Reading list · 12 titles
Dystopias & Early Science Fiction
Wells, Verne, Zamyatin and the birth of the future.
Before the word "science fiction" existed, these novels imagined time machines, Martian invasions, invisible men and engineered societies. H. G. Wells alone wrote the template for half the genre in a single decade. Zamyatin's We, written in 1921, is the direct ancestor of Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Time Machine
H. G. Wells
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
Public DomainFeaturedEbookTwenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne
Public DomainFeaturedEbookA Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Public DomainEbookWe
Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin
Public DomainEbook2 B R 0 2 B
Kurt Vonnegut
Public DomainEbookThe Variable Man
Philip K. Dick
Public DomainEbookA Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Public DomainEbookThe First Men in the Moon
H.G. Wells
Public DomainEbookParadise Lost
John Milton
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