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 instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been...
A collection of sinister and macabre short stories by Daphne du Maurier, including "The Birds" on which Hitchcock famously based his film of the same...
The Draka series (dubbed The Domination in this collection) still requires a strong stomach--you'll find no shortage of blood and bullets or sex and violence here. But it's prudish to argue with Stirling's choices. A skilled writer and rigorous...
Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from
her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she
is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the
all-powerful...
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 Revelation to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road,...
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering
Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty,
conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or...
The primary engine of the novel's story is overpopulation and its projected consequences, and the title refers to an early twentieth-century claim that the world's population could fit onto the Isle of Wight – which has an area of 381 square...
This new book by Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning author Connie Willis (Lincoln's Dreams) is an intelligent and satisfying blend of classic science fiction and historical reconstruction. Kivrin, a history student at Oxford in 2048, travels back in...