British Literature: Science Fiction

The spacecraft Discovery journeys to the outer edge of the solar system, and two navigators become uneasy when Hal, the craft's talking computer system, demonstrates unusual behavior.

In the year 2110, an amateur astronomer discovers a chunk of rock hurtling through space that could mean the end of Earth's civilization.

When the Overlords first came to Earth, they brought peace and prosperity with them, but it soon became apparent that their purpose was the elimination of the human race.

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.

Cheradenine Zakalwe, a retired agent for Special Circumstances--which alters the fate of planets for the benefit of the Culture--is pulled back into service by Diziet Sma for one more mission with vast political consequences while the drone called Skaffen-Amtiskaw pursues its own agenda.

An intellectually superior race invades the Earth.

Relates the adventures of a scientist who invents a machine that transports him into the future.

Dr. Moreau, a scientist, finds an isolated island that gives him the freedom to create hideous creatures with human intelligence.

In the year 2015, the world is thrown into chaos when a red moon appears in the Earth's orbit, and NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant and his wife, Emma, have landed on the strange planet, where they learn the powerful truth about the origins of the universe.

Chaos ensues when the Firstborn, alien beings unknown to humankind, decide to scramble time, carving Earth into specific segments of terrain, each set in a different point in history from prehistory to 2037.

Scientists around the world jump into action when the Earth is infected with a ten-dimensional superstring nanovirus that literally eats rock, transforming into liquid, and then into black holes that devour the fabric of space-time.

Depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future.

A satirical novel about the utopia of the future, a world in which babies are decanted from bottles and the great Ford is worshipped.

In the Slav-oriented state of the future, the Lower Orders are in ascendence and happy hooligans roam the London streets, bashing senior citizens in the eyes with bicycle chains.