Science Fiction & Fantasy

Civil Lines 4, like the earlier three volumes in the series, publishes the best new creative writing from India. This volume has pieces by Kai Friese on Ladakh, Brijraj Singh on making a will, Shashank Kela on the lives of fictional characters in hinterland India, Sheila Dhar on the culture of India... More

This is the well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. This edition has a great new cover by Quentin Blake as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.... More

Civil Lines is a new venture, an attempt at gathering and presenting the best unpublished writing connected with India. Very loosely speaking, Civil Lines is a literary venture. This first issue contains travel-writing, memoirs, and reflective pieces that are sought out by readers of serious fiction... More

Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin are now cult names in the thriller genre with well over a million copies of the Modesty Blaise series sold worldwide. Penguin India is delighted to present these bestselling books, now collector's items, in its new series—Retro Revival. The first assignme... More

On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. Drawing on all his bestselling talent and scientific brilliance Michael Crichton has, in JURASSIC PARK, written the most electrifying techno-thriller of our time.... More

The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the saviour who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny. Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how--for no man ha... More

Prose Edda is a work without predecessor or parallel. Snorri Sturluson feared that the traditional techniques of Norse poetics, the pagan kennings, and the allusions to mythology would be forgotten with the introduction of new verse forms from Europe. Prose Edda was designed as a handbook for poets ... More

For centuries travelling gleeman have told tales of the lost Horn of Valere; the legendary Horn that will raise the dead heroes of the Ages. The Horn has been discovered-only to be stolen, along with the dagger of Sahdar Logoth, on which the very life of Rand al'Thor's friend Mat depends. The monu... More

When Neal turns into a giant bug, Eric, Julie, and Princess Keeah must race against time to find the cure on the mystical City in the Clouds before it disappears for an entire year... More

'In a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name, lived a professional storyteller named Rashid and his son Haroun.' Thus begins Rushdie’s magical and delightful book, which is comprised of hundreds of stories, funny and sad, all of them juggled at once... More

When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains- "Where shall we have dinner?" The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about. Part of Dougla... More

Fearing a violent confrontation between Earthmen and Spacers, Detective Baley and his new partner, a robot, investigate the murder of a Spacetown scientist... More