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Art Nouveau: Posters, Illustration & Fine Art from the Glamorous Fin de Siecle by ROSALIND ORMISTON
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
This beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of Art Deco's expression through the graphic arts and illustration. Divided into three sections - the movement, its fashion and advertising - the reader gains great insight into the artists and innovators that helped popularize the Art Deco movement, su ...Show more
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built hum ...Show more
Erte: Art Deco Master of Graphic Art & Illustration by James Peacock; Rosalind Ormiston; Ray Perman (Foreword by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Perhaps no individual is more associated with the 20th century art deco revival than Russian-born French artist and designer, Ert . Although his talent spanned many creative fields, Erte is perhaps best-known for his theatre and fashion designs, which were often later translated into beautiful silkscree ...Show more
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man. On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of ga ...Show more
Louis Comfort Tiffany Masterworks by Camilla de la Bédoyère
Category: No Category | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Louis Comfort Tiffany was highly skilled in jewellery design, as well as ceramics, enamels, and metalwork. However, he is best known for his beautiful stained-glass designs. Using opalescent glass in a variety of colours and textures, he created a stunning range of jewel-like Art Nouveau works. Admire a ...Show more
Neuromancer: The groundbreaking cyberpunk thriller by William Gibson
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler, former hack and 'console cowboy' who crashed and burned. His nerves were damaged and thus cut off from the digital matrix, he slouches through life.Until he meets Molly, an augmented 'razorgirl', who offers him a deal on behalf of a shadowy man called Armitage. ...Show more
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel --"a stone-cold classic" of hard sci-fi (The Guardian). An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore ...Show more
Revelation Space (Revelation Space #1) by Alastair Reynolds
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a winged Amarantin. For ...Show more
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
For use in schools and libraries only. A two-headed creature and a large, red-furred carnivore are among the members of a party that arrives to explore a mysterious world created in the shape of a ring.
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Category: No Category | Series: Fantasy Masterworks Ser.
It's All Hallow's Eve, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to town. Hear the music, see the lights, shrug off life's worries and enter a place where dreams are not dreams, and wishes can be real. All this awaits two boys trembling on the brink of manhood. But entering the smoke, maz ...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