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Revelation Space: The breath-taking space opera masterpiece by Alastair Reynolds
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a wingest Amarantin. Fo ...Show more
Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The Strugatsky brothers' poignant and introspective novel of first contact that inspired the classic film Stalker Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysteriou ...Show more
Starship Troopers: SF Masterworks by Robert A. Heinlein
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
'The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one 'The Third Space War' (or the fourth), or whether 'The First Interstellar War' fits it better. We just call it 'The Bug War'. Everything up to then and still later were 'incidents', 'patrols' or 'police actions'. However, you are just as dead ...Show more
Swastika Night by Murray Constantine
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished ...Show more
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion #2) by Dan Simmons
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks - Hyperion
The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying seige to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against us to build the Ultimate Intelligence; God. The God of Machines. His genesis could mean a ...Show more
The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
The year is 2110. Humankind is entering a new golden age.But when an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky, he sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization.While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a ...Show more
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
'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. There's no one like her' Zadie Smith'Le Guin is a w ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece by Ursula K. Le Guin
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed - except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant. The resultant children of Midwich do not belon ...Show more
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course ther ...Show more
The Snail On The Slope by Arkady STRUGATSKY and Boris STRUGATSKY
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below. Except no one ever seems to go there, and his attempts only trap him further within the workings of this strange organisation. ENTER THE FOREST Candide ...Show more