Collections & Anthologies

A collection of award-winning short stories by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award-winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winner. Harlan Ellison's work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Locus Awards 1996.Book InformationISBN 9781583226988Author Octavia E ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven...

'A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.' - The GuardianWith Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight...

Revel in the sumptuous language of Edgar Allan Poe's best works in this elegantly designed hardcover edition. The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe features the spine-chilling short stories and melodious poems of the famous Gothic American...

The Earth is long dead, blasted apart, and the human survivors who settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in an atrophying, class-ridden society ruled by the Immortals - genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Sam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789990546Author Dan AbnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 944Imprint Games Workshop LtdPublisher Games Workshop LtdWeight(grams) 615gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312890421Author Gene WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 447Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770412927Author Kevin J. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 424g

An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the theme of Exploration in Space. New, emerging, established and much-lauded writers from both cultures are...

'Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.' - The Daily TelegraphFrom the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others - the basis for the Academy Award-winning film...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156716864Author Stanislaw LemFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer's first publication, "The Man with the Strange Head"; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first time); stories such as "Gostak and the Doshes" and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596067653Author Robert SilverbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Subterranean PressPublisher Subterranean PressWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm)...

The third annual instalment to the 'excellent, lovingly curated' (Financial Times) The Best of World SF series The Best of World SF series is a fixture on the global science fiction scene. If you want to find the most exciting SF authors writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451678192Author Ray BradburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

A modern take on The Lord of the Flies set in a theme park, FantasticLand is a debut dystopian horror story that deals directly with contemporary issues of climate change, natural disasters, and the implication of social media. Mike Bockoven a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647100698Author Brian, Anderson, Kevin HerbertFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint CAEZIK SF & FantasyPublisher CAEZIK SF & Fantasy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250306067Author Cixin LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798200687992Author Jonathan MaberryFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint Blackstone PublishingPublisher Blackstone PublishingWeight(grams)...

From Ellen Datlow-"the venerable queen of horror anthologies" per the New York Times-comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available. For more than four decades,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451450647Author Isaac AsimovFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ace BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 108mm *...

From the far reaches of space to the hidden corners of Earth, from aliens to wizards and everything in between . . .One of the most influential SFF writers of modern times, Roger Zelazny wrote across a wide range of subgenres and themes, experimenting...

"Hercule Poirot meets Fox Mulder . . . raises genuine shivers. "--Kirkus ReviewsA collection of the 20 greatest tales of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales. Today the names of H. P...

A No. 1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, SKELETON CREW is a classic collection of riveting stories from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time, now with a stunning new cover look...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618732040Author John CrowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Small Beer PressPublisher Small Beer PressWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

'A magic of words' Neil GaimanSet in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these five linked stories follow far-future human colonies living in the distant solar system. Here is the complete suite of five linked stories...

THE GRAND MASTER OF HUGE IDEAS AND STAR-SPANNING WONDER For half a century, Jerry Pournelle's name has been synonymous with hard-hitting, idea-driven, wonder-inducing science fiction. His Falkenberg's Legion stories and Janissaries series helped...

One hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451. In this, the first volume of Ray Bradbury's short stories, some of the author's finest works are published together, among them 'Homecoming', 'Veldt', 'A Sound of...

In Viriconium, the young men whistle to one another all night long as they go about their deadly games. If you wake suddenly, you might hear footsteps running, or an urgent sigh. After a minute or two, the whistles move away in the direction of the...

In A Conventional Boy, the fate of the world will depend on a roll of the dice... twenty-sided dice, that is. In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another teenage nerd growing up in middle England. But his love of D&D caused him to fall afoul of the Laundry, a...

Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in...

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The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the age of the atom when America and Europe...

'Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. A time will come - but I must not and cannot think!' H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines...

The Salmon of Doubt is Douglas Adams's indispensable guide to life, the universe and everything. It includes short stories and eleven chapters of a Dirk Gently novel that Douglas Adams was working on at the time of his death, and features an introduction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593099209Author Laurell K. HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

From Ellen Datlow-"the venerable queen of horror anthologies" per the New York Times-comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available. For more than four decades,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101910092Author Jeff VanderMeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1216Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1599gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

'Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be' EMPIREThe Unreal and the Real is a two-volume collection of stories, selected by Ursula Le Guin herself, and spans the...

Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters is a collection of stories focused on strange creatures in the vein of Pacific Rim, Godzilla, Cloverfield, and more. Opening with a foreword by Jeremy Robinson-author of Project Nemesis, the highest selling Kaiju novel in...