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1	Gravity's rainbow more books like this by Thomas Pynchon Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, "Gravity's Rainbow", ... see all copies from £3.08! new only from £9.93! \| first editions
2	Welcome to the Monkey House more books like this by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. see all copies from £2.97! new only from £8.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Martian Chronicles more books like this by Ray Bradbury The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the age of the atom when America and Europe optimisitcally viewed the discovery of life on Mars as inevitable, Bradbury's 1940s short stories of a brutal, stark and unforgiving martian landscape were as shocking and visionary as they were insightful. 'The Martian ... see all copies from £1.66! new only from £6.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Years Best Science Fiction more books like this by Gardner Dozois Science Fiction routinely explores the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time -- futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects 17 of the most inventive and audacious visions of the future by many acclaimed writers, including: Brian Aldiss -- Poul Anderson -- Avram Davidson -- Joe ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £7.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Canticle for Leibowitz more books like this by Walter Miller First there was the Fallout, the plagues and the madness. Then the bloodletting of the Simplification began, when the people - those few who were left - turned against the rulers, the teachers and the scientists who had turned the world into a barren desert, where great clouds of wrath had destroyed the forests and the fields. All knowledge was ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 more books like this by Roger Zelazny All ten of Zelazny's classic "Amber" fantasy novels in one book! Join Corwin, Merlin and the others in wild adventures in the lands of Amber, Earth, and the Courts of Chaos, where the powers of Amber and Chaos constantly battle for supremacy through intrigue and adventure. 1,280. see all copies from £8.86! new only from £13.20!
7	Illustrated Man more books like this by Ray Bradbury "He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body." The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades--from "The Martian Chronicles" ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	I Robot more books like this by Isaac Asimov The classic collection of robot stories from the master of the genre. One of the Voyager Classics collection, now I, Robot is a major Fox movie starring Will Smith. In these stories Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age. When Earth is ruled by master-machines, when robots often seem more human than mankind, ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Player piano more books like this by Kurt Vonnegut World War III and the second industrial revolution have come and gone. Now machines and computers perform all routine manufacturing tasks, while the top scientists and technocrats run society. But underneath the surface, the impulse to rebellion seethes. see all copies from £4.03! new only from £9.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Pebble in the Sky more books like this by Isaac Asimov The first novel of the Galactic Empire, the period between our own time and the universe of Asimov's "Foundation" series. This novel places an ordinary man in the path of little-understood phenomena being investigated at the Chicago Institute for Nuclear Research. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £13.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse more books like this by John Joseph Adams (Editor) Famine, death, war, and pestilence: the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands...From the Book of "Revelations to The Road Warrior"; from "A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road", storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and ... see all copies from £9.53! new only from £9.53! \| first editions
12 view cover	The difference engine more books like this by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain, with her calculating-cannons, steam dreamnoughts, machine-guns and information technology, ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £6.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	October Country more books like this by Ray Bradbury Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Changer of Worlds more books like this by David Weber WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR Lady Dame Honor Harrington -- starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess -- has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as "the Salamander" from her habit of always being where the fire is hottest...and also a ... see all copies from £2.09! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Door Into Summer more books like this by Robert A Heinlein When 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 tom cat. Suddenly, the lure of suspended animation, the Long Sleep, becomes irresistible and Dan wakes up thirty years later in the twenty-first century. He discovers that the ... see all copies from £1.56! new only from £5.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Combat more books like this by Stephen Coonts (Editor) As the world moves into the next millennium, the United States finds itself at the forefront of this new age, policing not only its own shores but the rest of the world as well. And spearheading this overwatch are the men and women of America's armed forces, the "troops on the wall," who will go anywhere, anytime, and do whatever it takes to ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
17 view cover	Gods of Mars more books like this by Edgar Rice Burroughs The second book in the Barsoom series sees John Carter and his friend, Tars Tarkas, in the Valley Dor, a place reserved for the dead. Being the warriors that they are, though, Carter and Tarkas vow that they will leave with their lives. see all copies from £2.97! new only from £6.14! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, the Golden Apple, Leviathan more books like this by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson "The biggest sci-fi cult novel to come along since Dune".--The Village Voice. see all copies from £6.14! new only from £11.96! \| first editions
19 view cover	Many-Colored Land more books like this by Julian May This is the first book in "The Saga of the Exiles" series. Among the misfits and mavericks of the 22nd century, there are those who pass through the time-doors of the Pliocene Epoch into the battleground of two warring races from a planet far away. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £61.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales more books like this by Ray Bradbury Spanning six decades of his astonishing career, here is a retrospective collection of 100 magnificent stories that confirms this literary genius's status as a master of short fiction. see all copies from £9.57! new only from £11.78! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Timescape more books like this by Gregory Benford 1962: A young Californian scientist finds his experiments spoiled by mysterious interference. Gradually his suspicions lead him to a shattering truth: scientists from the end of the century are using subatomic particles to send a message into the past, in the hope that history can be changed and a world-threatening catastrophe averted. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £3.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
22	Foundation Trilogy more books like this by Isaac Asimov see all copies from £5.46! new only from £39.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Chessmen of Mars more books like this by Edgar Rice Burroughs The fifth book in the Barsoom series sees Tara, the daughter of the Warlord of Mars, blown off course by a freak storm that puts her right in the middle of deadly game overseen by the Chessmen. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £9.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Land That Time Forgot more books like this by Edgar Rice Burroughs One of the most popular and influential science fiction tales of all time, The Land That Time Forgot was first published in book form in 1924. Set on the lost island of Caspak in the South Pacific, this novel is a dazzling blend of imagination, daring adventure, and intriguing scientific speculation. Hidden behind towering, impassable cliffs, ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
25 view cover	Dragonriders of Pern more books like this by Anne McCaffrey A collection of three early novels of Pern. see all copies from £5.97! new only from £10.89! \| first editions

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