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The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The year is 2110. Humankind is entering a new golden age.But when an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky, he sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization.While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a ...Show more
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionArthur Dent thought his day was going badly when someone tried to demolish his house.Then someone demolished his planet.Rescued by his friend Ford - who is not a human from Guilford, but an alien from somewhere in the vi ...Show more
The Invisible Man: SF Masterworks by Wells, H.G.
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
THE INVISIBLE MAN tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatever action is necessary to keep his incredible discovery safe, he terrorises the local village where he has sought refuge. Wells skilfully weaves the themes of science, terro ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction When Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a tropical island, he is surprised to find he has company in the form of Dr Moreau. Driven out of Britain in disgrace, Dr Moreau has decided to explore his science in peace and iso ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau: SF Masterworks by Wells, H.G.
Category: Classics | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr Moreau, a vivisectionist driven out of Britain in disgrace. And soon strange events cause Prendick to uncover the full horror of Dr Moreau's activities on the island.THE ISLAND OF DR MORE ...Show more
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality - and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power. Psychiatrist Dr William Haber ...Show more
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
'Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their centre ... Literature will miss her. There's no one like her' Zadie Smith'Le Guin is a w ...Show more
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 Man Who Fell to Earth (Masterworks Series) by Walter Tevis
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from ex ...Show more
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Category: No Category | Series: S.F.Masterworks
It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But it's not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has been divided between the Nazi ...Show more