Sci-Fi Bundle

Sci-Fi Bundle

Science fiction at its best doesn't predict the future, but illuminates the present. These four books use the tools of the genre: dystopia, ecological collapse, temporal rupture, desert strangeness, to get at something true about bodies, memory, power, and what it means to be human when the world is coming apart.

Big Time — Jordan Prosser

In the not-too-distant future, Australia's eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy, a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy and moral indecency is punished with indefinite detention. Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, gets hooked on a designer drug that lets users glimpse their own future and the more you take, the further you see… maybe even to the end of time. Described as Almost Famous meets Slaughterhouse-Five. An anti-fascist ode to the power of pop music wrapped in a psychedelic road trip.

Sealed — Naomi Booth

Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. A skin-sealing epidemic is spreading through an overheated, ecologically devastated world. Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner flee the city for the countryside, but the mountains hold their own dangers. An unflinching and unforgettable personal descent into ecological nightmare that reads, uncomfortably, less like speculation and more like prophecy.

The Definitions — Matt Greene

Nestled in an idyllic locale beside the sea, The Centre is a place of rehabilitation and rebuilding. Students arrive nameless, their memories and sense of identity wiped by a strange illness. Each day, they attend classes that will help them relearn the right ways to speak and live. An unnerving, compelling delight, somewhere between Severance and Never Let Me Go — and one of the most precisely, devastatingly written novels of recent years.

Mystery Lights — Lena Valencia

Stories about women and girls at the crossroads of mundane daily life and existential dread. Set across the deserts of the American Southwest, where the line between the real and the speculative dissolves in the heat haze. From the all-too-real horror of a sexual predator on a college campus to a lost sister transformed by cave-dwelling creatures. Ten stories that grapple with terrors both familiar and fantastic. 

Four books. Save £12.96.

Buy separately and you'd pay £42.96. The bundle brings them together at £30.