Best Short Story: “The Secret Place” by Richard McKenna
1965 Nebula Awards
Best Novel: Dune by Frank Herbert
Best Novella: The Saliva Tree by Brian W. Aldiss and He Who Shapes by Roger Zelazny
Best Novelette: “The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth” by Roger Zelazny
Best Short Story: “Repent, Harlequin!” “Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison
The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF
Edited by Mike Ashley
ISBN: 978-1-84529-891-3
Price: £7.99
Unmissable and thrilling SF – 21 stories to blow you away
Science fiction at its best can inspire a sense of wonder – bringing about that magic moment when our minds open to new perceptions and amazing possibilities. Here in one giant volume are 21 of the most visionary and thought-provoking SF short stories ever collected, by Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Silverberg, Gregory Benford, Robert Reed and more. They include two remarkable works from the 1950s by Arthur C. Clarke and James Blish, as well as five specially commissioned new stories . . .
• A discovery on the Moon that allows us to revisit our past
• Explorers in an alien world trapped beneath the surface whose only way out is down
• A future in which death has been eradicated, but returns to fulfil its destiny
• The very last moments on planet Earth and the fate of the last inhabitants
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The Mammoth Book of Best Short SF Novels
Edited by Gardner Dozois
ISBN: 978-1-84529-923-1
Price: £9.99
In one great volume – the very best science fiction novellas of modern times
Science fiction is ideally suited to the short novel form: long enough to conjure an alien or future society in our imaginations, yet elegant and powerful – free of padding. Award-winning editor Gardner Dozois presents here the 13 finest science fiction novellas of the last two decades, including
Robert Silverberg’s “Sailing to Byzantium”, in which a man from the 1980s is set adrift in a future so remote that technology has become magic
Michael Swanwick’s “Griffin’s Egg”, which holds out the promise – or threat – of new brain chemicals that will enable the evolution of the mind to be controlled
Alastair Reynolds’s “Turquoise Days”, an extension of his far-future Demarchist/Conjoiner universe
Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Forgiveness Day”, a return to the planets Werel and Yeowe, and their populations descended from South Africans
“Outstanding . . . pays homage to the science fiction novellas of the past two decades and by extension to the entire genre in all its varied glory.”
Publisher’s Weekly
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Edited by Gardner Dozois
ISBN: 978-1-84901-373-4
Price: £9.99
Seventeen-times winner of the Locus Award for the Year’s Best Anthology
For over twenty years, Gardner Dozois’s compelling annual has deservedly remained the single must-have collection for science fiction fans around the world. Unfailingly offering the very best new stories of the year, it showcases up-and-coming stars alongside established masters of the genre. This year’s collection includes the work of over thirty writers, including Robert Reed, Nina Allan, Kage Baker, Yoon Ha Lee, Ian R. MacLeod, Joe Haldeman, Naomi Novik, Cory Doctorow and Aliette de Bodard.
In addition to over 3000,000 words of fantastic fiction, the anthology includes bonus features such as Dozois’s insightful round-up of the year in SF and an extensive recommended reading guide.
“For over two decades, Gardner Dozois’s Mammoth Book of Best New SF has defined the field. It is the most important anthology, not only annually, but overall.”
Charles N. Brown, publisher of Locus
“Dozois’s definitive must-read short story anthology takes the pulse of science fiction today.”
Publishers Weekly
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The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF
Edited by Mike Ashley
ISBN: 978-1-84901-305-5
Price: £7.99
Apocalypse Now?
Have the last days begun?
Humankind has long been fascinated by the precarious vulnerability of civilization and of the Earth itself. When our fragile civilizations finally go, will it be as a result of nuclear war, or some cosmic catastrophe? The impact of global warming, or a terrorist atrocity? Genetic engineering, or some modern plague more virulent even than HIV or Ebola?
Mike Ashley’s gripping anthology of short stories explores the destruction of civilization and looks at how humanity might strive to survive such a crisis, including the end of the Earth.
• A vaccine threatens to turn into a virus that could wipe out mankind in “Bloodletting” by Kate Wilhelm
• Will the internet destroy civilization, or save it? “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” by Cory Doctorow
• In “Guardians of the Phoenix”, Eric Brown depicts a world in the grip of climate change
How will the end come, and will you be there to witness it?
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