Classic science fiction

Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.

The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr Cavor.

A novel premise that comes out of left field but launches an oddly poignant adventure.

For more than 100 years, science fiction writers have told tales of alien encounters and fascinating technologies and warned of the dangers of dystopian governments.

On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently interupted.

It is the 22nd century on a parallel Earth.

Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation.

Philip Kindred Dick was born in 1928.

Philip Kindred Dick was born in 1928.

Herbert George Wells was born on 21st September 1866 in Bromley, Kent.

Herbert George Wells was born on 21st September 1866 in Bromley, Kent.

Herbert George Wells was born on 21st September 1866 in Bromley, Kent.

For over a hundred years, Aliens have been trying to take over the Earth, but every time they have failed, often in the most unlikely ways.

This encyclopedia is the most up-to-date, concise, clear and affordable guide to all aspects of science fiction, from its background to generic themes and devices, from authors (established and new) to films.

This volume, covering the period from the 1890s to the future, includes stories from founding fathers of the field like H.

A hundred years after the death of Jules Verne, the founding father of science fiction, The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures celebrates his amazing vision.

Ten classic stories from the birth of modern science fiction writingThe Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A.

Gallegher, the Mad Scientist who plays it by ear, is back!

As the title suggests this collection holds fifty-one of the kind of stories that helped make Lord Dunsany a fantasy legend.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

It was a cold winter's evening late in the Stone Age; the sun had gone down blazing over the plains of Thold; there were no clouds, only the chill blue sky and the imminence of stars; and the surface of the sleeping Earth began to harden against the cold of the night.

I do not know where I may be when this preface is read.

Where the great plain of Tarphet runs up, as the sea in estuaries, among the Cyresian mountains, there stood long since the city of Merimna well-nigh among the shadows of the crags.

Once when the gods were young and only Their swarthy servant Time was without age, the gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth.

"e;In the mists before THE BEGINNING, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: "e;Now make gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be Mine.

Collected here in this giant omnibus edition are twelve of Lord Dunsany's greatest books including 'The Gods of Pegana', 'Time and the Gods', 'The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories', 'A Dreamer's Tales', 'The Book of Wonder', 'Fifty-One Tales', 'The Last Book of Wonder', 'Tales of Three Hemispheres', 'Tales of War', 'Unhappy Far-Off Things', 'Plays of Gods and Men', 'Don Rodriguez Chronicles of Shadow Valley'.

They were just a Shakespearean troupe - they couldn't be connected with the Change Wars - or could they?

Joe Kenmore heard the airlock close with a sickening wheeze and then a clank.

Original Short Story: Chocolateland by Shariann Lewitt -When they wanted to eat, to really enjoy a good pig out, they could go to Chocolateland Short Story:Sleepers by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam -Where did they come from?

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Hugo and Wold Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine, brings you the very best in science fiction and fantasy.

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Hugo and Wold Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine, brings you the very best in science fiction and fantasy.

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Hugo and Wold Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine, brings you the very best in science fiction and fantasy.

It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin.

'The Mysterious Island' tells the exciting story of five Americans stranded on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.

Living in a kill or be killed world, they were two desperate scavengers in a no-man's land of radiation and death.

"e;As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr.

A 23rd century "e;time thief"e; uses a time machine to steal the Holy Grail from King Arthur's knights, but not everything goes according to plan.

A plantation owner on an alien world tracks the strange animal Cytha and gets a lesson in xeno-ecology.

The discovery of a second satellite leads to an Earth-men war on frog-vampires for the emancipation of the human cows of Earth's second satellite.

"e;I'm just looking at the Moon,"e; she said listlessly.

Two men receive a lot more than meal and a bed when they visit a tavern in the Black Forest, in this spooky story by Fantasy master Robert E.

A mythical demon and its ancient fortress are resurrected after the theft of a sacred dagger, and Conan is tricked into landing on the island, with many unexpected consequences in store.

Conan becomes a notorious pirate and plunders coastal villages alongside a head-strong femme fatale, after she spares him his life.

After rescuing a beautiful maiden, Conan escapes to a remote island where he encounters a skulking creature and mysterious iron statues, and is captured by pirates.

The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow.

Conan becomes the captain of a pirate vessel and encounters a remote island with a mysterious pool that has powers of transmutation.

Conan receives more attention than he needs in this wild adventure that nearly costs him his life.

Conan infiltrates a perilous tower in the City of Thieves in order to steal a fabled gem from an evil sorcerer.

Conan and his army walk into a bloody, treacherous trap, and Conan is condemned to a wizard's frightening dungeon, where he forges an improbable alliance with a former enemy.

Things are not going well for Conan after murdering King Numedides to seize the bloody crown of Aquilonia.