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The Day of the Triffids is a story about a man named Bill Masen who, along with the people he meets along the way, has to try to save the world as he knows it from the invasion of killer aliens called “triffids,” which crash-landed on Earth with…

A Canticle for Leibowitz is set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war; the book takes place over the course of thousands of years as civilization attempts to rebuild itself.

False Dawn is a compelling story of Thea, a female mutant “Pirate”, and Evan who are thrown together by chance, striving to stay alive in a new twenty-first century world that can no longer support a vast human population due to war, disease, and…

Somnium, written in 1608 by Johannes Kepler, is one of the first space exploration stories. It includes actual astronomy information in a narrative manner.

One of the first hard science fiction pieces to explore the possibility of man leaving Earth. Speculated on advancements that would come soon after.

The Female Man by Joanna Russ is an influential piece of feminist science fiction. It's publication emphasized this subgenre and gave female authors of science fiction more prominence.

Deadly Image follows a man transported from the 20th century to the future where man has become reliant upon machines and androids. This reliance could lead to complacency among the human race, allowing the androids to eventually take over, and they…

Cyborg is about Steve Austin, an astronaut and test pilot. After suffering a catastrophic crash, a secret department in the US government uses bionic implants to "fix" his body and turn him into a living weapon. It relates to the collection as it…

Steve Austin, a secret agent, is on a mission to bring down a criminal organization that is using nuclear missiles for their financial gains.

On their way to travel back in to 700 years into the Earth's future, the protagonists encounter a space ship similar to theirs but its being manned by aliens.