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The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionWhen Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only g ...Show more
The Space Merchants by Kornbluth Cyril
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole, and nobody who ...Show more
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick
$23.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, w ...Show more
The Time Machine: SF Masterworks by Wells, H.G.
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$22.99 (65% off)
Category: Sale | Series: S.F. Masterworks
A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time.THE ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
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$22.99 (78% off)
Category: Sale | Series: S. F. Masterworks
'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's...' So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killin ...Show more
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula. K Le Guin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence ...Show more
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
"Willis effortlessly juggles comedy of manners, chaos theory and a wide range of literary allusions [with a] near flawlessness of plot, character and prose."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable w ...Show more
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: S.f. Masterworks
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own ...Show more
Vermeer and the Dutch Masters by Flame Flame Tree (Created by); D. A. Morrison
$44.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Today we marvel at the shimmering light, the detail and hidden significances within the subtle techniques of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Frans Hals and their compatriots. The luminescent art of the Dutch Masters grew from the bounding confidence of the newly independent Netherlands in the early 1600s. ...Show more
Vincent Van Gogh by Rosalind Ormiston
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Masterworks Ser.
A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. We all know of Van Gogh's troubled g ...Show more
William Morris: Artist, Craftman, Pioneer by Rosalind Ormiston
$54.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Masterworks
William Morris was an outstanding character of many talents, being an architect, writer, social campaigner, artist and, with his Kelmscott Press, an important figure of the Arts and Crafts movement. Many of us probably know him best, however, from his superb furnishings and textile designs, intricately ...Show more