The Female Man – Joanna Russ
Unknown events bring together four women from four alternate timelines; the results are startling, outrageous, radical, and subversive.
Tag Archives: Gollancz SF Masterworks
A Case of Conscience – James Blish
Father Ruiz-Sanchez, biologist and Jesuit priest, struggles with a moral and ethical dilemma: a planet whose inhabitants are innately peaceful, moral, and without God.
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe – D.G. Compton
In a future where death has become all but extinct, the last days of those with terminal illnesses are televised before a pain-starved public. But one terminal woman, Katherine Mortenhoe, resists.
The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester
For the first time in centuries, someone has committed premeditated murder—almost unthinkable in an age of telepathy. Psychic detective Lincoln Powell will risk it all to meet out justice.
Rogue Moon – Algis Budrys
The investigation of a deadly alien artifact on the Moon leaves its investigators shattered, broken men—until the perfect man is found to plumb its mysteries.
Ubik – Philip K. Dick
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is it that his team of anti-psychics led are all dead? Dick’s surreal masterpiece questions the nature of reality, an existential nightmare trapped in half-life.
Grass – Sheri S. Tepper
A plague threatens to doom all of humanity, but a cure may lie on the planet Grass—a world of boundless prairie ruled by elitist aristocrats and their demonic mounts.
The Word for World is Forest – Ursula K. Le Guin
Terran exploitation of an alien planet causes the “docile” near-human natives to rise up in bloody rebellion, in this novel rich in ’70s SFnal themes.
Pavane – Keith Roberts
This classic alternate history examines the England of 1968, after Queen Elizabeth was assassinated and the Spanish Armada led to the successful Catholic conquest of England.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang – Kate Wilhelm
In the face of a looming eco-apocalypse, a small band of survivalist scientists turn to cloning to preserve the human race. The clones, of course, have other goals in mind.
My Eight Additions to SF Masterworks
In conjunction with other SF bloggers, here are eight books that I’d recommend should be added to Gollancz’s SF Masterworks series, and my reasoning why.
