We

Classic Literature & Fiction

Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell’s 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful ‘Benefactor’, the citizens of the totalitarian society o….Read More

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1985

Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 combines a devastating critique of Orwell's 1984 with a terrifying vision of the future. As memorable as A Clockwork Orange, it is as powerful… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, George), Gymnastics, Nineteen Eighty Four (Orwell

1984

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit,… Continue Reading Posted in: Dystopian, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction

The Iron Heel

A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement. Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Classic Literature & Fiction, Fiction, Utopias

The Penultimate Truth

What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? That’s the question at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s futuristic novel about political oppression, the… Continue Reading Posted in: Dystopian Science Fiction, English Fiction, Regression (Civilization), Time Travel Science Fiction, United States

The Master and Margarita

One of the great imaginative novels of the century, a fierce political satire, filled with the most dazzling surreal humour. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by… Continue Reading Posted in: Allegories, Lcsh, Translations Into English

Netochka Nezvanova

Netochka Nezvanova - a 'Nameless Nobody' - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he is a neglected genius. The young… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction In Russian 1800 1917 English Texts, Gothic & Romantic Literary Criticism, Modernism Literary Criticism, Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg, Translations

American Vampire, Volume 6

You are cordially invited to a party--to die for! This volume of American Vampire collects eight amazing stories set in the world of American Vampire, with "lost tales," new characters… Continue Reading Posted in: Horror, Sequential Art

Roadside Picnic

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that… Continue Reading Posted in: Russian Fiction, Texts (Including Translations)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Science Fiction, Student Collection, Twenty First Century

Solaris

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he… Continue Reading Posted in: Emotions, Outer Space, Polish Fiction

Island (Flamingo Modern Classic)

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.Inevitably,… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Fantasy, Utopias

The Time Machine

“I’ve had a most amazing time....”So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic Action & Adventure, Dystopias, English Language, H. G.), Science Fiction Adventures, Time Machine (Wells

The War of the Worlds

This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic Literature & Fiction, English Fiction, Space Warfare, War Stories

The Invisible Man

"It's very simple," said the voice. "I'm an invisible man."With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Classic Literature & Fiction, English, Experiments, Psychological Fiction, Science Fiction

The Island of Doctor Moreau

A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palmy paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human & then "beastly" in ways they never were before -… Continue Reading Posted in: Animal Experimentation, English, Evolution (Biology) Experiments, Science Fiction

Paths of Darkness Collector’s Edition

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The Heart of a Dog

Bulgakov here assaults the dour utilitarian lives of Soviet citizens with a defiant, boisterous display of nonsense - The TimesA rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray and attempts a… Continue Reading Posted in: Animal Experimentation, Classic Literature & Fiction, History, Satire

Metrophage

Welcome to Los Angeles...where anger, hunger and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny's world. He's a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs… Continue Reading Posted in: Literature & Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Technothrillers

The Stars My Destination

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