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Books in Millennium SF Masterworks S series

  • I Am Legend

    Richard Matheson

    Paperback (Orion Publishing Group, March 1, 2010)
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  • The Lathe of Heaven

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Paperback (Orion Pub Co, Aug. 15, 2001)
    George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality – and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power. Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help. At first sceptical of George’s powers, he comes to astonished belief. When he allows ambition to get the better of ethics, George finds himself caught up in a situation of alarming peril.
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  • Flowers for Algernon

    Daniel Keyes

    Paperback (Orion Pub Co, Jan. 1, 2000)
    Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
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  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Philip K. Dick

    Paperback (Orion Pub Co, Dec. 1, 2004)
    World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn’t ‘retiring’ them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal -- the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard’s world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit -- and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted...
  • Timescape

    Gregory Benford

    Paperback (Orion Pub Co, March 15, 2000)
    1962: A young Californian scientist finds his experiments spoiled by mysterious interference. Gradually his suspicions lead him to a shattering truth: scientists from the end of the century are using subatomic particles to send a message into the past, in the hope that history can be changed and a world-threatening catastrophe averted.
  • Gateway

    Frederick Pohl

    Paperback (Orion Pub Co, Nov. 15, 2004)
    Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.
  • I Am Legend

    Richard Matheson

    Paperback (Orion Pub Co, Oct. 15, 2004)
    Robert Neville is the last living man on earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville’s blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive like this?
  • The First Men in the Moon

    HERBERT GEORGE WELLS

    Paperback (MILLENNIUM, Jan. 1, 2001)
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  • The Time Machine

    H.G. Wells

    Hardcover (Orion, Sept. 15, 2010)
    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 TIME MACHINE remains one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature and has proved hugely influential.
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  • The King of Elflands Daughter

    Lord Dunsany

    Paperback (Gollancz Millennium Fantasy Ma, July 6, 2001)
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  • The Island of Dr. Moreau

    H. G. Wells

    Hardcover (Gollancz, July 9, 2010)
    H. G. Wells' terrifying classic tale of science run amokEdward Prendick is shipwrecked and finds himself stranded on an island in the Pacific. Here he meets the sinister Dr. Moreau, a vivisectionist driven out of Britain in disgrace. Strange events soon cause Prendick to uncover the full horror of Dr Moreau's activities on the island. This science fiction classic mixes discussion on the divide between humans and the animal kingdom and chilling macabre horror in an unrivaled fashion. Its questions about how far science should go will ring as true today as they did when it was first published in 1896.
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  • The Food of the Gods

    H. G. Wells

    Hardcover (Gollancz, April 1, 2011)
    One of Wells' lesser known works, this is a story of a scientific discovery with shocking results for all of humanity Two scientists develop a foodstuff that causes unparalleled growth in animals and humans. The results of their experimentation lead to chaos and unforseen consequences throughout the land. Both witty and disturbing, this tale deals with many issues which are still present in science today.
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