Early Classics of Science Fiction: The Coming Race (Paperback)

from Epicurvegan

This book has got to be the worst book I have ever read. Without a doubt, it's got to be one of the worst books in modern English literature. It's worth reprinting only to use it as a comparison in studying utopian literature, to see how the genre and its ideas developed. To read this book for pl...

from bzedan

Yeah. Um, some good parts? Heavy on the description, which can be nice, and since I read Journey to the Interior of the Earth last month, it was fun to read more hollow-earth bits. Kinda whitey-centric, but what are you gonna do with that era? Narrator was from the States, which also was unsettli...

from john257hopper

This 19th century novella describes an encounter between the unnamed narrator and an underground civilisation he comes across when he becomes trapped down the bottom of a shaft in a mine, after his companion, who first discovered the shaft, falls and dies when the rope by which they're descending...

from baswood

SUPER BOVRIL Published anonymously in 1871 this novel follows in the traditions of a hollow earth theory already explored in [Niels Klim's Journey Under the ground] in 1741 and [Symzonia] in 1820. Like the previous two novels the protagonist describes a utopian society living someway below the ea...