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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The remarkable novel upon which the stunning cult film was based.'Beautiful ... The story of an extraterrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one' NEW YORK TIMESThomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devast ...Show more
The Outward Urge by John Wyndham
Category: Classics | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
The 'outward urge' was a factor in the Troon inheritance. Successive generations of Troons, looking up at the stars, heard the siren voices that called them out into Space. And, as the frontiers of Space receded, there was usually one Troon, if not more, out there, helping to push them back.In an age in ...Show more
The Riddle-Master's Game by Patricia A. McKillip
Category: No Category | Series: Fantasy Masterworks Ser.
Morgon, Prince of Hed, wants only to rule and work the land of his birth as best he can, but he is faced by a very different challenge from that of his ancestors. The stars have marked him out and he must wander strange, foreign lands full of untamed magic, and confront riddling wraiths and mysterious h ...Show more
The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
It is the twenty-first century. On Mars a dedicated group of pioneers - among them some of Earth's finest brains - struggle to change the face of the planet . . . Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red Planet. It's a dream come true - until he ...Show more
The Secret of Life by Paul McAuley
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
2026: Something is growing in the Pacific Ocean. "The Slick" appears to be a strange, fungus-like organism, but its DNA is unlike anything else on the planet. Rumours start to fly. Was life discovered deep beneath the Martian icecaps on a recent Chinese space mission? If it was, no-one is confirming i ...Show more
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In a world drowning in data and information and choking on novelty and innovation, Nickie Haflinger - a most dangerous fugitive who doesn't even appear to exist - provides a window onto a global society falling apart in all directions, with madness run amok and personal freedom surrendered to computers ...Show more
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionWhen Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only g ...Show more
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course ther ...Show more
The Snail On The Slope by Arkady STRUGATSKY and Boris STRUGATSKY
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below. Except no one ever seems to go there, and his attempts only trap him further within the workings of this strange organisation. ENTER THE FOREST Candide ...Show more
The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat #1) by Harry Harrison
Category: No Category | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic cops can do is make him one of their own.