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Gathered together in one hardcover volume: three timeless novels from the founding father of science fiction.The first great novel to imagine time travel, The Time Machine (1895) follows its scientist narrator on an incredible journey that takes him finally to Earth’s last moments—and perhaps his own. The scientist who discovers how to transform himself in The Invisible Man (1897) will also discover, too late, that he has become unmoored from society and from his own sanity. The War of the Worlds (1898)—the seminal masterpiece of alien invasion adapted by Orson Welles for his notorious 1938 radio drama, and subsequently by several filmmakers—imagines a fierce race of Martians who devastate Earth and feed on their human victims while their voracious vegetation, the red weed, spreads over the ruined planet.Here are three classic science fiction novels that, more than a century after their original publication, show no sign of losing their grip on readers’ imaginations.

In AD 2600, the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems. And throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. A true golden age is within our grasp. But now something has gone catastrophically wrong. On a primitive colony planet a renegade criminal's chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears. An extinct race, which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it "The Reality Dysfunction". It is the nightmare, which has prowled beside us since the beginning of history. "Absolute vintage science-fiction. Hamilton puts British sci-fi back into interstellar overdrive" - "The Times".

The Sixth Novel In James S. A. Corey's New York Times Bestselling Expanse Series--now A Major Television Series From Syfy! A Revolution Brewing For Generations Has Begun In Fire. It Will End In Blood. The Free Navy - A Violent Group Of Belters In Black-market Military Ships - Has Crippled The Earth And Begun A Campaign Of Piracy And Violence Among The Outer Planets. The Colony Ships Heading For The Thousand New Worlds On The Far Side Of The Alien Ring Gates Are Easy Prey, And No Single Navy Remains Strong Enough To Protect Them. James Holden And His Crew Know The Strengths And Weaknesses Of This New Force Better Than Anyone. Outnumbered And Outgunned, The Embattled Remnants Of The Old Political Powers Call On The Rocinante For A Desperate Mission To Reach Medina Station At The Heart Of The Gate Network. But The New Alliances Are As Flawed As The Old, And The Struggle For Power Has Only Just Begun. As The Chaos Grows, An Alien Mystery Deepens. Pirate Fleets, Mutiny, And Betrayal May Be The Least Of The Rocinante's Problems. And In The Uncanny Spaces Past The Ring Gates, The Choices Of A Few Damaged And Desperate People May Determine The Fate Of More Than Just Humanity. The Expanse Leviathan Wakescaliban's Warabaddon's Gatecibola Burnnemesis Gamesbabylon's Ashes The Expanse Short Fiction The Butcher Of Anderson Stationgods Of Riskthe Churnthe Vital Abyss-- A Revolution Brewing For Generations Has Begun In Fire. It Will End In Blood. The Free Navy - A Violent Group Of Belters In Black-market Military Ships - Has Crippled The Earth And Begun A Campaign Of Piracy And Violence Among The Outer Planets. The Colony Ships Heading For The Thousand New Worlds On The Far Side Of The Alien Ring Gates Are Easy Prey, And No Single Navy Remains Strong Enough To Protect Them. James Holden And His Crew Know The Strengths And Weaknesses Of This New Force Better Than Anyone. Outnumbered And Outgunned, The Embattled Remnants Of The Old Political Powers Call On The Rocinante For A Desperate Mission To Reach Medina Station At The Heart Of The Gate Network. But The New Alliances Are As Flawed As The Old, And The Struggle For Power Has Only Just Begun. As The Chaos Grows, An Alien Mystery Deepens. Pirate Fleets, Mutiny, And Betrayal May Be The Least Of The Rocinante's Problems. And In The Uncanny Spaces Past The Ring Gates, The Choices Of A Few Damaged And Desperate People May Determine The Fate Of More Than Just Humanity-- James S. A. Corey.

Picking up where the bestselling videogames left off, the Mass Effect novels take readers into the far reaches of outer space. From the prequel novel, Revelation, to the series capstone, Deception, these original adventures weave together a science fiction epic as they follow Starship Alliance commander David Anderson and his young protégée, scientist Kahlee Sanders, in their battle to save humanity. Packaged together for the first time, this exhilarating eBook bundle includes:   REVELATION ASCENSION RETRIBUTION DECEPTION   Since discovering a cache of Prothean technology on Mars in 2148, humanity has spread to the stars. Now, on the edge of colonized space, ship commander and Alliance war hero David Anderson investigates the remains of a top secret military research station. Who attacked this post and for what purpose? And where is Kahlee Sanders, the young scientist who mysteriously vanished from the base hours before her colleagues were slaughtered? Sanders is now the prime suspect, but finding her creates more problems than it solves. Partnered with a rogue alien agent he can’t trust and pursued by an assassin he can’t escape, Anderson battles impossible odds on uncharted worlds to uncover a sinister conspiracy—one he won’t live to tell about. Or so the enemy thinks.

The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey's Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series. With over 10 million copies sold, The Expanse has become one of the biggest science fiction phenomenons of the decade. "An all-time genre classic." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte's missing daughter. . . and the shattered emperor himself. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before. As nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win. But the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat. "Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." --George R. R. Martin The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath ​Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion The Expanse Short Fiction Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers

Three stories recount a gripping science fiction saga of alien invaders on Earth, describing the earthlings' battle to save their own precious freedom.

Gene Wolfe's In Green's Jungles is the second volume, after On Blue's Waters, of his ambitious SF trilogy, The Book of the Short Sun. It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest from his home on the planet Blue in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. Now Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. Horn recalls visiting the Whorl, the enormous spacecraft in orbit that brought the settlers from Urth, and going thence to the planet Green, home of the blood-drinking alien inhumi. There, he led a band of mercenary soldiers, answered to the name of Rajan, and later became the ruler of a city state. He has also encountered the mysterious aliens, the Neighbors, who once inhabited both Blue and Green. He remembers a visit to Nessus, on Urth. At some point, he died. His personality now seemingly inhabits a different body, so that even his sons do not recognize him. And people mistake him for Silk, to whom he now bears a remarkable resemblance. In Green's Jungles is Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, building toward a strange and seductive climax."Wolfe's narrative glows, rich and seductive as ever."--Kirkus Reviews

Advanced electronic and space-based surveillance capabilities enable the ultrasecret operations force of Stony Man Farm to monitor a volatile international climate. Now a storm is brewing in the Pacific Rim, and with the time for observation past, the field commandos move to carry out America's mandate.

Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of any conceivable alien patient--though that capacity is always being strained as more (and stranger) alien races turn up to join the galactic community. Sentient viruses, interspecies romances, undreamed-of institutional catering problems--it all lands on Sector General's doorstep. And the only thing weirder than a hitherto unknown alien species is having a member of that species turn up in your Emergency Room.The first of two omnibus volumes reprints the works that began the Sector General series, which were previously published as Hospital Station (1962), Star Surgeon (1963), and Major Operation (1971).

Earth remains the volatile prize of aeons of war and domination by two panterrestrial races. Returning the fight to these inhuman overlords, the Cerberus rebels are the champions of the planet's postapocalyptic dark ages. They spark a uniquely human resilience and courage to stand down the forces of infinitely powerful, perhaps unstoppable entities in the ongoing war to retake Earth for humanity. The Bluegrass range, ripe with secrets and magic, hides the operating base of a race of monstrous genetic mutations, faithful servants of an ancient overlord. As Kane and the rebels stage their reconnaissance, the shocking new face of an old nemesis enters the fray. As this cross-spatial cyborg replicates himself as Kane and breaches humanity's last defense, he may well succeed in wiping the mountains--and their inhabitants--off the face of Earth permanently.