Item category 1: Science Fiction

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards on its first publication in 1969, this classic SF novel is the story of Winter, a planet with semi-Arctic conditions and inhabitants all of the same sex.

What if the Allies had lost WW2? This is the question on which this novel is based. Hugo Award winner Philip Dick was one of the most original contributors to American sci-fi, and his books were the basis for the films Blade Runner and Total Recall.

Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the hidden remnants of a cult practising a banned religion. Sutty herself is in for an education she never imagined.

This collection contains 25 stories, many of them classics of the genre, and the last, 'The Last Question', the absolute personal favourite of Asimov himself.

On a crooked world with crooked buildings, a farmer hunts a big purple bird with a blunderbuss. The TARDIS has landed on a bizarre world, upon which everything conforms to cartoon logic. But the TARDIS's arrival brings change to the crooked world.

This epic tale is set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there they fall into a trap set by his rival.

Ancient Greek mythology meets high concept space opera in this intelligent science fiction epic based on Homer's Iliad. Dan Simmons takes the story 40,000 years into the future as travellers return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever.

Swept into the far future, the victim of a time flux, a man called Clay arrives on Earth - an Earth on which the 20th century is merely a fibre in the band of time. Clay undertakes a panoramic journey encompassing a thousand years. The award-winning author's other books include 'Dying Inside'.

This volume contains the titles 'Crusade' and 'In Death Ground' from the authors of 'The Shiva Option', 'The Honor of the Queen' and 'March To The Stars'.