Life, The Universe And Everything Douglas Adams (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
20 Apr 2017
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h197mm x w140mm x s20mm 252g ISBN13: 9781473222175 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2217-5 ISBN10: 1473222176 EAN: 9781473222175 x Description: Only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of the total annihilation of the universe. They are Arthur Dent, homeless Englishman currently marooned in the deep past; his friend Ford Prefect, temporarily insane to see if he likes it, also marooned; Slartibartfast, once of the planet builders of Magrathea; Zaphod Beeblebrox, ex-confidence trickster and part-time galactic president; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. In other words: we're doomed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Douglas Adams (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Pub Date:
10 May 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h200mm x w130mm x s20mm 240g ISBN13: 9780575115347 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11534-7 ISBN10: 0575115343 EAN: 9780575115347 x Description: One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very large and startling place indeed ...The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy became a massive cult success when it was first published and continues to sell all over the world. It introduced such memorable characters as Arthur Dent, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Zaphod Beeblebrox and, of course, the Vogons, and remains one of the funniest, most irreverent and entertaining novels ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
28 Nov 2013
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h205mm x w136mm x s20mm 279g ISBN13: 9781473200661 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0066-1 ISBN10: 1473200660 EAN: 9781473200661 x Description: If your planet has been destroyed to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, your best friend turns out to be from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse (and not Guilford, as you'd thought), and you find yourself in the company of a two-headed man who also happens to be the president of the galaxy, and a beautiful girl you utterly failed to connect with at a party in a city that no longer exists ... you probably shouldn't be surprised to find yourself having breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cryptozoic! Brian Aldiss (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Nov 2017
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h197mm x w130mm x s18mm 224g ISBN13: 9781473222731 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2273-1 ISBN10: 1473222737 EAN: 9781473222731 x Description: In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called 'mind-travelling'. Artist Edward Bush returns from a lengthy 'trip' to the Jurassic period to find the government overthrown by an authoritarian regime. Given his mindtravel experience, he is recruited by the new regime to track down and assassinate a scientist whose ideas threaten to topple the status quo. However, the job of an artist is not to take orders but to ask questions . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Greybeard Brian Aldiss (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Mar 2011
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h196mm x w128mm x s22mm 220g ISBN13: 9780575071131 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07113-1 ISBN10: 0575071133 EAN: 9780575071131 x Description: Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in their quest for the scarcest and most precious of resources: human children. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Non-Stop Brian Aldiss (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Sep 2000
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h196mm x w128mm x s22mm 227g ISBN13: 9781857989984 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-998-4 ISBN10: 1857989988 EAN: 9781857989984 x Description: Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten.Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped territory, where they make a series of discoveries which turn their universe upside-down ...Non-Stop is the classic SF novel of discovery and exploration; a brilliant evocation of a familiar setting seen through the eyes of a primitive. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tau Zero Poul Anderson (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Feb 2006
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h197mm x w130mm x s15mm 176g ISBN13: 9780575077324 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07732-4 ISBN10: 0575077328 EAN: 9780575077324 x Description: Fifty men and women set out in the twenty-third century from Earth aboard an interstellar craft to travel to a planet some thirty light-years away. The ship will approach the speed of light and so (as Einstein predicted) subjective time on board will slow and so the journey of several decades will be of much shorter duration for the crew.But the ship's deceleration system is irreparably damaged when it hits a cloud of interstellar dust and acceleration continues toward light speed, tau zero. Soon the ship is speeding through galaxies and eons are passing on board the ship in the blink of an eye ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Broken Sword Poul Anderson (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Aug 2014
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h198mm x w128mm x s22mm 240g ISBN13: 9781473205444 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0544-4 ISBN10: 1473205441 EAN: 9781473205444 x Description: The sword Tyrfing has been broken to prevent it striking at the roots of Yggdrasil, the great tree that binds earth, heaven and hell together ... But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves, who are heavily involved in their war against the trolls, and only Skafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade the mighty ice-giant, Bolverk, to make the sword Thor broke whole again. But things are never easy, and along the way Skafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling, who took his place in the world of men.A superb dark fantasy of the highest, and most Norse, order. THE BROKEN SWORD is a fantasy masterpiece. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Jun 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h198mm x w141mm x s22mm 245g ISBN13: 9780575129054 ISBN13: 978-0-575-12905-4 ISBN10: 0575129050 EAN: 9780575129054 x Description: In the year 2100, the invention of the Electron Pump - an apparently inexhaustible supply of free energy - has enabled humanity to devote its time and energies to more than the struggle for survival, finally breaking free of the Earth. But the Electron Pump works by exchanging materials with a parallel universe, and such unbalancing of the cosmos has consequences. Humans and aliens alike must race to prevent a vast nuclear explosion in the heart of the Sun - and the vaporisation of the Earth exactly eight minutes later ...
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Life During Wartime J.G. Ballard (Author) Lucius Shepard (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Jun 2015
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h196mm x w132mm x s30mm 300g ISBN13: 9781473211933 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1193-3 ISBN10: 147321193X EAN: 9781473211933 x Description: In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive amongst the rotting vegetation and his despairing fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an endless war. On R & R a few miles away from the warzone he meets Debora - an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy - and stumbles into a deadly psychic conflict where the mind is the greatest weapon. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Half Past Human T. J. Bass (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2014
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h196mm x w128mm x s22mm 240g ISBN13: 9780575129627 ISBN13: 978-0-575-12962-7 ISBN10: 057512962X EAN: 9780575129627 x Description: A novel of dystopian future in the tradition of SOYLENT GREEN and H.G. Wells' THE TIME MACHINE, with an introduction by Ken MacLeodTinker was a good citizen of the Hive - a model worker. But when he was allowed sexual activation he found Mu Ren who, like him, harboured forbidden genes. And so began the cataclysm.But in a world where half-wild humans are hunted for sport - and food - can anyone overthrow the Hive? Greater by far than its stunted, pink-blooded citizens, the Hive is more than prepared to rise and crush anyone who challenges its supremacy ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Godwhale T. J. Bass (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Mar 2014
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 304pp h197mm x w130mm x s24mm 269g ISBN13: 9780575129931 ISBN13: 978-0-575-12993-1 ISBN10: 057512993X EAN: 9780575129931 x Description: A post-apocalyptic dystopian fable by the acclaimed author of HALF PAST HUMAN, with an introduction by Ken MacLeodRorqual Maru was a cyborg - part organic whale, part mechanised ship - and part god. She was a harvester - a vast plankton rake, now without a crop, abandoned by earth society when the seas died. So she selected an island for her grave, hoping to keep her carcass visible for salvage.Although her long ear heard nothing, she believed that man still lived in his hive. If he should ever return to the sea, she wanted to serve. She longed for the thrill of a human's bare feet touching the skin of her deck. She missed the hearty hails, the sweat and the laughter.She needed mankind. But all humans were long gone ... or were they?
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Raft Stephen Baxter (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jul 2018
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h196mm x w132mm x s24mm 222g ISBN13: 9781473224056 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2405-6 ISBN10: 1473224055 EAN: 9781473224056 x Description: 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 know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree - just one of the many strange local lifeforms carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. And what he finds will change his world... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blood Music Greg Bear (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h197mm x w132mm x s22mm 240g ISBN13: 9781857987621 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-762-1 ISBN10: 1857987624 EAN: 9781857987621 x Description: In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eon Greg Bear (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Apr 2002
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 512pp h199mm x w130mm x s32mm 369g ISBN13: 9780575073166 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07316-6 ISBN10: 0575073160 EAN: 9780575073166
x Description: The furthest chamber contains the greatest mystery ever to confront the Stone's scientists. But tombstone or milestone, the Stone is not an alien structure: it comes from the future of our humantity. And the war that breaks out on Earth seems to bear witness to the Stone's prowess as oracle . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eternity Greg Bear (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
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Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Dec 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h131mm x w200mm x s23mm 236g ISBN13: 9780575096844 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09684-4 ISBN10: 0575096845 EAN: 9780575096844 x Description: Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Greg Bear returns to the Earth of his acclaimed novel Eon - a world devastated by nuclear warThe crew of the asteroid-starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by the Jarts by severing their link to the Way, an endless corridor that spans universes. The asteroid settled into orbit around Earth and the tunnel snaked away, forming a contained universe of its own.Forty years later, on Gaia, Rhita Vaskayza recklessly pursues her legacy, seeking an Earth once again threatened by forces from within and without. For physicist Konrad Korzenowski, murdered for creating The Way, and resurrected, is compelled by a faction determined to see it opened once more. And humankind will discover just how entirely they have underestimated their ancient adversaries. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Forge Of God Greg Bear (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2025
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781473222663 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2266-3 ISBN10: 1473222664 EAN: 9781473222663 x Description: On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone.On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of Death Valley. A cinder cone was left off the map. Could it be new? Or, stranger yet, could it be artificial? The answer may be lying beside it-a dying Guest who brings devastating news for Edward and for Planet Earth.As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globe-a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the earth's core, flashes of light among the asteroids-it becomes clear to some that the end is approaching, and there is nothing we can do.Facing the destruction of all they know, some people turn to God, others to their families, and a few turn to saviors promising escape from a planet being torn apart. Will they make it in time? And who gets left behind to experience the last moments of beauty and chaos on earth? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Demolished Man Alfred Bester (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Jul 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h196mm x w133mm x s21mm 239g ISBN13: 9781857988222 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-822-2 ISBN10: 1857988221 EAN: 9781857988222 x Description: In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that ...Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate, has devised the ultimate scheme to eliminate the competition and destroy the order of his society. The Demolished Man is a masterpiece of imaginative suspense, set in a superbly imagined world in which everything has changed except the ancient instinct for murder. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h135mm x w200mm x s20mm 222g ISBN13: 9780575094192 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09419-2 ISBN10: 0575094192 EAN: 9780575094192 x Description: Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class.EDUCATION: noneSKILLS: none MERITS: noneRECOMMENDATIONS: noneThat's the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman.But right now he is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship, and when another space vessel - the Vorga - ignores his distress flares and sails by, Gully becomes obsessed with revenge. He endures 170 days alone in deep space before finding refuge on the Sargasso Asteroid and returning to Earth to track down the crew and owners of the Vorga. But, as he works out his murderous grudge, Gully Foyle also uncovers a secret of momentous proportions ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Enemy But Time Michael Bishop (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Aug 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h197mm x w131mm x s25mm 266g ISBN13: 9780575093119 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09311-9 ISBN10: 0575093110 EAN: 9780575093119 x Description: Joshua Kampa is torn between two worlds - the Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the 20th-century reality of his waking life. These worlds are transposed when a government experiment sends him over a million years back in time. Here, John builds a new life as part of a tribe of protohumans. But the reality of early Africa is much more challenging than his fantasies. With the landscape, the species, and John himself evolving, he reaches a temporal crossroads where he must decide whether the past or the future will be his present.
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Transfigurations Michael Bishop (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Nov 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 234g ISBN13: 9780575093096 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09309-6 ISBN10: 0575093099 EAN: 9780575093096 x Description: In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a strange, ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their almostincomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning like pinwheels. Egon Chaney, in his anthropological study, 'Death and Designation Among the Asadi' has shown how their life-style has apparently degenerated from a level of complex technological sophistication and devolved to a primal simplicity. Long after his disappearance in the forest, his daughter, Elegy Cather, comes to Bosk Veld to carry on his studies of the Asadi where he left off. With her is an intelligent ape, Kretzoi, physically adapted to resemble the aliens. Together with Thomas Benedict, Chaney's old partner, Elegy begins to unravel the enigma of the Asadi. As Kretzoi insinuates himself into their rituals, so we are drawn into what is perhaps the most convincing portrayal of the alien yet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Case Of Conscience James Blish (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
15 May 2014
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h196mm x w132mm x s16mm 183g ISBN13: 9781473205437 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0543-7 ISBN10: 1473205433 EAN: 9781473205437 x Description: Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez S.J., is a part of a four man scientific commission to the planet Lithia, there to study a harmonious society of aliens living on a planets which is a biologist's paradise. He soon finds himself troubled: how can these perfect beings, living in an apparent Eden, have no conception of sin or God? If such a sinless Eden has been created apart from God, then who is responsible?Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1959. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cities In Flight James Blish (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 640pp h196mm x w130mm x s42mm 500g ISBN13: 9780575094178 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09417-8 ISBN10: 0575094176 EAN: 9780575094178 x Description: James Blish's galaxy-spanning masterwork, originally published in four volumes, explores a future in which two crucial discoveries antigravity devices which enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and longevity drugs which enable their inhabitants to live for thousands of years - lead to the establishment of a unique Galactic empire.
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The Long Tomorrow Leigh Brackett (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Apr 2014
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h196mm x w129mm x s19mm 244g ISBN13: 9780575131569 ISBN13: 978-0-575-13156-9 ISBN10: 057513156X EAN: 9780575131569 x Description: 'No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.' - Thirtieth Amendment to the Constitution of the United StatesTwo generations after the nuclear holocaust, rumours persisted about a secret desert hideaway where scientists worked with dangerous machines and where men plotted to revive the cities.Almost a continent away, Len Coulter heard whisperings that fired his imagination. Then one day he found a strange wooden box... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h196mm x w128mm x s26mm 247g ISBN13: 9781473212046 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1204-6 ISBN10: 1473212049 EAN: 9781473212046 x Description: It's the week before Hallowe'en, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled . . .And as two boys trembling on the brink of manhood set out to explore the mysteries of the dark carnival's smoke, mazes and mirrors, they will also discover the true price of innermost wishes . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2020
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h196mm x w128mm x s24mm 257g ISBN13: 9781473230583 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3058-3 ISBN10: 1473230586 EAN: 9781473230583 x Description: It's All Hallow's Eve, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to town.Hear the music, see the lights, shrug off life's worries and enter a place where dreams are not dreams, and wishes can be real.All this awaits two boys trembling on the brink of manhood. But entering the smoke, mazes and mirrors, they will discover that not all dreams are worth the cost that must be paid . . .Ray Bradbury's seminal tale of life in small-town America is as prescient today as it was sixty years ago. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stand On Zanzibar John Brunner (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Dec 2014
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 672pp h198mm x w127mm x s39mm 470g ISBN13: 9781473206373 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0637-3 ISBN10: 1473206375 EAN: 9781473206373 x Description: There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st-century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes ... all the hysteria of a dangerously overcrowded world, portrayed in a dazzlingly inventive style.Moving, sensory, impressionistic, as jagged as the times it portrays, this book is a real mind stretcher - and yet beautifully orchestrated to give a vivid picture of the whole. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Shockwave Rider John Brunner (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 304pp h198mm x w130mm x s24mm 260g ISBN13: 9781473228306 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2830-6 ISBN10: 1473228301 EAN: 9781473228306 x Description: In a world drowning in data and information and choking on novelty and innovation, Nickie Haflinger - a most dangerous fugitive who doesn't even appear to exist - provides a window onto a global society falling apart in all directions, with madness run amok and personal freedom surrendered to computers and bureaucrats. Caught and about to be re-programmed, can he escape once again, defy the government and turn the tide of organizational destruction? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rogue Moon Algis Budrys (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2012
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h196mm x w132mm x s15mm 168g ISBN13: 9780575108004 ISBN13: 978-0-575-10800-4 ISBN10: 0575108002 EAN: 9780575108004 x Description: Shortlisted for the 1961 Hugo Award, Rogue Moon is the disquieting and story of what happens when monstrous scientific ambition is matched by human obsession.The moon had finally been reached, and on it was found the most terrifying structure, that killed men over and over again, in torturous, unfathomable ways. Clearly, only a mad man or a suicidal maniac could explore its horrible secrets.All his life, Al Barker has toyed with death. So when the US lunar programme needs a volunteer to penetrate a murderous labyrinth, alien to all human comprehension, Barker's the man to do it. But what is required of Barker is that he withstand the trauma of dying, not just once, but time and time and time again ...
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Stories of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
17 Mar 2022
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 624pp h198mm x w129mm 41g ISBN13: 9781473234826 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3482-6 ISBN10: 1473234824 EAN: 9781473234826 x Description: John Carter, veteran of the American Civil War, finds himself transported from Arizona to Mars when hiding from attackers in a secret cave. The inhabitants greet him, referring to the planet as Barsoom, and Carter finds that he has superhuman strength and agility due to the different gravity of this new world. After joining the nomadic tribe of green, six-limbed Martians called Tharks, he rises through the ranks and earns the respect and friendship of one of the chiefs. Until, that is, the Tharks capture Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium and a member of the red, humanoid Martians. Rescuing Dejah Thoris, Carter attempts to return her to her people, finding himself at the centre of a conflict that reaches across Martian society, all while falling in love. Can he save Barsoom? What of Earth? Does he want to return, or would he rather stay with Dejah Thoris?A Princess of Mars was first serialised in 1912, and to celebrate its centenary we have collected it and its two sequels - The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars - in this beautiful Golden Age Masterwork. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fools Pat Cadigan (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h196mm x w130mm x s28mm 280g ISBN13: 9781473226029 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2602-9 ISBN10: 1473226023 EAN: 9781473226029 x Description: Warning: Personalities for Sale.All the World's a role.In a world of brainsuckers and bodysnatchers, you can't take anything for granted. Not even your own identity.When Marva, a struggling Method actress, wakes up in a hologram pool in an exclusive priv club with fancy new clothes and plenty of money, she knows something is strange. When a memory of a murder starts tugging at her, she knows something is very strange, and that she'd better find out whose life she's living. Fast.Pursued by assassins from a mysterious Escort Service and renegade mind-pirates of every description, Marva must venture into the seamy Downs to find out who wrote the script of the most difficult role of her career.Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1995 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who Goes There John W. Campbell (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Dec 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h200mm x w135mm x s19mm 221g ISBN13: 9780575091030 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09103-0 ISBN10: 0575091037 EAN: 9780575091030 x
Description: A group of scientists. An object buried under the ice. A terrifying fight for survival.When a group of scientific researchers, isolated in Antarctica, stumble across an alien spaceship buried in the ice it seems like an incredible opportunity. The alien pilot can just be seen - a shadowy figure frozen just a short depth into the ice. It looks as though he survived the crash only to be flash-frozen on the Antarctic plateau.The team fight the frozen conditions to free the ship from the ice - with disastrous consequences - and rescue the alien. As they transport the corpse, one of their greatest finds, out on the ice back to their camp, several scientists begin to experience extraordinary, vivid and unsettling dreams. They're dismissed as the product of stress and the harsh conditions ... but the nightmare is only beginning. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
RUR & War with the Newts Karel Capek (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h197mm x w132mm x s24mm 260g ISBN13: 9780575099456 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09945-6 ISBN10: 0575099453 EAN: 9780575099456 x Description: Written against the background of the rise of Nazism, War With the Newts concerns the discovery in the South Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, which is enslaved and exploited by mankind. In time they rebel, laying siege to the strongholds of their former masters in a global war for supremacy.R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots, seen by many as a modern interpretation of the 'golem' myth, is regarded as the most important play in the history of SF. It introduced the word 'robot' and gave the genre one of its most enduring tropes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Fall of Moondust Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h196mm x w128mm x s20mm 213g ISBN13: 9780575073173 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07317-3 ISBN10: 0575073179 EAN: 9780575073173 x Description: Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A FALL OF MOONDUST is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension by the field's foremost author.Shortlisted for the Hugo Award, 1963. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Against the Fall of Night Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 160pp h197mm x w127mm x s11mm 138g ISBN13: 9781473222342 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2234-2 ISBN10: 1473222346 EAN: 9781473222342
x Description: In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one child, Alvin - only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar - finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city walls. Even though he knows the Invaders, who devastated the world, may still be out there...Later rewritten, expanded and republished as The City and the Stars, this early novella by one of the greats of science fiction remains a powerful and evocative depiction of the future of humanity... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Childhood's End Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
17 Jun 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h200mm x w130mm x s24mm 300g ISBN13: 9780575082359 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08235-9 ISBN10: 0575082356 EAN: 9780575082359 x Description: Arthur C. Clarke's classic in which he ponders humanity's future and possible evolutionWhen the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that humankind could now cope with, and an era of peace, prosperity and endless leisure began.But the children of this utopia dream strange dreams of distant suns and alien planets, and begin to evolve into something incomprehensible to their parents, and soon they will be ready to join the Overmind ... and, in a grand and thrilling metaphysical climax, leave the Earth behind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Earthlight Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h196mm x w130mm x s14mm 182g ISBN13: 9781473222373 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2237-3 ISBN10: 1473222370 EAN: 9781473222373 x Description: The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Outer space inhabitants have formed a new political entity, the Federation, and between the Federation and Earth a growing rivalry has developed. EARTHLIGHT is the story of this emerging conflict.Two centuries from now there may be men who do not owe allegiance to any nation on Earth, or even to Earth itself. This brilliant story tells of a time when man stands upon the moon and the planets, tells of men now divided by the vast stretches of the Solar System but once again torn by jealousy and fear. With vaulting imagination Arthur C. Clarke describes life on the strange, awe-inspiring surface of the moon, scene of a most fantastic and exciting contest of arms. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rendezvous With Rama Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Apr 2006
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h196mm x w130mm x s24mm 220g ISBN13: 9780575077331 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07733-1 ISBN10: 0575077336 EAN: 9780575077331 x Description: The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all timeRama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a technological marvel, a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artefact.It is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated ...Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1974Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1973Winner of the JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD for best novel, 1974Winner of the BSFA AWARD for best novel, 1973 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The City And The Stars Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Mar 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h195mm x w131mm x s19mm 220g ISBN13: 9781857987638 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-763-8 ISBN10: 1857987632 EAN: 9781857987638 x Description: Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novelMen had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars.But then, as legend has it, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fountains Of Paradise Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h197mm x w133mm x s21mm 226g ISBN13: 9781857987218 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-721-8 ISBN10: 1857987217 EAN: 9781857987218 x Description: One of Clarke's most famous and acclaimed novels, winner of both the HUGO AWARD and the NEBULA AWARDIn the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind of space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1980Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1979
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The Sands of Mars Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h196mm x w129mm x s18mm 225g ISBN13: 9781473222366 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2236-6 ISBN10: 1473222362 EAN: 9781473222366 x Description: It is the twenty-first century. On Mars a dedicated group of pioneers - among them some of Earth's finest brains - struggle to change the face of the planet . . .Science fiction writer Martin Gibson finally gets a chance to visit the research colony on the Red Planet. It's a dream come true until he discovers the difficulties and perils of survival on another world . . . and the very real terror it holds. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mission Of Gravity: Mesklinite Book 1 Hal Clement (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Dec 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h196mm x w131mm x s16mm 190g ISBN13: 9781473206380 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0638-0 ISBN10: 1473206383 EAN: 9781473206380 x Description: Mesklin is a vast, inhospitable, disc-shaped planet, so cold that its oceans are liquid methane and its snows are frozen ammonia. It is a world spinning dizzyingly, a world where gravity can be a crushing 700 times greater than Earth's, a world too hostile for human explorers. But the planet holds secrets of inestimable value, and an unmanned probe that has crashed close to one of its poles must be recovered. Only the Mesklinites, the small creatures so bizarrely adapted to their harsh environment, can help. And so Barlennan, the resourceful and courageous captain of the Mesklinite ship Bree, sets out on an heroic and appalling journey into the terrible unknown. For him and his people, the prize to be gained is as great as that for mankind... Hal Clement's MISSION OF GRAVITY is universally regarded as one of the most important and best loved novels in the genre. The remarkable and sympathetic depiction of an alien species and the plausible and scientifically based realisation of the strange world they inhabit make it a major landmark in the history of hard SF. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe D G Compton (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Oct 2012
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h198mm x w128mm x s26mm 224g ISBN13: 9780575118317 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11831-7 ISBN10: 0575118318 EAN: 9780575118317 x Description: A few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause except old-age. The few exceptions provide the fodder for a new kind of television show for avid audiences who lap up the experience of watching someone else's dying weeks. So when Katherine Mortenhoe is told that she has about four weeks to live she knows it's not just her life she's about to
lose, but her privacy as well. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swastika Night Murray Constantine (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h196mm x w132mm x s16mm 184g ISBN13: 9781473214668 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1466-8 ISBN10: 1473214661 EAN: 9781473214668 x Description: SWASTIKA NIGHT takes place seven hundred years after Nazism achieved power, by which time Adolf Hitler is worshipped as a god. Elsewhere, the Japanese rule the Americas, Australia, and Asia. Though Japan is the only rival superpower to the Nazi West, their inevitable wars always end in stalemate. The fascist Germans and Japanese suffer much difficulty in maintaining their populations, because of the physical degeneration of their women. The protagonist is an Englishman named Alfred on a German pilgrimage. In Europe, the English are loathed because they were the last opponents of Nazi Germany in the war. Per official history, Hitler is a tall, blond god who personally won the war. Alfred is astounded when shown a secret, historic photograph depicting Hitler and a girl before a crowd. He is shocked that Hitler was a small man with dark hair and a paunch. And his discovery may mean his death... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aegypt John Crowley (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Oct 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 448pp h198mm x w128mm x s30mm 360g ISBN13: 9780575083004 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08300-4 ISBN10: 057508300X EAN: 9780575083004 x Description: There is more than one history of the world. Before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments. In the 1970s, a historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the New England countryside to write a book about AEgypt, driven by an idea he dare not believe: that the physical laws of the universe once changed and may change again. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft, author of romances about Will Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno and Dr. John Dee, something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it: a key, perhaps, to AEgypt ...Shortlisted for the WORLD FANTASY and ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDs. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Engine Summer John Crowley (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h200mm x w135mm x s19mm 224g ISBN13: 9780575082816 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08281-6 ISBN10: 057508281X EAN: 9780575082816
x Description: In the drowsy tranquility of Little Belaire, the Truthful Speakers lead lives of peaceful self-sufficiency ignoring the depopulated wilderness beyond their narrow borders. It is a society untouched by pain or violence and the self-destroying 'Angels' of the past are barely remembered. But when Rush That Speaks leaves his home on a pilgrimage of self-enlightenment, he finds a landscape haunted by myths and memories. The overgrown ruins reflect a world outside that is stranger than his people ever dreamed ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little, Big John Crowley (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Feb 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 560pp h196mm x w128mm x s38mm 420g ISBN13: 9781473205475 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0547-5 ISBN10: 1473205476 EAN: 9781473205475 x Description: Edgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes to Edgewood, her family home, where he finds himself drawn into a world of magical strangeness.Crowley's work has a special alchemy - mixing the world we know with an imagined world which seems more true and real. Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD, LITTLE, BIG is eloquent, sensual, funny and unforgettable, a true Fantasy Masterwork.Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL, 1982. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Deep John Crowley (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Jul 2013
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h196mm x w128mm x s18mm 172g ISBN13: 9780575082649 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08264-9 ISBN10: 057508264X EAN: 9780575082649 x Description: For many generations the Just have been at war with the Protectors. In their strange world, supported by a huge pillar poised in the vast and mysterious Deep, ritual bloodshed and sorcery have obsessed the inhabitants since the beginning of time.Half human, half machine, sexless and hairless, the Visitor from the skies enters the world on a mission unknown even to himself. Is he a peacemaker between the warrior clans, an observer, or, with his phenomenal qualities, a warrior himself, the likes of which this planet has never seen before? Only time can tell, and time is something that his makers have not allowed for ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Maze of Death Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Dec 2005
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h196mm x w128mm x s16mm 159g ISBN13: 9780575074613 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07461-3 ISBN10: 0575074612 EAN: 9780575074613 x Description: Fourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmak-O; they have nothing in common other than a desire to make a fresh start. And they have no idea why they are there and no way of escaping. And then the first murder takes place ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Scanner Darkly Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Oct 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h196mm x w131mm x s17mm 199g ISBN13: 9781857988475 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-847-5 ISBN10: 1857988477 EAN: 9781857988475 x Description: A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figuresSubstance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without knowing what is happening to him, he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2010
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h196mm x w128mm x s18mm 186g ISBN13: 9780575094185 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09418-5 ISBN10: 0575094184 EAN: 9780575094185 x Description: World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon,he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life.Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h197mm x w129mm x s15mm 191g ISBN13: 9781857983418 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-341-8 ISBN10: 1857983416 EAN: 9781857983418 x Description: Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people - and he's the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth. Suddenly he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich and famous again? Was he, in fact, ever rich and famous? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Penultimate Truth Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Feb 2005
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h196mm x w128mm x s22mm 180g ISBN13: 9780575074811 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07481-1 ISBN10: 0575074817 EAN: 9780575074811 x Description: A masterly tale of political deception from the most significant writer of SF in the 20th centuryWorld War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive lie. Now the search begins to find out why. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Simulacra Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Sep 2004
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h196mm x w128mm x s20mm 200g ISBN13: 9780575074606 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07460-6 ISBN10: 0575074604 EAN: 9780575074606 x Description: A prescient tale of political satire set in a near future America by a master of the genreA few years from now the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn't seem possible, does it? Welcome to the world of Dr. Superb, the sole remaining psychotherapist.Philip K. Dick tells a story of desperate love, lethal body odour and an attempted fascistic takeover of the USA and shows that there is always another layer of conspiracy beneath the one we see. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Mar 2003
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h198mm x w131mm x s18mm 211g ISBN13: 9780575074804 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07480-4 ISBN10: 0575074809 EAN: 9780575074804 x Description: In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug CanD, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, which is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH is, by universal consent, one of his three key novels, and the book in which he first took his perennial interest in the fragile nature of reality to a new level of imaginative intensity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Time Out Of Joint Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Sep 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 216g ISBN13: 9780575074583 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07458-3 ISBN10: 0575074582 EAN: 9780575074583 x Description: Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day -and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life -- indeed his whole world -- is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world like, and what is he actually doing every day when he thinks he is guessing 'Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next?' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ubik Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Feb 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h134mm x w200mm x s17mm 202g ISBN13: 9781857988536 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-853-6 ISBN10: 1857988531 EAN: 9781857988536 x Description: Glen Runciter is dead.Or is he?Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out.If it hasn't already. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ubik Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h198mm x w131mm x s18mm 208g ISBN13: 9781474607438 ISBN13: 978-1-4746-0743-8 ISBN10: 1474607438 EAN: 9781474607438 x Description: Glen Runciter is dead.Or is he?Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out.If it hasn't already. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Valis Philip K Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h198mm x w163mm x s21mm 254g ISBN13: 9781857983395 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-339-5 ISBN10: 1857983394 EAN: 9781857983395 x Description: It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right.Part science fiction, part theological detective story in which God plays both the missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime, VALIS is both disorienting and eerily funny, and a joy to read. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dr Bloodmoney Philip K. Dick (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Mar 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h197mm x w129mm x s21mm 260g ISBN13: 9781473201682 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0168-2 ISBN10: 1473201683 EAN: 9781473201682 x Description: Seven years after the day of the bombs, Point Reyes was luckier than most places. Its people were reasonably normal - except for the girl with her twin brother growing inside her, and talking to her. Their barter economy was working. Their resident genius could fix almost anything that broke down. But they didn't know they were harbouring the one man who almost everyone left alive wanted killed... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Best of Greg Egan Greg Egan (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
18 Mar 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 736pp h196mm x w128mm x s46mm 540g ISBN13: 9781473232297 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3229-7 ISBN10: 1473232295 EAN: 9781473232297 x Description: Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificial intelligence, higher mathematics, science vs religion, the nature of consciousness, and the impact of technology on the human personality. All these ideas and more find their way into this generous and illuminating collection, the clear product of a man who is both a master storyteller and a rigorous, exploratory thinker.The Best of Greg Egan contains twenty stories and novellas arranged in chronological order, and each of them is a brilliantly conceived, painstakingly developed gem, including the Hugo Award-winning novella "Oceanic", a powerful account of a boy whose deeply held religious beliefs are undermined by what he comes to learn about the laws of the physical world.This book really does represent the best of Greg Egan, and it therefore takes its place among the best of contemporary SF. Startling, intelligent and always hugely entertaining, it provides an ideal introduction to one of the most accomplished and original writers working today. This is an important and provocative collection, and it deserves a place on the serious science fiction reader's permanent shelf. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Feb 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 656pp h197mm x w131mm x s37mm 475g ISBN13: 9780575108028 ISBN13: 978-0-575-10802-8 ISBN10: 0575108029 EAN: 9780575108028 x Description: Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards - not surprising with a contributors list that reads like a who's who of 20th-century SF: Evensong by Lester del Rey | Flies by Robert Silverberg | The Day After the Day the Martians Came by Frederik Pohl | Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip Jose Farmer | The Malley System by Miriam Allen deFord | A Toy for Juliette by Robert Bloch | The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World by Harlan Ellison | The Night That All Time Broke Out by Brian W. Aldiss | The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice by Howard Rodman | Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K. Dick | The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven | Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber | Lord Randy, My Son by Joe L. Hensley | Eutopia by Poul Anderson | Incident in Moderan and The Escaping by David R. Bunch | The Doll-House by James Cross | Sex and/or Mr. Morrison by Carol Emshwiller | Shall the Dust Praise Thee? by Damon Knight | If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon | What Happened to Auguste Clarot? by Larry Eisenberg | Ersatz by Henry Slesar | Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird by Sonya Dorman | The Happy Breed by John Sladek | Encounter with a Hick by Jonathan Brand | From the Government Printing Office by Kris Neville | Land of the Great Horses by R. A. Lafferty | The Recognition by J. G. Ballard | Judas by John Brunner | Test to Destruction by Keith Laumer | Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad | Auto-da-Fe by Roger Zelazny | Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. DelanyUnavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arslan M J Engh (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Dec 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h198mm x w128mm x s32mm 300g ISBN13: 9780575095014 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09501-4 ISBN10: 0575095016 EAN: 9780575095014 x Description: A classic of political science fictionArslan is a young Asian general who has conquered the USA and then the world, with a small town in Illinois as the capital of his new empire.Praised by the likes of Orson Scott Card and Samuel R. Delany, ARSLAN is a thoughtful but uncompromising work, one which still retains the power to shock. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Circus of Dr Lao Charles G. Finney (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 160pp h196mm x w128mm x s20mm 145g ISBN13: 9781473213678 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1367-8 ISBN10: 1473213673 EAN: 9781473213678 x Description: To the residents of Abalone, Arizona, a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concern is surviving the Great Depression, the arrival of a circus in town is a chance to forget their woes for a while. But this is the circus of Dr. Lao and instead of relief, the townsfolk are confronted with an array creature seemingly straight out of mythology: a chimera, a Medusa, a sphinx, a sea serpent and, of course, the elusive, ever-changing Dr. Lao. As the circus unfolds, it spins events towards a climactic final act that will change the lives of Abalone's residents for ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Body Snatchers Jack Finney (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Oct 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h198mm x w130mm x s18mm 213g ISBN13: 9780575085312 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08531-2 ISBN10: 0575085312 EAN: 9780575085312 x Description: Originally published in 1955 Jack Finney's sinister SF tale has outgrown the initial debate about whether it satirized Communism or the conformity of US society at the time, to become a classic of paranoia; an examination of our fear of 'the other'.Most people know the story from seeing THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, the classic 1978 remake (one of the few Hollwood remakes said to better than the original, made in 1956) starring Donald Sutherland. Here's your chance to read the original source; a story that has resonated with readers and viewers for more than 50 years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Time And Again: Time and Again: Book One Jack Finney (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2001 (12 Jul 2012)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h196mm x w132mm x s28mm 314g ISBN13: 9780575073609 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07360-9 ISBN10: 0575073608 EAN: 9780575073609 x Description: Si Morley is bored with his job as a commercial illustrator and his social life doesn't seem to be going anywhere. So, when he is approached by an affable ex-football star and told that he is just what the government is looking for to take part in a top-secret programme, he doesn't hesitate for too long. And so one day Si steps out of his twentieth-century, New York apartment and finds himself back in January 1882. There are no cars, no planes, no computers, no television and the word 'nuclear' appears in no dictionaries. For Si, it's very like Eden, somewhere he could find happiness. But has he really been back in time? The portfolio of tintype photographs and sketches that he brings back convince the government. But all Si wants is to return ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Growing Up Weightless John M. Ford (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
15 Sep 2022
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h198mm x w129mm 41g ISBN13: 9781473232822 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3282-2 ISBN10: 1473232821 EAN: 9781473232822 x Description: Matthias Ronay is a prodigy. He's talented, smart, imaginative, and he's never left the Moon. Desperate to explore the galaxy further, he finds himself at odds with his father, Albin, a senior politician in the Lunar government. While Matthias buries himself in computer games, and Albin attempts to gain support for political plans, can they come to a solution that benefits them both?GROWING UP WEIGHTLESS is one of John M. Ford's last novels, and another triumph of writing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wasp Eric Frank Russell (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 May 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h195mm x w133mm x s15mm 170g ISBN13: 9780575129047 ISBN13: 978-0-575-12904-7 ISBN10: 0575129042 EAN: 9780575129047 x Description: The war had been going on for nearly a year and the Sirian Empire had a huge advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge. Which was where James Mowry came in. If a small insect buzzing around in a car could so distract the driver as to cause that vehicle to crash, think what havoc one properly trained operative could wreak on an unsuspecting enemy. Intensively trained, his appearance surgically altered, James Mowry is landed on Jaimec, the 94th planet of the Sirian Empire. His mission is simple: sap morale, cause mayhem, tie up resources, wage a one-man war on a planet of eighty million. In short, be a wasp. First published in 1957, WASP is generally regarded as Eric Frank Russell's finest novel, a witty
and exciting account of a covert war in the heart of enemy territory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grendel John C. Gardner (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Sep 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 160pp h197mm x w134mm x s13mm 155g ISBN13: 9781473212015 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1201-5 ISBN10: 1473212014 EAN: 9781473212015 x Description: When Grendel is drawn up from the caves under the mere, where he lives with his bloated, inarticulate hag of a mother, into the fresh night air, it is to lay waste Hrothgar's meadhall and heap destruction on the humans he finds there. What else can he do? For he is not like the men who busy themselves with God and love and beauty. He sees the infuriating human rage for order and recognises the meaninglessness of his own existence. GRENDEL is John Gardner's masterpiece; it vividly reinvents the world of Beowulf. In Grendel himself, a creature of grotesque comedy, pain and disillusioned intelligence, Gardner has created the most unforgettable monster in fantasy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lord Darcy Randall Garrett (Author) Series:
FANTASY MASTERWORKS
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Mar 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 672pp h196mm x w130mm x s46mm 460g ISBN13: 9781473201040 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0104-0 ISBN10: 1473201047 EAN: 9781473201040 x Description: Welcome to a world where the Plantagenet kings survived, the laws of magic were discovered and the physical sciences never pursued. In the resulting Anglo-French Empire, a detective like Lord Darcy needs more than a keen mind and an observant eye. Luckily, Darcy can call on the aid of Master Sean O'Lochlainn, forensic sorcerer.This omnibus contains all of the Lord Darcy stories as well as the only Lord Darcy novel, TOO MANY MAGICIANS, and has a new introduction by Michael Dirda. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Neuromancer William Gibson (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h197mm x w140mm x s30mm 380g ISBN13: 9781473217379 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1737-9 ISBN10: 1473217377 EAN: 9781473217379 x Description: The book that defined the cyberpunk movement, inspiring everything from The Matrix to Cyberpunk 2077.The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.William Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer. The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, and lit the fuse on the Cyberpunk movement. More than three decades later, Gibson's text is as stylish as ever, his noir narrative still glitters like chrome in the shadows and his
depictions of the rise and abuse of corporate power look more prescient every day. Part thriller, part warning, Neuromancer is a timeless classic of modern SF and one of the 20th century's most potent and compelling visions of the future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Neuromancer William Gibson (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Dec 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h199mm x w133mm x s23mm 285g ISBN13: 9781473217386 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1738-6 ISBN10: 1473217385 EAN: 9781473217386 x Description: The book that defined the cyberpunk movement, inspiring everything from The Matrix to Cyberpunk 2077.The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.William Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer. The writer who gave us the matrix and coined the term 'cyberspace' produced a first novel that won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, and lit the fuse on the Cyberpunk movement. More than three decades later, Gibson's text is as stylish as ever, his noir narrative still glitters like chrome in the shadows and his depictions of the rise and abuse of corporate power look more prescient every day. Part thriller, part warning, Neuromancer is a timeless classic of modern SF and one of the 20th century's most potent and compelling visions of the future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Difference Engine William Gibson (Author) Bruce Sterling (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Jan 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h197mm x w129mm x s26mm 286g ISBN13: 9780575099401 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09940-1 ISBN10: 0575099402 EAN: 9780575099401 x Description: The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain, with her calculatingcannons, steam dreadnoughts, machine-guns and information technology, prepares to better the world's lot ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Take Back Plenty Colin Greenland (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h198mm x w132mm x s32mm 332g ISBN13: 9780575119529 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11952-9 ISBN10: 0575119527 EAN: 9780575119529 x Description: A fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship's computer. It is carnival time on Mars, but Tabitha Jute isn't partying. She is in
hiding from the law, penniless and about to lose her livelihood and her best friend, the space barge "Alice Liddell". Then the intriguing Marco Metz offers her some money to take him to Plenty, and the adventure begins. Winner of both the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD for best science fiction novel of the year and the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD for best novel of the year - the only book ever to win both prestigious British awards. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ammonite Nicola Griffith (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 416pp h194mm x w128mm x s28mm 320g ISBN13: 9780575118232 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11823-2 ISBN10: 0575118237 EAN: 9780575118232 x Description: The James Tiptree Jr Award-winning novel.Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep - and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid and isolated from the natives. In the face of this crisis, anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrives to test a new vaccine. As she risks death to uncover the women's biological secret, she finds that she, too, is changing - and realizes that not only has she found a home on Jeep, but that she alone carries the seeds of its destruction ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slow River Nicola Griffith (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Feb 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h132mm x w201mm x s23mm 242g ISBN13: 9780575118256 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11825-6 ISBN10: 0575118253 EAN: 9780575118256 x Description: She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore van de Oest had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families ... and now she was nobody, and she had to hide. Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped ... but the cost of her new found freedom was crime and deception, and she paid it over and over again, until she had become someone she loathed.Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows - stay with Spanner - and risk losing herself forever. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity implant of a dead woman, taking over her life, and creating a new future. But to start again, Lore required Spanner's talents - Spanner, who needed her and hated her, and who always had a price. And even as Lore agreed to play Spanner's game one final time, she found that there was still the price of being a van de Oest to be paid. Only by confronting her family, her past, and her own demons could Lore meld together who she had once been, who she had become, and the person she intended to be ...Slow River won the 1997 Nebula Award for Best Novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Forever War: Forever War Book 1 Joe Haldeman (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h198mm x w132mm x s24mm 238g ISBN13: 9780575094147 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09414-7 ISBN10: 0575094141 EAN: 9780575094147 x Description: Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deathworld: Deathworld Book 1 Harry Harrison (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Nov 2019
Publishing Status:
Cancelled
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781473227699 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2769-9 ISBN10: 1473227690 EAN: 9781473227699 x Description: The planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man.The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder.It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Deathworld Omnibus: Deathworld, Deathworld Two, and Deathworld Three Harry Harrison (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Nov 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h197mm x w131mm x s46mm 411g ISBN13: 9781473228375 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2837-5 ISBN10: 1473228379 EAN: 9781473228375 x Description: The planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man.The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder.It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation.This omnibus contains all three novels in the Deathworld trilogy! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Stainless Steel Rat: The Stainless Steel Rat Book 1 Harry Harrison (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
19 Sep 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 144pp h196mm x w128mm x s16mm 140g ISBN13: 9781473227682 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2768-2 ISBN10: 1473227682 EAN: 9781473227682 x Description: In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, is the biggest criminal of them all. He can con humans, aliens and any number of robots time after time. Jim is so slippery that all the inter-galactic cops can do is make him one of their own. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Light M. John Harrison (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Jul 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h196mm x w130mm x s26mm 240g ISBN13: 9781473227675 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2767-5 ISBN10: 1473227674 EAN: 9781473227675 x Description: 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 a human skeleton. What they are and what they mean are the mysteries explored and unwrapped in LIGHT, M. John Harrison's triumphant novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Centauri Device M. John Harrison (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Jul 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h196mm x w132mm x s16mm 196g ISBN13: 9781857989977 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-997-7 ISBN10: 185798997X EAN: 9781857989977 x Description: John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war.M. John Harrison's classic novel turns the conventions of space opera on their head, and is written with the precision and brilliance for which is famed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Viriconium M. John Harrison (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Jul 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h198mm x w130mm x s40mm 399g ISBN13: 9781857989953 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-995-3 ISBN10: 1857989953 EAN: 9781857989953 x Description: In Viriconium, the young men whistle to one another all night long as they go about their deadly games. If you wake suddenly, you might hear footsteps running, or an urgent sigh. After a minute or two, the whistles move away in the direction of the Tinmarket or the Margarethestrasse. The next day, some lordling is discovered in the gutter with his throat cut. Who can tell fantasy from reality, magic from illusion, hero from villain, man from monster ... in Viriconium?Published here for the first time in one volume, and in the author's preferred order, are all the Viriconium stories, originally published in four books: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium and Viriconium Nights. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Oct 2016
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h203mm x w132mm x s27mm 355g ISBN13: 9781473217485 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1748-5 ISBN10: 1473217482 EAN: 9781473217485 x Description: 'The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one 'The Third Space War' (or the fourth), or whether 'The First Interstellar War' fits it better. We just call it 'The Bug War'. Everything up to then and still later were 'incidents', 'patrols' or 'police actions'. However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an 'incident' as you are if you buy it in a declared war.'5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as 'Bugs.'This is the story of trooper Johnny Rico, from his idealistic enlistment in the infantry of the future through his rigorous training to the command of his own platoon. And his destiny is a war that will span the galaxy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Door into Summer Robert A. Heinlein (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Dec 2013
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h198mm x w169mm x s15mm 174g ISBN13: 9780575120723 ISBN13: 978-0-575-12072-3 ISBN10: 057512072X EAN: 9780575120723 x Description: A popular and enduring time travel tale by one of science fiction's all-time greatsWhen Dan Davis is crossed in love and stabbed in the back by his business associates, the immediate future doesn't look too bright for him and Pete, his independent-minded tomcat. Suddenly, the lure of suspended animation, the Long Sleep, becomes irresistible and Dan wakes up 30 years later in the 21st century, a time very much to his liking.The discovery that the robot household appliances he invented have been mass produced is no surprise, but the realization that, far from having been stolen from him, they have, mysteriously, been patented in his name is. There's only one thing for it. Dan somehow has to travel back in time to
investigate. He may even find Pete ... and the girl he really loves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Dec 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h202mm x w136mm x s34mm 413g ISBN13: 9780575082410 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08241-0 ISBN10: 0575082410 EAN: 9780575082410 x Description: Luna is an open penal colony and the regime is a harsh one. Not surprisingly, revolution against the hated authority is planned. But the key figures in the revolt are an unlikely crew: Manuel Garcia O'Kelly, an engaging jack of all trades, the beautiful Wyoming Knott - and Mike, a lonely computer who likes to make up jokes ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Children Of Dune: The Third Dune Novel Frank Herbert (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
28 Jan 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h198mm x w130mm x s30mm 302g ISBN13: 9781473233782 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3378-2 ISBN10: 147323378X EAN: 9781473233782 x Description: The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone.But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and his heirs, can see possible solutions - but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens ...Read the series which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic film adaptation, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dune: Now a major new film from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival Frank Herbert (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
18 Oct 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 624pp h202mm x w136mm x s50mm 620g ISBN13: 9780575081505 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08150-5 ISBN10: 0575081503 EAN: 9780575081505 x Description: 'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C Clarke'It is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published' NEW YORKERThe Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke and his son, Paul, are expecting
treachery, and it duly comes - but from a shockingly unexpected place.Then Paul succeeds his father, and he becomes a catalyst for the native people of Dune, whose knowledge of the ecology of the planet gives them vast power. They have been waiting for a leader like Paul Atreides, a leader who can harness that force ...DUNE: one of the most brilliant science fiction novels ever written, as engrossing and heart-rending today as it was when it was first published half a century ago.Joint winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1966Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1965Read the book which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic film adaptation, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dune: Now a major new film from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival Frank Herbert (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Dec 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 624pp h236mm x w160mm x s54mm 901g ISBN13: 9781473233959 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3395-9 ISBN10: 147323395X EAN: 9781473233959 x Description: 'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C Clarke'It is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published' NEW YORKERThe Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke and his son, Paul, are expecting treachery, and it duly comes - but from a shockingly unexpected place.Then Paul succeeds his father, and he becomes a catalyst for the native people of Dune, whose knowledge of the ecology of the planet gives them vast power. They have been waiting for a leader like Paul Atreides, a leader who can harness that force ...DUNE: one of the most brilliant science fiction novels ever written, as engrossing and heart-rending today as it was when it was first published half a century ago.Joint winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1966Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1965Read the book which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic film adaptation, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
God Emperor Of Dune: The Fourth Dune Novel Frank Herbert (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
28 Jan 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h198mm x w128mm x s30mm 301g ISBN13: 9781473233805 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3380-5 ISBN10: 1473233801 EAN: 9781473233805 x Description: The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune.He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall ...Read the series which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic film adaptation, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hellstrom's Hive Frank Herbert (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Jul 2011
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h198mm x w132mm x s22mm 240g ISBN13: 9780575101081 ISBN13: 978-0-575-10108-1 ISBN10: 0575101083 EAN: 9780575101081 x Description: Frank Herbert's classic SF tale of an insect menace threatening the USAFirst published in 1973, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects.When the Agency discovered that Dr Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses - it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even their paranoid government minds could devise.A stunning work from the acclaimed author of Dune, the series which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic film adaptation, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel Frank Herbert (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
28 Jan 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 512pp h198mm x w128mm x s38mm 350g ISBN13: 9781473233799 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3379-9 ISBN10: 1473233798 EAN: 9781473233799 x Description: The epic that began with the HUGO and NEBULA Award-winning classic DUNE -- now a major motion picture from the director of Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival -- continues ...From Dune to Rakis to Dune, the wheel turns full circle. From burning desert to green and fertile land and on again to burning desert ... the cycle is complete.The people of the Scattering are returning. Amongst them, mysterious and threatening, are the women who call themselves the Honoured Matres, adepts of an ecstatic cult.And on Rakis, become Dune, an ancient prophecy is fulfilled with the coming of the she-sheer, Sheeana ...Read the series which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic film adaptation, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lavondyss Robert Holdstock (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
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Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Jun 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h198mm x w128mm x s26mm 290g ISBN13: 9781473211995 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1199-5 ISBN10: 1473211999 EAN: 9781473211995 x Description: At the heart of the wildwood lies a place of mystery and legend, from which few return and none emerged unchanged: Lavondyss . . . the ultimate realm, the source of all myth.When Harry Keeton disappeared into Ryhope Wood, his sister Tallis was just an infant. Now, thirteen years old,
she hears him whispering to her from the Otherworld. He is in danger. He needs her help. Using masks, magic and clues left by her grandfather, she finds a way to enter the primitive forest and begin her search. Eventually she comes to Lavondyss itself, a realm both beautiful and deadly, a place in which she is changed forever . . . Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood won the World Fantasy Award and is among the most praised post-war novels of the fantastical. In this haunting sequel, Lavondyss, we are returned to the Wildwood and the mythos that Holdstock has made his own.Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1989. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Merlin's Wood Robert Holdstock (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2009
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 464pp h196mm x w130mm x s34mm 260g ISBN13: 9780575084193 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08419-3 ISBN10: 0575084197 EAN: 9780575084193 x Description: In the depths of Broceliande - an ancient French woodland - Merlin and the enchantress Vivien play out their deadly feud. Meanwhile, a child is born deaf, dumb and blind. His senses return at the expense of his mother's, who must discover the wood's mystery and set the combatants free. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mythago Wood Robert Holdstock (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
27 Nov 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h198mm x w130mm x s26mm 280g ISBN13: 9781473205451 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0545-1 ISBN10: 147320545X EAN: 9781473205451 x Description: Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and of those few, none remain unchanged.Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, intricate labyrinth of trees, impossibly huge, unforgettable ... and stronger than time itself.Stephen Huxley has already lost his father to the mysteries of Ryhope Wood. On his return from the Second World War, he finds his brother, Christopher, is also in thrall to the mysterious wood, wherein lies a realm where mythic archetypes grow flesh and blood, where love and beauty haunt your dreams, and in promises of freedom lies the sanctuary of insanity ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Floating Worlds Cecelia Holland (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Dec 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 640pp h198mm x w133mm x s29mm 436g ISBN13: 9780575108233 ISBN13: 978-0-575-10823-3 ISBN10: 0575108231 EAN: 9780575108233
x Description: The Styths, a powerful and aggressive mutant race from the Gas Planets, Uranus and Saturn, have been launching pirate raids on ships from Mars. Earth's Committee for the Revolution has been asked to mediate, to negotiate a truce between the Middle Planets and the Styth Empire. The task of conducting the talks falls to an intelligent, resourceful and unpredictable young woman, Paula Mendoza. Her initial meetings with the Styth warlord and his unruly band of bodyguards and advisers are not promising. But then Paula adopts a less conventional approach. The consequences for her are considerable and she finds herself on the Gas Planets, the only tenuous link between Earth and the Styth Empire ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Conan Chronicles: Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle Robert E. Howard (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Aug 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 560pp h195mm x w132mm x s36mm 396g ISBN13: 9781857989960 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-996-0 ISBN10: 1857989961 EAN: 9781857989960 x Description: The definitive collection of Conan stories, featuring the most distinctive and well known fantasy hero of all timeConan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age.Collected together for the first time anywhere in the world, in chronological order, are all Robert E. Howard's definitive stories of Conan, exactly as he wrote them, as fresh, atmospheric and vibrant today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines more than sixty years ago. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Conan Chronicles: Volume 2: Hour of the Dragon Robert E. Howard (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 592pp h198mm x w156mm x s37mm 434g ISBN13: 9781857987478 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-747-8 ISBN10: 1857987470 EAN: 9781857987478 x Description: The second volume, completing the definitive collection of Conan stories, featuring the most distinctive and well-known fantasy hero of all timeConan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age.Collected together for the first time anywhere in the world, in chronological order, are all Robert E. Howard's definitive stories of Conan, exactly as he wrote them - as fresh, atmospheric and vibrant today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines more than sixty years ago. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Andromeda Anthology: Containing A For Andromeda and Andromeda Breakthrough Fred Hoyle (Author) John Elliott (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h196mm x w128mm x s30mm 280g ISBN13: 9781473230118 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3011-8 ISBN10: 147323011X EAN: 9781473230118 x Description: In addition to being the man who coined the term 'the Big Bang', world-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle also produced a fine body of science fiction. The Andromeda Anthology contains the acclaimed duology A for Andromeda and The Andromeda Breakthrough, co-written with John Elliot. The close-knit group of scientists who work at the new radio telescope are shocked to receive a mysterious signal from the heart of the Andromeda galaxy. Working with mathematician Christine Jones, Dr John Fleming interprets the signal as the instructions to build a super-computer. When the computer begins to relay the information it receives from Andromeda, scientists find themselves possessing knowledge previously unknown to mankind, knowledge that could threaten the security of human life itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox Barry Hughart (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2035
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 800pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781473210974 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1097-4 ISBN10: 1473210976 EAN: 9781473210974 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Votan and Other Novels John James (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Jun 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 752pp h197mm x w134mm x s46mm 504g ISBN13: 9780575105508 ISBN13: 978-0-575-10550-8 ISBN10: 057510550X EAN: 9780575105508 x Description: In the second century AD, a Greek nobleman is travelling and living abroad in Germany while carrying on an affair with a military man's wife. When discovered, he takes an emergency business trip to save his life and packs amongst his belongings certain items that lead the people he encounters to think him a Norse God, a fortuitous point of view which he does little to dispel. Forced to keep up the pretence of being a god while staying one step ahead of his lover's jealous husband, Photinus must juggle the severity of his situation with the enjoyment of being a god.Published here with its sequel, NOT FOR ALL THE GOLD IN IRELAND and companion volume MEN WENT TO CATTREATH, VOTAN is one of the highpoints of modern fantasy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bold As Love Gwyneth Jones (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Nov 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h196mm x w130mm x s30mm 260g ISBN13: 9781473230194 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3019-4 ISBN10: 1473230195 EAN: 9781473230194 x Description: Three extraordinary people in some most extraordinary times:It's Dissolution Summer and as the United Kingdom prepares to break up into separate nations, the Counterculturals have gathered for a festival where everything's allowed. Among them is a talented little brat called Fiorinda, rock and roll princess by birth, searching for her father, the legendary Rufus O'Niall. Instead, she finds Ax Preston, the softly spoken guitarman with bizarre delusions about saving the country from the dark ages. Together with Sage Pender, techno-wizard king of the lads, they join the pop-icon team that's supposed to make the government look cool.Rock Legends. True Romance. A stunning fantasy about England. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Castles Made Of Sand Gwyneth Jones (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
21 Jan 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h196mm x w126mm x s32mm 300g ISBN13: 9781473230200 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3020-0 ISBN10: 1473230209 EAN: 9781473230200 x Description: The BOLD AS LOVE series is a world of daring, dread and enchantment, a world that could almost be ours: a brilliant combination of myth, magic and pop culture.Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Fiorinda, charismatic leaders of the Rock-n-Roll Reich, have beaten the cascade of disasters that followed the collapse of the former United Kingdom. Now they have to find some resolution to the impossible dynamics of their own relationship, while the world keeps falling apart. There are fearsome things going on in England's rural hinterland, and in Continental Europe the green nazis are planning a final solution to desperate environmental damage. But there's nothing the Triumvirate can't handle - until Fiorinda's father, a monster of the kind the world has never before known, reaches out to reclaim his magical child, the flower-bride.And that's when darkness falls over Ax's England . . .Harrowing . . . enchanting - a dark fairy tale with an epic sweep, set in a world very like our own. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kairos Gwyneth Jones (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Nov 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h196mm x w128mm x s30mm 280g ISBN13: 9781473234666 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3466-6 ISBN10: 1473234662 EAN: 9781473234666 x Description: 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 - have the answer. They call it Kairos.Kairos allows the user to not just see a different world, but shape the world to their very will.
Perfect for a cult of like-minded individuals. Disastrous when it is exposed to the general public. As disparate groups of people try to shape the world into their own image, reality itself is placed under threat. With society so divided, is there any way to pull the world back together?Written in 1988, this remarkably prescient book received great critical acclaim. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life Gwyneth Jones (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
31 May 2022
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h198mm x w129mm 41g ISBN13: 9781473234673 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3467-3 ISBN10: 1473234670 EAN: 9781473234673 x Description: Anna Senoz is a brilliant young scientist, working towards her PhD and a bright career when she makes a discovery that could change the world of genetics forever.The 'Transferred Y' chromosome, however, isn't as welcomed by her peers, or the wider society. Anna is forced to choose between her dedication to her discovery, the progress of her career, and her responsibilities to her family. Does scientific integrity mean speaking out against the naysayers? Are the potential ramifications of her discovery too wide-reaching for her to risk pursuing it?Winner of the 2004 Philip K. Dick award, Life examines society's fixation on biological sex, the struggles of women in STEM, and the pressures placed upon them by families, colleagues and friends alike. Perfect for fans of alternate histories and near-future feminist SFF, like The Handmaid's Tale and Vox. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Queen Gwyneth Jones (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
02 Sep 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h196mm x w126mm x s26mm 260g ISBN13: 9781473234659 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3465-9 ISBN10: 1473234654 EAN: 9781473234659 x Description: In the year 2038, the earth has been ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Retroviruses run rampant through humanity. Economic disaster has destabilised the world, the US has undergone a socialist revolution, and the balance of power has changed.Then the aliens arrive.With no clear understanding of the visitors' intent, factions form, including the anti-alien group White Queen, working to turn humans against these extra-terrestrial tourists. Caught in the middle is Johnny Guglio, an American exile whose only fault was living near the landing site, and Braemar Wilson, a cutthroat reporter who will do whatever she needs to get ahead of the story. And for better or for worse, it seems being caught in the middle is the best place for them to uncover the truth.Winner of the 1991 James Tiptree Jr. Award, WHITE QUEEN is the first in Gwyneth Jones' critically acclaimed Aleutian Trilogy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thomas the Rhymer Ellen Kushner (Author) Series:
FANTASY MASTERWORKS
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Jul 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h196mm x w128mm x s24mm 240g ISBN13: 9781473211629 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1162-9 ISBN10: 147321162X EAN: 9781473211629 x Description: A minstrel lives by his words, his tunes, and sometimes by his lies. But when the bold and gifted young Thomas the Rhymer awakens the desire of the powerful Queen of Elfland, he finds that words are not enough to keep him from his fate. As the Queen sweeps him far from the people he has known and loved into her realm of magic, opulence - and captivity - he learns at last what it is to be truly human. When he returns to his home with the Queen's parting gift, his great task will be to seek out the girl he loved and wronged, and offer her at last the tongue that cannot lie.Award-winning author Ellen Kushner's inspired retelling of an ancient legend weaves myth and magic into a vivid contemporary novel about the mysteries of the human heart. Brimming with ballads, riddles, and magical transformations, here is the timeless tale of a charismatic bard whose talents earn him a two-edged otherworldly gift. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fury Henry Kuttner (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h196mm x w128mm x s18mm 200g ISBN13: 9781473222557 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2255-7 ISBN10: 1473222559 EAN: 9781473222557 x Description: The Earth is long dead, blasted apart, and the human survivors who settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in an atrophying, class-ridden society ruled by the Immortals - genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Sam Reed was born an immortal, born to rule those with a normal life-span, but his deranged father had him mutilated as a baby so that he wouldn't know of his heritage. And Sam grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and the law, thinking of the Immortals as his enemies. Then he reached the age of eighty, understood what had happened to him and went looking for revenge - and changed his decaying world forever.Fury is a powerful, dark and compelling novel that explores the sensual, bloody and urgent nature of humankind's striving. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Best of R. A. Lafferty R. A. Lafferty (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h196mm x w131mm x s30mm 322g ISBN13: 9781473213449 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1344-9 ISBN10: 1473213444 EAN: 9781473213449 x
Description: Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty has been awarded and nominated for a multitude of accolades over the span of his career, including the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.This collection contains 22 unique tall tales, including:Hugo Award-winning'Eurema's Dam' - introduced by Robert SilverbergHugo Award-nominated'Continued on the Next Rock' introduced by Nancy Kress'Sky' - introduced by Gwenda BondNebula Award-nominated'In Our Block' - introduced by Neil GaimanAnd more stories introduced by other modern masters of SF who acknowledge R.A. Lafferty as a major influence and force in the field. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Always Coming Home Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Jul 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 544pp h198mm x w132mm x s45mm 380g ISBN13: 9781473205802 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0580-2 ISBN10: 1473205808 EAN: 9781473205802 x Description: A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh. But Always Coming Home is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories, poems, songs, recipes - Always Coming Home is no less than an anthropological account of a community that does not yet exist, a tour de force of imaginative fiction by one of modern literature's great voices. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
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Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Aug 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h133mm x w200mm x s21mm 238g ISBN13: 9781857988826 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-882-6 ISBN10: 1857988825 EAN: 9781857988826 x Description: One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES'The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy Doyle'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVERThe Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres.But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
03 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h196mm x w128mm x s24mm 240g ISBN13: 9781473228412 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2841-2 ISBN10: 1473228417 EAN: 9781473228412 x Description: One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES'The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy Doyle'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER'There was a wall. It did not look important - even a child could climb it. But the idea was real. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on...'Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time - but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him. So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a place of more liberty and tolerance. Initially feted, Shevek soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.With powerful themes of freedom, society and the natural world's influence on competition and co-operation, THE DISPOSSESSED is a true classic of the 20th century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h131mm x w198mm x s18mm 171g ISBN13: 9781857989519 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-951-9 ISBN10: 1857989511 EAN: 9781857989519 x Description: 'Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVERGeorge Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality - and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power.Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help. At first sceptical of George's powers, he comes to astonished belief. When he allows ambition to get the better of ethics, George finds himself caught up in a situation of alarming peril. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h196mm x w126mm x s18mm 180g ISBN13: 9781473234178 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3417-8 ISBN10: 1473234174 EAN: 9781473234178 x Description: 'Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their centre ... Literature will miss her. There's no one like her' Zadie
Smith'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVERThrough his dreams, George Orr can make alternate realities real - but who is controlling him?War rages and global warming wreaks havoc on the quality of life everywhere as seven billion people jostle for living space and food. For George Orr, a mild and unremarkable man, the world is overwhelmingly difficult. But George is different: his dreams can change reality - although he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power.Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help, directing George to dream a world without racism. But as ambition gets the better of ethics, no one can predict the devastating consequences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Apr 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h196mm x w128mm x s24mm 240g ISBN13: 9781473221628 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2162-8 ISBN10: 1473221625 EAN: 9781473221628 x Description: Genly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male ot female at the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien, unsophisticated and confusing. But he is drawn into the complex politics of the planet and, during a long, tortuous journey across the ice with a politician who has fallen from favour and has been outcast, he loses his professional detachment and reaches a painful understanding of the true nature of Gethenians and, in a moving and memorable sequence, even finds love... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h196mm x w130mm x s26mm 240g ISBN13: 9781473225947 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2594-7 ISBN10: 1473225949 EAN: 9781473225947 x Description: A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of persecution. What they have in common is curiosity, about others and themselves, and an almost unshakeable belief that the world can be a better place. As they journey for over 800 miles, across the harshest, most inhospitable landscape, they discover the true meaning of friendship, and of love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Aug 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 592pp h197mm x w161mm x s38mm 400g ISBN13: 9781473205765 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0576-5 ISBN10: 147320576X EAN: 9781473205765 x Description: Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula Award-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution', and the Hugo-nominated 'Winter's King', which gave readers their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Word for World is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
Edition:
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 144pp h198mm x w160mm x s12mm 132g ISBN13: 9781473205789 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0578-9 ISBN10: 1473205786 EAN: 9781473205789 x Description: When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h196mm x w128mm x s26mm 260g ISBN13: 9781473230989 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3098-9 ISBN10: 1473230985 EAN: 9781473230989 x Description: From the multi-award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea sequence comes this single-volume omnibus of the first three Hainish novels.Intergalactic war reaches Fomalhaut II in Rocannon's World.Born out of season, a precocious young girl visits the alien city of the farborns and the false-men in Planet of Exile.In City of Illusions a stranger wandering in the forest people's woods is found and his health restored;
now the fate of two worlds rests in this stranger's hands . . . The three novels contained in this volume are the books that launched Ursula K. Le Guin's glittering career, and are set in the same universe as her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The First Book of Lankhmar Fritz Leiber (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback Trade paperback (UK) (Text (eye-readable)) 768pp h201mm x w164mm x s47mm 556g ISBN13: 9781857983272 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-327-2 ISBN10: 1857983270 EAN: 9781857983272 x Description: From the moment when they first met, in the commission of the same, audacious theft, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior from the Cold Waste, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, felt no ordinary affinity.Forged over the gleam of sharpened steel as, back to back, they faced their foes, theirs was a friendship that would take them from adventure to misadventure across all of Nehwon, from the caves of the inner earth to the waves of the outer sea. But it was in the dark alleys and noisome back streets of the great fog-shrouded city of Lankhmar that they became legends.THE FIRST BOOK OF LANKHMAR includes the first four volumes of the hugely enjoyable Swords series. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Second Book Of Lankhmar Fritz Leiber (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
06 Dec 2001
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 704pp h195mm x w130mm x s43mm 514g ISBN13: 9780575073586 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07358-6 ISBN10: 0575073586 EAN: 9780575073586 x Description: After their legendary adventures in the northern wastes and beyond, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, are back home in Lankhmar again, and looking for an easy time.But Lankhmar is under attack from a strange horde of invaders, including a two-headed dragon and an army of miniature wanderers ... Once those threats are seen off, a quest to the farthest reaches of Nehwon is in prospect. And then, in the last book of their adventures, Fafhrd goes sailing through the clouds, and the Mouser takes to the seas, before we finally bid a fond, if sad, farewell to Lankhmar.THE SECOND BOOK OF LANKHMAR includes the last three volumes of the hugely enjoyable series. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sidewise in Time Murray Leinster (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h196mm x w128mm x s30mm 280g ISBN13: 9781473227392 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2739-2 ISBN10: 1473227399 EAN: 9781473227392
x Description: 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 include:Sidewise in TimeThe Runaway SkyscraperThe Mad PlanetPoliticsProxima CentauriFirst ContactA Logic Names JoeDe ProfundisIf You Was a MoklinExploration Team _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dying Of The Light George R.R. Martin (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Sep 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h199mm x w133mm x s25mm 266g ISBN13: 9781473212527 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1252-7 ISBN10: 1473212529 EAN: 9781473212527 x Description: A whisperjewel from Gwen Delvano calls Dirk t'Larien across space and beyond the Tempter's Veil to Worlorn, a dying Festival planet of rock and ice. Warlorn is slowly drifting through twilight to neverending night; as the planet sinks into darkness, so its inhabitants face annihilation.Seven years ago, on Avalon, Gwen was Dirk's lover, his Guenevere; now she wears the jade-and-silver bond of Jaantony Riv Wolf high-Ironjade Vikary, a barbarian visionary, an outcast from his own people for his acts of violence. And Garse Janacek, Jaan's *teyn*, his shieldmate, is also bound to Gwen in hatred. Dirk, a rogue and a wanderer, is called to be saviour of the three who are bonded together in love and hate.But in breaking their triangle, he could lose all ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Caltraps of Time David I. Masson (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Dec 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h133mm x w200mm x s18mm 198g ISBN13: 9780575118287 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11828-7 ISBN10: 0575118288 EAN: 9780575118287 x Description: The Caltraps of Time is David I. Masson's only published book of fiction, a collection of short stories, most of which made their first appearance in New Worlds SF during the 1960s under the legendary editorship of Michael Moorcock. An apocalyptic battle at the edge of the unknown, the deadly fascination of voracious magma, a world where the weather expresses itself as mood. These are only some of the themes tackled with superb scientific speculation by David I. Masson. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Am Legend Richard Matheson (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 176pp h134mm x w200mm x s14mm 168g ISBN13: 9780575094161 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09416-1 ISBN10: 0575094168 EAN: 9780575094161 x Description: An acclaimed SF novel about vampires. The last man on earth is not alone ... Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.How long can one man survive like this?The SF classic that inspired the blockbuster vampire movie starring Will Smith _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fairyland Paul McAuley (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h196mm x w131mm x s26mm 328g ISBN13: 9781473215160 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1516-0 ISBN10: 1473215161 EAN: 9781473215160 x Description: The 21st century. Europe is divided between the First World bourgeoisie, made rich by nanotechnology and the cheap versatile slave labour of genetically engineered Dolls and the Fourth World of refugees and homeless displaced by war and economic upheaval. In London, Alex Sharkey is trying to make his mark as a designer of psychoactive viruses, whilst staying one step ahead of the police and the Triad gangs. At the cost of three hours of his life, he finds an unlikely ally in a scary, super-smart little girl called Milena, but his troubles really start when he helps Milena quicken intelligence in a Doll, turning it into the first of the fairies. Milena isn't sure if she's mad or if she's the only sane person left in the world; she only knows that she wants to escape to her own private Fairyland and live forever. Although Milena has created the fairies for her own ends, some of the Folk, as fey and dangerous as any in legend, have other ideas about her destiny ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ombria in Shadow Patricia A. McKillip (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Sep 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 304pp h196mm x w128mm x s26mm 280g ISBN13: 9781473205741 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0574-1 ISBN10: 1473205743 EAN: 9781473205741 x Description: The Prince of Ombria is dying, and already his sinister great-aunt is plotting to seize power. The Black Pearl is feared throughout the land, and the city folk know her reign will be a terrible one. Only the prince's son can stop her from seizing the throne but he's just a boy - barely worth the trouble of doing away with.Ombria, it seems, is doomed. And yet, beneath the streets, in a buried world of shadows and ghosts, a mysterious sorceress is weaving new spells, watched over by a girl sculpted entirely from wax ...
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld Patricia A. McKillip (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 May 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h198mm x w131mm x s16mm 187g ISBN13: 9781473212039 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1203-9 ISBN10: 1473212030 EAN: 9781473212039 x Description: Sybel, the beautiful great-granddaughter of the wizard Heald, has grown up on Eld Mountain with only the fantastic beasts summoned there by wizardry as companions. She cares nothing for humans until, when she is 16, a baby is brought for her to raise, a baby who awakens emotions that she has never known before.But the baby is Tamlorn, the only son of King Drede, and, inevitably, Sybel becomes entangled in the human world of love, war and revenge - and only her beasts can save her from the ultimate destruction... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Riddle-Master's Game Patricia A. McKillip (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Aug 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 640pp h198mm x w130mm x s30mm 444g ISBN13: 9781473212022 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1202-2 ISBN10: 1473212022 EAN: 9781473212022 x Description: In a land where wizards have long since vanished, Morgon, Prince of Hed, is confronted with a challenge much different from that faced by his land-bound predecessors. Although he wants only to rule and work the land of his birth, Morgon must search out a very different destiny - one dictated since birth by the mark of three stars imprinted on his forehead. He must wander strange, foreign lands full of untamed magic in the form of riddling wraiths, mysterious harpists, a lost crown, a magical sword and an all-knowing High One who rules over all. In his quest for a new life for himself and his people, he must face great dangers - not only to himself but to his promised bride, his land and his very way of life . . .This volume contains The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire and Hugo and World Fantasy Award-shortlisted Harpist in the Wind - the complete RiddleMaster trilogy, which is among the most respected and popular fantasies of recent years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Doomsday Morning C.L. Moore (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h198mm x w128mm x s22mm 220g ISBN13: 9781473223264 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2326-4 ISBN10: 1473223261 EAN: 9781473223264 x Description: Comus, the communications network/police force, has spread its web of power all across an America paralyzed by the after-effects of limited nuclear war. But in California, resistance is building against the dictatorship of Comus and Andrew Raleigh, president for life. For now Raleigh is
dying and the powers of Comus are fading. It's the perfect time for the Californian revolutionaries to activate the secret weapon that alone can destroy America's totalitarian system and re-establish democracy.Yet Comus too has powers at its disposal, chief among them Howard Rohan. A washed-up actor until Comus offers him a second chance, Rohan will head a troupe of players touring in the heart of rebel territory.Howard Rohan, double agent, caught between the orders of Comus and rebels demands. Which side will he choose? Who will he play false - himself, or the entire country? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jirel of Joiry C.L. Moore (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
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Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h198mm x w128mm x s20mm 200g ISBN13: 9781473222526 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2252-6 ISBN10: 1473222524 EAN: 9781473222526 x Description: With her red hair flowing, her yellow eyes glinting like embers, and her face streaked with blood, Jirel is strong, fearless, and driven by honor. The fierce, proud, and relentless commander of warriors, standing tall above her enemies and simmering with rage, Jirel bids farewell to the world of treacherous men and walks through a forbidden door into Hell itself in pursuit of freedom, justice, and revenge.These are the classic tales of blood and honor that catapulted C.L. Moore into the legendary ranks of such acclaimed writers as Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs in the golden age of sword and sorcery. First published in the magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s, Moore's fantastic medieval adventures are heightened by a savage, romantic vision that helped define the genre, earning her recognition as a Grand Master for lifetime achievement by the World Fantasy Convention. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judgment Night: A Selection of Science Fiction C.L. Moore (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h196mm x w130mm x s28mm 240g ISBN13: 9781473222533 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2253-3 ISBN10: 1473222532 EAN: 9781473222533 x Description: 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 nature of power and its inevitable loss; ''The Code'' (July, 1945) pays homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread; ''Promised Land'' (February, 1950) and ''Heir Apparent'' (July, 1950) both document the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system; ''Paradise Street'' (September, 1950) shows a futuristic take on the old western conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.Chosen by the author herself as the best of her longer-form writing, these stories show a gifted wordsmith working at the height of her talents. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Northwest of Earth C.L. Moore (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 352pp h198mm x w128mm x s26mm 280g ISBN13: 9781473222540 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2254-0 ISBN10: 1473222540 EAN: 9781473222540 x Description: 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 thirteen stories in Northwest of Earth blaze a trail through the underbelly of the solar system. The quick-drawing smuggler of the spaceways who would become the model for countless science fiction heroes, Northwest Smith is SF's original outlaw. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This Is the Way the World Ends James Morrow (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Jun 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h133mm x w200mm x s25mm 282g ISBN13: 9780575081185 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08118-5 ISBN10: 057508118X EAN: 9780575081185 x Description: When tombstone engraver George Paxman is offered a bargain, he doesn't hesitate. His beloved daughter gets an otherwise unaffordable survival suit to protect her from radioactive fall-out and all George has to do is sign a document admitting that, as a passive citizen who did nothing to stop it, he has a degree of guilt for any nuclear war that breaks out. George signs on the dotted line. And then the unthinkable happens. The world and everyone in it (survival suit or not) is destroyed in a nuclear Armageddon - except for George and five others who must now face prosecution from the great mass of humanity who will now never be born. And George Paxman stands accused in the name of all the people who stood by and never raised a finger to stop the horror of nuclear war ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Falling Woman Pat Murphy (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Nov 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h197mm x w129mm x s21mm 264g ISBN13: 9780575133143 ISBN13: 978-0-575-13314-3 ISBN10: 0575133147 EAN: 9780575133143 x Description: Elizabeth Waters, an archeologist who abandoned her husband and daughter years ago to pursue her career, can see the shadows of the past. It's a gift she keeps secret from her colleagues and students, one that often leads her to incredible archeological discoveries - and the terrible suspicion that she might be going mad. Then on a dig in the Yucatan, the shadow of a Mayan priestess speaks to her. Suddenly Elizabeth's daughter Diane arrives, hoping to reconnect with her mother. As Elizabeth, her daughter and the priestess fall into the mysterious world of Mayan magic, it is clear one of them will be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice ...
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Ringworld Larry Niven (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Jun 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h195mm x w132mm x s23mm 270g ISBN13: 9780575077027 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07702-7 ISBN10: 0575077026 EAN: 9780575077027 x Description: Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders of such a structure, the puppeteers set about assembling a team consisting of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, an alien not unlike an eight-foot-tall, red-furred cat, to explore it. The artefact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its centre - the Ringworld. But the expedition goes disastrously wrong when the ship crashlands and its motley crew faces a trek across thousands of miles of the Ringworld's surface. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Land Under England Joseph O'Neill (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 304pp h198mm x w128mm x s26mm 267g ISBN13: 9781473224063 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2406-3 ISBN10: 1473224063 EAN: 9781473224063 x Description: 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 to join this rigidly controlled society, Anthony must fight to save his father and find a route to the surface - or perish.First published in 1935, the genre-transcending political and psychological themes of Land Under England put it far ahead of its time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2022
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h196mm x w128mm x s26mm 280g ISBN13: 9781473234802 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3480-2 ISBN10: 1473234808 EAN: 9781473234802 x Description: WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Winston Smith is a good worker. He supports the Party. He is good at his job rewriting history to Government specification. Big Brother watches him, but there is nothing to see.Winston's struggle against the totalitarian world he inhabits is a closely guarded secret. It exists only in his mind until he begins a secret love affair with Julia, a fellow worker. Is this enough to push him to revolution? Or is it the beginning of his downfall?A masterwork of dystopian fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is harrowingly
prescient, and its impact has stretched around the globe.With a new introduction by political editor and writer Ian Dunt, this brand new edition of a science fiction classic is a must-have for any collector. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gateway Frederik Pohl (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h197mm x w130mm x s22mm 254g ISBN13: 9780575094239 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09423-9 ISBN10: 0575094230 EAN: 9780575094239 x Description: One of the very best must-read SF novels of all timeWealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee.Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jem Frederik Pohl (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Apr 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 304pp h197mm x w131mm x s21mm 278g ISBN13: 9781473201705 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0170-5 ISBN10: 1473201705 EAN: 9781473201705 x Description: A cynical and compelling tale of politics, exploitation and colonisation on another planetThe discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export their rivalries.Subtitled, with savage irony, 'The Making of a Utopia', JEM is one of Frederik Pohl's most powerful novels. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Man Plus Frederik Pohl (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 May 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h197mm x w134mm x s17mm 195g ISBN13: 9781857989465 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-946-5 ISBN10: 1857989465 EAN: 9781857989465 x Description: The award-winning account of a man changed beyond all recognition so that he can be part of a bold experiment to live on MarsIll luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster - a
machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl (Author) Cyril M. Kornbluth (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jul 2003
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 192pp h198mm x w131mm x s14mm 170g ISBN13: 9780575075283 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07528-3 ISBN10: 0575075287 EAN: 9780575075283 x Description: It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unquenchable Fire Rachel Pollack (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Dec 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h132mm x w200mm x s25mm 262g ISBN13: 9780575118546 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11854-6 ISBN10: 0575118547 EAN: 9780575118546 x Description: In an America where the miraculous is par for the course, where magic and myths are as real as shopping malls and television game shows, Jennifer Mazdan listens to the modern storytellers recite the tales of the Founders.But when strange things start to happen and Jennie becomes pregnant - from a dream - she enters a struggle which threatens her own life and causes her to question everything she has ever learned.Unquenchable Fire won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1989. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last Call Tim Powers (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Oct 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 560pp h198mm x w130mm x s40mm 391g ISBN13: 9780575116818 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11681-8 ISBN10: 0575116811 EAN: 9780575116818 x Description: Twenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards. But now the cards - and the supernatural powers behind them - have found him again.Crane's father killed gangster Bugsy Siegel in 1948 to become the Fisher King, and to keep that power he is determined to kill his son. Now Scott Crane must cross the Mojave Desert to
his father's Perilous Chapel in Las Vegas, and take up the cards again for one last poker duel. And the stakes are the highest he's ever played for ... his soul. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Anubis Gates Tim Powers (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
01 Dec 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 464pp h135mm x w201mm x s31mm 326g ISBN13: 9780575077256 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07725-6 ISBN10: 0575077255 EAN: 9780575077256 x Description: Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic.When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684.Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others' bodies when his latest becomes too hairy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Drawing Of The Dark Tim Powers (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Nov 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h200mm x w135mm x s25mm 295g ISBN13: 9780575074262 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07426-2 ISBN10: 0575074264 EAN: 9780575074262 x Description: When Brian Duffy, an ageing soldier of fortune, is recruited in Venice by a strange old man to work as a bouncer in Vienna at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer is brewed, everything seems straightforward. But his journey is far from it. Pursued and attacked from all sides, guarded and guided by creatures of myth, Duffy is no sooner in Vienna than the city is besieged by the turkish armies of Suleiman. And it becomes apparent that Duffy's presence is no accident and that it is up to him to preserve the West until the drawing of the dark ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Affirmation Christopher Priest (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Oct 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h196mm x w128mm x s28mm 220g ISBN13: 9780575099463 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09946-3 ISBN10: 0575099461 EAN: 9780575099463
x Description: Christopher Priest is the Arthur C. Clarke Award and World Fantasy Award-winning author of THE SEPARATION, THE GLAMOUR, THE DREAM ARCHIPELAGO and THE PRESTIGE, which was filmed by Christopher Nolan and starred Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. THE AFFIRMATION is his compulsive and original novel of an autobiography that isn't - partly a thriller, partly a haunting study of schizophrenia, it is the mark of one of Britain's finest novelists at the very height of his powers.Peter Sinclair is tormented by bereavement and failure. In an attempt to conjure some meaning from his life, he embarks on an autobiography, but he finds himself writing the story of another man in another, imagined, world, whose insidious attraction draws him even further in ...Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Separation Christopher Priest (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 May 2021
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 416pp h196mm x w126mm x s30mm 300g ISBN13: 9781473233058 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3305-8 ISBN10: 1473233054 EAN: 9781473233058 x Description: THE SEPARATION is the story of twin brothers, rowers in the 1936 Olympics (where they met Hess, Hitler's deputy); one joins the RAF, and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on Hamburg and becomes Churchill's aide-de-camp; his twin brother, a pacifist, works with the Red Cross, rescuing bombing victims in London. But this is not a straightforward story of the Second World War: this is an alternate history: the two brothers - both called J.L. Sawyer - live their lives in alternate versions of reality. In one, the Second World War ends as we imagine it did; in the other, thanks to efforts of an eminent team of negotiators headed by Hess, the war ends in 1941.THE SEPARATION is an emotionally riveting story of how the small man can make a difference; it's a savage critique of Winston Churchill, the man credited as the saviour of Britain and the Western World, and it's a story of how one perceives and shapes the past.Christopher Priest is a genre-leading author of SFF fiction. His novel, THE PRESTIGE, won a number of awards and was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated film directed by Christopher Nolan (TENET, INCEPTION) starring Hugh Jackman (THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, X-MEN), Christian Bale (THE BIG SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS), Michael Caine (THE ITALIAN JOB) and Scarlett Johansson (MARRIAGE STORY, THE AVENGERS). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Dec 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 576pp h196mm x w131mm x s33mm 425g ISBN13: 9780575083097 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08309-7 ISBN10: 0575083093 EAN: 9780575083097 x Description: Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a winged Amarantin. For brilliant but ruthless scientist Dan Sylveste, it's more than merelty intellectual curiosity - and he will stop at nothing to get at the truth. Even if the truth costs him everything. But the Amarantin were wiped out for a reason, and that danger is closer and greater than even Syveste imagines ...REVELATION SPACE: a huge, magnificent space opera that ranges across the known and unknown universe ... towards the most terrifying of destinations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Sep 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 608pp h133mm x w200mm x s38mm 418g ISBN13: 9780575129061 ISBN13: 978-0-575-12906-1 ISBN10: 0575129069 EAN: 9780575129061 x Description: Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a winged Amarantin. For brilliant but ruthless scientist Dan Sylveste, it's more than merely intellectual curiosity - and he will stop at nothing to get at the truth. Even if the truth costs him everything. But the Amarantin were wiped out for a reason, and that danger is closer and greater than even Syveste imagines ...REVELATION SPACE: a huge, magnificent space opera that ranges across the known and unknown universe ... towards the most terrifying of destinations. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pavane Keith Roberts (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Nov 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h197mm x w133mm x s23mm 272g ISBN13: 9781857989373 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-937-3 ISBN10: 1857989376 EAN: 9781857989373 x Description: 1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin's bullet. Within the week, the Spanish Armada had set sail, and its victory changed the course of history. 1968: England is still dominated by the Church of Rome. There are no telephones, no television, no nuclear power. As Catholicism and the Inquisition tighten their grip, rebellion is growing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Female Man Joanna Russ (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Nov 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h195mm x w131mm x s17mm 199g ISBN13: 9780575094994 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09499-4 ISBN10: 0575094990 EAN: 9780575094994 x Description: A landmark book in the fields of science fiction and feminism.Four women living in parallel worlds, each with a different gender landscape. When they begin to travel to each other's worlds each woman's preconceptions on gender and what it means to be a woman are challenged.Acclaimed as one of the essential works of science fiction and an influence on William Gibson, THE FEMALE MAN takes a look at gender roles in society and remains a work of great power.
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The Child Garden Geoff Ryman (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Aug 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h199mm x w158mm x s27mm 280g ISBN13: 9780575076907 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07690-7 ISBN10: 0575076909 EAN: 9780575076907 x Description: In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, and the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism. Information, culture, law and politics are biological functions.But Milena is different: she is resistant to viruses and an incredible musician, one of the most extraordinary women of her age. This is her story and that of her friends, like Lucy the immortal tumour and Joseph the Postman whose mind is an information storehouse for others, and Rolfa, genetically engineered as a Polar Bear, whose beautiful singing voice first awakens Milena to the power of music. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Anvil of Ice Michael Scott Rohan (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Sep 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 368pp h195mm x w131mm x s24mm 260g ISBN13: 9780575092211 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09221-1 ISBN10: 0575092211 EAN: 9780575092211 x Description: The chronicles of The Winter of the World echo down the ages in half-remembered myth and song - tales of mysterious powers of the Mastersmiths, of the forging of great weapons, of the subterranean kingdoms of the duergar, of Gods who walked abroad, and of the Powers that struggled endlessly for dominion. In the Northlands, beleaguered by the ever-encroaching Ice and the marauding Ekwesh, a young cowherd, saved from the raiders by the mysterious Mastersmith, discovers in himself an uncanny power to shape metal - but it is a power that may easily be turned to evil ends, and on a dreadful night he flees his new home, and embarks on the quest to find both his own destiny, and a weapon that will let him stand against the Power of the Ice.His wanderings will bring him great friends but earn him greater enemies, and eventually they will transform him from lowly cowherd to a mastersmith fit to stand with the greatest of all men. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Frankenstein Mary Shelley (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Oct 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h199mm x w134mm x s17mm 200g ISBN13: 9780575099609 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09960-9 ISBN10: 0575099607 EAN: 9780575099609 x Description: Brilliant, driven Victor Frankenstein has at last realised his greatest ambition. The scientist has succeeded in creating intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, Frankenstein realises he has made a monster. And, abandoned by its maker and shunned by everyone who sees it, the
Doctor's creation sets out to destroy him and all that he holds dear.Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written, a book that chillingly captures the unforeseen terror of playing God. And the heart-stopping fear of being pursued by a powerful, relentless killer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dragon Griaule Lucius Shepard (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Oct 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 464pp h199mm x w131mm x s38mm 346g ISBN13: 9780575089921 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08992-1 ISBN10: 057508992X EAN: 9780575089921 x Description: Lucius Shepard's acclaimed Dragon Griaule stories are presented here for the first time in a single volume. This Fantasy Masterworks edition contains:'The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule''The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter''The Father of Stones''Liar's House''The Taborin Scale''The Skull'This is the definitive tale of the Dragon Griaule: a beast so immense its body forms part of the landscape ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Time of Changes Robert Silverberg (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 304pp h196mm x w130mm x s24mm 260g ISBN13: 9781473229235 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2923-5 ISBN10: 1473229235 EAN: 9781473229235 x Description: Three thousand years after Earth's colonisation of the planet Borthan, stories of self-serving hypocrisy that occured among the first arrivals have bred a culture that forbids emotional sharing and denies the naturally human concept of 'self'. The result is a lasting peace, but at a terrible price. For it is a peace without love, without self, where even the mention of the word 'I' is taboo.Spurred on by the arrival of an Earthman with a self-baring drug, Kinnall Darival breaks the strict code of the Covenant to record the sordid details of his rebelious life from the days of his royal youth to self-appointed prophet of love. He begins his account with the greatest of heresies:'I am Kinnall Darival and I mean to tell you all about myself.'Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dying Inside Robert Silverberg (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Apr 2005
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h206mm x w185mm x s16mm 186g ISBN13: 9780575075252 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07525-2 ISBN10: 0575075252 EAN: 9780575075252 x
Description: A powerful novel about what happens when the magic leaves our lives.Imagine what it would be like if you could tell what the innermost thoughts and feelings of those around you were. Imagine if, as you reached middle age, you lost that ability. What would it do to you to be like everyone else? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
06 Feb 2020
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h198mm x w128mm x s46mm 342g ISBN13: 9781473229228 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2922-8 ISBN10: 1473229227 EAN: 9781473229228 x Description: Set in an immense world teeming with alien races and fantastic, almost magical, machinery, Valentine, an itinerant juggler, wakes up one morning with only a vague and troubled idea of who he is. He gradually discovers, through dreams and portents, that he is in fact his namesake: Lord Valentine, the Coronal, his body and throne stolen by a usurper.Across the giant world of Majipoor, Valentine sets out on a quest to win back his throne - and discover which of his enemies has the power to vanquish him so utterly from not just his throne, but his very life . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book Of Skulls Robert Silverberg (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
16 Dec 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h196mm x w128mm x s18mm 200g ISBN13: 9781857989144 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-914-4 ISBN10: 1857989147 EAN: 9781857989144 x Description: Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite.To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is willing to accept them as acolytes. But for each group of four who enter the rite, two must die in order for the others to succeed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
City Clifford D. Simak (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Jun 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h133mm x w200mm x s20mm 238g ISBN13: 9780575105232 ISBN13: 978-0-575-10523-2 ISBN10: 0575105232 EAN: 9780575105232 x Description: 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.But nothing comes without a cost. Humanity is tired, its vigour all but gone. Society is breaking down into smaller communities, dispersing into the countryside and abandoning the great cities of the world. As the human race dwindles and declines,
which of its great creations will inherit the Earth? And which will claim the stars? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hyperion Dan Simmons (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 May 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h132mm x w200mm x s32mm 334g ISBN13: 9780575099432 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09943-2 ISBN10: 0575099437 EAN: 9780575099432 x Description: The book that reinvented Space Opera, from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show.It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer.On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set fourth on a final voyage to the legendary Time Tombs on Hyperion, home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose powers transcend the limits of time and space. The pilgrims have resolved to die before discovering anything less than the secrets of the universe itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Song of Kali Dan Simmons (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
21 Aug 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h196mm x w128mm x s26mm 249g ISBN13: 9780575083073 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08307-3 ISBN10: 0575083077 EAN: 9780575083073 x Description: Calcutta, a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been hired by a New York magazine to find a noted Indian poet who has reappeared, under strange circumstances, years after he was thought dead. But nothing is simple in Calcutta, and before long Luczak's routine assignment turns into a nightmare ... it is rumoured that the poet has been brought back to life, in a bloody and grisly ceremony of human sacrifice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Apr 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 560pp h198mm x w131mm x s36mm 400g ISBN13: 9780575099487 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09948-7 ISBN10: 0575099488 EAN: 9780575099487 x Description: The critically acclaimed and bestselling sequel to HYPERION, from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show.The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all
mankind. The Ousters are laying seige to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean annihilation for man.Something is drawing the hegemony, the Ousters, the AIs, the entire universe to the Shrike. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Norstrilia Cordwainer Smith (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Feb 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h197mm x w132mm x s22mm 253g ISBN13: 9781473212534 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1253-4 ISBN10: 1473212537 EAN: 9781473212534 x Description: Rod McBan 151st farms 'stroon', the immortality drug, and is the last scion of one of the oldest and most honourable families on Norstrilia, only source of stroon. But he's also a telepathic cripple and faces the ever-present risk of being culled under the government's draconian population laws. To protect himself, he uses his not-strictly-legal computer to play the market and amass an unimaginable fortune. But after he survives an assassination attempt, McBan discovers that having enough money to literally buy the Earth is no good if you're too dead to spend it . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rediscovery of Man Cordwainer Smith (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 400pp h198mm x w130mm x s28mm 320g ISBN13: 9780575094246 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09424-6 ISBN10: 0575094249 EAN: 9780575094246 x Description: Welcome to the strangest, most distinctive future ever imagined by a science fiction writer. An interstellar empire ruled by the mysterious Lords of the Instrumentality, whose access to the drug stroon from the planet Norstrilia confers on them virtual immortality. A world in which wealthy and leisured humanity is served by the underpeople, genetically engineered animals turned into the semblance of people. A world in which the great ships which sail between the stars are eventually supplanted by the mysterious, instantaneous technique of planoforming. A world of wonder and myth, and extraordinary imagination. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Children of the Lens E.E. 'Doc' Smith (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h197mm x w130mm x s23mm 270g ISBN13: 9781473224735 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2473-5 ISBN10: 147322473X EAN: 9781473224735 x
Description: It was beginning to look as though no one could prevent the annihilation of the civilized Universe. For a weird intelligence was directing the destruction of all civilization from the icy depths of outer space. Kim Kinnison of the Galactic Patrol was one of the few men who knew how near the end was. And in the last desperate stratagem to save the Universe from total destruction, he knew he had to use his children as bait for the evil powers of the hell-planet Ploor . . .Children of the Lens is the sixth self-contained novel in E. E. 'Doc' Smith's epic Lensman series, one of the all-time classics of adventurous, galaxy-spanning science fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Galactic Patrol E.E. 'Doc' Smith (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h196mm x w129mm x s22mm 254g ISBN13: 9781473224704 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2470-4 ISBN10: 1473224705 EAN: 9781473224704 x Description: The space-pirates of Boskone raided at will, menacing the whole structure of interstellar civilization. Master-minded by a super-scientist, their conquering fleets outgunned even the mighty space cruisers of the Galactic Patrol.When Lensman Kim Kinnison of the Patrol discovered the secret Boskonian base, it was invulnerable to outside attack. But where a battle-fleet would meet insuperable resistance, a single infiltrator might penetrate the Boskonian defenses - if he had the guts to take on million-to-one odds. Kinnison had guts enough to take on the odds - even with the future of the civilized Universe riding on his shoulders . . .Galactic Patrol is the first self-contained novel in E. E. 'Doc' Smith's epic Lensman series, one of the all-time classics of adventurous, galaxy-spanning science fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grey Lensman E.E. 'Doc' Smith (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h197mm x w130mm x s23mm 269g ISBN13: 9781473224711 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2471-1 ISBN10: 1473224713 EAN: 9781473224711 x Description: Somewhere among the galaxies is the stronghold of Boskone - a network of brilliant space-criminals whose hunger for conquest threatens the continued existence of all known civilisation.But where is this stronghold? Boskonian bases are scattered across the universe - hidden by gigantic thought-screens that defy penetration. The best minds in the Galactic Patrol have tried. And failed. Now it is up to Lensman Kim Kinnison, using his fantastic powers, to infiltrate the Boskonian strongholds, find the location of the enemy's Grand Base - and smash it forever.But Kinnison doesn't know that the power of Boskone reaches further than anyone dreamed - into the Galactic Patrol itself . . .Grey Lensman is the fourth selfcontained novel in E. E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensman series, one of the all-time classics of adventurous, galaxy-spanning science fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Second Stage Lensmen E.E. 'Doc' Smith (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h197mm x w132mm x s24mm 289g ISBN13: 9781473224728 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2472-8 ISBN10: 1473224721 EAN: 9781473224728 x Description: 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 and thought. He had to work his way up through the ranks of an alien enemy organization, right into the highest echelons of power. Then it would be he who issued the orders - orders that would destroy his own civilization . . .Second Stage Lensmen is the fifth self-contained novel in E. E. 'Doc' Smith's epic Lensman series, one of the all-time classics of adventurous, galaxy-spanning science fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last And First Men Olaf Stapledon (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jun 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h200mm x w134mm x s21mm 238g ISBN13: 9781857988062 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-806-2 ISBN10: 185798806X EAN: 9781857988062 x Description: One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years.Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his work. First published in 1930, Last and First Men is full of pioneering speculations about evolution, terraforming, genetic engineering and many other subjects. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Odd John Olaf Stapledon (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Mar 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h196mm x w128mm x s18mm 200g ISBN13: 9780575072244 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07224-4 ISBN10: 0575072245 EAN: 9780575072244 x Description: John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him. And Odd John has a plan to create a new order on Earth, a new supernormal species. But the world is not ready for such a change ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Star Maker Olaf Stapledon (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Nov 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h197mm x w131mm x s22mm 258g ISBN13: 9781857988079 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-807-9 ISBN10: 1857988078 EAN: 9781857988079 x Description: One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun.Even Stapledon's other great work, LAST AND FIRST MEN, pales in ambition next to STAR MAKER, which presents nothing less than an entire imagined history of life in the universe, encompassing billions of years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Earth Abides George.R. Stewart (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Jun 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h196mm x w134mm x s25mm 283g ISBN13: 9781857988215 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-821-5 ISBN10: 1857988213 EAN: 9781857988215 x Description: In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence.Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encounters a female survivor who becomes his wife. Around them and their children a small community develops, living like their pioneer ancestors, but rebuilding civilization is beyond their resources, and gradually they return to a simpler way of life.A poignant novel about finding a new normal after the upheaval of a global crisis. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hard To Be A God Arkady Strugatsky (Author) Boris Strugatsky (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Apr 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h196mm x w133mm x s20mm 219g ISBN13: 9781473208292 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0829-2 ISBN10: 1473208297 EAN: 9781473208292 x Description: Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages. Although in possession of far more advanced knowledge than the society around him, he is forbidden to interfere with the natural progress of history. His place is to observe rather than interfere - but can he remain aloof in the face of so much cruelty and injustice ...? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Doomed City Arkady Strugatsky (Author) Boris Strugatsky (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
27 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 480pp h197mm x w168mm x s32mm 330g ISBN13: 9781473222281 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2228-1 ISBN10: 1473222281 EAN: 9781473222281 x Description: It is a mysterious city whose sun is switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. This is life in the Experiment.Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. As increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Snail on the Slope Arkady Strugatsky (Author) Boris Strugatsky (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
17 Oct 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 272pp h196mm x w128mm x s26mm 240g ISBN13: 9781473228283 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2828-3 ISBN10: 147322828X EAN: 9781473228283 x Description: ENTER THE ADMINISTRATIONPeretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below. Except no one ever seems to go there, and his attempts only trap him further within the workings of this strange organisation.ENTER THE FORESTCandide cannot remember how he got to the Forest, and he is certain he belongs somewhere else. Determined to escape, he finds that all paths lead him round strange bends and into encounters with bizarre creatures.NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMSThis classic SF novel sees Boris and Arkady Strugatsky meditate on how little man can understand of the wider world, and in doing so produce one of the great literary works to come out of Soviet Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Monday Starts on Saturday Arkady Strugatsky (Author) Boris Strugatsky (Author) Andrew Bromfield (Translated by) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h130mm x w200mm x s20mm 240g ISBN13: 9781473202214 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0221-4 ISBN10: 1473202213 EAN: 9781473202214 x
Description: When young programmer Alexander Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy, where research into magic is serious business. And where science, sorcery and socialism meet, can chaos be far behind? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Apr 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h132mm x w200mm x s19mm 212g ISBN13: 9781857988529 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-852-9 ISBN10: 1857988523 EAN: 9781857988529 x Description: All alone: an idiot boy, a runaway girl, a severely retarded baby, and twin girls with a vocabulary of two words between them. Yet once they are mysteriously drawn together this collection of misfits becomes something very, very different from the rest of humanity.This intensely written and moving novel is an extraordinary vision of humanity's next step. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dreaming In Smoke Tricia Sullivan (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h200mm x w138mm x s23mm 290g ISBN13: 9781473224742 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2474-2 ISBN10: 1473224748 EAN: 9781473224742 x Description: Kalypso Deed is a shotgun, riding the interface between the AI Ganesh and human scientists who solve problems through cyberassisted Dreams. But she's young and a little careless; she'd rather mix drinks and play jazz. Azamat Marcsson is a colorless statistician: middle-aged, boring, and obsessed with microorganisms. A first-class nonentity - until one of his Dreams implodes, taking Kalypso with it.Now Ganesh is crashing, and nothing could be worse. For on the planet T'nane, it is the AI alone that keeps the colonists alive, eking out a grim existence in an environment inimical to human life. To save the colony, Kalypso must persuade Marcsson to finish the Dream that is destroying Ganesh. But Marcsson has gone mad, and T'nane itself has plans for them both that will alter their minds-and their world - forever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lord of Light Roger Zelazny (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 304pp h198mm x w182mm x s24mm 263g ISBN13: 9780575094215 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09421-5 ISBN10: 0575094214 EAN: 9780575094215 x
Description: Imagine a distant world where gods walk as men, but wield vast and hidden powers. Here they have made the stage on which they build a subtle pattern of alliance, love, and deadly enmity. Are they truly immortal? Who are these gods who rule the destiny of a teeming world?Their names include Brahma, Kali, Krishna and also he who was called Buddha, the Lord of Light, but who now prefers to be known simply as Sam. The gradual unfolding of the story - how the colonization of another planet became a re-enactment of Eastern mythology - is one of the great imaginative feats of modern science fiction.Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1968. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Chronicles of Amber Roger Zelazny (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Apr 2022
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 800pp h198mm x w129mm 41g ISBN13: 9781473222168 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-2216-8 ISBN10: 1473222168 EAN: 9781473222168 x Description: Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the Patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs.In a hospital on the Shadow Earth, a young man is recovering from a freak car accident; amnesia has robbed him of all his memory, even the fact that he is Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber, rightful heir to the throne - and he is in deadly peril . . . The five books, Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon and The Courts of Chaos, together make up The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny's finest work of fantasy and an undisputed classic of the genre. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Of Men and Monsters William Tenn (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
11 Aug 2011
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h198mm x w132mm x s20mm 226g ISBN13: 9780575099449 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09944-9 ISBN10: 0575099445 EAN: 9780575099449 x Description: Giant, technologically superior aliens have conquered Earth, but humankind survives - even flourishes in a way. Men and women live, like mice, in burrows in the massive walls of the huge homes of the aliens, and scurry about under their feet, stealing from them. A complex social and religious order has evolved, with women preserving knowledge and working as healers, and men serving as warriors and thieves.For the aliens, men and women are just a nuisance, nothing more than vermin. Which, ironically, may just be humankind's strength and point the way forward. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beauty Sheri S. Tepper (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
30 Oct 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 480pp h198mm x w133mm x s31mm 385g ISBN13: 9781473206595 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0659-5 ISBN10: 1473206596 EAN: 9781473206595
x Description: A magnificent reworking of the Sleeping Beauty story by a master storytellerOn her 16th birthday, the princess Beauty sidesteps the sleeping curse placed upon her by her wicked aunt, the fairy Carabosse - only to be kidnapped by visitors from another time and place, far from the picturesque castle in 14th-century England. She is taken to the world of the future, a savage society where, even amongst the teeming billions, she is utterly alone. And as she travels magically to places both imaginary and real, Beauty eventually comes to understand her special place in humanity's destiny.Captivating, uncompromising and unforgettable, BEAUTY will carve its own unique place in the hearts and minds of readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grass Sheri S. Tepper (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Feb 2002
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 544pp h132mm x w200mm x s34mm 384g ISBN13: 9781857987980 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-798-0 ISBN10: 1857987985 EAN: 9781857987980 x Description: What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gate to Women's Country Sheri S. Tepper (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Mar 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 336pp h132mm x w199mm x s22mm 232g ISBN13: 9780575131040 ISBN13: 978-0-575-13104-0 ISBN10: 0575131047 EAN: 9780575131040 x Description: THE GATE TO WOMEN'S COUNTRY tells of a society that exists three hundred years after our own has nearly destroyed itself. Now, male warriors are separated from women at an early age and live in garrisons plotting futilely for the battles which must never be fought again. Inside the women's towns, education, arts and science flourish. But for some like Stavia, there is more to see. Her sojourn with the man she is forbidden to love brings into sharp focus the contradictions that define their lives.And when tragedy strikes, Stavia is faced with a decision she never thought she would make - a decision that could for ever change their world ...THE GATE TO WOMEN'S COUNTRY is a novel that rivals Margaret Atwood's THE HANDMAID'S TALE in scope, impact, and the sheer power of its storytelling. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mockingbird: From the author of The Queen's Gambit - now a major Netflix drama Walter Tevis (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2007
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h198mm x w128mm x s24mm 240g ISBN13: 9780575079151 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07915-1 ISBN10: 0575079150 EAN: 9780575079151 x Description: Walter Tevis is the acclaimed author of The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Queen's Gambit.'A moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Superman and Star Wars' LA TIMES'A moving examination of people discovering the wonders of human thought and human love' PUBLISHERS WEEKLYThe future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure.Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books, hope even for Spofforth.A haunting novel, reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love and the magic of a dream. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man Who Fell to Earth: From the author of The Queen's Gambit - now a major Netflix drama Walter Tevis (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
26 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h196mm x w134mm x s16mm 184g ISBN13: 9781473213111 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1311-1 ISBN10: 1473213118 EAN: 9781473213111 x Description: The remarkable novel upon which the stunning cult film was based.'Beautiful ... The story of an extraterrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one' NEW YORK TIMESThomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth. Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce, a chemistry professor in Iowa, is intrigued by some of the new products Newton's company brings to the market, and already suspects Newton of being an alien. As Bryce and the FBI close in, Newton finds his own clarity and sense of purpose diminishing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Long, Loud Silence Wilson Tucker (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2035
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781473207738 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0773-8 ISBN10: 1473207738 EAN: 9781473207738
x Description: When Corporal Russell Gary wakes up in a hotel room after a drinking binge, he finds himself the only living soul in town. Learning that a nuclear attack has devastated the east of the United States, he takes a car and attempts to return to civilisation. It soon becomes clear, however, that there was also a biological weapon deployed, and the deadly pneumonic plague has been released. A lucky handful of people - Corporal Gary among them - have resisted the plague. But are they lucky? As carriers, they still carry pose a significant danger to the surviving population. Can Gary be trusted to put the safety of millions ahead of his own personal salvation . . . ? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sea and Summer George Turner (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Mar 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h198mm x w131mm x s25mm 276g ISBN13: 9780575118690 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11869-0 ISBN10: 0575118695 EAN: 9780575118690 x Description: Francis Conway is Swill - one of the 90% in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. A young boy growing. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill homes into watery tombs. And now the young boy must find a way to escape the approaching tide of disaster.THE SEA AND SUMMER, published in the US as THE DROWNING TOWERS, is George Turner's masterful exploration of the effects of climate change in the not-too-distant future. Comparable to J.G. Ballard's THE DROWNED WORLD, it was shortlisted for the NEBULA AWARD and won the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emphyrio Jack Vance (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Oct 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h138mm x w215mm x s16mm 198g ISBN13: 9781857988857 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-885-7 ISBN10: 185798885X EAN: 9781857988857 x Description: Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy. But they know little of this. Their society is harshly regimented, its religion austere and unforgiving, and primitive - to maintain standards, even the most basic use of automation is punishable by death.When Amiante, a wood-carver, is executed for processing old documents with a camera, his son Ghyl rebels, and decides to bring down the system. To do so, he must first interpret the story of Emphyrio, an ancient hero of Halman legend. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night Lamp Jack Vance (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 May 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 384pp h198mm x w131mm x s24mm 274g ISBN13: 9781473208926 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-0892-6 ISBN10: 1473208920 EAN: 9781473208926 x Description: Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, the widely populated region of space where the full diversity of human development is revealed, the story of Jaro Fath unfolds: from wildling orphan to spaceship captain, a tale of adventure and discovery wittily told.Jaro's life is directed by an inner voice he cannot account for . . . until he returns to Kammerwelt, described in The Handbook of the Planets as the fourth world in the entourage of Robert Palmer's Star, drifting in a far-flung sector of the galaxy known as the Dragon's Maw. Jaro is haunted by memories of his dead mother's terror, and he is about to find out why . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tales Of The Dying Earth Jack Vance (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Apr 2000
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 752pp h134mm x w201mm x s35mm 505g ISBN13: 9781857989946 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-994-6 ISBN10: 1857989945 EAN: 9781857989946 x Description: The fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series, the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun.Here, in one volume, is Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance's classic Dying Earth saga comprising The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous. Travel to a far distant future, when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky, where magic and science is one, and the Earth has but a few short decades to live ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The First Men In The Moon H.G. Wells (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h198mm x w132mm x s22mm 199g ISBN13: 9781473218000 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1800-0 ISBN10: 1473218004 EAN: 9781473218000 x Description: 'As we saw it first it was the wildest and most desolate of scenes. We were in an enormous amphitheatre, a vast circular plain, the floor of the giant crater. Its cliff-like wall closed us in on every side?'Thanks to the discovery of an anti-gravity metal, Cavorite, two Victorian Englishman decide to tackle the most prestigious goal - space travel. They construct a sphere that will ultimately take them to the moon. On landing, they encounter what seems like an utterly barren landscape but they soon find signs that the planet was once very much alive. Then they hear curious hammering sounds from beneath the surface, and come face to face with the Selenites, a race of insect-like aliens living in a rigidly organised hive society.
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The Food of the Gods H.G. Wells (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h196mm x w128mm x s22mm 200g ISBN13: 9781473218017 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1801-7 ISBN10: 1473218012 EAN: 9781473218017 x Description: Two scientists develop a foodstuff that causes unparalleled growth in animals and humans. The results of their experimentation lead to chaos and unforseen consequences throughout the land.THE FOOD OF THE GODS deals with many issues which are still present in science today and is a both witty and disturbing tale. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Invisible Man H.G. Wells (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 160pp h129mm x w199mm x s13mm 147g ISBN13: 9781473217980 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1798-0 ISBN10: 1473217989 EAN: 9781473217980 x Description: H.G. Wells' great novel of the dangers of science describes a man cast out from society by his own terrifying discovery.THE INVISIBLE MAN tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatever action is necessary to keep his incredible discovery safe, he terrorises the local village where he has sought refuge. Wells skilfully weaves the themes of science, terror and pride as the invisible Griffin gradually loses his sanity and, ultimately, his humanity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Island Of Doctor Moreau H.G. Wells (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h200mm x w170mm x s17mm 183g ISBN13: 9781473217997 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1799-7 ISBN10: 1473217997 EAN: 9781473217997 x Description: Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr Moreau, a vivisectionst driven out of Britain in disgrace. And soon strange events cause Prendick to uncover the full horror of Dr Moreau's activities on the island.THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU mixes discussion on the divide between humans and the animal kingdom and chilling macabre horror in an unrivalled fashion. Its question on how far science should go is one that rings true today as it did when it was first published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Time Machine H.G. Wells (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
14 Mar 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 144pp h163mm x w200mm x s12mm 131g ISBN13: 9781473217973 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1797-3 ISBN10: 1473217970 EAN: 9781473217973 x Description: A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time.THE TIME MACHINE remains one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature and has proved hugely influential. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h162mm x w201mm x s18mm 196g ISBN13: 9781473218024 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1802-4 ISBN10: 1473218020 EAN: 9781473218024 x Description: 'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's...'So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killing machines - armed with heatrays - that are impervious to attack. Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path. Everything, except the few humans they collect in metal traps.Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology and powered flight is just a dream. Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars, and soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang Kate Wilhelm (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
12 Oct 2006 (14 Jun 2012)
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 256pp h199mm x w133mm x s20mm 225g ISBN13: 9780575079144 ISBN13: 978-0-575-07914-4 ISBN10: 0575079142 EAN: 9780575079144 x Description: The Sumner family can read the signs: the droughts and floods, the blighted crops, the shortages, the rampant diseases and plagues, and, above all, the increasing sterility all point to one thing. Their isolated farm in the Appalachian Mountains gives them the ideal place to survive the coming breakdown, and their wealth and know-how gives them the means. Men and women must clone themselves for humanity to survive. But what then?
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Darker Than You Think Jack Williamson (Author) Series:
Gateway Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
21 Aug 2008
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 288pp h199mm x w155mm x s20mm 244g ISBN13: 9780575083035 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08303-5 ISBN10: 0575083034 EAN: 9780575083035 x Description: The unsettling dreams begin for small-town reporter Will Barbee not long after he first meets the mysterious and beautiful April Bell. They are vivid, powerful and deeply disturbing nightmares in which he commits atrocious acts. And one by one, his friends are meeting violent deaths.It is clear to Barbee that he is embroiled in something far beyond human understanding, something unspeakably evil. And it intimately involves the seductive, dangerously intoxicating April, and the question, 'Who is the Child of the Night?' When he discovers the answer to that, his world will change utterly. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Doomsday Book Connie Willis (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Nov 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 608pp h196mm x w130mm x s40mm 480g ISBN13: 9780575131095 ISBN13: 978-0-575-13109-5 ISBN10: 0575131098 EAN: 9780575131095 x Description: "A tour de force" - New York Times Book ReviewFor Kivrin Engle, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing a bullet-proof backstory. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.Winner of both the 1993 Hugo and Nebula Best Novel awards, this is a science fiction classic."Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsively readable" - Locus"It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in" - Washington Post _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Time is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis Connie Willis (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Aug 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 496pp h199mm x w159mm x s32mm 344g ISBN13: 9780575131149 ISBN13: 978-0-575-13114-9 ISBN10: 0575131144 EAN: 9780575131149 x Description: This new collection of stories from the multi-award-winning author of DOOMSDAY BOOK and TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG contains:A Letter from the ClearysAt the RialtoDeath on the NileThe Soul Selects Her own SocietyFire WatchInside JobEven the QueenThe Winds of
Marble ArchAll Seated on the GroundLast of the WinnebagosTen stories - which have all won the HUGO AWARD, the NEBULA AWARD or both - are compulsory reading for the serious science fiction fan. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 May 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 528pp h196mm x w128mm x s36mm 400g ISBN13: 9780575113121 ISBN13: 978-0-575-11312-1 ISBN10: 057511312X EAN: 9780575113121 x Description: Ned Henry is a time-travelling historian who specialises in the mid-20th century - currently engaged in researching the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral. He's also made so many drops into the past that he's suffering from a dangerously advanced case of 'time-lag'. Unfortunately for Ned, an emergency dash to Victorian England is required and he's the only available historian. But Ned's time-lag is so bad that he's not sure what the errand is - which is bad news since, if he fails, history could unravel around him ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge (Author) Series:
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2016
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 560pp h197mm x w127mm x s34mm 402g ISBN13: 9781473211964 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1196-4 ISBN10: 1473211964 EAN: 9781473211964 x Description: This is science fiction on the grandest of scales - a cast of thousands set across hundreds of years and in the farthest reaches of Human Space. A prequel to his earlier novel A Fire Upon the Deep, this new novel is epic in scope and a thoroughly riveting read. A Deepness In the Sky is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. Both they and the Emergents are orbiting Arachna, a dormant planet which will shortly wake up when its On/Off star relights after decades of darkness. Both groups hope to exploit the coming age of technology and commerce on Arachna. But while the Queng Ho seek only to trade aggressively, the Emergents plans are far more sinister, amounting to little short of genocide . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
08 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 608pp h195mm x w132mm x s39mm 430g ISBN13: 9781473211957 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1195-7 ISBN10: 1473211956 EAN: 9781473211957 x
Description: Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space - from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these 'zones of thought', but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artefact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines - an alien race with a harsh medieval culture - and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue party, not entirely composed of humans, must free the children - and retrieve a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Limbo Bernard Wolfe (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
15 Dec 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 302g ISBN13: 9781473212473 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1247-3 ISBN10: 1473212472 EAN: 9781473212473 x Description: In the aftermath of an atomic war, a new international movement of pacifism has arisen. Multitudes of young men have chosen to curb their aggressive instincts through voluntary amputation - disarmament in its most literal sense. Those who have undergone this procedure are highly esteemed in the new society. But they have a problem - their prosthetics require a rare metal to function, and international tensions are rising over which countries get the right to mine it . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book Of The New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw Gene Wolfe (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 608pp h196mm x w133mm x s31mm 414g ISBN13: 9781473216495 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1649-5 ISBN10: 1473216494 EAN: 9781473216495 x Description: An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth. But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have a grander plans for Severian the torturer . . . ?This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book of the New Sun: Volume 2: Sword and Citadel Gene Wolfe (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Nov 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 624pp h131mm x w200mm x s30mm 416g ISBN13: 9781473212008 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1200-8 ISBN10: 1473212006 EAN: 9781473212008 x Description: An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. The torturer's apprentice, Severian, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners, is now the Lictor of Thrax, a city far distant from his home. But it is not long before Severian must flee this city, too, and journey again into the world. Embattled by friends and enemies alike, pursued by monstrous creatures, the one-time torturer's apprentice must overcome hitherto unimagined perils, as he moves closer to fulfilling his ultimate destiny.This edition contains the concluding two volumes of this four-volume novel, The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fifth Head of Cerberus Gene Wolfe (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2010
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h195mm x w133mm x s18mm 211g ISBN13: 9780575094222 ISBN13: 978-0-575-09422-2 ISBN10: 0575094222 EAN: 9780575094222 x Description: Far from Earth two sister planets, Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix, circle each other. It is said that a race of shapeshifting aliens once lived here, only to become extinct when human colonists arrived. But one man believes they still exist, somewhere out in the wilderness.In THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS, Gene Wolfe brilliantly interweaves three tales: a scientist's son gradual discovery of the bizarre secret of his heritage; a young man's mythic dreamquest for his darker half; the mystifying chronicle of an anthropologist's seemingly-arbitrary imprisonment. Gradually, a mesmerising pattern emerges. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Random Acts of Senseless Violence Jack Womack (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Oct 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 240pp h197mm x w131mm x s19mm 211g ISBN13: 9780575132306 ISBN13: 978-0-575-13230-6 ISBN10: 0575132302 EAN: 9780575132306 x Description: It's just a little later than now and Lola Hart is writing her life in a diary. She's a nice middle-class girl on the verge of her teens who schools at the calm end of town.A normal, happy, girl.But in a disintegrating New York she is a dying breed. War is breaking out on Long Island, the army boys are flamethrowing the streets, five Presidents have been assassinated in a year. No one notices any more. Soon Lola and her family must
move over to the Lower East side - Loisaida - to the Pit and the new language of violence of the streets.The metamorphosis of the nice Lola Hart into the new model Lola has begun ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
20 May 2010
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h202mm x w130mm x s20mm 240g ISBN13: 9780575081956 ISBN13: 978-0-575-08195-6 ISBN10: 0575081953 EAN: 9780575081956 x Description: One of America's greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilationExperiment.Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it.Solution.Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sirens Of Titan Kurt Vonnegut (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Sep 1999
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 224pp h197mm x w130mm x s17mm 201g ISBN13: 9781857988840 ISBN13: 978-1-85798-884-0 ISBN10: 1857988841 EAN: 9781857988840 x Description: When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour.But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will be. He knows, for instance, that his wife is going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the richest man in the world. He also knows that on Titan - one of Saturn's moons - is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore, who has been waiting 200,000 years for a spare part for his grounded spacecraft ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Chrysalids John Wyndham (Author) Series:
S.F. Masterworks
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Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
09 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback (Text (eye-readable)) 208pp h204mm x w130mm x s20mm 286g ISBN13: 9781473212688 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1268-8 ISBN10: 1473212685 EAN: 9781473212688 x Description: David's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. And blasphemies, as everyone knows, should be burned: KEEP PURE THE STOCK OF THE LORD; WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT.Little does he realise that his own son - and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends - have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants. And mutants, as everyone
knows, should be burned.But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery - and death - or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Outward Urge John Wyndham (Author) Series:
Golden Age Masterworks Edition:
Imprint:
Gateway
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
05 Aug 2021
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 176pp h196mm x w130mm x s18mm 160g ISBN13: 9781473230729 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-3072-9 ISBN10: 1473230721 EAN: 9781473230729 x Description: The 'outward urge' was a factor in the Troon inheritance. Successive generations of Troons, looking up at the stars, heard the siren voices that called them out into Space. And, as the frontiers of Space receded, there was usually one Troon, if not more, out there, helping to push them back.In an age in which what goes up need not necessarily come down, the likely adventures of the Conquistadors of Space are every bit as exciting as any world menaced by triffids. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Elleander Morning Jerry Yulsman (Author) Series:
Fantasy Masterworks
Edition:
Imprint:
Gollancz
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Co
Pub Date:
10 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback (Text (eye-readable)) 320pp h197mm x w130mm x s25mm 306g ISBN13: 9781473211698 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1169-8 ISBN10: 1473211697 EAN: 9781473211698 x Description: When the mysterious, beautiful Elleander Morning travels through time to Vienna in 1913, her aim is not to visit the birthplace of Schubert and Strauss. Instead, she has come to assassinate a struggling young artist. His name: Adolf Hitler.But 60 years on, long after Elleander has changed the path of the world, a mysterious book - the history of a terrible, global war that never was - threatens to unravel reality. As the horrific past - a past that never happened - begins to reassert itself, billions of lives lie in the balance . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________