Books in the S.F. Masterworks series

Another SF Masterwork from the giants of Soviet science fiction, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

A brilliant and mind-bending depiction of alien life that still stands as a landmark of hard SF.

Employing a dazzling range of literary techniques, John Brunner has created a future world as real as this morning's newspaper ... With a new introduction by Ken MacLeod.

A powerfully moving quest for truth in a post-apocalyptic landscape from the WORLD FANTASY AWARD-winning author of LITTLE, BIG.

A brilliant and incisive satire of the Soviet pseudo-science research of the Cold War, with a new introduction by Adam Roberts.

A startling post-cyberpunk thriller from the PHILIP K. DICK AWARD-winning author of ELVISSEY.

A powerful novel about what happens when the magic leaves our lives.

A classic tale of artificial worlds by one of the great SF writers

First published nearly 70 years ago, this text is regarded as one of the most influential science fiction novels of the 20th century. Olaf Stapledon creates a history of the evolution of humankind over the next two billion years.

An essential collection of stories from the multi-award-winning Grand Master, Ursula K. LeGuin.

The book that gave the world the term Homo superior.

An electrifying novel about identity in the digital age from the Hugo and BSFA Award-winning author, John Brunner.

A science fiction masterpiece from the Russian greats, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

Edited and collated by Jonathan Strahan, with a volume introduction by Neil Gaiman, THE BEST OF R.A. LAFFERTY is the authoritative collection of short fiction by R.A. Lafferty.

A feminist classic of science fiction comes to the Masterwork list - praised by Ursulua Le Guin, this is a cult novel due to be rediscovered.

A prescient look at mankind's future from the greatest science fiction writer of them all.

The extraordinary James Tiptree Memorial Award-winning novel.

The Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel that defined the Cyberpunk movement.

The Hugo and John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winning prequel to the magnificent A FIRE UPON THE DEEP.

The JAMES TIPTREE JR AWARD-winning novel.

Three people, bound together in love and hate, are all that stand against annihilation for the inhabitants of the planet Warlorn.

'The most human of all Stapledon's novels' Brian Aldiss

The Hugo Award-winning masterpiece of modern space opera - a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.

'One of two or three of the most impressive pure-SFnovels produced in the UK since World War Two' ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION.

The ad man sets his sights on the gravy train that is Venus: unconquered and waiting to be populated by Earth's capitalist-driven consumers.

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel.

An omnibus volume containing satire at its sharpest and most colourful by one of the genre's best-loved writers

A masterly tale of political deception from the most significant writer of SF in the 20th century.