|
Science Fiction and Fantasy
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market 
add to wish list |
|
Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns by Ray Bradbury Staff Pick Fahrenheit 451 is probably one of the most important books ever written. If the world of this novel comes to pass, I will be this book. (You'll have to read it to see what I mean.)... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece. "Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell Publisher Comments View our feature on George Orwell’s 1984. Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell’s narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents a startling and haunting... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Publisher Comments It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Dune by Frank Herbert Staff Pick I'm sure other Powell's employees have chosen Dune as a staff pick, and for good reason: It's a science fiction classic. It is densely written and almost prophetic in nature. The spice, and the desert wars over it, sound so very much like our current... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments First published in 1985, this is a novel of such power that the reader is unable to forget its images and its forecast. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. "A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars/The Gods of Mars/The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Publisher Comments This bind-up contains the first three classic John Carter of Mars books: A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Warlord of Mars, and is illustrated by three classic fantasy illustrators: Mark Zug, Scott Gustafson, and Ian McCaig. It also contains... (read more) Your price: $12.99 New - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Time and Again by Jack Finney Publisher Comments "Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is January 21, 1882. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television. 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary. You have... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson Publisher Comments Chronicles the colonization of Mars in the year 2026.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
Sirens of Titan (59 Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraived man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher Comments Centuries ago, the moon Anarres was settled by utopian anarchists who left the Earthlike planet Urras in search of a better world, a new beginning. Now a brilliant physicist, Shevek, determines to reunite the two civilizations that have been separated by... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Staff Pick The Man in the High Castle is one of the first and best "alternate history" novels ever published. Turtledove and Flint should both have altars to Philip K. Dick in their homes.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Anthony Burgess Publisher Comments A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Brave New World (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments Aldous Huxley's tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future—here humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Kindred by Octavia E Butler Publisher Comments Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Kindred is a classic... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov Staff Pick In 1965, Asimov's Foundation trilogy beat out several other science fiction and fantasy series (including The Lord of the Rings) to receive a special Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series."... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
Earth Abides (49 Edition) by George R. Stewart Publisher Comments A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Mars #01: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Publisher Comments Suddenly projected to Mars, John Carter found himself captive of the savage green men of Thark. With him was Dejah Thoris, lovely Princess of Helium. And between them and rescue lay a thousand miles of deadly enemies and unknown dangers.... (read more) Your price: $6.50 New - Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
We by Yegevny Zamyatin Publisher Comments Before Brave New World... Before 1984...There was... WE In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
