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The Night of the Long Knives is a science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber published in 1960. "I was one hundred miles from Nowhere—and I mean that literally—when I spotted this girl ...

The Creature from Cleveland Depths is a science fiction novella by Fritz Leiber published in 1962. The Creature from Cleveland Depths also known as The Lone Wolf tells the story of ...

The Big Time is a science fiction novella by Fritz Leiber published in 1958. It was awarded the Hugo Award during 1958. The Big Time is a story involving only a few characters, but ...

The Gun is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952. Nothing moved or stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs of life ... an ...

The War in the Air is a military science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, written in 1907 and serialised and published in 1908 in The Pall Mall Magazine.  The novel is like many of We ...

Love and Mr Lewisham (subtitled "The Story of a Very Young Couple") is a 1900 novel set in the 1880s by H. G. Wells. It was among his first fictional writings outside the science f ...

Mr. Britling Sees It Through is H.G. Wells's "masterpiece of the wartime experience in England." The novel was published in September 1916.  Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the ...

The New Machiavelli is a 1911 novel by H. G. Wells (first serialized in The English Review in 1910). Because its plot notoriously derived from Wells's affair with Amber Reeves and ...

The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells. A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U- ...

Tono-Bungay is a realist semiautobiographical novel written by H. G. Wells and published in 1909. It has been called "arguably his most artistic book". It is narrated by George Pon ...

The Wheels of Chance is an early (1896) comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat in the style of Three Men in a Boat. The Wheels of Chance - A Bicy ...

The Sleeper Awakes is an 1910 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely ...

The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1902. A mermaid contrives to have herself "rescued from drowning" and adopted by a respectable family on the Engl ...

Kipps is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1905. Humorous yet sympathetic, the perceptive social novel is generally regarded as a masterpiece, and it was his own favourite ...

In the Days of the Comet (1906) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. In In the Days of the Comet humanity is "exalted" when a comet causes "the nitrogen of the air, the old a ...

The Passionate Friends is a 1913 novel by H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friend ...

Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H. G. Wells first published in 1909. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," aga ...

The Wonderful Visit is an 1895 fantasy novel by H. G. Wells. An other-worldly creature visits a small English village, and H. G. Wells uses humour and satire to convey some of the ...

The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affai ...

A Story of the Stone Age is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897. This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history. . ...

A Story of the Days To Come is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells that was first published in the June to October 1897 issues of The Pall Mall Magazine. Set in London in the ...

The First Men in the Moon is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1901 , who called it one of his "fantastic stories". The novel tells the story of a journey ...

The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1898. H.G. Wells' classic science fiction-fantasy story, in which a scientist known only as “The Time ...

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passi ...

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells first published in 1898. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. The War of the Worlds ...