The world's most famous monster comes to life in this 1818 novel, a compelling narrative that combines Gothic romance and science fiction to tell of an ambitious young doctor's attempts to breathe life into an artificial man. Despite the doctor's...
WARNING! This book is NOT for the faint-hearted reader!
It wasnt the way he was born or brought up. Something happened. Something that turned him, mind and soul, into a case-hardened man. His was a life shaped by death. He was a man alone,...
Century after century, Kashchey the Immortal passes the time by playing tricks both small and large for the sake of his amusement and to the detriment of his enemies as well as an unsuspecting populace. All that changes though the day Kashchey...
Baker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex-solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers, Vox is an erotic classic that places the author in...
MISSION TO AN EMBATTLED NEBULA
When Raul Linton, Commander of Space Navy, returned from the bloody Third Imperial War in 3468 A.D., he was a disillusioned hero. Defiantly stripping off his medals and ribands, Raul roamed the Inner Cluster of...
We are told that the Internet and the market are the solution to every kind of problem. But is it true? Will Big Data help us to understand the world? Is the Internet really on the side of democracy? Does it make sense to make gamify everything? Is...
"If Italo Calvino decided to make one of his invisible cities visible, the result might look something like Pfeijffer's Genoa." — Benjamin Moser
An absolute joy to read, La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a...
Colson Whitehead’s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it’s the...