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The Ark Sakura

by Kobo Abe

12,86€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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Black No More

by George S. Schuyler

12,16€ + 10% CARD

 New Year's Day, 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr Junius Crookman has just discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach their skin white - a new way to 'solve the American race problem'. Max, who is tired of being rejected by women because of his dark skin, leaps at the chance. After a brief stay at the Crookman Sanitarium, where he receives the procedure, he becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man who is able to attain everything he has ever wanted: money, power, a beautiful wife and good liquor. But as America becomes whiter and whiter, it gets more and more dangerous.
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The Cyberiad - Fables For The Cybernetic Age

by Stanislaw Lem

13,51€ + 10% CARD

 Fables for the Cybernetic Age. Trurl and Klapaucius are 'constructors' - they travel around the universe creating machines of astonishing inventiveness and power and visiting a bewildering variety of violent, peculiar and morose civilizations. 'The Cyberiad' is oddly reminiscent of 'Gulliver's Travels', 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', 'The Phantom Tollbooth' and 'Alice in Wonderland'. Charming, mind-bending and anarchic, it is perhaps Lem's greatest work.
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Cat'S Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

13,51€ + 10% CARD

 Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to humanity. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. Writer Jonah's search for his whereabouts leads him to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to an island republic in the Caribbean where the absurd religion of Bokononism is practised, to love and to insanity. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction is a frightening and funny satire on the end of the world and the madness of mankind.
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Driftglass

by Samuel R. Delany

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 ''Delany''s works have become essential to the history of science fiction'' New Yorker 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. ''Delany''s books interweave science fiction with histories of race, sexuality and control. In so doing, he gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world'' The New York Times
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Black No More

by George S. Schuyler

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 New Year's Day, 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr Junius Crookman has just discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach their skin white - a new way to 'solve the American race problem'. Max, who is tired of being rejected by women because of his dark skin, leaps at the chance. After a brief stay at the Crookman Sanitarium, where he receives the procedure, he becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man who is able to attain everything he has ever wanted: money, power, a beautiful wife and good liquor. But as America becomes whiter and whiter, it gets more and more dangerous.
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Warm Worlds And Otherwise

by James Tiptree Jr.

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 ''Tiptree''s narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction''s most vivid and influential bodies of work'' The New York Times This landmark collection of short stories shows the feminist pioneer James Tiptree Jr. at her most inventive and daring. Here a fake girl becomes a living advertisement, women choose alien invaders over the men of Earth, a creature discovers that love means death and a pandemic engulfs the planet. ''Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood'' Vox
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Robot

by Adam Wisniewski-Snerg

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time ''We have given you life ... so that you could discover a fraction of the great secret.'' Is BER-66 a human or a robot? His controllers, known as ''the Mechanism,'' tell him he is a living machine, programmed to gather information on the inhabitants of the strange underground world he finds himself in. But as he penetrates its tunnels and locked rooms, encountering mysterious doppelgangers and a petrified city, he comes closer to the truth of his existence. Considered one of the most important Polish science fiction novels of all time, Robot is a haunting philosophical enquiry into the nature of our reality and our place in the universe. ''An instant classic which catapulted Snerg to the rank of Poland''s best sf authors'' Science Fiction Encyclopedia
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Untouched By Human Hands

by Robert Sheckley

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 ''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. ''Robert Sheckley is one of the great funny writers'' Douglas Adams ''A writer not quite like any other whose forte is his own brand of strange and wonderful humour'' The New York Times ''Genuinely funny SF'' Neil Gaiman
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Ark Sakura

by Kobo Abe

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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Star Maker

by Olaf Stapledon

8,49€ + 10% CARD

 ''A prodigious novel ... Stapledon''s literary imagination was boundless'' Jorge Luis Borges 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 most wonderful novel I have ever read ... Star Maker remains light years ahead'' Brian Aldiss ''Probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written'' Arthur C. Clarke ''A unique genius'' Doris Lessing ''One of the most creative thinkers of our time'' Greg Bear
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Voyage To Arcturus

by David Lindsay

9,49€ + 10% CARD

 ''Extraordinary'' Philip Pullman Following one man''s journey from earth to an alien landscape of ethereal beauty and existential terror, A Voyage to Arcturus is a profound questioning of the nature of evil. Dreamlike and philosophical, this landmark cult novel has influenced generations of writers. ''That shattering, intolerable and irresistible work'' C. S. Lewis ''A Nietzschean Pilgrim''s Progress ... Lindsay''s engrossing book, a mixture of metaphysics and surreal dream-quest, stands as one of the great originals'' Guardian
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Dimension Of Miracles

by Robert Sheckley

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 ''Hilarious SF satire. Douglas Adams said it was the only thing like The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy, although written ten years earlier. It''s wonderful'' Neil Gaiman 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. ''The greatest entertainer ever produced by science fiction ... a feast of wit and intelligence'' J. G. Ballard
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We

by Yevgeny Zamyatin

1,99€ + 10% CARD

 ''The best single work of science fiction yet written'' Ursula K. Le Guin 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. ''Zamyatin''s parable looked forward to climate change and surveillance culture ... to peer into its future is to see modernity''s reflection gazing darkly back'' Economist
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Hair Carpet Weavers

by Andreas Eschbach

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 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 novel of ideas that evokes complex emotions through the working out of an intricate and ultimately satisfying plot, with echoes of Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov'' The New York Times Book Review
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One Billion Years To The End Of The World

by Arkady Strugatsky e Boris Strugatsky

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 ''A beautiful book'' Ursula K. Le Guin This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia''s leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself plagued by interruptions, from a mysterious crate of vodka to a glamorous woman on his doorstep. Is the Universe trying to tell him something? ''On putting down one of their books, you feel a cold breeze still lifting the hairs on the back of your neck'' The New York Times
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Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home

by James Tiptree Jr.

1,99€ + 10% CARD

 ''Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction'' The New York Times Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, telling of dystopian chases, alien sex and the loneliness of the universe. ''What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst'' Brian Aldiss ''Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood'' Vox
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Trafalgar

by Ang Lica Gorodischer

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 In the cafes and bars of Rosario, Argentina, there are sure to be many tall tales told. But none, perhaps, quite as spectacular as those recounted by Trafalgar Medrano. With a coffeepot and a pack of cigarettes to hand, he will nonchantly tell you all about his otherworldly adventures; from studying dance troglodytes on a mucky planet, to befriending a chaotic man in a perfectly arranged society, to a close shave in 15th century Spain. The things Trafalgar has seen... Cosmopolitan, wildly imaginative and, above all else, fun, Angelica Gorodischer's 'Trafalgar' is an utterly unique work of science fiction.
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Flatland

by Edwin A. Abbott

8,49€ + 10% CARD

 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. ''At once a playful brainteaser about geometry, a pointed satire of Victorian manners - and a strangely compelling argument about the greatest mysteries of the Universe'' Wall Street Journal ''Flatland could lead to very profound thought about our Universe and ourselves'' Isaac Asimov
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Make Room! Make Room!

by Harry Harrison

8,99€ + 10% CARD

 A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure to solve the crime and captivated by the victim's beautiful girlfriend. But it is difficult to catch a killer, let alone get the girl, in crazy streets crammed full of people.
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The Hair Carpet Weavers

by Andreas Eschbach

13,51€ + 10% CARD

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Robot

by Adam Wisniewski-Snerg

13,51€ + 10% CARD
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One Billion Years To The End Of The World

by Arkady Strugatsky e Boris Strugatsky

13,51€ + 10% CARD

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Driftglass

by Samuel R. Delany

13,51€ + 10% CARD
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