Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.f. Masterworks
It is a mysterious city whose sun is switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advi ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third title in Douglas Adams' blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war.Following a number of stunning catastrophes, which have involved him being alternately blown up and insulted in ever stranger regions of ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His jo ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in ma ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Riftwar Saga Ser.
Magician, available in ebook for the first time, is a masterwork of magic and adventure. The whole of the magnificent Riftwar Cycle, by bestselling author Raymond E. Feist, is now available in ebook The world had changed even before I discovered the foreign ship wrecked on the shore below Crydee Castle, ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction | Series: The Lord of the Rings
Concluding the story of The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkien s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien s own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spre ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction
For use in schools and libraries only. The sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit plots to seize control of the galaxy-wide empire of their supernatural leader.
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Discworld
ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice * ALA Notable Children's Book "Pratchett's unique blend of comedy and articulate insight is at its vibrant best. Full of rich humor, wisdom, and eventfulness." --Horn Book (starred review) By beloved and bestselling Terry Pratche ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Bas-Lag
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos c ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction | Series: His Dark Materials
This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven't appeared yet . . . Two years after the conclusion of The Amber Spyglass, Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon sit high on the roof of Jor ...Show more
Category: Science Fiction | 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 ...Show more
