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Gently probe the boundaries of inner space with a selection of genre straddling fiction from across the corporeal plane. Wild, weird, something out of the ordinary to move or provoke? Enquire within.
The Three-Body Problem (#1 Remembrance of Earth's Past) by Cixin Liu
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: The\Three-Body Problem Ser.
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists ...Show more
The Vegetarian: A Novel by Han Kang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, The Vegetarian is a beautiful, unsettling novel about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invas ...Show more
A Wizard of Earthsea: The First Book of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: The\Earthsea Quartet Ser.
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient ...Show more
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi
The bestselling author of Neverwhere returns with his biggest, most commercial novel yet--a tour de force of contemporary fiction A master of inventive fiction, Neil Gaiman delves into the murky depths where reality and imagination meet. Now in American Gods, he works his literary magic to extraordinary ...Show more
Annihilation-The Southern Reach Trilogy (1) by Jeff VanderMeer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: The\Southern Reach Trilogy Ser.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with this Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson). Area X has been cut off from the rest of the contin ...Show more
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is ...Show more
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Flamingo modern classic
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control -- now reissued in new cover style. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are he ...Show more
Rivers of London (#1) by Ben Aaronovitch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: Rivers of London
Peter Grant was just a probationary constable in the Metropolitan Police Service when one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, he tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluble, thus bringing him to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in Engl ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel, Emily St. John Mandel
$21.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the sa ...Show more
The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece by Ursula K. Le Guin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
A literary masterpiece from one of the great writers of our time: 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell 'Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new' Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous ...Show more
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A masterpiece' Guardian A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the i ...Show more
