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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: 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
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
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
The James Tiptree Jr Award-winning novel. Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest ...Show more
Arslan by M.J. Engh
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Arslan is a young Asian general who has conquered the USA and then the world, with a small town in Illinois as the capital of his new empire. Praised by the likes of Orson Scott Card and Samuel R. Delany, ARSLAN is a thoughtful but uncompromising work, one which still retains the power to shock.
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the year 29AD he is shocked to meet the man known as Jesus Christ -- a drooling idiot, hiding in the shadows of the carpenter's shop in Nazareth. But if he is not capable of fulfilling his historical role, the ...Show more