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The Road

The Road

We never know exactly what has happened, an apocalypse of some kind that has covered the landscape with ash and destroyed all animal life, but which has left most houses...

Cormac Mccarthy Buy on Amazon
Desolation Road

Desolation Road

This is the closest modern science fiction has come to the haunting, magical sense of Mars as it appeared in The Martian Chronicles, and McDonald has mixed it with elements...

Ian Mcdonald Buy on Amazon
Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road

Action! That is what the Mad Max franchise has always been about. Sometimes described as what would happen if James Bond had survived the fall of humanity, the Mad Max...

George Miller Buy on Amazon
Shambleau

Shambleau

Desolation Road is one way of writing about Mars as a frontier; C.L. Moore's startling novella is another. In this instance, Mars most closely resembles a dusty township from the...

C. L. Moore Buy on Amazon
The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel Of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery

The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel Of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery

In 1898, the British scientist Ronald Ross, working in Calcutta, made a major discovery about the transmission of malaria for which he would eventually be awarded the Nobel Prize. But...

Amitav Ghosh Buy on Amazon
The Electric State (cover not available)

The Electric State

In an alternate 1997, a teenage girl and her robot companion Skip travel across a ruined American West where a war between humans and drones has left behind giant machines...

Simon Stalenhag Buy on Amazon
Pavane

Pavane

Pavane is a sequence of linked stories set in the 1960s in a world in which the Spanish Armada had succeeded, Catholicism had defeated Protestantism, and the Church ruled Britain...

Keith Roberts Buy on Amazon
Conventions Of War

Conventions Of War

The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- at the mercy of the merciless insectoid Naxid, who now...

Walter Jon Williams Buy on Amazon
Witches Abroad

Witches Abroad

Be careful what you wish for...Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unforunately left...

Terry Pratchett Buy on Amazon
The Bridge

The Bridge

Iain Banks had written a string of science fiction before he finally burst into print with his brilliant and controversial novel, The Wasp Factory. That and the two novels that...

Iain Banks Buy on Amazon
Things To Come (cover not available)

Things To Come

HG Wells is pretty much responsible for the rise of 20th Century British science fiction. His works are among the most widely-read in the history of the genre, and many...

William Cameron Menzies Buy on Amazon
When We Were Real (cover not available)

When We Were Real

Seven years after an announcement revealed that the world is a simulation, impossible places have started to appear across North America: a frozen tornado, a tunnel outside time, a canyon...

Daryl Gregory Buy on Amazon
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

Abbott Coburn, 26, lives with his father and finds comfort online. A strangely dressed woman pays him a great deal to drive her and a mysterious black box from California...

Jason Pargin Buy on Amazon
Wanderers

Wanderers

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and...

Chuck Wendig Buy on Amazon
The Star Fraction

The Star Fraction

Ken MacLeod was a lifelong friend of Iain Banks, and their interest in science fiction was parallel, though MacLeod's interest in Trotskyist politics gave his work a harder political edge...

Ken Macleod Buy on Amazon
The Atrocity Exhibition

The Atrocity Exhibition

Whenever you put a list of books together, you'll always get disagreements. But this could well be the most controversial choice of all, because J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition has...

J. G. Ballard Buy on Amazon
Deluge

Deluge

The idea of a drowned England had been a commonplace in British scientific romances since at least After London by Richard Jeffries, but it received its finest expression in Fowler...

S. Fowler Wright Buy on Amazon

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