Item category 1: Science Fiction

The first novel of the Galactic Empire, the period between our own time and the universe of Asimov's "Foundation" series. This novel places an ordinary man in the path of little-understood phenomena being investigated at the Chicago Institute for Nuclear Research.

Ages ago, sorcerers of unmatched power sundered a world into four realms-sky, stone, fire, and water-then vanished. Over time, magicians learned to work spells only in their own realms and forgot the others. Now only the few who have survived the Labyrinth and crossed the Death Gate know of the p...

This hauntingly prophetic novel centres around a not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, individuals and scholars are outcasts and books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

From Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, this classic thriller features contaminated space probes which land on earth, and bring death and destruction to an area of northeastern Arizona.

In December 1999, a multi-national team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who - or what - is out there? Contact is being reissued to coincide with a major new film.

Midwich was a quiet English village until, one night, a curious occurence resulted in the village being cut-off from the outside world for a day. When all the women of child-bearing age become pregnant, it is clear that something strange is happening.

Polly had Piff, who, with her empty seat at the dining table, was a typical invisible childhood friend. But Matthew has Chocky, and Chocky seems to be well versed in higher mathematics and can offer a coherent account of how a spacecraft works.