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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.78Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited... -
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
SciFier: €3.57'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.'Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary... -
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: €22.61SciFier: €14.82Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143039938Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher... -
The Book of Imaginary Beings Jorge Luis Borges 9781529986372
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.46A dazzling catalogue of be creatures drawn from the dreamworlds of myth, folklore, and imaginationFrom ancient myths to obscure legends, a strange menagerie takes shape: creatures part real, part... -
Philosophy and Science Fiction by Michael Phillips
SciFier: €25.47An examination of philosophical themes in science fiction, with seventeen stories, by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, Jorge Luis Borges, Brian Aldiss, Stanislaw Lem, and others.Book... -
Jaguars' Tomb Angelica Gorodischer 9780826501400
RRP: €22.02SciFier: €18.55Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts, written by three interconnected characters. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by MarIa Celina IgarzAbal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author... -
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age Stanislaw Lem 9780241467992
RRP: €10.70SciFier: €7.33'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' GuardianOne of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wryly comic, outlandish imaginings of the relationship... -
The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino 9780141189680
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €11.31Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated... -
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780141184999
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.78Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless blend of fantasy and reality, translated from the Spanish by... -
Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais 9780140445503
RRP: €22.60SciFier: €18.15The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy... -
The Cartographer of Sands Jason Buchholz 9781963101119
RRP: €15.46SciFier: €10.96Traveling across the landscapes of California, two brothers-a recent parolee and a Berkeley professor-go in search of their teenage sister who has vanished, looking for the reasons why she left home... -
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde & Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: €17.85SciFier: €12.45What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope... -
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: €10.70SciFier: €8.00What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope... -
The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 9781906998332
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €11.50A young man's quest for beauty through literature, love, drugs and dreams becomes a mystical, lyrical classic from the father of supernatural horror. There is a foreword by Catherine Fisher one of... -
Kafkaesque Cinema Angelos Koutsourakis 9781474498975
RRP: €29.74SciFier: €26.11For all its familiarity as a widely used term, "Kafkaesque cinema" remains an often-baffling concept that is poorly understood by film scholars. Taking a cue from Jorge Luis Borges' point that Kafka... -
When a Robot Decides to Die and Other Stories by Francisco Garcia Gonzalez
RRP: €20.17SciFier: €16.05A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse-Francisco Garcia... -
Selected Plays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €9.51SciFier: €7.72Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who... -
Supernatural Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: €10.70SciFier: €8.32This volume contains all of Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural short stories, showcasing both his mastery of the genre and his interest in the otherworldly and the strange ways the human brain can... -
Limited Verse David Martin 9781773855301
RRP: €33.26SciFier: €24.98At the close of the twenty-first century, a prison population awaits transport to a world where their memories will be Cleaned, and where they will be Harmonized into the language of New English,... -
Limited Verse David Martin 9781773855318
RRP: €18.98SciFier: €14.82At the close of the twenty-first century, a prison population awaits transport to a world where their memories will be Cleaned, and where they will be Harmonized into the language of New English,... -
Who's Writing This?: Fifty-five Writers on Humor, Courage, Self-Loathing, and the Creative Process Dan Halpern 9780061782220
SciFier: €11.00A rare occasion to experience privileged information (however tongue-in-cheek) about the identities of their favourite authors in the same place. After seeing a new translation of Jorge Luis Borges'... -
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories Robert Louis Stevenson 9781847493781
RRP: €8.32SciFier: €7.08One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal... -
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) Akira Mizuta Lippit 9780816646111
RRP: €22.60SciFier: €19.46Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) reveals these hidden interiors of cultural life, the "avisual"... -
The Star Diaries Stanislaw Lem 9780241240021
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.78A Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age - The New York TimesStanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period of twenty years, all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy and... -
The OA David Sweeney 9781800859432
RRP: €27.36SciFier: €25.89Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,... -
The OA David Sweeney 9781800859425
SciFier: €103.47Created by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series The OA (2016-19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious,... -
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age Stanislaw Lem 9780141394596
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.78A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations'Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit to...'Trurl and Klapaucius... -
Pedro Paramo: Edicion conmemorativa 70 anos: Pedro Paramo: 70 Year Commemorative Edition (Spanish Edition) Juan Rulfo 9788410290105
RRP: €23.74SciFier: €16.77"Pedro Paramo is one of the best novels of Spanish-language literature, and even of literature." -Jorge Luis Borges Juan Preciado makes a promise to his dying mother that he will travel to the... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 9781847493729
RRP: €8.32SciFier: €7.90Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating... -
The Road to Science Fiction: From Here to Forever James Gunn 9780810846708
RRP: €23.79SciFier: €23.06Now in Paperback! The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the current day. Created originally to provide... -
When Stories Travel by Cristina Della Coletta (University of California at San Diego)
RRP: €69.02SciFier: €48.02Adapting fiction into film is, as author Cristina Della Coletta asserts, a transformative encounter that takes place not just across media but across different cultures. In this book, Della Coletta... -
Mortal Engines Stanislaw Lem 9780241269077
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.78'A virtuoso storyteller ... a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age' The New York Times'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.'A freighter pilot... -
Yi Jing: The Illustrated Book of Changes C. C. Tsai 9780691243092
RRP: €28.50SciFier: €19.47A delightful full-color graphic adaptation of the beloved Yi Jing-or I Ching-by bestselling comic-artist C. C. TsaiIn this volume, acclaimed comic-artist C. C. Tsai uses his virtuosic skill and sly... -
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 9781454957287
RRP: €21.42SciFier: €16.80Discover the story of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning The... -
The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories Arthur Machen 9780198813163
RRP: €20.22SciFier: €16.24Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the transition from the Gothic tradition to modern horror... -
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black E. B. Hudspeth 9781594746161
RRP: €27.37SciFier: €18.73Philadelphia. The late 1870s. A city of cobblestone sidewalks and horse-drawn carriages. Home to the famous anatomist and surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a "resurrectionist" (aka grave robber),... -
American Innovations by Rivka Galchen
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €10.10A short-story collection from one of America's brightest young talents. In one of these intensely imaginative stories a young woman's furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator... -
Last Days Brian Evenson 9781566894166
RRP: €15.46SciFier: €14.27Evenson is a major figure among writers who straddle the line between genre forms and literary concerns, and he was recently the subject of a 5 x 5 interview (five interviewers, and spread over five... -
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €8.79A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. ... -
The Mexican Flyboy by Alfredo Vea
RRP: €23.74SciFier: €16.95What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths? What if we could rewrite history to protect and reward the innocent victims of injustice? In Alfredo Vea's daring new...