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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima- ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the ...Show more
Driftglass by Samuel R. Delaney
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Samuel R. Delany is widely considered to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of Black and Queer genre fiction. Driftglass, the definitive collection of Delany's science fiction stories, displays the extraordinary depth of his writing: strange men and wo ...Show more
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory. A work that still poses provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence ...Show more
Ice by Anna Kavan
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. Ballard No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this bleached, devastated world, one man pursues the sylph-like, ...Show more
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, trample for lentil 'steaks', and sweat beneath a sweltering sun. Amid it all, a city cop tries to catch a gangster's killer and vie for the affection of a dangerous woman...Of ...Show more
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
$22.00 NZD
Category: Astronomy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Driven out into the night by the bitterness of his life, an Englishman finds himself contemplating the night sky - its immensity, its mystery. Without explanation, he suddenly finds himself floating out into its depths. There he explores strange worlds, links with other conscious beings, and witnesses t ...Show more
Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home by James Tiptree Jr.
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
'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 greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, telli ...Show more
The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
In the deep glens of Massachusetts, in the wild hills of Vermont, and in Australia's sandy wastes, unfathomable things lurk. Things that shine with an unnatural light, that speak and buzz strangely in the night, that prowl in the mind. Things not of our Earth. Widely considered to be the most significan ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. His ornate, phantasmagorical writing probes the furthest reaches of the universe while remaining deeply and particularly human. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the ...Show more
The Hair Carpet Weavers by Andreas Eschbach
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
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 absurdity of work and of life itself. 'A novel of ideas that evokes complex emotions th ...Show more
Trafalgar by Angelica Gorodischer
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Science fiction meets magical realism in this brilliant novel from one of Latin America's best-loved science-fiction writers In the cafes and bars of Rosario, Argentina, there are sure to be many tall tales told. But none, perhaps, quite as spectacular as those recounted by Trafalgar Medrano. With a cof ...Show more
Untouched By Human Hands by Robert Sheckley
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Often considered to be Robert Sheckley's best short story collection, Untouched By Human Hands displays all of the author's signature surreal humour and eye for the unreal. Featuring human space exploration from the perspective of appalled aliens, darkly comic dystopias and wry fables of technological d ...Show more