Sci-Fi Titans
By The Cowbridge Bookshop
Sci-Fi Titans
By The Cowbridge Bookshop
A Memory Called Empire: Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel
Arkady Martine
£9.99 £9.49A brilliant new addition to the genre, this opening chapter of the series is both human and deeply political. Really well written, this is truly character-led , developing dually into an intriguing plot as it opens up. Bring on the next installment please!
Revelation Space: The Best of the SF Masterworks
Alastair Reynolds
£14.99 £14.24This series opener has a grand vision at its core, enjoining the parameters and beyond of our current understanding
Ancillary Justice: THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD WINNER
Ann Leckie
£9.99 £9.49Award winning debut novel a few years ago, this makes for a highly imaginative and deeply engaging trilogy
Gnomon
Nick Harkaway
£10.99 £10.44True to his father's legacy of intelligent writing, this is a story to admire in its conception
The Quantum Thief: The epic hard SF heist thriller for fans of THE MATRIX and NEUROMANCER
Hannu Rajaniemi
£10.99 £10.44For the true hard-sci-fi fan, this mind-bending tale requires you to have your wits about you, as you are challenged to keep up with a brain most likely larger than your own... Jean le Flambeur #1
Mockingbird: From the author of The Queen's Gambit – now a major Netflix drama
Walter Tevis
£10.99 £10.44What starts with 1984, moves forward in time into Brave New World and arrives here, in Tevis' classic
The Reality Dysfunction
Peter F. Hamilton
£12.99 £12.34One of the giants of big-concept sci-fi, this is an ideal book as a launch point. If you want qualty and size combined, you just hit lucky. Night's Dawn #1
Summerland
Hannu Rajaniemi
£10.99 £10.44From top hard sci-fi to excellent futuristic spy thriller, this is one smart writer
Dune: now a major blockbuster film
Frank Herbert
£10.99 £10.44A classic best enjoyed as a standalone
The Quantum Magician
Derek Kunsken
£8.99 £8.54The first of currently two, this is far-future for hard sci-fi fans, strong on tech
The City in the Middle of the Night
CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
£9.99 £9.49An outside in a fragmented post-Earth society, this is a story of belonging and not, loneliness and survival and finding hope where none was to be found.
Children of Time: The 10th Anniversary Edition of the Arthur C. Clarke Award winning science fiction novel
Adrian Tchaikovsky
£10.99 £10.44A cautionary tale of "the best laid plans"...
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
£10.99 £10.44One of the "caused controversy but now can't see why" books. In Jubal Harshaw, it contains one of sci-fi's best-drawn characters
Ancestral Night: A White Space Novel
Elizabeth Bear
£12.99 £12.34An outstanding novel by a well-established writer, this sits comfortably in the space-opera cannon
The Black Cloud
Fred Hoyle
£9.99 £9.49One of the classics, written by an ackowledged peer of his scientific realm, a must-read for all sci-fi fans
The Forever War: The science fiction classic and thought-provoking critique of war
Joe Haldeman
£10.99 £10.44A study in time
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
Philip K Dick
£9.99 £9.49Yes it is a classic and yes you may have seen the film. But have you actually read it? There's a reason why it has such status and if you haven't read it, then you don't know how good it is.
Perdido Street Station
China Mieville
£12.99 £12.34Where to start with this book? With Mieville? Take the plunge and see where it leads you. Once read, never forgotten.
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
£9.99 £9.49As the blurb says, iconic. This is where it all began and those younger readers who may not have entered his realm, it is a must. The trilogy now also released as a good value £16 hardback (9781841593326)
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
£9.99 £9.49A thoroughly entertaining sci-fi thriller that hits the ground running and is very difficult to stop. Brilliant for those able to remember the 1980's
Empire of Silence: The universe-spanning science fiction epic
Christopher Ruocchio
£14.99 £14.24A really good blend of sci-fi and high fantasy, this pulls you in quickly and won't let you go
The Death of Grass
John Christopher
£9.99 £9.49What was once fanciful fiction now heralds far more serious undertones for the planet's current trajectory. Another classic that reverberates still
Embers of War
Gareth L. Powell
£8.99 £8.54The first of an excellent trilogy, perfectly suited when insufficient time is available for Banks and Hamilton.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: the most hopeful, charming and cosy novel to curl up with
Becky Chambers
£9.99 £9.49A novel of great depth and positivity, a joy to read.
Brave New World: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
Aldous Huxley
£9.99 £9.49Does this need more? If you haven't, come on, what's keeping you?
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
£9.99 £9.49A must of the genre's classics. Just how did the author know?
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
£10.99 £10.44Part of the must-reads of sci-fi. A bona fide legend shows us the reason why he rose to such lofty heights. Those others read are excellent also, but here you should start
Red Rising: an explosive dystopian sci-fi novel (#1 New York Times bestselling Red Rising series book 1)
Pierce Brown
£10.99 £10.44This is a full-throttle opening to an excellent series. A deeply satisfying telling of the rising of the oppressed. Good entry into the genre as you will only need to enjoy a thriller to really get into this.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The 42nd Anniversary Edition of Douglas Adams's International Bestseller
Douglas Adams
£9.99 £9.49Almost all know of it and some may have read it, probably when they were a teenager. What a difference it makes reading it as an adult viewed from a different lense. Light-hearted a wise, this is a pleasure worth visiting or re-visiting
Strata
Terry Pratchett
£9.99 £9.49Something of a blend here, but an worthy concoction - Pratchett does sci-fi (and I don't mean Long Earth). As hilarious and insightful as he always was
The Corporation Wars Trilogy: Omnibus Edition
Ken MacLeod
£14.99 £14.24A triple-bill of crackling sci-fi for £12.99 - who says small business doesn't do bargains?
Oryx And Crake
Margaret Atwood
£10.99 £10.44For all the lit crit spoilers out there, I'll throw in a Booker prize-winning author. A real cracker
