Early Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Authors
These are authors who have made some contributions to the world of speculative fiction but are mostlhy known by enthusasits of literary fiction and not the mainstream reader. I'm sure there are many more then are listed here and some of the more main stream authors are listed here.
These are authors who have made some contributions to the world of speculative fiction but are mostlhy known by enthusasits of literary fiction and not the mainstream reader. I'm sure there are many more then are listed here and some of the more main stream authors are listed here.
Classical
Authors
Sir Thomas
More 7
February 1478 – 6 July 1535),
known to Roman
Catholics as Saint Thomas More since 1935
Utopia (o1516)
Hercule-Savinien
de Cyrano de Bergerac (6
March 1619 – 28 July 1655
The Comical History of the States and Empires
of the Moon and Sun, (1687
Voltaire 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778),
Candide and Zadig (1966)
Harriet
Beecher Stowe June
14, 1811 – July 1, 1896)
The Ghost in the Mill (1870)
•The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House (1870)
•Tom Toothacre's Ghost Story (1871)
Collections
- The Piazza Tales (1856)
Chapterbooks
- Bartleby, o
Escrivão
(2009)
Shortfiction
- Bartleby (1853)
- The Tartarus of
Maids
(1855)
- The Bell-Tower (1855)
- The
Lightning-Rod Man (1856)
- Hood's Isle and
the Hermit Oberlus (1985)
- Désirée's Baby (1893)
- Ma'ame Pélagie (1893)
also appeared as:
- Her Letters (1895)
- A Lady of Bayou St John (unknown)
E.M. Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970)
- The Celestial
Omnibus and Other Stories (1911)
- The Eternal
Moment and Other Stories (1928)
- Collected Short
Stories
(1954)
- The Machine
Stops
(2011)
- The Machine
Stops and Other Stories (2012)
Shortfiction
- The Story of a
Panic
(1904)
- The Curate's
Friend
(1907)
- The Celestial
Omnibus
(1908)
- The
Machine Stops (1909)
- The Other Side of
the Hedge
(1911)
- The Road from
Colonus
(1911)
- The Story of the
Siren
(1920)
- Co-ordination (1928)
- Mr. Andrews (1928)
- The Eternal
Moment
(1928)
- The Point of It (1928)
- Other Kingdom
(unknown)
Classical
Forerunners of Sci-Fi
Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 – May 27, 1867
The
Age of Fable (1855)
Bulfinch's Mythology (1881) Guttenburg
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873),
The Coming Race or Vril: The Power of the Coming Race (1871)
Bulfinch's Mythology (1881) Guttenburg
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873),
The Coming Race or Vril: The Power of the Coming Race (1871)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894)
Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896)
As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, and was a direct influence on postwar authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien.
The Wood Beyond the World (1894) •
The Well at the World's End (1896) •
Clemence Housman (23 November 1861– 6
December 1955)
The were-wolf (1896)
The were-wolf (1896)
M. P. Shiel (1865-1947)
The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929)
Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933)
The King in Yellow (1895)
The Maker of Moons (1896)
Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932)
The Golem (1914)
The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929)
Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933)
The King in Yellow (1895)
The Maker of Moons (1896)
Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932)
The Golem (1914)
Algernon Henry Blackwood (14 March 1869 – 10
December 1951
A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913)
A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913)
A.
E. COPPARD (4 January 1878–13 January 1957)
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (1921)
Clorinda Walks in Heaven (1922)
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (1921)
Clorinda Walks in Heaven (1922)
Fearful Pleasures (coll 1946 US)
Collected Tales
of A.E. Coppard (coll 1947)
Lord Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957)
In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales (2004)
Lord Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957)
In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales (2004)
Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948)
The Citadel of Fear (1918)
The Labyrinth (1918)
The Heads of Cerberus (1919)
'Claimed (1920)
The Nightmare And Other Tales Of Dark Fantasy (2004)
The Citadel of Fear (1918)
The Labyrinth (1918)
The Heads of Cerberus (1919)
'Claimed (1920)
The Nightmare And Other Tales Of Dark Fantasy (2004)
Works on Line
William Fryer Harvey (1885–1937)
Midnight House and Other Tales (1910)
August Heat (ss) (1910)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1928)
Moods and Tenses (1933)
William Fryer Harvey (1885–1937)
Midnight House and Other Tales (1910)
August Heat (ss) (1910)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1928)
Moods and Tenses (1933)
Karel
Capek, (1890--1938)
1920 – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Rossumovi univerzální roboti) – play with one of the first examples of artificial human-like beings in art and literature. eBooks @ Adelaide
1920 – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Rossumovi univerzální roboti) – play with one of the first examples of artificial human-like beings in art and literature. eBooks @ Adelaide
1922
– The Makropulos Affair (Věc Makropulos) – play about human immortality, not
really from a science-fiction point of view. The celebrated opera by Leoš
Janáček is based on it.
1922
– The Absolute at Large (Továrna na absolutno) – novel which can be interpreted
as a vision of consumer society.
1922
– Krakatit – novel, the plot of which includes a prediction of a
nuclear-weapon-like explosive.
MORE SCI-FI PIONERS
Garrett
Putnam Serviss (1851
- 1929) FREE ONLINE
Edison's Conquest of Mars, 1898 (written on commission from The Boston Post as a sequel to "Fighters from Mars", an un-authorized and heavily altered version of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds)
The Moon Metal, 1900 (short story)
A Columbus of Space, 1909 (dedicated to people who read Jules Verne and written in his style; first published in All-Story magazine in 1909; republished by G. W. Dilligham, 1974, by Hyperion Press)
Edison's Conquest of Mars, 1898 (written on commission from The Boston Post as a sequel to "Fighters from Mars", an un-authorized and heavily altered version of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds)
The Moon Metal, 1900 (short story)
A Columbus of Space, 1909 (dedicated to people who read Jules Verne and written in his style; first published in All-Story magazine in 1909; republished by G. W. Dilligham, 1974, by Hyperion Press)
The
Sky Pirate (novel), 1909
The Second Deluge, 1911
The Moon Maiden, 1915
The Second Deluge, 1911
The Moon Maiden, 1915
Edward Page
Mitchell March 24, 1852 - 1927)
The Crystal Man (1973)
The
Tachypomp and Other Stories (2006)
•Collected
Stories (2006)
•Sci-Fi
and Fantasy Stories From 'The Sun' (2013)
J.-H. Rosny (17 February 1856 – 11 February 1940)
Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind (2012)
The Scientific Romances of J.-H. Rosny Aîné ◦ 1 The Navigators of Space and Other Alien Encounters (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné ]
Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind (2012)
The Scientific Romances of J.-H. Rosny Aîné ◦ 1 The Navigators of Space and Other Alien Encounters (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné ]
◦
2 The World of the Variants and Other Strange Lands (2010) [C]
◦
3 The Mysterious Force and other Anomalous Phenomena (2010) [C] [only as by
J.-H. Rosny aîné ]
◦
4 Vamireh and Other Prehistoric Fantasies (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny
aîné ]
◦
5 The Givreuse Enigma and Other Stories (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné
]
◦
6 The Young Vampire and Other Cautionary Tales (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H.
Rosny aîné ]
◦
7 Helgvor of the Blue River (2010) [C] [only as by J.-H. Rosny aîné ]
Luis P. Senarens (1865 Apr 24 - 1939)
Frank Reade Stories
Jack Wright Stories
Maurice Renard (1875 - 1940)
The Blue Peril (2010) Le Peril Bleu (1911)
The Hands of Orlac (1929) Les Mains d'Orlac (1920)
Blind Circle (1928) Le Singe (1925)
The Master of Light (2010) Le Maître de la Lumière (1933)
Collections
•Doctor Lerne (2010) New Bodies for Old (1923)
•A Man Among the Microbes (2010)
•The Doctored Man (2010)
William Hope Hodgson- (November 15, 1877 – April 1918)
The Night Land (1912)
The House on the Borderland (1908) [also as by W. H. Hodgson ]
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder (1913) [C]
The Ghost Pirates (1909)
Christopher Morley (May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957)
Parnassus on Wheels (novel, 1917) Guttenburg
The Haunted Bookshop (novel, 1919) Guttenburg
Luis P. Senarens (1865 Apr 24 - 1939)
Frank Reade Stories
Jack Wright Stories
Maurice Renard (1875 - 1940)
The Blue Peril (2010) Le Peril Bleu (1911)
The Hands of Orlac (1929) Les Mains d'Orlac (1920)
Blind Circle (1928) Le Singe (1925)
The Master of Light (2010) Le Maître de la Lumière (1933)
Collections
•Doctor Lerne (2010) New Bodies for Old (1923)
•A Man Among the Microbes (2010)
•The Doctored Man (2010)
William Hope Hodgson- (November 15, 1877 – April 1918)
The Night Land (1912)
The House on the Borderland (1908) [also as by W. H. Hodgson ]
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder (1913) [C]
The Ghost Pirates (1909)
Christopher Morley (May 5, 1890 – March 28, 1957)
Parnassus on Wheels (novel, 1917) Guttenburg
The Haunted Bookshop (novel, 1919) Guttenburg
Where
the Blue Begins
(1922) Guttenburg
Thunder on the Left (1925)
Pleased to Meet You (1927)
Pleased to Meet You (1927)
The Trojan
Horse (1937)
The Arrow (1927
The Arrow and
Two Other Stories coll 1927 UK);
The Swiss
Family Manhattan (1932).
MORE
EARLY SCI-FI AUTHORS
William Austin (March 2, 1778 – June 27, 1841)
Peter
Rugg, the Missing Man (1824)
•Martha Gardner:
or, Moral Reaction (1837)
•The Man with the
Cloaks: A Vermont Legend (1886)
•A Further
Account of Peter Rugg (1959)
The Monarch of Dreams (1886)
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic (1898)
The Diamond Lens
(1858) Guttenburg
What Was It? (1859) Guttenburg
The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien
◦
1 The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James
O'Brien, Volume One: Macabre Tales (1988) [C]
The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O'Brien,
Volume Two: Dream Stories and Fantasies (1988) [C]
Collections •
The Wondersmith and Others (2008)
•The Diamond Lens and Other Stories (2011)
Richard
Stockton (April 5, 1834 –
April 20, 1902) Guttenburg
Ambrose
Gwinnett Bierce (born
June 24, 1842;[2] assumed to have died sometime after
December 26, 1913[1]) Guttenburg
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
The Cynic's
Word Book 1906 The Devil's
Dictionary 1911.
Robert Duncan
Milne (7th June 1844–15th
December 1899)
Into the Sun
& Other Stories (1980)
The Wolf's Long Howl (1899)
Charles Grant
Blairfindie Allen
(February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) Guttenburg
Strange Stories (1884)
Lady Ferry and Other Uncanny People
(1998)
The Blindman's World and Other
Stories (1898)
•Apparitions of Things to Come:
Edward Bellamy's Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1986)
•In the Year Ten Thousand (1892 Shortfiction
The Land of the Changing Sun (1894)
The King's Men: A Tale of To-Morrow (1884
Dr. Materialismus (1890)
The
Yellow Wallpaper (1892) Guttenburg
Four-Dimensional Space" (1896)
The
Atoms of Chladni (1860)
The Denslow Palace (1866)
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1973)
Weatherby
Chesney (1866–1944
The Recipe for
Diamonds (1893) Guttenburg
The Adventures of
a Solicitor (1898)
The Adventures of
an Engineeer (1898)
Atoms of Empire
(1904
Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898)
The Blindman's World and Other Stories (1898)
Apparitions of Things to Come: Edward Bellamy's Tales of Mystery
& Imagination (1986)
Guy de
Maupassant (French
pronunciation: 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893)
Guttenburg
Selected Tales of
Guy De Maupassant (1950)
Frank L. Pollack,
(February 4 1876–1957)
The Invisible City (1901)
Where Death Was Made (1902)
The Skyscraper in B
Flat
(1904)
The Crimson Blight (1905)
The Last Dawn (1906)
World-Wreckers (1908)
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