Science Fiction

The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery. Everyone had a chance, everyone could live in hope that they would be chosen to be the boss, the Quizmaster. But with the power came the...

Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within...

After crushing the top two guilds in the game, Maple Tree places third in a massive upset during the latest event. Looking to strengthen her ties with the game's three top Guild Masters, Maple decides to team up with the Order of the Holy Sword and...

*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo* A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having...

Christopher Priest's artful sleight of hand when it comes to manipulating the experience of his books and notions of what is real reaches a peak in this novel that accounts the trials and tribulations of a group of people who have escaped into a utopian...

From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593639481Author Ruby DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

A Billion Suns is a wargame of interstellar combat that puts you in command of fleets of powerful starships, from squadrons of agile, but fragile, fighters, to hulking and powerful capital ships. When combined with some spaceship miniatures, a tape...

Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter's rights won't get her far when she's got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air. Fortunately for her, help arrives in the form of a government salvage...

Two quirky detective stories from Britain's best sci-fi writer and author of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams.Dirk Gently is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and...

The aces of the New Republic have one final chance to defeat the darkness of Shadow Wing in this thrilling conclusion to the Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy!In the wake of Yrica Quell's shocking decision-and one of the fiercest battles of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553561401Author Margaret WeisFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 169mm *...

'Ingenious and compelling' THE TIMES, SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS OF THE MONTH'Mind-bendingly clever and utterly gripping' DAILY MAIL, SCI-FI BOOKS OF THE MONTH'A fascinating and assured debut' THE GUARDIAN, BEST RECENT SCIENCE FICTIONIt's 1962 and physics...

The future of cybernetic warfare. Robosoldiers. They take many forms, from disembodied AI to humanlike androids and more. But at their cores beat the cybernetic hearts of warriors! In these stories of hard military SF, you will journey to the...

'Contemporary and as grimdark as it comes' British Fantasy Society This debut epic fantasy from a British writer of incredible talent tells the tale of the Twenty, a band of mercenaries hunted by an unknown killer. Filled with unique voices and...

'Stylish, witty, and engaging!' - San Diego Union Tribune'Exciting...Accessible to the average reader as well as the hardcore SF fan. This is a work sure to keep the reader on the edge of her seat.' - Romantic Times BookclubThe Hard Rapture took Earth's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345458988Author Steven BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House WorldsPublisher Random House WorldsWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 170mm...

The planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man.The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They...

"Interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams." -George R.R. MartinBlending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the third and final volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of...

'A raucous, boldly inventive tale' BOOKLIST'Provides a "Black Mirror"-like warning of new technology without the heavy feeling of dread' USA TODAYThe magnificent sequel to Hank Green's #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable...

A collection of exciting short stories featuring tales that take will take you from the Battle of Endor to the desolate world of Jakku. The stories, which cover both Legends and tales that fit in with the current Star Wars continuity, feature popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486290386Author Edward BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not...

A certain unlikely hero...Touma Kamijou has the worst luck imaginable... Sure he's a citizen of Academy City, a scientific marvel of the modern world where superhuman abilities are artificially cultivated and commonplace, but when it comes to paranormal...

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...

"Being scared is the least of your worries." The Shining Men are everywhere. You spot them out of the corner of your eye. Abnormally tall, with long lank hair, blank faces and blazing eyes. If they catch you, they'll drag you away to who knows where. No...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063066625Author Jeffrey CranorFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Weaponized is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed science fiction author Neal Asher.A bright new future for humanity - or a dark and inescapable past.Ursula has lived twice the normal human lifespan, courtesy of the latest technology. But now...

Haruyuki and company triumph over Sun God Inti, only to find that more despairawaits. The God of The End, Tezcatolipica, appears and declares that he'll put an end toAccel World (?????) once and for all. Meanwhile, the battle against White Cosmosand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547572635Author Philip K DickFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547572536Author Philip K DickFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368084314Author Jeffrey BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

The official prequel to the action video game Gears 5, beginning immediately after Gears of War 4 and leading directly into the new game. Following Reyna Diaz's death at the hands of the Swarm, Kait seals her mother's tomb, swearing revenge. With her...

The situation in the Lembatta Cluster is deteriorating rapidly. Fleets from the Federation and Klingon Empire are heading for the borders. The crews of the U.S.S. Prometheus and I.K.S. Bortas are racing against time to break the cycle of violence that is...

500 Years In The Future, Earth Is A Paradise... Without Us.The Earth was dying, and only the Erta could save it. Created to be genetically superior, hyper-intelligent and unburdened by the full range of human emotions, they succeeded by removing the...

The human race is at a crossroads; we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. As the political climate becomes more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of...

Encompassing time-travel, powerful mystery and the future history of humanity to its last handful of survivors, Across Realtime spans millions of years and is an utterly engrossing SF classic.* 1993's most visibleSF author - winner of the Hugo Award for...

One hundred years from now, and against all the odds, Earth has found a new stability; the political order has reached some sort of balance, and the new colony on Mars is growing. But the fraught years of the 21st century have left an uneasy legacy .....

Never underestimate a librarian. Fifty-something Edinburgh librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name...

Life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting . . .Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him.Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight...