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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of speculative science fiction books: Looking Backward 2000-1887, Edward Bellamy Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott Abbott Utopia, Thomas More Gulliver of Mars, Edwin L. Arnold ,The Emerald City of Oz, L. Frank Baum, The Time Machine, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay, 20000 Leagues Under the Seas, Jules Verne, All Around the Moon,...
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Galactic empires. Mighty heroes blasting their way to victory. Galaxy-spanning quests. They're all essential ingredients for a space opera! Here are 6 classic novellas from the pulps, showcasing galaxy-spanning adventures. Included are:
"Thunder to Venus," by Joseph J. Millard
"The Last Outpost," by Nelson S. Bond
"Martian Adventure," by Robert Moore Williams
"A Planet Named Shayol," by Cordwainer Smith
"The Superstition Seeders," by Edward Wellen
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Through his fiction, H.G. Wells transformed some of the most pressing social, political, and cultural issues of his day-class struggle, colonial imperialism, nation building, uncontrolled scientific experimentation-into the raw material of brilliant speculative fables.
The six novels collected in The War of the Worlds and Other Science Fiction Classics were all written at the turn of the twentieth century, and with them Wells helped to lay the foundations...
5) Vintage Sci-Fi 11 - 26 Science Fiction Classics From Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Voltaire, Philip
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Vintage Sci-Fi 11 - 26 Science Fiction Classics from Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Voltaire, Philip K. Dick and more
• Ring Around the Sun by Isaac Asimov
• The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
• The Masked World by Jack Williamson
• The Small Bears by Gene L. Henderson
• Accept No Substitutes by Robert Sheckley
• Two Weeks in August by Frank M. Robinson
• Dance of the Dead by Richard Matheson
• Savage Galahad by Bryce Walton
• Death-Wish by...
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In 1984, mechanic Julia Worthing, who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, in one impulsive moment, sets in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story, in this imaginative, feminist and brilliantly relevant to-today journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia.