Classic science fiction

A scientist creates a living being and abandons it, leaving his creation to seek affection and acceptance.

A deciphered message sends a professor, his nephew and their guide into an Icelandic volcano toward Earth’s centre.

Captain Nemo’s submarine carries three captives beneath the seas, turning an investigation into an extraordinary underwater voyage.

A Square encounters a world beyond two dimensions, extending a society governed by geometry into unfamiliar possibilities.

A man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in 2000 to find a society organized around equality.

A machine carries its inventor into a distant future where humanity has split into two kinds of descendants.

A castaway reaches an island where a scientist experiments on animals to give them human form.

A scientist makes himself invisible and turns against others, bringing an extraordinary discovery into an English village.

An invasion from Mars turns southern England into a place of flight, danger and helplessness before unfamiliar weapons.

A businessman and a scientist travel to the Moon and discover a society living beneath its surface.

A soldier unexpectedly transported to Mars becomes caught in the wars of an unfamiliar planetary world.

Explorers reach an isolated South American plateau where living dinosaurs make prehistoric survival the centre of their adventure.

The release of atomic energy transforms human life while giving nations weapons capable of destruction on an unfamiliar scale.

Three male explorers encounter an isolated society where women have lived and reproduced without men for centuries.

Artificial workers made to serve humanity challenge their creators in a story built around the promise of ending work.

A stranded explorer crosses Mars with an alien companion whose speech and ways of thinking resist easy understanding.

An Antarctic expedition uncovers traces of a terrifying ancient world, prompting a geologist to warn against returning.

A gun club plans to send three men toward the Moon inside a shell fired from a huge cannon.