"SF Masterworks"

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• Demolished Man Alfred Bester Engelstalig Paperback 9781857988222 250 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K. Dick Engelstalig Paperback 9780575074804 137 pagina's In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Raft Stephen Baxter Engelstalig Paperback 9781473224056 246 pagina's Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence. A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Snail on the Slope Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky Engelstalig Paperback 9781473228283 248 pagina's Peretz 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Hammer of God Arthur C. Clarke Engelstalig Paperback 9781473201408 The Hammer of God is vintage Clarke: superb storytelling, authentic science, and wonderful vignettes of life in the twenty-second century on Earth, the Moon, Mars – and in space. ‘The... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• More than human Theodore Sturgeon Engelstalig Paperback 9781857988529 233 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Forever War Joe Haldeman Engelstalig Paperback 9781407230085 240 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Female Man Joanna Russ Engelstalig Paperback 9780575094994 Januari 2010 224 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Valis Philip K. Dick Engelstalig Paperback 9781407239972 270 pagina's This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Time Machine H. G. Wells Engelstalig Paperback 9781473217973 Januari 2017 125 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Hard to be a God Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky Engelstalig Paperback 9781473208292 Januari 2015 246 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Fall of Hyperion Dan Simmons Engelstalig Paperback 9780575099487 Januari 2012 560 pagina's (1) 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Inhabited Island Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky Engelstalig Paperback 9781473232440 When Maxim Kammerer crashes on an uncharted world, he is eager to establish first contact with the planet's inhabitants. Thrown into the reality of their nightmarish society, Maxim realises... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Lord of Light Roger Zelazny Engelstalig Paperback 9780575094215 Januari 2010 304 pagina's (1) In a distant world 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Body Snatchers Jack Finney Engelstalig Paperback 9780575085312 Januari 2010 226 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• A Scanner Darkly Philip K. Dick Engelstalig Paperback 9781407247410 220 pagina's Substance 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Cryptozoic! Brian Aldiss Engelstalig Paperback 9781473222731 224 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Martian Time-Slip Philip K. Dick Engelstalig Paperback 9781407244099 226 pagina's (1) On the arid colony of Mars the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. For although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Time Out of Joint Philip K. Dick Engelstalig Paperback 9780575074583 220 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke Engelstalig Paperback 9781857987218 258 pagina's In 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Doomed City Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky Engelstalig Paperback 9781473222281 462 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus Gene Wolfe Engelstalig Paperback 9780575094222 222 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Fire Upon the Deep Vinge Vernor Engelstalig Paperback 9781473211957 Januari 2016 608 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Star Maker Olaf Stapledon Engelstalig Paperback 9781857988079 272 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin Engelstalig Paperback 9781857989519 184 pagina's George Orr is in most respects a mild and unremarkable man, but he has an ability with which he can transform the world around him, for George's dreams alter reality. His psychiatrist,... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Dying of the Light George R.R. Martin Engelstalig Paperback 9781473212527 365 pagina's A whisperjewel has summoned Dirk t’Larien to Worlorn, and a love he thinks he lost. But Worlorn isn’t the world Dirk imagined, and Gwen Delvano is no longer the woman he once knew. She is... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Greybeard Brian Aldiss Engelstalig Paperback 9780575071131 239 pagina's An accident restores the Dark Ages, and by the year 2029 the old have inherited the Earth. There are no more children, no young men or women. Huddled together in isolated villages, the old... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• A Maze of Death Philip K. Dick Engelstalig Paperback 9781407246383 190 pagina's Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only fourteen citizens, no one can trust anyone else and death can strike at any moment. The planet is vast and largely unexplored, populated... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• City and the Stars Arthur C. Clarke Engelstalig Paperback 9781857987638 256 pagina's Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell Engelstalig Paperback 9781473234802 Januari 2022 320 pagina's (1) BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• The Andromeda Anthology John Elliott, Fred Hoyle Engelstalig Paperback 9781473230118 394 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Last and first men Olaf Stapledon Engelstalig Paperback 9781857988062 307 pagina's New edition of this title, first published in 1930, and now part of the Millennium }SF Masterworks{ series One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Dr Bloodmoney Philip K Dick Engelstalig Paperback 9781473201682 Januari 2014 258 pagina's 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... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Odd John Olaf Stapledon Engelstalig Paperback 9780575072244 208 pagina's John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to all who come into contact with him. Ordinary humans were just... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• A Fall of Moondust Arthur C. Clarke Engelstalig Paperback 9781407246376 224 pagina's Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist-cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust while, on the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke Engelstalig Paperback 9781407230078 252 pagina's At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Inverted World Christopher Priest Engelstalig Paperback 9781407246406 304 pagina's A uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren
• Sirius Olaf Stapledon Engelstalig Paperback 9781407248547 194 pagina's Sirius is Thomas Trelone’s great experiment – a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone’s own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest... Vanaf 8,95 Bekijk exemplaren