minus-squarephilgraves@lemmy.worldtoScience Fiction@lemmy.world•Looking for a good Sci Fi Novel available on Project Gutenberglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThree books I can happily recommend: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs One of the many influences on Star Wars https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62 Gladiator by Philip Wylie Supposedly an influence on the creation of Superman and modern superheroes https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42914 Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott Philosophical and mathematical and kinda touching all at once https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201 And while not sci-fi, if you’re into superheroes, Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro are fun early secret-identify stories: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60 Mark of Zorro https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61620 linkfedilink
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Three books I can happily recommend:
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs One of the many influences on Star Wars https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62
Gladiator by Philip Wylie Supposedly an influence on the creation of Superman and modern superheroes https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42914
Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott Philosophical and mathematical and kinda touching all at once https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201
And while not sci-fi, if you’re into superheroes, Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro are fun early secret-identify stories:
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60
Mark of Zorro https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61620