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It's the End of the World: But What Are We Really Afraid Of? by Roberts, Professor Adam
35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural History
Are we doomed? Is an Almighty Power or an earth-shattering meteor waiting for us just around the corner? Probably not. So why are we so obsessed with imagining our own demise? And what does that say about us as a species? In this thought-provoking book, acclaimed critic Adam Roberts explores our many di ...Show more
Jack Glass by Adam C. Roberts
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass, the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book ...Show more
Swiftly: A Novel by Adam Roberts
38.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Gollancz S.F.
It is 1848 and the British Empire has grown rich exploiting Lilliputian slaves - the finesse of their working allowing unheard of feats of minature engineering; even Babbage's computing device has been made to work. But now the French have formed a regiment of previously peaceful Brobdingnagian giants a ...Show more
The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo by Adam Roberts
23.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy
Lizbreath Salamander is young and beautiful. Her scales have an iridescent sheen, her wings arch proudly, her breath has a tang of sulfur. And on her back a tattoo of a mythical creature: a girl. But when Lizbreath is drawn into a dark conspiracy she will have to rely on more than her beauty and her vic ...Show more
The Sellamillion by Adam Roberts
24.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Gollancz S.F.
Not another parody? After "The Soddit" sold 100,000 copies and got onto the "Sunday Times" Bestseller lists in 2003 and 2004? Don't be silly.
The Soddit by Adam Roberts
24.95 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Gollancz S.F.
Following Bored of the Rings comes the equally irreverent parody of Tolkien's other (and much, much shorter) masterwork: The Hobbit.Bingo Sac Grabbins is asked by the coughing wizard Gandef and some (oddly Welsh) dwarves to help them relieve the great dragon Smug of his gold. SF author and Tolkien schol ...Show more
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