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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, Andrew Lang (from 1889) Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson (1893) The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (1894) Through the Sikh War, A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjab, G. A. Henty (1894) The Carved Lions, Mary Louisa Molesworth (1895) The Second Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (1895) Minstrel Dick, Christabel Rose Coleridge ...
19th-century science fiction comedy films (1 C) This page was last edited on 10 February 2022, at 17:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
All of the films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres such as drama, mystery, action, horror, fantasy, and comedy. Among the listed movies are films that have won motion-picture and science fiction awards as well as films that have been listed among the worst movies ever made , or have won one or more Golden ...
Children's book(s) Film adaptation(s) Abeltje (1953), Annie M. G. Schmidt: The Flying Liftboy (1998) The Adventurers: Gamba and His Fifteen Companions (冒険者たち ガンバと15ひきの仲間, Boukenshatachi: Ganba to 15-hiki no Nakama) (1972), Atsuo Saitō: The Adventurers: Gamba and His Fifteen Companions (1984)
A children's mystery set in England where the main protagonist travels to the time of World War I. 1967 The Technicolor Time Machine: Harry Harrison: A bankrupt film studio and a mediocre film director make a movie of the founding of Vinland. Using a time travel machine, they cast real Vikings. 1968 Hawksbill Station: Robert Silverberg
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions ...
Several stories within the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights, 8th–10th centuries CE) also feature science fiction elements.One example is "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist Bulukiya's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to explore the seas, journey to the Garden of Eden and to Jahannam (Islamic hell), and travel across the cosmos to different worlds much ...
Tai-Pan (1966) by James Clavell is the second book in Clavell's Asian Saga. It concerns European and American traders who move into Hong Kong in 1841 towards the end of the First Opium War (1839–1842). The Singapore Grip (1978) by J.G. Farrell is the final book in Farrell's empire trilogy. It is set in 1939 just before the Japanese invasion ...