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Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction. Ray and Ruby Tebbutt are a Norfolk couple struggling to pay off a loan they could not afford. Peter Petrik, a small-time Czech film director, is involved with an Irish arms smuggler. Domi...

Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive fiction. In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can now travel to the past using a technique called "mind-traveling." Artist Edward Bush returns from a nearly three-year ...

Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction. Analyst Clement Winters is trying to write a biography of his recently deceased older brother, Joseph. Through the writings Joseph left behind-letters, diaries, notes, and confessions-Cle...

Human reproduction has ceased and society slowly spirals in this "adult Lord of the Flies" by a Grand Master of Science Fiction (San Francisco Chronicle). After the "Accident, " all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now Earth's population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their fifties....

In a future where the Earth has been savaged by overpopulation and over-farming, robots are considered more valuable than humans and sand must be altered to create artificially fertile soil. Ex-convict Knowle Noland, the hallucinating sea captain of the Trieste Star, finds himself wrapped up in a plot to incite a global war that will wipe out millions. War, it seems, is the only way to drastically reduce the population and create a better worl...

What would intelligent life-forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utod- intelligent, pacifist beings who feel no pain-mankind instantly views these aliens as animals because of their unhygienic customs. This leads to the slaughter, capture, and dissection of the Utod. But when one explore...

The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and Science Fiction Grand Master delivers a sweeping epic of a planet suffering deadly conditions of alternating extremes in this Nebula Award finalist Helliconia follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system with a twenty-six-hundred-year cycle of very long seasons. As spring slowly breaks the brutally long winter, humans emerge from hiding and a long sequence of civilization and growth begi...

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Millionen Jahre in der Zukunft: Die Sonne ist auf das Hundertfache ihrer Größe angewachsen. Erde und Mond drehen sich nicht mehr und haben sich einander bis auf wenige Tausend Kilometer angenähert. Im immerwährenden Sonnenlicht der Tagseite hat sich ein gewaltiger Dschungel aus fleischfressenden Pflanzen entwickelt. Was auf der in ewige Dunkelheit getauchten Nachtseite ist, weiß niemand. Dies ist die Geschichte von Gren, der sich mit seiner Ge...

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Acclaimed as a work of genius when first published in 1895, "The Time Machine" represents a revolution in storytelling. H. G. Wells's first--and greatest--novel has been recognized worldwide as a founding text of the science fiction genre and one of the most seminal narratives of the last hundred years.This collection of essays offers a series of original, penetrating, and wide-ranging perspectives on Wells's masterpiece by an international gr...

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Including the story that's the basis for the forthcoming Stanley Kubrick/Steven Spielberg film "A.I"., coming to theaters nationwide June 2001, this collection features the full "Supertoys" cycle of three stories plus another 11 tales of the future.

Großbritannien in naher Zukunft: Der Krieg gegen den Terror hat aus dem Land einen Polizeistaat gemacht, in dem ein kafkaeskes Ministerium Bürger muslimischer Herkunft nach Belieben verhaften und foltern kann. Fadhil Abbas Ali gerät in die Fänge dieser Organisation und wird in ein Gefängnis gesteckt, dessen Vorbild Guantanamo nicht zu übersehen ist. Unter der Folter entwickelt er eine Persönlichkeitsstörung und flieht im Geiste auf den fernen ...

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En los primeros momentos de la guerra, una cápsula del espacio es saboteada mientras regresa de un viaje a la Luna. El balance: una persona muerta y otras tres a la deriva en una balsa en medio del Pacífico. Sólo uno de ellos sobrevive y alcanza a ver los acantilados de una isla dominada por una letra enorme: M. La apariencia de los habitantes de esta isla sorprende vivamente al náufrago, Shaw: aunque humanos, hay en ellos algo enigmáticamente...

We devotees of SF enjoy its diversity of opinion, the bustle of bright and dark, the clash of progress and entropy, the clamour of theories about the past, the future, the ever-present present, everything. In this fascinating collection of essays, one of the world's pre-eminent SF writers explores a wide range of SF and fantasy writers and writing.