Welcome to the Essential Science Fiction Novels book series, where you will find a selection of endless tales about the incredible technologies of the future, time travel and its consequences, adventures in interstellar spaceships, strange post-apocalyptic worlds, dangerous alien invasions and everything else the authors dreamed of or feared for the future of humanity. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the 5 novels by authors who created memorable stories that shaped the foundations of Science Fiction. This book contains the following novels: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Time Machine by H. G. Wells. Erewhon by Samuel Butler. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. If you appreciate good books, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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Samuel Butler. Essential Science Fiction Novels - Volume 1
Introduction. A new sort of magazine
Supernatural Science
Frankenstein - or, The Modern Prometheus
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Time Machine
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Epilogue
Erewhon
Preface to the first edition
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From the Earth to the Moon
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A Princess of Mars
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The Authors
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By Hugo Gernsback12
Another fiction magazine!
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"My dear Victor," cried he, "what, for God's sake, is the matter? Do not laugh in that manner. How ill you are! What is the cause of all this?"
"Do not ask me," cried I, putting my hands before my eyes, for I thought I saw the dreaded spectre glide into the room; "He can tell. Oh, save me! Save me!" I imagined that the monster seized me; I struggled furiously and fell down in a fit.
