A Martian Odyssey

Three long stories and two short ones, ranging from the stone age to a future city of thirty million people. Includes A Story of the Days To Come, the closest Wells came to writing cyberpunk.

H. G. Wells

A student in Padua falls for the daughter of a scientist who has raised her among poisonous plants until she became poisonous herself. Hawthorne's 1844 story is an early warning about science without conscience.

Nathaniel Hawthorne