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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, the rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of knowledge. By studying the Holy Relics of the past, the Order of St Leibowitz hopes to raise human ...Show more
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
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Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez S.J., is a part of a four man scientific commission to the planet Lithia, there to study a harmonious society of aliens living on a planets which is a biologist's paradise. He soon finds himself troubled: how can these perfect beings, living in an apparent Eden, have no concept ...Show more
A Deepness in the Sky: SF Masterworks [Vernor] by Vernor Vinge
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After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap uni ...Show more
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of ...Show more
A Fire upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
From a four-time Hugo Award-winning author comes this "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year--a space saga awesome in conception, and a riveting novel of conflict, love, loss, and survival. Reissue.
A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
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A Maze of Death is a sci-fi murder mystery set on a mysterious planet, with a twist ending that leaves the reader wondering just what they've been witnessing the whole time.
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
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Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying ...Show more
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
"Dick is Thoreau plus the death of the American dream."--Roberto Bola o Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred ...Show more
Always Coming Home: SF Masterworks by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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, poems, songs, recipes - Always Coming Home is no le ...Show more
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
Category: Old Titles - No Stock | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the year 29AD he is shocked to meet the man known as Jesus Christ -- a drooling idiot, hiding in the shadows of the carpenter's shop in Nazareth. But if he is not capable of fulfilling his historical role, the ...Show more
Blood Music by Greg Bear
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Vergil Ulam's breakthrough in genetic engineering is considered too dangerous for further research. Rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scient ...Show more