Classic Fiction: 284 books

A strange tale of alien visitors amid the cold war. An interesting short story / novella by Diffin.

A science fiction movie was made from this book. Detour is a 1939 novel by Martin M. Goldsmith. The author adapted his novel into the noted film noir cult film of the same name. The book, subtitled "An Extraordinary Tale," was published by the Macaulay Company. Its plot is similar to the...

A continuation of the story The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, commissioned by The New York Evening Journal.

SAMUEL R. DELANY considers Captives of the Flame to be the first of a trilogy dealing with the same epoch and characters. It is, however, his second published novel, his first being The Jewels of Aptor.

A powerful short story about an old soldier, greed and a mysterious being. This may be a short story, but it is an amazing, very strange little read.

The story of a confrontation between a human overlord and alien servants, with an ironic twist at the end. Like most of Piper's best work, Uller Uprising is modeled after an actual event in human history; in this case the Sepoy Mutiny -- though not a mere retelling of the Indian Mutiny, but rather an analysis of an historical event applied to a similar situation in the far future.

Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider. A first-contact story concerning communications with beings who hear and speak, but don't seem to convey information through set words.

The adventures of Rollo Lenox Smeaton Aubrey, Earl of Redgrave, and his bride Lilla Zaidie, daughter of the late Professor Hartley Rennick, Demonstrator in Physical Science in the Smith-Oliver University in New York, were first made possible by that distinguished scientist's now famous separation...

Here is high fidelity fiction at Philip José Farmer's story-telling best. It's a vibrant, distractingly different tale of three centuries into the future. And as you read you'll have a vague, uneasy feeling that it's all taking place somewhere in the unexplored parts of the universe, even today.

Adapted to film in 1951 as The Day the Earth Stood Still, this short tale contains a shocker not quite viewed in the movie.

A Playboy is someone with power, too much time on his hands, and too little sense of a goal worth achieving. And if the Playboy happens to belong to a highly advanced culture....

There are some people that it is extremely unwise to cross... and the fireworks start when two such people cross each other! A science fiction masterpiece by Cole.

A group has to survive in post apocalyptic America.