Science Fiction

It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border, on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown - navigating new terrain and new challenges - the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting.

The World Controllers have created the ideal society. Genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon Semi-Morons, man is bred and educated to be content with his pre-destined role.

In the year 2255, a woman named Salma, twenty years old, is the first to fully see - with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments - the object called Planet Nine. See, but not recognise what it was. Not yet. Not that the object turned out to be a planet, or the 'ninth' of anything. Briefly thought to be a black hole, it suddenly changes, expands and sends a message. There is something waiting on its service. Something not quite human....

Lee's best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for? When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate. This leads MI5's Julian Sabreur deep into terrifying new territory, where he clashes with mysterious agents of an unknown power - who may or may not...

Paul Atreides, ruler of 1000 planets, victor of a holy war, prince turned revolutionary leader, messiah of a fanatical religious sisterhood, is to be brought low by the forces that created him.

After 80 years of fragile peace, the galaxy's greatest alien enemy is back. Waging a brutal one-sided war, the Architects consume entire planets under their unfathomable directive. In the past, Originator artefacts - vestiges of a long-vanished civilization - could save a world from annihilation. Yet the Architects have discovered a way to circumvent these protective relics. Suddenly, no planet is safe. Facing impending extinction, the Human Colonies...

This illustrated celebration of five decades of science fiction and fantasy series features interviews with the writers and creators of each of the classic shows covered, offering a unique insight into the impact of genre TV from the men and women who brought their visions to life on the small screen.

At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proven victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon's plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing for revenge.

It is 2010. In just two years' time it will be the centennial of an event that has haunted the world: the sinking of the Titanic. But, a hundred years on, the urge to raise the wreck is irresistible.