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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, w ...Show more
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula. K Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence ...Show more
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Hugo and Nebula Award-winning AuthorIn 2057 Oxford, historical research is conducted through travel to the past. Unfortunately, Lady Schrapnell has commandeered all researchers to locate items to restore the Coventry Cathedral. Our intrepid time traveler, Ned Henry, ...Show more
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
"Willis effortlessly juggles comedy of manners, chaos theory and a wide range of literary allusions [with a] near flawlessness of plot, character and prose."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable w ...Show more
Vermeer and the Dutch Masters by Flame Flame Tree (Created by); D. A. Morrison
Category: Art | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Today we marvel at the shimmering light, the detail and hidden significances within the subtle techniques of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Frans Hals and their compatriots. The luminescent art of the Dutch Masters grew from the bounding confidence of the newly independent Netherlands in the early 1600s. ...Show more
Vincent Van Gogh by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art | Series: Masterworks Ser.
A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. We all know of Van Gogh's troubled g ...Show more
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In the year 2038, the earth has been ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Retroviruses run rampant through humanity. Economic disaster has destabilised the world, the US has undergone a socialist revolution, and the balance of power has changed. Then the aliens arrive. With no clear understa ...Show more
William Morris - Artist Craftsman Pioneer by Rosalind Ormiston; N. M. Wells
Category: Art | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Revised edition of the bestselling backlist title. William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the Arts and Crafts movement. Many of us probably know him best, however, from his s ...Show more
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
From the multi-award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea sequence comes this single-volume omnibus of the first three Hainish novels.Intergalactic war reaches Fomalhaut II in Rocannon's World.Born out of season, a precocious young girl visits the alien city of the farborns and t ...Show more