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Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Originally published in 1955 Jack Finney's sinister SF tale has outgrown the initial debate about whether it satirized Communism or the conformity of US society at the time, to become a classic of paranoia; an examination of our fear of 'the other'. Most people know the story from seeing THE INVASION OF ...Show more
Cat's Cradle: Masterworks by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Experiment. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. ...Show more
Childhood's End (FS) by CLARKE Arthur C
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that ...Show more
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post ...Show more
Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
David's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. And blasphemies, as everyone knows, should be burned: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT. Little does he realise that his own son - and his son's cousin Rosalind and ...Show more
City by Clifford D. Simak
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smal ...Show more
Dark Benediction by Walter M. Miller
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Walter M. Miller Jr is best remembered as the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, universally recognized as one of the greatest novels of modern SF. But as well as writing that deeply felt and eloquent book, he produced many shorter works of fiction of stunning originality and power. His profound intere ...Show more
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: Classics | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For he finds a population rendered blind and helpless by the spectacular meteor shower that filled the night sky, the evening before. But his relief is short-lived as he re ...Show more
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A young man arrives in the anarchic city of Bellona, in a near future USA. This world has two moons but could otherwise be our own. The man, known only as 'the Kid', begins to write a novel called Dhalgren that begins where it ends. Dhalgren is about the possibilites of fiction and about the special dem ...Show more
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗?》 By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They e ...Show more
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 by Philip K Dick
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but beref ...Show more