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The Best of Roger Zelazny by Roger Zelazny
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
From the far reaches of space to the hidden corners of Earth, from aliens to wizards and everything in between . . . One of the most influential SFF writers of modern times, Roger Zelazny wrote across a wide range of subgenres and themes, experimenting with form and story with mastery. He won many awar ...Show more
The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction Mill Valley, Marin County, California. Dr Miles Bennell has lived there all his life. But one day Miles sees a patient who claims her Uncle isn't himself. He's a different person, despite being identical in every way ex ...Show more
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the Patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the th ...Show more
The Circus of Dr Lao by Charles G. Finney
Category: Cult Fiction | Series: Fantasy Masterworks Ser.
To the residents of Abalone, Arizona, a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concern is surviving the Great Depression, the arrival of a circus in town is a chance to forget their woes for a while. But this is the circus of Dr. Lao and instead of relief, the townsfolk are confronted with an array creatu ...Show more
The Deathworld Omnibus - Deathworld, Deathworld Two, and Deathworld Three by Harry Harrison
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
The planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder. It was ...Show more
The Difference Engine by William Gibson; Bruce Sterling
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel With new commentary by the authors 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. Three ext ...Show more
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
"One of the greats....Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." - Stephen King From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust -- and the man who risks everything to reunite them. A bleak moon settled by uto ...Show more
The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach-and Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the "long sleep"-su ...Show more
The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A landmark book in the fields of science fiction and feminism. Four women living in parallel worlds, each with a different gender landscape. When they begin to travel to each other's worlds each woman's preconceptions on gender and what it means to be a woman are challenged. Acclaimed as one of the esse ...Show more
The Forever War (PB) by Joe Haldeman
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A futuristic masterpiece, "perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam" (Junot Díaz). In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic--inspiring a ...Show more
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
"Lively, thought-provoking . . . the plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . . . Tepper knows how to write a well-made, on-moving story with strong characters. . . . She takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative."--Ursula K. LeGuin, Los An ...Show more
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the destruction ...Show more