Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about... (more)

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for better or for worse. In desperation, he consults a psychotherapist who promises to help him -- but who, it soon becomes clear, has his own plans for George and his dreams. The Lathe of Heaven is a dark vision and a warning -- a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable. It is a truly prescient and startling view... (more)

Crystal Singer

by Anne McCaffrey

Her name was Killashandra Ree. And after ten grueling years of musical training, she was still without prospects. Until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild who could provide careers, security, and wealth beyond imagining. The problem was, few people who landed on Ballybran ever left. But to Killashandra the risks were acceptable....

Decision at Doona

by Anne McCaffrey

After the first human contact with the Siwannese ended in a mass suicide, the Terran government made a law that no further contact with sentient aliens would be allowed. But since their own planet was overcrowed, they looked to colonize Doona--until they found the Hrubbans. Their choice was simple but dangerous. They could kill the cat-like Hrubbans, or for the first time in history, learn to to coexist with an... (more)

Isaac Asimov's Robot Series

I, Robot

by Issac Asimov

The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov... (more)

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.

The Dispossessed

An Ambiguous Utopia

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)

Omnivore

by Piers Anthony

Three scientists came to the mysterious planet Nacre to discover, to explore, to record. Utterly defenseless, they trekked through the grotesque jungle of multiform mushrooms and dense spore-clouds, hoping to unlock the secret of this strange world. The stunning climax of their mission was just the beginning of a complex drama in which their survival--and return to earth-could spell the extinction of humanity.

Geodyssey Saga: Book 2

Shame of Man (Geodyssey)

by Piers Anthony

A magnificent epic of danger, desire, triumph and tragedy, Piers' Anthony's Shame of Man is nothing less than the story of humanity itself. It is the story of two lovers reborn throughout history--Hugh, a dreamer and musician, and his beloved Ann, a beautiful dancer--as they struggle to preserve their family and their way of life during some of the most turbulent periods of our savage past--and our troubled... (more)

Tarot Sequence: Book 1

God of Tarot (Tarot Sequence)

by Piers Anthony

Now readers can return to the planet of holy lusts and deadly dreams. Paul is a monk, which is better than a warrior on the planet Tarot, where religions are wielded like swords.

Prostho Plus

by Piers Anthony

What's keeping you from your grand tour of the universe? Are you afraid of being caught out in the vastness of space with a painful cavity and no one capable of fixing it? Well fear not--the galaxy is simply teeming with dentists! For Dr. Dillingham, dentist of Earth, it was the shock of his life--captured by aliens, forced to fix a strange cavity in an even stranger mouth; then whisked off to deep space. But... (more)

Tarot Sequence: Book 3

Faith Of Tarot (Tarot Sequence)

by Piers Anthony

Third in the series-the miracle planet is revealed. On far Tarot dreams come true-and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate and most terrifying fantasy of them all...Hell.

Tarot Sequence: Book 2

Vision of Tarot (The Tarot Sequence)

by Piers Anthony

The wanderer-monk Paul is trapped in a nightmare of dragons, demons, and spectacular lusts as the shimmering Animation curtain storms across the worldscape, changing fantasy into hideous reality.

Sheva: Book 1

Darwin's Radio

In the Next Stage of Evolution, Human Are History

by Greg Bear

A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE Greg Bear's powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies--and their dangers. Now, in Darwin's Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny--as... (more)

Psychlone

by Greg Bear

The nuclear bomb is the only weapon so terrible that it destroys not only the human body, but the human soul. But what of those souls that were not destroyed, but maimed and ruptured by the blast at Hiroshima? They are coming, across the Pacific ocean, leaving blood and destruction in their wake, searching for revenge. They are the Psychlone! Larry Fowler is a scientist—he doesn't want to be frightened by... (more)

Anthonology

by Piers Anthony

Steppe Uk Edition

by Piers Anthony

At the moment of his death, Alp, a powerful Turkish warrior chieftain, is thrust naked, weaponless, and horseless into a bewildering world in a galaxy far removed from his own, where he has been chosen to fight, and perhaps die again, in a vast intergalactic game called Steppe. Reissue.

Stand on Zanzibar

by John Brunner

Brand new LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold.

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

by Doris Lessing

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 is the fourth volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

Dinosaur Planet

by Anne McCaffrey

Kai and his beautiful co-leader Varian had a simple enough mission--to catalogue fauna and flora and search for new energy sources for the Federated Sentient Planets. But what they discovered was awesome. The creatures were larger, the resources were smaller, and the rescue ship had disappeared....

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Tags: sf & fantasy

by Michael Crichton

by Ursula K. Le Guin

by Anne McCaffrey

by Anne McCaffrey

by Issac Asimov

by Ursula K. Le Guin

An Ambiguous Utopia

by Ursula K. Le Guin

by Piers Anthony

by Piers Anthony

by Piers Anthony

by Piers Anthony

by Piers Anthony

by Piers Anthony

In the Next Stage of Evolution, Human Are History

by Greg Bear

by Greg Bear

by Piers Anthony

by Piers Anthony

by John Brunner

by Doris Lessing

by Anne McCaffrey