Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: September 7, 2010 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-47377-6 (0-307-47377-5)
From the incomparable Peter Ackroyd: a brilliant re-imagination of the classic tale that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries.
Victor Frankenstein, a researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley form an unlikely friendship as first-years at Oxford. Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenstein to consider his atheistic notions of creation and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics On Sale: May 7, 2013 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-59017-617-7 (1-59017-617-0)
Winner - John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science-Fiction Novel, 1976
In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into alternate history, it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Bantam On Sale: March 25, 2008 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-553-38359-1 (0-553-38359-0)
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award 2009 (LGBT Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror)
For hundreds of years, men have sought their hidden futures in the legendary images of the tarot—but what secrets of the past are harbored by the priestess, the magician, the hanged man…and the fool? The author of the explosive The Patron Saint of Plagues returns...
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Format: Hardcover, 664 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library On Sale: November 2, 2010 Price: $30.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-59396-2 (0-307-59396-7)
Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogy—one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction—in a single hardcover volume.
It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 16, 1998 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-49081-8 (0-385-49081-X)
Set in a frightening America of the near future where women--categorized in terms of whether or not they are able to bear children--function only in the strictly defined roles assigned to them by men. It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: August 21, 2012 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-74176-9 (0-307-74176-1)
The author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake engagingly explores her lifelong relationship to science fiction, both as a reader and as a writer.
At a time when the borders between literary genres are increasingly porous, Margaret Atwood maps the richly fertile crosscurrents of speculative and science fiction, slipstream, utopias...
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Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese On Sale: October 11, 2011 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-53396-6 (0-385-53396-9)
In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood’s account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This relationship has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s through her time as a graduate student...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: March 30, 2004 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-72167-7 (0-385-72167-6)
With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity—and its present.
Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman’s recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: July 27, 2010 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-45547-5 (0-307-45547-5)
Set in the visionary future of Atwood’s acclaimed Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. In this second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know...
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Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese On Sale: September 22, 2009 Price: $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-52877-1 (0-385-52877-9)
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 6, 2004 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3092-7 (1-4000-3092-7)
“Full of wit, humor and imagination, Jennifer Government ultimately pulls off its over-the-top conceit.”—Time Out New York
“A riotous satirical rant. . . . [Its characters’] excesses . . . make Barry’s world of unregulated corporate greed and unrelenting consumerism so frightening and funny.”—Entertainment Weekly
Taxation has been abolished, the government has been...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 9, 2011 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-47689-0 (0-307-47689-8)
Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts.
Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on...
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Format: Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: July 5, 2000 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-345-43524-8 (0-345-43524-9)
A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE
Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 11, 1997 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-76783-1 (0-679-76783-5)
"Dazzlement and enchantment are Bester's methods. His stories never stand still a moment." —Damon Knight, author of Why Do Birds
Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than...
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Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Del Rey On Sale: May 29, 2001 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-345-44798-2 (0-345-44798-0)
First published more than thirty-five years ago, Pierre Boulle’s chilling novel launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history, from the classic 1968 movie starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell.
In the not-too-distant future, three astronauts land on what appears to be a planet just like Earth, with...
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Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Del Rey On Sale: April 12, 1985 Price: $7.99 ISBN: 978-0-345-32448-1 (0-345-32448-X)
A scythe with the power of life and death...A mob that lives only for accident scenes...A bone doctor with a shocking "cure"...These and more comprise this classic collection of macabre, hauntingly beautiful, and terrifyingly unforgettable tales by "America's finest living fantasist" (Harper's).
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Format: Hardcover, 1112 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library On Sale: April 6, 2010 Price: $32.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-26905-8 (0-307-26905-1)
One hundred of Ray Bradbury’s remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience and his place among the most imaginative and enduring writers of our time.
Here are the Martian stories, tales that vividly animate the red planet, with its brittle cities and double-mooned sky...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 14, 1990 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-72946-4 (0-679-72946-1)
Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as a particularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems more like a magical realist, a small-town American cousin to Borges and Garcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intense that the objects in it sometimes levitate or...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 9, 2007 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-9595-7 (1-4000-9595-6)
From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation’s most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between.
The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway On Sale: October 16, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-34661-2 (0-307-34661-7)
Selected for Common Reading at Florida Southern College, St. Edward's University and University of Houston-Victoria
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the world, from decimated cities to the most...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Modern Library On Sale: February 11, 2003 Price: $10.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-6706-7 (0-8129-6706-2)
The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is “the best known character...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: February 1, 2004 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-8369-7 (0-8070-8369-0)
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: October 4, 2005 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-58322-698-8 (1-58322-698-2)
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes “Bloodchild,” winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and “Speech Sounds,” winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, “Amnesty” is a story of a woman...
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Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press On Sale: October 4, 2005 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-58322-690-2 (1-58322-690-7)
Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she...
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