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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima- ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the ...Show more
Driftglass by Samuel R. Delaney
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Samuel R. Delany is widely considered to be one of the greatest science fiction writers of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of Black and Queer genre fiction. Driftglass, the definitive collection of Delany's science fiction stories, displays the extraordinary depth of his writing: strange men and wo ...Show more
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory. A work that still poses provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence ...Show more
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
$24.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
The planet's population has exploded. The 35 million inhabitants of New York City run their TVs off pedal power, riot for water, trample for lentil 'steaks', and sweat beneath a sweltering sun. Amid it all, a city cop tries to catch a gangster's killer and vie for the affection of a dangerous woman...Of ...Show more
One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov is on the precipice of a major discovery - a Nobel Prize-worthy break though. Yet, home alone in his Leningrad apartment, his work is beginning to be stymied. Strange and improbable distractions are mounting around him - and he is not alone. Across the city, his scientific ...Show more
The Colour Out of Space by H. P. Lovecraft
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
In the deep glens of Massachusetts, in the wild hills of Vermont, and in Australia's sandy wastes, unfathomable things lurk. Things that shine with an unnatural light, that speak and buzz strangely in the night, that prowl in the mind. Things not of our Earth. Widely considered to be the most significan ...Show more
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. His ornate, phantasmagorical writing probes the furthest reaches of the universe while remaining deeply and particularly human. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Yevgeny Zamyatin's page-turning science fiction adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others. Its messag ...Show more
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