Item category 1: Science Fiction

When Becky Driscoll turns up at Dr Miles Bennell's consulting room after hours one August evening and tells him that her cousin Wilma doesn't think that her Uncle Ira is really her Uncle Ira, it is just the beginning of a nightmare. As the number of similar stories multiplies, Miles discovers the...

Ireland, 1006. Strange things have been happening at the isolated Abbey of Kells: disembodied voices, unexplained disappearances, sudden death. The monks whisper of imps & demons. Could the Lord of the Dead himself be stalking these hallowed cloisters?

The year is 2021. No child has been born for a quarter of a century. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, Warden of England, the old are despairing, the young beautiful but cruel.

Matthew introduces his family to his imaginary friend, a creature called Chocky, who is full of questions about space travel and gravity fields that are unlike any an 11 year-old boy would ever think of. So when Chocky starts causing Matthew a great deal of distress, his parents call in the profe...

Can eating a bag of crisps really make you more clever? The company that makes the crisps says so, and they seem to be right. But the Doctor is worried. Who would want to make people more brainy? And why? With just his sonic screwdriver and a supermarket trolley full of crisps, the Doctor sets ou...

This volume contains Arthur C. Clarke's short stories beginning with Rescue Party, the first one ever published. The collection showcases his range and variety.

This volume contains a collection of short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke.

Millions of years ago, the noble Ice Warriors fled to Deimos, moon of Mars, hoping to sit out the radioactive death throes of their home planet. When the TARDIS lands on Deimos, the Doctor discovers the Warriors' ancient catacombs are now a popular stop for space tourists.

When Jo Grant left the Doctor he gave her the crystal that he found on the planet Metebelis 3. But that crystal is vital to the giant spiders who rule the Metebelis 3, and now they send an emissary to Earth to recover it.

The galaxy is at war between the oxygen-breathing Terran Federation of worlds and the Ginzoes, chlorine-breathing aliens. An Earth ship is captured in battle by the Ginzoes and its crew learns that the aliens have a newly developed catalyst.