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The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 24 of the greatest science fiction works ever written.
– Book 1: ‘A Journey to the Center of the Earth’, a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne.
– Book 2: ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ is part of Jules Verne’s most popular trilogy.
– Book 3: ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ (1873) is an acclaimed adventure novel by Jules Verne.
– Book 4: Jules Verne’s masterpiece, ‘The Mysterious Island’, is a fascinating story of five men and a dog who escape the American Civil War in a hot air balloon.
– Book 5: ‘The Master of the World’ by Jules Verne is a story told by John Strock, a federal police inspector.
– Book 6: ‘In the Year 2889’ by Jules Verne is a diary of the observations of Fritz Napoleon Smith, the editor of an influential futuristic newspaper.
– Book 7: ‘The War of the Worlds’ is HG Wells’ dramatic science fiction tale of aliens invading England.
– Book 8: ‘The Time Machine’ by HG Wells is about an English scientist who entertains guests for dinner every week.
– Book 9: ‘The Invisible Man’ is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells.
– Book 10: ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’ is an 1896 science fiction novel by the English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946). The story is narrated by Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat and left on the island home of Doctor Moreau.
– Book 11: This entertaining satire ‘Flatland’ is the work of the clergyman, educator and scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926).
– Book 12: Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel ‘Frankenstein’ tells the story of Dr Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a creature by grave robbing and alchemy.
– Book 13: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson.
– Book 14: Little Fuzzy Jack Holloway mines valuable sunstones on the planet Zarathustra.
– Book 15: ‘The Machine Stops’ by E M Forster is a dystopian science fiction short story first published in a magazine in 1909, and republished in ‘The Eternal Moment and Other Stories’ in 1928.
– Book 16: ‘Youth’, a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov, first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories.
– Book 17: ‘2 B R 0 2 B’ is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in a magazine in 1962.
– Book 18: In ‘The Variable Man’, the growing Terran system is being suppressed and prevented from expanding by the Centaurian Empire.
– Book 19: ‘The Pendulum’ by Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012). Bradbury’s short story ‘Pendulum’, written with Henry Hasse, was published in 1941 in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories.
– Book 20: ‘The Fight of the Good Ship Clarissa’ is an experimental short story by Ray Bradbury.
– Book 21: ‘Asleep in Armageddon’: A space ship crashes on an uninhabited planet but the pilot survives, and requests help, which is expected in six days.
– Book 22: ‘A Princess of Mars’ is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of the Barsoom series.
– Book 23: ‘The Gods of Mars’ (1918) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the second of Burroughs’ Barsoom series.
– Book 24: ‘The Warlords of Mars’ completes Edgar Rice Burroughs’ action-packed Barsoom Trilogy.