From the lowest depths of the oceans to the mysterious surface of the moon, from the fantastical world beneath the surface of the Earth to a whirlwind balloon ride around the globe itself, author Jules Verne took readers on fantastical flights of literary adventure and helped establish the groundwork for t
February 2, 1882, is the birthdate of James Joyce, one of the leaders of the modernist movement in literature and one of the early 20th century’s most important writers, poets, and literary critics.
Sept. 11, 1885 is the birthdate of D.H. Lawrence, who rose from a working-class family in an industrialized England to become one of the most important and controversial authors of the early 20th century.
On Sept. 8, 1966, viewers of NBC television would tune in for the debut of a unique science fiction series. Star Trek's first episode was entitled "The Man Trap," the story of a shape-shifting, vampiric-like alien who fed on the bodily salt of its victims.
In the farthest reaches of space, a group of star travelers finds a message in a bottle that contains the record of another spaceship’s doomed voyage to a planet where apes are masters and humans are mute savages.
Imagine a world where diverse fictional characters such as Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond were all interrelated. That’s how Philip Jose Farmer and his Wold Newton Universe imagined things.
Existential struggles with technology, authoritarian governments, and paranoia; these are just a few of the themes readers will encounter when reading the works of Philip K. Dick.
"Space. The Final Frontier. These are the Voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its Five Year Mission: To Explore Strange New Worlds, To Seek Out New Life and New Civilizations, To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before."
