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Always Coming Home: SF Masterworks by Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh. But Always Coming Home is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes - Always Coming Home is no le ...Show more
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Category: Classics | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For he finds a population rendered blind and helpless by the spectacular meteor shower that filled the night sky, the evening before. But his relief is short-lived as he re ...Show more
Dreaming in Smoke by Tricia Sullivan
Category: No Category | 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
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Category: Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense. In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the ...Show more
Kairos by Gwyneth Jones
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
London. Early 21st Century. A Conservative government is in power in the UK, bringing increased wealth disparity, an ever-more militant police state, and rising civil discontent as the wealthy govern for themselves rather than the people. But BREAKTHRU - a pharmaceutical company turned religious cult - ...Show more
Land Under England by O'Neill Joseph
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
While searching for his missing father, Anthony Julian embarks on a terrifying journey into the Earth's interior. There he discovers a subterranean world, where descendants of the Roman Army suffer under a totalitarian regime in which individualism is completely obliterated by telepathic means. Refusing ...Show more
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Category: Fantasy | 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
Light by M.John Harrison
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Listed by the Guardian as one of the top 100 science fiction books of the 21st century. On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and ...Show more
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
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Originally published in 1984, this classic dystopian trilogy is a testament to the power of language and women's collective action. In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has long been repealed and women are only valued for their utility. The Earth's economy depends on an insular group of linguists who "bree ...Show more
Raft (Xeelee Sequence #1) by Stephen Baxter
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we kno ...Show more
The Best of Greg Egan by Greg Egan
Category: No Category | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificial intelligence, higher mathematics, science vs religio ...Show more