The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes
By: Mike Ashley
3.79
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
Sound the sirens! The end is here, and it comes in many forms in this new collection of apocalyptic…
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1. The Wall
By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more
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- science fiction
- classics
"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall
2. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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- science fiction
- classics
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
3. Wild Harbour
By: None , Ian MacPherson
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bombs, bacteriological warfare … read more
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- science fiction
- classics
4. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)
By: China Miéville
3.80
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more
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- science fiction
5. City
By: Clifford D. Simak
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- classics
- short stories
6. The Machine Stops
By: E.M. Forster
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more
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- classics
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7. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
8. Under the Skin
By: Michel Faber
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us to Isserley, a female driver who cru… read more
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9. Grendel
By: John Gardner
4.03
Format: 606 pages,
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more
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10. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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11. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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12. Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
By: Lindsay Ellis
3.72
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Truth is a human right. It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government mi… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
"I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal."-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
"...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so cl…"-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
13. The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy, #2)
By: Mark Lawrence
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following The Book That Woul… read more
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- science fiction
14. The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3)
By: Richard Swan
4.11
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The third novel in an epic fantasy trilogy, which follows the tale of Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Empero… read more
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15. Death of a Bookseller
By: Alice Slater
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more
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16. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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17. Slade House
By: David Mitchell
3.81
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more
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- science fiction
"Coffee’s the elixir of life."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."-David Mitchell, Slade House
"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"-David Mitchell, Slade House
18. The Tide Went Out
By: Charles Eric Maine
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
When London journalist Philip Wade learns that his article on nuclear weapons testing has been cens… read more
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- classics
19. The Darkest of Nights (British Library Science Fiction Classics Book 6)
By: Charles Eric Maine
3.40
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
A deadly plague engulfs East Asia - the rest of the world's governments look on callously, until th… read more
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- speculative fiction
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20. The End of the World: and Other Catastrophes
By: Mike Ashley
3.79
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
Sound the sirens! The end is here, and it comes in many forms in this new collection of apocalyptic… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- classics
- short stories
