An anthology of science fiction classics that includes 4 novels--three complete and one slightly abridged, a reading version of a play, eight short stories, excerpts form three other novels, and the complete script of the famous radio broadcast "The Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. Provides an opportunity to sample a few of the great classics that form the foundation for modern science fiction, including works by Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Aldous Huxley, Olaf Stapledon and F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), to name a few.