Science Fiction (Bookshelf)

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Science Fiction (often called sci-fi or SF) is a popular genre of fiction in which the narrative world differs from our own present or historical reality in at least one significant way. This difference may be technological, physical, historical, sociological, philosophical, metaphysical, etc, but not magical (see Fantasy).

—Excerpted from Science Fiction on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

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Science Fiction books from before the 20th century are listed on the page Precursors of Science Fiction. The cutoff is more by author than by date. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is usually considered the first modern SF author.

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The Project Gutenberg Science Fiction CD is out and already starts to become outdated. So i mark all ebooks not on the CD with a bullet . It is easier for me to dot a few spots and easier for you to spot a few dots. The CD will be updated when enough new ebooks have accumulated. The CD is available via BitTorrent from The Project Gutenberg BitTorrent Tracker. See The CD and DVD Project: Downloading Via BitTorrent.

For other copyrighted but free Science Fiction ebooks (free of charge and free of DRM) have a look at the Baen Free Library

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Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926

Links for Edwin Abbot Abbot: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Flatland: a romance of many dimensions  (English)
• Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)  (English)

Anderson, Poul William, 1926-2001

• The Burning Bridge  (English)
• Security  (English)

Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, 1857-1935

Links for Edwin Lester Linden Arnold: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Gulliver of Mars  (English)

Arthur, Robert Andrew, 1909-1969

• The Indulgence of Negu Mah  (English)

Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912

Links for John Jacob Astor: Wikipedia

This is really the billionaire Astor who died aboard the Titanic.

• A journey in other worlds
  A romance of the future  (English)

Baily, Peter

• Accidental Death  (English)

Banta, Frank

• Droozle  (English)

Beck, C.C.

• Vanishing Point  (English)

Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898

Links for Edward Bellamy: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Dr. Heidenhoff's Process  (English)
• Equality  (English)
• Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887  (English)
• Miss Ludington's Sister  (English)

Benoit, Pierre

Links for Pierre Benoit: Wikipedia

• Atlantida  (English)

Blish, James 1921-1975

Links for James Blish: Wikipedia

• One-Shot  (English)

Bloch, Robert 1917-1994

Links for Robert Bloch: Wikipedia

• This Crowded Earth  (English)

Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin), 1916-1986

Links for Jesse F. Bone: ISFDB

• The Lani People  (English)

Brackett, Leigh Douglass, 1915-1978

• A World is Born  (English)

Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 1930-1999

Links for Marion Zimmer Bradley: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The Colors of Space  (English)
  This is a fun and fairly well-written short novel. It's not without a few minor clunkers -- including one or two examples of my pet peeve, background/exposition couched in unnatural-sounding dialogue -- and is no doubt wildly different in tone from Zimmer Bradley's later work. Still, the tale of young Bart Steele among the mysterious Lhari is creative enough, and humanistic (as it were!) enough, to elevate this above the usual space opera fare. Thegoldenband 12:43, 12 May 2007 (EDT)
• The Door Through Space  (English)
  This story mentions larger political struggles occuring between humans and non-humans in this far distant future, but at the same time, largely glosses over these struggles and the inherent differences and conflicts between the races that cause it. Instead, the author is more concerned with the idea of friendship, honor, love and hatred between individuals. The main character, Race, and his brother-in-law, were once as close as brothers, but that ended six years ago in a fight that left both men scarred. After Race's sister asks for his help in saving her daughter, Race must confront that hatred while on a quest that ultimately leads to great discoveries ... both for himself and for the entire planet. JHutch 9 January 2008

Bradley, Mary E.

• Mizora: A Prophecy  (English)

Budrys, Algis, 1931-2008

Links for Algis Budrys: Wikipedia,

• The Stoker and the Stars  (English) as by John A. Sentry

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950

Links for Edgar Rice Burroughs: Wikipedia, ISFDB

Barsoom series

• A Princess of Mars  (English)
• A Princess of Mars  (English)
• A Princess of Mars  (English)
• Gods of Mars  (English)
• Gods of Mars  (English)
• War-lord of Mars  (English)
• Warlord of Mars  (English)
• Thuvia  (English)
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars  (English)
• The Chessmen of Mars  (English)
• The Chessmen of Mars  (English)

Pellucidar series

• Pellucidar  (English)
• Pellucidar  (English)
• At the Earth's Core  (English)
• At the Earth's Core  (English)
• At the Earth's Core  (English)
• Ce la koro de la tero  (Esperanto)

Caspak series

• The Land That Time Forgot  (English)
• The Land That Time Forgot  (English)
• People out of Time  (English)
• People out of Time  (English)
• Out of Time's Abyss  (English)

other SF

• The Lost Continent  (English)
• The Lost Continent  (English)
• The Monster Men  (English)
• The Monster Men  (English)
• The Outlaw of Torn  (English)
• The Outlaw of Torn  (English)

Campbell, John W. (Wood), 1910-1971

Links for John W. Campbell: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The Ultimate Weapon  (English)

Arcot, Morey and Wade series

in series order

• The Black Star Passes  (English)
• Islands of Space  (English)
• Invaders from the Infinite  (English)

Čapek, Karel, 1890-1938

Links for Karel Čapek: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• R.U.R.  (Czech)

Capps, Carroll M., 1913-1971

• And All the Earth a Grave  (English) as by C.C. MacApp

Carr, Terry Gene, 1937-1987

Links for Terry Gene Carr: Wikipedia

• Warlord of Kor  (English)

Castle, Arnold

• The Perfectionists  (English)

Clifton, Mark Irvin, 1906-1963

• Sense from Thought Divide  (English)

Clinton, E. M., 1926-

• Untechnological Employment  (English)

Cocking, Ron

• Warning from the Stars  (English)

Cole, Everett B., 1910-1977

• Alarm Clock  (English)
• The Best Made Plans  (English)
• Final Weapon  (English)
• Indirection  (English)
• Millennium  (English)
• The Players  (English)

Collins, Les

• Question of Comfort  (English)

Cooper, Michael D., [pseud.]

Links for Michael D. Cooper: ISFDB, official Starman series website

The Starman series

• The Runaway Asteroid  (English)

Coppel, Alfred 1921-2004

• The Hills of Home  (English)

Carroll, William

• Solomon's Orbit  (English)

Cory, John

• Egocentric Orbit  (English)

Cox, Irving 1917-2001

• The Guardians  (English)
• Impact  (English)

Cummings, Ray, 1887-1957

Links for Ray Cummings: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Beyond the Vanishing Point  (English)
• Brigands of the Moon  (English)
• The Fire People  (English)
• The Girl in the Golden Atom  (English)
• Tarrano the Conqueror  (English)
• Wandl the Invader  (English)
• The White Invaders  (English)

DeKy, Thornton

• The Ultimate Experiment  (English)

Dee, Roger (Aycock, Roger D.) 1914-2004

• Control Group  (English)
• Traders Risk  (English)

Del Rey, Lester, 1915-1993

Links for Lester Del Rey: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Badge of Infamy  (English)
• Police Your Planet  (English)
• The Sky Is Falling  (English)
• Victory  (English)

Derreaux, Gaston

• The Sun King  (English)

Doctorow, Cory

Links for Cory Doctorow: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Craphound  (English)
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom  (English)
  The future world Doctorow has created has eliminated death and poverty. Instead of money, you have "Whuffie", which is how much respect you have from your peers. Do something others like, you get more "Whuffie". Do something poorly, you lose "Whuffie". And in this future world, Disney World is not run by the Walt Disney Corporation, but rather by regular citizens who form "ad-hoc" groups to run various parts of the Magic Kingdom. Doctorow manages to examine everything from the meaning of life (without death) to love, friendship and how society can and should function from personal levels to large group levels. At the same time, the story at the heart of this examination is interesting and well worth the read. JHutch 14 January 2008
• Eastern Standard Tribe  (English)
• Home Again, Home Again  (English)
• A Place so Foreign  (English)
• Printcrime  (English)
• Return to Pleasure Island  (English)
• Shadow of the Mothaship  (English)
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town  (English)
• Super Man and the Bug Out  (English)
  Take the Superman character we all know and love. Put him into a story that is outside the standard canon of stories. DC comics has been doing this for years with great success. Cory Doctorow does the same thing with this short story about "The Superman". The hook is that instead of crashing his spaceship in Kansas and being raised by salt-of-the-earth-God-fearing farmers, Kal-el crashes near Toronto, Canada and is raised by a Jewish couple. Instead of Clark Kent, we get Hershie Ambrowicz. A amusing and well told story that turns the Superman mythos in a new direction. JHutch 14 January 2008

Donovan, Francis

• The Short Life  (English)

Douglas, Ellsworth

• Pharaoh's Broker  (English)

Douglas, Jack

• Test Rocket!  (English)

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930

Links for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The Lost World  (English)
• The Lost World  (English)
• The Poison Belt  (English)
• The Poison Belt  (English)

Dunn, Jonathan

• The Revolutions of Time  (English)

Dye, Charles, 1927-1955

Links for Charles Dye: ISFDB

• Regeneration  (English)

Edmondson, G.C., Edmondson, Garry C. 1922-1995

• Blessed Are the Meek  (English)

Ernst, Paul, 1899-1985

• The Radiant Shell  (English)

Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett), 1893-1958

Links for E. Everett Evans: ISFDB

• Man of Many Minds  (English)
• Masters of Space  (English) with Edward Elmer Smith

Fahy, Patrick

Links for Patrick Fahy: ISFDB

• The Mightiest Man  (English)

Fairman, Paul W.

Links for Paul W. Fairman: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Ten From Infinity  (English) by Ivar Jorgensen

Ferris, Benjamin

• The Invaders  (English)

FitzPatrick, R. C.

• The Circuit Riders  (English)

Flagg, Francis pseud. Weiss, George Henry 1898-1946

• The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds  (English)

Flint, Homer Eon, 1892-1924

Links for Homer Eon Flint: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The Blind Spot  (English)
• The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix  (English)
• The Emancipatrix  (English)
• The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life  (English)

Fontenay, Charles Louis, 1917-2007

Links for Charles Louis Fontenay: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The Gift Bearer  (English)
• Rebels of the Red Planet  (English)
• Wind  (English)

Fyfe, Horace Brown, 1918-1997

• A Transmutation of Muddles  (English)
• Exile  (English)
• The Talkative Tree  (English)
• This World Must Die!  (English)

Gallun, Raymond Zinke

• The Planet Strappers  (English)

Garrett, Gordon Randall, 1927-1987

Links for Randall Garrett: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• .....After a Few Words...  (English) as by Seaton McKettrig
• Anchorite  (English) as by Johnathon Blake MacKenzie
• Anything You Can Do ...  (English)
• A Spaceship Named McGuire  (English)
• The Bramble Bush  (English)
• But, I Don't Think  (English)
• By Proxy  (English)
• Card Trick  (English) as by Walter Bupp. Walter Bupp may be a pseudonym of John Berryman.
• Cum Grano Salis  (English)
• Damned If You Don't  (English)
• Dead Giveaway  (English)
• Despoilers of the Golden Empire  (English) as by David Gordon
• The Destroyers  (English)
• Heist Job on Thizar  (English)
• The Highest Treason  (English)
• In Case of Fire  (English)
• The Man Who Hated Mars  (English)
• The Measure of a Man  (English)
• .....Or Your Money Back  (English) as by David Gordon
• Pagan Passions  (English) with Laurence Mark Janifer
• The Penal Cluster  (English) as by Ivar Jorgensen
• Suite Mentale  (English)
• With No Strings Attached  (English) as by David Gordon
• The Unnecessary Man  (English)
• Unwise Child  (English)
• Viewpoint  (English)
• Vigorish  (English)
• What The Left Hand Was Doing  (English)

"Queens Own FBI" series

• Brain Twister  (English) with Laurence Mark Janifer
  alternate title That Sweet Little Old Lady 
• The Impossibles  (English) with Laurence Mark Janifer
  alternate title Out Like a Light 
• Supermind  (English) with Laurence Mark Janifer
  alternate title "Occasion for Disaster"

Gimble, Stanley

• Breakaway  (English)

Glad, Victoria

• Each Man Kills  (English)

Godwin, Tom, 1915-1980

• —And Devious the Line of Duty  (English)
• Cry from a Far Planet  (English)
• The Nothing Equation  (English)
• Space Prison  (English)

Goodwin, Harold Leland, 1914-1990

Links for Harold Leland Wright Goodwin: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet  (English) as Blake Savage
• Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet  (English) as Blake Savage — with illustrations

Gordon, Nathaniel

• The Golden Judge  (English)

Griffith, George, 1857-1906

Links for George Griffith: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• A Honeymoon in Space  (English)
• The Mummy and Miss Nitocris
  A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension  (English)

Grisewood, R. Norman

• Zarlah the Martian  (English)

Gunn, James E. 1923-

Links for James E. Gunn: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Breaking Point  (English)

Hamilton, Edmond

• The Stars, My Brothers  (English)

Hardart, F.E.

• The Beast of Space  (English)

Harmon, James Judson, 1933-

• The Last Place on Earth  (English)
• Measure for a Loner  (English)

Harness, Charles Leonard, 1915-2005

• The Professional Approach  (English) with Theodore Lockhard Thomas as by Leonard Lockhard

Harrison, Harry, 1925-

Links for Harry Harrison: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The K-Factor  (English)
• The Misplaced Battleship  (English)
• Planet of the Damned  (English)
• The Repairman  (English)
• Toy Shop  (English)

Hastings, Milo M. 1884-1957

• City of Endless Night  (English)

Herbert, Frank Patrick 1920-1986

• Missing Link  (English)
• Operation Haystack  (English)

Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright, 1866-1944

Links for Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The Lost Continent  (English)

Ing, Dean, 1931-

• Tight Squeeze  (English)

Janifer, Laurence Mark, 1931-2002

Links for Laurence Mark Janifer: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Charley de Milo  (English) as by Larry M. Harris
• Hex  (English) as by Larry M. Harris
• Pagan Passions  (English) with Gordon Randall Garrett
• Wizard  (English) as by Larry M. Harris

"Queens Own FBI" series

• Brain Twister  (English) with Gordon Randall Garrett
  alternate title That Sweet Little Old Lady 
• The Impossibles  (English) with Gordon Randall Garrett
  alternate title "Out Like a Light"
• Supermind  (English) with Gordon Randall Garrett
  alternate title "Occasion for Disaster"

Jones, Raymond F., 1915-1994

• Cubs of the Wolf  (English)

Kallis, Stephen A.

• The Untouchable  (English)

Kastle, Herbert D. 1924-1987

• The First One  (English)

Knight, Damon Francis 1922-2002

Links for Damon Francis Knight: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The Worshippers  (English)

Kuykendall, Roger

• All Day September  (English)
• We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly  (English)

Lande, Irving W.

• Slingshot  (English)

Lang, Allen Kim 1928-

• Blind Man's Lantern  (English)
• The Great Potlatch Riots  (English)

Lafferty, Raphael Aloysius 1914-2002

• Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas  (English)

Laumer, John Keith, 1925 - 1993

Links for John Keith Laumer: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Gambler's World  (English)
• Greylorn  (English)
• The Yillian Way  (English)

La Spina, Fanny Greye, 1880-1969

• Old Mr. Wiley  (English)

Leadem, Christopher

Links for Christopher Leadem: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The Mantooth  (English)
• Oberheim (Voices)  (English)

Leftwich, Edmund H.

• The Bell Tone  (English)

Leiber, Fritz Reuter 1910-1992

Links for Fritz Leiber: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• Bread Overhead  (English)
• The Creature from Cleveland Depths  (English)
• The Night of the Long Knives  (English)
• No Great Magic  (English)

Leinster, Murray, [pseud.], (Jenkins, William Fitzgerald), 1896-1975

Links for Murray Leinster: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• The Aliens  (English)
• Attention Saint Patrick  (English)
• The Ambulance Made Two Trips  (English)
• The Leader  (English)
• Long Ago, Far Away  (English)
• A Matter of Importance  (English)
• Morale  (English)
• Operation: Outer Space  (English)
• Operation Terror  (English)
• The Pirates of Ersatz  (English)
• The Runaway Skyscraper  (English)
• Scrimshaw  (English)
• Space Platform  (English)
• Space Tug  (English)
• Talents, Incorporated  (English)
• This World Is Taboo  (English)
• Sand Doom  (English)

Lindsay, David, 1876-1945

Links for David Lindsay: Wikipedia, ISFDB

• A Voyage to Arcturus  (English)

Long, Frank Belknap, 1903-1994

• The Mississippi Saucer  (English)
• The Sky Trap  (English)

Lowndes, Robert Augustine Ward, 1916-1998

• The Fourth Invasion  (English) as by Henry Josephs
• The Troubadour  (English) as by Peter Michael Sherman

Maddren, Gerry

• The Alternate Plan  (English)

Marks, Winston K.

• The Deadly Daughters  (English)

Marlowe, Stephen 1928-2008

• A World Called Crimson  (English) as by Darius John Granger. May have been by John