SF Masterworks

Summary: To sum it up, "The Fall of Hyperion" is a science fiction novel that grapples with concepts of artificial intelligence, the future of huma...

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards—a masterpiece of speculative fiction. Shevek is a brilliant physicist from the arid, anarchist world o...

When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, ...

A finalist for the 1960 Hugo Award, this is a classic, heartfelt, and mind-bending masterpiece. The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through ...

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of...

George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and ...

The Gods Themselves is a gripping science fiction novel set in the year 2100. The invention of the Electron Pump - an apparently inexhaustible supp...

"Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius, and this is one of them." - Joe Haldeman In this pulse-quickening classic, Alfred ...

A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures.Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most...

In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language.  The com...

Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants ar...

A masterly tale of political deception from the most significant writer of SF in the 20th century. World War III is raging - or so the millions of ...

Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceshi...

When young programmer Alexander Ivanovich Privalov picks up two hitchhikers while driving in Karelia, he is drawn into the mysterious world of the ...

Far from Earth two sister planets, Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix, circle each other. It is said that a race of shapeshifting aliens once lived here,...

A landmark book in the fields of science fiction and feminism. Four women living in parallel worlds, each with a different gender landscape. When ...

Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel. Three thousand years after Earth's colonisation of the planet Borthan, stories of self-serving hypocris...

Anton is an undercover operative from future Earth, who travels to an alien world whose culture has not progressed beyond the Middle Ages. Although...

In addition to being the man who coined the term 'the Big Bang', world-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle also produced a fine body of science fict...

An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. The tort...

The Time Machine remains one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature and has proved hugely influential. A Victorian scientist develops a ...

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel.Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Di...

Non-Stop is the classic sci-fi novel of discovery and exploration; a brilliant evocation of a familiar setting seen through the eyes of a primitive...

It 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 ...

A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell'Love doesn't just sit t...

Imagine a distant world where gods walk as men, but wield vast and hidden powers. Here they have made the stage on which they build a subtle patte...

Seven years after the day of the bombs, Point Reyes was luckier than most places. Its people were reasonably normal - except for the girl with her ...

'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences great...

Jason Taverner has a glittering TV career, millions of fans, great wealth and something close to eternal youth. He is one of a handful of brillian...

Mars is a desolate world.  Largely forgotten by Earth, the planet remains helpless in the stranglehold of Arnie Kott, who as boss of the plumber's ...

Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day - and winning, ev...

An acclaimed sci-fi novel about vampires. The last man on earth is not alone ... Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ...but he is not al...

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enable...

John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans ar...

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. A true masterpiece of military science fiction. Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero, a physi...

In 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 mu...

A deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you'll never be sure you've woken up from. - Time Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someon...

Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in...

A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most d...

A whisperjewel from Gwen Delvano calls Dirk t'Larien across space and beyond the Tempter's Veil to Worlorn, a dying Festival planet of rock and ice...

ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest be...

One of Clarke's most famous and acclaimed novels, winner of both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vanne...

In the year 2093, human consciousness has expanded to the point that man can visit the past using a technique called 'mind-travelling'. Artist Edw...

The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, superc...

A brilliant sci-fi novel from one of the last century's most influential pop culture figures Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most d...

H.G. Wells' terrifying tale of science run amok, with an introduction by Adam Roberts. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on...

Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction Arthur Dent thought his day was going badly when someone trie...

REVELATION SPACE: a huge, magnificent space opera that ranges acrioss the known and unknown universe ...towards the most terrifying of destinations...