Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in human development. According to this overly familiar story, differences between...View more

Able One is a timely thrill-ride by Ben Bova, one of science fiction's most respected novelists. When a rogue North Korean faction explodes a nuclear missile in...View more

Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space—and on the frontiers of the human mind. Science fiction’s finest have yielded this definitive...View more

It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS. And with that, the fabric of reality was...View more

The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamless sleep. The Prophecies are being fulfilled...View more

The Alexander Text of The Complete 'Works of William Shakespeare, edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, has become established as the world's favourite single-...View more

The second volume of one of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century. In 'Walking in the Shade' we move into the heyday of Lessing's...View more

This is the story of how we grow old -- how we give up the dreams of youth for something better -- and how many...View more

  It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot...View more

Detective Inspector Jack Caffery - young, driven, unshockable - is called to one of the most gruesome crime scenes he has ever seen. Five young...View more

Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptation and...View more

Forty Cape Codders describe ghosts who descend staircases that no longer exist, kiss sleeping women, flip theater seats, fold laundry and join musicians onstage. Among...View more