The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection: 24 of the Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, John Carter of Mars Trilogy, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 3 Ray Bradbury Stories, Flatland, & More

By: Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. Beam Piper, E.M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Dick, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks Cast

Length: 121 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 24 of the greatest science fiction works ever written.

- Book 1: ‘A Journey to the Center of the Earth’, a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne.

- Book 2: ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ is part of Jules Verne’s most popular trilogy.

- Book 3: ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ (1873) is an acclaimed adventure novel by Jules Verne.

- Book 4: Jules Verne’s masterpiece, ‘The Mysterious Island’, is a fascinating story of five men and a dog who escape the American Civil War in a hot air balloon.

- Book 5: ‘The Master of the World’ by Jules Verne is a story told by John Strock, a federal police inspector.

- Book 6: ‘In the Year 2889’ by Jules Verne is a diary of the observations of Fritz Napoleon Smith, the editor of an influential futuristic newspaper.

- Book 7: ‘The War of the Worlds’ is HG Wells’ dramatic science fiction tale of aliens invading England.

- Book 8: ‘The Time Machine’ by HG Wells is about an English scientist who entertains guests for dinner every week.

- Book 9: ‘The Invisible Man’ is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells.

- Book 10: ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’ is an 1896 science fiction novel by the English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946). The story is narrated by Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat and left on the island home of Doctor Moreau.

- Book 11: This entertaining satire ‘Flatland’ is the work of the clergyman, educator and scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926).

- Book 12: Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel ‘Frankenstein’ tells the story of Dr Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a creature by grave robbing and alchemy.

- Book 13: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson.

- Book 14: Little Fuzzy Jack Holloway mines valuable sunstones on the planet Zarathustra.

- Book 15: ‘The Machine Stops’ by E M Forster is a dystopian science fiction short story first published in a magazine in 1909, and republished in ‘The Eternal Moment and Other Stories’ in 1928.

- Book 16: 'Youth', a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov, first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories.

- Book 17: ‘2 B R 0 2 B’ is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in a magazine in 1962.

- Book 18: In ‘The Variable Man', the growing Terran system is being suppressed and prevented from expanding by the Centaurian Empire.

- Book 19: ‘The Pendulum’ by Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012). Bradbury's short story ‘Pendulum’, written with Henry Hasse, was published in 1941 in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories.

- Book 20: ‘The Fight of the Good Ship Clarissa’ is an experimental short story by Ray Bradbury.

- Book 21: ‘Asleep in Armageddon’: A space ship crashes on an uninhabited planet but the pilot survives, and requests help, which is expected in six days.

- Book 22: ‘A Princess of Mars’ is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of the Barsoom series.

- Book 23: ‘The Gods of Mars’ (1918) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the second of Burroughs' Barsoom series.

- Book 24: ‘The Warlords of Mars’ completes Edgar Rice Burroughs’ action-packed Barsoom Trilogy.

Public Domain (P)2021 Museum Audiobooks

editing made me return this

i have no idea if the stories are any good. i couldnt stand the constant repeating of words due to bad editing. Every 4-5 minutes the reader will repeat 1-5 words 1-5 words. Its really hard to listen to.

Good stories. Totally unacceptable editing

I'm into the 2nd book (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea), and due to the constant audio stuttering, skipping, and repeating in the first two books, it's a struggle to finish both books. When the 2nd book finishes, I will remove this series from my device

Great collection with bad skips

Skips (due to editing?) aren't too bad when it skips back a second or so, but are bad when they skip forward, and words are lost.

audio cuts in and out

the audio jumps and you sometimes miss words or words are repeated again. it makes it hard to follow such interesting books that I had such a desire to listen to.

Fantastic collection...abominable editing

I very much wish this would be re-released with updated editing. The stories are great but the skips and audio glitches are infuriating!!

pathetic editing

Words, and phrases are repeated and just as often they're missing. Makes the listening experience quite unpleasant.

A lot of others crying over bumpy editing

A lot of crybabies leaving bad reviews because the story skips like an old portable cd player on your center console while hitting a pothole every once in a while. Big deal. You’re getting 24 American classic novels for the price of one. The narration is great, the books themselves are timeless classics.

My only guess is the bad reviews are coming from younger millennials that never had to wait for the radio to play their favorite song so they could bootleg it on their boombox even with the radio DJ’s voice recorded over the beginning of the song.

So as long as you’re the kind of person who can tolerate minor annoyances, this is definitely worth the bang for your buck.

If you’re the kind of person who has to “ask to see the manager” because your venti White Chocolate Mocha topped with sweet cream foam and loaded with extra caramel drizzle is 5° too hot than don’t bother with this one.

Great collection of stories

Almost all books in this collection are top novels in the sci-fi world I enjoyed listening to each and everyone and would’ve given more stars to this collection however several of the narrators were very dry and their ability to narrate the books and endless over 200 hours worth of listening the biggest downfall of the whole collection was a constant skipping or repeating of the storyline as it was red I can only imagine this is due to the amount size because I’ve never had this issue with any of the audible books before

Massive Collection with Flaws

I was tempted by the scope of this collection of classic science fiction literature. Many narrators are represented in the collection and the quality of narration varies considerably. However, one consistent annoyance is the engineering which results in periodic repeated words or phrases as burps in the narration. These burps are annoying but not as bad as the points where a word or text is apparently omitted. All in all, you get what you pay for. Buyer beware.

Garbage Editor

repeats and clips words, sound like something you downloaded illegally, if you can look past that, its good. Great stories though.