Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy
The diamond lens / Fitz James O'Brien --
A journey to the center of the earth / Jules Verne --
Looking backward: 2000-1887 / Edward Bellamy --
The war of the worlds / H.G. Wells --
A princess of Mars / Edgar Rice Burroughs --
The lost world / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The scarlet plague / Jack London --
Herland / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
Armageddon 2419 A.D. / Philip Francis Nowlan --
The Dunwich horror / H.P. Lovecraft.
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Fitz-James O'Brien, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Philip Francis Nowlan, H.P. Lovecraft
Herbert George Wells was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. || Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a businessman.  During the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent half a year on his brothers' ranch on the Raft River in Idaho.  He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then the Michigan Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1895.  He failed the entrance exam for West Point, and so became an enlisted soldier with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory.  He was discharged in 1897, having been found ineligible for service due to a heart problem.

He drifted, working odd jobs at ranches across Idaho, then came to work at his father's firm in 1899.  He married Emma Centennia Hulbert in 1900.  In 1904 he left his job and found less regular work, ending up back in Chicago.  He held several low-wage jobs for the next seven years, then, while working as a pencil sharpener wholesaler, he began to write fiction in 1911.  He began reading pulp fiction magazines and decided to aim his fiction toward getting published in these magazines.  His first published story, "Under the Moons of Mars," was serialized in The All-Story magazine in 1912.  He began writing full-time and his first published novel, Tarzan of the Apes, was published in October of 1912.

In 1919 he purchased a ranch north of Los Angeles, California which he named "Tarzana," a name which was later adopted by the citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch.  In 1923 he set up Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and began printing his own books.  He divorced Emma in 1934 and married former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt in 1935.  In 1941, when Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked, he was a resident of Hawaii and he volunteered to become the oldest war correspondent for the U.S. during World War II.  He divorced his second wife in 1942.  After the war he moved back to Encino, California, where, after many health problems, he died of a heart attack in March of 1950.  Over the course of his writing career he wrote almost seventy novels. || John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

His most famous works include *The Call of the Wild* and *White Fang*, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism, and eugenics. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé *The People of the Abyss*, *The War of the Classes*, and *Before Adam*.

**Source**: [Jack London](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London) on Wikipedia. || Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.<sup>[1][1]</sup>


  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle || Jules Verne was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. 

He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction", along with H. G. Wells. ([Source][1].)

Also as of 2023, Jules Verne is regarded as the second most translated author in the world. ([Source][2].)

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne
  [2]: https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/most-translated-author.php || American science fiction writer who created Buck Rogers || Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. 
After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. He then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924, and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "Lovecraft Circle". They introduced him to Weird Tales, which would become his most prominent publisher. Lovecraft's time in New York took a toll on his mental state and financial conditions. He returned to Providence in 1926 and produced some of his most popular works, including *The Call of Cthulhu*, *At the Mountains of Madness*, *The Shadow over Innsmouth* and *The Shadow Out of Time*. 
He would remain active as a writer for 11 more years until his death from intestinal cancer at the age of 46. 

From Wikipedia.