Sci-Fi Boxed Set: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Apocalyptic Tales
By H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Edward Bellamy, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Francis Bacon, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Margaret Cavendish, Jonathan Swift, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, James Fenimore Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ayn Rand, Owen Gregory, Hugh Benson, Fred M. White, Ignatius Donnelly, Ernest Bramah, Milo Hastings, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Robert Cromie, E. M. Forster, Anthony Trollope, Richard Stockham, Irving E. Cox, Cleveland Moffett, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Abraham Merritt, Edgar Wallace, H. Beam Piper, Garrett P. Serviss, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, Murray Leinster, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, Lester del Rey, August Derleth, Frederik Pohl, Kurt Vonnegut, William Dean Howells, Philip Francis Nowlan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, George Griffith, Edwin Lester Arnold, John Jacob Astor & Gustavus W. Pope
- Release Date: 2018-12-21
- Genre: Science Fiction
Score: 2.5
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