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It is 2055. Floods have devastated London. Confined to his house with only his cat, his mother's domestic robot, and his holographic dragons for company, Mathew Erlang is desperate for a distraction. He finds it in his peculiar and reclusive neighbour, August Lestrange. When Mathew accidentally finds himself trapped in Lestrange's house, he opens a door and falls four hundred years into the future. Unwittingly, he starts to destabilize the course of human history. The Boy Who Fell from the Sky delves into a future where climate change and technology have transformed our world. It is the first book in The House Next Door trilogy.

Telepathy is illegal, the guilty sent to Brightside. It’s Joe Nolan’s hundredth day imprisoned in the beautiful mountain town. And he swears, one way or another, it’s going to be his last.

The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialised in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result.

Survey pilot John Bandicut is ready for the worst when he sets out across the surface of Triton, his head spinning with silence fugue. But no way is he ready for the alien presence that is about to invade his mind, or for the winds of chaos set to blow through his life.

Outside the rings of Saturn, Pati Lynch commands a prison ship mining ice. Her crew mutinied, they tried to kill her, and she was the last one left standing. Now, she stands trial for their murder. Nancy Tate, Pati’s defense attorney, thinks she’ll walk this time because the records of the event were either damaged or erased, and without the records, the legal decision will be based on Pati’s testimony. However, and Nancy repeats this often, she cannot mention the aliens that instigated the revolt. Pati knows she didn’t dream the apparition that appeared on her ship and claimed to be the ex-husband she accidentally killed and wanted revenge. However, Pati decides Nancy knows her business, and it’d be best to follow her directions if she didn’t want to be sentenced to a solitary, thirty-year trip back to Earth.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live through a bioweapon attack or to have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology -- and its various uses -- run amok.

A strange coin. A mysterious elevator. Are these enigmatic items enough to prevent a war that could destroy the world? Adal and Arija gave little thought to what makes the world go round until they were guided into a dark cave by a cryptic coin. Deep within the Earth they found a land they never dreamed possible. One...that challenged all they believed. There they met a being named Webley who controls the center of the Earth. But not all his creations are happy. When a ploy to overthrow him turns violent, Adal and Arija are forced to choose sides. Can they put their growing feelings for each other aside and work together to stop the brewing war? Or will their journey into the impossible be their last?