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The Sirens Of Titan: The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams by Kurt Vonnegut
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Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course ther ...Show more
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D, which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z, w ...Show more
The Time Machine: SF Masterworks by Wells, H.G.
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A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time.THE ...Show more
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks
'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's...' So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killin ...Show more
Ubik: The reality bending science fiction masterpiece by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F.Masterworks
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own ti ...Show more
Valis by Philip K Dick
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It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right. Part science fiction, part theological detective story ' in wh ...Show more
Van Gogh: A Life in Art and Letters by Rosalind Ormiston
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Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. We all know of Van Gogh's troubled genius, but now through his letters to his brother Theo, a ...Show more