Science Fiction Fantasy part one Books. Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 1. Originating as a BBC radio series in 1. Douglas Adamss inspired melding of hippy trail guidebook and sci fi comedy turned its novelisations into a publishing phenomenon. Douglas wrote five parts from 1. Marvin the Paranoid Android, the computer Deep Thought, space guitarist Hotblack Desiato named after Adamss local estate agent and the Guide itself, a remarkably prescient forerunner to the internet. Andrew Pulver. Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Brian W Aldiss Non Stop 1. Aldisss first novel is a tour de force of adventure, wonder and conceptual breakthrough. Set aboard a vast generation starship millennia after blast off, the novel follows Roy Complain on a voyage of discovery from ignorance of his surroundings to some understanding of his small place in the universe. Complain is spiteful and small minded but grows in humanity as his trek through the ship brings him into contact with giant humans, mutated rats and, ultimately, a wondrous view of space beyond the ship. Eric Brown. Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Isaac Asimov Foundation 1. One of the first attempts to write a comprehensive future history, the trilogy which also includes Foundation and Empire 1. To find blue hope just scratch the red surface Bettina Davis May 2002. A daily roundup of all the newest free Kindle eBooks in easy to navigate format. You can also sign up for our newsletter if you wish and have a daily email alert with. Second Foundation 1. Asimovs version of Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, set on a galactic scale. Hari Seldon invents the science of psychohistory with which to combat the fall into barbarianism of the Human Empire, and sets up the Foundation to foster art, science and technology. Divx Xvid Cartoons Hotel Transylvania. Wish fulfilment of the highest order, the novels are a landmark in the history of science fiction. EBBuy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin 2. The phrase guilty pleasure has long outlived its usefulness. If you really like a song or a movie or a TV show, no matter how cheesy the conventional. Lowbudget scifi movies may have had their heyday during Roger Cormans rise to Bmovie greatness in the 1950s, but theyre still going strong todayproving. On planet Zycron, tyrannical Snilfards subjugate poor Ygnirods, providing intercoital entertainment for a radical socialist and his lover. We assume she is Laura Chase, daughter of an Ontario industrialist, who records their sex and sci fi stories in a novel, The Blind Assassin. Published posthumously by Lauras sister, Iris, the book outrages postwar sensibilities. Iris is 8. 3 in the cantankerous present day narrative, and ready to set the story straight about the suspicious deaths of her sister, husband and daughter. In this Booker prize winning novel about novels, Atwood bends genre and traps time, toying brilliantly with the roles of writing and reading. Natalie Cate. Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Paul Auster In the Country of Last Things 1. Anna Blume, 1. 9, arrives in a city to look for her brother. She finds a ruin, where buildings collapse on scavenging citizens. WARNER BROS CARTOONS. Crazy characters and wacky situations were the trade mark of these cartoons. X400 19. 99 each. CRAZY CRUISE. 1942 classic Tex Avery Warner. Beach Rats Review Gay Teen Tale Has Erotic Heat, Piercing Delicacy Eliza Hittmans powerful film is gorgeously shot with a smashing breakthrough performance from. The latest bestsellers and book reviews from USA TODAY Books. Originating as a BBC radio series in 1978, Douglas Adamss inspired melding of hippytrail guidebook and scifi comedy turned its novelisations into a publishing. All production has stopped. Nobody can leave, except as a corpse collected for fuel. Suicide clubs flourish. Anna buys a trolley and wanders the city, salvaging objects and information. She records horrific scenes, but also a deep capacity for love. This small hope flickers in a world where no apocalyptic event is specified. Instead, Auster creates his dystopia by magnifying familiar flaws and recycling historical detail the novels working title was Anna Blume Walks Through the 2. Century. NCBuy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Iain Banks The Wasp Factory 1. A modern gothic tale of mutilation, murder and medical experimentation, Bankss first novel described by the Irish Times as a work of unparalleled depravity is set on a Scottish island inhabited by the ultimate dysfunctional family a mad scientist and his unbalanced sons, older brother Eric, who has been locked up for everyones safety, and Frank, the 1. Franks victims are mostly animals but he has found time to kill a few children Phil Daoust. Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Iain M Banks Consider Phlebas 1. Space opera is unfashionable, but Banks couldnt care less. You get the opportunity to work on a proper canvas, he says. Big, big brushes, broad strokes. The strokes have rarely been broader than in Bankss Culture novels, about a galaxy spanning society in which humans and artificial intelligences are united by a love of parties, adventure and a damn good fight. Consider Phlebas introduced the first of many misguided or untrustworthy heroes Horza, who can change his body just by thinking about it and a typically Banksian collision involving two giant trains in an subterranean station. PDBuy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Clive Barker Weaveworld 1. Lifes rich tapestry is just that in Clive Barkers fantasy. A magic carpet is the last refuge of a people known as the Seerkind, who for centuries have been hunted by both humans and the Scourge, a mysterious being that seems determined to live up to its name. When it all starts to unravel, the carpet peoples best hope is a pigeon fancying insurance clerk and his half Seerkind companion. Yes, it sounds twee, but as Barker himself said, the Seerkind fornicate, fart theyre very far from pure. PDBuy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Nicola Barker Darkmans 2. Nicola Barker has been accused of obscurity, but this Booker shortlisted comic epic has a new lightness of touch and an almost soapy compulsiveness. Set in Ashford, Kent, the kind of everytown that has turned its back on history, the novel dips into the lives of a loosely connected cast of everyday eccentrics who find that history in the persona of Edward IVs jester is fighting back. A jumble of voices and typefaces, mortal fear and sarky laughter, the novel is as true as it is truly odd, and beautifully written to boot. Justine Jordan. Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Stephen Baxter The Time Ships 1. In his visionary sequel to Wellss The Time Machine, Baxter continues the adventures of the Time Traveller. He sends him back to the far future in an attempt to save the Eloi woman Weena, only to find himself in a future timeline diverging from the one he left. Baxters extraordinary continuation and expansion tackles the usual concerns of the time travel story paradox and causality and goes on to explore many of the themes that taxed Wells destiny, morality and the perfectibility of the human race. EBBuy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Greg Bear Darwins Radio 1. Bear combines intelligence, humour and the wonder of scientific discovery in a techno thriller about a threat to the future of humanity. A retro viral plague sweeps the world, infecting women via their sexual partners and aborting their embryos. But the plague is more than it seems. What might in other hands have been a mere end of the world runaround is transformed by Bears scientific knowledge into something marvellous, as reason overcomes paranoia and fear. EBBuy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Alfred Bester The Stars My Destination 1. Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation. Deep space is my dwelling place And deaths my destination Marooned in space after an attack on his ship, then ignored by a passing luxury liner, an illiterate mechanic plots revenge on those who left him to die. Somehow surviving, he swiftly gets down to it. Besters novel updates The Count of Monte Cristo with telepathy, nuclear weapons and interplanetary travel. Those who stumble across it are inevitably surprised to find it was written half a century ago. PDBuy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Poppy Z Brite Lost Souls 1. Brites first novel, a lush, decadent and refreshingly provocative take on vampirism told in rich, stylish prose, put her at the forefront of the 1. Its the story of Nothing, an angst filled teenager who runs away from his adoptive parents to seek out his favourite band. Along the way he joins up with a group of vampires, finds his true family and discovers what he really values, amid much blood, sex, drugs and drink. Keith Brooke. Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop. Algis Budrys Rogue Moon 1. Al Barker is a thrillseeking adventurer recruited to investigate an alien labyrinth on the moon.