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Early Science Fiction

Machines, futures, and the vertigo of progress.

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  1. Step 1 · Time Machine

    The Time Machine

    H. G. Wells

    A Victorian inventor voyages to 802,701

  2. Step 2 · War of the Worlds

    The War of the Worlds

    H. G. Wells

    Martian invasion and empire’s dread

  3. Step 3 · Last and First Men

    Last and First Men

    Olaf Stapledon

    Humanity’s deep-future epic

  4. Step 4 · Krakatit

    Krakatit

    Karel Čapek

    The atomic age foreseen in the 1920s

  5. Step 5 · Pirates of Venus

    Pirates of Venus

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    A lost world on the second planet