The Snail on the Slope takes place in two worlds. One is the Administration, an institution run by a surreal, Kafkaesque bureaucracy whose aim is to govern the forest below. The other is the Forest, a place of fear, weird creatures, primitive people, and violence.

Peretz, who works at the Administration, wants to visit the Forest. Candide crashed in the Forest years ago and wants to return to the Administration. Their journeys are surprising and strange, and readers are left to puzzle out the mysteries of these foreign environments.

The Strugatskys themselves called The Snail on the Slope "the most complete and important" of their works.

On the arid colony of Mars, the only thing more precious than water may be a ten-year-old schizophrenic boy named Manfred Steiner. Although the UN has slated "anomalous" children for deportation and destruction, some individuals—especially Supreme Goodmember Arnie Kott of the Water Worker's union—believe that Manfred's disorder may be a window into the future.

In Martian Time-Slip, Philip K. Dick explores themes of power politics, extraterrestrial real estate scams, adultery, and murder to delve into the mysteries of being and time. This gripping narrative challenges the perception of reality and the continuum of time.

City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer is a dazzling reinvention of the literature of the fantastic. This novel invites you to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited, delivered by one of the most audacious literary magicians.

Ambergris is a city of elegance and squalor, religious fervor and wanton lusts. Everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin blooms.

In this city, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and believes he’s really from a place called Chicago.

By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and eyewitness reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.

Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories of The Arabian Nights to the color of his bib as a toddler. But for all his mnemonic abilities, he is confronted every day with a reality that is as sad as it is ironic: his beloved mother, Stella, is stricken with Alzheimer's disease, her memory slowly slipping into the quicksands of oblivion.

The Memory Artists follows Noel, helped by a motley cast of friends, on his quest to find a cure for his mother's affliction. The results are at the same time darkly funny, quirkily inventive, and very moving. Alternating between third-person narratives and the diaries of Noel and Stella, Jeffrey Moore weaves a story filled with fantastic characters and a touch of suspense that gets at the very heart of what it means to remember and forget, and that is a testament to the uplifting power of family and friendship.

Burning Chrome is a compelling collection of ten short stories by the master of science fiction, William Gibson. Renowned for his ability to create intensely-realized worlds, Gibson takes us on a journey through the computer-enhanced lives of his characters. From the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech melancholy of "Burning Chrome", each story is a breathtaking exploration of the future.

Contents:
Johnny Mnemonic (1981)
The Gernsback Continuum (1981)
Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977)
The Belonging Kind (1981) with John Shirley
Hinterlands (1981)
Red Star, Winter Orbit (1983) with Bruce Sterling
New Rose Hotel (1984)
The Winter Market (1985)
Dogfight (1985) with Michael Swanwick
Burning Chrome (1982)

Each tale is tautly written and suspenseful, showcasing Gibson's characters at their absolute best.

The Last Book in the Universe is a fast-paced action novel set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet.

In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off on an unlikely quest to save his dying sister—and in the process, perhaps the world.

On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with his wife and son, ate Christmas dinner leftovers, and went to bed early.

Six hours later, he found himself suddenly awake...and forever changed. Thus begins the most astonishing true-life odyssey ever recorded—one man's riveting account of his extraordinary experiences with visitors from "elsewhere"... how they found him, where they took him, what they did to him and why...

Believe it. Or don't believe it. But read it—for this gripping story will move you like no other... will fascinate you, terrify you, and alter the way you experience your world.

The Complete Robot is the definitive anthology of Isaac Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future. In these stories, Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: a time when Earth is ruled by master-machines and robots are more human than mankind.

This collection includes timeless, amazing, and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were even programmed into real computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with surprising results. Readers today still have many surprises in store!

Contents:

• A Boy's Best Friend
• Sally
• Someday
• Point of View
• Think!
• True Love
• Robot AL-76 Goes Astray
• Victory Unintentional
• Stranger in Paradise
• Light Verse
• Segregationist
• Robbie
• Let's Get Together
• Mirror Image
• The Tercentenary Incident
• First Law
• Runaround
• Reason
• Catch That Rabbit
• Liar!
• Satisfaction Guaranteed
• Lenny
• Galley Slave
• Little Lost Robot
• Risk
• Escape!
• Evidence
• The Evitable Conflict
• Feminine Intuition
• That Thou Art Mindful of Him!
• The Bicentennial Man

Dangerous Visions is hailed as the most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published. It features the works of legendary authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Philip José Farmer, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny, and Samuel Delany.

This anthology is a collection of bold and imaginative tales that challenge the norms and explore futuristic themes. Some of the standout stories include Evensong by Lester del Rey, Flies by Robert Silverberg, and Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer.

Join these visionary writers as they take you on a journey through mind-bending narratives and imaginative worlds, leaving you questioning reality and expanding your literary horizons.

Two pie loving police officers are questioning a man suspected of murdering his wife. The Accused Man keeps having visions of past events, warning him there are things he should not seek an answer for.

And an FBI Agent Lutricia Bell, conducting an investigation of her own, reveals a different angle on the nature of the crime. Realities will mash together as three different viewpoints paint the picture, creating a question, is the crime itself what truly matters?