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Judgment Night: a Selection of Science Fiction by C. L. Moore
Category: No Category | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
Released in 1952, Judgment Night collects five Moore novellas from the pages of editor John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Astounding Science Fiction magazine: ''Judgment Night'' (first published in August and September, 1943) balances a lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the natu ...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
Leonardo Da Vinci - Art in the Era of the Medicis by Flame Tree Studio Staff (Created by); Rosalind Ormiston; Constance J. Moffatt (Foreword by)
Category: No Category | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of the Renaissance humanist ideal, a logical polymath of epic proportions who excelled and had interests not just in art but in invention, anatomy, architecture, engineering, literature, mathematics, music, science, astronomy and more. His oeuvre is astounding and he is ...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
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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
Nightbringer by Graham McNeill
Category: No Category | Series: Black Library Masterworks Ser.
Black Library presents the Masterworks - a curated collection of novels celebrating the very best science fiction and fantasy set in the worlds of Warhammer. Newly promoted to the captaincy of the Ultramarines Fourth Company, Uriel Ventris leads his warriors to the world of Pavonis, where vicious al ...Show more
Northwest of Earth by Moore C.L.
Category: No Category | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic bootlegger Northwest Smith still resonate strongly more than 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure halls of old Mars, the ...Show more
Raft (Xeelee Sequence #1) by Stephen Baxter
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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
Second Stage Lensmen (Lensman #5) by E.E. 'Doc' Smith
Category: No Category | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
Kim Kinnison, Number One man of his time, had faced challenges before - but rarely one as daunting as this. To him fell the perilous task of infiltrating the inner circle of Boskone, stronghold of galactic civilization's most deadly foe. Kinnison had to become a loyal Boskonian in every gesture, deed an ...Show more
Sidewise in Time by Murray Leinster
Category: No Category | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
Ten selected short stories from the master of pulp, Murray Leinster - pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, who's prolific career spanned the first six decades of the 20th Century. The Golden Age Masterwork of Sidewise in Time includes the Hugo Award-winning novella "Exploration Team". Full contents i ...Show more