A List of Folio Science Fiction

Curiosity compelled me to compile this list of all science fiction novels published by Folio by year of original publisher's release and era. This list begins with the Scientific Romance period (beg. 1850's) and intentionally excludes earlier proto-genre work (i.e. Mary Shelley, Jonathan Swift, Cyrano de Bergerac, etc.). It also excludes fantasy, magical realism and other works of speculative fiction not directly related to science fiction (see exclusions footnote at end). The publication date of the Folio editions are included at the end of each entry. Overall, it's quite a collection!

Scientific Romance:
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne (f.2001)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) by Jules Verne (f.2014)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by RL Stevenson (f.1948, f.1994, f.2006)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) by Mark Twain (f.2013)
Classics of Science Fiction by H. G. Wells (3 vols - f.2004)¹:
* The Time Machine (1895) & The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)
* The Invisible Man (1897)
* The War of the Worlds (1898)
The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (1911) by HG Wells (le.2016)
The Lost World (1912) by Arthur Conan Doyle (f.1977)
Short Stories (1927) by HG Wells (f.1990)

Classic Science-Fiction:
We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin (f.2018)
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley (f.1971, f.2013)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell (f.2001, f.2014, le.2024, f.2025)²
I, Robot (1950) by Isaac Asimov (f.2016)
The Martian Chronicles (1950) by Ray Bradbury (f.2015)
The Novels of John Wyndham (3 vols - f.2010):
* The Day of the Triffids (1951)
* The Chrysalids (1955)
* The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov (3 vols - f.2012):
* Foundation (1951)
* Foundation and Empire (1952)
* Second Foundation (1953)
The Illustrated Man (1951) by Ray Bradbury (f.2017)
Childhood's End (1953) by Arthur C. Clarke (f.2023)
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury (f.2011)
I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson (f.2018)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) by Walter M. Miller (le.2024, f.2025)
Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert Heinlein (f.2018)

New Wave Science-Fiction:
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert Heinlein (f.2020)
A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess (f.2014)
The Drowned World (1962) by JG Ballard (f.2013)
The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick (f.2015)
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L'Engle (f.2015)
Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut (f.2022)
Planet of the Apes (1963) by Pierre Boulle (f.2020)
Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert (f.2015, le.2020)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. Clarke (f.2016)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick (f.2017)³
Dune Messiah (1969) by Frank Herbert (f.2023)
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin (f.2018)
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut (f.2006)
Ubik (1969) by Philip K. Dick (f.2019)
Roadside Picnic (1972) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (f.2023, le.2023)
Rendezvous with Rama (1973) by Arthur C. Clarke (f.2020)
The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin (f.2019)
Children of Dune (1976) by Frank Herbert (f.2024)
A Scanner Darkly (1977) by Philip K. Dick (f.2017)³
God Emperor of Dune (1981) by Frank Herbert (f.2025)
The Collected Short Stories (1987) by Philip K. Dick (le.2021, f.2022)⁴

Modern Science-Fiction:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams (f.2010, le.2023)⁵
Kindred (1979) by Octavia E. Butler (f.2019)
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (4 vols - le.2019, 2 vols - f.2021):
* The Shadow of the Torturer (1980)
* The Claw of the Conciliator (1981)
* The Sword of the Lictor (1982)
* The Citadel of the Autarch (1983)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) by Douglas Adams (f.2011, le.2023)⁵
Riddley Walker (1980) by Russell Hoban (le.2017)
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982) by Douglas Adams (f.2014, le.2023)⁵
Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson (le.2024, f.2025)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984) by Douglas Adams (f.2016, le.2023)⁵
The Handmaid's Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood (f.2012)
Consider Phlebas (1987) by Iain Banks (f.2023)
The Player of Games (1988) by Iain Banks (f.2024)
Jurassic Park (1990) by Michael Crichton (f.2020)
Use of Weapons (1990) by Iain Banks (f.2025)
Mostly Harmless (1992) by Douglas Adams (f.2016, le.2023)⁵
The Lost World (1995) by Michael Crichton (f.2021)

Contemporary Science Fiction:
Perdido Street Station (2000) by China Melville (le.2025, f.2026)
Oryx and Crake (2003) by Margaret Atwood (f.2019)
Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro (f.2012)
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy (f.2021)
IQ84 (2009) by Haruki Murakami (f.2025)
The Martian (2011) by Andy Weir (f.2026)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (2014) by Becky Chambers (le.2024)
Station Eleven (2014) by Emily St. John Mandel (f.2026)
The Binti Trilogy (2019) by Nnedi Okorafor (f.2025)
Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro (f.2025)

Miscellaneous:
The Folio Science Fiction Anthology (f.2016)

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"f." denotes a Folio standard (or core) edition
"le." denotes a Folio Limited Edition

¹ The HG Wells novels were published as a three volume box set and as stand-alone volumes.
² The first edition of 1984 was also included in The Complete Novels by George Orwell box set.
³ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and A Scanner Darkly were published as a single volume.
⁴ The PKD Selected Stories standard edition is an abridged collection that contains 24 short stories
⁵ The Hitchhiker's Guide Limited Edition was published as a five volume box set.

Notable exclusions include fantasy novels (Something Wicked This Way Comes, American Gods, Neverwhere, A Traveller in Time), magical realism (Nights at the Circus, Kafka on the Shore, The Underground Railroad), speculative fiction (Atlas Shrugged, Fatherland) and adventure (Around the World in 80 Days).

Feedback and omissions welcome!

>1 HonorWulf:
Great list!
Link added to FSD wiki at https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees#Online_res...

>2 wcarter: Thanks! I'll have to keep it updated now :)

An omission.

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (2014) by Becky Chambers

>1 HonorWulf:

That's a very interesting list. Thank you!

>1 HonorWulf: Thanks for compiling this list!

Would it be possible to include the Folio publication date(s) as well?

That would give a glance the time between original publication and the FS edition, and also the trend of this time gap.

>4 DukeOfOmnium: Updated, thanks! Be interesting to see if we get an SE.

>5 SF-72: You're welcome!

>6 Ibkay: Perhaps! A lot of them have multiple editions, both limited and standard, so wasn't sure how to present it in a way that makes sense and is still readable.

>6 Ibkay: PS: OK, I went ahead and added the date of the first Folio edition at the end of each entry!

>1 HonorWulf: Nice job on the list. There are 15 I haven't read yet (7 of them I already own). Thanks for the reminder.

I don't know if I would classify Harris' "Fatherland" as sci-fi. It's more alternate history. Nothing really sciency happens.

Would you consider H. G. Wells' "The Door in the Wall" LE to be sci-fi? They also did a collection of his short stories in 1990.

>11 PartTimeBookAddict: Agreed on Fatherland -- I had that on my exclusion list, but forgot to move. Will update. I'll also add the two HG Wells collections. For anyone curious as to the contents of them:

Short Stories by H.G. Wells (1990) includes nine classic sci-fi stories (Empire of the Ants, The Country of the Blind, The Stolen Bacillus, The Diamond Maker, Aepyornis Island, The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes, The Plattner Story, The Argonauts of the Air, A Dream of Armageddon), five fantasies with borderline sci-fi elements (The Door in the Wall, A Vision of Judgment, The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, The Truth About Pyecraft) and four horror stories with sci-fi elements (The Flowering of the Strange Orchid, The Lord of the Dynamos, The Cone, The Moth). Only four of the stories fall outside this range (A Deal in Ostriches, The Treasure in the Forest, The Reconciliation, Little Mother Up the Morderberg).

The Door in the Wall and Other Stories Limited Edition (2016) contains six of the stories above (The Country of the Blind, A Dream of Armageddon, The Diamond Maker, A Door in the Wall, The Cone, The Lord of the Dynamos) as well as The Star (sci-fi) and A Moonlight Fable (fantasy), and is mostly a collection of sci-fi stories with some fantasy and horror mixed in.

EDIT: Since the HG Wells collections are based on editions published during his lifetime, I've moved them into the chronology. The Door in the Wall, specifically, is a complete facsimile of the 1911 edition, and Short Stories is an abridgement of the 1927 edition.

I would suggest to include Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and "The Last Man".

>10 HonorWulf: Great! Many thanks for the update!

>13 spacepope: For the sake of argument, I'm just including works from the Scientific Romance period (1850's to 1920's) and the modern Science Fiction era (1920's to present), and sidestepping the discussion around proto-genre contributions, which is a slippery slope that goes back to antiquity. While Shelley was writing in the "Gothic horror" genre, her work is obviously influential to future sci-fi writers by injecting the "mad scientist" and "dystopian future" tropes into the mainstream zeitgeist.

>14 Ibkay: You're welcome!

>1 HonorWulf: Thank you! As I primarily collect Folio’s sci-fi, this will be my main reference :)

>17 drizzled: Excellent - Glad it is of use!

Thanks for this list >1 HonorWulf: As a reference for sci fi collectors might I suggest removing The Island of Doctor Moreau as it's own line and merging it as "The Time Machine and the Island of Doctor Moreau" since they only come together as a single volume (which I've confirmed with Folio 76) so that collectors save themselves the trouble of trying to search for non-existent volume.

If it also helps I've included the dates of newer editions of BNW and 1984 which helps differentiate republished editions with entirely different artwork.

Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley (f.1971)
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley (f.2013)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell (f.2001)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell (f.2014)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell (f.2025)

>19 wongie: Thanks! I added annotations for the HG Wells books as well as the PKD two-in-one edition.

EDIT: I added the different publishing editions as well.

Updated with The Spring Collection 2026, including The Martian, Station Eleven and the Perdido Street Station standard edition.