UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian One of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wryly comic, outlandish imaginings of the relationship between humans and technology. In this playful..... More
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2020. William Brand (tr.), Przemek Debowski (cover art). New Edition. First Printing. Paperback. An early realist novel by Stanisław Lem, taking place in a Polish psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanisław Lem's The Hospital of..... More
London: Corgi Books, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Rare. Mitchell had never really conformed, never really been satisfied to be part of 'the system'. But up until the day he discovered the tape, Central Command had no real cause to suspect him of subversive activities. Then suddenly Mitchell found..... More
Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction presents the first book-length English-language translation of science and speculative fiction from South Korea, bringing together 13 classic and contemporary stories from the 1960s through the 2010s. From the reimagining of an..... More
London: Earthlight, 2002. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. More
London: Legend Books, 1996. Paperback. Magic Kingdom of Landover series. More
New York: Ace Books, Inc, 1963. Paperback. Ace Double book no. F-177. More
London: Corgi Books, 1985. Josh Kirby (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like..... More
London: Corgi Books, 2002. Josh Kirby (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. THE TWENTY-SIXTH DISCWORLD NOVEL Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. You mess with it at your peril. You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn’t do is allow it to..... More
New York: Ace Books, 1966. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Mass-market Paperback. Blazing interstellar adventure by the creator of Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee. Captain Pausert thought his luck had finally turned-but he did not yet realize it was a turn for the worse. On second thought, make that..... More
Sphere Books, 1978. Paperback. More
New York: Pyramid Books, 1971. Walotsky (cover art). Fifth Printing. Mass-market Paperback. T-2552. More
Corgi, 1976. Paperback. More
Ballantine Books, 1973. Paperback. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1980. Norman Walker (cover art). Reprint. Paperback. Looking to spice up your bedtime reading material? Rain in the Doorway, a raucous, raunchy romp from renowned writer Thorne Smith, is just the ticket. The story follows the boozy shenanigans of Hector Owen. Betrayed by his wife, Owen..... More
New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Paperback. More
New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Paperback. More
Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, Inc, 1975. Reprint. Mass-market paperback. From the Nebula Award winner: The time is the distant future. Earth has been rendered uninhabitable for much of the year by terrible storms during which its only city, Center, constructed around a natural cave system, is sealed from the outside..... More
London: Gollancz/ Orion, 2016. Christopher Gibbs (cover illustration). UK Edition. Seventh Printing. Paperback. With an introduction by Ken Macleod. Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings..... More
New York: Ace Books, 1989. Jim Burns (cover art). First Printing. Paperback. Time is running out. Thomsen 4, a small Earth-like planet, is on a collision course with a speeding comet, and the impact will wipe out the Arrs, a lupoid race of unknown intelligence. But Dr. Bones and his..... More
Arrow Books, 1977. Paperback. More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. Clarence Brown (tr.). First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le Guin The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, 'OneState', where humans have become..... More
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