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Science fiction

Exploring the Unknown

Alien worlds

Alien worlds

• From the Earth to the Moon, 1865 by Jules Verne, translated by Lewis Page Mercier & Eleanor E. King
• Hector Servadac, 1877 by Jules Verne
  • Frewer translation, 1877 by Ellen E. Frewer
  • Off on a Comet—or Hector Servadac, April 1926
• Around the Moon, by Jules Verne, translated by Lewis Page Mercier & Eleanor E. King, sequel to From the Earth to the Moon
• Melbourne and Mars, 1889 by Joseph Fraser
• The Conquest of the Moon (1889) by Jean François Paschal Grousset (as André Laurie)
• The First Men in the Moon, 1901 by Herbert George Wells
• Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902 film by Georges Méliès
• Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, 1905 by Edwin Lester Arnold
• A Voyage to Arcturus, 1920 by David Lindsay
• Pirates of Venus, 1934 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" by Howell Calhoun. in Weird Tales, 28 (3) (October 1936) (poem)
• The Dual World, 1938 by Arthur Kelvin Barnes
• The Raid from Mars, 1939 by Miles John Breuer
• Trouble on Titan, 1941 by Arthur Kelvin Barnes
• The Gun, 1952 by Philip Kindred Dick
• Piper in the Woods, 1953 by Philip Kindred Dick
• Tony and the Beetles, 1953 by Philip Kindred Dick
• Plague Ship, 1956 by Andre Norton
• Voodoo Planet, 1959 by Andre Norton
• Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars: A Tale of Occult Adventure, (1892) by Francis Worcester Doughty
• The Three Eyes (1921) by Maurice Leblanc, translated by Alexander Texeira de Mattos

Burroughs' Barsoom series

• A Princess of Mars, 1912 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Gods of Mars, 1918 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Warlord of Mars, 1913-4 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars, 1920 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Chessmen of Mars, 1922 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Master Mind of Mars, 1928 by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Lost worlds

The Lost World literary genre is a fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time, place, or both. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian imperial romance and remains popular to this day.

• Phosphor: An Ischian Mystery, 1888 by John Filmore Sherry
• The Lost World, 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle
• At the Earth's Core, 1914 by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Pellucidar)
• The Lost Continent, 1916 by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Burroughs' Caspak trilogy

• The Land That Time Forgot (omnibus), 1918 by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an omnibus of the three novellas
• The Land That Time Forgot, 1918 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The People That Time Forgot, 1918 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Out of Time's Abyss, 1918 by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Space and the universe

• The Man From the Atom, 1923 by Green Peyton Wertenbaker
• "Where Are You, Mr. Biggs?" by Nelson Slade Bond. in Weird Tales, 36 (1) (September-October 1941)—a Lancelot Biggs story

Terrestrial exploration

• Journey into the Interior of the Earth, 1864 by Jules Verne, translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, 1870 by Jules Verne

New lifeforms

Alien lifeforms

• The Whisperer in Darkness, 1931 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• Beyond Lies the Wub, 1952 by Philip Kindred Dick

Artificially-engineered lifeforms

Constructed, re-vivified, genetically engineered or otherwise intentional, artificial creation of new lifeforms.

• Frankenstein, 1831 by Mary Shelley
• The Island of Doctor Moreau, 1896 by Herbert George Wells
• R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), 1921 theatre play by Karel Čapek
• Mr. Spaceship, 1953 by Philip Kindred Dick

Machine lifeforms

• The Mentanicals, 1949 edition by George Henry Weiss, originally published in Amazing Stories, April 1934
• Second Variety, 1953 by Philip Kindred Dick

Newly discovered lifeforms

• In the Avu Observatory, 1895 by Herbert George Wells
• The Horror of the Heights, 1913 by Arthur Conan Doyle
• At the Mountains of Madness, 1931 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• Storm Warning, 1949 edition by Donald Allen Wollheim, originally published in Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1942

Mutations

Both natural or accidental, artificial changes to existing life.

• The Octopus Cycle, 1928 by Fletcher Pratt & Irvin Lester
• "Vine Terror" by Howard Wandrei. in Weird Tales, 24 (3) (September 1934)

Science and inventions

New discoveries, new inventions and new technology.

• The Brick Moon, 1869 by Edward Everett Hale
• The Invisible Man, 1897 by Herbert George Wells
• Robur the Conqueror, 1886 by Jules Verne
• Thoth: A Romance, 1888 by Joseph Shield Nicholson
• The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, 1904 by Herbert George Wells
• The Master of the World, 1904 by Jules Verne
• Krakatit (1922) by Karel Čapek, translated by Edward Lawrence Hyde (1925)
• The Makropoulos Secret (1922) by Karel Čapek, translated by anonymous (1925)
• The Absolute at Large (1922) by Karel Čapek, translated by Šárka B. Hrbková (1927)
• The New Accelerator, 1926 edition by Herbert George Wells, originally published in 1901
• The Variable Man, 1953 by Philip Kindred Dick

Edisonade

"Edisonade" is a modern term, coined in 1993 by John Clute in his and Peter Nicholls' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, for stories based around a brilliant young inventor and his inventions, many of which would now be classified as science fiction. This sub-genre started in the Victorian and Edwardian eras and had its apex of popularity during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

• The Huge Hunter, or the Steam Man of the Prairies, 1868 by Edward Sylvester Ellis
• Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope, 1939 by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, Volume 39 in the first Tom Swift series

Time and reality

Alternative realities

• Adjustment Team, 1954 by Philip Kindred Dick

Other dimensions

• The Gostak and the Doshes, 1949 edition by Miles John Breuer, originally published in Amazing Stories, March 1930
• The Einstein See-Saw, 1932 by Miles John Breuer

Time travel

• Newton's Brain, 1877 by Jakub Arbes
• The Time Machine, 1895 by Herbert George Wells
  • British "Heinemann text"
  • American "Holt text"
  • The Time Machine (Atlantic Edition) published in 1924
• The Mentanicals, 1949 edition by George Henry Weiss, originally published in Amazing Stories, April 1934
• The Skull, 1952 by Philip Kindred Dick

Afterlife

• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe
  • December 1845 edition from The American Review
  • April 1926 edition from Amazing Stories

The World of Tomorrow

Utopian novels, views of the future and predictions of things to come.

• Utopia, 1516 by Thomas More,
  • Utopia, 1901 version edited by Henry Morley based on a translation by Gilbert Burnet
• The Buffalo Public Library in 1983, 1883 by Charles Ammi Cutter
• A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age, 1883 by Henrietta Dugdale
• Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887, 1888 by Edward Bellamy
  • Equality (Bellamy), 1897 by Edward Bellamy
• The Inner House, 1888 by Walter Besant
• News from Nowhere, 1890 by William Morris
• Meda: a Tale of the Future, 1891 by Kenneth Folingsby
• The End of Books, 1894 by Octave Uzanne
• The Land Ironclads, 1903 by Herbert George Wells
• Philip Dru: Administrator, 1912 by Edward Mandell House
• The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 by Herbert George Wells
• Back to Methuselah, 1921 play by George Bernard Shaw
• Omega, 1949 edition by Amelia Reynolds Long, originaly published in Amazing Stories, July 1932.
• The Black Abbot of Puthuum, 1936 by Clark Ashton Smith

Other

• Portal:Apocalyptic fiction

Humour

• The Eyes Have It, 1953 humourous short by Philip Kindred Dick

Miscellaneous fiction

• The Purple Pileus by Herbert George Wells

Non-fiction

• Brown Review by Paul Di Filippo, 2006 review by Paul Di Filippo

Thrillers

See also: Portal:Thriller

• "Mask of Death" by Paul Ernst. in Weird Tales, 28 (2) (August-September 1936)—a Doctor Satan story
• The Hanging Stranger, 1953 by Philip Kindred Dick
• The Crystal Crypt, 1954 by Philip Kindred Dick