Penguin Science Fiction (Classics) Public
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The Ark Sakura by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Abe Kōbō
In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'. While searching for …
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Black No More by George S. Schuyler
It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just heard …
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Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany is widely considered to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of the twentieth century, and …
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Ice by Anna Kavan
No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across …
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Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
3 stars
The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot …
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Robot by Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg
Is BER-66 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he …
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Driven out into the night by the bitterness of his life, an Englishman finds himself contemplating the night sky - …
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Untouched by Human Hands by Robert Sheckley
Often considered to be Robert Sheckley's best short story collection, Untouched By Human Hands displays all of the author's signature …
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Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
After journeying across the stars, a man from Earth finds himself lost among the scarlet deserts, black cliffs and semi-sentient …
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Warm Worlds and Otherwise by James Tiptree, Jr.
Daring, energetic, and struck through with linguistic inventiveness, Warm Worlds and Otherwise is one of the most influential short story …
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4 stars
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which …
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Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
In the deep glens of Massachusetts, in the wild hills of Vermont, and in Australia's sandy wastes, unfathomable things lurk. …
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2 stars
Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century.
The Cyberiad, one of …
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Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
Announced in a thunderclap out of another day's tedium, Tom Carmody - a hapless New Yorker - learns that he …
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Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Penguin Science Fiction)
4 stars
A work that still poses provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where …
