Karel Capek & George Tucker 
Essential Science Fiction Novels – Volume 10 [EPUB ebook] 

Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward. Bellamy’s vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous ‘Nationalist Clubs’ dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy’s political ideas.Karel apek (9 January 1890 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word robot. He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time.George Tucker (August 20, 1775 April 10, 1861) was born in Bermuda, and became an American attorney, politician, historian, author, and educator in Virginia. His literary works include The Valley of Shenandoah (1824), the first fiction of colonial life in Virginia, and Voyage to the Moon (1827), which is among the nation’s earliest science fiction novels. Otis Adelbert Kline (July 1, 1891 October 24, 1946) born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was a songwriter, an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. Much of his work first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. Kline was an amateur orientalist and a student of Arabic, like his friend and sometime collaborator, E. Hoffmann Price.Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the ‘father of science fiction’, along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Gernsback.