Space Sci-Fi Boxed Set: Intergalactic Wars, Alien Attacks & Space Adventure Novels
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David Lindsay. Space Sci-Fi Boxed Set: Intergalactic Wars, Alien Attacks & Space Adventure Novels
Space Sci-Fi Boxed Set: Intergalactic Wars, Alien Attacks & Space Adventure Novels
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Table of Contents
H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds
Book One. The Coming of the Martians
Chapter One. The Eve of the War
Chapter Two. The Falling Star
Chapter Three. On Horsell Common
Chapter Four. The Cylinder Opens
Chapter Five. The HeatRay
Chapter Six. The HeatRay in the Chobham Road
Chapter Seven. How I Reached Home
Chapter Eight. Friday Night
Chapter Nine. The Fighting Begins
Chapter Ten. In the Storm
Chapter Eleven. At the Window
Chapter Twelve. What I Saw of the Destruction
Chapter Thirteen. How I Fell in with the Curate
Chapter Fourteen. In London
Chapter Fifteen. What Had Happened in Surrey
Chapter Sixteen. The Exodus from London
Chapter Seventeen. The “Thunder Child”
Book Two. The Earth under the Martians
Chapter One. Under Foot
Chapter Two. What We Saw from the Ruined House
Chapter Three. The Days of Imprisonment
Chapter Four. The Death of the Curate
Chapter Five. The Stillness
Chapter Six. The Work of Fifteen Days
Chapter Seven. The Man on Putney Hill
Chapter Eight. Dead London
Chapter Nine. Wreckage
Chapter Ten. The Epilogue
The Shape of Things To Come
Introduction. The Dream Book of Dr. Philip Raven
Book the First. Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns
1. A Chronological Note
2. How the Idea and Hope of the Modern World State First Appeared
3. The Accumulating Disproportions of the Old Order
4. Early Attempts to Understand and Deal with These Disproportions; The Criticisms of Karl Marx and Henry George
5. The Way in Which Competition and Monetary Inefficiency Strained the Old Order
6. The Paradox of Over-Production and Its Relation to War
7. The Great War of 1914-1918
8. The Impulse to Abolish War; The Episode of the Ford Peace Ship
9. The Direct Action of the Armament Industries in Maintaining War Stresses
10. Versailles: Seed Bed of Disasters
11. The Impulse to Abolish War: Why the League of Nations Failed to Pacify the World
12. The Breakdown of “Finance” and Social Morale after Versailles
13. 1933: “Progress” Comes to a Halt
Book the Second. The Days After Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration
1. The London Conference: the Crowning Failure of the Old Governments; The Spread of Dictatorships and Fascisms
2. The Sloughing of the Old Educational Tradition
3. Disintegration and Crystallization in the Social Magma. The Gangster and Militant Political Organizations
4. Changes in War Practice after the World War
5. The Fading Vision of a World Pax: Japan Reverts to Warfare
6. The Western Grip on Asia Relaxes
7. The Modern State and Germany
8. A Note on Hate and Cruelty
9. The Last War Cyclone, 1940-50
10. The Raid of the Germs
11. Europe in 1960
12. America in Liquidation
Book the Third. The World Renascence: The Birth of the Modern State
1. The Plan of the Modern State Is Worked Out
2. Thought and Action: the New Model of Revolution
3. The Technical Revolutionary
4. Prophets, Pioneers, Fanatics and Murdered Men
5. The First Conference at Basra: 1965
6. The Growth of Resistance to the Sea and Air Ways Control
7. Intellectual Antagonism to the Modern State
8. The Second Conference at Basra, 1978
9. “Three Courses of Action”
10. The Life-Time Plan
11. The Real Struggle for Government Begins
Book the Fourth. The Modern State Militant
1. Gap in the Text
2. Melodramatic Interlude
3. Futile Insurrection
4. The Schooling of Mankind
Editor’s Note
5. The Text Resumes: The Tyranny of the Second Council
6. Æsthetic Frustration: The Note Books of Ariston Theotocopulos
7. The Declaration of Mégève
Book the Fifth. The Modern State in Control of Life
1. Monday Morning in the Creation of a New World
2. Keying Up the Planet
3. Geogonic Planning
4. Changes in the Control of Behaviour
5. Organization of Plenty
6. The Average Man Grows Older and Wiser
7. Language and Mental Growth
8. Sublimation of Interest
9. A New Phase in the History of Life
In the Days of the Comet
Prologue. The Man Who Wrote in the Tower
Book the First. The Comet
Chapter the First. Dust in the Shadows
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Chapter the Second. Nettie
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Chapter the Third. The Revolver
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Chapter the Fourth. War
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Chapter the Fifth. The Pursuit of the Two Lovers
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Book the Second. The Green Vapors
Chapter the First. The Change
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Chapter the Second. The Awakening
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Chapter the Third. The Cabinet Council
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Book the Third. The New World
Chapter the First. Love After the Change
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Chapter the Second. My Mother’s Last Days
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Chapter the Third. Beltane and New Year’s Eve
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
The Epilogue. The Window of the Tower
The War in the Air
Chapter I. Of Progress and the Smallways Family
1
2
3
5
6
Chapter II. How Bert Smallways Got Into Difficulties
Chapter III. The Balloon
I
2
3
4
5
Chapter IV. The German Air-Fleet
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Chapter V. The Battle of the North Atlantic
1
2
3
4
5
6
Chapter VI. How War Came to New York
1
2
3
4
5
6
Chapter VII. The “Vaterland” is Disabled
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Chapter VIII. A World at War
1
2
3
4
5
Chapter IX. On Goat Island
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Chapter X. The World Under the War
1
2
3
4
5
Chapter XI. The Great Collapse
1
2
3
4
5
The Chronic Argonauts
Being The Account Of Dr. Nebogipfel’s Sojourn In Llyddwdd
How An Esoteric Story Became Possible
The Esoteric Story Based On The Clergyman’s Depositions. The Anachronic Man
The Chronic Argo
Otis Adelbert Kline
The Venus Trilogy
The Planet of Peril
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
The Prince of Peril
Foreword
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
The Port of Peril
Chapter 1. The Theft of Vernia
Chapter 2. Grandon Pursues
Chapter 3. The Cunning of San Thoy
Chapter 4. A Treacherous Shoal
Chapter 5. The Toad People
Chapter 6. The Deceptive Light
Chapter 7. Human Sacrifice
Chapter 8. The Wrath of the Serpent
Chapter 9. The Secret Gate
Chapter 10. The Port of Peril
Chapter 11. The Sea Rats
Chapter 12. In the Seraglio
Chapter 13. Grandon Meets the Rogo
Chapter 14. Kantar’s Blunder
Chapter 15. Beasts of the Antarctic
Chapter 16. Zinlo of Olba
Chapter 17. The Death Sentence
Chapter 18. The Allies Attack
Chapter 19. The Duel
Chapter 20. Retribution and Reward
The Mars Series
The Swordsman of Mars
Prologue
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
The Outlaws of Mars
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Other Novels
Maza of the Moon
Chapter 1. A Difficult Project
Chapter 2. Launched
Chapter 3. Startling Results
Chapter 4. Moon People
Chapter 5. The Ultimatum of P’An-Ku
Chapter 6. Treachery
Chapter 7. A Perilous Journey
Chapter 8. Death Rays
Chapter 9. A Vicious Plant
Chapter 10. Abduction
Chapter 11. The Caverns of the Moon
Chapter 12. Aerial Battle
Chapter 13. Flying Reptiles
Chapter 14. A Note Of Appeal
Chapter 15. Moon Travel
Chapter 16. Ted Attacks
Chapter 17. Alliance
Chapter 18. Torture Chambers
Chapter 19. Dungeons Of Darkness
Chapter 20. Trapped
Chapter 21. Earth’s Offensive
Chapter 22. The Fall of Peilong
The Metal Monster
Foreword
Chapter I. The Metal Beings
Chapter II. Captured
Chapter III. The City of Metal
Chapter IV. The Battle
Chapter V. Slavery of the Mind
Chapter VI. The Treachery of Lak
Chapter VII. The Subterranean Jungle
Chapter VIII. Monsters of the Nether World
Chapter IX. The Escape
Chapter X. The Revolt
Stranger from Smallness
Chapter I. Hagg Nadeem
Chapter II. Mysterious Host
Chapter III. The Stranger
Chapter IV. Mortal Enemy
Chapter V. Unmasked
Chapter VI. Second Wish
Chapter VII. Fire of the Eyes
Chapter VIII. The Magician
Chapter IX. The Colonel
Chapter X. The Firing Squad
Edgar Wallace
Planetoid 127
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Stories from the Solar System
A Martian Odyssey (Mars)
Chapter I
Chapter II. Tweel of Mars
Chapter III. The Pyramid Being
Chapter IV. The Dream-Beast
Chapter V. The Barrel-People
Valley of Dreams (Mars)
Ibis-Headed Thoth
Paradise and Hell
Flight on Titan (Titan)
I
II
III
IV
Parasite Planet (Venus)
I
II
III
IV
The Lotus Eaters (Venus)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
The Planet of Doubt (Uranus)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
The Red Peri (Pluto)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
The Mad Moon (Io)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Redemption Cairn (Europa)
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Malcolm Jameson
Captain Bullard Series
Admiral's Inspection
White Mutiny
I
II
III
Blockade Runner
Bullard Reflects
Devil's Powder
Slacker's Paradise
Brimstone Bill
The Bureaucrat
Orders
C. S. Lewis
The Space Trilogy
Out of the Silent Planet
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Postscript
Perelandra
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
That Hideous Strength
Chapter One. Sale of College Property
I
II
III
IV
V
Chapter Two. Dinner with the Sub-Warden
I
II
III
IV
Chapter Three. Belbury and St. Anne’s-on-the-Hill
I
II
III
IV
V
Chapter Four. The Liquidation of Anachronisms
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
Chapter Five. Elasticity
I
II
III
Chapter Six. Fog
I
II
III
IV
V
Chapter Seven. The Pendragon
I
II
III
IV
Chapter Eight. Moonlight at Belbury
I
II
III
Chapter Nine. The Saracen’s Head
I
II
III
IV
V
Chapter Ten. The Conquered City
I
II
III
IV
Chapter Eleven. Battle Begun
I
II
III
Chapter Twelve. Wet and Windy Night
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
Chapter Thirteen. They have pulled down Deep Heaven on their Heads
I
II
III
IV
V
Chapter Fourteen “Real Life is Meeting”
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Chapter Fifteen. The Descent of the Gods
I
II
III
IV
V
Chapter Sixteen. Banquet at Belbury
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Chapter Seventeen. Venus at St. Anne’s
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon
Chapter I. The Gun Club
Chapter II. President Barbicane’s Communication
Chapter III. Effect of President Barbicane’s Communication
Chapter IV. Answer from the Cambridge Observatory
Chapter V. The Romance of the Moon
Chapter VI. What it is Impossible to Ignore and What is No Longer Allowed to Be Believed in the United States
Chapter VII. The Hymn of the Cannonball
Chapter VIII. History of the Cannon
Chapter IX. The Question of Powders
Chapter X. One Enemy Against Twenty-Five Millions of Friends
Chapter XI. Florida and Texas
Chapter XII “Urbi et Orbi.”
Chapter XIII. Stony Hill
Chapter XIV. Pickaxe and Trowel
Chapter XV. The Ceremony of the Casting
Chapter XVI. The Columbiad
Chapter XVII. A Telegram
Chapter XVIII. The Passenger of the Atlanta
Chapter XIX. A Meeting
Chapter XX. Thrust and Parry
Chapter XXI. How a Frenchman Settles an Affair
Chapter XXII. The New Citizen of the United States
Chapter XXIII. The Projectile Compartment
Chapter XXIV. The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains
Chapter XXV. Final Details
Chapter XXVI. Fire!
Chapter XXVII. Cloudy Weather
Chapter XXVIII. A New Star
Around the Moon
(A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon)
Preliminary Chapter, Resuming the First Part of the Work and Serving as an Introduction to the Second
Chapter I. From 10 P.M. to 10 46' 40''
Chapter II. The First Half Hour
Chapter III. They Make Themselves at Home and Feel Quite Comfortable
Chapter IV. A Chapter for the Cornell Girls
Chapter V. The Colds of Space
Chapter VI. Instructive Conversation
Chapter VII. A High Old Time
Chapter VIII. The Neutral Point
Chapter IX. A Little Off the Track
Chapter X. The Observers of the Moon
Chapter XI. Fact and Fancy
Chapter XII. A Bird's Eye View of the Lunar Mountains
Chapter XIII. Lunar Landscapes
Chapter XIV. A Night of Fifteen Days
Chapter XV. Glimpses at the Invisible
Chapter XVI. The Southern Hemisphere
Chapter XVII. Tycho
Chapter XVIII. Puzzling Questions
Chapter XIX. In Every Fight, The Impossible Wins
Chapter XX. Off the Pacific Coast
Chapter XXI. News for Marston!
Chapter XXII. On the Wings of the Wind
Chapter XXIII. The Club Men Go A Fishing
Chapter XXIV. Farewell to the Baltimore Gun Club
Off on a Comet
Book I
Chapter I. A Challenge
Chapter II. Captain Servadac and His Orderly
Chapter III. Interrupted Effusions
Chapter IV. A Convulsion of Nature
Chapter V. A Mysterious Sea
Chapter VI. The Captain Makes an Exploration
Chapter VII. Ben Zoof Watches in Vain
Chapter VIII. Venus in Perilous Proximity
Chapter IX. Inquiries Unsatisfied
Chapter X. A Search for Algeria
Chapter XI. An Island Tomb
Chapter XII. At the Mercy of the Winds
Chapter XIII. A Royal Salute
Chapter XIV. Sensitive Nationality
Chapter XV. An Enigma from the Sea
Chapter XVI. The Residuum of a Continent
Chapter XVII. A Second Enigma
Chapter XVIII. An Unexpected Population
Chapter XIX. Gallia’s Governor General
Chapter XX. A Light on the Horizon
Chapter XXI. Winter Quarters
Chapter XXII. A Frozen Ocean
Chapter XXIII. A Carrier-Pigeon
Chapter XXIV. A Sledge-Ride
Book II
Chapter I. The Astronomer
Chapter II. A Revelation
Chapter III. The Professor’s Experiences
Chapter IV. A Revised Calendar
Chapter V. Wanted: A Steelyard
Chapter VI. Money at a Premium
Chapter VII. Gallia Weighed
Chapter VIII. Jupiter Somewhat Close
Chapter IX. Market Prices in Gallia
Chapter X. Far Into Space
Chapter XI. A Fete Day
Chapter XII. The Bowels of the Comet
Chapter XIII. Dreary Months
Chapter XIV. The Professor Perplexed
Chapter XV. A Journey and a Disappointment
Chapter XVI. A Bold Proposition
Chapter XVII. The Venture Made
Chapter XVIII. Suspense
Chapter XIX. Back Again
Percy Greg
Across the Zodiac
Chapter I. Shipwreck
Chapter II. Outward Bound
Chapter III. The Untravelled Deep
Chapter IV. A New World
Chapter V. Language, Laws, and Life
Chapter VI. An Official Visit
Chapter VII. Escort Duty
Chapter VIII. A Faith and Its Founder
Chapter IX. Manners and Customs
Chapter X. Woman and Wedlock
Chapter XI. A Country Drive
Chapter XII. On the River
Chapter XIII. The Children of Light
Chapter XIV. By Sea
Chapter XV. Fur-Hunting
Chapter XVI. Troubled Waters
Chapter XVII. Presented at Court
Chapter XVIII. A Prince's Present
Chapter XIX. A Complete Establishment
Chapter XX. Life, Social and Domestic
Chapter XXI. Private Audiences
Chapter XXII. Peculiar Institutions
Chapter XXIII. Characteristics
Chapter XXIV. Winter
Chapter XXV. Apostacy
Chapter XXVI. Twilight
Chapter XXVII. The Valley of the Shadow
Chapter XXVIII. Darker Yet
Chapter XXIX. Azrael
Chapter XXX. Farewell!
David Lindsay
A Voyage to Arcturus
Chapter 1. The Séance
Chapter 2. In The Street
Chapter 3. Starkness
Chapter 4. The Voice
Chapter 5. The Night Of Departure
Chapter 6. Joiwind
Chapter 7. Panawe
Chapter 8. The Lusion Plain
Chapter 9. Oceaxe
Chapter 10. Tydomin
Chapter 11. On Disscourn
Chapter 12. Spadevil
Chapter 13. The Wombflash Forest
Chapter 14. Polecrab
Chapter 15. Swaylone’s Island
Chapter 16. Leehallfae
Chapter 17. Corpang
Chapter 18. Haunte
Chapter 19. Sullenbode
Chapter 20. Barey
Chapter 21. Muspel
Edward Everett Hale
The Brick Moon
I. Preparation
II
II. How we built it
III. Fulfilment
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H. G. Wells, Otis Adelbert Kline, Edgar Wallace, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Malcolm Jameson, C. S. Lewis, Jules Verne
The War of the Worlds
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She would not let me talk to her again.
Yet I could see that my talk to her had altogether abolished the clear-cut distance of our meeting in the park. Ever and again I found her hazel eyes upon me. They expressed something novel — a surprise, as though she realized an unwonted relationship, and a sympathetic pity. And still — something defensive.
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