Books like The War Of The Worlds
30 science fiction books to read after The War Of The Worlds, by Wells, H. G., the closest match first.
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1. A Martian Odyssey
by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
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A Martian Odyssey was Weinbaums first science fiction story; but within eighteen months he was dead, having written barely enough to make a collection. But with that first story he...
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2. The Skylark Series
by E. E. Smith
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The great innovation in American science fiction during the 1920s was the invention of the space opera, and that was largely down to E.E. "Doc" Smith. Sometime around 1916 he...
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3. Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Towards the end of the 19th century a big movement for women's suffrage started up on both sides of the Atlantic. Accompanying the political campaign, there were many stories that...
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4. A Voyage To Arcturus
by David Lindsay
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Science fiction has produced some pretty weird novels in its time, but there aren't many that can match A Voyage to Arcturus. It has had a major influence on writers...
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5. Metropolis
by Thea Von Harbou
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This is the novelisation of the film that Thea von Harbou wrote with her husband, Fritz Lang. It was the first feature-length science fiction film, the most expensive film made...
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6. Deluge
by S. Fowler Wright
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The idea of a drowned England had been a commonplace in British scientific romances since at least After London by Richard Jeffries, but it received its finest expression in Fowler...
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7. The Color Out Of Space
by Lovecraft, H. P.
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Throughout the 1920s and 30s, the science fiction and weird fiction that appeared in American genre magazines was often hard to tell apart. Weird fiction writers often used science fiction...
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8. When Worlds Collide
by Philip Wylie
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Not many science fiction writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Kipling was the first member of this exclusive club. His finest science fiction is a pair of...
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9. With The Night Mail
by Rudyard Kipling
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Not many science fiction writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Kipling was the first member of this exclusive club. His finest science fiction is a pair of...
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10. It Can’t Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
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And here we have another Nobel Prize winning author of science fiction, though in this case Lewis flirted with genre in only one novel. But that novel is a classic....
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11. The Purple Cloud
by M. P. Shiel
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A so called last-man novel. A single man has survived and most of the novel are his meditations on humanity and the universe.
M.P. Shiel was a prolific author of excitable stories for the popular magazines of the day: he was, among other things, the person who gave us The Yellow Peril. But...
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12. A Princess Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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In the latter years of the 19th century, astronomers detected lines on the surface of Mars, and before long these were being identified as irrigation canals, suggesting notm only that...
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13. The Time Machine
by Wells, H. G.
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Follow a time traveller into an alien-like future Earth to witness the consequences of humanity's social and biological choices and evolution.
A mechanical contraption that lets you travel back in time. Classic steampunk from a classic author.
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14. The Hampdenshire Wonder
by J D Beresford
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This was the first novel to fully explore the consequences of the birth of homo superior. Victor Stott is born weak and awkward, with an enlarged head, and at first,...
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15. The First Men In The Moon
by Wells, H. G.
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First Men in the Moon was the last of the great run of genre-defining scientific romances that Wells wrote in the first years of his career, it is also the...
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16. The Island of Doctor Moreau
by Wells, H. G.
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Biopunk has its roots in this novel where Dr. Moreau experiments on animals and has themes of pain, cruelty, human identity and moral responsibility
Biopunk has its roots in this novel where Dr. Moreau experiments on animals and has themes of pain, cruelty, human identity and moral responsibility
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17. The Shape of Things to Come
by Wells, H. G.
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This story is a frame of future events on Earth, which includes the establishment of a world state as a solution to humanity's problems.
This story is a frame of future events on Earth, which includes the establishment of a world state as a solution to humanity's problems.
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18. The Iron Heel
by Jack London
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London succeeds in doing what many men have tried to do over the course of history, and almost every man has failed in doing: understanding how women think. Unlike most...
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19. Men Like Gods
by Wells, H. G.
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Possibly the first Alternate History novel that posits cross-time travel in a physical sense.
Possibly the first Alternate History novel that posits cross-time travel in a physical sense.
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20. White Mars
by Brian Aldiss
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It was a time of colour-coded Mars Red, Green, Blue Mars, for instance so it is hardly surprising to find one that offers yet another twist on the spectrum. But...
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21. We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We was written in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and though Zamyatin was himself a Bolshevik, the novel expressed his disquiet at the structuring of society that the...
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22. Martian Time-slip
by Dick, Philip K.
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Just as Ray Bradbury's Mars ignores both contemporary scientific knowledge about Mars and the colourful landscape of the planetary romance in order to create a Mars that is peculiarly his...
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23. Moving Mars (1995)
by Bear, Greg
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Casseia Majumdar grows up in a powerful family on a Mars that is settled, self-governing and increasingly at odds with Earth. As a young politician she is drawn into the...
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24. Swastika Night
by Katharine Burdekin
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If there is one overused cliché in science fiction, it is the alternate history novel in which Hitler won the Second World War. But this is a novel about the...
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25. Redemption Ark
by Alastair Reynolds
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The great wall is a massive construction, large enough to enclose an entire city, and the atmosphere above it. The wall encloses the base of the Conjoiners, a group that...
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26. The Machine Stops
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This is a story about dependence on technology. Most humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth and below grand, life is governed by an omnipotent machine.
This short story is the only science fiction that the renowned novelist E.M. Forster ever wrote, but it continues to be read and applauded today. The story was written in...
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27. The Angel Of The Revolution
by George Griffith
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With the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Europe faced the prospect of a united Germany and a major shift in the delicate balance of power. As a result stories started to...
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28. Sand Of Mars
by Clarke, Arthur C.
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Back to a Mars that draws on contemporary scientific knowledge of the red planet. In this version, Mars is little more than a research establishment, as a very small colony...
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29. Desolation Road
by Ian Mcdonald
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This is the closest modern science fiction has come to the haunting, magical sense of Mars as it appeared in The Martian Chronicles, and McDonald has mixed it with elements...
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30. Space Machine, The
by Priest, Christopher
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One of the signs of how influential H.G. Wells was in the history of science fiction can be seen in the number of later writers who have produced sequels to...
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