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A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
After journeying across the stars, a man from Earth finds himself lost among the scarlet deserts, black cliffs and semi-sentient oceans of Tormance, a world lit by the star Arcturus. Pulled northward by the sound of drums, and undergoing strange physical transformations, the Earthman's adventures with t ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima- ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the ...Show more
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mys ...Show more
Ice by Anna Kavan
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. Ballard No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this bleached, devastated world, one man pursues the sylph-like, ...Show more
Six Easy Pieces: TheFundamentals of Physics Explained by Richard P. Feynman
$24.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
An outstanding communicator, Richard P. Feynman inspired a generation of students with his energetic, unorthodox style of teaching. Drawn from his celebrated and landmark text Lectures on Physics, "Six Easy Pieces" reveals Feynman's distinctive style while introducing the essentials of physics to the ge ...Show more
The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'. While searching for his crew, he falls for the tricks of a wily insect dealer and his friends. In the surreal drama that ensues, the ark is invaded by first a gang of youths and then a sinister gr ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a dir ...Show more
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Yevgeny Zamyatin's page-turning science fiction adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others. Its messag ...Show more
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