Speculative fiction

Klaus took a look at them, leaning over Hendricks' broad shoulder.

An interstellar revolution is brewing, and young Tony finds himself in the middle of it, questioning who his friends are, and who are his foes.

The gun was huge.

From the lamppost something was hanging.

"e;It has taken thousands of generations to achieve,"e; the A-class leady concluded.

Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run.

He held the skull in his hands, turning it over.

"e;Technically, it could be done.

"e;We are a very old race,"e; the wub said.

Eleven o'clock came.

There it was in a nutshell.

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'Anthem' is a dystopian science fiction novella by Ayn Rand.

Collected here are six fantastic science fiction stories by R.

Dixon Wells, a fashionable playboy, is always late.

'Thuvia, Maid of Mars' is the fourth novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' amazing Barsoom series.

'The Chessmen of Mars' is the fifth novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' amazing Barsoom series.

The balloon seemed scarcely to move, though it was slowly sinking toward the ocean of white clouds which hung between it and the earth.

In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel.

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What will the final evolution be, and will we recognize it when it arrives?

Two centuries from now, the western hemisphere has severed contact with the rest of the world, which has exhausted itself in war and descended into barbarism.

Here is a modern tale of an inner-directed sorcerer and an outer-directed sorcerer's apprentice.

The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes, blasted off on an intergalactic search for defenses against the invaders of Earth and all her allies.

Keith Laumer was well-known for his science fiction action and adventure stories.

Gods of Mars is the second novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' amazing Barsoom series.

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An astronomer and an industrialist attempt to assist aliens from a dying race whose spaceship has crashed, while their sons prepare two strange animals for the circus.

Terra is in a perpetual stalemate of a war with Proxima Centauri because the old and corrupt Centaurian Empire will not let the humans grow out of their current empire.

In the frozen wastes at the bottom of the world two explorers find a strange pool of white fire-and have a strange adventure.

A small group of intellectuals from a primitive culture of modified monkey-like humans are banished from the treetops for heresy.

With Her in Ourland is the third book in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian trilogy which begins where Moving the Mountain and Herland left off.

On a human colony around another star, there are two other sentient hominids: reptiles, and amphibians.

An army doctor at a garrison on Earth is puzzled by a case of a soldier who returns from the asteroid Y-3, and claims that he's a plant.

At the advent of the modern space age an enterprising company has set up a mining endeavor on an out-world.

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In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel.

In the spring of a certain year, not far from the close of the nineteenth century, when the political relations between the United States and Great Britain became so strained that careful observers on both sides of the Atlantic were forced to the belief that a serious break in these relations might be looked for at any time, the fishing schooner Eliza Drum sailed from a port in Maine for the banks of Newfoundland.

The Coming Conquest of England is a classic utopian novel that displayed the German lust for world domination long before either of the two World Wars.

The City of the Sun is a dialogue between "e;a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller and a Genoese Sea-Captain,"e; The book describes a theocratic society where goods, women and children are held in common.

Mercury is a lush, hot world.

Decrypting a 500 year-old document from a distant planet is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer.

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer.

Collected here are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Commander Greylorn must find a lost colony and beg it to come to Earths aid.

Originally written as a "e;boys' novel"e;, Kidnapped has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Seamus Heaney.

In Paradise Lost Milton tells the story of the fall of man, which encompasses a battle that rages across Heaven between God and Satan.

The first book of the Barsoom series introduces the reader to John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, who is mysteriously transported to Mars, where he finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility.