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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
After journeying across the stars, a man from Earth finds himself lost among the scarlet deserts, black cliffs and semi-sentient oceans of Tormance, a world lit by the star Arcturus. Pulled northward by the sound of drums, and undergoing strange physical transformations, the Earthman's adventures with t ...Show more
About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution by P.C.W. Davies
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
Looks at the highly challenging, scientific problems currently surrounding the question of time - the age of the universe, the relative nature of time and faster-than-light communication.
Black No More by George S. Schuyler
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
'A liberating and lacerating critique of American racial madness, capitalism and white superiority ... Schuyler's wild, misanthropic, take-no-prisoners satire of American life seems more relevant than ever ... Afrofuturist before such a term existed' - New York Review of Books Telling the extraordinary ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima- ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the ...Show more
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
In "Consciousness Explained", Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the human brain. Daniel C. Dennett's now-classic book blends philosophy, psychology and neuroscience - with the aid of numerous examples and thought-experiments - to explore how co ...Show more
Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In this brilliantly enlightening book John Gribbin, the man who made quantum theory clear with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat shows that complexity is simple, and explains how life has emerged from simple systems. Deep Simplicity is the first book to synthesize all the various ideas about chaos and comp ...Show more
Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, hapless New Yorker Tom Carmody learns that he is the winner of the Intergalactic Sweepstake. Accepting with a shrug, he is whipped across the universe to collect his prize. The catch? There's no way home. Enlisting the help of galactic bureaucrats, ...Show more
Driftglass by Samuel R. Delaney
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Samuel R. Delany is widely considered to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of Black and Queer genre fiction. Driftglass, the definitive collection of Delany's science fiction stories, displays the extraordinary depth of his writing: strange men and wo ...Show more
Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
This text leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, via biographical stories, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to contemporary notions of hyperspace. It reveals simple questions that have been the hidden engines of major achievements in science and technology.
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory. A work that still poses provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence ...Show more
God and the New Physics by P.C.W. Davies
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
In "God and the New Physics", Paul Davies explains how science has come of age, and can now offer a surer path to divinity than religion. Science is now on the verge of answering our most profound questions about the nature of existence. Here Paul Davies explains how the far-reaching discoveries of rece ...Show more
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mys ...Show more