Portal:Science fiction

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
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 * 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
 * —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

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

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

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

 * —a Doctor Satan story
 * The Hanging Stranger, 1953 by Philip Kindred Dick
 * The Crystal Crypt, 1954 by Philip Kindred Dick

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