Mary Shelley & Edgar Rice Burroughs 
Essential Science Fiction Novels – Volume 1 

Welcome to the Essential Science Fiction Novels book series, where you will find a selection of endless tales about the incredible technologies of the future, time travel and its consequences, adventures in interstellar spaceships, strange post-apocalyptic worlds, dangerous alien invasions and everything else the authors dreamed of or feared for the future of humanity.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the 5 novels by authors who created memorable stories that shaped the foundations of Science Fiction.

This book contains the following novels:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Time Machine by H. G. Wells.
Erewhon by Samuel Butler.
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne.
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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About the author

Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography.

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903.

Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. He has sometimes been called the ‘Father of Science Fiction’, a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American speculative fiction writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction and fantasy genres.