The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The book’s protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Published in 1895
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Sweet Their Blood and Sticky by Albert Teichner
They weren’t human–weren’t even related to humanity through ties of blood–but they were our heirs! Published in 1961.
Continue readingThe Ties That Bind by Walter M. Miller
The Earth was green and quiet. Nature had survived Man, and Man had survived himself. Then, one day, the great silvery ships broke the tranquillity of the skies, bringing Man’s twenty-thousand-year-lost inheritance back to Earth…. Published in 1954.
Continue readingFinis by Frank L. Pollack
Finis is the story of a new star that is discovered which turns out to be a new, hotter sun. It is a short, but hard hitting story which shows a man and woman, who stay up the night to watch the expected new star arise.
Continue readingBy the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét
Set in a future following the destruction of industrial civilization, the story is narrated by a young man who is the son of a priest.
Continue readingOzymandias by Horace Smith
“Ozymandias” is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner of London.
Continue readingDeadly City by Paul W. Fairman
You’re all alone in a deserted city. You walk down an empty street, yearning for the sight of one living face—one moving figure. Then you see a man on a corner and you know your terror has only begun. Published in 1953.
Continue readingCity at World's End by Edmond Moore Hamilton
From 1951. The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war – but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map – to somewhere else!
Continue readingThe Star by H. G. Wells
The people of Earth awaken to the notion that a strange luminous object has erupted, into the Solar System, after much disturbing the normal orbit of the planet Neptune. Published in 1897.
Continue readingThe People of the Ruins by Edward Shanks
General strike in 1924 marks the beginning of the collapse of civilization. 150 years later England is reduced to neolithical barbarism. Published in 1920.
Continue readingA Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber
“A Pail of Air” is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber which appeared in the December 1951 issue of Galaxy Magazine and was dramatized on the radio show X Minus One in March 1956.
Continue readingChildren of Tomorrow by Arthur Leo Zagat
They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America. Published in 1939.
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