Book Suggestions

[vsfguthroth]

Hi

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

TIA

Pete

[Conquistador]

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

[Cubs]

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

[goon3423]

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.

[Conquistador]

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

[Governor General]

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.

[Franz_Josef]

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).

[TheBlackCrane]

if I may suggest:...The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling.

Second that, jolly good read and generates plenty of ideas!

[northtroll]

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.

[alastair]

The Burton and Swinburne books by Mark Hodder are great fun.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-Hodder/e/B003NED0RA

[The_Beast]

Any love for Flashman?

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

Doug

[krimso]

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.   

[Governor General]

Further suggestions; The Boneshaker series by Cherie Priest. I've read all but one, my favorites were Boneshaker, Dreadnaught, Fiddlehead
 and most favorite Ganymede.

[answer_is_42]

Buy this.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Great-1871-1914-Still-Come/dp/0815603584

None of that steampunk rubbish.

[Conquistador]

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