Classic science fiction

Women have long held a pivotal role in science fiction, shaping the genre with their innovative storytelling.

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Lights.

'It was a desert.

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1935, THE SECRET PEOPLE WAS JOHN WYNDHAM'S FIRST NOVEL'The Sun Bird was beginning to travel fast, close to the edge of the whirlpool.

Penguin reissues a work of classic science fiction from the revolutionary author of The Female Man - with a new introduction from Hari KunzruAn explosion in space, a starship stranded at the end of the universe, a group of strangers alone in a barren, alien wilderness.

In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances.

WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THE ALLIES HAD LOST THE WAR?

FROM THE CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS A disturbing post-nuclear apocalypse story of genetic mutation that explores the lengths the intolerant will go to keep themselves pure.

'Delany's works have become essential to the history of science fiction' New YorkerSamuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender.

'A liberating and lacerating critique of American racial madness, capitalism and white superiority .

'Hilarious SF satire.

'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K.

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writersWritten midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely.

The funny and moving story of the apocalypse - as seen from one small village in England'I loved this book, by turns funny and tragic .

'To that flash of semi-vision can be traced a full half of the horror which has ever since haunted us'An expedition to Antarctica goes horribly wrong as a group of explorers stumbles upon some mysterious ancient ruins, with devastating consequences.

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?

'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian'This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE.

Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and recount him spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae.

'I seemed to gaze upon a vast space, the limits of which extended far beyond my vision.

'I seemed to gaze upon a vast space, the limits of which extended far beyond my vision.

'I am going to sink it.

'I am going to sink it.

By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

'Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

'Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.

'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.

Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world.

'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers.

'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers.

'My next clear recollection is that we were prisoners at we knew not what depth beneath the moon's surface .

'My next clear recollection is that we were prisoners at we knew not what depth beneath the moon's surface .

'The man's become inhuman .

'The man's become inhuman .

'The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men.

'Cities, nations, civilization, progress-it's all over.

'Cities, nations, civilization, progress-it's all over.

'Tiptree's narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction's most vivid and influential bodies of work' The New York TimesThis landmark collection of short stories shows the feminist pioneer James Tiptree Jr.

The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time'We have given you life .

'Recalls Orwell's 1984 and Wells's The Time Machine .

'An original .

'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.

'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess'O what we ben!

'The greatest entertainer ever produced by science fiction' J.

'A beautiful book' Ursula K.

'Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction' The New York TimesWritten under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr.

'A kind of magical realism for science fiction .

'One of Japan's most venerated writers' David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find that strange guests, booby traps and a giant toilet may prove even greater obstacles than nuclear disaster.