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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 Space Merchants by Kornbluth Cyril
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who ...Show more
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class. EDUCATION: none SKILLS: none MERITS: none RECOMMENDATIONS: none That's the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman. But right now he is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship, and when another space vessel, the Vorga, ignores his dis ...Show more
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 Time Machine: SF Masterworks by Wells, H.G.
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time.THE ...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
This is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When tombstone engraver George Paxman is offered a bargain, he doesn't hesitate. His beloved daughter gets an otherwise unaffordable survival suit to protect her from radioactive fall-out and all George has to do is sign a document admitting that, as a passive citizen who did nothing to stop it, he has ...Show more
Time Machine by WELLS H G
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time. THE ...Show more
Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day -- and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life -- indeed his whole world -- is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of kee ...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
Timescape by Gregory Benford
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
1962: A young Californian scientist finds his experiments spoiled by mysterious interference. Gradually his suspicions lead him to a shattering truth: scientists from the end of the century are using subatomic particles to send a message into the past, in the hope that history can be changed and a world ...Show more