Best Modern Science Fiction - April 2024

Case Closed?: Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science

Egypt's first female pharaoh disappears around 1457 BCE --- was she murdered? Find out how DNA closes the case. The ancient Arabian Peninsula city of Ubar vanishes, seemingly without trace. Find out how old maps and modern space shuttles help solve the mystery. Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage is never heard from again. Find out how spectroscopy points to some probable explanations. Case Closed? examines these and six other mysteries from ancient and modern times. Accompanied by photos, maps, diagrams and illustrations, this book reveals how modern science shed... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1554533635
• ASIN: 1554533635
• ISBN: 1554533635
• Manufacturer: Kids Can Press

The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection

• ASIN: B006U1C0L0
• ASIN: B006U1C0L0
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

• ASIN: B003J5654S
• ASIN: B003J5654S
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection

• ASIN: B0071NMJ1M
• ASIN: B0071NMJ1M
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy award-winning editor John Joseph Adams delivers a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds, along with those who are infusing traditional fiction with speculative elements, these stories uphold a longstanding tradition in both genres—looking at the world and asking, Wh... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0544449770
• ASIN: 0544449770
• ISBN: 0544449770
• Brand: Mariner Books
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 Edition

This ninth volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre’s greatest authors, including Charlie Jane Anders, Steven Barnes, Seth Dickinson, Kameron Hurley, Rich Larson, Ian R. MacLeod, Paul McAuley, Adam Roberts, Lavie Tidhar, Genevieve Valentine, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov’s, Bridging Infinity, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, and other top venues, The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

• ASIN: B07573DJYC
• ASIN: B07573DJYC

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

• ASIN: 0385333846
• ASIN: 0385333846
• ISBN: 0812988523
• Brand: Delta
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve

Science fiction is a portal that opens doors onto futures too rich and strange to imagine. Fantasy takes us through doorways of magic and wonder. For more than a decade award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has sifted through tens of thousands of stories to select the best, the most interesting, the most engaging science fiction and fantasy to thrill and delight readers.Featuring stories from Daniel Abraham, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Barnhill, R. S. Benedict, Tobias Buckell, Indrapramit Das, Samuel R. Delany, Greg Egan, Max Gladstone, Theodora Goss, Saad Z. Hossain, Dave Hutchinson, Kathleen ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07948P7BB
• ASIN: B07948P7BB
• Manufacturer: Solaris

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

• ASIN: B00ICN066A
• ASIN: B00ICN066A
• Manufacturer: Harper

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster—and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest disasters.Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GNV7PNH
• ASIN: B07GNV7PNH
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Science Fiction (2001 A Space Odyssey / Soylent Green / Forbidden Planet / The Time Machine 1960)

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Stanley Kubrick's dazzling adventure of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. From our prehistoric ape-ancestry past to uncharted realms of space, it remains a landmark, pioneering movie unlike any other. SOYLENT GREEN Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson headline this thought-provoking futuristic shocker set in an overcroweded New York where secrets about the food supply are zealously guarded by the government. FORBIDDEN PLANET Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon and Anne Francis star in this influential adventure fantasy about the troubled landing of a spac... [Read More]

• ASIN: B002945DU2
• UPC: 883929048847
• ASIN: B002945DU2
• Brand: Warner Manufacturing
• Manufacturer: WarnerBrothers

The 48 Laws of Power

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinge... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140280197
• UPC: 725638107234
• ASIN: 0140280197
• ISBN: 0140280197
• Brand: Penguin Putnam
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

My Ishmael (Ishmael Series Book 3)

• ASIN: B002PXFYHY
• ASIN: B002PXFYHY
• Manufacturer: Bantam

1984 (Signet Classics)

Written 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read •“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that see... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451524934
• ASIN: 0451524934
• ISBN: 9780451524935
• Manufacturer: Signet Classic

CIRCE

• ASIN: B074M5TLLJ
• ASIN: B074M5TLLJ
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories, with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science

• UPC: 415598537

Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels - eBook

From one of the best-known editors in modern science fiction, this lively and authoritative guide will appeal to both newcomers and connoisseurs of the genre alike. Informative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark

• UPC: 733794071
• Rating: 5.0

Writers of the Future Volume 31 : The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

Presents a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by the winners of the 2014 "Writers of the Future" contest chosen by a distinguished panel of top writers, critics, and

• UPC: 43905908
• Rating: 4.267

The Locus Awards : Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy

This collection of the best science fiction and fantasy short works of the last three decades includes works by such legendary authors as Octavia Butler, Ted Chiang, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. Le Guin,

• UPC: 25346122
• Rating: 4.5

Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis - eBook

James Gunn—one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching—wrote in 1951 what is likely the first master’s thesis on modern science fiction. Portions were in the short-lived pulp magazine Dynamic but it

• UPC: 540966399
• Rating: 5.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition - eBook

This seventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee,

• UPC: 228674886
• Rating: 4.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection - eBook

The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are

• UPC: 728072562
• Rating: 3.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection - eBook

From Cyberspace to outer space, from the Dark Continent to the speed of light, the dozens of stories in this terrific collection represent the year's finest offerings in imaginative fiction.Among the twenty-eight tales assembled here

• UPC: 363304135
• Rating: 2.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection - eBook

The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue

• UPC: 906416816
• Rating: 1.5

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection - eBook

The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are

• UPC: 683333543
• Rating: 5.0

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Ninth Series HC DJ 1st Edition 1960

• UPC: 184226345155
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 24 USD

The Best of Frederick Pohl 1975 Classic Science Fiction HC Book w/ Dust Jacket

• UPC: 313019325261
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 10 USD

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Ninth Series 1959 BCE HC Book with DJ

• UPC: 163971872408
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 13 USD

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Ninth Series 1959 BCE HC Book with DJ

• UPC: 303532001579
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 8 USD