Question: What 1870 classic science fiction novel is the animated series Space Strikers based on?

Context articles: Hyperpilosity
Flying machine (The War of the Worlds)
Golden Age of Science Fiction
Space Strikers
The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction
Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds)
May Be Some Time
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Timescape
Blindsight (Watts novel)

"Hyperpilosity" is a classic science fiction story by L. Sprague de Camp.
 It was first published in the magazine "Astounding Stories" for April, 1938, and first appeared in book form in the de Camp collection "The Wheels of If and Other Science Fiction" (Shasta, 1949; It later appeared in the anthologies "Omnibus of Science Fiction" (Crown, 1952), "Science Fiction of the Thirties" (Bobbs-Merrill, 1975), "The Edward De Bono Science Fiction Collection", (Elmfield Press, 1976) and "" (Mentor, 1979), as well as the magazine "Fantastic Story Magazine" (September, 1953) and the de Camp collection "The Best of L. Sprague de Camp" (Doubleday, 1978).
 In 2014 the story was shortlisted for the Retro Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
The Flying machine is one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in H. G. Wells' classic science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds".
 It is one of the four types of heavy machine the Martians bring with them when they invade Earth, along with the fighting machine, the handling machine, and the embankment machine.
The first Golden Age of Science Fiction—often recognized as the period from 1938 to 1946—was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published.
 In the history of science fiction, the Golden Age follows the "pulp era" of the 1920s and 1930s, and precedes New Wave science fiction of the 1960s and 1970s.
 The 1950s are a transitional period in this scheme; however, Robert Silverberg, who came of age in the 1950s, saw that decade as the true Golden Age.
Space Strikers is an animated television series that was based on the Jules Verne novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".
 The series aired on UPN from September 10, 1995 to December 3, 1995.
 Action sequences were shown in "Strikervision" 3-D.
 It was the first animated series to be made specifically for UPN.
The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1930s is a themed anthology of science fiction short works edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, the first in a series of six samplers of the field from the 1930s through the 1980s.
 It was first published in trade paperback by Robinson in June 1988.
 The first American edition was issued in trade paperback by Carroll & Graf in July of the same year.
 A hardcover edition was issued under the variant title Great Tales of Classic Science Fiction by Galahad Books in May 1990.
The Fighting Machine (also known as a Tripod) is one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in H. G. Wells' 1898 classic science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds".
 It is a fast-moving, three-legged walker, reported to be 100 feet tall, with multiple whip-like tentacles used for grasping, and two lethal weapons: the heat-ray and a gun-like tube used for discharging canisters of a poisonous chemical black smoke that kills humans and animals.
 It is the primary machine the Martians use when they invade Earth, along with the handling machine, the flying machine, and the embankment machine.
May Be Some Time is a science fiction novella by Brenda Clough.
 It was first published in "Analog Science Fiction and Fact" in April 2001, and subsequently republished in "" (2002), in "the Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 15th Annual Collection" (2002), and "the Fifth Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories" (2012); as well, it appeared as the first portion of Clough's 2008 novel "Revise the World".
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin" , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A Tour of the Underwater World) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870.
Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having "contributed significantly to the manuscript").
 It won the 1981 Nebula and 1980 British Science Fiction Award, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
 The novel was widely hailed by both critics of science fiction and mainstream literature for its fusion of detailed character development and interpersonal drama with more standard science fiction fare such as time travel and ecological issues.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006.
 It garnered nominations for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and a Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
 The novel follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed 'Burns-Caulfield' that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the solar system, followed by their subsequent first contact.
 The novel explores questions of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, game theory as well as evolution and biology.
 "Blindsight" is available online under a Creative Commons license.
 Its sequel "Echopraxia" came out in 2014.