A collection of Jack London popular science fiction short stories, includes "The Star Rover", "Before Adam" and "The Shadow and the Flash"

A selection of London's short stories includes adventure, comedy, social satire, and tall tales

Jack London science fiction has widely been cited as influencing such writers as H.G. Wells, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Aldous Huxley; many consider his work "The Iron Will" to be the foundation for all dystopia novels to come. Collected here is an anthology of Jack London's science fiction novels with an active table of contents.A short biography about the life and times of Jack London is also included.Works included in this collection:Before AdamA Curious FragmentGoliahThe Iron HeelThe Man with the GashPlanchetteThe Red OneThe Rejuvenation of Major RathboneA Relic of the PlioceneThe Scarlet PlagueThe Shadow and the FlashThe Star-RoverThe Strength of the StrongThe Unparalleled InvasionWhen the World Was Young

Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:The Law of LifeTo Build a FireThat SpotAll Gold CanyonAn Odyssey of the NorthA Piece of SteakLost Face

John Griffith "Jack" London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with his mother Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although her wounds were not severe the trauma made her temporarily deranged. In late 1876 his mother married John London and the young child was brought to live with them as they moved around the Bay area, eventually settling in Oakland where Jack completed grade school. Jack also worked hard at several jobs, sometimes 12-18 hours a day, but his dream was university. He was lent money for that and after intense studying enrolled in the summer of 1896 at the University of California in Berkeley. In 1897, at 21, Jack searched out newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and the name of his biological father. He wrote to William Chaney, then living in Chicago. Chaney said he could not be London's father because he was impotent; and casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men. Jack, devastated by the response, quit Berkeley and went to the Klondike. Though equally because of his continuing dire finances Jack might have taken that as the excuse he needed to leave. In the Klondike Jack began to gather material for his writing but also accumulated many health problems, including scurvy, hip and leg problems many of which he then carried for life. By the late 1890's Jack was regularly publishing short stories and by the turn of the century full blown novels. By 1904 Jack had married, fathered two children and was now in the process of divorcing. A stint as a reporter on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 was equal amounts trouble and experience. But that experience was always put to good use in a remarkable output of work. Twelve years later Jack had amassed a wealth of writings many of which remain world classics. He had a reputation as a social activist and a tireless friend of the workers. And yet on November 22nd 1916 Jack London died in a cottage on his ranch at the age of only 40. Here we present The Science Fiction Stories - Volume 2.