The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Jasper Fforde’s magnificent second adventure starring the...
An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest...
Harry Harrison’s bestselling Stainless Steel Rat series has earned rave reviews and a legion of fans, and has catapulted the Rat himself, an antisocial rule breaker in...
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...
Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending the naval academy, and even though his...
In a galaxy where civilization covers every world with steel and ferroconcrete, only a very special man can break all the rules and still stay free. A man who moves...
This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness...
Thursday Next: the story so far …Swindon, Wessex, England, circa 1985. SpecOps is the agency responsible for policing areas considered too specialised to be tackled by...
So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometres below the surface of the Pacific, it seeks out a special sort of person for its Rifters...
The book that launched the career of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Greg Bear—and earned him an avalanche of praise from the SF world—“Blood Music” offers a...
Ellison Wonderland is a collection of short stories by author Harlan Ellison that was originally published in 1962. Gerry Gross bought the book from Ellison in 1961,...
This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the...
When aliens land in Toronto, they present astounding evidence that their planet and Earth have experienced the same cataclysmic events — evidence that they claim proves...
"YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY...AND YOU TAKES YOUR CHANCES At least, that's what you do if your name is Tom Mishkin, and your spaceship is suddenly grounded by a mechanical...
Jake Sullivan watched his father, suffering from a rare condition, collapse and linger in a vegetative state, and he's incredibly paranoid because he inherited that...
This much requested fan favourite has been brought bang up to date with a new cover. When a massive force of Space Marine Iron Warriors invade the planet Hydra Cordatus,...
An acclaimed legend in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the vivid and perilous world of her previous masterworks, the Hugo...
До нової збірки оповідань українського радянського письменника-фантаста Миколи Олександровича Дашкієва увійшли як знайомі нашому читачеві, так і нові твори. Читач...
Canadian author Robert Sawyer once again presents likable characters facing big ethical dilemmas in this smoothly readable near-future SF novel. Astronomer Sarah...
One of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow met Jeanette,...
The novel begins with adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton waking up after his death on a strange new world made up of one ongoing river. He discovers that he is but one...
Early in the American Civil War, rumors of gold in the Klondike have brought would-be prospectors to North America’s Pacific Northwest. Anxious Russian investors...
The Tales of Alvin Maker, Part 4 by Orson Scott Card(c) 1995 by Orson Scott Cardv1.1 (Jan-24-1999) If you find and correct errors in the text, please update the version...
An infinite, sweeping saga of interstellar war — the first SF classic for the 21st century. The empire of the Shaa lasted 10,000 years. Years of terror, infinite...
In this wildly disorienting funhouse of a novel, populated by God-like—or perhaps Satanic—takeover artists and corporate psychics, Philip K. Dick explores mysteries that...
Александр Виссарионович Абашели (1884–1954) — один из лучших мастеров современной грузинской поэзии. Он был художником повседневно обогащавшим свое творчество чутким...
In this science fiction classic (1962) based on Hothouse, Hugo Best Short Story Winner of 1962, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a...
The Green Odyssey is a relatively straightforward adventure story, involving an astronaut named Alan Green stranded on a primitive planet, where he is claimed as a...
Один из самых известных фантастических сериалов, начало которому положили произведения знаменитого британского писателя и мыслителя Колина Уилсона, получил свое...
The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he’s happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money’s good, he doesn’t think the world needs...
"A fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form tor the expression of his ideas."– The IndependentSecond Variety is the third...
Трапезников Владимир Евгеньевич (Москва). Выдумки чистой воды: Сборник фантастики, т.2, «Осенние миражи» с. 269–288. ВТО МПФ при ИПО ЦК ВЛКСМ «Молодая гвардия», 1990....
Warning: Although this the action of this book is set on Mars, it could just as easily have taken place in one of the desert communities around Los Angeles. The real...
Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that planet whose...
Таємниця Дому вічності. 1975.Ученый из рассказа Василия Бережного «Тайна Дома вечности» делает два удивительных открытия, суть коих состояла в том, что, во-первых,...
A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New...
First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. Immortality...