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The Handmaid's Tale

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction 1986

by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future,...

Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules...

How Few Remain

by Harry Turtledove

From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the Second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory and success, of disaster and despair. Twenty years after the South won the Civil War, America writhed once...

Anthem

by Ayn Rand

"Anthem" is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in England. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized...

Oryx and Crake: A Novel

MaddAddam Trilogy #1

by Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may...

The Strange Case of Finley Jayne

by Kady Cross

Finley Jayne knows she's not 'normal'. Normal girls don't lose time, or have something inside them that makes them capable of remarkably violent things. Her behavior has already cost her one job, so when she's...

1824: The Arkansas War

Trail of Glory #2

by Eric Flint

In the newest volume of this exhilarating series, Eric Flint continues to reshape American history, imagining how a continent and its people might have taken a different path to its future. With 1824: The Arkansas...

After America

Without Warning #2

by John Birmingham

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Birmingham's Angels of Vengeance.

The world changed forever when a massive wave of energy slammed into North America and wiped out 99 percent of the population....

Dearly, Departed: A Zombie Novel

Gone With the Respiration #1

by Lia Habel

A classic romance, suspense thriller, rip-roaring adventure, and macabre comedy all at once, Dearly, Departed redefines the concept of undying love.

CAN A PROPER YOUNG VICTORIAN LADY FIND TRUE LOVE IN THE...

The Guns of the South

by Harry Turtledove

"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read."

Professor James M. McPherson

Pultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM

January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces...

Opening Atlantis

Atlantis #1

by Harry Turtledove

Atlantis lies between Europe and the East Coast of Terranova. For many years, this land of opportunity lured dreamers from around the globe with its natural resources, offering a new beginning for those willing...

The United States of Atlantis

Atlantis #2

by Harry Turtledove

As England tightens its control over the Atlantean colonies, Victor Radcliff and his band of revolutionaries resolve to make the English pay for each and every piece of land they dare to occupy and will stop...

Worlds That Weren't

by Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams & S. M. Stirling

In this all-new collection of original novellas, four masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four excursions into what might have been.

Island in the Sea of Time

Nantucket #1

by S. Stirling

It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth...

Without Warning

Without Warning #1

by John Birmingham

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Birmingham's After America.

In Kuwait, American forces are locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent is close to cracking a terrorist...

The Anvil of the World

by Kage Baker

Kage Baker's stories and novels of the mysterious organization that controls time travel, The Company, have made her famous in SF. So has her talent for clever dialogue and pointed social commentary with a light...

World Made by Hand: A Novel

by James Howard Kunstler

In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out...

Final Impact: A Novel of the Axis of Time

Axis of Time #3

by John Birmingham

“The action is nonstop, the characters very real–and very different from each other–and, to coin a phrase, it makes you think.”

–S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of Time

In the year 2021...

Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book One): Book One of the Settling Accounts Trilogy

Settling Accounts #1

by Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove’s remarkable alternative history novels brilliantly remind us of how fragile the thread of time can be, and offer us a world of “what if.” Drawing on a magnificent cast of characters that...

Breakthroughs (The Great War, Book Two)

The Great War Trilogy #2

by Harry Turtledove

Is it the war to end all wars--or war without end? What began as a conflict in Europe, when Germany unleashed a lightning assault on its enemies, soon spreads to North America, as a long-simmering hatred between...