Recommended Science Fiction Books

SHADOW BABY is a tale told by a 12-year-old named Clara Winter, who seeks the truth about the sad and bizarre circumstances of her birth. Retreating into her own world, Clara surrounds herself with imaginary books, characters, and events, until she...

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course....

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim...

In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor,...

Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be...

Written in tandem with the screenplay for the Stanley Kubrick-directed film, both introduce HAL, a computer that takes off on a mission of its own, propelling the spaceship it controls past the original destination to an exploration of humankind's...

The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.

While attending the royal celebration of the thousand year anniversary of the High Transcendence, Phaethon of Radamanthus House meets two strange individuals; the first accuses him of being an imposter, while the second is an alien claiming to be a...

Cook, primarily known for his medical thrillers, breaks from his usual pattern in this underwater adventure. When workers on an submerged mining station run into a number of problems while drilling in a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean's floor, the...

In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device...

Don't even think about reading House Harkonnen without reading its predecessor Dune: House Atreides; anyone who does so risks sinking in the sands between Frank Herbert's original Dune and this prequel trilogy by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin...

When a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the floor of the ocean, a group of American scientists race to the scene and are shocked by what they learn from the vessel, which apparently crashed some three hundred years earlier. Reissue. Movie...

Following up on the success of Ender's Game, this novel of war between humans and aliens introduces another child warrior from the Battle School, a boy called Bean, who became the friend, confidant, strategist, and right hand of Ender Wiggin....

A battalion of marines, marooned on an alien planet, finds most of their escape routes thwarted by the many tentacled monsters of Marduk and are forced to head for the sea, only to encounter an enemy even more deadly. This is the sequel to MARCH...

Deciding he's finally had enough abuse from his drunken father and determined to get away-any way he can-Davy discovers he has the ability to teleport anywhere he wants. Fleeing to New York but desperately short of cash he 'jumps' into a bank vault....

The passengers on the spaceship Argo, pursued by hostile ''mechs,'' must face their doubts about their captain's obsession with finding the galaxy's True Center, an obsession that even troubles the captain's son. 20,000 first printing. $20,000...

When a Komarran merchant fleet is impounded at Graf Station after a bloody incident involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort, Imperial Auditor Lord Miles Vorkosigan and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, are called in to...

Because he ran out of pages and deadlines, author George R. R. Martin picks up only half the threads of the amazingly intricate tapestry left unfinished in A STORM OF SWORDS, the previous volume of the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. The...

A satiric view of today's human society is presented in this portrait of a team of astronauts stranded on a planet where humans and apes have exchanged roles. Reprint. (Tie-in to the new Twentieth Century Fox film, directed by Tim Burton, premiering...

U.S.A.F. fighter pilot Cameron "Scarlet" Tucker awakens from biostasis in the year 2176, where she finds herself in the very capable hands of Prince Kyber, while trying to locate her best friend Banzai Maguire and stop a world revolution....

The UCE: In the 21st and 22nd Centuries, the United States changed and grew. Now the United Colonies of Earth dominate the globe. But a mysterious voice is broadcasting treason, inciting revolution and referring to the 'ideals of 1776'—and to an...

The author of Wake Up Down There! describes how New Mexico physicist Paul Bennewitz was targeted by the government as part of a massive scheme of disinformation and covering up the real truth about UFOs. Original. 12,500 first printing.

The vastly outnumbered Phantine Fighter Corps, flying missions out of airstrips on key offshore islands, launch one final desperate battle to prevent the evil Chaos legions of the dread-lord Anakwanar Sek from overrunning the war-torn world of...

Book two in the Asteroid Wars series focuses on pilot Pancho Barnes--the protege of THE PRECIPICE hero Dan Randolph, who is dead--who has taken Randolph's place on the board of his conglomerate organization, Astro. High-tech corporate espionage and...

MacKenzie Calhoun, captain of the U.S.S. Excalibur, finds himself reporting to Elizabeth Shelby, Commodore of the first Federation space station in sector 221-G, while Burgoyne and Selar confront their son's deadly genetic illneess, and Si Cwan and...

This is the first book of the Bounty Hunter War series of Star Wars books, in which conspiracy is laid upon conspiracy in a plot hatched by the Bounty Hunter's Guild; it features everyone's favorite hunter, Boba Fett, as well as a host of new...

The New York Times bestselling author scales new heights in his series of Big Easy-dwelling dragons… Griffen McCandles is adjusting well to running his gambling operation in the French Quarter of New Orleans and to his newfound status as...

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn brings his epic two-volume series The Hand of Thrawn to an explosive conclusion with a discovery that rocks the New Republic to its foundations--and threatens to resurrect the Empire.The Empire's master...

Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings.Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert,...

Despite continual defeat for years at the hands--and guns--of humans, the fanatical zor insist on waging war. No sure what to do with them, the emperor hires a retired admiral to figure out how to deal with the situation. The trouble is that the...