Classic Science Fiction Tales
A Seven-Day Anthology of Early Speculative Stories
Century-old stories that predicted the world we live in now.
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You don't need a literature degree to start with science fiction — its earliest stories are short, sharp, and startlingly close to home. Meet E. M. Forster's underground world that worships its Machine, H. G. Wells's rogue star and his country of the blind, Jack London's duelling inventors, Rokeya Hossain's quietly radical Sultana's Dream, and Ambrose Bierce's unsettling chess-playing automaton.
Seven foundational stories written between 1897 and 1909, arranged as a single week of reading. These writers were imagining our world before it existed — our dependence on machines, the thinning of real perception, the hope and fear we attach to what we build.
Inside this volume
- The Machine Stops — E. M. Forster
- The Star — H. G. Wells
- The Shadow and the Flash — Jack London
- Sultana's Dream — Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
- The New Accelerator — H. G. Wells
- The Country of the Blind — H. G. Wells
- Moxon's Master — Ambrose Bierce
Every volume includes
- Seven complete short stories, one for each day
- A reading note before each story, so you're never reading blind
- An introduction to the author and where they sit in literary history
- Discussion questions built in — for reflection or group use
- An annotated guide to what to read next
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