Science Fiction

One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun.Even Stapledon's other great work, LAST AND FIRST MEN,...

When her cousin and wife fail to return from a walk, this story takes a sinister turn to a quest of survival A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When the couple fails...

The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge. Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula...

When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new introduction from Martin Amis. Fluctuations in solar...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***The explosive fifth novel in the Red Rising Series***The Number One New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.He broke the chainsThen broke the...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far...

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...

ROGUEby Sandy SchofieldWelcome to the former penal colony of Charon, where a labyrinth of underground tunnels offer shelter to an Alien hive. Professor Ernst Kleist rules-a paranoid tyrant whose speciality is making humans disappear. Captain Joyce Palmer...

In order to reclaim their city from enemy forces, the royal selection candidates and theknights finally face off against the Witch Cult Archbishop! Meanwhile, Subaru andReinhardt crash the worst wedding ever to rescue Emilia from the clutches of...

A long, long time from now, in the valleys of what will no longer be called Northern California, might be going to have lived a people called the Kesh. But Always Coming Home is not the story of the Kesh. Rather it is the stories of the Kesh - stories,...

Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of...

Imagine a distant world where gods walk as men, but wield vast and hidden powers. Here they have made the stage on which they build a subtle pattern of alliance, love, and deadly enmity. Are they truly immortal? Who are these gods who rule the destiny of...

From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin.They dreamed of a new homeThey woke to a nightmareOn Imir, Captain Holt...

In the future, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy transform themselves.*FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR* 'Extraordinary . . . A future masterwork' Joanne HarrisAt the turn of the twenty-second...

'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 . . ...

Rediscover the extraordinary love story that inspired the major new Sky TV series.Clare and Henry met when Clare was just six and Henry thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true.The Time Traveler's Wife...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646091775Author Kazushige NojimaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Square EnixPublisher Square Enix

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

It's been three days since Subaru and Emilia separated on the worst possible terms. Subaru has fled to Crusch's mansion, letting Rem tend to him while his heart festers. Gloomy and distraught, Subaru ignores his instructions to stay put and returns to...

After escaping the deadly time loop of the manor, Subaru can finally enjoy a brief respite. But after a visit from the king's messenger, he returns with Emilia to the royal capital, where it all began. As he reunites with his friends, Subaru gears up to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780441172719Author Frank HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Ace BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 106mm *...

'Crichton's most compulsive novel' Sunday Telegraph'Crichton's dinosaurs are genuinely frightening' Chicago Sun-Times'Breathtaking adventure. . . a book that is as hard to put down as it is to forget' Time Out-------------------------------On a remote...

One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES'The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd...

Subaru has lost one of his greatest weapons: his memories. That won't stop him from trying to save everyone he cares about and they need his help more than ever. The Pleiades Watchtower is more dangerous than any of them realized and the answer to making...

Good is a construct. Evil is a virus.The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sss Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon... by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single killer: Captain Alpha Raine...

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...

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space - from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and...

Genly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male ot female at the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien,...

'Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their centre ... Literature will miss her...

When young programmer Alexander Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the National Institute for the Technology of Witchcraft and Thaumaturgy, where research into magic is serious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975392512Author Tappei NagatsukiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Yen PressPublisher Little, Brown & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800261242Author Guy HaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Games Workshop LtdPublisher Games Workshop LtdWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre.This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'Minority Report' and 'Sales Pitch', as well as...

WINNER OF THE HUGO, NEBULA, LOCUS, JOHN W. CAMPBELL AND COMPTON CROOK AWARDS The Windup Girl is the ground-breaking and visionary modern classic that swept the board for every major science fiction award it its year of publication. Anderson Lake is a...

'I can honestly say I can't think of another book that ever made me laugh this much. Ever' Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the WindEnsign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid,...

Survivors of a terrible African war flee their blighted continent, and look for refuge in the countries of the West. But Britain is falling into civil war and anarchy. One of Christopher Priest's earliest novels, FUGUE FOR A DARKENING ISLAND is a...

The Second Great Dune Trilogy contains God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapter House Dune, and concludes the Dune Chronicles, one of the most influential SF series ever written.Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet...

Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic bootlegger Northwest Smith still resonate strongly more than 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on...

Deep in the unexplored reaches of the dungeon, a corpse is discovered-one that shouldn't exist. After Iarumas is resurrected, his memories of life before death are gone, and he spends his days delving into the dungeon to retrieve the bodies of dead...

When the Colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it's what Corporal Hicks calls a bug hunt--kill or be killed. Here are fifteen all-new stories of such "close encounters," written by many of today's most extraordinary authors...