Classic science fiction

Brilliant government scientist Richard Seaton discovers a remarkable faster-than-light fuel that will power his interstellar spaceship, The Skylark.

One of the very best science fiction novels of all time.

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Roderick wasn't exactly happy, but at least he was holding down a job, even if it was only as a bowl-washer at Danton's Doggie Dinette.

Roderik is a robot and he's on the run in the USA of the very near future.

Wompler's Walking Babies once put Millford, Utah, on the map.

Towards the end of the twenty-first century 41 Worlds, small satellites with a total population of half a million, orbit the Earth, which has seen many changes, not least of which is a second revolution in America.

Over twelve generations the descendents of a space crash on a world completely covered in water had managed to adapt to their marine culture.

The Panarch of Pao is dead and Beran Panasper, his young son and heir, must flee the planet to live and avenge his father's death.

Big Planet is Jack Vance's first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "e;provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years"e;.

After attending a s ance, Maskull, a restless and rootless man, finds himself embarking on a journey to the planet Tormance, which orbits Arcturus.

On a far future Earth, mankind's achievements are immense: artificially intelligent robots, genetically uplifted animals, interplanetary travel, genetic modification of the human form itself.

This collection by Lucius Shepard, one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in the 1980s, includes the eponymous story Barnacle Bill the Spacer , about an attempted mutiny on a space station, which won the Hugo Award, as well as Sports in America , about a man who finds out just how far he is willing to go when he is hired by a local crime boss to kill a man.

Nearly twenty years ago Robert Silverberg began writing a monthly column of opinion and commentary, for Galileo Magazine, Amazing Stories, and then for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

For more than a thousand years, Homeworld has been unchanged: the Great Houses rule and peace between them is enforced by unbreakable webs of kinship.

Lew Nichols' business, at the end of the twentieth century, was stochastic prediction - high-powered guesswork.

In the mid-21st century, time travel is used to send political prisoners to Hawksbill Station, a prison camp in the late Cambrian Era.

Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe.

Science fiction writer Sanford Kvass has a problem.

The Outer limit.

First there was Della, the woman who wanted .

This collection contains 7 astounding journeys into tomorrow by John W.

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Three Mind-Jarring Space OperasMarooned:Four giant ships made of the wonder element synthium crash the asteroid belt and brave the cold of Jupiter's moons in mans last reckless dash to adventure.

Here are five adventures in planetary exploration capable of orbit the most Earthbound reader.

The Incredible Planet is John W.

When the sleepy town of Weyharrow is enveloped by a mysterious fog, the inhabitants find themselves behaving in strange and dangerous ways.

The interstellar Bridge System was the greatest invention in the long history of cosmic humanity.

CODE NAME POSTERThe first practical matter transmitter was a success, or so everyone thought.

He was the most dangerous fugitive alive, but he didn't exist!

He was 'The Visitor' .

Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe.

Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth.

Are there aliens among us?

The far-flung fingers of Earth's civilisation touched many corners of the galaxy, and among them was the beautiful planet Yan.

The time is the future.

A Pandora's box of evilFreitas had commanded the engineers of his vast, world-wide empire to build him a device that could ransack the past.

Matthew Flamen, the last of the networks' spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big story.

Inkosi - the magnificent RidgebackBruno and Hermetic Tradition - a pop-rock-mod group consisting in part of Bruno Twentyman, Cressida Beggarstaff, Gideon Hard, Liz, Nancy, Glenn and others.

It was carnival time on Earth.

She appeared in our world naked, defenceless, unable to say a word anyone could understand.

Ciudad de Vados was the pride of Latin America - a gleaming city of the future where only ten years before there had been barren rock and wasteland.

The Corps Galactica, the Galaxy's police force, had pledged itself to a policy of non-interference with the backward Zarathustra Refugee Planets.

By the twenty-first century the world was drowning in its own population.

When racial hatred turns to murderous menace .

'We won't be landing anywhere just yet', Waters said to the other passengers on the spaceship Fulmar.

Whether or not he had wanted to turn back at the last minute, he couldn't have - the wave of dirty, hungry people carried him helplessly along in their fervour reach the temple.

Howson was a runt.

The barrenland lay on the face of the world like a sore, nearly round, more than three hundred miles in circumference.

In the long twilight if a galactic empire, the old king is dying.