Science Fiction

Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip...

The universe is at war. Action takes courage.The TARDIS is ensnared in a time corridor, catapulting it into derelict docklands on 20th century Earth. The Doctor and his companions, Tegan and Turlough, stumble on a warehouse harbouring fugitives from the...

The second book in Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde's phenomenally successful Thursday Next series. 'Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' - HeraldThursday Next, literary detective and newlywed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250824066Author Jeff VanderMeerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

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 9780262538473Author Stanislaw LemFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 16mm

This novel goes back to the origins of the game series, retelling in greater detail the story of Solid Snake in the first MGS game. Solid Snake is a special operations agent with the Foxhound special forces unit. Called in to complete the jobs no one...

After being saved from danger by Ainz, Enri and the apothecary Nfirea have been living life to the fullest as they spend their days together in Carne Village alongside their goblin-guard neighbors. But after the Wise King of the Forest left the...

The end is nigh. It has been nearly two hundred years since Hadrian Marlowe assaulted the person of the Emperor and walked away from war. From his Empire. His duty. From the will and service of the eldritch being known only as the Quiet. The galaxy...

A reunion with Seijirou leads Kirito, Asuna, and Alice back to a version of the Underworld where 200 years have passed since the Great War. There, they find not only the descendants of Ronie and Tiese, but also a man claiming to be the leader of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905586677Author Sally MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Fandemonium BooksPublisher Fandemonium BooksWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

'AN EXCEPTIONAL BLEND OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, HARD SCIENCE, AND FIRST CONTACT' Michael Mammay, author of the Planetside series'MACLEOD'S BEST BOOK TO DATE' SFXScience fiction legend Ken MacLeod begins a new space opera trilogy by imagining humankind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806511443Author Robert BlochFormat PaperbackImprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

It's just a little later than now and Lola Hart is writing her life in a diary. She's a nice middle-class girl on the verge of her teens who schools at the calm end of town.A normal, happy, girl.But in a disintegrating New York she is a dying breed. War...

Christopher Priest is the Arthur C. Clarke Award and World Fantasy Award-winning author of THE SEPARATION, THE GLAMOUR, THE DREAM ARCHIPELAGO and THE PRESTIGE, which was filmed by Christopher Nolan and starred Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. THE...

This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanislaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804073872Author Darius HinksFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Games Workshop LtdPublisher Games Workshop LtdWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

A terrifying novel of love and slaughter set in London and New Orleans. To serial killer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from a life sentence in prison, he makes his way to America with the...

Collected together for the first time, this action-packed omnibus of tightly coordinated novels is stuffed to the gills with jaw-dropping, acid-burning tension, revealing the terrifying events that occur between the Alien and Aliens movie hits. Out...

Yuuma Ashihara is playing Actual Magic, a virtual reality MMORPG, when it suddenly begins to fuse with the real world. While he tries to make sense of what's happening, he runs into Sumi, one of his classmates. Before, she was one of the cutest girls in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062798114Author Joseph FinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 363g

'among the most significant works of science fiction released in recent years' TOR.COMAn extraordinarily inventive and hugely original SF novel that charts a compelling vision of a future and spins an hypnotic narrative around it. A novel that could...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800262461Author John FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Games Workshop LtdPublisher Games Workshop LtdWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

Some night-time prowler is turning the (mostly) honest citizens of Ankh-Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that's a real problem for Captain Vimes, who must tramp the mean streets of the naked city looking for a 70-foot-long...

For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all - 'If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?' And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? ...

A grand scale space opera about family, sacrifice, and survival told within an immense universe, both in scope and originality.A must-read cult spin-off of "The Incal," by Moebius and Jodorowsky, centering around the fascinating lineage of the ultimate...

ClientBook InformationISBN 9781804073575Author Sandy MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The Black LibraryPublisher The Black LibraryWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156165006Author Stanislaw LemFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Harper VoyagerPublisher Harper Voyager

Location: Our galaxy, at a time set far in our future ...Every 50,000 years, a race of machines returns to harvest the galaxy's organic life forms. In the first MASS EFFECT game, it is the year 2183, and the machines are about to return once again. This...

The captain who went further than any had before tells her life story for the first time in her own words; perfect for fans of Star Trek: Voyager and the upcoming Star Trek: Prodigy Kathryn Janeway reveals her career in Starfleet, from her first...

When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next two hundred years. This fictional 'account of the future' (similar to LAST AND FIRST MEN by...

'Delivers more than almost anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender's Game is a contemporary classic' - New York Times'An affecting novel full of surprises.' - The New York Times Book Review on Ender's GameTHE HUMAN RACE FACES ANNIHILATION...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905586523Author Sabine C. BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Fandemonium LtdPublisher Fandemonium BooksDimensions(mm) 174mm * 108mm * 16mm

A poignant and brilliant sequel to Dandelion Wine from the author of Fahrenheit 451 In Green Town Illinois, Douglas Spaulding is in the midst of a small civil war with the old pitted against the young in this, the second book in Bradbury's...

Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second book of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by rising space opera star Megan E. O'Keefe.Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters and the...

'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...

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilisations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives.And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find...

The space-pirates of Boskone raided at will, menacing the whole structure of interstellar civilization. Master-minded by a super-scientist, their conquering fleets outgunned even the mighty space cruisers of the Galactic Patrol.When Lensman Kim Kinnison...

When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet, they must rely on each other, the Force, and their own ruthlessness to prevail."It appears things are as you...

In this title, the modern masters of Lovecraftian horror offer up to 21 brand-new, utterly horrifying tales taking their inspiration from stories by Lovecraft himself. Well-known writers such as Caitlin R. Kiernan, Brian Stableford, and Ramsey Campbell...