The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, John Carter of Mars Trilogy, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 3 Ray Bradbury Stories, Flatland, & More
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The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 24 of the greatest science fiction works ever written.
- Book 1: ‘A Journey to the Center of the Earth’, a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne.
- Book 2: ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ is part of Jules Verne’s most popular trilogy.
- Book 3: ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ (1873) is an acclaimed adventure novel by Jules Verne.
- Book 4: Jules Verne’s masterpiece, ‘The Mysterious Island’, is a fascinating story of five men and a dog who escape the American Civil War in a hot air balloon.
- Book 5: ‘The Master of the World’ by Jules Verne is a story told by John Strock, a federal police inspector.
- Book 6: ‘In the Year 2889’ by Jules Verne is a diary of the observations of Fritz Napoleon Smith, the editor of an influential futuristic newspaper.
- Book 7: ‘The War of the Worlds’ is HG Wells’ dramatic science fiction tale of aliens invading England.
- Book 8: ‘The Time Machine’ by HG Wells is about an English scientist who entertains guests for dinner every week.
- Book 9: ‘The Invisible Man’ is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells.
- Book 10: ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’ is an 1896 science fiction novel by the English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946). The story is narrated by Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat and left on the island home of Doctor Moreau.
- Book 11: This entertaining satire ‘Flatland’ is the work of the clergyman, educator and scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926).
- Book 12: Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel ‘Frankenstein’ tells the story of Dr Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a creature by grave robbing and alchemy.
- Book 13: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- Book 14: Little Fuzzy Jack Holloway mines valuable sunstones on the planet Zarathustra.
- Book 15: ‘The Machine Stops’ by E M Forster is a dystopian science fiction short story first published in a magazine in 1909, and republished in ‘The Eternal Moment and Other Stories’ in 1928.
- Book 16: 'Youth', a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov, first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories.
- Book 17: ‘2 B R 0 2 B’ is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in a magazine in 1962.
- Book 18: In ‘The Variable Man', the growing Terran system is being suppressed and prevented from expanding by the Centaurian Empire.
- Book 19: ‘The Pendulum’ by Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012). Bradbury's short story ‘Pendulum’, written with Henry Hasse, was published in 1941 in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories.
- Book 20: ‘The Fight of the Good Ship Clarissa’ is an experimental short story by Ray Bradbury.
- Book 21: ‘Asleep in Armageddon’: A space ship crashes on an uninhabited planet but the pilot survives, and requests help, which is expected in six days.
- Book 22: ‘A Princess of Mars’ is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of the Barsoom series.
- Book 23: ‘The Gods of Mars’ (1918) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the second of Burroughs' Barsoom series.
- Book 24: ‘The Warlords of Mars’ completes Edgar Rice Burroughs’ action-packed Barsoom Trilogy.
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- By C. White on 09-19-23
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The Martian
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- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.
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I love Wil Wheaton but why not R. C. Bray?
- By L. Newman on 01-11-20
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Artemis
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.
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A ferrari with no motor
- By will on 11-18-17
By: Andy Weir
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Temporal
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In the not-too-distant future, a 21-member crew launches from Earth. Their mission: to establish a temporary colony on Mars. Little do they know that colony will become permanent–and the last stand of the human race. Because, without warning, every single person left on Earth simply...vanishes. Now, a thousand years later, the resources needed to sustain life are running out, and the very existence of the Mars colony is threatened. Humankind has only one option–to return to its home planet.
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It was ok.
- By Cregg Terasa on 08-06-24
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- Scuba Steve
- 05-11-23
Great collection with bad skips
Skips (due to editing?) aren't too bad when it skips back a second or so, but are bad when they skip forward, and words are lost.
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- Glenn Winstryg
- 01-21-24
audio cuts in and out
the audio jumps and you sometimes miss words or words are repeated again. it makes it hard to follow such interesting books that I had such a desire to listen to.
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- 904_shopper
- 09-03-21
Fantastic collection...abominable editing
I very much wish this would be re-released with updated editing. The stories are great but the skips and audio glitches are infuriating!!
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- OJ
- 07-24-21
pathetic editing
Words, and phrases are repeated and just as often they're missing. Makes the listening experience quite unpleasant.
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- John S.
- 04-27-22
Great collection of stories
Almost all books in this collection are top novels in the sci-fi world I enjoyed listening to each and everyone and would’ve given more stars to this collection however several of the narrators were very dry and their ability to narrate the books and endless over 200 hours worth of listening the biggest downfall of the whole collection was a constant skipping or repeating of the storyline as it was red I can only imagine this is due to the amount size because I’ve never had this issue with any of the audible books before
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- sean
- 11-18-24
the recording
the audiobook recording of the stories really do skip backward a few seconds and repeat or say the full words but breaks it apart (if that makes sense) if you can get past it there are really good stories. I myself might put this audiobook anthology aside, write down the stories therein and read them from my public library or something because the recording glitches start to bug you after awhile. I've listened to so many audiobooks both fiction and non-fiction and never had that issue
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- James
- 10-19-21
editing made me return this
i have no idea if the stories are any good. i couldnt stand the constant repeating of words due to bad editing. Every 4-5 minutes the reader will repeat 1-5 words 1-5 words. Its really hard to listen to.
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- Paul K. Mcclure
- 10-20-23
Good stories. Totally unacceptable editing
I'm into the 2nd book (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea), and due to the constant audio stuttering, skipping, and repeating in the first two books, it's a struggle to finish both books. When the 2nd book finishes, I will remove this series from my device
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-03-24
TERRIBLE AUDIO
The narration is really good on some great old classics... the editing on the audio is ABYSMAL! It constantly skips like an old scratched record - if you're old enough to get that reference - and in many places whole sections are removed, like detailed descriptions of a room, item, or person, but the edit is very very poorly done. Many times in mid sentence, even mid word, it just skips ahead several sentences, or a paragraph or two. This is seriously not worth the time or money/credit. It's disappointing that Audio even let's this exist on the platform. it's a ripoff! If, like me, you buy books in advance to listen to later, you can't even get a refund if you wait to long to start.
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- W. Crews Giles
- 06-05-22
Forgivable technical problems, a valuable collection.
As a professional driver, I have quite a library of audiobooks, but not much (if any) science fiction, so this looked like a good addition. I have read some Asimov, Dick, Bradbury, etc., but wouldn't mind having them read to me.
I had not read any Jules Verne, and the product begins with that author. First up was *Journey to the Center of the Earth.* By chapter 5, I was wondering why Verne chose to make the two principal characters-- the narrator and the narrator's uncle-- such dislikable, pretentious, prigs.
By chapter 19, I was rooting for their deaths. At the end of the day, chapter twenty-something, I left them there, miles below the surface (where, in my opinion, they should remain). I have absolutely no interest as to what became of them.
The next day, I began *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.* It had the same voice actor. The same occasional repeated texts, the same occasional skipping-- those both editing failures. The voice actor annoyed a bit, mispronouncing a few words, and sometimes missing the meaning as demonstrated by his inflection and emphasis. Most audiobooks have some questionable interpretation due to the voice actor's misunderstanding, and it was not that actor's fault that Verne, again, made the narrator so dislikable.
I abandoned that story early on, and settled in for Verne's *Around the World in 80 Days.* Same voice actor. Same Verne insufferable narrator style and personalty. That is when I realized: *I do not like Jules Verne-- that Verne was the dislikable, pretentious prig.*
I gave up on that work in the first chapter, and went on to listen to the final Jules Verne selection. "In the Year 2889" It was a short-story, but seemed to have been incomplete, as it ended abruptly, and I was glad of it. Then, this audiobook redeemed itself.
A new voice actor began the H. G. Wells section, and here I got my money's worth.
The voice actor was awesome. Well's prose was a delight. I had seen three *War of the Worlds* films, but this original story is so much better. I spent some effort trying to discover the name of the voice actor, as I was so pleased by his performance. I have not been successful in that. Of course, the story gets as much credit, here. The technical (editing) problems continue, but they are easy to ignore.
Happily, the same new voice actor continues with *The Time Machine.*. It is here that I realize I am an H. G. Wells fan, and glad to see a favorite, which I have read before, is next. *The Invisible Man.*
Summary: Despite some editing failures (skipping and repeating) I have not encountered in any other audiobooks, the work is of good value. Not having a text with which to follow along, I do not know how much was lost in the few, obvious, skips. From context, it seems like up to a sentence or two. The repeating is always a very few words-- as if the voice-actor has taken a sip of water, and so starts over (and so starts over). Yeah, like that.
I recently completed Ian Fleming's *James Bond* canon, and no such editing errors exist, but the varying voice-actors do make a difference, just as I have found here. In this case, however, because of the technical flaws, I am not as immersed in the production, and more aware that I am being read to. That is not a bad thing, but it is different.
Lastly, is to address the many comments about navigation. The navigation is one, very long, list of chapters. It is probably several type-written pages in length, but easily scrolled, and always opens to your current place. If you intend to listen from beginning to end, this is fine. If you plan to skip books, it is a bit cumbersome.
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