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It's no surprise that science fiction didn't surface till the end of the 19th century....and the beginning of the Technological Age. Modern man is preoccupied with technology, both as villain and hero, and though most people probably associate sci-fi with Star Wars and Doctor Who, originally it was a literary genre devoted to serious (and often terrifying themes).

That's not to say it hasn't always been plain fun. H.G. Wells was making weighty social commentary when he wrote The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man, but both of those are also rousing adventure stories with themes that remain stock elements of the genre. Dune is Frank Herbert's political and ecological manifesto, as well as a desert saga filled with knife fights and mysterious Fremen wanderers.

At first glance a lot of science fiction looks pretty much like tech-savvy fantasy. In some cases it is—the aforementioned Star Wars has swords and knights and an evil emperor, just like The Prydain Chronicles or John White's Archives of Anthropos. But this kind of swashbuckling galactic adventure is typically called "space opera" and not taken very seriously except as great entertainment.

The more contemplative (but no less exciting) work of Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Orson Scott Card is what comprises the canon of Science Fiction proper. Subjects range from psychological investigations to the ethics of human-robot relations, but all of them are concerned primarily with human society and the moral obligations of those within its bounds.

In 1896, H.G. Wells published a novel called The Island of Dr. Moreau. It follows a captive of the crazed Dr. Moreau, whose experiments uniting animal and human organisms reach a gruesome level. While the implications would seem distant from any realm of possibility, Wells' fable touches on many contemporary themes, from stem cell research to the Creation/Evolution debate. It is in this tradition that the greatest science fiction authors write, making some small sense of the growing senseless complexity of modern life.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he is a husband and father, teaches adult Sunday school in his Presbyterian congregation, and likes weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur. Read more of his reviews here.

 

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Illustrated Junior Library Series 4
by Jules Verne, translated by Anthony Bonner and illustrated by Stephen Armes
from Grosset & Dunlap
Science Fiction for 5th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Sterling Classics
by Jules Verne, translated by Lewis Page Mercier and illustrated by Scott McKowen
from Sterling Publishing Co.
for 5th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Books of Wonder
by Jules Verne, translated by Anthony Bonner and illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon
from HarperCollins
Science Fiction for 5th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne, Translated by Lewis page Mercier, edited by Allen Grove
from Chartwell Books
for 7th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Allegiant (Divergent Series)
Divergent #3
by Veronica Roth
1st edition from Katherine Tegen Books
for 6th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Among the Barons
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Simon and Schuster
for 5th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$7.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
Among the Betrayed
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Simon and Schuster
for 5th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$7.99
Among the Brave
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Simon and Schuster
for 5th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$7.99
Among the Enemy
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Aladdin Paperbacks
for 5th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$7.99
Among the Enemy
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Scholastic Inc.
for 5th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Among the Free
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Aladdin Paperbacks
for 5th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$7.99
Among the Free
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Scholastic Inc.
for 5th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Among the Hidden
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Simon and Schuster
for 5th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
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Among the Impostors
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Aladdin Paperbacks
for 5th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$7.99
Around the World in Eighty Days
Whole Story Series
by Jules Verne, illustrated by Jame's Prunier
from Viking Press
Adventure for 6th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Around the World in Eighty Days
Puffin Classics
by Jules Verne
from Puffin Books
Adventure Stories for 6th-10th grade
in Puffin Classics (Location: FIC-PUF)
$7.99
Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
Reprint from Scholastic Press
for 7th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$14.99
Divergent (Divergent Series)
by Veronica Roth
1st edition from Katherine Tegen Books
for 6th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
ECL: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Educator Classic Library #2
by Jules Verne, translated by Lewis Page Mercier and illustrated by Don Irwin
Complete and Unabridged Edition from Classic Press
in Educator Classic Library (Location: VIN-ECL)
ECL: Time Machine & Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells, illustrated by Dick Cole
from Classic Press
Science Fiction/Dystopian literature for 7th-Adult
in Educator Classic Library (Location: VIN-ECL)
Enchantress from the Stars
by Sylvia Engdahl
from Firebird Press
for 7th-9th grade
1971 Newbery Honor Book
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$8.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
from Tor Classic
Science Fiction for 7th-Adult
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$9.99
First Men in the Moon
by H. G. Wells
from Magnum
for 7th-Adult
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
First Men in the Moon
by H. G. Wells
100th Anniversary Edition from SeaWolf Press
for 7th-Adult
in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW)
$8.45
Five Weeks in a Balloon
by Jules Verne, translated by William Lackland and illustrated by Edouard Riou
Illustrated Fir from SeaWolf Press
for 5th-10th grade
in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW)
$9.95
Forbidden Child
by Gwen Newell
from Canon Press
for 7th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Four: A Divergent Collection
Divergent series
by Veronica Roth
1st edition from Katherine Tegen Books
for 6th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Frankenstein
Puffin Classics
by Mary Shelley
from Puffin Books
Horror for 7th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$8.99
Frankenstein
Sterling Classics
by Mary Shelley, illustrated by Scott McKowen
from Sterling Publishing Co.
Horror for 7th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
from Living Book Press
Horror for 7th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Game Over
Mindwar Trilogy #3
by Andrew Klavan
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 6th-12th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Gathering Blue
The Giver Trilogy #2
by Lois Lowry
Reprint from Graphia
for 7th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$11.99
Giver
by Lois Lowry
from HMH Books for Young Readers
for 7th-10th grade
1994 Newbery Medal winner
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$11.99
Giver
by Lois Lowry
from HMH Books for Young Readers
for 7th-10th grade
1994 Newbery Medal winner
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Giver Quartet - Boxed Set
by Lois Lowry
from Houghton Mifflin
for 6th-10th grade
in Boxed Sets & Literature Packages (Location: FIC-BOX)
$49.99
Hostage Run
Mindwar #2
by Andrew Klavan
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 6th-12th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
Reprint from Atheneum
for 8th-Adult
2003 Newbery Honor Book; 2003 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$12.99 $7.00 (1 in stock)
Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
Reprint from Scholastic Press
Historical Fiction for 7th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$14.99
Hunger Games Trilogy
by Suzanne Collins
from Scholastic Press
for 7th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Hunger Games Trilogy
by Suzanne Collins
from Scholastic Press
for 7th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
from Bantam Books
Science Fiction for 7th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$7.99
Insurgent (Divergent Series)
by Veronica Roth
1st edition from Katherine Tegen Books
for 6th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
from Signet Classics
Science Fiction for 7th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$5.95
Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells, illustrated by Louis Strimpl
from SeaWolf Press
Science Fiction for 7th-Adult
in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW)
$7.95
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Puffin Classics
by Jules Verne
Reprint from Puffin Books
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Puffin Classics (Location: FIC-PUF)
$7.99
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Sterling Classics
by Jules Verne, illustrated by Scott McKowen
from Sterling Publishing Co.
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne, illustrated by Edouard Riou
Illustrated Fir from SeaWolf Press
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Seawolf Illustrated Classics (Location: FIC-SW)
$8.95
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne, illustrated by Edouard Riou
from Dover Publications
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$2.00 (6 in stock)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Great Illustrated Classics
by Jules Verne
from Dodd, Mead & Co.
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Many Waters
Wrinkle in Time Series #4
by Madeleine L'Engle
from Square Fish Publishing
Fantasy for 7th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$7.99
Many Waters
Wrinkle in Time Series #4
by Madeleine L'Engle
from Quality Paperback Book Club
Fantasy for 7th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Messenger
by Lois Lowry
from Houghton Mifflin
for 7th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$10.99
Mindwar
Mindwar #1
by Andrew Klavan
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 6th-12th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Mindwar Trilogy
by Andrew Klavan
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for 6th-Adult
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Missing Collection - Boxed Set
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Simon and Schuster
for 6th-9th grade
in Boxed Sets & Literature Packages (Location: FIC-BOX)
$71.99
Mockingjay
by Suzanne Collins
1st edition from Scholastic Press
for 7th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Mockingjay
by Suzanne Collins
Reprint from Scholastic Press
for 7th-9th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$14.99
Motel of the Mysteries
by David Macaulay
from Houghton Mifflin
Humor for 4th-8th grade
in Humor & Comedy (Location: FIC-COM)
$14.99 $9.00 (1 in stock)
Mountain of Truth
by Dale Carlson; illustrated by Charles Robinson
from Atheneum
for 7th-10th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth
from Charles Scribner's Sons
Science Fiction for 8th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Mysterious Island
by Jules Verne, illustrated by Edward A. Wilson
from Heritage Press
Science Fiction for 8th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Of Other Worlds
by C. S. Lewis
Reissue from HarperOne
for 8th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$13.99
Out of the Silent Planet
Space Trilogy Book 1
by C. S. Lewis
from Charles Scribner's Sons
Allegorical Science Fiction for 8th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$16.00
Out of the Silent Planet
Space Trilogy Book 1
by C. S. Lewis
from Charles Scribner's Sons
Allegorical Science Fiction for 8th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
Out of the Silent Planet
Space Trilogy Book 1
by C. S. Lewis
46th Printing from Collier Books
for 8th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
Perelandra
Space Trilogy Book 2
by C. S. Lewis
from Charles Scribner's Sons
Allegorical Science Fiction for 8th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$16.99
Perelandra
Space Trilogy Book 2
by C. S. Lewis
from Charles Scribner's Sons
Allegorical Science Fiction for 8th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
from Crown Publishers
for 8th-Adult
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Redeemed
Missing #08
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Reprint from Simon and Schuster
for 6th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$8.99
Revealed
Missing #07
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Simon and Schuster
for 6th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$8.99
Risked
Missing #06
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Reprint from Simon and Schuster
for 6th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$8.99
Shadow Children Sequence - Boxed Set
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
from Simon and Schuster
for 5th-8th grade
in Boxed Sets & Literature Packages (Location: FIC-BOX)
$55.99
Shadow Puppets
by Orson Scott Card
1st edition from Tor Books
for 7th-12th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Ship That Sailed to Mars
Calla Editions
by William M. Timlin
from Dover Publications
for 7th-12th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Skyward Flight
by Brandon Sanderseon & Janci Patterson
from Random House Books for Young Readers
for 7th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$14.99
Son
The Giver Quartet #4
by Lois Lowry
Reissue from HMH Books for Young Readers
for 7th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$9.99
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy #2
by Timothy Zahn
from Bantam Books
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy #1
by Timothy Zahn
from Bantam Books
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Star Wars: Last Command
Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy #3
by Timothy Zahn
from Bantam Books
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Star Wars: Specter of the Past
Star Wars: Hand of Thrawn #1
by Timothy Zahn
from Bantam Books
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary
by David West Reynolds
from DK Publishing
for 4th-Adult
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy
by Timothy Zahn
from Bantam Books
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
Star Wars: Vision of the Future
Star Wars: Hand of Thrawn #2
by Timothy Zahn
from Bantam Books
Science Fiction for 6th-10th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.99
Stormbreaker
Alex Rider, Book #01
Anniversary Edition from Puffin Books
for 5th-8th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Swiftly Tilting Planet
Wrinkle in Time Series #3
by Madeleine L'Engle
from Square Fish Publishing
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$7.99 $5.00 (2 in stock)
Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L'Engle
from Yearling
for 7th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Swiftly Tilting Planet
Wrinkle in Time Series #3
by Madeleine L'Engle
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (2 in stock)
Swiftly Tilting Planet
Wrinkle in Time Series #2
by Madeleine L'Engle
from Quality Paperback Book Club
for 7th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$4.00 (2 in stock)
Swiftly Tilting Planet
Wrinkle in Time Series #3
by Madeleine L'Engle
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Time and Space of Uncle Albert
by Russell Stannard, Illustrated by John Levers
from Faber & Faber
for 3rd-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
from Dover Publications
for 7th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
from Signet Classics
Science Fiction/Dystopian Literature for 7th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$5.95
Time Quintet - Boxed Set
by Madeleine L'Engle
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
for 4th-9th grade
in Boxed Sets & Literature Packages (Location: FIC-BOX)
$37.95
Torn
Missing #04
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Reprint from Simon and Schuster
for 6th-8th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$8.99
Tripods: City of Gold and Lead
Tripods Book 2
by John Christopher
Reprint from Simon Pulse
for 6th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$8.99
Tripods: Pool of Fire
Tripods Book 3
by John Christopher
from Simon Pulse
for 6th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$8.99
Tripods: When the Tripods Came
Tripods Book 0
by John Christopher
Reissue from Simon Pulse
for 6th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
$8.99
Tripods: White Mountains
Tripods Book 1
by John Christopher
from Simon Pulse
for 6th-10th grade
in Science Fiction (Location: FIC-SCI)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Junior Deluxe Editions
by Jules Verne, translated by Lewis Page Mercier and illustrated by Henry C. Pitz
from Grosset & Dunlap
Science Fiction for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Rainbow Classics
by Jules Verne, translated by Lewis Page Mercier and illustrated by Kurt Wiese
from World Publishing Company
Science Fiction for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
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