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Anne Shirley Series
The continuing story of Anne Shirley - a skinny, red-haired and freckled orphan who is mistakenly sent to live with elderly bachelor Matthew Cuthbe... |
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Shakespearean History
Traditionally, the plays of William Shakespeare have been grouped into three categories: tragedies, comedies, and histories. Some critics have argu... |
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Raffles
Arthur J. Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E. W. Hornung, a brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raf... |
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The Chaos Chronicles
A sweeping hard SF series inspired by the emerging science of chaos. |
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Shakespearean Comedy
"Comedy" in its Elizabethan usage had a very different meaning from modern comedy. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually i... |
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Shakespearean Tragedy
Shakespeare wrote tragedies from the beginning of his career. One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, which he followed a... |
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Les Pardaillan
Les Pardaillan est une série de 10 romans populaires, écrite par Michel Zévaco. Ils sont parus tout d'abord sous la forme d'un feuilleton dans Le M... |
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Futurismic
"Futurismic is a free science fiction webzine specialising in the fact and fiction of the near future - the ever-shifting line where today becomes ... |
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-t... |
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Locus Awards
The Locus Awards were established in 1971 and are presented to winners of Locus Magazine's annual readers' poll. Currently, the Locus Awards are pr... |
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Hugo Awards & Nominees
The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after ... |
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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
Tom Corbett is the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories that were depicted in television, radio, books, comic books, com... |
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Apocalypse/Post-Apocalypse
Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction (or, in some cases, the more general category speculative fiction) that is concerned with the... |
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Tom Swift
Tom Swift is the young protagonist in several series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continues to the p... |
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The Pagans
A trilogy from Richard Herley set in Stone Age England. The first book of the trilogy, "The Stone Arrow", won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in... |
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Van Manderpootz stories
Three short stories deal with Dixon Wells, a perpetually late playboy who runs afoul of the inventions of his friend and former instructor in "Newe... |
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Planetary Series
The Planetary series of stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum is series of short stories, published in Wonder Stories and Astounding Stories in the 1930s,... |
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Professor Challenger
George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan... |
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize, pronounced PULL-it-ser, is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements,... |
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Mr J. G. Reeder
Most popular character created by Edgar Wallace, Mr J. G. Reeder works for the obscure Public Prosecutor's Office. Most of these books could be de... |
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Dr Thorndyke
Dr (John) Thorndyke is a fictional detective in a long series of novels and short stories by R Austin Freeman. Thorndyke was described by his autho... |
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Palliser
The "Palliser novels" are six novels by Anthony Trollope. The common thread is the wealthy aristocrat and politician Plantagenet Palliser and (i... |
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Chronicles of Barsetshire
The "Chronicles of Barsetshire" is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious cathedral town of Barcheste... |
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Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life". It is also a musical subgenre of metal. The name is derived f... |
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Creative Commons Fantasy
Many fantasy writers are releasing part of their works under a Creative Commons license. If you'd like to discover new writers, and you're interest... |
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The Dance of Gods
A four-book fantasy series created by Mayer Alan Brenner and released under a Creative Commons License. Magic in these books is approached as some... |
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Philo Vance
Philo Vance was a fictional American detective who appeared in twelve novels written by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. For a few decades he... |
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Creative Commons Science-Fiction
Many science-fiction writers are releasing part of their works under a Creative Commons license. If you'd like to discover new writers, and you're ... |
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The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction was selected by Charles W. Eliot, LLD (1834-1926), with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. It ... |
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The Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and associated horror fi... |
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From the Sea
Sailors, pirates, nautical adventures and strange sea creatures: a list of stories from the sea. |
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Sailor Steve Costigan
Sailor Steve Costigan is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard. He is a merchant sailor on the Sea Girl and is also its champion boxer.... |
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Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A 16th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber looking man... |
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Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland, Cimmeria) is a fictional character often associated with the... |
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Psammead
The Psammead series by E. Nesbith. In Five Children and It, the Psammead is described as having “eyes [that] were on long horn like a snail’s ey... |
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Vampire
Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. In most cases, they are reanimated corpses who feed by... |
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Time Travel
Time travel is the concept of moving backwards and forwards to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space. Additionall... |
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Le Fantastique par l'absurde
Maître à penser de plus d'un génie littéraire du XXème siècle, Gogol a su inventer à travers ses nouvelles une forme particulière de la littérature... |
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Venus
The Venus Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a science fiction series consisting of four novels and one novelette. Most of the stories were first se... |
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Remembrance of Things Past
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by M... |
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Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation o... |
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Tarzan
Burroughs has created in Tarzan an extreme example of a hero figure unalloyed with character flaws or faults. Tarzan is described by Burroughs as b... |
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Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain is a fictional character, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and its various sequels and prequels. Allan Q... |
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Banned Books
For political, religious, or moral reasons, all these books included in this list were banned in some places of the world. Reading some of these b... |
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Les Rougon-Macquart
Le titre générique Les Rougon-Macquart regroupe un ensemble de vingt romans écrits par Émile Zola entre 1871 et 1893. Il porte comme sous-titre His... |
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The Oz Books
The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and that relates the "history" of the Land of Oz. Oz was originally cr... |
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Utopia/Dystopia
A list of utopia/dystopia books. Utopia is a fictional island near the coast of the atlantic ocean written about by Sir Thomas More as the fiction... |
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Richard Hannay
Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, Legion of Honour is the fictional secret agent created by Scottish novelist, John Buchan, 1st Baron Twe... |
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Barsoom
Barsoom is a fictional version of the planet Mars invented by author Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. In 1911, Burrou... |
