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1 2 3 >>>     sort list by title | publication date The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team... The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition Douglas Adams How shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly... The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume Douglas Adams At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams's beloved Hitchiker series.The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxySeconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is... Poso Wells Gabriela Alemán Celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's first work to appear in English: a noir, feminist eco-thriller in which venally corrupt politicians and greedy land speculators finally get their just comeuppance! Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation The Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy—one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction—in a single hardcover volume. It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of... Fahrenheit 451 60th Anniversary Edition Ray Bradbury The temperature at which book paper combusts! Written in 1951, this dystopian novel is a must-read in today's world of disappearing bookstores and young readers who have never held an actual paperback. —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books Bloodchild and Other Stories Second Edition Octavia E. Butler Through this fierce collection of stories it is easy for one to become an Octavia Butler fan. Compiled for the first time, these thought-provoking tales offers readers the chance to peer into the world of one of the best science fiction writers around... Fledgling Octavia E. Butler The coming of age story of a young black vampire girl suffering some serious backlash just for existing. Naturally, she's a fighter. Or rather, with enemies this callously calculating, you have to be. In perfect form, Octavia Butler brings us a vampire... The Big Sleep A Philip Marlowe Novel Raymond Chandler "His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the... The High Window A Philip Marlowe Novel Raymond Chandler A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human... The Long Goodbye A Philip Marlowe Novel Raymond Chandler Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and... Playback A Philip Marlowe Novel Raymond Chandler Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word... Ready Player One Ernest Cline If you are a geek for 80s popculture taking place in Virtual Reality in the futuretime of 2044, solving videogame mysteries to win the ultimate prize, then this book is for you. I loved it to bytes! —Recommended by Don, City Lights Books The Last Interview and Other Conversations Philip K. Dick An electric collection of interviews—including the first and the last—with one of the 20th century's most prolific, influential, and dazzlingly original writers of science fiction Long before Ridley Scott transformed Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick was banging away at his typewriter in relative obscurity... 1 2 3 >>>