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Synners: The Arthur C Clarke award-winning cyberpunk masterpiece for fans of William Gibson and THE MATRIX Pat Cadigan 9780575119543
GatewayRRP: £10.99£7.55What does it mean to be human when you're part of the machine?Synners are synthesizers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and turn them into a form which can be packaged, sold and consumed. This book is set in a... -
Timescape Gregory Benford 9781857989359
GollanczRRP: £10.99£7.55The year is 1998, the world is a growing nightmare of desperation, of uncontrollable pollution and increasing social unrest. In Cambridge, two scientists experiment with tachyons - subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light and,... -
The Doomed City Arkady Strugatsky 9781473222281
GatewayRRP: £10.99£3.11It is a mysterious city whose sun is switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at... -
Childhood's End Sir Arthur C. Clarke 9780575082359
GatewayRRP: £14.99£9.93Arthur C. Clarke's classic in which he ponders humanity's future and possible evolutionWhen the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had... -
Swastika Night Murray Constantine 9781473214668
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95SWASTIKA NIGHT takes place seven hundred years after Nazism achieved power, by which time Adolf Hitler is worshipped as a god. Elsewhere, the Japanese rule the Americas, Australia, and Asia. Though Japan is the only rival superpower to the Nazi West,... -
Imperial Earth Sir Arthur C. Clarke 9781473201422
GatewayRRP: £9.99£3.92Colonists from the entire solar system converge on the mother planet for the 2276 celebrations.Among the influx of humanity is Duncan Makenzie, scientist-administrator from the underground colony of Titan, one of the outer moons of Saturn. Makenzie is... -
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut 9780575081956
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95One of America's greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilationExperiment.Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing... -
Neuromancer: The Best of the SF Masterworks William Gibson 9781399607773
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler, former hack and 'console cowboy' who crashed and burned. His nerves were damaged and thus cut off from the digital matrix, he slouches through life.Until he meets Molly, an augmented 'razorgirl', who offers... -
Stand On Zanzibar John Brunner 9781473206373
GatewayRRP: £12.99£8.74There are seven billion-plus humans crowding the surface of 21st-century Earth. It is an age of intelligent computers, mass-market psychedelic drugs, politics conducted by assassination, scientists who burn incense to appease volcanoes ... all the... -
Dying Inside Robert Silverberg 9780575075252
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95A powerful novel about what happens when the magic leaves our lives.Imagine what it would be like if you could tell what the innermost thoughts and feelings of those around you were. Imagine if, as you reached middle age, you lost that ability. What... -
Wasp Eric Frank Russell 9780575129047
GatewayRRP: £8.99£6.61The war had been going on for nearly a year and the Sirian Empire had a huge advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge. Which was where James Mowry came in. If a small insect buzzing around in a car could so distract the driver as to... -
The Simulacra Philip K Dick 9780575074606
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95A prescient tale of political satire set in a near future America by a master of the genreA few years from now the President of the USA will be an android and his entire government a fraud. Everyone in the country is maladjusted. Doesn't seem possible,... -
Doomsday Book: A time travel novel that will stay with you long after you finish reading Connie Willis 9780575131095
GatewayRRP: £12.99£7.65"A tour de force" - New York Times Book Review"Ambitious, finely detailed and compulsively readable" - Locus"It is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in" - Washington PostFor Kivrin Engle, preparing an on-site study of one of the... -
Inverted World Christopher Priest 9780575082106
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95A uniquely powerful novel of a society in decay. On a planet whose very nature is a mystery a massive decrepit city is pulled along a massive railway track, laying the line down before it as it progresses into the wilderness.The society within toils... -
Hyperion Dan Simmons 9781399609500
RRP: £12.99£8.74The book that reinvented Space Opera - from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show.It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters... -
The Female Man: The Best of the SF Masterworks Joanna Russ 9781399607759
£1.86 - £6.89Joanna. Jeannine. Janet. Jael.Four women, four worlds, four vastly different societies.When these women are suddenly able to communicate with each other through the boundaries of dimensions, they are confronted with what could have been if one thing... -
The Best of Greg Egan Greg Egan 9781473232297
GatewayRRP: £16.99£11.50Greg Egan is arguably Australia's greatest living science fiction writer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has produced a steady stream of novels and stories that address a wide range of scientific and philosophical concerns: artificial... -
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein 9780575082410
GatewayRRP: £14.99£9.93Luna is an open penal colony and the regime is a harsh one. Not surprisingly, revolution against the hated authority is planned. But the key figures in the revolt are an unlikely crew: Manuel Garcia O'Kelly, an engaging jack of all trades, the beautiful... -
Tau Zero Poul Anderson 9780575077324
GatewayRRP: £8.99£6.61Fifty men and women set out in the twenty-third century from Earth aboard an interstellar craft to travel to a planet some thirty light-years away. The ship will approach the speed of light and so (as Einstein predicted) subjective time on board will... -
The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl 9780575075283
GatewayRRP: £8.99£6.61It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed... -
Random Acts of Senseless Violence Jack Womack 9780575132306
GatewayRRP: £8.99£6.61It's just a little later than now and Lola Hart is writing her life in a diary. She's a nice middle-class girl on the verge of her teens who schools at the calm end of town.A normal, happy, girl.But in a disintegrating New York she is a dying breed. War... -
Helliconia: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, Helliconia Winter Brian Aldiss 9780575086159
GatewayRRP: £18.99£13.71Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like... -
The Demolished Man Alfred Bester 9781857988222
GollanczRRP: £8.99£2.57In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that ...Ben Reich, a psychopathic business... -
Earth Abides George.R. Stewart 9781857988215
Gollancz£5.21 - £6.95In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence... -
The Man Who Fell to Earth: The Best of the SF Masterworks Walter Tevis 9781399607834
£3.22 - £7.07Thomas 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. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human -... -
Mockingbird: From the author of The Queen's Gambit - now a major Netflix drama Walter Tevis 9780575079151
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95Walter Tevis is the acclaimed author of The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Queen's Gambit.'A moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Superman and Star Wars' LA TIMES'A moving examination of people discovering the... -
Sarah Canary Karen Joy Fowler 9781399617185
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: A selection of the finest in science fiction-Black-cloaked Sarah Canary is the ugliest woman Chin Ah Kin could ever imagine. But after she wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin is... -
The Door into Summer Robert A. Heinlein 9780575120723
GatewayRRP: £8.99£6.61A popular and enduring time travel tale by one of science fiction's all-time greatsWhen Dan Davis is crossed in love and stabbed in the back by his business associates, the immediate future doesn't look too bright for him and Pete, his independent-minded... -
Light M. John Harrison 9781473227675
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95Listed by the Guardian as one of the top 100 science fiction books of the 21st century.On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a... -
Revelation Space: The Best of the SF Masterworks Alastair Reynolds 9781399607810
GatewayRRP: £10.99£7.55Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the humans now settling the Amarantin homeworld, it's of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect city and a colossal statue... -
Frankenstein Mary Shelley 9780575099609
GatewayRRP: £8.99£6.61Brilliant, driven Victor Frankenstein has at last realised his greatest ambition. The scientist has succeeded in creating intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, Frankenstein realises he has made a monster. And, abandoned by its maker and... -
More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon 9781857988529
GollanczRRP: £8.99£6.61All alone: an idiot boy, a runaway girl, a severely retarded baby, and twin girls with a vocabulary of two words between them. Yet once they are mysteriously drawn together this collection of misfits becomes something very, very different from the rest... -
The Separation Christopher Priest 9781473233058
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95THE SEPARATION is the story of twin brothers, rowers in the 1936 Olympics (where they met Hess, Hitler's deputy); one joins the RAF, and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on Hamburg and becomes Churchill's aide-de-camp; his twin... -
Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany 9780575090996
GatewayRRP: £16.99£12.49A young man arrives in the anarchic city of Bellona, in a near future USA. This world has two moons but could otherwise be our own.The man, known only as 'the Kid', begins to write a novel called Dhalgren that begins where it ends.Dhalgren is about the... -
The Word for World is Forest: The Best of the SF Masterworks Ursula K. Le Guin 9781399607797
GatewayRRP: £8.99£6.61A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their... -
The Lathe Of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin 9781473234178
GollanczRRP: £8.99£6.61'Ursula Le Guin was able to reimagine many concepts we take to be natural, shared, and unalterable - gender, utopia, creation, war, family, the city, the country - and reveal the all-too-human constructions at their centre ... Literature will miss her... -
The Body Snatchers Jack Finney 9781399617215
GatewayRRP: £9.99£6.95Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionMill Valley, Marin County, California. Dr Miles Bennell has lived there all his life. But one day Miles sees a patient who claims her Uncle isn't himself. He's a... -
Bring The Jubilee Ward Moore 9781857987645
GollanczRRP: £9.99£6.95Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War.Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to that... -
Gateway Frederik Pohl 9780575094239
GatewayRRP: £9.99£3.92One of the very best must-read SF novels of all timeWealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee.Their... -
Rogue Moon Algis Budrys 9780575108004
GatewayRRP: £8.99£6.61Shortlisted for the 1961 Hugo Award, Rogue Moon is the disquieting and story of what happens when monstrous scientific ambition is matched by human obsession.The moon had finally been reached, and on it was found the most terrifying structure, that...