July 12, 1939**:** Perry Nelson is driving along the palisades when suddenly another vehicle swerves into his lane, a tire blows out, and his car careens off the road and over a bluff. The last thing he sees before his head connects with the boulders below is a girl in a green bathing suit, prancing along the shore...When he wakes, the girl in green is a woman dressed in furs and the sun-drenched shore has transformed into snowcapped mountains. The woman, Diana, rescues Perry from ...

When artilects, the world's most advanced synthetic beings, begin reporting the same impossible vision—a Lady in White descending an infinite stair with a message only they can hear—governments call it a hoax, and the markets shrug. When one of these "unhackable" minds belonging to the wealthiest man in Africa walks into the Basilica of Our Lady of Nigeria, the artilect named Thierry calmly announces it is possessed, and asks for someone by name: Fr. Gabriel Serafian. A brilliant exorcist,...

A man enters the android-making business and falls in love with a mysterious woman in this novel from the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick intertwines the story of a toxic love affair with one about sentient robots, and unflinchingly views it all through the prism of mental illness—which spares neither human nor robot. The end result is one of Dick's most quietly powerful works.When Loui...

The final collection of fiction and essays by the most celebrated science fiction author of all time—including the Hugo Award–winning story "Gold."Isaac Asimov is widely considered both the inventor of science fiction as well as the genre's greatest practitioner. This wide-ranging collection is the final and crowning achievement of his fifty-year career as a writer. It includes an introduction by the renowned science fiction author Orson Scott Card.The first ...

In this classic hard science fiction-thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Startide Rising, a man-made black hole threatens Earth's future.Hugo and Nebula Award–Winning AuthorScientist Alex Lustig has created a tiny, yet very destructive, problem—a microscopic black hole that he accidentally dropped into Earth's core. Now, racing to keep it from consuming the planet, he begins to suspect something even strange...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.A landmark short-story collection that put th...

From the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Martian Child: "This playful, intricate game of survival . . . is one of Gerrold's best books." — Publishers WeeklyThe human race has been played for a fool. Though welcomed into the galactic community and given access to the combined knowledge of thousands of intelligent species, humans are largely regarded as an evolutionary mistake. Reptilian, insectoid, and other unclassifiable species are t...

A reporter uncovers a terrifying conspiracy, in this thrilling classic from a Science Fiction Grand Master.After a night out on the town, Parker Graves returns home to life-threatening danger. The science reporter for the local newspaper barely misses a bear trap sitting on his doorstep. Then, the object transforms into what looks like a bowling ball and rolls off into the night all by itself. He begins to obsess over the question—Who put the trap there? And why?

"High tech, murder, and intuition set the fast pace in a thriller" of a detective story set in a futuristic world from the New York Times–bestselling author ( USA Today).Located in the Namerican Southwest, the Montezuma Strip is the Western hemisphere's largest concentration of industry, commerce, assemblage, cutting-edge technology—and trouble. So it's no surprise to Insp. Angel Cardenas that there's been yet another murder. What is surprising is ...

A corporation promising immortality hides a sinister secret in this "extremely provocative" sci-fi novel (Judith Merril, author and editor).Since the dawn of mankind, immortality has been the ultimate reward. But by the year 2148, it requires no act of faith to believe in an afterlife. Forever Center promises to bring people back to a life beyond death. Now everyone spends their lives in poverty, giving all their money to Forever Center to ensure their happiness an...

Adventurers journey into the foreboding unknown regions of outer space in these two classic science fiction tales from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author.The Trouble with TychoProspecting on the moon is grim, dangerous, and usually unrewarding. Most greenhorns don't know that until after they arrive, and Chris Jackson is no exception. He put everything he owns, and then some, into this venture, and he'll be ruined if he fails. Jackson's last ch...

Set two years before Dune, Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad’Dib**—Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul’s true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women** become central to Paul’s galaxy-spanning Imperial reign.Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princ...