The Science Fiction Observatory
Explore the best science fiction books at The Science Fiction Observatory. Discover curated lists of top sci-fi reads, from classics to new releases, for all fans of futuristic and speculative fiction.
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The First Men in the Moon
by H.G. Wells
This is the only one of Wells' scientific romances to embrace space travel. Thanks to the discovery of the anti-gravity metal cavorite, two Victorian Englishmen …
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A Princess of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Civil War veteran John Carter is transported to a dying planet where he must rescue a Martian princess while evading giant green barbarian Mars-men!
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Rainbow Fantasia of Sci-fi
by Anne Hardin
"Rainbow Fantasia" presents 35 classic stories from the golden age of sci-fi and fantasy pulp fiction, many heretofore unavailable for decades.
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Planet of Peril
by Otis Adelbert Kline
Derring-do on a world of primitive monsters! When Robert Grandon swapped bodies with a prince of the planet Venus, he was concerned only with the …
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Last and First Men
by Olaf Stapledon
"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared 2001 author Arthur C. Clarke of this masterpiece of science …
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Star Maker
by Olaf Stapledon
This 1937 successor to Last and First Men offers another entrancing speculative history of the future. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such …
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The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. The Martian Chronicles Ray …
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The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—Esquire Nominated …
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Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
The complete, uncut version of Robert A. Heinlein’s all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a science …
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune …
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The Dream Millennium
by James White
With corruption and pollution destroying Earth, John Devlin is sent on a one-thousand-year mission to find a new planet for mankind