Poisonous Reptiles (The Sputteridge Chronicles, #2)
by Rose Mandelson
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Primary Phase Special (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
by Douglas Adams
A dynamic remastering of the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - Fit the First to Fit the Sixth - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legendThe original series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases) to give a full, vibrant sound, now with Philip Pope's version of the familiar theme tune and specially re-recorded announcements by John Marsh.Join Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect,Trillian, Zaphod Beeblebrox an...
The economy is the new cold war battlefield, robots and androids do the work, and the Interstellar Sprocket Conspiracy intends to oil its gears with the flesh of humanity. Cadet Sergeant Henry Fleming enlists in the economy to save America, is joined by a hydraulic-aholic robot, an army of mutants, a wizard who can't keep on his skin, and the luscious mechanical love of Henry's life, Anne Droid. The one chance for humanity is subterranean race across the nuked-out heartland of America to find a...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWhat if the power to hurt were in women's hands?Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed.
The hilarious cult comedy classic starring Mark GatissThe year is 2099 and planet Earth is in crisis. A change in its orbit has resulted in days being 25 hours long (except Thursday, which hasn't existed for over a decade) and the extra months of Janril, Febtober, and Marchuary. In a post-apocalyptic England, the cattle-clasm has wiped out the majority of livestock and climate change has formed the drizzly season of Hamble. However, hope is at hand for the planet in the form of Professor Nebulou...
This new collection of stories by Christopher Anvil, the master of humorous science fiction adventure, includes:The full-length novel, The Day the Machines Stopped — and what happens, not just to civilization, but to humani
Aldiss' first novel republished after many years out of print. In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called Brightfount's, which he describes as a `shabby outpost of literacy'. Cutting the apron strings, he moves into a bed-sit and composes these witty diaries, in which he includes amusing remarks about publishers, authors, booksellers and customers, a revelation about his dotty uncle, and his effo...