Item category 1: Science Fiction

The year is 4034. The Nasqueron Dwellers, regarded as barbaric by the rest of the solar system, live on a gas giant at the edge of the universe. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Dwellers, must uncover a secret hidden for half a billion years, but everyday war comes closer.

This is a collection of chilling fiction, including Hugo and Nebula Award-winning stories, from Octavia E. Butler.

It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes - literally. By a mere kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere - be anywhere - because she was already between planes.

For the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. As the altered climate threatens extinction to the giant sandworms, fanatics challenge the rule of the Atreides family.

This really is the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everthing - all five radio series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' collected together for the first time.

'The Penultimate Truth' is one of Dick's most sombre novels, written at a white-hot pace when he was at the height of his creative powers. The people below the surface believe that World War III is raging, but the reality is very different.

Following the adventures of Imperial Inquisitor Ravenor and his warband of the dark and gothic future, this title is the second in 'Ravenor' series.

Unhappy with his life, 43-year-old Jeff Winston has high hopes for the future. Then a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to his dreams. Until he wakes up in his 18-year-old body, all his memories of the next 25 years intact. If he applies those memories, he can be rich in his new chance at life.

In April 2042 the sun will eject in one day, the amount of energy it normally puts out in a year. The oceans will boil, the land will be blasted into sterility. Everyone and everything on the planet will die. The flare can not be stopped. What is to be done?