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We often tend to slip into the notion that before the advent of writers like Ursula Le Guin and Joanna Russ, science fiction was an exclusively masculine domain. But that...

C. L. Moore Buy on Amazon
Baloney Henry P

Baloney Henry P

Winner of the 2002 Golden Duck Award for picture books, Baloney (Henry P.) is an engaging and relatable story about an alien boy who shows up late for class and...

Jon Scieszka Buy on Amazon
Arcadia (cover not available)

Arcadia

In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante...

Iain Pears Buy on Amazon
To Say Nothing Of The Dog

To Say Nothing Of The Dog

This is the first of Willisâ time traveling historians. Ned Henry is looking for something called the bishopâs bird stump in the 1940s, despite the fact that he lives in...

Connie Willis Buy on Amazon
Torn

Torn

Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed...

Margaret Peterson Haddix Buy on Amazon
The City Of Gold And Lead

The City Of Gold And Lead

The City of Gold and Lead ~ John Christopher/Samuel Youd From the back of Collier Books published copy of this book: Will, Beanpole, and Henry have managed to escape the...

John Christopher Buy on Amazon
Spook Country

Spook Country

Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.Hollis Henry is...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
Zero History

Zero History

Set among London's dark and tangled streets after the money-crash , Zero History is a thriller about the hidden webs and patterns that underlie the new century. Former rock singer...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
The End of October

The End of October

"IAt an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of...

Lawrence Wright Buy on Amazon
The Alteration

The Alteration

Holy Shit. That was my first thought, and rather apt thought, when I read this novel and realized what "the alteration" referred to. I sure as hell wasn't expecting that....

Kingsley Amis Buy on Amazon
H. G. Wells: Another Kind Of Life

H. G. Wells: Another Kind Of Life

There are more books about H.G. Wells than any other science fiction writer, and it's not hard to see why. He led an extraordinary life: he had affairs with a...

Michael Sherborne Buy on Amazon
E.t. – The Extra-terrestrial (cover not available)

E.t. – The Extra-terrestrial

Steven Spielberg was in the middle of re-defining what a science fiction film could do. It was the rare piece of cinematic scifi that managed to give both the sense...

Steven Spielberg Buy on Amazon
Mundus Alter Et Idem

Mundus Alter Et Idem

Usually translated as "Another World and yet the Same", Bishop Hall's book has been claimed as the first anti-utopia. Coming less than a century after Thomas More wrote his seminal...

Joseph Hall Buy on Amazon
Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory To The End Of Mankind

Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory To The End Of Mankind

Rosny was the pseudonym of the Belgian writer, Joseph-Henri Boëx, who rivals his near contemporary, H.G. Wells, as one of the founding figures of European science fiction. Or at least,...

J.-h Rosny Buy on Amazon

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