Seminal Speculative Fiction

Big Brother is watching.

One of the great novels of the dystopian genre, Brave New World recounts the life and times of a man schooled on nothing but Shakespeare living in a post-literary world.

A tragic work in the dystopian vein, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a tale of a world in which the printed word has been outlawed.

Vonnegut at the height of his game. A darkly comedic tale of a midget, the Book of Nothing, and a weapon of mass destruction.

This most famous of Lovecraft's works is not, in reality, his most accessible work. The patient reader will find this novella to be an invitation to a dark, horrific, fantasy universe -- "The Cthulhu Mythos".

One of Tolkien's finest works, The Silmarillion sets the stage for the grand fantasy adventures of of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

A classic of SF, and one of only two cases of a first-time author receiving both the Hugo and Nebula awards for their debut novel.