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The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The year is 2110. Humankind is entering a new golden age.But when an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky, he sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization.While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a ...Show more
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionArthur Dent thought his day was going badly when someone tried to demolish his house.Then someone demolished his planet.Rescued by his friend Ford - who is not a human from Guilford, but an alien from somewhere in the vi ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction When Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a tropical island, he is surprised to find he has company in the form of Dr Moreau. Driven out of Britain in disgrace, Dr Moreau has decided to explore his science in peace and iso ...Show more
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
'Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their centre ... Literature will miss her. There's no one like her' Zadie Smith'Le Guin is a w ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The remarkable novel upon which the stunning cult film was based.'Beautiful ... The story of an extraterrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one' NEW YORK TIMESThomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devast ...Show more
The Outward Urge by John Wyndham
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
The 'outward urge' was a factor in the Troon inheritance. Successive generations of Troons, looking up at the stars, heard the siren voices that called them out into Space. And, as the frontiers of Space receded, there was usually one Troon, if not more, out there, helping to push them back.In an age in ...Show more
The Riddle-Master's Game by Patricia A. McKillip
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Fantasy Masterworks Ser.
Morgon, Prince of Hed, wants only to rule and work the land of his birth as best he can, but he is faced by a very different challenge from that of his ancestors. The stars have marked him out and he must wander strange, foreign lands full of untamed magic, and confront riddling wraiths and mysterious h ...Show more
The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
It is the twenty-first century. On Mars a dedicated group of pioneers - among them some of Earth's finest brains - struggle to change the face of the planet . . . Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red Planet. It's a dream come true - until he ...Show more
The Second Chronicles of Amber - SF Masterworks Collection by Roger Zelazny
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Merlin is a Prince of Chaos and Amber, Corwin's son and heir. He has grown up knowing that his legacy is to one day follow in his father's footsteps, live up to his father's legend.When Corwin goes missing, that day comes far sooner than he could ever have expected. Merlin must find his own identity as ...Show more
The Secret of Life by Paul McAuley
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
2026: Something is growing in the Pacific Ocean. "The Slick" appears to be a strange, fungus-like organism, but its DNA is unlike anything else on the planet. Rumours start to fly. Was life discovered deep beneath the Martian icecaps on a recent Chinese space mission? If it was, no-one is confirming i ...Show more