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Explores the world of the atom. This is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the twenty-first century, a battered world is ruled by a crafty old tyrant, Genghis II Mao IV Khan. The Khan is 93 years old, his life systems sustained by the skill of Mordecai Shadrach, a brilliant young surgeon whose chief function is to replace the Khan's worn-out organs.

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.

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.

Led by the American explorer David Innes, the human communities have finally overthrown Pellucidar's slave masters, the dreaded Mahars. The peace, however, is temporary, and the Pellucidarian Empire is faced with a new menace, the deadly Korsar pirates. This is the third work in the "Pelludicar" series from the legendary creator of "Tarzan".

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".

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.

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.

Stranded on Amtor after his spaceship crashes, astronaut Carson Napier is swept into a world where revolution is ripe. This is the inaugural volume of the last science fiction series imagined and penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It features an introduction by novelist F. Paul Wilson.

Presents a story of a terrifying, ancient force unleashed in the South Pacific; 'fantasy, romance, adventure; something of mystery, something of the supernatural.'

A deadly purple vapor passes over the world and annihilates all living creatures except one man, Adam Jeffson. He embarks on an epic journey across a silent and devastated planet, an apocalyptic Robinson Crusoe putting together the semblance of a normal life from the flotsam and jetsam of his former existence.

A collection of tales that have played an integral role in the development of modern dark fantasy.

Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer's first publication, ""The Man with the Strange Head""; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first time); stories such as ""Gostak and the Doshes"" and ""Mechanocracy""; and Breuer's essay ""The Future of Scientifiction,"" one of the early critical statements of the genre.

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.

Reveals details about the stories written by the creator of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs. Featured here are the outlines of all of Burroughs's major novels, along with descriptions of how they were each written, and their respective sources of inspiration.

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.

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.

Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). This biography brings together the life of this man, correcting Burroughs' errors and deliberate deceptions.

Written in reaction to WWI, this book warns readers about a horrifying future to come if humankind continues its course. It is the story of Captain Jefferson Turck and the crew of his aero-submarine, who through accident and sabotage are forced beyond the 30th longitude and embark on a quest to rediscover the legendary lands of the Old World.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Earth is effectively a corporate technocracy, with businesses using advances in science to improve life on the planet. Seeking other planets habitable for the human population, the spaceship Callisto, powered by an antigravitational force known as apergy, embarks on momentous tour of the solar system.

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.