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"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

Releasedatum: 2020-02-17 5,00 kr

‘A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.’ – Guardian With Stories of Your Life and Others , his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations are a wondrous and terrifying part of ever...

Releasedatum: 2014-06-19 Genre:Sci-fi och fantasy 59,00 kr

The third volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collection 26 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including a complete novel by H. Beam Piper! Included in this volume are: “The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity,” by Fritz Leiber “Time Bum,” by C.M. Kornbluth “The Human Equations,” by Dave Creek “The Gun,” by Philip K. Dick “Not Stupid Enough,” by George H. Scithers “Jackpot,” by E.C. Tubb “The Killing Streets,” by Colin Harvey “Moon D...

Releasedatum: 2012-02-08 5,00 kr

‘One of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . Although dark in premise, these parables – threaded through with references to ancient mythology and folklore – are filled with hope and humanism: a balm for anxious souls.’ – Daily Telegraph From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking second collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stor...

Releasedatum: 2019-07-11 59,00 kr

Three stories for the price of one from a Science Fiction Grand Master.  “Living Space”— It’s nice to own an entire planet. Clarence Rimbro owns his own personal planet Earth. You see, there are an infinity of possible Earths, each existing in its own parallel universe. A perfect solution to overpopulation is to give everyone their own earth in an alternate universe. So Clarence and his family is totally alone right? Then why are there noises and shaking going on his own private ear...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-09 5,00 kr

"The Philip K. Dick Anthology: 18 Classic Science Fiction Stories" contains a fantastic selection from the legendary master of the genre.  The stories in this anthology excellently illustrate the Genius of Philip K. Dick's irrepressible imagination, and the intelligent prescience of his writing.  As suggested by the title, there are 18 separate stories, as well as numerous illustrations in this Anthology - the stories are listed below. 1. Beyond Lies the Wub 2. The Gun 3. The Skull 4. ...

Releasedatum: 2013-06-28 9,00 kr

Robert A. Heinlein's brilliance and diverse talents are on display in this collection of five short stories that range from mind-twisters ("All You Zombies—"), paranoia and surprise ("They—"),  hilarious engineering conundrums ("—And They Built a Crooked House"), fantasies ("Our Fair City), and the beautiful, heart-breaking "The Man Who Travelled in Elephants". The story "All You Zombies—" is the basis for PREDESTINATION from Sony Pictures, just released in the US on January 9,...

Releasedatum: 2013-11-25 Genre:Sci-fi och fantasy 45,00 kr

All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy. Mars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest. From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists – hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert – Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: befor...

Releasedatum: 2015-07-30 Genre:Sci-fi och fantasy 179,00 kr

Long before A Game of Thrones became an international phenomenon , #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin had taken his loyal readers across the cosmos. Now back in print after almost ten years, Tuf Voyaging is the story of quirky and endearing Haviland Tuf, an unlikely hero just trying to do right by the galaxy, one planet at a time.   Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader who likes cats. So how is it that, in competition with the worst villains the universe has to offer...

Releasedatum: 2013-01-29 85,00 kr

20 Classic Sci-Fi Novels and Short Stories! Featuring Ayn Rand, Edward Bellamy, Harry Harrison, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Frederick Pohl, H. Beam Piper, Poul Anderson , Phillip K. Dick, Jules Verne, R. F. Starzl, Victor Rousseau, Edmond Hamilton & Harl Vincent, Murray Leinster, Samuel R. Delaney, Arthur Stangland and Marion-Zimmer Bradley

Releasedatum: 2014-06-03 9,00 kr

Sequel to instant New York Times bestseller Axiom's End , in Truth of the Divine , Lindsay Ellis deepens her exploration of a world faced with the presence of extra terrestrial intelligence. 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 granting human rights to non-human persons. How do you...

Releasedatum: 2021-10-12 85,00 kr

From #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones, Nightflyers , now a television show on SyFy and Netflix, features an epic story of space exploration and cosmic horror, plus five George R. R. Martin classic science fiction tales. On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain no one has ever seen in the flesh. Soon, however, th...

Releasedatum: 2018-03-27 55,00 kr

“A breath of fresh air . . . the vision is deeply imagined, very complete and controlled . . . Gibson is truly brilliant.”—Washington Times magazine From a true master of science fiction comes a collection of short stories that show how, no matter the length, Gibson is one of the greatest writers working today. Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writi...

Releasedatum: 2014-04-15 109,00 kr

ORIGINAL STORIES SET IN JOHN RINGO'S BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. The zombie apocalypse is here in these all-new stories from John Ringo, Sarah A. Hoyt, Michael Z. Williamson, Jody Lynn Nye, Travis S. Taylor, and many more. Sequel to the best-selling anthology  Black Tide Rising. Civilization had fallen. Everyone who survived the plague lived through the Fall, that terrible autumn when life as they had known it ended in blood and chaos. Nuclear attack submarines facing sudden and ...

Releasedatum: 2019-03-05 69,00 kr

Edited by the mysterious Rey Bertran, the Science Fiction Archive #1 features some of the greatest science fiction writing of all time. Featuring: The Sentimentalists, by Murray Leinster The Girls from Earth, by Frank Robinson The Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell Wright Song in a minor key, by C.L. Moore Sentry of the Sky, by Evelyn E. Smith Meeting of the Minds, by Robert Sheckley Junior, by Robert Abernathy Death Wish, by Ned Lang Dead World, by Jack Douglas Cost of Living, by Robert Sheckley A...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-01 9,00 kr

From the author of Exhalation , an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" ( The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of alie...

Releasedatum: 2010-10-26 79,00 kr

Here for the first time is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish series, which tells the history of the Ekumen, the galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain. First published in 1995 as  Four Ways to Forgiveness , and now joined by a fifth story,  Five Ways to Forgiveness  focuses on the twin planets Werel and Yeowe, two worlds whose peoples, long known as “owners” and “assets,” ...

Releasedatum: 2017-09-05 Genre:Sci-fi och fantasy 109,00 kr

Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his 1964 novel, The Dying Earth , and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever. This omnibus volume comprised all four books in the series The Dying Earth The Eyes of the Overworld Cugel's Saga Rialto the Marvellous A must-re...

Releasedatum: 2016-03-01 95,00 kr

Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, some of today's leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries have come together in this anthology of stories, set in the near future, that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction Born of an initiative at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, this remarkable collection unites a diverse group of celebrated authors, prominent scientists, and creative visi...

Releasedatum: 2014-09-09 109,00 kr

A classic collection of stories – all told on the skin of a man – from the author of Fahrenheit 451. If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy, perhaps he might have used this man’s body for his art… Yet the Illustrated Man has tried to burn the illustrations off. He’s tried sandpaper, acid, and a knife. Because, as the sun sets, the pictures glow like charcoals, like scattered ...

Releasedatum: 2013-02-14 Genre:Sci-fi och fantasy 55,00 kr

This book contain collection of 9 books    1. All the Sad Young Men [1926] 2. The Beautiful and Damned [1922] 3. Flappers and Philosophers [1920] 4. Tales of the Jazz Age [1922] 5. This Side of Paradise [1920] 6. The Pat Hobby stories [1941] 7. Taps at Reveille [1935] 8. Tender is the Night [1934] 9. Short Stories About the Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940 Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century. The self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Gen...

Releasedatum: 2012-04-11 5,00 kr

The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot.  Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, ...

Releasedatum: 2015-12-15 Genre:Sci-fi och fantasy 39,00 kr

Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings , taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories . This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who...

Releasedatum: 2016-03-08 115,00 kr

Short novels may well be the perfect length for science fiction. They are movie length tales that resonate with moxie while exploring characters, new worlds, and ideas. The stories in this unabridged collection are the best-of-the best short science fiction novels published in 2010 by current and emerging masters of this form. “Return to Titan,” by Stephen Baxter , is set in his Xeelee sequence. Michael Poole and his father search one of Saturn’s moons for sentient life that would interfer...

Releasedatum: 2011-11-10 45,00 kr

Seven Authors with three stories each, hence the Triple Feature—presenting 21 exciting stories of classic Science Fiction. Three stories from Science Fiction Grand Master, Isaac Asimov, including “Living Space”. Three tales by fellow SF Grand Master Poul Anderson including “The Temple of Earth”. Donald E. Westlake, primarily known as a mystery writer, is represented with three stories of his own including “Meteor Strike”. Fritz Leiber has three tales that include “Hatchery of Dre...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-09 25,00 kr

Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. But he would make no mistakes because he had the stranger's skull under his arm.

Releasedatum: 2012-02-20 Genre:Sci-fi och fantasy 5,00 kr

For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, this renowned writer has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these...

Releasedatum: 2009-10-13 109,00 kr

Invisible Planets , edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu--is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Invisible Planets is a groundbreaking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction . The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon award-nominated “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfan...

Releasedatum: 2016-11-01 105,00 kr

Includes "After Yang," the basis for the acclaimed A24 film After Yang , starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Haley Lu Richardson, and directed by Kogonada. A New York Times Notable Book “A darkly mesmerizing, fearless, and exquisitely written work. Stunning, harrowing, and brilliantly imagined.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersiv...

Releasedatum: 2016-09-13 89,00 kr

This fifth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-three stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Strange Horizons, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realm...

Releasedatum: 2013-08-27 69,00 kr

Hugo Award winner "Neutron Star" and seven other groundbreaking stories and novellas by the author of RINGWORLD.  Well-known Niven characters -- including Beowulf Schaeffer, Sigmund Ausfaller, Nessus and other alien Puppeteers, the ferocious Kzinti -- appear in these pages. As Tom Clancy says, "The scope of Larry Niven's work is so vast that only a writer of supreme talent could disguise the fact as well as he can."   "Niven...juggles huge concepts of time and space that no one el...

Releasedatum: 2015-01-03 85,00 kr

This Ray Bradbury collection is comprised of nine early short stories rarely or never reprinted since first publication. Included are three stories originally published in Mr. Bradbury's own science fiction fanzine, Futuria Fantasia . "Don't Get Technatal": Jumping Jigwheels! If you enjoy exclamation points, this story was written for you! In the distant year of 1975 a dissatisfied writer rants about the state of society! Could robosexuality be the answer he seeks?(!) "The Pendulum": A delightfu...

Releasedatum: 2012-08-07 29,00 kr

"A clown with an axe walks into a church..." It sounds like the start of a bad joke but in a dark future overrun by unspeakable horror, an evil clown with an axe that tells him to kill things might be just what the doctor ordered.

Releasedatum: 2011-06-16 9,00 kr

An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true ...

Releasedatum: 2009-10-13 105,00 kr

Thirteen short stories by the legendary author of The Man in the High Castle and other science fiction classics.   Philip K. Dick didn’t predict the future―he summoned the desperate bleakness of our present directly from his fevered paranoia. Dick didn’t predict the Internet or iPhones or email or 3D printers, but rather he so thoroughly understood human nature that he could already see, even at the advent of the transistor, the way technology would alienate us from each other and fro...

Releasedatum: 2019-01-01 65,00 kr

The world has been brought to its knees by the “zombie virus.” Nations have fallen, cities have been overrun by the infected, and the human race has come perilously close to extinction. But with the first winter come and gone, the infected have been reduced to not much more than a background nuisance, and survivors around the world are taking stock and vowing to rebuild and rise up stronger, better, and unafraid. All-new stories from  New York Times  best-selling author John Ringo...

Releasedatum: 2021-06-01 69,00 kr

3 Best-Selling Authors 10 Great Full-Length Science Fiction Novels One Low Price! The Hyperspace Project (Books 1-3) Alien First Contact Cyberpunk Space Opera ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “An action-packed, fun and intelligent adventure into the unknown.” He set out to prove a theory. Now he’s racing to save the galaxy from his mistake. Along with his newly found, rag-tag band of alien friends, Nick Bannon battles to keep his devastating technology out of the hands of the biomechanoid ra...

Releasedatum: 2019-02-15 45,00 kr

The fourth incredible installment of the Science Fiction Archive, edited by the time-traveling genius Rey Bertran! Featuring: Proof of the Pudding, by Robert Sheckley Where the World is Quiet, by C.H. Liddell Business for the Lawyers, by Ralph Robin The Observers, by G.L. Vandenburg Infinite Intruder, by Alan Nourse Where the PHPH Pebbles Go, by Miriam Allen DeFord The Snare, by Richard Smith X Marks the Pedwalk, by Fritz Leiber Education of a Martian, by Joseph Shallit The Light on Precipice Pe...

Releasedatum: 2018-06-12 9,00 kr

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories. In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection , the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. Thi...

Releasedatum: 2018-07-03 105,00 kr

An ultimate collection of novels, short stories and essays, by the visionary author, the "father of science fiction" - H. G. Wells: The Time Machine The Undying Fire The War in the Air The War of the Worlds The World Set Free A Modern Utopia When the Sleeper Wakes Ann Veronica Bealby In the Days of the Comet The Chronic Argonauts The First Men in the Moon The Invisible Man The Island of Dr Moreau The New Machiavelli The Passionate Friends The Prophetic Trilogy The Research Magnificent Th...

Releasedatum: 2017-05-14 9,00 kr

Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others . Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival , starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. “A swell movie adaptation always sends me to the source material, so Arrival had me pick up Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others : lean, relentless, and incandescent.” —Colson Whitehead, GQ Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science ficti...

Releasedatum: 2016-06-14 69,00 kr

This sixth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Yoon Ha Lee, James Patrick Kelly, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's , Clarkesworld , F&SF , and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

Releasedatum: 2014-06-04 69,00 kr

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world through their short stories. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters o...

Releasedatum: 2013-07-23 105,00 kr

Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. Her smart, heartfelt fiction runs the gamut from screwball comedy to profound tragedy, combining dazzling plot twists, cutting-edge science, and unforgettable characters.   From a near future mourning the extinction of dogs to an alternate history...

Releasedatum: 2013-07-09 69,00 kr

Three Science Fiction stories for the price of one from a master storyteller, Donald E. Westlake.  “Meteor Strike”— Harvey Ricks had always bit off more than he cared to chew. Somehow, he had always managed to chew, and swallow. Now, standing for the first time in the vacuum of Space, he wondered if this was the bite that would choke him. “Or Give Me Death”— ‘Give me liberty, or give me death!’ was merely a quotation from a history book to Dr. Lambert until Patrick Henry wal...

Releasedatum: 2012-10-09 5,00 kr

In the Year 2889 was written by Jules Verne and first published in 1889. It is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules Verne's son, Michel Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the article echo Jules Verne's ideas.

Releasedatum: 2011-04-26 5,00 kr

“An exceedingly fine set of stories written specifically for this collection by some of the best sf authors writing today.’ —Library Journal (starred review)   Following the success of their Locus Award-winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan now up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, new stories from some of the biggest names in science fiction’s biggest genre. With contributions from  Cory Doctorow, Elizabeth Moon, Garth Nix, John S...

Releasedatum: 2009-06-30 115,00 kr

Enjoy Fourteen Original Fan Fiction tales set in the Hunterverse with a Foreword by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Over a century ago, the Peltier clan came to New Orleans and established one of the best-known Limanis in the world. Now out of the shadows of their past, the present, and the future, readers will be treated to stories from fans of Sherri's as they dip their pens into the realms of the Dark-Hunters, Were-Hunters, and Dream-Hunters. Join us for this exciting collection of short stories set a...

Releasedatum: 2021-11-26 65,00 kr

Cities are alive, shared by humans and animals, insects and plants, landforms and machines. What might city ecosystems look like in the future if we strive for multispecies justice in our urban settings? In these more-than-human stories, twenty-four authors investigate humanity's relationship with the rest of the natural world, placing characters in situations where humans have to look beyond their own needs and interests. A quirky eco-businessman sees broader applications for a high school scie...

Releasedatum: 2021-04-13 55,00 kr

“Instantiation” is a collection of eleven science fiction stories by Hugo Award winning author Greg Egan: • “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” • “Zero For Conduct” • “Uncanny Valley” • “Seventh Sight” • “The Nearest” • “Shadow Flock” • “Bit Players” • “Break My Fall” • “3-adica” • “The Slipway” • “Instantiation”

Releasedatum: 2020-01-24 39,00 kr