Classic novel of a daring experiment in human intelligence.

A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley's deeply eerie and prescient dystopia, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari.

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.

Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.

This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maximum pleasure and compl...

Mickey7 is no longer an Expendable and now his real troubles have begun. The colony is in decline, he has no special skills to justify his continued drain on resources except the antimatter he used to bargain for his freedom. With the colony's very existence on the line, he must get it back, or die trying.

A first contact SF novel, from the Hugo Award-winning author of Folding Beijing.

2080, the world is divided, dominated by two antagonistic factions, the Pacific League and the Atlantic Alliance. Tensions are high and the smallest disturbance in the status quo could set the world on fire.

And a signal flickering through deep space could be just that spark.

As three young scientists form an alliance to decode the signal, they realise that the answers don't only lie in deep space, they also lie ...

“Der Vitruvianische Mensch” by Ulrike Bolenz (front cover) is a modern version of “The Vitruvian Man”, the famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci around 1490. It depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square.

This novel refers to the expression "squaring the circle", a metaphor for trying to do the impossible. The quadrature of the circle stands here for science, fiction, progress, avangardisme, ... but refers at the same t...

There are times when a broken tool is better than a sound one,

or a twisted personality more useful than a whole one.

For instance, a whole beer bottle isn't half the weapon that half a beer bottle is ...

"In Case of Fire" by Randall Garrett is a science fiction short story that follows the character of Bart who is living in a society where computers and machines control everything. One day, Bart's building catches on fire, and the automated firefighting system fails to work properly, causing...

When people play hide and seek, this is a common game and the results are pretty easy to overcome. What happens if the gods in the universe twiddle around with their possible devices? Charlotte, situated in London, and Nora, living in Turin, Italy, are about to find out!

One of Japan's most venerated writers' David Mitchell

In this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find that strange guests, booby traps and a giant toilet may prove even greater obstacles than nuclear disaster.

'As is true of Poe and Kafka, Abe creates an unexpected impulsion. One continues reading, on and on' New Yorker

'Abe's depiction of the deadly game of survival is hilarious but at the same time...