Sci Fiction 2006

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Tangled Web UK: New Sci Fiction Titles 2006

Stephen Baxter Resplendent Published September 2006 by Gollancz at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0 575 07
About The Author
Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Titan and Moonseed. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton
Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer.
Baxter is the most ambitious, most acclaimed, and most accomplished of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age.
Time film rights have been sold. In April and May of 1999, an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Stephen Baxter is married and lives in Buckinghamshire. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Stephen Baxter Transcendent Published October 2005 by Gollancz at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0575074302
Destiny’s Children Book Three

‘The girl from the future told me the sky is full of dying worlds’.

‘ As the world struggles through the middle years of the 21st century; global warming, the end of oil, Michael Poole is being haunted. By the far future. Or a far future at least.
A future where the Transcendents have made themselves into something unimaginably powerful, unimaginably different. A future where they would be on the cusp of godhood and would finally leave being human behind.
But a future tortured by regret. A very human regret. A regret that has to be resolved before they can achieve godhood.
A future that must fold down into the present.
And in that far future a young woman begins an epic journey, across the countless human worlds where mankind has evolved into countless different forms, towards the Transcendence and a different way of being.
Praise for the Destiny’s Children series:
‘Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision’ The Times Literary Supplement
‘Absurdly ambitious, technically brilliant and downright exciting’ SFX

About The Author
Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Titan and Moonseed. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton
Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer.
Baxter is the most ambitious, most acclaimed, and most accomplished of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age.
Time film rights have been sold. In April and May of 1999, an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Stephen Baxter is married and lives in Buckinghamshire. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Ben Bova Titan Published February 2006 by Hodder & Stoughton at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0 340 82396 8

Titan rolled slowly in its stately orbit around the ringed planet Saturn just as it had for billions of years, as dark and benighted beneath its shroud of ruddy auburn clouds as a blind beggar groping his unlit circuit through a cold, pitiless universe. But this slow dawn was different. A new kind of day was beginning...

Titan Alpha has landed: the most complex man-made object to reach Saturn’s largest moon. The ten thousand men and women of Habitat Goddard are once more at the frontier of science.
From their huge, artificial paradise hanging in orbit above Saturn, some of them dream of landing on Titan’s surface. Others will do anything to prevent such a landing. And yet others have darker, secret plans.
But almost immediately, Titan Alpha goes silent. And minor, inexplicable faults start to affect Goddard. Is there a basic design flaw that could threaten the lives of everyone on board? Or has one of the many malcontents exiled to space decided to sabotage the probe or even the whole expedition?
The newest chapter in Ben Bova’s epic of space exploration brings to vivid, awe-inspiring life a barren world of swirling smog, frozen methane seas - and perhaps even a new sentient life form. It is both a thrilling novel of adventure and danger, and a keenly perceptive story of men and women making decisions that will change our future.
`The science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world. Ray Bradbury
Mars
`A splendid book ... of his many books, Mars must be the most important: Arthur C. Clarke
`Extraordinary ... this kind of story is the reason science fiction exists in the first place: Orson Scott Card
Venus
`Fun, thought-provoking, pacy and stylish ... Gives a good read while turning your eyes to what might be in the not so distant future, just like Clarke and Asimov used to do so well: SFX
`Vivid, poetic and wonder-provoking.’ Foundation
The Rock Rats
‘Bova is a masterful storyteller and the narrative is compelling, almost hypnotic’ Vector

About The Author
An award-winning editor, President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, Ben Bova is also the author of more than one hundred futuristic novels and non-fiction books. Jupiter and The Precipice – the first volume in the Asteroid Wars sequence – are the most recent.
Ben Bova holds degrees from the State University of New York and Temple University, Philadelphia, and most recently received his Doctor of Education degree from California Coast University. In 2001, he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has taught writing at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and lectures regularly on topics dealing with high technology and the future. He and his wife live in Florida. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Arthur C. Clarke Sunstorm: A Time Odyssey Pbk published April 2006 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07801 4

Book II
2037
The sun flares. Thousands die. Suddenly our high-technology civilisation seems terribly vulnerable. We recover. We rebuild. But this is just the precursor.
In April 2042, in just five years, the sun will flare once more.
But this time the sun will hurl out in one day the energy it would normally spend in a year. This time nothing on Earth will survive. As plans are drawn up to save mankind, as all Earth’s resources are mobilised for one unimaginable engineering effort, one question nags: Why now?
An epic account of our epochal struggle to survive - and a revelation of our place in a dangerous universe.
Sunstorm is the sequel to the acclaimed Time’s Eye. These two books have brought together two of the greatest talents of world SF.
'The concepts are big, hard and very clever' Guardian
‘A page-turner of a read. Another fine piece of work’ Dreamwatch
‘Gripping’ Starburst
‘An impressive level of skill’ Jon Courtenay Grimwood, SFX
About The Author
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Kt., CBE, was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England, to Charles W. Clarke, a farmer and lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and Nora Mary (Willis) Wright. He was married to Marilyn Mayfield in 1953 and divorced in 1964. A resident of Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1956, Sir Arthur received his CBE in 1989 and his knighthood (for services to literature) in 1998. In 1975, he was the fist noncitizen to receive Resident Guest status in Sri Lanka, where he is chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1979-). He is also chancellor of the International Space University (1989-).
The author of over eighty books and five hundred articles and short stories, Sir Arthur was educated at Huish Grammar School in Taunton (1927-36), and King's College, London, 1946-48 (B.Sc., first class, physics and mathematics). Before becoming a full-time writer, he was an auditor in H.M. Exchequer and Audit Department (1936-41) and served in the Royal Air Force (1941-46) as an instructor at the No. 9 Radio School and then flight lieutenant with MIT Radlab's ground-controlled approach radar. He originated the concept of the geosynchronous communications satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945, and the lunar mass-driver (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950). He was assistant editor of Physics Abstracts for the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1949-50, and chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, 1947-50 and 1953. From 1955 to 1965, Sir Arthur was involved in underwater exploration in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka.
From 1964 to 1968, Sir Arthur wrote, with film director Stanley Kubrick, the nove1 2001: A Space Odyssey, on which the film was based. This was followed by the book and film 2010 (1982), and the books 2061 (1988) and 3001 (1997). Other famous science fiction novels include Against the Fall of Night (1953), The Sands of Mars (1951), Childhood's End (1953), the four-part Rama series (1972-93), and The Hammer of God (1993), which Steven Spielberg optioned for the film Deep Impact. In 1952, his nonfiction work The Exploration of Space was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Arthur C. Clarke covered United States space missions and the Apollo Moon landings for CBS from 1957 to 1970. He wrote and hosted the television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, The World of Strange Powers, and Mysterious Universe in the 1980s and 1990s. He is an honorary vice president of the H. G. Wells Society, the honorary chairman of the Society of Satellite Professionals, president of the British Science Fiction Association, a life member of the British Science Writes, a board member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a trustee of the Spaceguard Foundation, as well as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Awards and honors include honorary fellows of the British Interplanetary Society, the American Astronautical Association, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Award, 1981; the IEE Centennial Medal, 1984; the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award, 1990; International Science Policy Foundation Medal, 1992; Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 1994; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 1995; Unesco Kalinga Prize, 1961; the von Karman Award, International Academy of Astronautics, Beijing, 1996; Oscar nomination, with Stanley Kubrick, for 2001 screenplay, 1969; Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986; and the Special Achievement Award, Space Explorers Association, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989.
Arthur C. Clarke's seventieth birthday, in December 1987, was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset; he was knighted in 1998 for his services to literature, shortly after his eightieth birthday, the first science fiction writer to be thus honoured. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Arthur C. Clarke Rama II Pbk published January 2006 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07722 0

With Gentry Lee
In the year 2130 Rama, a mysterious and apparently abandoned alien spaceship, entered our solar system. Inside were wonders no one could have imagined - and questions no one could answer.
Now it’s 2200, and the Ramans have returned. But this time, as a second alien ship approaches, Earth is ready, and desperate for those answers .. .
Rama II is an enthralling sequel, as brilliantly imagined as its predecessor, Rendezvous with Rama.
`Arthur C. Clarke is awesomely informed about physics and astronomy, and blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations’ New York Times
About The Author
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Kt., CBE, was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England, to Charles W. Clarke, a farmer and lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and Nora Mary (Willis) Wright. He was married to Marilyn Mayfield in 1953 and divorced in 1964. A resident of Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1956, Sir Arthur received his CBE in 1989 and his knighthood (for services to literature) in 1998. In 1975, he was the fist noncitizen to receive Resident Guest status in Sri Lanka, where he is chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1979-). He is also chancellor of the International Space University (1989-).
The author of over eighty books and five hundred articles and short stories, Sir Arthur was educated at Huish Grammar School in Taunton (1927-36), and King's College, London, 1946-48 (B.Sc., first class, physics and mathematics). Before becoming a full-time writer, he was an auditor in H.M. Exchequer and Audit Department (1936-41) and served in the Royal Air Force (1941-46) as an instructor at the No. 9 Radio School and then flight lieutenant with MIT Radlab's ground-controlled approach radar. He originated the concept of the geosynchronous communications satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945, and the lunar mass-driver (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950). He was assistant editor of Physics Abstracts for the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1949-50, and chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, 1947-50 and 1953. From 1955 to 1965, Sir Arthur was involved in underwater exploration in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka.
From 1964 to 1968, Sir Arthur wrote, with film director Stanley Kubrick, the nove1 2001: A Space Odyssey, on which the film was based. This was followed by the book and film 2010 (1982), and the books 2061 (1988) and 3001 (1997). Other famous science fiction novels include Against the Fall of Night (1953), The Sands of Mars (1951), Childhood's End (1953), the four-part Rama series (1972-93), and The Hammer of God (1993), which Steven Spielberg optioned for the film Deep Impact. In 1952, his nonfiction work The Exploration of Space was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Arthur C. Clarke covered United States space missions and the Apollo Moon landings for CBS from 1957 to 1970. He wrote and hosted the television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, The World of Strange Powers, and Mysterious Universe in the 1980s and 1990s. He is an honorary vice president of the H. G. Wells Society, the honorary chairman of the Society of Satellite Professionals, president of the British Science Fiction Association, a life member of the British Science Writes, a board member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a trustee of the Spaceguard Foundation, as well as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Awards and honors include honorary fellows of the British Interplanetary Society, the American Astronautical Association, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Award, 1981; the IEE Centennial Medal, 1984; the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award, 1990; International Science Policy Foundation Medal, 1992; Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 1994; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 1995; Unesco Kalinga Prize, 1961; the von Karman Award, International Academy of Astronautics, Beijing, 1996; Oscar nomination, with Stanley Kubrick, for 2001 screenplay, 1969; Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986; and the Special Achievement Award, Space Explorers Association, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989.
Arthur C. Clarke's seventieth birthday, in December 1987, was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset; he was knighted in 1998 for his services to literature, shortly after his eightieth birthday, the first science fiction writer to be thus honoured. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Arthur C. Clarke The Deep Range Pbk published November 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07711 5

Since the beginning of time the sea has worked its will on humanity, and for as long, man has struggled against its awesome power. But in the 21st century man believed the battle finally won: the sea, mankind’s age-old enemy, had finally been conquered.
Professionals like Walter Franklin now patrolled the infinite savannahs of the oceans, harvesting from the plankton prairies a crop which fed the world. But like that other great frontier, space, the sea had still not yet yielded up all its secrets. And men like Franklin would never rest until its every fathomless mystery had been challenged ...
'Vivid, beautiful and exciting. Brings the future to life before your eyes' Sunday Times
‘One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age’ New Yorker
‘Enough crises to keep you reading avidly’ Sunday Times
`Arthur C. Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our times’ Ray Bradbury
About The Author
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Kt., CBE, was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England, to Charles W. Clarke, a farmer and lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and Nora Mary (Willis) Wright. He was married to Marilyn Mayfield in 1953 and divorced in 1964. A resident of Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1956, Sir Arthur received his CBE in 1989 and his knighthood (for services to literature) in 1998. In 1975, he was the fist noncitizen to receive Resident Guest status in Sri Lanka, where he is chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1979-). He is also chancellor of the International Space University (1989-).
The author of over eighty books and five hundred articles and short stories, Sir Arthur was educated at Huish Grammar School in Taunton (1927-36), and King's College, London, 1946-48 (B.Sc., first class, physics and mathematics). Before becoming a full-time writer, he was an auditor in H.M. Exchequer and Audit Department (1936-41) and served in the Royal Air Force (1941-46) as an instructor at the No. 9 Radio School and then flight lieutenant with MIT Radlab's ground-controlled approach radar. He originated the concept of the geosynchronous communications satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945, and the lunar mass-driver (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950). He was assistant editor of Physics Abstracts for the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1949-50, and chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, 1947-50 and 1953. From 1955 to 1965, Sir Arthur was involved in underwater exploration in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka.
From 1964 to 1968, Sir Arthur wrote, with film director Stanley Kubrick, the nove1 2001: A Space Odyssey, on which the film was based. This was followed by the book and film 2010 (1982), and the books 2061 (1988) and 3001 (1997). Other famous science fiction novels include Against the Fall of Night (1953), The Sands of Mars (1951), Childhood's End (1953), the four-part Rama series (1972-93), and The Hammer of God (1993), which Steven Spielberg optioned for the film Deep Impact. In 1952, his nonfiction work The Exploration of Space was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Arthur C. Clarke covered United States space missions and the Apollo Moon landings for CBS from 1957 to 1970. He wrote and hosted the television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, The World of Strange Powers, and Mysterious Universe in the 1980s and 1990s. He is an honorary vice president of the H. G. Wells Society, the honorary chairman of the Society of Satellite Professionals, president of the British Science Fiction Association, a life member of the British Science Writes, a board member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a trustee of the Spaceguard Foundation, as well as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Awards and honors include honorary fellows of the British Interplanetary Society, the American Astronautical Association, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Award, 1981; the IEE Centennial Medal, 1984; the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award, 1990; International Science Policy Foundation Medal, 1992; Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 1994; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 1995; Unesco Kalinga Prize, 1961; the von Karman Award, International Academy of Astronautics, Beijing, 1996; Oscar nomination, with Stanley Kubrick, for 2001 screenplay, 1969; Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986; and the Special Achievement Award, Space Explorers Association, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989.
Arthur C. Clarke's seventieth birthday, in December 1987, was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset; he was knighted in 1998 for his services to literature, shortly after his eightieth birthday, the first science fiction writer to be thus honoured. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Philip K. Dick The Zap Gun Pbk published June 2006 by Gollancz at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0 575 07672 0

After the Plowshare Protocols way back in 2002, Lars Powderdry, Wes-bloc’s brilliant weapons fashion designer has been inventing elaborate devices that only seem to be massively lethal. And the deception is taking a heavy toll of his personal life. But when the alien satellites appear in the sky and it’s clear that they aren’t friendly, the world suddenly needs military might like never before. So, Wes-bloc and Peep-East temporarily patch up their differences and Lars meets up with Lilo Popchev, his eastern counterpart, in the hope that they can create a weapon to save the world. It’s a difficult task made even trickier by Lars falling in love with Lilo even though he knows she’s trying to kill him ...
‘The foremost science fiction writer of our time’ Thomas M. Disch
‘Dick was SF’s greatest extrapolator of modern angst’ New York Daily News
‘A hybrid of Dickens and Dostoevsky, possessed of the comic delights and tragic depths of both ... Dick amused, enthralled and astounded his readers’ Brian W. Aldiss
About The Author
Philip K. Dick was born in the USA in 1928. His twin Sister Jan, died in infancy. He starred his writing career publishing short stories in magazines. The first of these was Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. While publishing SF prolifically during the fifties, Dick also wrote a series of mainstream novels, only one of which, Confessions of a Crap Artist, achieved publication during his lifetime. These included titles such as Mary and the Giant and In Milton Lumky Territory. During the 1960s Dick produced an extraordinary succession of novels, including The Man in the High Castle, which won a Hugo award, Martian Time-slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?and UBIK. In the 1970s, Dick started to concern himself more directly with metaphysical and theological issues, experiencing a moment of revelation _ or breakdown _ March 1974 which became the basis for much of his subsequent writing, in particular Valis, as he strove to make sense of what had happened. He died in 1982, a few weeks before the film Blade Runner opened and introduced his vision to a wider audience. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Philip K. Dick Galactic Pot Healer Pbk published December 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07462 0

Joe Fernwright is a pot-healer, a repairer of ceramics, in a drably utilitarian future where such skills have little value. But the Glimmung is offering Joe a way out of his isolated, meaningless life. It wants him to travel to Plowman’s Planet to work on a project there with dozens of other odd creatures. And it may not be a bad idea to do what the Glimmung wants. After all, it is prepared to pay well, it could be divine and, like so many other gods, it has a very bad temper ...
Galactic Pot-Healer blends quixotic adventure and deliciously paranoid theology in a uniquely imaginative and metaphysical quest.
'A gem, a finely crafted, ironic, and delightfully ludicrous parable. If G K Chesterton had written SF it would have read like this' Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions
`Dick was one of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced . . . his best novels constitute as significant a body of work as that of any writer in this country in the last thirty years’ Steve Erickson, L.A. Weekly
`Philip K. Dick became my favourite author ... [his] work had a yearning and homely undertow, a self-doubting quality, that made him infinitely richer and more disturbing’ Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker
`Dick amused, enthralled and astounded his readers . . There’s no pomposity in Dick’s work, no falseness. When the moment comes, Dick can pull out all the stops and sound the big resonating chords, though calm, ironic understatement is his forte’ Brian W. Aldiss
About The Author
Philip K. Dick was born in the USA in 1928. His twin Sister Jan, died in infancy. He starred his writing career publishing short stories in magazines. The first of these was Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. While publishing SF prolifically during the fifties, Dick also wrote a series of mainstream novels, only one of which, Confessions of a Crap Artist, achieved publication during his lifetime. These included titles such as Mary and the Giant and In Milton Lumky Territory. During the 1960s Dick produced an extraordinary succession of novels, including The Man in the High Castle, which won a Hugo award, Martian Time-slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?and UBIK. In the 1970s, Dick started to concern himself more directly with metaphysical and theological issues, experiencing a moment of revelation _ or breakdown _ March 1974 which became the basis for much of his subsequent writing, in particular Valis, as he strove to make sense of what had happened. He died in 1982, a few weeks before the film Blade Runner opened and introduced his vision to a wider audience. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Philip K. Dick A Maze of Death Pbk published December 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07461 2

When fourteen people arrive to colonize the otherwise uninhabited planet of Delmark-O, they quickly discover that their bizarre new world is more dangerous - and much, much stranger - than they could ever have imagined. The colonists have nothing in common and no idea why they’ve been sent there. All they know is that there’s no way to leave and, one by one, they are being killed …
SF MASTERWORKS is a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of today’s leading SF writers and editors. These books show that genuinely innovative SF is as exciting today as when it was first written.
‘An amazing list - genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF’ Iain M. Banks
'The most consistently brillian SF writer in the world, ringing changes the rest of us have never dreamed of' John Brunner
‘Dick quietly produced serious fiction in a popular form and there can be no greater praise’ Michael Moorcock
‘An elusive and incomparable artist’ Ursula K. Le Guin
‘In all his work he was astonishingly intimate, self exposed, and very dangerous. He was the funniest SF writer of his time, and perhaps the most terrifying. His dreads were our own, spoken as we could not have spoken them’ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
About The Author
Philip K. Dick was born in the USA in 1928. His twin Sister Jan, died in infancy. He starred his writing career publishing short stories in magazines. The first of these was Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. While publishing SF prolifically during the fifties, Dick also wrote a series of mainstream novels, only one of which, Confessions of a Crap Artist, achieved publication during his lifetime. These included titles such as Mary and the Giant and In Milton Lumky Territory. During the 1960s Dick produced an extraordinary succession of novels, including The Man in the High Castle, which won a Hugo award, Martian Time-slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?and UBIK. In the 1970s, Dick started to concern himself more directly with metaphysical and theological issues, experiencing a moment of revelation _ or breakdown _ March 1974 which became the basis for much of his subsequent writing, in particular Valis, as he strove to make sense of what had happened. He died in 1982, a few weeks before the film Blade Runner opened and introduced his vision to a wider audience. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Philip K. Dick Confessions of a Crap Artist Pbk published November 2005 by Gollancz at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0 575 07464 7

Jack Isidore is a chronicler and collector of crackpot ideas and worthless objects. He believes, among other things, that sunlight has weight and that a civilisation exists inside the world. He is a man so ill-equipped for real life that his sister and her husband, who thinks of Jack as a crap artist, have to take him in. But when Jack’s apparently innocent but ruthless gaze is turned on them, Fay and Charley Hume are seen to be in thrall to obsessions too. Obsessions that, thanks to Jack’s observations, can only end in tragedy …
'What Raymond Chandler did for the neon-lit Los Angeles of the forties, [Philip K. Dick] did for the Bay Area teetering on the brink of the sixties' Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions
‘A funny, horribly accurate portrait of life in California in the 1950’s’ Rolling Stone
‘It’s beginning to look as thought greatness has been thrust on Philip K. Dick… [He] has chosen to handle material too nutty to accept, too admonitory to forget, too haunting to abandon’ Washington Post
‘Dick [was] many authors: a poor man’s Pynchon, an oracular post modern, a rich product of the counter-culture’ Village Voice
‘Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation. [He is] our own homegrown Borges’ Ursula K. Le Guin
About The Author
Philip K. Dick was born in the USA in 1928. His twin Sister Jan, died in infancy. He starred his writing career publishing short stories in magazines. The first of these was Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. While publishing SF prolifically during the fifties, Dick also wrote a series of mainstream novels, only one of which, Confessions of a Crap Artist, achieved publication during his lifetime. These included titles such as Mary and the Giant and In Milton Lumky Territory. During the 1960s Dick produced an extraordinary succession of novels, including The Man in the High Castle, which won a Hugo award, Martian Time-slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?and UBIK. In the 1970s, Dick started to concern himself more directly with metaphysical and theological issues, experiencing a moment of revelation _ or breakdown _ March 1974 which became the basis for much of his subsequent writing, in particular Valis, as he strove to make sense of what had happened. He died in 1982, a few weeks before the film Blade Runner opened and introduced his vision to a wider audience. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Philip K. Dick The Cosmic Puppets Pbk published January 2006 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07670 4

When Ted Barton follows his inner compulsion and returns to Millgate, Virginia, the isolated, sleepy town of his birth, he is troubled to find that place bears no resemblance to the one he left all those years before. It’s even more alarming to realise that it never did. And when Ted discovers that in this Millgate Ted Barton died of scarlet fever at the age of nine, he knows there’s something seriously amiss. Imprisoned there by a mysterious and unseeable barrier, Ted attempts to find the reason for the disquieting anomalies, only to become enmeshed in a desperate and epic struggle of cosmic importance.
‘Dick was SF’s great extrapolator of modern angst’ New York Daily News
‘I see Dick as a major twenty-first century writer, an influential ‘fictional philosopher’ of the quantum age’ Timothy Leary
About The Author
Philip K. Dick was born in the USA in 1928. His twin Sister Jan, died in infancy. He starred his writing career publishing short stories in magazines. The first of these was Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. While publishing SF prolifically during the fifties, Dick also wrote a series of mainstream novels, only one of which, Confessions of a Crap Artist, achieved publication during his lifetime. These included titles such as Mary and the Giant and In Milton Lumky Territory. During the 1960s Dick produced an extraordinary succession of novels, including The Man in the High Castle, which won a Hugo award, Martian Time-slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?and UBIK. In the 1970s, Dick started to concern himself more directly with metaphysical and theological issues, experiencing a moment of revelation _ or breakdown _ March 1974 which became the basis for much of his subsequent writing, in particular Valis, as he strove to make sense of what had happened. He died in 1982, a few weeks before the film Blade Runner opened and introduced his vision to a wider audience. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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