Classic Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs

Five writers who shaped early science fiction and adventure share this anthology, among them Jules Verne, Jack London, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle. The selections show the genre before it had settled into a genre at all. The volume takes in interplanetary invasion, time travel, the far North and an imagined Mars, with The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Call of the Wild and A Princess of Mars among the works included. Gathering them in one book makes the common questions visible: what science might do next, and how people behave when the familiar world gives way. Key things to know: • Work by Wells, Verne, Doyle, London and Burroughs in one anthology • Spans scientific romance, survival narrative and planetary adventure • Stories that shaped the genre before its conventions were fixed • Deluxe format suited to display and to gifting Recommended for science fiction readers, newcomers to the early classics and collectors, available in English from Boipoka.