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A Guide to Speculative Futures
Works exploring technology, imagined futures, discovery and speculative changes in society and everyday life.
Independent digital catalogue
Classic Science Fiction Archive: 100 Books in Speculative Futures, Machines, Space Voyages & Battles
The Classic Science Fiction Archive at rvizi.com features 100 public-domain science fiction works from 106 authors. The collection is organized into four categories: speculative futures, machines and inventions, space voyages, and battles and military history. These works, written in earlier eras, remain freely available to read and download. The catalogue provides basic metadata and source attribution for each entry.
100 public-domain works106 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
Subject gateways
Explore by Theme
Move through the collection by subject, historical setting and type of source.
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A Guide to Machines & Inventions
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Space Voyages: Texts & Context
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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A Guide to Battles and Military History
Texts connected with historical lives, social customs, institutions and the worlds in which people lived.
Science Fiction — Editor’s Selection
A closer look
Collection Spotlight
One work and three nearby readings from the current catalogue.
Selected from the current catalogue
Office call — Story, Setting & I...
This work offers one entry point into the authors, subjects and source types represented in the current catalogue.
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The crystal planetoids — A Reade...
In Space V...
Secret of the Earth Star — Readi...
In A Guide...
Strangers to Straba — Inside the...
In A Guide...
Jackie sees a star — Key Ideas t...
In Space V...
The ordeal of Lancelot Biggs — I...
In A Guide...
Evans of the Earth-Guard — A Clo...
In A Guide...
The genius of Lancelot Biggs — T...
In A Guide...
The second shell — Reading Notes
In A Guide...
Routes through the collection
Reading Paths
Four routes into the collection for readers approaching the catalogue with different questions.
Begin with A Guide to Speculative FuturesOpen a focused route to works connected with A Guide to Speculative Futures.Explore A Guide to Machines & InventionsCompare authors, source types and recurring questions within A Guide to Machines & Inventions.Read through Space Voyages: Texts & ContextMove from introductory records to related works in Space Voyages: Texts & Context.Browse A Guide to Battles and Military HistoryUse this theme as a starting point for nearby catalogue records in A Guide to Battles and Military History.
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Catalogue stewardship
F. Scott Orwell
Senior Catalogue Editor
Maintains catalogue records, records source attribution, organizes metadata, assigns categories, prepares editorial context, and reviews submitted corrections.