Science Fiction
A broad genre of fiction which often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology.
The Land That Time Forgot [en] (1918) 
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Torpedoed by a German U-boat during World War I, a group of adventurers are marooned on Caprona, a hidden island suspended in time and inhabited by dinosaurs, cavemen, and scattered bands of human beings. Will the adventurers be able to escape?
Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction
The Island of Doctor Moreau [en] (1896)
Herbert George Wells
A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan...
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
The Invisible Man [en] (1897)
Herbert George Wells
Spine-tingling and entertaining, The Invisible Man is a science fiction classic–and a penetrating, unflinching look into the heart of human nature. To its author, H. G. Wells, the novel was as compelling as “a good gripping dream.” But to generations of readers, the terrible and evil experiment...
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
The Gods of Mars [en] (1918)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the end of A PRINCESS OF MARS, the first volume in Burroughs's Mars series, John Carter managed to get the factory that produces oxygen for Barsoom working again -- and collapsed. When he came to, he found himself back on earth, and separated from his beloved Dejah Thoris, the Princess of...
Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction
The Galaxy Primes [en] (1959) 
Edward Elmer Smith
They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men and two women, all Psionic Primes, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the cosmos to find their way back to Earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds...
Genre: Science Fiction
The First Men In The Moon [en] (1901)
Herbert George Wells
When penniless businessman Mr. Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr. Cavor, an absentminded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford that the...
Genre: Science Fiction
Spacehounds of IPC [en] (1931)
Edward Elmer Smith
When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's crack liner Arcturus took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a most unexpected and long voyage. Attacked by a mysterious spaceship, the liner crash-landed on Ganymede. The survivors first had to master that world's...
Genre: Science Fiction
Skylark Three [en] (1930)
Edward Elmer Smith
In this exhilarating sequel to The Skylark of Space, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seaton's allies on the planet Kondal are suffering devastating attacks by the forces of the Third Planet. Even worse, the menacing and contemptuous...
Genre: Science Fiction
Robur the Conqueror [en] (1886)
Jules Verne
Strange events are occurring around the world, involving lights, sounds and flags that are hung in seemingly impossible to get to locations. At the meeting of the Weldon Club in Philadelphia, Uncle Prudent (President) and Phil Evans (Secretary) and the membership debate about whether their...
Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction
Out of Time's Abyss [en] (1918)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
In Caprona, the land that time forgot, creatures from the world's savage past live on—dinosaurs, cavemen, and the last remnants of Bronze Age barbarians. But the claws and fangs and sharp-edged spears guard a terrible secret. Out of Time's Abyss is the story of a man who dares to uncover that...
Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction
On the Trail of the Space Pirates [en] (1953)
Carey Rockwell
This, the third book in the Tom Corbett series by "Carey Rockwell" (whoever he was in real life) is, like all of the Tom Corbett books, something special. It's another tale of the three young men who serve in the Solar Guard as Space Cadets. And this tale of the cadets' adventures is a story...
Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction, Young Readers
Off on a Comet [en] (1911)
Jules Verne
One of Jules Verne's strangest and most controversial novels, Off on a Comet tells the story of a small band of people on a tiny world torn from earth by a grazing comet and their struggles to survive in the wilderness of interplantary space. A strange mixture of dream-like fantasy and hard science.
Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction
Masters of Space [en] (1961)
Edward Elmer Smith
Jarvis Hilton is in charge of a handpicked team of scientists -- and a navy warship on a deep space mission, dubbed Project Theta Orionis. On the outbound journey, automatic sensors drop their ship -- the Perseus -- into normal space for an encounter with a mysterious skeletal object. The...
Genre: Science Fiction
Frankenstein [en] (1818)
Mary Shelley
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture--the power of human...
Genres: Gothic Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction
At the Earth's Core [en] (1914)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
David Innes is a young man who has just inherited a large mining company. An eccentric inventor, Abner Perry, convinces Innes to underwrite a project to build an 'iron mole', claiming it will make them both wealthy. The mechanical beast works well, actually too well. On the maiden voyage,...
Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction
All Around the Moon [en] (1870)
Jules Verne
After being fired out of the giant Columbiad, the bullet-shaped projectile along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. After a close collission with meteor the three astronauts discover that the gravitational force of this...
Genre: Science Fiction
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth [en] (1871)
Jules Verne
As irascible scholar Professor Lidenbrock pores over a rare Icelandic tome, he discovers a scrap of parchment with cryptic writing tucked away between the ancient pages. And when his nephew, Axel, finally breaks the writing’s secret code, he learns of a hidden underground passageway that may...
Genres: Adventure, Science Fiction
