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A.A. PHILLIPS ON THE CULTURAL by PHILLIPS, A.A.
Category: Culture | Series: MUP Masterworks Ser.
The Australian writer, critic and teacher A.A. Phillips coined the term 'the cultural cringe' in 1950 to describe an Australian tendency to identify our literature and art as inferior to work produced overseas, particularly in Britain and the United States. The term has resonated in debates about Austra ...Show more
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, the rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of knowledge. By studying the Holy Relics of the past, the Order of St Leibowitz hopes to raise human ...Show more
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez S.J., is a part of a four man scientific commission to the planet Lithia, there to study a harmonious society of aliens living on a planets which is a biologist's paradise. He soon finds himself troubled: how can these perfect beings, living in an apparent Eden, have no concept ...Show more
A Deepness in the Sky: SF Masterworks [Vernor] by Vernor Vinge
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap uni ...Show more
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Science Fiction | Series: SF MASTERWORKS
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A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of ...Show more
A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A Maze of Death is a sci-fi murder mystery set on a mysterious planet, with a twist ending that leaves the reader wondering just what they've been witnessing the whole time.
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
"Dick is Thoreau plus the death of the American dream."--Roberto Bola o Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred ...Show more
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F.Masterworks
Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying ...Show more
Aegypt by John Crowley
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Fantasy Masterworks
There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments. In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to th ...Show more
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one child, Alvin - only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar - finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city ...Show more
Always Coming Home: SF Masterworks by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh. But Always Coming Home is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes - Always Coming Home is no le ...Show more