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Best Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction (cover not available)

Best Artificial Intelligence Science Fiction

Which sub-genre of sci-fi can claim both the literary greats, the grandmasters of science fiction, like Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, and the recently departed Iain M. Banks and the...

Best Modern Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

Best Modern Science Fiction Books

The 1980s and 90s were a time of richness and change in science fiction. The release of Star Wars in the late 70s had triggered a renewed interest in the...

Best Science Fiction Books of 2014 (cover not available)

Best Science Fiction Books of 2014

It was an extraordinary year for science fiction, with so many books challenging for our attention that any of half a dozen titles could have made the top spot, and...

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Animal Man

Animal Man

The character of Animal Man has been around a good long time, but it wasn't until the late 1980s when Grant Morrison took over Animal Man as its own title...

Grant Morrison Buy on Amazon
Neuromancer

Neuromancer

If you want to know the most influential science fiction novel of the last thirty-odd years, look no further than William Gibson's Neuromancer. The novel didn't invent cyberpunk; two films...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
Count Zero

Count Zero

Bobby Newmark, the self-styled 'Count Zero' is just getting started as a hacker, and is still an amateur. There comes a day when he is asked to test some new...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
Forbidden Planet (cover not available)

Forbidden Planet

Star Trek inspired many of the science fiction writers of the late 20th century, and it was Forbidden Planet that inspired Star Trek. A gloriously full-color space opera retelling of...

Fred M. Wilcox Buy on Amazon
Vurt

Vurt

Feathers come in many colours, and each colour a different thing. There's. Black - painful, gentle; and Pink - for porno, your every eroticism fulfilled. Blues are legal, for dreaming...

Jeff Noon Buy on Amazon
Nova

Nova

We've already included one example of what might be called new wave space opera, and in a sense this is another, but it is a very different novel. The novel...

Samuel R. Delany Buy on Amazon
Logan's Run

Logan's Run

A decadent life, then voluntary euthanasia at 21? Brave New World's offering legal highs and encouraged orgies, I think I'll stay in that dystopia, thanks! Logan's Run is the first...

William F Nolan And George Clayton Johnson Buy on Amazon
The Peripheral

The Peripheral

In a run-down part of America's rural South where jobs are scarce, Flynne and her veteran brother, Burton, make a precarious offering security services in an online game. But in...

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
Mona Lisa Overdrive

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final novel of the William Gibson's cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy. Living in the vast computer landscape of cyberspace, young Mona taps into the mind of world-famous...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
Wonder Woman: Amazonia

Wonder Woman: Amazonia

Victorian Wonder Woman. That should be all it would take to put this title at the top of your to-be-read list. It's an incredibly prescient piece, where an 1888 bombing...

William Messner-loebs Buy on Amazon
News From Nowhere

News From Nowhere

At the start of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, a bunch of characters assemble, most of them identified only by their job: the local mayor, the journalist, and so...

William Morris Buy on Amazon
The Difference Engine

The Difference Engine

In our top 25 dystopian list, we called him the King of Cyberpunk. In this delicious alternate history, steam punk offering, Gibson teams up with Bruce Sterling to serve up...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
A.i. Apocalypse

A.i. Apocalypse

If you are a literary snob, this book will not appeal to you, but if you are a science-fiction nerd who lists their interests as: artificial intelligence, neural networks and...

William Hertling Buy on Amazon
More Issues At Hand: Critical Studies In Contemporary Science Fiction

More Issues At Hand: Critical Studies In Contemporary Science Fiction

William Atheling, Jr., was the name that James Blish took when he began writing science fiction criticism in the early 1950s. Before this, no-one had criticised science fiction like this....

James Blish (as William Atheling Jr.) 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

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