Science Fiction

She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore van de Oest had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families ... and now she was...

Below the neon skies of Dayzone - where the lights never go out, and night has been banished - lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case. His quest takes him from Dayzone into the permanent dark of Nocturna.As the vicious, seemingly...

When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the...

J.G.Ballard is the author of the novels "Crash", "Empire of the Sun" and "Rushing to Paradise". Throughout his career he has also been a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. This book collects together pieces of his journalism, grouped under...

August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India ... On the eve of Mother India's hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From...

NOW A #1 BLOCKBUSTING FILM. The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a...

'More action and hair-raising stunts than you'll find in four Bond movies' EVENING TELEGRAPH'Thrilling, action-packed adventure' GUARDIANDISCOVER THIS WILDLY-ENTERTAINING, GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURE FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER MATTHEW REILLY* * * * *What...

A gripping Clone Wars-era adventure featuring a showdown between Grand Master Yoda and his former apprentice, the sinister Count Dooku.The savage Clone Wars have forced the Republic to the edge of collapse. During the height of the battle, one Jedi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913442163Author Mark HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Unseelie PressPublisher Unseelie PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

An omnibus edition of Alan Dean Foster's Alien science-fiction trilogy. As the spaceship Nostromo glided through the silent reaches of the galaxy, the ships scanners detected a garbled distress call form a remote and long dead planet. But all the...

'WHAT A FANTASTIC ENDING. WHAT A TREMENDOUS ACHIEVEMENT. A GORGEOUS, BORDERLINE FLAWLESS TRILOGY' Seanan McGuireM. R. Carey's Rampart Trilogy is 'an epic post-apocalyptic fable' (Kirkus), set in a future where nature has turned against us. Now, in the...

'Reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z' PIERCE BROWNA twenty-story-tall metallic figure appears in the middle of Regent's Park. The caretakers at London Zoo notice it first at around 4am. The figure, or robot, bears a great resemblance to the UN...

One of the very best science fiction novels of all time. An intelligent and thought provoking allegory for the Vietnam War.Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322554Author Ernst JungerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, China Mieville's astonishing Embassytown is an intelligent and immersive exploration of language in an alien world.Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is...

Isaac Asimov's Robot series - from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to...

Shadow of the Scorpion is a standalone prequel to Neal Asher's explosive Agent Cormac series.Some secrets are too hard to bear . . . Following the human vs prador war, Ian Cormac signs up with Earth Central Security. He's sent out to restore order on...

Preble Jefferson can see five seconds into the future.Otherwise, he lives an ordinary life. But when a confrontation with a cop on a New York City subway goes tragically wrong, those seconds give Preble the chance to dodge a bullet-causing another man to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943272419Author Tom DeLongeFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint To the starsPublisher To the stars

A uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it progresses into the wilderness.The society within toils...

Come to Chasm City and embark on a mind-bending ride through the universe of Revelation SpaceTanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young...

'Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror' Adam Christopher'A rich, rewarding tale' The Guardian____________________________________________________________________________A family returns to their hometown - and to the...

The second original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. The second original novel from the much-missed Space Western Firefly, produced with Joss Whedon as consulting editor, set between the...

A collective sigh of relief is exhaled as Lena, Shin, and the others enjoy a hard-won peace. But no true member of the Spearhead squadron can avoid battle forever, and these few survivors welcome it. They willingly walk back through the gates of hell,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905586561Author Melissa ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Fandemonium BooksPublisher Fandemonium BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

MANKIND HAS REACHED THE STARS. Two hundred years after the fall of Mechanism, human society has achieved a kind of stability. There are colonies beneath the oceans, throughout the solar system, and beyond: on extrasolar planets. Vast hemi-relativistic...

WINNER of the ITW THRILLER AWARD - Best Young Adult NovelTHE FIRST BOOK IN THE HIGH-OCTANE YOUNG ADULT ADVENTURE THRILLER SERIES FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR GREGG HURWITZ. It's never really been my thing to be the brave one - that's always been my older...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358561661Author H G WellsFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Fingerprint! PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

'ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE READ IN RECENT YEARS . . . PACKS A HELL OF AN EMOTIONAL PUNCH' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of TimeFrom one of the most imaginative writers of her generation comes an extraordinary vision of the future.Ven was once a...

'VISCERAL . . . IRRESISTIBLE . . . a claustrophobic, deep-sea terror tale that will leave readers glad to be safely on dry land' Kirkus NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MIRA GRANT RETURNS WITH A RAZOR-SHARP TALE OF THE HORRORS THAT LIE BENEATH . . ...

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...

Following on from the phenomenal success of NECRONOMICON comes ELDRITCH TALES. Howard Phillips Lovecraft died at the age of 47, but in his short life he turned out dozens of stories which changed the face of horror. His extraordinary imagination spawned...

A door never closes, but a window opens . . . With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself, and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612422541Author Harry TurtledoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Phoenix PickPublisher Phoenix PickWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The Long Winter is over. We survived. But only just. On a ruined world, we rebuild, watching the sky, waiting for any sign of their return. With only nine million survivors from a population of billions, humanity's survival is far from guaranteed...

'ENTHRALLING . . . A JOURNEY AS PERILOUS AS IT IS ENLIGHTENING' Guardian on The Book of KoliThe journey through M. R. Carey's 'immersive, impeccably rendered world' (Kirkus) continues in The Trials of Koli - the second book of the Rampart trilogy.Koli...

'Orson Scott Card made a strong case for being the best writer science fiction has to offer.' - The Houston Post on Xenocide'The novels of Orson Scott Card's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate...

Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996555951Author Jason AnspachFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Galaxy's Edge PressPublisher Galaxy's Edge PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 203mm...