Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) reigned unrivaled in his mastery of mystery during his lifetime and is now widely held to be a central figure of Romanticism and gothic horror in American literature. Born in Boston, he was orphaned at age three, was expelled from West Point for gambling, and later became a well-regarded literary critic and editor. The Raven, published in 1845, made Poe famous. He died in 1849 under what remain mysterious circumstances and is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.
English author William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was known for his works of horror and science-fiction. His first story, The Goddess of Death, was published in 1904. The Night Land, his last printed effort, was published in 1918. Hodgson was also renowned as a photographer and a bodybuilder. He died in battle during World War I at the age of 40.
Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. His work spanned several genres, including history, politics, social commentary, textbooks and rules for war games. He is best remembered for his science fiction novels. Of these, his most notable works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Née à Londres en 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin vit seule avec son père, le philosophe libertaire William Goldwin, sa mère, la féministe Mary Wollstonecraft, étant morte en couches. Elle fait la connaissance du poète Percy Bysshe Shelley et devient sa maîtresse, avant qu'il ne l'entraîne en 1814 dans un long périple romantique à travers l'Europe. Shelley l'épouse en 1816 après la mort de sa première femme. Dotée d'une grande intelligence, elle apprend le grec, le latin, le français et l'italien, et est tenue en grande estime par les amis de son mari, notamment par Lord Byron. C'est de conversations avec ce dernier et de la lecture de romans allemands que naît son premier livre, Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne, en 1818. Après la mort de Shelley, en 1822, et tout en s'attachant à faire éditer les écrits de son époux, Mary Shelley publie Le Dernier Homme (1826), roman d'anticipation qui décrit de manière frappante la destruction de la race humaine, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830) et Falkner (1837).
Mary Shelley n'a jamais cessé d'écrire jusqu'à sa mort en 1851.
Brillant orateur, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) est un homme politique londonien. Tout au long de sa vie, il se consacre en parallèle à la littérature, en explorant tous les domaines : poésie, romans sociaux, récits d'épouvante. Mais ce sont ses romans historiques, inspirés de Walter Scott, qui ont fait sa notoriété, en particulier le célèbre "Les Derniers jours de Pompéi".
Title : The Greatest Sci-Fi Tales Ever Written
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