The Principle of Simultaneity will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres....
British-born Teresa Simons returns to England after the death of her husband, an FBI agent, who was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in Texas. A shocking coincidence has drawn her to the run-down...
THE FATHER THING contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick`s first novel, SOLAR LOTTERY. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as...
Cameraman Richard Grey`s memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period...
A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and plays an...
April 1986: American F-111 warplanes bomb the Al Azziyah compound in Libya where President Gadhafi is residing. A 16-year-old youth, Asad - Arabic for `lion ` - loses his mother, two brothers and two sisters in the...
`Have a safe jump, Mr Corey`. Detective John Corey is floating to earth, his skydiver`s parachute billowing above him. His wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, is mere metres away, beneath a chute of her own. And clinging...
A Discworld novel fully illustrated in lavish colour throughout its 160 pages, this is an essential part of any Discworld collection. It stars the legendary Cohen. He`s been a legend in his own lifetime. He can...
The Discworld is an unpredictable place, what with rivers you can skateboard across (if they weren`t so knobbly), rocks that like a stroll about of an evening and points of raw magic that can turn a body inside out...
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored...
Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred...
