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Works of the Fantastic written between 1900-1935, in any language, with no genre separation of fantasy and science as it was then known.
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The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death
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Brave New World
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The Night Land
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3.47 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
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Lost on Venus (Venus, #2)
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3.77 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London
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3.75 avg rating — 67 ratings
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When Worlds Collide (When Worlds Collide, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 2,380 ratings
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The Moon Maid (Moon Trilogy, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 911 ratings
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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
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4.27 avg rating — 10,078 ratings
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At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 4,952 ratings
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Zothique
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4.23 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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The Classic Horror Stories
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3.84 avg rating — 561 ratings
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At the Mountains of Madness
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3.79 avg rating — 62,410 ratings
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Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 47,532 ratings
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The Iron Heel
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3.77 avg rating — 12,178 ratings
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A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 60,061 ratings
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
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4.25 avg rating — 24,746 ratings
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Lesabéndio: An Asteroid Novel
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3.74 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 14,627 ratings
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The Absolute at Large
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3.84 avg rating — 3,570 ratings
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The Heads of Cerberus
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3.35 avg rating — 411 ratings
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The rocket to the moon
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3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
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Justine Larbalestier (Editor)
4.12 avg rating — 246 ratings
score: 97,
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Hermes Speaks
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The Hampdenshire Wonder
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3.43 avg rating — 219 ratings
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The Green Child
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3.70 avg rating — 637 ratings
score: 94,
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Edgar Rice Burroughs (Twayne's United States Authors, #499)
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 92,
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Mars Trilogy (Barsoom, #1-3)
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4.05 avg rating — 9,886 ratings
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Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Last Men in London
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3.56 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Scarlet Plague (The Radium Age Science Fiction Series)
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3.75 avg rating — 13,941 ratings
score: 85,
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The Clockwork Man (The Radium Age Science Fiction Series)
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3.31 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Underground Man (Classics of Science Fiction)
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3.06 avg rating — 109 ratings
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John Brunner Presents Kipling's Science Fiction
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3.77 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The World Below: A Novel of the Far Future
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3.28 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The House on the Borderland
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3.58 avg rating — 10,531 ratings
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The Ghost Pirates and Others: The Best of William Hope Hodgson
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3.85 avg rating — 133 ratings
score: 73,
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I Burn Paris
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4.15 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Memories of the Future
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3.91 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
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Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs
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4.03 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Intermere
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2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Machine Stops
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4.07 avg rating — 20,086 ratings
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After Worlds Collide (When Worlds Collide, #2)
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3.84 avg rating — 936 ratings
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B (The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, #2B)
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Ben Bova (Editor)
4.27 avg rating — 1,430 ratings
score: 63,
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Last and First Men/Star Maker
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3.99 avg rating — 602 ratings
score: 62,
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R.U.R.
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3.84 avg rating — 17,089 ratings
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A Voyage to Arcturus
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3.54 avg rating — 3,888 ratings
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War with the Newts
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4.17 avg rating — 17,272 ratings
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The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 71,838 ratings
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We
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3.88 avg rating — 109,932 ratings
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Tales
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4.33 avg rating — 2,974 ratings
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Herland (The Herland Trilogy, #2)
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3.48 avg rating — 25,409 ratings
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Swastika Night
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3.63 avg rating — 2,928 ratings
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Locus Solus
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3.99 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Last and First Men
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3.79 avg rating — 6,838 ratings
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Star Maker
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3.91 avg rating — 9,255 ratings
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Odd John
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3.68 avg rating — 1,691 ratings
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