• Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller
• Includes the original illustrations by Pioneer SF artist, Albert Robida
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Originally published in 1894, this remarkable short story by Octave Uzanne predicts the end of the traditional book as audio books take over the market. The story accurately describes many of the attributes of today's e-publishing industry.
• Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller
• Includes the original illustrations
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” In Pierre Mael's 1898 Under the Sea to the North Pole, heroic Isabelle de Keralio is one of the leaders of an expedition that plans to reach the North Pole using steamships, balloons and submarines. After facing freezing, starvation and fierce polar bears, she finally discovers the bizarre secret that lies at the Pole. Originally published in French in 1893 as "A French Woman at the North Pole".
• Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller
• Includes the original illustrations by Frank C. Pape
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Anatole France's satiric classic, opens with a Christian missionary monk who accidentally lands on the island and mistakes the native penguins for people and baptizes them. This mistake causes a problem for God who normally only allows people to be baptized, so he resolves it by converting the penguins to people and giving them a soul.
• Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller
• Includes the original illustrations
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” Andre Laurie tells the story of intrepid French submariners who discover the sole survivors of Atlantis living within a crystal dome on the ocean floor. English edition published in 1896.
• Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron Miller
• Includes the original illustrations
Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” G. Edward Pendray, one of the founding-fathers of modern rocketry and spaceflight, wrote science fiction under the name "Gawain Edwards". In this epic novel he tells how a mysterious Asian nation attempts to conquer the world through super-science and a tunnel bored through the center of the earth.
Ron Miller Classics of Science Fiction Bundle Eight