UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. Doryl Jensen (tr.). First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach's mysterious, poignant space opera explores the..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. Amalia Gladhart (tr.). First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'A kind of magical realism for science fiction ... Quite, quite brilliant' Tor Part pulp adventure, part otherworldly meditation, this is the story of Trafalgar Medrano: intergalactic trader and lover of bitter coffee..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent alien forces, body-switching and travel across the space-time continuum. 'Evil, in Lovecraft, is universal, pervasive' Michael..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction' The New York Times Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. Ballard This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a...... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'Hilarious SF satire. Douglas Adams said it was the only thing like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although written ten years earlier. It's wonderful' Neil Gaiman This madcap cosmic farce relates the adventures of the..... More
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
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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