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Twenty-two classic science fiction stories spanning the first three decades of the Science Fiction Grand Master's career. Features "Super-Toys Last All Summer," the short story that inspired the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. "Britain's most versatile and durable and consistently most interesting science-fiction writer presents his own personal 'best of': 22 splendid tales. . . . To Aldiss, the human dimension has always been more important...

The highly acclaimed sequel to H G Wells's THE TIME MACHINE, from the heir to Arthur C. Clarke. Written to celebrate the centenary of the publication of H G Wells's classic story The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter's stunning sequel is an outstanding work of imaginative fiction. The Time Traveller has abandoned his charming and helpless Eloi friend Weena to the cannibal appetites of the Morlocks, the devolved race of future humans from whom he was forced...

Collected together here are seven of the most iconic novels of H. G. Wells, the father of science fiction himself. With each story, he presents a unique and exciting twist. In The Invisible Man, a scientist's experimentation with visibility goes disastrously wrong. The Time Machine features a traveller recounting his adventures into the future, and The Island of Doctor Moreau explores the terrifying boundaries of human and animal morality. Other stories...

A collection of eight short stories and novellas in the dark and turbulent world of Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe. Centuries from now, solidarity stretches thin as humanity spreads past the solar system and to the nearest stars. Technology has produced powerful new tools-but lethal risk will always accompany great advancement. And without foresight, opposing groups may fracture multiple worlds. Between the Demarchists and the Conjoiners,...

The paradise of Thalassa is threatened by an evolutionary event brewing beneath the calm seas and by a spacecraft of refugees hovering in orbit above the planet. The arrival of a spaceship from Earth--destroyed when its sun went nova--carrying five million Earthlings in suspended animation, as well as an uncensored cultural record of Earth, threatens to destroy the paradisiacal planet of Thalassa.

Starting a new life in Yorkstone, Jack and his fourteen-year-old ward are hired to find a metallic tablet that holds the key to an extraordinary scientific discovery that has fallen into the wrong hands, leading Jack into the middle of a political organization that will do anything to stop himBook Two of the Jack Stein Series Jay Caselberg is an Australian author and poet whose work has appeared around the world and been translated into several languages....

This collection of Victorian tales that imagined futures full of strange science and technologies surprisingly includes the familiar themes of modern science fiction, like time travel and robots, in stories from Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy and Alice Fuller.

The stepper enables a person using it to step sideways into another America, another wherever that person happened to be, another Earth. And if the person using it keeps on stepping, they keep on entering even more Earths. This is the Long Earth. And the further away a stepper travels, the stranger--and sometimes more dangerous--the Earths become.

In the first of these two science fiction stories a scientist invents a machine that transports him into the future. In the second story a man watches his body slowly become invisible.

Sixteen original stories showcase some of the genre's most admired authors.