Science Fiction Books

The Monster of Lake LaMetrie

Wardon Allan Curtis

The Monster of Lake LaMetrie is a science fiction short story by British writer Wardon Allan Curtis. It was originally published in September 1899 in Pearson’s Magazine and collected in Sam ..

From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne

Like much classic science fiction and fantasy writing, Jules Verne's novel From the Earth to the Moon seems comically anachronistic: a group of Civil War vets, who are still wistful about the glories ..

The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Coming Race is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871. It has also been published as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race. Some readers have believed the account of a superio..

The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Poison Belt is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, the second book about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, much of it takes place in a single room in Challenger's ho..

The Ivory Trail

Talbot Mundy

The Ivory Trail is an adventure novel written by Talbot Mundy, an English writer during the early 20th century who wrote historical and sci-fi novels that proved very influential on subsequent generat..

The Sky Is Falling

Lester del Rey

The Sky Is Falling is a magic fiction novel written by Lester del Rey, an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, an..

Accelerando

Charles Stross

Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories written by British author Charles Stross. As well as normal hardback and paperback editions, it was r..

Banzai! by Parabellum

Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff (1871-1935) was a German historian, newspaper editor and writer, known in English for two pseudonymous works of fiction. Every American familiar with the modern intern..