A Voyage to Arcturus

The 1818 novel that started science fiction. Victor Frankenstein builds a living creature and spends the rest of his life running from what he made.

Mary Shelley

Professor Lidenbrock decodes an old runic note and leads his nephew down an Icelandic volcano. Verne fills the descent with underground seas, giant mushrooms, and living fossils.

Jules Verne

Three castaways end up aboard the Nautilus, the electric submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo. A full tour of the ocean floor written decades before submarines could do it.

Jules Verne

The Baltimore Gun Club decides to fire a manned shell at the Moon. Both parts of the story in one volume: the launch and the flight around the lunar surface.

Jules Verne

A scientist finds the formula for invisibility and discovers he cannot undo it. Short, fast, and darker than its reputation suggests.

H. G. Wells