Science Fiction

'Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing' STEPHEN KING It might have been the end of days. Instead it was the beginning of something shockingly new.They called the comet Cain, after the astronomer who discovered it. It passed 500,000 miles...

A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their...

'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian'This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management'Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica,...

Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionMill Valley, Marin County, California. Dr Miles Bennell has lived there all his life. But one day Miles sees a patient who claims her Uncle isn't himself. He's a...

Going wild like nobody's watching! As innocent as a child! The woman who had Shiroe wrapped around her finger finally makes her appearance!One day, Leonardo became trapped in a game world, and what's worse, he was on the Chinese server where he didn't...

An original novel set in the Halo Universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! Molly Patel was only seven years old when the alien alliance known as the Covenant destroyed her homeworld and killed her family. As one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619295261Author K AtenFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Flashpoint PublicationsPublisher Flashpoint PublicationsWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm)...

YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.'Fabulous... Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMAN, author of CoralineThis is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories...

Catherine is a soldier. Fast, strong, lethal, she is the ultimate in military technology. Bred by scientists, indoctrinated by the government, she and her sisters will win this war, no matter the cost. And the costs are high. The life span of these...

'A warm, witty novel about love and friendship with a fun time-travel twist' HELLO Magazine Number one bestselling author Louise Pentland is back with her brand new novel that will make you laugh, make you cry and thoroughly charm you!Sometimes you have...

It's the Doctor's universe. 24 hours to find them.24 hours to escape death. The finest time-travelling assassin in the cosmos is running scared. Doom's own death is coming for her in a matter of hours. And the only person in the universe who might just...

'As good an introduction to SF as you can buy.' Iain Banks The definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre-from H.G. Wells's prophetic vision of technological warfare to contemporary cyberspace, and up-to-the-minute...

Kim Kinnison, Number One man of his time, had faced challenges before - but rarely one as daunting as this. To him fell the perilous task of infiltrating the inner circle of Boskone, stronghold of galactic civilization's most deadly foe. Kinnison had to...

Twenty-five thousand years in the future mankind is still locked in its twenty thousand year long war for survival with the Xeelee.Billions die every day and mankind's best soldiers are children, bred to fight and die. The war has gone well but has now...

Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this Ditmar and Aurealis award-winning, fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity and the power of narratives. Lin 'The Silent One' Vu is a...

Firstborns rule society. Secondborns are the property of the government. Thirdborns are not tolerated. Long live the Fates Republic. On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Roselle St...

A brave starship crew are drawn into the schemes of interplanetary powers competing for galactic domination, in this epic space opera from the best-selling strategic boardgame, Twilight Imperium Captain Felix Duval and the crew of the Temerarious quietly...

In a world wrecked by climate change, in a society owned by the ultra-rich, in a city hollowed out by industrial flight, Hubert, Etc, Seth and Natalie have nowhere else to be and nothing better to do. But there is another way. After all, now that...

A brilliant scientist constructs a machine, which, with the pull of a lever, propels him to the year AD 802,701. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers...

A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his...

A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. On an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath...

Radio Life: a gripping adventure and a riveting political thriller: The Commonwealth, a post-apocalyptic civilisation on the rise, is locked in a clash of ideas with the Keepers . . . a fight which threatens to destroy the world . . . again.When Lilly...

The eighth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.Because,...

This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research scientists and other writers trained in science. Science is at the heart of real science fiction, which is more than just westerns with ray guns or fantasy with spaceships. The people...

There's a reckoning on the way ...... and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble's way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured, suspicion immediately falls on...

With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterisation and his unrivalled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science Hannu Rajaniemi has swiftly set a new benchmark for SF in the 21st century. And now with his third...

'I don't hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles . . .' Carrie Fisher in Shockaholic[Shockaholic] is the finest, funniest, chronicler of the maddest celebrity mores. Sunday TimesBy the time Carrie Fisher wrote Shockaholic, it had...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Welcome to Utopia. When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an adventure...

They took the job to escape the worldThey didn't expect the world to end.Kasker Rampart: a derelict refinery platform moored in the Arctic Ocean. A skeleton crew of fifteen fight boredom and despair as they wait for a relief ship to take them home. But...

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi is the dazzling follow-up to The Collapsing Empire, the second in the Interdependency series - a space opera in a universe on the brink of destruction.The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, is on the verge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316317122Author James PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint BookshotsPublisher BookshotsWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 124mm * 10mm

Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War.Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to that...

The key to controlling the galaxy is hidden on a distant planet, and interplanetary powers will do anything to unlock its secrets, in this epic space opera from the best-selling game, Twilight ImperiumBianca Xing has spent a lifetime on a provincial...

This is the official novelization of the third movie in the highly successful Alien series. Ellen Ripley continues to be stalked by the savage alien race, after her escape pod, ejected from Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, crash-lands on a prison...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765306630Author Research Associate James WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Orb BooksPublisher Orb BooksWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593639467Author Ruby DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The bestselling series from author Tappei Nagatsuki continues in this spin-off where some of your favorite characters capture the spotlight! Long ago, in the kingdom of Lugunica, there was a great war between the royal military forces and the...

'A stunning piece of speculative fiction' The i'A haunting novel about love, survival and everything in between ... one to get excited about' Stylist, Best Modern Dystopia---But she isn't here, no one is here. And I have a terror of being alone, in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735076874Author TracyFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Space Wizard Science FantasyPublisher Space Wizard Science FantasyWeight(grams)...

***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020****LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020**'Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic Frankenstein, discover...