This new edition of Brian Aldiss's classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years, from Isaac Asimov's 'Nightfall', first published in 1941, to the 2006 story 'Friends in Need' by Eliza Blair. Including authors such as Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison, Bruce Sterling, A. E. Van Vogt and Brian Aldiss himself, these stories portray struggles against machines, epic journeys, genetic experiments, time travellers and alien races. From stories set on Earth, to uncanny far distant worlds and ancient burnt-out suns, the one constant is humanity...

The sun is about to go nova. Earth and moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. This is the age of vegetables. Gren and his lady, and the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark Side.

Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the spring, flourish in the summer & then die in the brutal winters. The inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle.

The first published novel of England's greatest living SF writer

Vydejme se spolu s chlapcem Grenem a dívkou Yattmur na podivuhodnou cestu za odkrytím dávných událostí, při nichž lidstvo ztratilo svou nadřazenost. A poznejme přitom svět, v němž je člověk tím takřka nejubožejším tvorem neustále usilujícím o pouhé přežití… Brian Wilson Aldiss, jeden z Velmistrů žánru science fiction, popisuje ve svém mistrovském díle budoucnost, v níž lidstvo již dávno ztratilo dominantní postavení na Zemi a vlády nad planetou se ujaly všudypřítomné rostliny. Ve stínech nekonečné džungle tak osamocené skupinky pozemšťanů...

Roy Complain žije v kmeni uprostřed divočiny. Primitivní způsoby však v jeho očích nesouzní s četnými pozůstatky kdysi mnohem civilizovanějšího života. Nehodlá se smířit ani s dusivými zvyklostmi a vysvětleními, které logicky nesouhlasí s pravou povahou světa. V neustále se zrychlujícím tempu odkrývá četná tajemství, posouvá hranice poznaného a dochází dokonce až k možnosti nezvratné změny všeho, co doposud znal…
Nonstop je příběhem muže, kterého zvídavost předurčila stát se tím, kdo změní nejen osud svůj a svého okolí, ale i...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. From the planet of war they came to conquer the Earth ... The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common. Fascinated and exhilarated, the local people approach the mysterious object armed with nothing more than a white flag. But when gruesome alien creatures emerge armed with...

A masterful evocation of the future of nationhood and technology from the master of British science fiction. A stunning new edition of a modern classic. 'The titan of science fiction.' Telegraph Forty years has passed and 'Europe' now refers to vast swathes of the Earth: a unified super-state that has just enacted a successful space mission, landing people on Jupiter's Moon and spurring the people at home to look at their lives and what they've made of the world. Global warming ravages the planet, where shrunken coasts endure huge tidal attacks...