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Title: Book Suggestions
Post by: vsfguthroth on March 12, 2014, 07:12:02 PM: Hi

Leaving aside Verne, Wells, Doyle and Burroughs, what books do you suggest as an introduction to the VSF Genre ?

TIA

Pete
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: Conquistador on March 12, 2014, 07:17:22 PM: http://wondermark.com/victorian-scifi/
Leaving out those you requested:

TIME TRAVEL

   Irving, Washington. RIP VAN WINKLE. (1819) // learn more // read online
   Poe, Edgar Allan. SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY. (1845) // learn more // read online
   Morris, William. A DREAM OF JOHN BALL. (1888) // learn more // read online
   Twain, Mark. A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT. (1889) // learn more // read online
   ~~Wells, H.G. THE TIME MACHINE. (1895) // learn more // read online~~
   London, Jack. THE STAR-ROVER. (1915) // learn more // read online

HOLLOW EARTH

   ~~Verne, Jules. JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. (1864) // learn more // read online~~
   Butler, Samuel. EREWHON. (1872) // learn more // read online
   Harben, William. THE LAND OF THE CHANGING SUN. (1894) // learn more // read online
   Merritt, A. THE MOON POOL. (1918) // learn more // read online

UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA

   Bellamy, Edward. LOOKING BACKWARD. (1888) // learn more // read online
   Howells, William Dean. A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA. (1894) // learn more // read online
   Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. HERLAND. (1915) // learn more // read online

FUTURE OR STRANGE WORLDS

   Swift, Jonathan. GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. (1726) // learn more // read online
   ~~Verne, Jules. PARIS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. (1863) // learn more // no free online edition~~
   Abbott, Edwin. FLATLAND. (1884) // learn more // read online
   Forster, E.M. THE MACHINE STOPS. (1909) // learn more // read online

JOURNEYS TO OTHER PLANETS

   de Bergerac, Cyrano. L’AUTRE MONDE: OU LES ÉTATS ET EMPIRES DE LA LUNE. (1657) // learn more // read online
   Serviss, Garrett P. EDISON’S CONQUEST OF MARS. (1898) // learn more // read online
   Griffith, George. A HONEYMOON IN SPACE. (1901) // learn more // read online
   Arnold, Edwin. LIEUTENANT GULLIVAR JONES: HIS VACATION. (1905) // learn more // read online
   ~~Burroughs, Edgar Rice. A PRINCESS OF MARS. (1912) // learn more // read online~~

FANTASTIC INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES

   Shelley, Mary. FRANKENSTEIN. (1818) // learn more // read online
   Stevenson, Robert Louis. THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE. (1886) // learn more // read online
   ~~Verne, Jules. FACING THE FLAG. (1896) // learn more // read online~~
   Lewis, Sinclair. ARROWSMITH. (1925) // learn more // no free online edition

FLYING MACHINES

   Poe, Edgar Allan. THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE OF ONE HANS PFAALL. (1835) // learn more // read online
   Poe, Edgar Allan. THE BALLOON-HOAX. (1844) // learn more // read online
   Verne, Jules. ROBUR THE CONQUEROR. (1886) // learn more // read online
   Verne, Jules. MASTER OF THE WORLD. (1904) // learn more // read online
   Kipling, Rudyard. WITH THE NIGHT MAIL. (1905) // learn more // read online
~~Doyle, Arthur Conan. HORROR OF THE HEIGHTS. (1913) // learn more // read online~~

LOST WORLDS

   Donnelly, Ignatius. ATLANTIS: THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD. (1882) // learn more // read online
   ~~Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE LOST WORLD. (1912) // learn more // read online~~
   Merritt, A. THE METAL MONSTER. (1920) // learn more // read online

SUPERNATURAL

   Lang, Andrew. THE BOOK OF DREAMS AND GHOSTS. (1897) // learn more // read online
   Hodgson, William Hope. CARNACKI THE GHOST-FINDER. (1913) // learn more // read online

WORLD CATASTROPHES

   Shelley, Mary. THE LAST MAN. (1826) // learn more // read online
   Donnelly, Ignatius. RAGNAROK, THE AGE OF FIRE AND GRAVEL. (1883) // learn more // read online
   Flammarion, Camille. THE END OF THE WORLD. (1893) // learn more // no free edition online
   ~~Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE POISON BELT. (1913) // learn more // read online~~

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS

   Griffith, George. THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION. (1893) // learn more // read online
   Griffith, George. OLGA ROMANOFF. (1894) // learn more // read online
   Conrad, Joseph and Ford Madox Ford. THE INHERITORS. (1901) // learn more // read online
   London, Jack. THE IRON HEEL. (1908) // learn more // read online
   Kipling, Rudyard. AS EASY AS ABC. (1912) // learn more // read online
   Lewis, Sinclair. IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE. (1935) // learn more // read online
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: Cubs on March 12, 2014, 07:23:18 PM: You could do worse than get something like this for your Kindle -

https://kindle.amazon.com/work/the-steampunk-megapack-classic-stories-ebook/B00B5WSHKC/B00B1M129O
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: goon3423 on March 12, 2014, 07:32:02 PM: I recently read "The Good, The Bad & The Infernal" by Guy Adams, a fun light read. I haven't yet read the follow-up book.
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: Conquistador on March 12, 2014, 07:35:58 PM: mORE SOURCES:

http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/victorian-science-fiction

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/jefferies/banerjee3.html

http://virtualvictorian.blogspot.com/2011/06/victorians-and-science-fiction.html

http://twomenenter.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/victorian-and-edwardian-science-fiction/

http://wargamers.wikia.com/wiki/Victorian_Science_Fiction

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Victorian-Horror-Sci-Novels/lm/R168CL86EISPB7

http://bogscifi.forumotions.net/t18-the-victorian-age-of-science-fiction

GRACIAS,

GLENN
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: Governor General on March 12, 2014, 09:01:53 PM: if I may suggest: Warlord of the Air by Michael Moorcock, the Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling and The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling.
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: Franz_Josef on March 13, 2014, 12:15:45 AM: And don't forget the Prisoner of Zenda. Even though it doesn't have any exotic science, it is an good example of the invented world (and a fun read).
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: TheBlackCrane on March 13, 2014, 12:19:36 AM: Quote from: Governor General on March 12, 2014, 09:01:53 PM
if I may suggest:...The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling.

Second that, jolly good read and generates plenty of ideas!
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: northtroll on March 13, 2014, 02:03:07 PM: Mike Resnik (Sic?) has a series of westerns with Doc Holliday as the protagonist that are a fun read. More magic and steamteach than steampunk histoy, but fun.
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: alastair on March 13, 2014, 02:29:06 PM: The Burton and Swinburne books by Mark Hodder are great fun.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-Hodder/e/B003NED0RA (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-Hodder/e/B003NED0RA)
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: The_Beast on March 13, 2014, 02:37:48 PM: Any love for Flashman?

Edit: I take it back; useful, for sure, but not for any Sci Fi...

Doug
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: krimso on March 17, 2014, 01:12:19 PM: I second the Burton and Swinburne books by Hodder.

In addition I love the Langdon St. Ive's series by James P. Blaylock and Infernal Devices by K.W. Jeter.
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: Governor General on March 17, 2014, 01:45:40 PM: Further suggestions; The Boneshaker series by Cherie Priest. I've read all but one, my favorites were Boneshaker, Dreadnaught, Fiddlehead
and most favorite Ganymede.
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: answer_is_42 on March 17, 2014, 08:01:41 PM: Buy this.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Great-1871-1914-Still-Come/dp/0815603584

None of that steampunk rubbish.
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: Conquistador on March 17, 2014, 10:24:29 PM: Quote from: answer_is_42 on March 17, 2014, 08:01:41 PM
Buy this.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Great-1871-1914-Still-Come/dp/0815603584

None of that steampunk rubbish.

Don't sugar-coat it, give us your completely honest opinion... ;)

Garcias,

Glenn
Title: Re: Book Suggestions
Post by: vsfguthroth on March 17, 2014, 10:27:34 PM: I actually bought that one this evening.

Great list BTW. :-*