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Blood Music by Greg Bear
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Vergil Ulam's breakthrough in genetic engineering is considered too dangerous for further research. Rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scient ...Show more
Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Originally published in 1955 Jack Finney's sinister SF tale has outgrown the initial debate about whether it satirized Communism or the conformity of US society at the time, to become a classic of paranoia; an examination of our fear of 'the other'. Most people know the story from seeing THE INVASION OF ...Show more
Bring the Jubilee by Moore, Ward
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War. Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to that fateful turning point his actions change history as ...Show more
Cat's Cradle: Masterworks by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Experiment. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. ...Show more
Childhood's End (FS) by CLARKE Arthur C
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that ...Show more
China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post ...Show more
Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
David's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. And blasphemies, as everyone knows, should be burned: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT. Little does he realise that his own son - and his son's cousin Rosalind and ...Show more
Cities in Flight by James Blish
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
James Blish's galaxy-spanning masterwork, originally published in four volumes, explores a future in which two crucial discoveries - antigravity devices which enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and longevity drugs which enable their inhabitants to live for thousa ...Show more
Cities in Flight by James Blish
Category: Fiction | Series: S.F.Masterworks
James Blish's galaxy-spanning masterwork, originally published in four volumes, explores a future in which two crucial discoveries -- antigravity devices which enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and longevity drugs which enable their inhabitants to live for thous ...Show more
City by Clifford D. Simak
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself. But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smal ...Show more
Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards - not surpising with a contributors list that reads like a who's who ...Show more