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Beneath the earth's surface lies a world of eternal daylight - Pellucidar. Scattered throughout are communities of distrustful humans and the cities of the reptilian, highly evolved Mahars. The authors' discovery of Pellucidar and the struggle to unite the human communities and overthrow the Mahars is a tale of conquest, deceit, and wonder.

Presents the first unabridged English translation of Jules Verne's original story featuring a famous French string quartet that is abducted by an American businessman and taken to Standard Island to perform for its millionaire inhabitants. Here, for the first time, readers have the pleasure of reading The Self-Propelled Island as Verne intended it.

Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depressionuthat is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr. Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction.

A visionary novel of the twenty-seventh century by the "Father of Science Fiction".

The American explorer and emperor of Pellucidar, David Innes, has been captured by the deadly Korsar pirates. Picking up on the desperate cries for help emanating from Pellucidar, Jason Gridley brings the message to the only person who can help, Tarzan of the Apes. This is the fourth work in the "Pelludicar" series from the creator of "Tarzan".

Nothing will ever mystify or challenge the Wonder. He masters entire libraries and languages with little effort. No equation, no problem is too difficult to solve. His casual conversations with ministers and philosophers decimate their vaunted beliefs and crush their cherished intellectual ambitions.

Nu, a warrior from the Stone Age, is buried alive in an earthquake while stalking a saber-toothed tiger. Awakening thousands of years later on Tarzan's estate in Africa, he gives his heart to Victoria Custer of Nebraska, a visitor to the estate, who is the reincarnation of Nu's Stone Age love, Nat-ul. This is an adventure tale.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the invention of the aeroplane revolutionises warfare and precipitates a devastating World War. Nations race to build armadas of airships; cities across the globe are bombed; and, airship navies clash above the Alps and India. This title reveals how one invention can change the world.

An edition featuring a map of the world of Big-Tooth, an epilogue by Loren Eiseley, illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull, contemporary reviews, and a listing of peoples and characters.

This sequel to 'At the Earth's Core' returns to the world of Pellucidar - an exotic, savage land at the centre of our Earth, an untamed wilderness where time stands still.

Hugo Danner is the strongest man on earth, the result of a monstrous experiment by his scientist father. Nearly invulnerable, he can run faster than a train, leap higher than trees, lift a wrecked vehicle to rescue its pinned driver, and hurl boulders like baseballs. His remarkable abilities, however, cannot gain him what he desires most.

Talking about nuclear warfare and other visions of the future, this novel is a prophetic tale of a world gone mad with atomic weapons and of the rebirth of human-kind from the rubble. It is written by the author of "The Time Machine", "War of the Worlds", and other science fiction classics.

Momentous danger 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 Fenachrones are threatening to conquer the galaxy and wipe out all who oppose them.

Features some of the notable but little known speculative fiction available, penned by the famed American humorist and writer. The author embarks on an epic journey into a drop of water, and imagines futuristic devices of instantaneous communication such as the "phrenophone" and "telelectroscope."

In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. During his two centuries of slumber he becomes the Sleeper, the most well known and powerful person in the world. This book tells the story of London in the twenty-second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world.

Lost! Space adventurer Carson Napier made a grievous miscalculation and became stranded on dangerous, mist-shrouded Venus. But Napier refused to quit. He won the love of the beautiful Duare, princess of Vepaja, became a pirate, fought villains, then lost his beloved to the evil Thorist kidnappers.

After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, he encounters a world and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost.

Combining reasoned scientific speculation with philosophical inquiry, this title presents a tale of how humankind can physically and culturally evolve over the next several million years.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's stunning epic of a world conquered by alien invaders from the moon and of the hero Julian, who champions the earth's struggle for freedom, peace and dignity.

A brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy. However, the Karburator's super-efficient energy production also yields a powerful by-product the Absolute, the spiritual essence held within all matter, into the world.

Something is horribly wrong in the remote English village of Cainsmarsh. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family pets are bludgeoned to death; loving couples are devoured by rage and violence. A spirit-corrupting evil pervades the land, infesting the minds of those who call Cainsmarsh home. Is this vision real, or a paranoid fantasy generated by an even darker, worldwide threat? And is the call to resist the danger itself a danger? These are questions that disturb the calm of an indolent croquet player who happens to hear the tale of the unlucky village. H. G. Wells''s ambiguous story of horror is a modern classic, a prophetic, disturbing glimpse of the primitive distrust and violence that gnaw at the heart of the modern world.The prodigious literary visions of H. G. Wells (1866-1946) are cornerstones for today''s science fiction and fantasy. His novels include The Sleeper Awakes, In the Days of the Comet, The Last War, and The War in the Air, all available in Bison Books editions. John Huntington is a professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of The Logic of Fantasy: H. G. Wells and Science Fiction and the editor of The H. G. Wells Reader: A Complete Anthology from Science Fiction to Social Satire.

An ancient manuscript in a cave in the Canary Islands yields the secret of the legendary vanished civilisation. Atlantis at the height of her power and glory is without equal. This title presents the saga of the last days of the doomed land.

The discovery of a falling golden meteor and the race to find it, form the core of this tale. This science fiction blends hard science and scientific speculation with a farcical comedy of manners.

Story of Henry Stone, who grew up on a deserted island, taught by his father to be the perfect gentleman but to distrust women at all times, and finally reentered society as a young man

The first English translation of Mantegazza's futurist and utopian book, which uses the story of Paolo and Maria, a pair of lovers who travel to the capital city of the United Planetary States to get married, as a pretext to explore larger societal issues

Perhaps best known for editing the popular post-World War II magazines Galaxy Science Fiction and Beyond Fantasy Fiction, Horace L. Gold also wrote comic-book scripts for DC Comics and numerous pulp adventures and science-fiction stories. This collection of seven of these stories captures the timeless emotions evoked by pulp and science fiction for the twenty-first century.

On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes, as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically.

A comet rushes toward the Earth, a deadly orb that soon fills the sky and promises doom. But mankind is too busy hating, stealing and scheming to care. This is H.G. Wells's tale of the last days of the old Earth and the extraterrestrial change that becomes the salvation of the human race.

A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, tidal waves, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents and wiping out millions. A team of scientists race to build a spacecraft to escape the doomed earth. Their greatest threat, they discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans.