Science fiction

R and R Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceDylan Hunt and the Crew of the Andromeda Ascendant have been fighting the good fight to re-establish the Systems Commonwealth.

Intelligent machines have long existed in science fiction, and they now appear in mainstream films such as Bladerunner, Ex Machina, I Am Mother and Her, as well as in a recent proliferation of literary texts narrated from the machine's perspective.

Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern.

ANew York TimesBestsellerFrom bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.

The Terraphiles are a group obsessed with Earth's past and dedicated to re-enacting ancient sporting events.

Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the most well-known science fiction novels of all time, and it is often revered alongside time-honored classics like The Lord of the Rings.

Die Götterkriege haben die Stadt Alikand in Trümmer gelegt.

Jarek Reen is trying to save a lost world.

Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the detective story.

A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.

Edgar Pangborn studied music at Harvard when just 15 years old, eventually turned his back on music to focus on his writing.

SOMETIMES THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN SOLVE YOUR MURDER IS YOU.

Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades.

The definitive guide and a must-have collection of the best short science fiction and speculative fiction of 2019, showcasing brilliant talent and examining the cultural moment we live in, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b.

International Bestseller!

Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature.

Deep in the heart of a hollowed-out moon the First Doctor finds a chilling secret: ten alien corpses, frozen in time at the moment of their death.

When Tomas Ramirez stumbles upon an extraterrestrial conspiracy to take over the world, his life is forever altered.

When technology solves the problems of energy, transportation, and physical health, the last problem to solve is humanity's spiritual unhappiness.

Sixteen original essays by leading scholars on Mary Shelley''s novel provide an introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts.

The new essays in this book make two central claims.

This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1826 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Professor Challenger series.

A quick-playing, rules-light skirmish wargame of Horror hunting set in a bleak sci-fi world on the brink of impending doom.

This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting.

The birth of modern fantasy in 1930s Britain and America saw the development of new literary and film genres.

»Der Himmel über dem Hafen hatte die Farbe eines Fernsehers, der auf einen toten Kanal geschaltet war.

This companion to Frank Herbert's six original Dune novels--Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune--provides an encyclopedia of characters, locations, terms and other elements, and highlights the series' underrated aesthetic integrity.

Science fiction has long been a haven for lesbian writers, allowing them to use the genre to discuss their marginalized status.

This is a classic science fiction novella by Stanley G.

"e;An almost unheard-of diversity of tales absolutely sing in this superlative anthology"e; with stories by Samuel R.

When editor Joseph Fraser is asked to publish the diaries of a local merchant, he can hardly believe what he is reading.

The thrilling conclusion to the brilliant trilogy set on a distant world among the stars.

'Another sizzling space epic to entice, excite and tease.

An all-new Star Trek technical manual of the legendary Klingon Bird of Prey, presented in the world-renowned Haynes Manual format!

Magnolia Woodson wants nothing more than to get her and her sister, Rose, out of the pitifully small, clamming-obsessed Oregon town that hates themshe just doesnt know how.

Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show's main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment.

This early work by H.

The Doctor has been to Det-Sen Monastery before, and expects the welcome of a lifetime.

BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history .

The fantastic first book in the Sunday Times bestselling Science of Discworld seriesWhen a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic.

From John Reed, author of the controversial Orwell parody, Snowball's Chance, comes a subversive satire of modern culture, the complete lack thereof, and a lost generation that no one even tried to look for.

Zona Alfa is a set of simple, fast-play skirmish rules for scavenging, exploring, and surviving in a near-future, post-apocalyptic Eastern European setting.

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Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant--a mighty vessel of the Systems Commonwealth that encompassed three galaxies-- finds himself a man out of time.

Confluence - a long, narrow, artificial world, half fertile river valley, half crater-strewn desert.