Future wars and world disasters

14 books

After London; Or, Wild EnglandRichard Jefferies · 1885An 1885 novel by Richard Jefferies imagining England after civilization's collapse, in which London has ended and the countryside has reverted to forest, marsh, and wilderness, followed by adventures in the barbarous land that remains.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Facing the FlagJules Verne · 1896A science fiction adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1896. It follows the mad French inventor Thomas Roch, creator of a devastating weapon, who is confined in a North Carolina sanitarium and becomes the target of the mysterious Count d'Artigas.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Tarrano the ConquerorRay Cummings · 1925A 1925 science fiction novel by Ray Cummings set in the year 2430, following a future New York newsman who witnesses a wave of assassinations of world leaders and uncovers a plot involving the mysterious conqueror Tarrano of Venus.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Air PirateGuy Thorne · 1912A 1912 adventure novel by Guy Thorne, narrated by Sir John Custance, Britain's Commissioner of Air Police, recounting his pursuit of a mysterious pirate attacking transatlantic air-liners in a future age of commercial aviation.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Crack of DoomRobert Cromie · 1895An 1895 science fiction novel by Robert Cromie, presented as an edited true narrative. Narrator Arthur Marcel recounts joining the mysterious Cui Bono Society of Herbert Brande, whose warnings about a coming catastrophe involving the earth's destruction he comes to believe.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The DoomsmanVan Tassel Sutphen · 1906A 1906 illustrated science fiction novel by Van Tassel Sutphen, The Doomsman follows young Constans, who lives in a primitive future settlement and sets out toward the ruins of a forgotten city, which he believes to be the site of Doom, a forbidden place.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Last ManMary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1826A three-volume 1826 novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, presented as prophecies deciphered from leaves found in the Cumaean Sibyl's cave near Naples. The frame narrative introduces a tale of misery and woeful change told by its last surviving narrator.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Lost ContinentEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1916A 1916 science fiction adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally published under the title Beyond Thirty. A Pan-American naval officer in the twenty-second century, stranded east of his hemisphere's forbidden boundary, discovers the unknown fate of Europe two hundred years after it was cut off from the West.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Poison BeltArthur Conan Doyle · 1913A science fiction adventure novel from 1913, continuing the Lost World series. Professor Challenger reunites his companions to investigate a cosmic change in the ether that threatens all life on Earth.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The StarH. G. Wells · 1897A short science fiction story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897, in which astronomers discover a massive star from deep space approaching Earth, while most people ignore warnings of the destruction its gravitational effects will cause.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The War in the AirH. G. Wells · 1908A 1908 novel by H. G. Wells in which Bert Smallways, a young London shop assistant, is drawn into a global war fought with airships and airplanes, ending in the collapse of civilization.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The war of the worldsH. G. Wells · 1898An 1898 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, narrated by an unnamed Englishman who witnesses a Martian invasion of Victorian England, as alien intelligences fleeing their dying planet land in Surrey and wage war on humanity.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The World Peril of 1910George Chetwynd Griffith · 1907This military novel explores the dangerous international tensions leading to global conflict. It details the escalating threat of war and the rapid development of revolutionary naval technology.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The World Set FreeH. G. Wells · 1914A 1914 futuristic novel by H. G. Wells, written under the shadow of approaching world war, imagining the discovery of released atomic energy, a devastating last war, and humanity's subsequent effort to end war through world government and social reconstruction.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية