Item category 1: Science Fiction Paperback

This hauntingly prophetic novel centres around a not-too-distant future where happiness is allocated on a TV screen, individuals and scholars are outcasts and books are burned by a special task force of firemen.

Earth is finally part of the Galactic Milieu. But the next step is to achieve Unity with other galactic races. To attain this higher state, we must gather sufficient numbers of the metapsychically talented. However, a rebel group want to keep Earth forever separate.

Feersum Endjinn is a science fiction novel of great imagination, from the highly celebrated Iain M. Banks. His previous titles include Use of Weapons and Against a Dark Background.

This is the latest in the X-Files series, based on the cult television programme. F.B.I. agents 'Spooky' Mulder and Dana Scully are called upon to solve another supernatural mystery.

Combining elements of science fiction and spiritual philosophy, The Sparrow is a mesmerising and haunting tale of the devastating consequences of a scientific mission to make contact with an extra-terrestrial culture.

In the year 2301 guns are merely museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they can happen. Murder is thought to be impossible until the arrival of Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate.

Philip Dick knew first-hand the attractions and pitfalls of drug abuse. In this novel he threads the maze of an addled mind to confront eyeball to eyeball the quailing human remnant of a user of the sinister drug called on the streets Substance D - Death.