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AFTER THE END – Dystopia Box Set: 34 Dystopias and Post-Apocalyptic Works
Table of Contents
George Orwell
1984
One
Two
Three
Appendix
Animal Farm
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Brave New World: A Novel
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Brave New World Revisited (An Essay by Aldous Huxley)
Foreword
I. Over-Population
II. Quantity, Quality, Morality
III. Over-Organization
IV. Propaganda in a Democratic Society
V. Propaganda Under a Dictatorship
VI. The Arts of Selling
VII. Brainwashing
VIII. Chemical Persuasion
IX. Subconscious Persuasion
X. Hypnopaedia
XI. Education for Freedom
XII. What Can Be Done?
Sinclair Lewis
It Can't Happen Here
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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C. S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength
Chapter One Sale of College Property
Chapter Two Dinner with the Sub-Warden
Chapter Three Belbury and St. Anne’s-on-the-Hill
Chapter Four The Liquidation of Anachronisms
Chapter Five Elasticity
Chapter Six Fog
Chapter Seven The Pendragon
Chapter Eight Moonlight at Belbury
II
Chapter Nine The Saracen’s Head
Chapter Ten The Conquered City
Chapter Eleven Battle Begun
Chapter Twelve Wet and Windy Night
Chapter Thirteen They have pulled down Deep Heaven on their Heads
Chapter Fourteen “Real Life is Meeting”
Chapter Fifteen The Descent of the Gods
Chapter Sixteen Banquet at Belbury
Chapter Seventeen Venus at St. Anne’s
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We
Foreword
Thirty-five Years Later
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Jack London
Iron Heel
Foreword
Chapter I. My Eagle
Chapter II. Challenges
Chapter III. Jackson’s Arm
Chapter IV. Slaves of the Machine
Chapter V. The Philomaths
Chapter VI. Adumbrations
Chapter VII. The Bishop’s Vision
Chapter VIII. The Machine Breakers
Chapter IX. The Mathematics of a Dream
Chapter X. The Vortex
Chapter XI. The Great Adventure
Chapter XII. The Bishop
Chapter XIII. The General Strike
Chapter XIV. The Beginning of the End
Chapter XV. Last Days
Chapter XVI. The End
Chapter XVII. The Scarlet Livery
Chapter XVIII. In the Shadow of Sonoma
Chapter XIX. Transformation
Chapter XX. A Lost Oligarch
Chapter XXI. The Roaring Abysmal Beast
Chapter XXII. The Chicago Commune
Chapter XXIII. The People of the Abyss
Chapter XXIV. Nightmare
Chapter XXV. The Terrorists
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
The First Men in the Moon
Chapter 1. Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne
Chapter 2. The First Making of Cavorite
Chapter 3. The Building of the sphere
Chapter 4. Inside the Sphere
Chapter 5. The Journey to the Moon
Chapter 6. The Landing on the Moon
Chapter 7. Sunrise on the Moon
Chapter 8. A Lunar Morning
Chapter 9. Prospecting Begins
Chapter 10. Lost Men in the Moon
Chapter 11. The Mooncalf Pastures
Chapter 12. The Selenite’s Face
Chapter 13. Mr. Cavor Makes Some Suggestions
Chapter 14. Experiments in intercourse
Chapter 15. The Giddy Bridge
Chapter 16. Points of View
Chapter 17. The Fight in the Cave of the Moon Butchers
Chapter 18. In the Sunlight
Chapter 19. Mr. Bedford Alone
Chapter 20. Mr. Bedford in Infinite Space
Chapter 21. Mr. Bedford at Littlestone
Chapter 22. The Astonishing Communication of Mr. Julius Wendigee
Chapter 23. An Abstract of the Six Messages First Received from Mr. Cavor
Chapter 24. The Natural History of the Selenites
Chapter 25. The Grand Lunar
Chapter 26. The Last Message Cavor sent to the Earth
When the Sleeper Wakes
Chapter I. Insomnia
Chapter II. The Trance
Chapter III. The Awakening
Chapter IV. The Sound of a Tumult
Chapter V. The Moving Ways
Chapter VI. The Hall of the Atlas
Chapter VII. In the Silent Rooms
Chapter VIII. The Roof Spaces
Chapter IX. The People March
Chapter X. The Battle of the Darkness
Chapter XI. The Old Man Who Knew Everything
Chapter XII. Ostrog
Chapter XIII. The End of the Old Order
Chapter XIV. From the Crow’s Nest
Chapter XV. Prominent People
Chapter XVI. The Monoplane
Chapter XVII. Three Days
Chapter XVIII. Graham Remembers
Chapter XIX. Ostrog’s Point of View
Chapter XX. In the City Ways
Chapter XXI. The Underside
Chapter XXII. The Struggle in the Council House
Chapter XXIII. Graham Speaks His Word
Chapter XXIV. While the Aeroplanes were Coming
Chapter XXV. The Coming of the Aeroplanes
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
A Letter from Captain Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson.
Part I. A Voyage to Lilliput.
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Part II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag.
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan.
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Coming Race
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Edgar Allan Poe
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
Owen Gregory
Meccania the Super-State
Introduction. A Few Words About Mr. Ming and His Journal
Note on Personal Names
Chapter I. I Become a Foreign Observer
Chapter II. Bridgetown, Tour No. 1
Chapter III. Introduction to Mecco
Chapter IV. Professor Proser-Toady’s Lecture
Chapter V. Culture in Mecco
Chapter VI. More Culture in Mecco
Chapter VII. A Meccanian Apostle
Chapter VIII. The Mechow Festival
Chapter IX. Meccanisation
Chapter X. Conversations
Chapter XI. An Academic Discussion
Chapter XII. The Latest Institution
Chapter XIII. Never Again
Hugh Benson
Lord of the World
Preface
Prologue
Book I. The Advent
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Book II. The Encounter
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Book III. The Victory
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward: 2000–1887
Author’s Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Equality
Preface
Chapter I. A sharp cross-examiner
Chapter II. Why the revolution did not come earlier
Chapter III. I acquire a stake in the country
Chapter IV. A twentieth-century bank parlor
Chapter V. I experience a new sensation
Chapter VI. Honi soit qui mal y pense
Chapter VII. A string of surprises
Chapter VIII. The greatest wonder yet-fashion dethroned
Chapter IX. Something that had not changed
Chapter X. A midnight plunge
Chapter XI. Life the basis of the right of property
Chapter XII. How inequality of wealth destroys liberty
Chapter XIII. Private capital stolen from the social fund
Chapter XIV. We look over my collection of harnesses
Chapter XV. What we were coming to but for the revolution
Chapter XVI. An excuse that condemned
Chapter XVII. The revolution saves private property from monopoly
Chapter XVIII. An echo of the past
Chapter XIX. "Can a maid forget her ornaments?"
Chapter XX. What the revolution did for women
Chapter XXI. At the gymnasium
Chapter XXII. Economic suicide of the profit system
Chapter XXIII. "The parable of the water tank"
Chapter XXIV. I am shown all the kingdoms of the Earth
Chapter XXV. The strikers
Chapter XXVI. Foreign commerce under profits; protection and free trade, or between the devil and the deep sea
Chapter XXVII. Hostility of a system of vested interests to improvement
Chapter XXVIII. How the profit system nullified the benefit of inventions
Chapter XXIX. I receive an ovation
Chapter XXX. What universal culture means
Chapter XXXI. "Neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem"
Chapter XXXII. Eritis sicut deus
Chapter XXXIII. Several important matters overlooked
Chapter XXXIV. What started the revolution
Chapter XXXV. Why the revolution went slow at first but fast at last
Chapter XXXVI. Theater-going in the twentieth century
Chapter XXXVII. The transition period
Chapter XXXVIII. The book of the blind
Mary Shelley
The Last Man
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
William Hope Hodgson
The Night Land
The Dreams that are only Dreams
I. Mirdath the Beautiful
II. The Last Redoubt
III. The Quiet Calling
IV. The Hushing of the Voice
V. Into the Night Land
VI. The Way That I Did Go
VII. The Night Land
VIII. Down the Mighty Slope
IX. The Dark Pyramid
X. The Maid of the Olden Days
XI. The Homeward Way
XII. Downward of the Gorge
XIII. Homeward by the Shore
XIV. On the Island
XV. Past the House of Silence
XVI. In the Country of Silence
XVII. The Love Days
Stanley G. Weinbaum
The Black Flame
Penalty — and Aftermath
Evanie the Sorceress
Forest Meeting
A Bit of Ancient History
The Village
The Metamorphs
Panate Blood
In Time of Peace
The Way to Urbs
Revolution
Flight
The Messenger
The Trail Back
The Master
Two Women
Immortality
The Destiny of Man
The Sky-Rat
Death Flight?
The Conspirators
The Dinner at the Sleeper's
Declaration
The Amphimorphs in the Pool
The Atomic Bomb
Inferno
The Master Sits in Judgment
Fred M. White
The Doom of London Series
The Four White Days
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
The Four Days’ Night
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
The Dust of Death
A Bubble Burst
The Invisible Force
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
The River of Death
I
II
III
IV
V
Ignatius Donnelly
Caesar's Column
Chapter I. The Great City
Chapter II. My Adventure
Chapter III. The Beggar's Home
Chapter IV. The Under-World
Chapter V. Estella Washington
Chapter VI. The Interview
Chapter VII. The Hiding-Place
Chapter VIII. The Brotherhood
Chapter IX. The Poisoned Knife
Chapter X. Preparations for To-night
Chapter XI. How the World Came to be Ruined
Chapter XII. Gabriel's Utopia
Chapter XIII. The Council of the Oligarchy
Chapter XIV. The Spy's Story
Chapter XV. The Master of "The Demons"
Chapter XVI. Gabriel's Folly
Chapter XVII. The Flight and Pursuit
Chapter XVIII. The Execution
Chapter XIX. The Mamelukes of the Air
Chapter XX. The Workingmen's Meeting
Chapter XXI. A Sermon of the Twentieth Century
Chapter XXII. Estella and I
Chapter XXIII. Max's Story – The Songstress
Chapter XXIV. Max's Story Continued – The Journeyman Printer
Chapter XXV. Max's Story Continued – The Dark Shadow
Chapter XXVI. Max's Story Continued – The Widow and Her Son
Chapter XXVII. Max's Story Continued – The Blacksmith Shop
Chapter XXVIII. Max's Story Concluded – The Unexpected Happens
Chapter XXIX. Elysium
Chapter XXX. Upon the House-Top
Chapter XXXI. "Sheol"
Chapter XXXII. The Rat-Trap
Chapter XXXIII. "The Ocean Overpeers Its List"
Chapter XXXIV. The Prince Gives His Last Bribe
Chapter XXXV. The Liberated Prisoner
Chapter XXXVI. Cæsar Erects His Monument
Chapter XXXVII. The Second Day
Chapter XXXVIII. The Flight
Chapter XXXIX. Europe
Chapter XL. The Garden in the Mountains
Ernest Bramah
The Secret of the League (aka What Might Have Been)
Chapter I. Irene
Chapter II. The Period, and the Coming of Wings
Chapter III. The Million to One Chance
Chapter IV. The Compact
Chapter V. The Downtrodden
Chapter VI. Miss Lisle Tells a Long Pointless Story
Chapter VII. "Schedule B"
Chapter VIII. Tantroy Earns His Wage
Chapter IX. Secret History
Chapter X. The Order of St Martin of Tours
Chapter XI. Man Between Two Masters
Chapter XII. By Telescribe
Chapter XIII. The Effect of the Bomb
Chapter XIV. The Last Chance and the Counsel of Expedience
Chapter XV. The Great Fiasco
Chapter XVI. The Dark Winter
Chapter XVII. The Incident of the 13th of January
Chapter XVIII. The Music and the Dance
Chapter XIX. The "Finis" Message
Chapter XX. Stobalt of Salaveira
Chapter XXI. The Bargain of Famine
Chapter XXII. "Poor England."
Arthur Dudley Vinton
Looking Further Backward
Preface
Lecture I
Lecture II
Lecture III
Lecture IV
Lecture V
Lecture VI
Lecture VII
Lecture VIII
Lecture IX
Lecture X
Lecture XI
Lecture XII
Lecture XIII
Lecture XIV
Richard Jefferies
After London
Part I. The Relapse into Barbarism
Chapter I. The Great Forest
Chapter II. Wild Animals
Chapter III. Men of the Woods
Chapter IV. The Invaders
Chapter V. The Lake
Part II. Wild England
Chapter I. Sir Felix
Chapter II. The House of Aquila
Chapter III. The Stockade
Chapter IV. The Canoe
Chapter V. Baron Aquila
Chapter VI. The Forest Track
Chapter VII. The Forest Track Continued
Chapter VIII. Thyma Castle
Chapter IX. Superstitions
Chapter X. The Feast
Chapter XI. Aurora
Chapter XII. Night in the Forest
Chapter XIII. Sailing Away
Chapter XIV. The Straits
Chapter XV. Sailing Onwards
Chapter XVI. The City
Chapter XVII. The Camp
Chapter XVIII. The King’s Levy
Chapter XIX. Fighting
Chapter XX. In Danger
Chapter XXI. A Voyage
Chapter XXII. Discoveries
Chapter XXIII. Strange Things
Chapter XXIV. Fiery Vapours
Chapter XXV. The Shepherds
Chapter XXVI. Bow and Arrow
Chapter XXVII. Surprised
Chapter XXVIII. For Aurora
Samuel Butler
Erewhon
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to the Revised Edition
Chapter I. Waste Lands
Chapter II. In the Wool-Shed
Chapter III. Up the River
Chapter IV. The Saddle
Chapter V. The River and the Range
Chapter VI. Into Erewhon
Chapter VII. First Impressions
Chapter VIII. In Prison
Chapter IX. To the Metropolis
Chapter X. Current Opinions
Chapter XI. Some Erewhonian Trials
Chapter XII. Malcontents
Chapter XIII. The Views of the Erewhonians Concerning Death
Chapter XIV. Mahaina
Chapter XV. The Musical Banks
Chapter XVI. Arowhena
Chapter XVII. Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites
Chapter XVIII. Birth Formulae
Chapter XIX. The World of the Unborn
Chapter XX. What They Mean By It
Chapter XXI. The Colleges of Unreason
Chapter XXII. The Colleges of Unreason—Continued
Chapter XXIII. The Book of the Machines
Chapter XXIV. The Machines—Continued
Chapter XXV. The Machines—Concluded
Chapter XXVI. The Views of an Erewhonian Prophet Concerning the Rights of Animals
Chapter XXVII. The Views of an Erewhonian Philosopher Concerning the Rights of Vegetables
Chapter XXVIII. Escape
Chapter XXIX. Conclusion
Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland
Preface
Part I: This World
Section 1. Of the Nature of Flatland
Section 2. Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
Section 3. Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
Section 4. Concerning the Women
Section 5. Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
Section 6. Of Recognition by Sight
Section 7. Concerning Irregular Figures
Section 8. Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
Section 9. Of the Universal Colour Bill
Section 10. Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition
Section 11. Concerning our Priests
Section 12. Of the Doctrine of our Priests
Part II: Other Worlds
Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland
Section 14. How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
Section 15. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
Section 16. How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
Section 17. How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
Section 18. How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
Section 19. How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more; and what came of it
Section 20. How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision
Section 21. How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
Section 22. How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
Anthony Trollope
The Fixed Period
Volume I
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter II. Gabriel Crasweller
Chapter III. The First Break-Down
Chapter IV. Jack Neverbend
Chapter V. The Cricket-Match
Chapter VI. The College
Volume II
Chapter VII. Columbus and Galileo
Chapter VIII. The "John Bright"
Chapter IX. The New Governor
Chapter X. The Town-Hall
Chapter XI. Farewell!
Chapter XII. Our Voyage to England
Cleveland Moffett
The Conquest of America
To My Fellow Americans
Chapter I. I Witness the Blowing Up of the Panama Canal
Chapter II. American Aeroplanes and Submarines Battle Desperately Against the German Fleet
Chapter III. German Invaders Drive the Iron into the Soul of Unprepared America
Chapter IV. Invasion of Long Island and the Battle of Brooklyn
Chapter V. General von Hindenburg Teaches New York City a Lesson
Chapter VI. Various Unpleasant Happenings in Manhattan
Chapter VII. New Haven is Punished for Rioting and Insubordination
Chapter VIII. I Have a Friendly Talk with the German Crown Prince and Secure a Sensational Interview
Chapter IX. Boston Offers Desperate and Bloody Resistance to the Invaders
Chapter X. Lord Kitchener Visits America and Discusses Our Military Problems
Chapter XI. Heroic Act of Barbara Webb Saves American Army at the Battle of Trenton
Chapter XII. Rear-Admiral Thomas Q. Allyn Weighs Chances of the American Fleet in Impending Naval Battle
Chapter XIII. The Great Naval Battle of the Caribbean Sea
Chapter XIV. Philadelphia’s First City Troops Die in Defence of the Liberty Bell
Chapter XV. Thrilling Incident at Wanamaker’s Store When Germans Dishonour American Flag
Chapter XVI. An American Girl Brings News that Changes the Course of the Mount Vernon Peace Conference
Chapter XVII. Thomas A. Edison Makes a Serious Mistake in Accepting a Dinner Invitation
Chapter XVIII. I Witness the Battle of the Susquehanna from Vincent Astor’s Aeroplane
Chapter XIX. General Wood Scores Another Brilliant Success Against the Crown Prince
Chapter XX. Third Battle of Bull Run with Aeroplanes Carrying Liquid Chlorine
Chapter XXI. The Awakening of America
Chapter XXII. On Christmas Eve Boston Theills the Nation with an Act of Magnificent Heroism
Chapter XXIII. Confessions of an American Spy and Bravery of Buffalo Schoolboys
Chapter XXIV. Novel Attack of American Airship Upon German Super-Dreadnought
Chapter XXV. Desperate Effort to Rescue Thomas A. Edison from the Germans
Chapter XXVI. Riots in Chicago AND German Plot to Rescue the Crown Prince
Chapter XXVII. Decisive Battle Between German Fleet and American Seaplanes Carrying Torpedoes
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