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Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
For Kivrin Engle, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking ...Show more
Doomsday Morning by C. L. Moore
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
Comus, the communications network/police force, has spread its web of power all across an America paralyzed by the after-effects of limited nuclear war. But in California, resistance is building against the dictatorship of Comus and Andrew Raleigh, president for life. For now Raleigh is dying and the po ...Show more
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein; Vincent Chong (Designed by)
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Every stand-in dreamed of the starring role-but what actor would risk his life for the chance? One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was, as usual, in a bar, drinking away his troubles while watching his career circle the drain. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe kn ...Show more
Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Outer space inhabitants have formed a new political entity, the Federation, and between the Federation and Earth a growing rivalry has developed. EARTHLIGHT is the story of ...Show more
Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Fantasy Masterworks Ser.
Supernatural Adventure from a Master of Modern Fantasy The magical King of the West has been killed in California, and his assassin is one of the multiple personalities in the head of Janis Cordelia Plumtree--but which one? One of them is a streetwise pickpocket. Another is dead, and can only speak in q ...Show more
Erte: Art Deco Master of Graphic Art & Illustration by James Peacock; Rosalind Ormiston; Ray Perman (Foreword by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Perhaps no individual is more associated with the 20th century art deco revival than Russian-born French artist and designer, Ert . Although his talent spanned many creative fields, Erte is perhaps best-known for his theatre and fashion designs, which were often later translated into beautiful silkscree ...Show more
First Born by Maureen Duffy
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
1981. A different Britain. When Norman Forrester of the Defence Ministry's Experimental Institute effects a successful fertilisation of a female gorilla with human sperm, an infant is born. Gordon, known as Gor, is his son in two senses. But Gor's parentage must remain a secret. He has no legal existenc ...Show more
Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece by Daniel Keyes
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transforma ...Show more
For the Emperor by Sandy Mitchell
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Black Library Masterworks Ser.
Black Library presents the Masterworks - a curated collection of novels celebrating the very best science fiction and fantasy set in the worlds of Warhammer.
Galactic Patrol by E. E. "Doc" Smith
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
The space-pirates of Boskone raided at will, menacing the whole structure of interstellar civilization. Master-minded by a super-scientist, their conquering fleets outgunned even the mighty space cruisers of the Galactic Patrol. When Lensman Kim Kinnison of the Patrol discovered the secret Boskonian bas ...Show more
Gateway by Frederick Pohl
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robi ...Show more
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee.Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with ...Show more