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A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, the rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of knowledge. By studying the Holy Relics of the past, the Order of St Leibowitz hopes to raise human ...Show more
A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: No Category | Series: SF MASTERWORKS
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A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F.Masterworks
Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying ...Show more
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
"Dick is Thoreau plus the death of the American dream."--Roberto Bola o Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is a law enforcement agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred ...Show more
Art Nouveau - Masterworks by KERR Gordon
Category: No Category | Series: Masterworks
The whiplash curves of art nouveau have enchanted generations of art lovers for over a century. This is a collection of 80 masterworks which will ignite the reader's passion for elegant line and classic design.
Art Nouveau: Posters, Illustration & Fine Art from the Glamorous Fin de Siecle by ROSALIND ORMISTON
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
This beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of Art Deco's expression through the graphic arts and illustration. Divided into three sections - the movement, its fashion and advertising - the reader gains great insight into the artists and innovators that helped popularize the Art Deco movement, su ...Show more
Book of the New Sun (#1) by Gene Wolfe
Category: No Category | Series: Fantasy Masterworks
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a m ...Show more
Childhood's End (FS) by CLARKE Arthur C
Category: No Category | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that ...Show more
Claude Monet: Waterlilies and the Garden of Giverny by Flame Tree
Category: No Category | Series: Masterworks
Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. His water garden was originally created to satisfy a need to ...Show more
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built hum ...Show more
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but beref ...Show more