Foundation
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon’s two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one that shaped science fiction as we know it today. The Galactic Empire has prospered for twelve thousand years....Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowTales of Pirx the Pilot
The adventures of one of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx—a 'space truck driver' and everyman in Outer Space. Mission: Vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68. Correction to stable oriental path, with orbital period of four hours and twenty-six minutes. Proceed to rendezvous with shuttlecraft vehicles of the JO-2 type. There await further instructions. Tales of Pirx...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowRiddley Walker
Russell Hoban's masterpiece, a post-apocalyptic vision of humanity stripped back to its essentials. O what we ben! And what we come to... Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilisation, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Great Science Fiction
An omnibus of all four of the greatest science-fiction novels of H. G. Wells. In the space of less than four years, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) published four of the most influential, original, and hair-raising works of science-fiction. In a life of tireless experiment, travelling, and intellectual engagement, Wells was both a leading public figure and one of the great...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowMortal Engines
A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age — The New York Times "On one side of the ducats was stamped the radiant profile of Archithorius, on the other - an image of his six hundred arms." Mortal Engines is a selection of the best of Stanislaw Lem's extraordinary miniature space epics, chosen by his heroic translator Michael Kandel, who...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowKleinzeit
A richly strange and funny novel follows one man grappling with love, life and creativity. On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowFiasco
'A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel' - The New York Times 'There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun- the purposeful and the desolate.' The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Time Machine: Popular Penguins
A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have reason to be afraid: in tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race—the sinister Morlocks. When the scientist's...Paperback$1500Elsewhere:$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow1984
The ultimate dystopian masterpiece. A dystopian masterpiece - the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century. The year is 1984. War and revolution have created an unrecognisable world. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is total and The Thought Police ensure no individual thinking is allowed....Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins
When Bill Masen awakes blindfolded in hospital and carefully removes his bandages, he realises he is one of the few who can see; almost everyone else has been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilisation in chaos, the triffids—huge, venomous plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh—can have their day. This stark vision of a desolate world infested...Paperback$1500Elsewhere:$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object — only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians move across the land in...Paperback$1500Elsewhere:$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowFrankenstein (Painted Editions)
Frankenstein, the frightening classic tale, is now available in an affordable softcover edition. It features striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists. Beloved by horror fans across the globe, Frankenstein explores...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Invisible Man: Popular Penguins
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses, and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first assumed to be a shy accident victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is...Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowNineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell presents a dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative and has never been more essential reading. Winston Smith obeys the Party, rewriting history at the Ministry of Truth. But increasingly, Winston grows to hate the persecution of those who commit Thoughtcrime. As he starts to think for himself, Winston...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowJourney to the Centre of the Earth
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne is a pioneering science fiction classic that tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock. He discovers a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript, revealing a cipher written in runes. This cipher tells of an entrance to another world—a world hidden beneath our own. In Jules Verne's...Paperback$2100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Boxset
First a legendary radio series, then a bestselling book, then a blockbuster movie, the immensely successful Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams needs no introduction. This paperback boxset collection includes all five parts of the trilogy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and...Set$10000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowPlayer Piano
Kurt Vonnegut's debut novel, Player Piano, marks the arrival of a literary genius whose work has left an indelible impression on American literature. With the re-release of this trailblazing book to celebrate Vonnegut's 100th birthday, readers are invited to revisit a story that remains strikingly relevant. Detailing a dystopian future where automation has rendered most of the American workforce obsolete,...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowSeveneves
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson is a monumental work of speculative fiction that explores humanity's enduring will to survive. When a catastrophic event renders Earth a ticking time bomb, the fate of humanity hangs by a thread. The world's nations come together in an unprecedented, last-ditch effort to ensure that humanity can endure. They look beyond Earth’s atmosphere for salvation, transforming...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowParadises Lost
Embark on a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Ursula K. Le Guin and her novella Paradises Lost – the epic tale of a young friendship forged in space, about to take a new and unexpected course. Ursula K. Le Guin's beautifully realised space epic of two young friends finding their lives steer a new and unexpected course. As the spaceship Discovery makes...Paperback$2400Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-orderJourney to the Centre of the Earth
This deluxe edition features Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth with a lavish gold-embossed cover, gilded page edges, and patterned endpapers. Join Professor Lidenbrock and Axel on an extraordinary subterranean adventure, encountering wonders and dangers alike. Preserving the classic text, this pocket-sized edition is perfect for classic fiction enthusiasts. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series, these...Hardback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 weekThe Last Man
The Last Man by Mary Shelley is a landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction. It imagines a world where newly forged communities and reverence for nature rise from the ashes of a pandemic-ravaged society. This edition is now available for the first time in Penguin Classics, with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit. Written while...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksSurvivor
From the bestselling and award-winning novelist, Octavia E. Butler. Completing the Patternist series, a new edition of her cult classic novel, now in print for the first time in fifty years. When Alanna flees a plague-scarred Earth to a new planet, she believes she has found a peaceful new home for humanity. Instead, she finds herself caught between two battling...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-orderTwenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas
"I am going to sink it." "You are not!" "I am," he coldly replied. "Do not take it on yourself to judge me, monsieur." French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, but discovers instead the Nautilus, a self-contained world built by its enigmatic captain. Together, Nemo and Aronnax explore the underwater realms of...Paperback$4100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksFlatland
A romance in many dimensions that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory. A Penguin Classic A work that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth—its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third...Paperback$4100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe War of the Worlds
Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this thrilling science fiction classic. The War of the Worlds tells the story of the Martian invasion of Planet Earth. This late-nineteenth-century novel plays on the mood of the period in which it was written—a world with great fears for its security and long-term stability....Hardback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Country of the Blind
"Over the mountains I come," said Nunez, "out of the country beyond there—where men can see. From near Bogota, where there are a hundred thousands of people, and where the city passes out of sight." One of the acknowledged masters of speculative fiction, H.G. Wells conducts in this short story a disconcerting thought experiment. What would become of a community...Book$1499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Night Land and Other Perilous Romances
Available for the first time in trade paperback, the fourth of five volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential early twentieth-century author of science fiction, horror, and the fantastic. William Hope Hodgson was, like his contemporaries Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, one of the most important, prolific, and influential fantasists of the early twentieth century. His...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Carnegie Medal winning author Tanya Landman delivers an eerily captivating and accessible retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic novel of murder and monstrosity. Evil Mr Hyde stalks London's streets, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.Good Dr Jekyll keeps protecting him.Why? Is Hyde blackmailing Jekyll for some shameful past sin? Or is something stranger and more sinister going...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableOut 11 Aug 2026Pre-orderTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Signature Editions)
Jules Verne's timeless underwater adventure story, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line. A thrilling classic of science fiction, Verne's adventurous underwater novel follows French Professor Pierre Aronnax, his trusty assistant Conseil, and gruff Canadian harpooner Ned Land as they investigate a supposed underwater monster. The "monster" is revealed to be a futuristic submarine, belonging to...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Martian Way
Twenty of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre’s greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the founder of robot ethics, and one of the world’s most prolific authors of fiction and non-fiction. Asimov’s short fiction has been enjoyed by millions for more than half a...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksOut of the Drowning Deep
In the distant future, when mortals mingle with the gods in deep space, an out-of-date automaton, a recovering addict, and an angel race to solve the Pope’s murder in an abandoned corner of the galaxy. Dreamy, beautifully written science-fantasy novella, for fans of Martha Wells and This is How You Lose the Time War.Scribe IV is an obsolete automaton living...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFrankenstein
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous creature learns language and becomes civilized but society rejects him. Spurned,...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksClaimed!
Penguin Weird Fiction - a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Woken from sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksVictorian Tales of the Weird
From a dancing automaton running amok at a ball, to a prehistoric beast lurking in the depths of a Yorkshire cave, this anthology explores the nature of the 'old weird', and unordinary stories which go outside the boundaries of everyday life. The anthology includes not only stories by well-known writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K. Jerome, but...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 3: The Prophet: Deluxe Collector's Edition
The third and final deluxe volume of the graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science-fiction classic by Frank Herbert. DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 3: Prophet is now available in a deluxe collector’s edition with an increased trim size, printed on high-quality matte art paper, and packaged in a faux-cloth slipcase with foil stamping and tip-on cover. In DUNE:...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Warlord of Mars
When John Carter discovers that his beloved wife, Dejah, has been imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun, he is desperate to rescue her. However, the prison, which slowly rotates, is only opened once a Barsoomian year. As Dejah's prison sentence drags on for over a hundred days, the window of opportunity is narrowing for Carter to save her. Amid...Paperback$3300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Chessman of Mars
Tara and Gahan are each Barsoomian royalty, residing in two prominent cities, Helium and Gathol. Hoping to align the cities and enjoy the advantages of a romantic union, Gahan wishes to marry Tara. However, Tara does not reciprocate this love. After rejecting the engagement, Tara sets out in her flying ship. When she flies into a turbulent storm, Tara crashes...Paperback$3900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHouse Rules
A stunning anthology of connected tales set in the Wild Cards universe created by the global bestselling author of A Game of Thrones. The island of Keun lies off the coast of Cornwall, connected to the mainland only by an ancient, tidal causeway. It is a magical place, where anything can happen. The mansion crowning the island is owned by...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTerminal Boredom
On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia—until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently interrupted. Two old friends enjoy cocktails on a holiday resort planet where all is not as it seems. A bickering couple emigrate to a world that has worked...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Worlds of Dune
Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes. In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert's Dune has become arguably the best-selling and certainly the best-known science fiction novel ever written. So how did an ex-Navy newspaperman from Washington State come to write such a world-conquering novel? And how was he able to pack it with so many layers of...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWeird Fiction
Penguin Weird Fiction - a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Sometime around the turn of the twentieth century, something happened, something... weird. In the dark halls of ivy-clad manors, in the ancient woodland escapes of New England, a generation of authors were inspired to...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHello Earth, Are You There?
A new collection for 2025 of classic science fiction stories from a master of the genre, including the story that inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster film, AI: Artificial Intelligence. Hello Earth, Are You There includes twenty-seven short stories from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Brian Aldiss, OBE. A Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and vice-president of the...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMagic
A final collection of original short fantasy stories assembles previously uncollected tales, stories about the two-centimetre demon Azael, several fairy tales, and a humorous adventure about Batman's old age from the grandmaster of science fiction. Isaac Asimov and science fiction are one and the same to millions of readers. He was the field's transcendent genius, its reigning prophet, its genial...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Poison Belt and Other Professor Challenger Stories
Summoned from London, journalist Edward Malone, narrator of Arthur Conan Doyle’s prehistoric-adventure novel The Lost World, finds himself reunited with his erstwhile travelling companions at the country home of their leader, the indomitable Professor Challenger. Confined in a sealed room with the cylinders of oxygen they have brought at his request, Professor Challenger informs them that the Earth is passing...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMrs Caliban (Faber Editions)
The frogman was still there, sitting on the corner of her bed, looking towards her... Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs. Her infant son, unborn child, and dog have all just died; her husband is unfaithful; her only friend is an alcoholic. One day, the radio announces that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Big Brother is Watching You. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania....Paperback$1099Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late AugustWe: New translation
We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the all-powerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built to spearhead the...Paperback$1699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe War of the Worlds
COMING TO BBC ONE IN AUTUMN 2019! 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...Paperback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Time Machine
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...Paperback$6800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Doomed Earth - In Our Stars
The New York Times-bestselling author begins a gripping new saga about a refugee from the future come to save the Earth and the one naval space officer who believes her. When the destruction of Earth causes a time rift, one ship is thrust back in time to decades prior. The semi-disgraced naval officer, Kayl Owen, is sent from the Earth...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTales from Beyond the Stars
Long before humans ventured into outer space, writers spun stories of what might lie in the unknown worlds beyond our planet and speculated about the future. This striking collection features retellings of seven classic science fiction stories. From tales of space exploration to time travellers and alien invaders, this anthology is the perfect introduction to the world of science fiction....Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksScientific and Horrific Stories
Scientific and Horrific Stories is a collection of short fiction by H. G. Wells. Despite his humble beginnings as the son of English servants, H. G. Wells would become one of the most revered writers of his day. His stories of adventure, utopia, and terror inspired such vastly different figures as Vladimir Nabokov, Winston Churchill, Jorge Luis Borges, and Sinclair...Paperback$4700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksOut of the Drowning Deep
In the distant future, when mortals mingle with the gods in deep space, an out-of-date automaton, a recovering addict, and an angel race to solve the Pope's murder in an abandoned corner of the galaxy. Dreamy, beautifully written science-fantasy novella, for fans of Martha Wells and This is How You Lose the Time War. Scribe IV is an obsolete automaton,...Hardback$3099Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDoctor Who: I, TARDIS
A look back at the Doctor's adventures from the one who witnessed them all - his incredible Ship - from best-selling author Steve Cole. Did you ever wonder why I chose you all those years ago? I wanted to see the universe, so I stole a Time Lord and I ran away... The Doctor has a unique bond with their...Hardback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Yellow Wallpaper & Herland
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will’ Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ground-breaking, feminist writing. Collected here, both The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland...Paperback$1299Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips early SeptemberThe House on the Borderland
Penguin Weird Fiction - a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. A manuscript is found. Filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home - and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFrankenstein: The 1818 Text
For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. Mary Shelley's classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. The original 1818 text of...Paperback$2300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFrankenstein
Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic classic accompanied by the art of legendary illustrator Bernie Wrightson lives on in this gorgeous illustrated adaptation of Frankenstein—featuring an introduction by Stephen King. Few works by comic book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson’s illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein received upon its original release in 1983. This version...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWoman on the Edge of Time
For fans of The Handmaid's Tale, this is a reissue of a much-loved feminist classic. 'One of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning.' — GLORIA STEINEM 'She is a serious writer who deserves the sort of considered attention which, too often, she does not get...' — MARGARET ATWOOD Often...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Long Utopia
From the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science-fiction comes the fourth in the phenomenal The Long Earth series. The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 'Rich in an awe-inspiring sense of wonder' — Independent 'A hymn to the joys of unfettered world-building' — Guardian 2045-2059. After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day and the...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksI, Robot
Voyager Classics – timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy. The classic collection of robot stories from the master of the genre. In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age. Earth is ruled by master-machines, but the Three Laws of Robotics have been designed to ensure humans maintain the upper hand:...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAnimal Farm and 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
Two modern classics in one volume. George Orwell is one of the finest and most influential writers of the twentieth century. Here in one volume, are two of his best-known works of electrifying political fiction, 1984 and Animal Farm.Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party and the omnipresent Big...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips late AugustThe Seventh Voyage
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Journey into space with Polish sci-fi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy's cosmic adventure The Seventh Voyage are reminiscent of Douglas Adams. Meanwhile, the spectral whispers haunting Pirx the Pilot as he navigates his spaceship to Mars in Terminus, echo the author's masterpiece Solaris. Then The Mask introduces...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksA Dog's Heart
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov's topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, thieve, chase women, and recite every swear word in Russian. The perfect candidate for...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksClassic Science Fiction Stories
An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of science-fiction short stories featuring space aliens, spectacular inventions, futuristic technologies, and vividly imagined worlds. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Classic Science Fiction Stories is selected and introduced...Hardback$1800Elsewhere:$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Naked Sun
Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day. On the planet of Solaria, Spacers live in almost...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Complete Robot
Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day. Could a robot ever show true creativity? Is it...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day. In the vast, domed cities of Earth, artificial intelligence...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksRobots and Empire
Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day. Two centuries have passed since Elijah Baley’s actions on...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksPrelude to Foundation
WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon’s two Foundations is a lasting testament to an extraordinary imagination, one that shaped science fiction as we know it today. In a time before the Foundations, psychohistory’s creator Hari...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksI, Robot
Isaac Asimov’s Robot series – from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels – contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day. What happens when a robot begins to question its...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1
A genre-defining—and redefining—collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from all over the globe. VOLUME ONE OF TWO 'A huge, eye-opening, mind-blowing surprise' Lisa Tuttle, Guardian A genre-defining—and redefining—collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from across the globe. In The Big Book of...Hardback$6300Elsewhere:$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Ark Sakura
New in Penguin Japanese Classics - a surreal work of apocalyptic science fiction. Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics - a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th-century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in a seaside town to an underground 'ark' full of shadows and eccentrics, with stops at...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDune: The Lady of Caladan
From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atredies. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first, the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit. She has already betrayed...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe War of the Worlds
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag, only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick's cult novel—now in an official tie-in edition to accompany the new TV series. Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K. Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might have been—the African continent virtually wiped out, the Mediterranean drained to make farmland, the...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksGood Omens
Good Omens, written by the brilliant duo Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, is a rollercoaster of a novel that weaves a hilarious and darkly satirical tale about the end of the world. The narrative centres on an angel, Aziraphale, and a demon, Crowley, who have both lived on Earth since the beginning of time and have grown rather fond of...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksWe
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is a seminal work of dystopian fiction that has sparked imaginations and influenced numerous twentieth-century authors. Set in the distant future, the novel unfolds in OneState, a monolithic glass city where life is governed by logic and reason. Every aspect of existence is regulated by the omnipotent Benefactor, who ensures that citizens live without personal freedom,...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFrankenstein
By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened... Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written....PaperbackSold Out2150 A.D.
First published in 1971, 2150 A.D. is a groundbreaking science-fiction classic, with over 600,000 copies sold, that earned cult status by imagining humanity's spiritual evolution decades before consciousness-driven sci-fi entered the mainstream, making it a compelling read for fans of Avatar and Pluribus. Set between the fractured world of 1976 and a radically transformed society in the year 2150, 2150...PaperbackSold Out