The story of the president of a post-American Civil War gun club in Baltimore, his rival, a Philadelphia maker of armor, and a Frenchman, who build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing.
The story of the president of a post-American Civil War gun club in Baltimore, his rival, a Philadelphia maker of armor, and a Frenchman, who build an...
Read a tale of one of the original evil inventors the genius Robur who, like his successors, wants to take over the world. The key to Roburs power lies in his latest invention, a vehicle called The Terror. It can travel by land, air, or sea, reaching such speed that it can only be seen as a blur. John Strock, federal police officer, is assigned to investigate. But he soon finds that stopping Robur is more difficult than he bargained on! Written in 1904, this novel by the pioneering science fiction writer Jules Verne will delight anyone who likes a flight of fancy with their adventure.
Read a tale of one of the original evil inventors the genius Robur who, like his successors, wants to take over the world. The key to Roburs power lie...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is the original - and still the greatest - undersea adventure. Ships are being attacked by a strange sea monster. Professor Aronnax joins an expedition to stop the beast, but is washed overboard his ship and finds himself in a submarine helmed by the brooding and terrible Captain Nemo. Thus begins a breathtaking and dangerous underwater journey, through coral reefs and lost continents, amidst sea storms and terrible battles. Will Aronnax and his companions escape the clutches of Nemo, or will they remain trapped in a watery prison? With its prescient use...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is the original - and still the greatest - undersea adventure. Ships are being attacked by a strange sea monster...
What do you do after the end of the Civil War when your services are no longer required? If you are members of the Baltimore Gun Club, you decide to build a gun large enough to launch a rocket to the moon. From the Earth to the Moon follows the ambitions of Impey Barbicane, the president of the Gun Club, as his plan sets off an international space race. With uncanny details that presage the actual moon landings, large helpings of satire, and an action-filled plot, this novel is one of the early masterpieces of the science fiction genre, a genre that its author Jules Verne helped create.
What do you do after the end of the Civil War when your services are no longer required? If you are members of the Baltimore Gun Club, you decide to b...
Read a tale of one of the original evil inventors the genius Robur who, like his successors, wants to take over the world. The key to Roburs power lies in his latest invention, a vehicle called The Terror. It can travel by land, air, or sea, reaching such speed that it can only be seen as a blur. John Strock, federal police officer, is assigned to investigate. But he soon finds that stopping Robur is more difficult than he bargained on! Written in 1904, this novel by the pioneering science fiction writer Jules Verne will delight anyone who likes a flight of fancy with their adventure.
Read a tale of one of the original evil inventors the genius Robur who, like his successors, wants to take over the world. The key to Roburs power lie...
Five Union soldiers in the American Civil War escape in a balloon. Driven by tremendous find themselves castaways on a strange island somewhere deep in the Pacific Ocean.
They call it Lincoln Island -- and through luck, pluck and the help from a mysterious hidden benefactor, they not only survive but become more like colonists than castaways. With their leader -- an engineer named Cyrus Smith -- they recreate the wonders of nineteenth century civilization with what they find on the island. Along the way, the "colonists" rescue Ayrton (a character from another Jules...
LOST ON AN ISLAND
Five Union soldiers in the American Civil War escape in a balloon. Driven by tremendous find themselves castaways on a strange...
The sailors knew that they were lost. All rose, giving a terrible cry, which was perhaps heard on the Pilgrim. A terrible blow from the monster's tail had just struck the whale-boat underneath. The boat, thrown into the air with irresistible violence, fell back, broken in three pieces, in the midst of waves furiously lashed by the whale's bounds. Young Dick Sand has just been a sailor on the Pilgrim, a whaler on a Pacific Ocean hunt between South America and New Zealand. But the captain and the rest of the crew have been killed trying to harpoon a whale. Now...
THE TEENAGED CAPTAIN
The sailors knew that they were lost. All rose, giving a terrible cry, which was perhaps heard on the Pilgrim. A terri...
The Phoenix Pick Anthology of Classic Science Fiction Stories is a collection of stories taken from across the 19th century and into the early 20th that showcases many of the genre's early attempts. "Science Fiction" of this period is rich with new ideas that reflect both the concerns and the imagination of the society and writers of its time. ****** Each of the stories included in this volume has stood the test of time and many of the themes reflected by these authors are still relevent to us today.
The Phoenix Pick Anthology of Classic Science Fiction Stories is a collection of stories taken from across the 19th century and into the early 20th th...
