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A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned - a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first... (more)

Ender Quartet: Book 2

Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the... (more)

Neuromancer

by William Gibson

Case was the best interface cowboy who ever ran in earth's computer matrix. Then he doublecrossed the wrong people... Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

Neal Stephenson Metaverse: Book 2

The Diamond Age

or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

by Neal Stephenson

In Snow Crash , Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age , he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

"Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story." -The New York Times Told by the central character, Alex, this brilliant, hilarious, and disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism.Anthony Burgess' 1963... (more)

The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

H.G. ells' classsic is back. A mysterious stranger wrapped in bandages from head to toe arrives in town, and mysterious, terrible things begin happening. No one knows if he's responsible until he becomes invisible . . . right before their eyes.

Space Odyssey: Book 1

2001: A Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

2001: A Space Odyssey is the classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves.... 2001: A Space Odyssey inspired what is perhaps the greatest science fiction film ever made- brilliantly imagined by the late Stanley Kubrick.... 2001 is finally here.... "Dazzling...wrenching, eerie, a mind-bender."- Time "Full of poetry, scientific imagination and typically wry Clarke... (more)

Fahrenheit 451

A Novel

by Ray Bradbury

Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that humankind could now cope with, and an era of peace, prosperity and endless leisure began. But the children of... (more)

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

Here, for the first time in Bantam print, is the science fiction classic that proposed the possibility of intelligent life on other planets. Written almost 100 years ago, this compelling tale describes the Martian invasion of Earth and man's struggle to survive.

Ringworld: Book 1

Ringworld

by Larry Niven

A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again!

Dragonriders of Pern: Book 1

Dragonflight

by Anne McCaffrey

HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD? To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise—and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last... (more)

Tau Zero

by Poul Anderson

Masterpieces of Science Fiction, Collector's Edition bound in geniune leatehr, collector's notes by author

Ender Quartet: Book 1

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother, Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister, Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for... (more)

The Man in the High Castle

by Philip K. Dick

It's America in 1962--where slavery is legal and the few surviving Jews hide anxiously under assumed names; all because twenty years earlier America lost a war and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.

Lord of Light

by Roger Zelazny

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.

Dandelion Wine: Book 1

Dandelion Wine

by Ray Bradbury

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding--remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.

The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation; Foundation and Empire; Second Foundation. The Stars, Like Dust; The Naked Sun; I, RobotIsaac Asimov

The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation; Foundation and Empire; Second Foundation. The Stars, Like Dust; The Naked Sun; I, Robot

by Isaac Asimov

The Big Time

by Fritz Leiber

Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War. It's been going on for a billion years and it will last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides--"Spiders" and "Snakes"--battle... (more)

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the... (more)

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Tags: easton press classic sf

by George Orwell

by Orson Scott Card

by William Gibson

or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

by Neal Stephenson

by Anthony Burgess

by H. G. Wells

by Arthur C. Clarke

A Novel

by Ray Bradbury

by Arthur C. Clarke

by H. G. Wells

by Larry Niven

by Anne McCaffrey

by Poul Anderson

by Orson Scott Card

by Philip K. Dick

by Roger Zelazny

by Ray Bradbury

by Isaac Asimov

by Fritz Leiber

by Ursula K. Le Guin