Science Fiction (often called sci-fi or SF) is a popular genre of fiction in which the narrative world differs from our own present or historical reality in at least one significant way. This difference may be technological, physical, historical, sociological, philosophical, metaphysical, etc, but not magical (see Fantasy).
—Excerpted from Science Fiction on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. 
“The Project Gutenberg Science Fiction Bookshelf CD”
is a long title for a small thematic excerpt from the wealth of public domain works of Project Gutenberg . 165 SF ebooks have been extracted in all available formats. The base for the CD is formed by the Science Fiction (Bookshelf) page of the Project Gutenberg Wiki. The page is frequently updated by volunteers so visit it once in a while for new ebooks added.
Some technical info about the CD is located at the end of this page.
For other copyrighted but free Science Fiction ebooks (free of charge and free of DRM) have a look at the Baen Free Library.
Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926
Links for Edwin Abbot Abbot: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
(English) — Plucker - Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) (English) — Plucker
Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912
Links for John Jacob Astor: Wikipedia
This is really the billionaire Astor who died aboard the Titanic.
Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898
Links for Edward Bellamy: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- Dr. Heidenhoff’s Process (English) — Text Plucker
- Equality (English) — Text Plucker
- Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 (English) — Plucker
- Miss Ludington’s Sister (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin), 1916-1986
Links for Jesse F. Bone: ISFDB
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 1930-1999
Links for Marion Zimmer Bradley: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
Links for Edgar Rice Burroughs: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Barsoom series
- A Princess of Mars (English) — Text Plucker
- Gods of Mars (English) — Text Mobipocket MS LIT Plucker
- Warlord of Mars (English) — Text Mobipocket MS LIT Plucker
- Thuvia, Maid of Mars (English) — Text Mobipocket MS LIT Plucker
- The Chessmen of Mars (English) — Text Plucker
Pellucidar series
- Pellucidar (English) — Text Mobipocket MS LIT Plucker
- At the Earth’s Core (English) — Text Mobipocket MS LIT Plucker
- At the Earth’s Core (English) — Text Mobipocket MS LIT Plucker
Caspak series
- The Land That Time Forgot (English) — Plucker
- People out of Time (English) — Plucker
- Out of Time’s Abyss (English) — Plucker
other SF
- The Lost Continent (English) — Text Mobipocket MS LIT Plucker
- The Monster Men (English) — Text Mobipocket MS LIT Plucker
- The Outlaw of Torn (English) — Plucker
Campbell, John W. (Wood), 1910-1971
Links for John W. Campbell: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Arcot, Morey and Wade series
in series order
- The Black Star Passes (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Invaders from the Infinite (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
ÄŒapek, Karel, 1890-1938
Links for Karel ÄŒapek: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Carr, Terry Gene, 1937-1987
Links for Terry Gene Carr: Wikipedia
Cooper, Michael D., [pseud.]
Links for Michael D. Cooper: ISFDB , official Starman series website
The Starman series
Cummings, Ray, 1887-1957
Links for Ray Cummings: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Del Rey, Lester, 1915-1993
Links for Lester Del Rey: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- Badge of Infamy (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Police Your Planet (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- The Sky Is Falling (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
Doctorow, Cory
Links for Cory Doctorow: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- Craphound (English) — Plucker
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (English) — Text Plucker
- Eastern Standard Tribe (English) — Plucker
- Home Again, Home Again (English) — Plucker
- A Place so Foreign (English) — Plucker
- Printcrime (English) — Plucker
- Return to Pleasure Island (English) — Plucker
- Shadow of the Mothaship (English) — Plucker
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (English) — Latin-1 Plucker
- Super Man and the Bug Out (English) — Plucker
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Links for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Dye, Charles
Links for Charles Dye: ISFDB
Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett), 1893-1958
Links for E. Everett Evans: ISFDB
Flint, Homer Eon, 1892-1924
Links for Homer Eon Flint: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- The Blind Spot (English) — Plucker
- The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix (English) — Plucker
- The Emancipatrix (English) — Plucker
- The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life (English) — Plucker
Fontenay, Charles Louis, 1917-2007
Links for Charles Louis Fontenay: Wikipedia , ISFDB
(Goodwin, Harold Leland, 1914-1990
Links for Harold Leland Wright Goodwin: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet (English) — with illustrations — PDF Latin-1 UTF-8 Text TEI Plucker
Griffith, George, 1857-1906
Links for George Griffith: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- A Honeymoon in Space (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- The Mummy and Miss Nitocris
A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension (English) — Text Plucker
Hyne, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright, 1866-1944
Links for Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Leadem, Christopher
Links for Christopher Leadem: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Leinster, Murray, [pseud.], (Jenkins, William Fitzgerald), 1896-1975
Links for Murray Leinster: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- Operation: Outer Space (English) — Text Plucker
- Operation Terror (English) — Text Plucker
- The Runaway Skyscraper (English) — Text Plucker
- Space Tug (English) — Text Plucker
- This World Is Taboo (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
Lindsay, David, 1876-1945
Links for David Lindsay: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Merritt, Abraham, 1884-1943
Links for Abraham Merritt: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Moldeven, Meyer
Munro, John, 1849-1930
Links for John Munro: ISFDB
Norton, Andre, 1912-2005
Links for Andre Norton: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- The Gifts of Asti (English) — Text Plucker
- Key Out of Time (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Plague Ship (English) — Text Plucker
- Ralestone Luck (English) — not SF — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Star Born (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Star Hunter (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- The Time Traders (English) — Text Plucker
- Voodoo Planet (English) — Text Plucker
Nourse, Alan E., 1928-1992
Links for Alan E. Nourse: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Piper, H. Beam, 1904-1964
Links for H. Beam Piper: Wikipedia , ISFDB
This list constitutes the complete work of Piper. Some of them are still in copyright.
Terro-Human Future History series
in Future History chronological order
- The Edge of the Knife (English) — Text Plucker
Omnilingual (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker- When in the Course– (English) — still in copyright
- Four-Day Planet (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Uller Uprising (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Ullr Uprising (English) — different versions — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Naudsonce (English) — Text Plucker
- Little Fuzzy (English) — Text Plucker
- “The Other Human Race” later title “Fuzzy Sapiens” (English) — still in copyright
- Fuzzies and Other People (English) — still in copyright
- Oomphel in the Sky (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Graveyard of Dreams (English) — Text Plucker
- The Cosmic Computer (English)
expanded version of “Graveyard of Dreams” also titled “Junkyard Planet” — Text Plucker - Space Viking (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- A Slave is a Slave (English) — Text Plucker
- Ministry of Disturbance (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- The Keeper (English) — Text Plucker
Paratime series
- Down Styphon! (English) — still in copyright
- Genesis (English) — Text Plucker
- Gunpowder God (English) — still in copyright
- He Walked Around the Horses (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Last Enemy (English) — Text Plucker
- Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (English) — still in copyright
expanded version of “Gunpowder God” and “Down Styphon!” - Police Operation (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Temple Trouble (English) — Text Plucker
- Time Crime (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
other SF
- The Answer (English) — Text Plucker
- Crossroads of Destiny (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Day of the Moron (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Dearest (English) — Text Plucker
- Flight From Tomorrow (English) — Text Plucker
- Hunter Patrol (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Lone Star Planet (English) also titled “A Planet for Texans” — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- The Mercenaries (English) — Text Plucker
- Null-ABC (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Operation R.S.V.P. (English) — Text Plucker
- The Return (English) — with illustrations — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- The Return (English) — Text Plucker
- Time and Time Again (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
non-SF
- A Catalog of Early Pennsylvania and other Firearms and Edged Weapons at ‘Restless Oaks’ McElhattan, PA (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Murder in the Gunroom (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Rebel Raider (English) — Text Plucker
Raphael, Rick
Links for Rick Raphael: ISFDB
- Code Three (English) — Text Plucker
Rockwell, Carey, [pseud.]
Links for Carey Rockwell: ISFDB
“Tom Corbett, Space Cadet” series
in series order
- Stand by for Mars! (English) — Text Plucker
- Danger in Deep Space (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- The Space Pioneers (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- The Revolt on Venus (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Treachery in Outer Space (English) — Text Plucker
- Sabotage in Space (English) — Text Plucker
- The Robot Rocket (English) — still in copyright
Rockwood, Roy
Links for Roy Rockwood: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane (English) — Plucker
- Five Thousand Miles Underground
Or, the Mystery of the Centre of the Earth (English) — Text Plucker - Lost on the Moon
Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds (English) — ASCII Plucker - On a Torn-Away World
Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake (English) — Plucker - Through Space to Mars
Or the Longest Journey on Record (English) — Text Plucker - Through the Air to the North Pole
or The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch (English) — Plucker - Under the Ocean to the South Pole
Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder (English) — Text Plucker - The Wizard of the Sea
A Trip Under the Ocean (English) — Text Plucker
Serviss, Garrett P. (Garrett Putman), 1851-1929
Links for Garrett P. Serviss: ISFDB
- A Columbus of Space (English) — ASCII Plucker
- Curiosities of the Sky (English) — Text Plucker
- Edison’s Conquest of Mars (English) — Text Plucker
- The Moon Metal (English) — Text Plucker
- Other Worlds
Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker - The Second Deluge (English) — ASCII Plucker
Sheckley, Robert, 1928-2005
Links for Robert Sheckley: Wikipedia , ISFDB
Smith, George Oliver, 1911-1981
Links for George Oliver Smith: Wikipedia
- The Fourth R (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Highways in Hiding (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Stop Look and Dig (English) — PDF Latin-1 UTF-8 Text TEI Plucker
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Links for Jules Verne: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- 20000 Lieues Sous Les Mers — Complete (French) — Text ASCII Plucker
- 20000 Lieues Sous Les Mers — Part 1 (French) — Text ASCII Plucker
- 20000 Lieues Sous Les Mers — Part 2 (French) — Text ASCII Plucker
- 20.000 Mijlen onder Zee: Oostelijk Halfrond (Dutch) — Text Plucker
- 20.000 Mijlen onder Zee: Westelijk Halfrond (Dutch) — Text Plucker
- L’île mystérieuse (French) — Latin-1 Plucker
- All Around the Moon (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Autour de la Lune (French) — Plucker
- De la Terre à la Lune (French) — ASCII Plucker
- From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon (English) — Plucker
- In the Year 2889 (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (English) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- A Journey to the Interior of the Earth (English) — ASCII Plucker
- The Moon-Voyage (English) — Text Plucker
- The Mysterious Island (English) — Plucker
- The Mysterious Island (English) — Plucker
- Naar het middelpunt der Aarde (Dutch) — Latin-1 Text Plucker
- Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space (English) — Plucker
- Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (English) — Plucker
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (English) — Text Plucker
- Voyage au Centre de la Terre (French) — ASCII Plucker
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946
Links for H. G. Wells: Wikipedia , ISFDB
- The First Men in the Moon (English) — Plucker
- The Island of Doctor Moreau (English) — Text Plucker
- The Time Machine (English) — Plucker
- The War of the Worlds (English) — Text Plucker
Wilson, Robert H.
Technical Info
Most of the files are straight downloads from the Project Gutenberg website. Only the Plucker ebooks made from the HTML version of books which contain images have been recreated to include the images.
The layout of the CD is rather simple:
- index.html — The navigation page you are currently reading.
- index_files — The directory contains the helper files for index.html.
- autorun.inf — Autostarts index.html on Windows PCs when the CD is inserted.
- Gutenberg SF — In this directory most of the ebooks reside.
- 10349-h — The first of many subdirectories containing HTML ebooks with images.
- ShellExec.exe — A very simple Windows program which is used in autorun.inf to start index.html.
- Gutenberg.ico — This icon is used in Windows to represent the CD. Also set by autorun.inf.
- CD Label — Here several files reside needed for the creation of the CD.
- CD Inlay and Booklet Color.pdf — Print out this file to get CD cover, booklet and inlay for the jewelbox. Preferably with a color printer.
- CD Inlay and Booklet Gray.pdf — Print out this file to get CD cover, booklet and inlay for the jewelbox. Optimized for grayscale printer.
- SF CD Cover.pdf — A PDF page containing SFBookshelf.tif on a 12cm x 12 cm page to be printed on the CD itself.
- SF CD Cover.odt — The source file for SF CD Cover.pdf created with OpenOffice.org 2.1.
- CD Inlay and Booklet Color.odt — The source file for CD Inlay and Booklet Color.pdf created with OpenOffice.org 2.1.
- CD Inlay and Booklet Gray.odt — The source file for CD Inlay and Booklet Gray.pdf created with OpenOffice.org 2.1.
- SFBookshelf.tif — The image to print directly on the CD in original size (TIFF format). You will have to reduce the size to about 33% to fit on the CD.
- SFBookshelfGray.tif — The grayscale version of SFBookshelf.tif.
- SFBookshelf.jpg — SFBookshelf.tif in JPEG format. Any CD printing program should be able to import it.
- SFBookshelfGray.jpg — SFBookshelfGray.tif in JPEG format. In case you do not have a decent graphics program.
