Classic Science Fiction

From the recent past, to sometime in the distant future - from the possible, to the highly improbable, Walking in Darkness is a collection of thirt...

The Sunday Times BestsellerFollowing Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the bestse...

''This is what literature is meant to be'' Anthony Burgess''O what we ben! And what we come to...'' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscap...

'Extraordinary' Philip PullmanFollowing one man's journey from earth to an alien landscape of ethereal beauty and existential terror, A Voyage to A...

'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have b...

'Recalls Orwell's 1984 and Wells's The Time Machine ... a revelation' GuardianOn 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space...

The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time'We have given you life ... so that you co...

'A prodigious novel ... Stapledon's literary imagination was boundless' Jorge Luis BorgesA lasting influence on successive generations of science f...

'Tiptree's narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction's most vivid and influential bodies of work' The New York Times...

'The greatest entertainer ever produced by science fiction' J. G. BallardThese surreal, elegantly witty tales from one of the most esteemed writers...

'There is nothing else quite like Ice' Doris LessingSet in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice, Anna Kavan's ...

'Delany's works have become essential to the history of science fiction' New YorkerSamuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science...

'An original ... a delight to read' The TimesOn an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and t...

Beware the hands that heal.The Doctor and Peri land on the planet Necros to visit the funerary home Tranquil Repose where the dead are interred an...

A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science fiction. ...

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 fict...

Terror in the steamy jungles of Venus, encounters on the arid expanse of Jupiter; asteroids mysteriously bursting with vegetation whizz past and re...

'The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals, humanised animals...' A shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself s...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University.In these two...

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 outsi...