The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time Audiobook By Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. Beam Piper, E.M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Dick, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs cover art

The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, John Carter of Mars Trilogy, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 3 Ray Bradbury Stories, Flatland, & More

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The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

By: Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. Beam Piper, E.M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Dick, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 24 of the greatest science fiction works ever written.

- Book 1: ‘A Journey to the Center of the Earth’, a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne.

- Book 2: ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ is part of Jules Verne’s most popular trilogy.

- Book 3: ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ (1873) is an acclaimed adventure novel by Jules Verne.

- Book 4: Jules Verne’s masterpiece, ‘The Mysterious Island’, is a fascinating story of five men and a dog who escape the American Civil War in a hot air balloon.

- Book 5: ‘The Master of the World’ by Jules Verne is a story told by John Strock, a federal police inspector.

- Book 6: ‘In the Year 2889’ by Jules Verne is a diary of the observations of Fritz Napoleon Smith, the editor of an influential futuristic newspaper.

- Book 7: ‘The War of the Worlds’ is HG Wells’ dramatic science fiction tale of aliens invading England.

- Book 8: ‘The Time Machine’ by HG Wells is about an English scientist who entertains guests for dinner every week.

- Book 9: ‘The Invisible Man’ is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells.

- Book 10: ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’ is an 1896 science fiction novel by the English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946). The story is narrated by Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat and left on the island home of Doctor Moreau.

- Book 11: This entertaining satire ‘Flatland’ is the work of the clergyman, educator and scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926).

- Book 12: Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel ‘Frankenstein’ tells the story of Dr Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a creature by grave robbing and alchemy.

- Book 13: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson.

- Book 14: Little Fuzzy Jack Holloway mines valuable sunstones on the planet Zarathustra.

- Book 15: ‘The Machine Stops’ by E M Forster is a dystopian science fiction short story first published in a magazine in 1909, and republished in ‘The Eternal Moment and Other Stories’ in 1928.

- Book 16: 'Youth', a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov, first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories.

- Book 17: ‘2 B R 0 2 B’ is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in a magazine in 1962.

- Book 18: In ‘The Variable Man', the growing Terran system is being suppressed and prevented from expanding by the Centaurian Empire.

- Book 19: ‘The Pendulum’ by Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012). Bradbury's short story ‘Pendulum’, written with Henry Hasse, was published in 1941 in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories.

- Book 20: ‘The Fight of the Good Ship Clarissa’ is an experimental short story by Ray Bradbury.

- Book 21: ‘Asleep in Armageddon’: A space ship crashes on an uninhabited planet but the pilot survives, and requests help, which is expected in six days.

- Book 22: ‘A Princess of Mars’ is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of the Barsoom series.

- Book 23: ‘The Gods of Mars’ (1918) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the second of Burroughs' Barsoom series.

- Book 24: ‘The Warlords of Mars’ completes Edgar Rice Burroughs’ action-packed Barsoom Trilogy.

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worst editing ever

I cant believe how much I paid for such a low quality reading.
The editing is maddening.

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Great collection with bad skips

Skips (due to editing?) aren't too bad when it skips back a second or so, but are bad when they skip forward, and words are lost.

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audio cuts in and out

the audio jumps and you sometimes miss words or words are repeated again. it makes it hard to follow such interesting books that I had such a desire to listen to.

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I don't often review books, but felt compelled.

With a great variety of books and short stories, it's an amazing bargain. However, it does have skipping issues. If it skipped forward I would have returned the book after the first chapter, but the first book I listened to mostly skipped backward (about once per minute it would skip back and repeat several words) so you don't miss anything. Some of the subsequent books skipped backward and forward at times, but I have endured. I did also notice during the Invisible Man, the volume swung up and down in a very annoying fashion. The other five books I have listened to did not have the volume problem.

Aside from the skipping, the performances are all good. I'm surprised to say I'm enjoying reading all these classics, many of which I have only seen in the movies.

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the audio is broken

the stories were amazing but they were broken and poorly edited. it kept repeating and skipping.

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disappointing audio

it's a great series of books and a wonderful collection but it skips entire sentences quite frequently as well as skipping back a few words and repeating itself it really takes you out of listening

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It could have have have been better.

Loved the stories but the editing sucked sucked sucked sucked to much repeated parts.

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It was Great to do the Classics

Best listening for a long time of the brilliant simplicity of the classics, thinking of the periods of these stories were created. How Far fetch, the ideas, concepts may have seem, the amazement of the people who first pick these works and believed.

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Audio glitches

Frequent editing glitches that either repeat phrases or skip over them entirely mar what would otherwise be a fine tour through the roots of science fiction.

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Good collection not so good editing

The stories are as to be expected for a collection of classics, some good, some not good, but there were more good than uninteresting. It was also great hearing some good stories I hadn't even heard of before. Overall it was a great buy.

The reader did a good job, not over the top, but I'd happily listen to other books he reads.

The only issue, and the reason I write the review is that the editing of segments was poor. Some areas are hardly noticeable, but others every few minutes there is a second or so repeated or occasionally dropped. Repeats are annoying, but the drops were frustrating. It's not enough I recommend against the purchase, but something to be aware of. I'm used to the splicing of audio clips being seamless.

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