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The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In a world drowning in data and information and choking on novelty and innovation, Nickie Haflinger - a most dangerous fugitive who doesn't even appear to exist - provides a window onto a global society falling apart in all directions, with madness run amok and personal freedom surrendered to computers ...Show more
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course ther ...Show more
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionWhen Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only g ...Show more
The Snail On The Slope by Arkady STRUGATSKY and Boris STRUGATSKY
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below. Except no one ever seems to go there, and his attempts only trap him further within the workings of this strange organisation. ENTER THE FOREST Candide ...Show more
The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat #1) by Harry Harrison
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic cops can do is make him one of their own.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, w ...Show more
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula. K Le Guin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence ...Show more
Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis by Connie Willis
Category: Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
This new collection of stories from the multi-award-winning author of DOOMSDAY BOOK and TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG contains: A Letter from the Clearys At the Rialto Death on the Nile The Soul Selects Her own Society Fire Watch Inside Job Even the Queen The Winds of Marble Arch All Seated on the Ground La ...Show more
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Hugo and Nebula Award-winning AuthorIn 2057 Oxford, historical research is conducted through travel to the past. Unfortunately, Lady Schrapnell has commandeered all researchers to locate items to restore the Coventry Cathedral. Our intrepid time traveler, Ned Henry, ...Show more
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
"Willis effortlessly juggles comedy of manners, chaos theory and a wide range of literary allusions [with a] near flawlessness of plot, character and prose."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable w ...Show more
Vermeer and the Dutch Masters by Flame Flame Tree (Created by); D. A. Morrison
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Today we marvel at the shimmering light, the detail and hidden significances within the subtle techniques of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Frans Hals and their compatriots. The luminescent art of the Dutch Masters grew from the bounding confidence of the newly independent Netherlands in the early 1600s. ...Show more
Vincent Van Gogh by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. We all know of Van Gogh's troubled g ...Show more