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A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation. “Greg Egan is perhaps the most...

Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince....

It is the year 2055, and the battle of the sexes has seven combatants rather than two. “The illusion of empathy” has been dispe...

Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the kn...

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover ed...

Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded ima...

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions al...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and e...

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the great...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “A masterpiece” (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering...

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him in...

As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, ...

Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a hol...

Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, ...

This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning ov...

Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, H...

Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into rui...

"Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers." –Michiko Kakutani, _The New York ...

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most ...