Welcome to the Essential Science Fiction Novels book series, where you will find a selection of endless tales about the incredible technologies of the future, time travel and its consequences, adventures in interstellar spaceships, strange post-apocalyptic worlds, dangerous alien invasions and everything else the authors dreamed of or feared for the future of humanity. - For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the 5 novels by authors who created memorable stories that shaped the foundations of Science Fiction. Before Adam by Jack London. - Armageddon2419 by Philip Francis Nowlan. - The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. - With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. - Urania by Camille Flammarion.