SF Masterworks

Odd John
John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both a...
Last and First Men
One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of th...
Life During Wartime
‘Richly peopled, highly literate, and brilliantly drawn… [Lucius Shepard is] one of the f...
Dark Benediction
Walter M. Miller Jr. is best remembered as the author of A Canticle for Leibowitz, universally...
Arslan
Arslan is a young Asian general who conquers the world in a week without firing a shot and shor...
Pavane
1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin’s bullet. Within the week, the Spanish Armada ha...
Bring the Jubilee
Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the...
Blood Music
The award winning tale of the inevitable takeover of our society by a benign, intelligent scien...
Case of Conscience
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man—a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is...
Mockingbird
The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled...
Non-Stop
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Qua...
Helliconia
Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another...
The Female Man
Review Four women living in parallel worlds, each with a different gender landscape. When t...
Timescape
Amazon.com Review Suspense builds in this novel about scientists, physics, time travel, and...
The Child Garden
In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants...