99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories: Works by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Seabury Quinn, Jack London...and many more !

by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, A. Merritt

CONTENTS:

ABRAHAM MERRITT
1. The People of the Pit
AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG
2. Omega
ANTHONY MELVILLE RUD
3. Ooze
ARTHUR TRAIN
4. The Nth Power
CLARK ASHTON SMITH
5. The Black Abbot of Puthuum
DAVID H. KELLER
6. The Jelly-Fish
DAVID H. KELLER
7. The Rat Racket
DAVID H. KELLER
8. The Worm
DONALD ALLEN WOLLHEIM
9. Storm Warning
E.M. FORSTER
10. The Machine Stops
Edgar Allan Poe
11. A Descent into the Maelstrom
12. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
13. MS. Found in a Bottle
14. Mellonta Tauta
15. Mesmeric Revelation
16. Some Words with a Mummy
17. The Balloon Hoax
18. The Colloquy of Monos and Una
19. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
20. The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case
21. The Power of Words
22. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
23. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
24. Von Kempelen and His Discovery
EDGAR FAWCETT
25. The Man from Mars
ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
26. The House That Would Not Wait
ELLIS PARKER BUTLER
27. Wetter New York
FLETCHER PRATT
28. The War of the Giants
FRANCIS FLAGG
29. The Dancer in the Crystal
FRANCIS FLAGG
30. The Mentanicals
FRANK OWEN
31. The Golden Hour of Kwoh Fan
FRANK R. STOCKTON
32. A Tale of Negative Gravity
FRED M. WHITE
33. The Balance of Nature
GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND
34. The Thing From—"Outside"
GREEN PEYTON WERTENBAKER
35. The Man From the Atom
H.G. WELLS
36. In The Avu Observatory
H.G. WELLS
37. The Cone
H.G. WELLS
38. The Crystal Egg
H.G. WELLS
39. The Diamond Maker
H.G. WELLS
40. The Flowering of the Strange Orchid
H.G. WELLS
41. The Land Ironclads
H.G. WELLS
42. The Lord of the Dynamos
H.G. WELLS
43. The Man Who Could Work Miracles
H.G. WELLS
44. The New Accelerator
H.G. WELLS
45. The Plattner Story
H.G. WELLS
46. The Purple Pileus
H.G. WELLS
47. The Sea Raiders
H.G. WELLS
48. The Star
H.G. WELLS
49. The Stolen Bacillus
H.G. WELLS
50. The Stolen Body
H.G. WELLS
51. The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
H.G. WELLS
52. Æpyornis Island
ISAAC ASIMOV
53. Youth
JACK G. HUEKELS
54. Advanced Chemistry
JACK LONDON
55. A Relic of the Pliocene
JACK LONDON
56. A Thousand Deaths
JACK LONDON
57. Planchette
JACK LONDON
58. The Curious Fragment
JACK LONDON
59. The Man With the Gash
JACK LONDON
60. The Red One
JACK LONDON
61. The Shadow and the Flash
JACK LONDON
62. The Strength of the Strong
JACK LONDON
63. The Unparalleled Invasion
JACK LONDON
64. When the World Was Young
JACK WILLIAMSON
65. The Pygmy Planet
KATHERINE MACLEAN & CHARLES DYE
66. Regeneration
KATHERINE MACLEAN
67. Games
KATHERINE MACLEAN
68. The Carnivore
KATHERINE MACLEAN
69. The Natives
LEO SZILARD
70. Report on Grand Central Terminal
MILES JOHN BREUER
71. The Gostak and the Doshes
NELSON SLADE BOND
72.

Genres: Science Fiction, Ebooks

1821 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 5, 2019

About the author

Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.

Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).

The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

Reviews

[July Van Malderen]

This was quite an adventure. I don't feel it's possible to give this book a review based on stars because the quality of the content differs greatly. Some of these short stories are absolutely amazing, others very much the opposite. These are products of their time and reflect the ideas and values of their times. While some of the stories aged well, others really didn't . I am happy to have read all of them because it gives insight into how they used to think about the future.

[MR C J SPENCER · Rating 3 out of 5]

Classic is the key word - although the description starts with a couple of the big names, most of the stories in this collection are older, with nearly everything from the period before spaceflight. If that is what you enjoy, this is a fairly good sample - but you have to accept that the science is very out of date, and this bears little ressemblance to more modern science fiction.

[Allyson Riccardi · Rating 3 out of 5]

the classics - which means some amazing stories but also some serious misogeny/racism

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some great, some good, some bad and some awful.