The first volume in Issac Asimov's world-famous saga, winner of the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series.

The days of the Empire are numbered. On the Imperial world of Trantor, Cleon II rules over a multitude of worlds slowly descending into anarchy. Two individuals' destinies intertwine in the fight against chaos - Hari Seldon, and Eto Demerzel, a robot and the real power behind Cleon's throne.

When Earth is destroyed to make way for a Hyperspatial express route, Arthur Dent discovers that space is big, as he is taken on a hair-raising tour of the Galaxy and its very strange inhabitants, by his friend Ford Perfect. This is a new edition which incorporates the fifth part of the trilogy.

Synthesizing research in robotics with the cultural history and psychology of artificial intelligence, this book explores the emotional relations with the technologies, and its implications. It argues that once we have conditioned ourselves to feel affection for animate creations, the next logical step is physical intimacy.

Around the world, scientists and engineers are competing to build the first intelligent, autonomous robot. This book studies over 100 such robots to provide a guide to the future of mechanical Robo sapiens and their creators.

Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused by the Iron Man. A trap is set for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.

Eager is the Bell's friendly and child-like family robot. In this funny and touching novel, set in the near future, Eager tries to learn what it means to be human.

When the First Foundation was conquered by a force Seldon had not foreseen - the overwhelming power of a single individual, a mutant called the Mule - the second Foundation was forced to reveal its existence and, infinitely worse, a portion of its power.

In consequence of catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are unfair.

North Korea defiantly launches a nuclear-tipped missile over Japan, exploding it in a mushroom-cloud firestorm offshore. A nuclear Iran, through its allies in Lebanon, is mercilessly lobbing missiles into Israel. A powerful China launches a killer satellite and destroys half of America's spy satellites. Will one man's love for a woman save the world, or destroy it? A fast read with an ending you .

Foundation and Empire is the story of first contact between the two Foundations of Hari Seldon.

First published fifteen years ago, shortly after his death, inside this collection are some of the finest short stories of science fiction writing from one of the genre's greatest writers, Isaac Asimov.

Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. After the success of R.U.R. (Rossums' Universal Robots, 1920), the brothers collaborated in their best-known work, The Insect Play (1921). Both plays reflect the world in which the Capeks lived and give a commentary on its grosser follies.

A novel that subverts the jargon of business proposals, scientific theses and customer relations.

A stunning new SF thriller from the critically acclaimed author of The Execution Channel.

16-year-old Robert lies anesthetized. A routine operation has just gone wrong. As Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can't scream. The operation isn't over. But life, as Robert knows it, is. Robert goes on the run, terrified and desperate for answers. But what if the answers are too terrifying to face?

Humanity has spread across space and powerful machines rule the humans who were once their masters.

A compelling melding of ancient Greek mythology and space opera from one of SF's masters.

Live longer, live stronger, with scientific enhancements and the wonders of technology.