Edward Everett Hale - The Brick Moon;
* by Abraham Merritt - The Moon Pool (SRCO), The Metal Monster, The Ship Of Ishtar, The Face In The Abyss, Dwellers In The Mirage;
* by Edgar Wallace - Planetoid 127, The Green Rust, 1925: The Story Of A Fatal Peace, The Black Grippe, The Day The World Stopped;
* by Otis Adelbert Kline - The Planet Of Peril, The Prince Of Peril, The Port Of Peril, The Swordsman Of Mars, The Outlaws Of Mars;
* by Malcolm Jameson - Admiral’s Inspection, White Mutiny, Blockade Runner, Bullard Reflects, Devil’s Powder, Slacker’s Paradise, Brimstone Bill, The Bureaucrat, Orders;
* by Garrett P Serviss - Edison’s Conquest Of Mars, A Columbus Of Space, The Sky Pirate, The Second Deluge, The Moon Metal;
* by Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World (SRCO), The Poison Belt, The Land Of Mist, When The World Screamed, The Disintegration Machine;