Item category 1: Science Fiction

The narrator of this novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world, he has survived to witness a new world. The new world that awaits him however is fantastic, horrific and inhabited by carnivorous walking plants!

The Man Plus Programme involved reengineering a man to survive on Mars. Roger Torraway was the unfortunate who was chosen to become a hybrid but turned into a monster. His new biological status however, does not prevent him from suffering.

Lone was the 'village idiot' who could look into your soul. Janie's thoughts could knock down buildings. The Twins could travel miles in an instant. When they came together for survival, they discovered they were capable of anything.

The destruction of Dresden by bombs and a fire storm was a catastrophe that Vonnegut himself witnessed as a prisoner of war and forms the basis of this modern classic.

It came from a lichen, a simple rock-loving plant made of fungi and algae. When biochemist Francis Saxover discovered its remarkable properties, the implications terrified him.

On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But before they can reach their destination, things begin to go horribly wrong.

The protective dome of Diaspar had once held powers that ruled the stars. Legend had it that the Invaders came and drove humanity into it as a last refuge. A Unique has to break through its inertia to discover the true nature of the Invaders.

All of Arthur C. Clarke's short stories are collected into this one volume: more than 100 in all, arranged in order of publication, from Travel by Wire in 1937 to Improving the Nieghbourhood in 1999.

The Lathe of Heaven is George Orr's story - a man who dreams things into being, for better or for worse. It is a dark vision and a warning - a truly prescient and startling view of humanity, and the consequences of God-playing.

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.