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:A Connecticut Yakee In King Arthurs Court by Mark Twain. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne. The New Adam by Stanley G. Weinbaum. The Scarlet Plague by Jack London. The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel. If you appreciate good books, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Jack London, pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, (born January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, U.S.died November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California), American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known worksamong them The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)depict elemental struggles for survival. During the 20th century he was one of the most extensively translated of American authors.Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism.Matthew Phipps Shiell (21 July 1865 17 February 1947), known as M. P. Shiel, was a British writer. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name. He is remembered mainly for supernatural horror and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. The Purple Cloud (1901, revised 1929) remains his most often reprinted novel.Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great acclaim in July 1934; the alien Tweel was arguably the first character to satisfy John W. Campbell's challenge: "Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man."Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist [the United States] has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".