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Black No More by George S. Schuyler
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
'A liberating and lacerating critique of American racial madness, capitalism and white superiority ... Schuyler's wild, misanthropic, take-no-prisoners satire of American life seems more relevant than ever ... Afrofuturist before such a term existed' - New York Review of Books Telling the extraordinary ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science 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
Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, hapless New Yorker Tom Carmody learns that he is the winner of the Intergalactic Sweepstake. Accepting with a shrug, he is whipped across the universe to collect his prize. The catch? There's no way home. Enlisting the help of galactic bureaucrats, ...Show more
Driftglass by Samuel R. Delaney
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science 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
Ice by Anna Kavan
$22.08 NZD
$24.00 (8% off)
Category: Science 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
The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe
$24.00 NZD
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Category: Science Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'. While searching for his crew, he falls for the tricks of a wily insect dealer and his friends. In the surreal drama that ensues, the ark is invaded by first a gang of youths and then a sinister gr ...Show more
The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft
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Category: Science 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
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Category: Science 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
$26.00 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
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Category: Science 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
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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