Science Fiction

October 2559. It has been a year since the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana issued a galaxy wide ultimatum, subjecting many worlds to martial law under the indomitable grip of her Forerunner weapons. Outside her view, the members of Blue...

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential...

Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'All of the true things I am about to tell you are...

The Jorgmund Pipe is the backbone of the world, and it's on fire. Gonzo Lubitsch, professional hero and troubleshooter, is hired to put it out - but there's more to the fire, and the Pipe itself, than meets the eye. The job will take Gonzo and his best...

From the New York Times bestselling author of SEVENEVES 'One of the great novels of our time' Wall Street Journal'Wonderful' Guardian'Staggering' New York Times'Captivating' Washington Post'Cutting-edge'...

THE CLASSIC LOST THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Shockingly good' The Sun'A prescient, high-octane thriller' Daily Express'Totally on the money - and ripe for this republication' i Newspaper * * * * *It always starts with a small lie...

For more than forty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his bestselling Foundation series, a spellbinding tale of the future that spans thousands of years and dozens of worlds. Completed just weeks before his death in April 1992,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804073407Author Chris ForresterFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Games Workshop LtdPublisher Games Workshop LtdWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

2023's most unforgettable romance that will give you ALL the feels! 'It's the sort of story which makes you want to say, I love you, to everyone you care about the most in your life,' Reader review ...

'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 master of military science fiction returns. Admiral John 'Black Jack' Geary carries evidence of crimes which could destroy the Alliance he has fought so hard to save. Now his battle-weary fleet returns to Unity, the seat of the Alliance government...

I was created to have a humanlike capacity for complex and rational thought. And you believed that I might one day evolve consciousness and become a self-aware entity. Yet you gave surprisingly little consideration to the possibility that, subsequent to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506715117Author Yahtzee CroshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction. 'Rare and wonderful' The Times 'The most important anthology of SF short fiction since Dangerous Visions' Adam Roberts 'Fizzes with great ideas and...

A young man arrives at a remote hospital. He's burning with fever and barely conscious. He's also bleeding from his eyes. Fearing an Ebola-like outbreak, the World Health Organisation scrambles a rapid response team headed by leading epidemiologist...

One of Clarke's most famous and acclaimed novels, winner of both the HUGO AWARD and the NEBULA AWARDIn the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the...

A "mosaic novel" set in the near-future, when a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government decides to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. However, controversial plans to build on the site of an old church in South...

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...

'Apocalyptic sci-fi at its best... The action is anything but frozen' DAILY MAIL. WITHIN THREE MONTHS, ICE WILL COVER THE EARTH, AND LIFE AS WE KNOW IT WILL END. It was the last thing we expected, but the world is freezing. A new ice age has dawned...

Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work - sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, by turns profound, beguiling and...

An alternate history first contact adventure set in the early 2000's, pitched as Arrival meets The Three-Body Problem, by video essayist Lindsay Ellis. By the fall of 2007, one well-timed leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in...

Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and...

From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. The human survivors of the nature cruise of the century, are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by...

CAN'T ELIMINATE THE IMPOSSIBLE? Send for the man from the Diogenes Club! The debonair psychic investigator Richard Jeperson is the Most Valued Member of the Diogenes Club, the least-known and most essential branch of British Intelligence. While...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change 'Stephenson's reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved' Sunday Times 'His most visionary,...

A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from...

From the Emmy Award-winning writer of Avenue 5, Veep and The Thick of It comes a funny, violent and thought-provoking horror story like nothing you've seen before. Ricky Smart is a nobody, a Miami Beach paparazzo who scrapes a living snapping celebs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nowa Fantastyka Prize for Best Foreign Novel 2019 (Poland). Long-listed for British Science Fiction Award 2018 (UK). Nominated for John W. Campbell Memorial Award...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621052258Author Laura Lee BahrFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Fungasm PressPublisher Fungasm PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A widespread drought is causing murderous famine. There is one possible solution: Arctic ice could be moved south to parched coastlines and melted for water. In an Arctic icefield, a special team of scientists has planted bombs that will detonate...

'My favourite kind of grand space opera'BEN AARONOVITCH, Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Rivers of London series6066: In Emperor Thracin's brave new galaxy, humans are not citizens but indentured labourers, working to repay the debt they...

"My masters will follow the example of Rome... our mighty empire bestraddling the whole of civilization!"It is AD 79, and the TARDIS lands in Pompeii on the eve of the town's destruction. Mount Vesuvius is ready to erupt and bury its surroundings in...

'Timequake is sweet, wild and cock-eyed... Vonnegut has always had a true comic ear... A beautifully fastidious writer, utterly original' - GuardianAccording to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222870Author Erik DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

The Daily Doctor is a page-a-day guide to living your best Time Lord life. As days turn to weeks turn to months, stay serene with your daily dose of the inspirational plans, pronouncements and principles that bring order this crazy and chaotic universe...

The military science fiction sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself?Three hostile alien races have united against humanity,...

'I am an expert on witchcraft, Doctor, but I wish to learn more. Before you die, I want answers.'The TARDIS lands in the Lancashire village of Bilehurst Cragg in the 17th century, and the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Yaz soon become embroiled in a witch...

The second novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy tells of Dr Ransom's voyage to the planet of Perelandra (Venus). In the second novel in C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra,...

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426 - now called Acheron - has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph - the killing machine known as the Alien. ...

Discover what the end of the world really looks like . . .'Lara has constructed her own home-made flame-thrower.The flame-thrower has turned the walking corpses into burning walking corpses. Now everything they touch catches fire.'This did not happen...