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• Moxon's Master • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Night at Moxon's 1899)
• There Will Come Soft Rains • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Report on the Nature of the Lunar Surface • (1960) • short story by John Brunner
• The Curse • (1946) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Deep Range • (1955) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Lost World (excerpt) • [Professor Challenger] • short fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle
• A for Andromeda (excerpt) • novelization • [Andromeda (Hoyle & Elliot)] • (1962) • short fiction by John Elliot and Fred Hoyle
• The Dancing Partner • (1928) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• The Ruum • [Ruum] • (1953) • short story by Arthur Porges
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (excerpt) • [
  Baron Munchausen / Münchhausen^?Baron Munchausen / Muenchhausen
  ] • short fiction by Rudolph Erich Raspe [as by Rudolph Raspe]
• Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (excerpt) • [Frankenstein] • short fiction by Mary Shelley
• A Journey to the Center of the Earth (excerpt) • [Voyage au centre de la terre] • (1956) • short fiction by Jules Verne
• The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• The War of the Worlds (excerpt) • [The War of the Worlds] • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• The Day of the Triffids (excerpt) • short fiction by John Wyndham