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The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Category: No Category | Series: Fantasy Masterworks
Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies and con ...Show more
The Book Of The New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his anc ...Show more
The Book of the New Sun: Volume 2: Sword and Citadel by Gene Wolfe
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. The torturer's apprentice, Severian, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners, is now the Lictor of Thrax, a city far distant from his h ...Show more
The City And The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then, as legend had it, The invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, ...Show more
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Category: No Category | Series: S.F.Masterworks
In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that...Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate, has devised the ultimate scheme to eliminate t ...Show more
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
"One of the greats....Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." - Stephen King From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust -- and the man who risks everything to reunite them. A bleak moon settled by uto ...Show more
The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach-and Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the "long sleep"-su ...Show more
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion #2) by Dan Simmons
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks - Hyperion
The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying seige to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean a ...Show more
The Forever War (PB) by Joe Haldeman
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A futuristic masterpiece, "perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam" (Junot Díaz). In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic--inspiring a ...Show more
The Invisible Man: SF Masterworks by Wells, H.G.
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
THE INVISIBLE MAN tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatever action is necessary to keep his incredible discovery safe, he terrorises the local village where he has sought refuge. Wells skilfully weaves the themes of science, terro ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more