Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. Driftglass is the definitive volume of his stories, featuring neutered space travellers, telepathy, Hells Angels and genetically modified amphibious workers....

This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a counter-culture classic....

In this unnerving fable from one of Japan\"s greatest novelists, a recluse known as \"Mole\" retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find that strange guests, booby traps and a giant toilet may prove even greater obstacles than nuclear disaster....

The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent alien forces, body-switching and travel across the space-time continuum....

This madcap cosmic farce relates the adventures of the hapless human Carmody, as he attempts to make his way home to Earth after winning the grand prize in the Intergalactic Sweepstake, encountering parallel worlds, incompetent bureaucrats and talking dinosaurs on the way....

Part pulp adventure, part otherworldly meditation, this is the story of Trafalgar Medrano: intergalactic trader and lover of bitter coffee and black cigarettes. In the bars and cafes of Rosario, Argentina, he recounts tall tales of his space escapades - involving, among other things, time travel and dancing troglodytes....

The dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell\"s Nineteen Eighty-Four, We depicts a futuristic totalitarian society, \"OneState\", where humans have become numbers. Suppressed in Russia for decades, it is a chilling vision of a world enslaved by technology....

In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach\"s mysterious, poignant space opera explores the absurdity of work and of life itself....

A lasting influence on successive generations of science fiction writers and on the physicist Freeman Dyson, this poetic, philosophical tale of one man\"s unexpected voyage through the universe is imbued with a sense of mystery and vast cosmic loneliness....

The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, \"A. Square\", has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality....

Set in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice, Anna Kavan\"s masterwork follows one man\"s pursuit of a mysterious silver-haired girl to the ends of the earth; to the end of everything....

\"The greatest entertainer ever produced by science fiction\" J. G. Ballard These surreal, elegantly witty tales from one of the most esteemed writers of science fiction encompass indignant aliens, stranded space explorers, shapeshifters, a company that manufactures designer planets and a deadly hunting game in far-future New York....