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Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Kalypso Deed is a shotgun, riding the interface between the AI Ganesh and human scientists who solve problems through cyber-assisted Dreams. But she's young and a little careless; she'd rather mix drinks and play jazz. Azamat Marcsson is a colourless statistician: middle-aged, boring, and obsessed with ...Show more
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Imagine what it would be like if you could tell what the innermost thoughts and feelings of those around you were. Imagine if, as you reached middle age, you lost that ability. What would it do to you to be like everyone else?
Dying of the Light by George R. R. Martin
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A whisperjewel from Gwen Delvano calls Dirk t'Larien across space and beyond the Tempter's Veil to Worlorn, a dying Festival planet of rock and ice. Warlorn is slowly drifting through twilight to neverending night; as the planet sinks into darkness, so its inhabitants face annihilation. Seven years ago, ...Show more
Earth Abides by George.R. Stewart
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounter ...Show more
Emphyrio by Jack Vance
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks
Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy. But they know little of this. Their society is harshly regimented, its religion austere and unforgiving, and primitive -- to maintain standards, even the most basic use of automation is punishab ...Show more
Eon by Greg Bear
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F.Masterworks
Above our planet hangs a hollow Stone, vast as the imagination of Man. The inner dimensions are at odds with the outer: there are different chambers to be breached, some even containing deserted cities. The furthest chamber contains the greatest mystery ever to confront the Stone's scientists. But tombs ...Show more
Feersum Endjinn SF Masterwork by Iain M. Banks
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ...Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones...And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt...And everything is about to change ...Show more
First Born by Maureen Duffy
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
1981. A different Britain. When Norman Forrester of the Defence Ministry's Experimental Institute effects a successful fertilisation of a female gorilla with human sperm, an infant is born. Gordon, known as Gor, is his son in two senses. But Gor's parentage must remain a secret. He has no legal existenc ...Show more
Floating Worlds by Cecelia Holland
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
The Styths, a powerful and aggressive mutant race from the Gas Planets, Uranus and Saturn, have been launching pirate raids on ships from Mars. Earth's Committee for the Revolution has been asked to mediate, to negotiate a truce between the Middle Planets and the Styth Empire. The task of conducting the ...Show more
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Dick, Philip K.
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people ' and he's the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he's a nobody ...Show more
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an ...Show more
Flowers For Algernon: The must-read literary science fiction masterpiece by Daniel Keyes
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transforma ...Show more