Classic Science Fiction

Two time travelling Aliens arrive on Earth searching for the truth behind the words, music and changing faces of their hero David Bowie. In their q...

Before the Apollo 11 mission succeeded in landing on the Moon in 1969, writers and visionaries were fascinated by how we might get there and what w...

`I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows. I approached with curio...

A masterful tale from the founding father of science fiction. An ingenious inventor creates a machine which can hurtle through time.With no idea wh...

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley''s classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. ...

Technological advance is never straightforward. A man is murdered by an automaton built for chess. A computer system designed to arbitrate justice ...

Sound the sirens! The end is here, and it comes in many forms in this new collection of apocalyptic short stories from the classic age of science f...

The funny and moving story of the apocalypse - as seen from one small village in England'I loved this book, by turns funny and tragic ... It moves ...

A wonderfully entertaining debut novel.Compelling Science FictionReclaimed Earth Book 1Car-En, a ringstation anthropologist on her first Earth fiel...

The Endeavour has made rocket ship history. With its automatic pilot and artificial gravity, anyone is qualified to fly to the moon. But the scient...

In The Time Machine an inventor travels to the remote future where he finds both love and terror. The protagonist of The Invisible Man struggles to...

This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewiss classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars, Venus and E...

Tracing the tracks of masterpieces such as 1984 by George Orwell or Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Memento Postridie shows us a possible ...

A tour de force in dystopian fiction, set in a society where people connect to the internet via feeds implanted in their brains.Titus doesn't think...

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr Moreau, a vivisectionst driven...

Rare jewels of Victorian fiction highlight the fantasticcontributions made by women writers in the early development of science fiction Aselecti...

These classic tales have been adapted to film and TV many times, most recently The Invisible Man (2020) starring Elizabeth Moss.

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 ...

H. G. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a father of science fiction .

'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previo...

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben Ok...

What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, ...

First serialized in a French magazine from 1869 to 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an incredible adventure story that popularized sc...

These novels often appear on 'must read' and 'best science fiction' lists.

The Island of Doctor Moreau has inspired countless homages in literature, film and television.

The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and o...