Good novels (especially SF) from before '55

[ChildOfLore]

Hi,

I live in Australia where the works of anyone who died before 1955 are public property (and are, therefore, available as free eBooks). I need some eBooks to read on my DS on the train to school and I really want to read some classics. This brilliant merging of my interests with technological and geographical circumstances has led me here, to ask for some reccomendations for books (especially SF, or anything good) written by those who've died before 1955. I've already read Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm (which are awesome beyond measure). I love any kind of speculative fiction or anything with some good solid pondering behind the premise, I'm also a little bit impatient so I prefer - but don't insist on - easy-to-read books.

Thanks a lot,
Marlon

[mal4mac]

H.G. Wells

[dfloyd]

War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man are Sci-Fi and classics. Also the Frenchman who is the grandfather of Sci-Fi, Jules Verne. Try 20,000 leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the Moon to Earth, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Mysterious Island.

[husker du]

If you enjoyed 1984 then you should read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, if you haven't already. It's from 1921 and it was a big influence on a lot of sci-fi/dystopian stuff that would come after.