Classic Science Fiction
From the time machine to the Martian invasion, from Frankenstein's laboratory to Flatland's geometry — the sci-fi that invented the genre before the genre knew itself. Click-to-explain unpacks the Victorian-era physics and coined terminology; chapter music moves from quiet wonder to Wellsian dread as the idea lands.
80 books
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Short Science Fiction by Isaac Asimov
The End of the World by Geoffrey Dennis
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
The Survivors by Tom Godwin
Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
The Maracot Deep by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Master Mind of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
The World Set Free by H. G. Wells
The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Triplanetary by E. E. Smith
Gladiator by Philip Wylie
The Jewels of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany
The Absolute at Large by Karel Čapek
Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper
At the Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan
The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith
The Black Star Passes by John W. Campbell
Space Viking by H. Beam Piper
Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
First Lensman by E. E. Smith
The Time Traders by Andre Norton
Plague Ship by Andre Norton
Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
Nordenholt’s Million by J. J. Connington
Round the Moon by Jules Verne
Invaders from the Infinite by John W. Campbell
Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper
Stand by for Mars! by Carey Rockwell
Key Out of Time by Andre Norton
The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton
Islands of Space by John W. Campbell
Plague of Pythons by Frederik Pohl
Star Born by Andre Norton
Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton
Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl
Facing the Flag by Jules Verne
The Airlords of Han by Philip Francis Nowlan
Star Hunter by Andre Norton
Before Adam by Jack London
Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
Topsy-Turvy by Jules Verne
Omega by Camille Flammarion
Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison
