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This is a collection of Arthur C. Clarke's best short fiction. The title piece inspired the science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. This edition has an introduction by the author, along with nine short stories in all.

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A collaboration from a number of leading scientists and authors, probing such mysteries as: where the first dinosaurs appeared and how they evolved; how the giant sauropods lived and reared their young; hunting strategies among the predators; and ...

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Two adventures featuring Nisei detective Masao Masuto. In Samantha there are a string of violent deaths, all the deaths are connected to a girl who was raped 11 years before. In The Case of The One-Penny Orange, the only clue to the murderer Masut...

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In the tradition of Coma and The Andromeda Strain comes the ultimate biological terror...A Depriver is someone who, for reasons still under scientific investigation, possesses and employs a defense mechanism that can drastically incapacitate other...

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Using the latest paleontological research, this book presents a scientifically accurate look at the way dinosaurs lived: how they moved, ate, duelled, drank and mated.

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This edition brings together a range of works by Alfred Bester. It includes the novel The Demolished Man, Hell is Forever and The Four Hour Fuge, there are also Bester's writings on noted celebrities such as Woody Allen, Rex Stout and Issac Asimov.

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This text documents the chivalry and valour of the combat aviator, Saburo Sakai, who fought American fighter pilots and, with 64 kills, would survive World War II as Japan's greatest living ace.

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This edition contains the text of The Wizard of OZ as well as essays to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the story. Authors contributing essays include: Ray Bradbury, Gore Vidal and James Thurber.

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A presentation of the sometimes hilarious human aspect of science as well as a serious timetable of scientific discovery. This book goes beyond the headlines to present the passion, prejudice and outrage that, from 1845 on, formed the ideas of mod...

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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was never intended to be a fighter airplane. It was designed to intercept and destroy enemy bombers. This is the story of pilot and plane in development and combat around the skies of Europe, North Africa and the Pacifi...

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An invitation from Arthur C. Clarke to share his vision and dream for Planet Earth. This volume gathers together his best stories about our home planet. It also includes special notes from the author, some of which have never been published.

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A parody written in diary form that tells the daily thoughts and events of a Californian teen who is convinced pop singer Britney Spears has been abducted by a space alien. The teen is sure Britney was replaced by a three-headed alien before the M...

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This is the story of one of the greatest Thunderbolt aces of all time, one of America's fabled 56th Fighter Group who hurled their underrated P-47 Thunderbolts against the Luftwaffe's over-whelming power, and won. It tells of his training, his ear...

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In this parody of Tolkien, the roadkill of Middle Earth will flatten anything in its path; be it wizard, dragon or hobbit. Can anyone stop this engine of destruction as it tears across the countryside?

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This is an account of the B-17 Flying Fortresses, the four-engined planes that American pilots flew at Pearl Harbour, Tunis, Midway and Palermo, among others. They had a deep-throated roar, could absorb 3000 enemy bullets, fly with no rudder and c...

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A collection of Frank Herbert stories, featuring The Road to Dune and an introduction by Herbert describing his feelings of the filming of David Lynch's movie version of Dune. Included is Herbert's own personal favourite story Seed Stock and tales...

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A sequel to Isle of the Dead, in which the galaxy is in chaos, with people falling prey to an unidentifiable disease. Only one man has the ability to help - a man who can heal or kill with a touch.

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The first book in a trilogy, this one expands the Amber universe and answers important questions left open, such as why it was necessary to create Amber, how Chaos and Amber came to be at war, and the true nature of the universal, sentient forces ...

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One night in March 1945, Task Force Baum drove through a gap in German Army lines and made for the Allied POW camp near the German town of Hammelburg. The camp held Lieutenant Colonel John Waters, General Patton's son-in-law, but only one of the 3...

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This work is an account of what happened in spring 1942 when the weak US Navy intercepted the large Japanese fleet in the Coral Sea. For the first time, opposing fleets used carrier-launched aircraft to fight each other. It was a fight that would ...

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Dinosaur Tales is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Included are tales such as Besides A Dinosaur, A Sound of Thunder and The Fog Horn. Bradbury is also the author of Farenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way...

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The best comics illustrators celebrate the world's most acclaimed author of the fantastic.

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Dworkin and Oberon arrive at the Courts of Chaos to confront their hidden enemies. But things don't go as planned. Oberon has a terrible physical reaction to being in Chaos, while assassination attempts are made on both his and Dworkin's lives - a...

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Pol Detson, son of Lord Det of Rondoval, has come home. He is now a powerful sorceror of unsurpassed natural ability - in a world where the power of magic is the only kind that matters. But Pol is still an untrained talent, a 'MADWAND'. To take co...

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During World War II, as an RAF officer, Arthur C. Clarke was in charge of the first radar "talk-down" equipment, the Ground Controlled Approach, during its experimental trials. His novel Glide Path is based on this work.

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This is an original trade paperback from the producers of "The Forensic Files," one of the most popular shows on television, and the signature series of Court TV. Each episode is an actual investigation, and viewers watch over the should...

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This is a sweeping novel of the lives of twelve people thrown together by chance in the exotic territory of British-ruled Hong Kong and of their fateful reunion during the Chinese takeover decades later. In the years between the time of their sepa...

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"Delany has a grasp of the evolutionary nature of mythology, a subtle comic touch, and a lyric sense of the outsider making his unorthodox way in the world--or worlds--that give his work a dimension unusual..."

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The conclusion to the first Amber prequel trilogy.

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Science fiction, horror, and the truly unbelievable-it's all here in an original collection that captures that almost gone and highly romanticized era-the Age of the Drive-In Movie. Fogged-up windshields, bad speaker systems, snack foods galore, i...

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