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The Space Merchants by Kornbluth Cyril
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who ...Show more
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class. EDUCATION: none SKILLS: none MERITS: none RECOMMENDATIONS: none That's the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman. But right now he is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship, and when another space vessel, the Vorga, ignores his dis ...Show more
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 Time Machine: SF Masterworks by Wells, H.G.
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time.THE ...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
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day -- and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life -- indeed his whole world -- is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of kee ...Show more
Timescape by Gregory Benford
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
1962: A young Californian scientist finds his experiments spoiled by mysterious interference. Gradually his suspicions lead him to a shattering truth: scientists from the end of the century are using subatomic particles to send a message into the past, in the hope that history can be changed and a world ...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
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.f. Masterworks
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own ...Show more
Ubik: The reality bending science fiction masterpiece by Philip K Dick
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: S.F.Masterworks
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own ti ...Show more