One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry - all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.
This collection includes The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon and The Invisible Man, all collected in a stunning leather-bound omnibus. Five of the best science fiction novels by the Grandfather of Science Fiction: unsurpassed in their timeless capacity to thrill and transfix, these are tales that reach to the heart of human ambition, fear, intelligence and hope. The Time Machine was Wells' first major piece of fiction: a haunting vision of a far future earth orbitting a sun cooling to extinction. The War of the Worlds: still considered by many to be the best novel of alien invasion ever written The Island of Doctor Moreau: with its terrible creation The House of Pain, this tale anticipated our terror of genetic engineering. The Invisible Man: the classic study of scientific hubris. The First Men in the Moon: a Scientific Romance, a fantastical voyage a dystopian nightmare revealed.
Brandon Sanderson - the international phenomenon who finished the Wheel of Time sequence - introduces a fantasy trilogy which overturns the expectations of readers and goes on to tell the epic story of evil overturned in a richly imagined world.A thousand years ago evil came to the land and has ruled with an iron hand ever since. The sun shines fitfully under clouds of ash that float down endlessly from the constant eruption of volcanoes. A dark lord rules through the aristocratic families and ordinary folk are condemned to lives in servitude, sold as goods, labouring in the ash fields.But now a troublemaker has arrived and there is rumour of revolt. A revolt that depends on a criminal no-one can trust and a young girl who must master Allomancy - the magic that lies in all metals.A New York Times bestseller and a international smash-hit trilogy from the author who wrote the final books in The Wheel of Time sequence.
Blissful days continue for the ex-merchantand the wolf as they pass the days together in their mountain home. Ever sinceCol and Myuri set off on a journey of their own, the bathhouse has been a littleshorthanded so a new hire was brought on. But this newcomer is a wolf, just likeHolo and the problems with her joining the staff seemendless...
The heart-breaking new novel from the author of the Costa-shortlisted debut, THE OTHER HALF OF AUGUSTA HOPE 'One of those rarest of books: so beautiful I almost couldn't bear it, and so moving I was reading through tears' STACEY HALLS 'Uniquely witty, beautifully observed, intricately woven' MIRANDA HART 'A truly glorious life-affirming book, in which love, hope and friendship trump sorrow' DINAH JEFFERIES
Experiment. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.
The Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed! Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years, the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge. Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race ...and awakened the Inhibitors. On Yellowstone, where no one is quite who they appear, the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Whatever they are building with those materials is not going to be good for Humanity. Once again, Al Reynolds has produced a stunning, universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions. Big in size, big in concepts, REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity and breathless at its conclusion. This is British SF at its absolute best.
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that humankind could now cope with, and an era of peace, prosperity and endless leisure began. But the children of this utopia dream strange dreams of distant suns and alien planets, and begin to evolve into something incomprehensible to their parents, and soon they will be ready to join the Overmind ...and, in a grand and thrilling metaphysical climax, leave the Earth behind.
Gathered here for the first time are Alastair Reynolds' stories and novelettes set in the universe of REVELATION SPACE, his first bestselling blockbuster. GALACTIC NORTH will include several brand-new stories and novelettes written specially for this collection.
Howl with laughter with the THIRD book in the hilarious full-colour, illustrated series, Dog Man, from the creator of Captain Underpants! He was the best of dogs... He was the worst of dogs... It was the age of invention...It was the season of surprise... It was the eve of supa sadness... It was the dawn of hope...Dog Man hasn't always been a paws-itive addition to the police force. While he can muzzle miscreants, he tends to leave a slick of slobber in his wake! This time, Petey the cat's dragged in a tiny bit of trouble -- a double in the form of a super-cute kitten. Dog Man will have to work twice as hard to bust these furballs and remain top dog! Dav Pilkey's wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all ages and explores universally positive themes, including: empathy, kindness, persistence, and the importance of being true to one's self.Full colour pages throughout. OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES Dog Man (book 1) Dog Man: Unleashed (book 2) Dog Man and Cat Kid (book 4) Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas (book 5) Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild (book 6) Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls (book 7) Dog Man: Fetch-22 (book 8)
A selection of writings that illustrates the fact that Bruce Lee was a man of words as well as action, and which explains the theories behind his personal philosophy and his fighting system, Jeet Kun Do. 75,000 copies sold in hardback.
Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions will be answered in this juicy, smelly and truly intimate history of home life. Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, covering the architectural history of each room, but concentrating on what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove. From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding, teeth-cleaning to masturbation, getting dressed to getting married, this book will make you see your home with new eyes.
Four women living in parallel worlds, each with a different gender landscape. When they begin to travel to each other's worlds each woman's preconceptions on gender and what it means to be a woman are challenged. Acclaimed as one of the essential works of science fiction and an influence on William Gibson, THE FEMALE MAN takes a look at gender roles in society and remains a work of great power.
In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.
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Far from Earth two sister planets, Sainte Anne and Sainte Croix, circle each other. It is said that a race of shapeshifting aliens once lived here, only to become extinct when human colonists arrived. But one man believes they still exist, somewhere out in the wilderness. In THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS, Gene Wolfe brilliantly interweaves three tales: a scientist?s son gradual discovery of the bizarre secret of his heritage; a young man?s mythic dreamquest for his darker half; the mystifying chronicle of an anthropologist?s seemingly-arbitrary imprisonment. Gradually, a mesmerising pattern emerges.
The Hugo Award winning A FIRE UPON THE DEEP and its epic companion novel A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, set in the same universe but 20,000 years earlier, were benchmarks for SF in the last decade of the 20th century. In FIRE 'Vinge presents a galaxy divided into Zones - regions where different physical constraints allow very different technological and mental possibilities. Earth remains in the "Slowness" zone, where nothing can travel faster than light and minds are fairly limited. The action of the book is in the "Beyond", where translight travel and other marvels exist, and humans are one of many intelligent species. One human colony has been experimenting to find a path to the "Transcend", where intelligence and power are so great as to seem godlike. Instead they release the Blight, an evil power, from a billion-year captivity.' Publisher's Weekly In DEEPNESS, 'the story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun's long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes.Now, science offers them an alternative. Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring--merchants hoping for customers and tyrants who want slaves. Their inevitable clash leaves both fleets crippled, with the power in the wrong hands, which leads to a long wait in space until the spiders develop exploitable technology. Over the years Vinge builds palpable tension through multiple storylines and characters.' Dave Langford
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What happens when you fall down the rabbit hole? The compulsive must-have follow-up to CLEAN and MEAT MARKET from bestselling, award-winning author Juno Dawson -- Books Council of Wales
Fujifilm Instax Wide Instant Film toob Sinu mälestused hetkega paberile. Laias formaadis film, mis sobib kõikidele Instax Wide kaameratele ja printeritele, tagab erksad värvid, loomuliku nahatooni ja suurepärase kvaliteedi igas temperatuurivahemikus. • Hetkeline pildi ilmumine • Lai formaat: 108 x 86 mm (film), 99 x 62 mm (pilt) • Kõrgekvaliteediline ISO 800 film • Stabiilne jõudlus temperatuuridel 5–40 °C
See multifunktsionaalne 3-rattaline tõukeratas istmega on suurepärane valik kasvavale lapsele. See muudetakse kergesti kolmeks erinevaks liikumisvahendiks, kohandudes lapse arenguetappidega ja tagades pikaajalise kasutamise. Mugav, ohutu ja lõbus – ideaalne kaaslane igapäevastele seiklustele õues.Peamised omadused:Muudetav 3 ühes mudel, mida saab kasutada kui tõukeratast istmega, tasakaaluratast või klassikalist tõukeratast, sobib erinevas vanuses lastele.Reguleeritav iste kõrgus ja kolme positsiooniga juhtimisraud võimaldavad tõukeratast kergesti kohandada lapse pikkuse järgi ning tagavad maksimaalse mugavuse.Patenteeritud rooli lukustussüsteem aitab lastel ohutult õppida tasakaalu hoidma ja järk-järgult iseseisvasse sõitmisele üle minema.Vastupidavad, patareideta LED rattad põlevad sõites, pakkudes lisaturvalisust ja lõbu.Lai, libisemisvastane platvorm ja efektiivne tagumine pidur tagavad stabiilsuse ja ohutu kasutamise.Tehnilised andmed:Vanuse kategooria: 15 kuud – 7 aastat+Pikkuse kategooria: 70–130 cmKaaluaktegooria: kuni 20 kg (istmega), kuni 50 kg (tõukeratta režiimis)Istme kõrgus: 23 cm ja 30 cm maapinnastJuhtraua kõrgus: 67,5 cm, 72,5 cm ja 77,5 cm maapinnastPlatvormi mõõtmed: laius 12,5 cm, pikkus 54,5 cmRatta suurus: ees 121 mm (24 mm laius), taga 80 mm (24 mm laius)Ratta materjal: kvaliteetne PUPidurid: mehaaniline tagumine pidurPlatvormi materjal: komposiit (PP + kiud) ja metallKaal: 3,60 kg
MONTESSORI hariv puslemäng, mis arendab peenmotoorikat, käe-silma koordinatsiooni ja muid olulisi oskusi.Toote omadused:Komplekti kuulub suur 60-osaline pusle, mis tuleb kokku panna.Komplekti kuulub ka lameda lehevõraga puu, millel tuleb figuurid üksteise peale ladudes tasakaalustada.Komplekt on valmistatud puidust ja turvalisest, looduslikust värvist.Mõõdud: 28,5 x 6,7 x 28,5 cm
