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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
Transfigurations by Michael Bishop
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a strange, ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their almost-incomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning like pinwheels. Egon Chaney, in his anthropological study, 'Death and Designation Among the Asadi' has shown how thei ...Show more
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.f. Masterworks
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own ...Show more
Ubik: The reality bending science fiction masterpiece by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F.Masterworks
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own ti ...Show more
Valis by Philip K Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F.Masterworks
It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right. Part science fiction, part theological detective story ' in wh ...Show more
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's...' So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killi ...Show more
Wasp by Eric Frank Russell
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
The war had been going on for nearly a year and the Sirian Empire had a huge advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge. Which was where James Mowry came in. If a small insect buzzing around in a car could so distract the driver as to cause that vehicle to crash, think what havoc one pro ...Show more
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
The Sumner family can read the signs: the droughts and floods, the blighted crops, the shortages, the rampant diseases and plagues, and, above all, the increasing sterility all point to one thing. Their isolated farm in the Appalachian Mountains gives them the ideal place to survive the coming breakdown ...Show more
White Queen by Gwyneth Jones
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In the year 2038, the earth has been ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Retroviruses run rampant through humanity. Economic disaster has destabilised the world, the US has undergone a socialist revolution, and the balance of power has changed. Then the aliens arrive. With no clear understa ...Show more
Wind's Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the H ...Show more
Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the 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, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, a ...Show more