Item category 1: Science Fiction

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than 100. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In the fifth book in the 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series, the mysterious Tokyo cafe where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: the father who could not allow his daughter to get married; a woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one...

The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary, secret menu time travel offering. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family, and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks and there ...

The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary, secret menu time travel offering. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family, and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks and there ...

Two young people, codenamed Adam and Eve, are taken to a private science facility, owned by the mysterious Colonel Bartlett, a man with a vision of creating a human super-force to help him improve the world. When the two wake up, they find themselves will new lives, including new abilities which ...

Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place as the only remaining heir, she finds that trading her ship for a palace is her most dangerous mov...

South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of a local species called the Duendes. They are silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - that have a strange psychic effect on people, e...

South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of a local species called the Duendes. They are silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - that have a strange psychic effect on people, e...

'The Best of World SF' draws together stories from across the spectrum of science fiction - expect robots, spaceships and time travel, as well as some really weird stuff - representing twenty-one countries and five continents.

A man is about to kill a cow. He discusses life and death and his right to kill with the compliant animal. He begins to suspect he may be about to commit murder, but kills anyway. It began when the animal rights movement injected domestic animals with artificial intelligence in a bid to have the ...