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Book I of Hover Car Racer. In the world of the near future, the most popular sport in the world is hover car racing. Superfast and dangerous, it's heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race car driver, all superstar. But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive...This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer selected to attend the Race School. He's younger than the other students. He's smaller. His trusty car, the Argonaut is older. But Jason Chaser is no ordinary racer. And as he races against the best drivers in the world he will learn that at Race School winning is everything, that not everyone in this world fights fair, and that you never ever have any friends on the track. Cover: Crash Course by Pablo Raimondi. -
NOT a film novelisation...The original story. In the future Era of Youth, there will be too many people and not enough food. So in an orderly and systematic fashion the old ones - those over the age of twenty one - must be got rid of. It was easily done - in the palm of everyone's right hand was embedded a crystal flower. In adults - those over the age of fourteen - the crystal shone crimson. And when the crystal turned black it was time to report to a Sleepshop. Those who didn't report for annihilation - those who tried to escape - were hunted down by the Deep Sleep men - and exterminated. Logan was a DS man - efficient, fast and cruel. But one day the crystal in his hand began to flicker - black, red, black...and Logan discovered he did not want to die!
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Book III of The Pearl. Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman is the mind and spirit of a unique Kundalan female who is joined in mystical partnership with the mind and spirit of Annon Ashera, a V'ornn male, the last survivor of a noble family. Together the two adolescents have matured and merged into a new joint identity. Now their common destiny, and Kundala's, is in their own hands. Other characters who will play their roles: Riane, the Dar-Sala-at; Eleana, the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan, the V'ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan's defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; Marethyn's lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets. All the while, the evil Sauromicians threaten the world as they seek to use banestones to bind a dragon. Cover art by John Howe. -
Book I of The Vang. For a thousand years and more, The Worlds of Man had been dominated by the Laowon Imperium. The aliens thought humans made good slaves and better pets, and they were fond of creating new breeds. And the Laowon made sure that their playthings never grew too powerful. Born one day, on the edge of Human Space, Jon Iehard was ordered to hunt Eblis Bey, a terrorist for Old Earth. And that was the beginning of the end for the Laowon. Because Iehard had been a Laowon slave. And Eblis Bey held half the key to a weapon that could destroy the Laowon tyranny and bring freedom once more to Mankind. Cover art by Tim White. -
Contains: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Seconds before the Earth is demolished by a Vogon Constructor Fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent, clad in a dressing gown and pyjamas, is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor from Guildford.Together this dynamic pair begin a trek through space on the starship Heart Of Gold a ship powered by the Improbability Drive and which has been stolen by Zaphod Beeblebrox - the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch President of the galaxy (and Ford's cousin); Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formerly Tricia McMillan from Earth, whom Arthur had once tried to pick up at a cocktail party); Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and characters such as Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: If you've done six impossible things this morning, then why not round it off with breakfast, lunch or dinner at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? With your host, Max Quordlepleen! And - of course - Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and Marin the Paranoid Android as they have further intoxicating and intoxicated adventures around the galaxy, having found out what the Earth was actually for in the first place. Life, The Universe and Everything: Still on the trail of the Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything (or rather...we know what the answer is, but not the question...) The inhabitants of Krikkit, after a space ship crash on their idyllic planet, suddenly find they are NOT alone in the Universe and after having a quick look at it, they decide it's got to go. The universe, that is. Now all that stands between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation of everything except Krikket are Arthur Dent, still in his dressing gown and pjs; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice-president of the Campaign for Real Time and designer of Norway (with an award to prove it); Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed and now ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy Earth-girl space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a chronically depressed Zaphod. How will it all end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert cosmic Armageddon and save life as we know it –and don’t know it! So Long and Thanks For All The Fish: Having learnt to fly (by throwing himself at the ground and missing it) Arthur Dent wins a raffle and finds love in the last place he would have expected to find it - but which 3,976,000,000 people find very familiar...and we discover God's Final Message to Mankind. With a guest appearance by Marvin the Paranoid Android. -
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
$40.00It was simple. Everyone knew it. Books were for burning - together with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag knew it. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he met a seventeen year old girl who told him of a past where people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future where people could think - and Guy Montag suddenly realised what he had to do. And he became a fugitive in a flaming hell to do it! Cover art by Whistl'n Dixie. -
Baby, Doll and Lati are three spunky alien babes who are trapped on Nufon, the most boring planet ever. They steal a space ship and land in Sydney in search of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. After kidnapping Jake, a rock wannabe - and tossing him into the spaceship's sexual experimentation chamber - the global warming really kicks off! The babes form a band and rocket to stardom. But Jake and Baby are falling in love, a posse of Nufonians is headed for Earth and the US military is getting involved as well. Add Eros the talking asteroid to the mosh pit and now it's a Save the World! situation. A real fun read. -
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Once we had entered the space age, we could have reasonably expected that the days of 'flying saucers' and 'little green men' would ave come to an end. Instead, the evidence for UFOs continues to grow. There are literally tens of thousands of sightings on record, most of them made by reliable witnesses and many of them still unexplained; close encounters of the fourth kind - abduction - are becoming more frequent, well documented and harder to ignore; evidence in the files of serious scientific and investigative bodies (including the United States Air Force) leaves little doubt that an 'intelligence' is operating - but what kind and from where? Do extra-terrestrials regularly visit the earth? Are we being watched, studied, contacted and even kidnapped by intergalactic explorers? This book presents forty years of evidence and facts for the sceptic and believer alike - case histories, expert assessments and possible explanations. Illustrated with black and white photographs -
Bolo: Keith Laumer
$45.00Book I. The Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade. The great artillery machines developed by the Bolo Division of General Motors took on awareness in later designs and gradually began to replace man in that most human of endeavours - WAR! Here, in the first of this landmark series, the ultimate fighting machines tell their own fascinating, far-ranging and ultimately tragic story. Cover art by Vincent Di Fate. -
Nova: Samuel R. Delany
$45.00The balance of galactic power in the 31st century revolves around illyrion, the most precious energy source in the universe. The varied and exotic crew who sign up with Captain Lorq van Ray know their mission is dangerous, and they soon learn that they are involved in a deadly race with the charismatic but vicious leader of an opposing space federation. But they have no idea of Lorq's secret obsession: to gather illyrion at the source by flying through the very heart of an imploding star. Cover art by Bob Haberfield. -
Longest Day: Michael Collier
$45.00Eighth Doctor Adventures IX. The planet Hirath, its surface ravaged by colliding time fields, is a patchwork of habitable areas separated by impenetrable zones of wild temporal fluctuation. The planet's unique biosphere is being exploited by an uncaring company happy to rent out temporarily isolated chunks of the the planet to the highest bidder - no questions asked. But the controlling computer seems to be malfunctioning and the viability of the whole planet hangs in the balance, together with countless thousands of lives. Arriving at Hirath's control base, the Doctor and Sam are soon separated and trapped on the dying planet. Sam becomes the focus of attention in a barren penal settlement and the Doctor discovers the secret of Hirath's unique condition - just as a race of hideous bloodthirsty aliens arrive in force to reclaim it! Cover art by Colin Howard.
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The Burning: Justin Richards
$45.00Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor Adventure XXXVII. The late nineteenth century - the age of reason, enlightenment, industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire. Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself. But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the Society for Physical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artifacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: A man with no name, no history. The only man who can stop The Burning...Cover art by Black Sheep -
Book IV of the Dune Chronicles. Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity's future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years. Leto's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot's rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto's vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted--or could possibly conceive... Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
Book III of The Orphans trilogy. The mysterious aliens called the Spinners brought great gifts to humanity - gifts that brought destruction in their wake. Now the Spinners are gone and the genocidal Starfish who came after them continue their reign of destruction. Time is running out for the handful of surviving humans, their engram brethren and the newfound alien species that has allied itself with them. Faced with almost certain annihilation, Caryl, Peter and a desperate crew decide to take one small ship and attempt to penetrate to the very heart of the Starfish fleet. Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Twenty-six science fiction stories, complete in one volume, originally published before 1939 (when the Golden Age of SF began), with autobiographical remarks by Asimov before each story. Contents: Introduction; Part 1: 1920 to 1930 by Isaac Asimov. Part II - 1931: The Man Who Evolved, Edmond Hamilton: As man evolves what changes will he undergo in a thousand years? A million or more? The Jameson Satellite, Neil R. Jones: When a scientist knows he must die, he conceives a brilliant idea for the preservation of his body... the result of which even exceeded his expectations. Submicroscopic: A ray is invented that causes both miniturisation and enlargement; Awlo Of Ulm, Captain S. P. Meek: Could an atom be a miniature solar system - and if so, what of our own? Tetrahedra Of Space, P. Schuyler Miller: Three different civilisations meet in a struggle to the death. The World Of The Red Sun, Clifford D. Simak: A pair of adventurers leave Denver in their flying time machine, intending to travel five millennia... but they land five million years later in a desolate world ruled by the evil and cruel brain, Golan-Kirt. Part III - 1932: Tumithak of the Corridors, Charles R. Tanner: In the fifty-third century, two millennia after Earth has been invaded by the shelks from Venus, mankind has been driven underground into a maze of deep tunnels. Tumithak, a young man, determines to venture to the surface and kill a shelk and on his way, discovers other societies that have evolved. The Moon Era, Jack Williamson: An insufficiently tested space ship delivers its lone passenger to the Moon of the distant past, where he will play a role in the final episode of a ruthless, genocidal war. Part IV - 1933: The Man Who Awoke, Laurence Manning: Elderly banker Norman Winters puts himself into suspended animation for 5,000 years at a time - and has adventures through Time. Tumithak In Shawm, Charles R. Tanner: Tumithak leads a party of warriors back to the surface to defeat the shelks. Part V - 1934: Colossus, Donald Wandrei: As an apocalyptic atomic world war breaks out, a man leaves Earth in a experimental spaceship, hoping to reach the ends of the known universe. Born of the Sun, Jack Williamson: The Sun is a sentient being, and planets and moons are its eggs - and now the eggs are beginning to hatch, including the egg shell known as 'Earth...'. Sidewise in Time, Murray Leinster: As 'time-quakes' reveal parallel universes, a professor and a team of students attempt to establish themselves as masters of a time-fractured world. Old Faithful, Raymond Z. Gallun: Martian civilisation is slowly dying and Martian 774 is informed - as is the custom - that he has forty days left to live and his work of establishing communication with Earth is not relevant to saving the Martian race. So...Martian 774 hitches a ride on a passing comet...Part VI - 1935: Parasite Planet, Stanley G. Weinbaum: Tidal locking keeps one side of Venus perpetually facing the Sun, creating a barren desert. Towards the planet's twilight zone the temperature drops below the boiling point of water and the Hotlands begin: a place inhabited by parasitic native life forms. Proxima Centauri, Murray Leinster: The starship Adastra is in sight of its goal, Proxima Centauri with a crew that is half loyal officers and half mutineers. And when a young mutineer is promoted for picking up signals from Proxima, a loyal officer is enraged...and he doesn't seem to realise the communications are less than friendly. The Accursed Galaxy, Edmond Hamilton: The force field prison of an immortal Energy Being lands on Earth and the secret of why other galaxies flee the Milky Way is revealed. Part VII - 1936: He Who Shrank, Henry Hasse: The greatest scientist ever has invented a new means of exploring the world of the infinitely small - and sends his devoted assistant on a mind-boggling series of adventures exploring the infinite series of concentric universes. The Human Pets of Mars, Leslie F. Stone: The Martians land on a golf course and capture a small group of humans, transporting them back to Mars, where they are kept as pets. The Brain Stealers of Mars, John W. Campbell, Jr.: Two rogue inventors break the law to create an atomic powered space ship. On Mars, they find two life forms - one of which can become anything it likes...Devolution, Edmond Hamilton: A variant on the creation myth, where perfect beings devolve into lesser beings in all ways - including morally. Big Game, Isaac Asimov: A drunk man in a bar tries to convince his audience that ten years ago, he built a time machine and travelled back to before the extinction of the dinosaurs, where he met an intelligent race of humanoid dinosaurs with the ability to communicate telepathically. Part VIII - 1937: Other Eyes Watching, John W. Campbell, Jr: A non-fiction piece on the solar system, focusing on Jupiter. Minus Planet, John D. Clark, Ph.D.: Humanity is endangered by the approach of a world composed of pure antimatter. Past, Present and Future, Nat Schachner: Kleon, not content to be worshipped as a god by the Mayans, will sleep the centuries away...until a careless explorer succumbs to the sleeping gas. Together, explorer and Kleon awake to the even more distant future: the Age of the Olgarchs. Part IX - 1938: The Men and the Mirror, Ross Rocklynne: A cop and a crook become trapped in a frictionless, mirrored bowl. Escape depends on co-operation - and ingeniously applied physics. 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The Twelve: Justin Cronin
$45.00Book I of The Passage. It seemed like a good idea at the time...infecting twelve death-row prisoners with an ancient virus in order to create human weapons. Instead the virus turned them into ravening unstoppable monsters - and when the Twelve broke out of the underground facility where they had been born, all hell broke loose. In a world now ravaged by a viral plague, humanity is reduced to stubborn pockets of resistance. But if the human race is to have a future, survival is not enough. Against terrifying odds, they must hunt down and destroy the Twelve in their lairs. But the virals' behaviour is inexplicably changing - and all the clues point towards the Homeland, a sinister dictatorship where an unlikely trio are re-imagining humanity's destiny : Horace Guilder, a veteran of the original experiment with a blood-curdling vision of immortality; a mysterious woman whose tragic past has driven her into a world of fantasy; and Lawrence Grey, a man whose hunger for intimacy has been fulfilled in the most gruesome ways imaginable. And then there is Amy - the Girl from Nowhere. Once the thirteenth test subject and now the only human who can fathom the Homeland's secret and truly enter the hive-mind of the Twelve. But what she finds there may spell the end of everything... -
Patera Silk is a dedicated young auger whose parish buildings are about to be sold for taxes. He has made a pact with the wealthy, sinister Blood to get the money to save them. And so Silk has embarked on a quest which reveals to him the hidden secrets of his world, a huge starship illuminated and warmed by the artificial Long Sun, a spaceship so vast that remote cities can be seen in its sky. Silk travels to Lake Limna and visits a shrine which conceals an entrance to the sub surface passages of the ship, to rooms that contain strange machinery and stranger beings - and to rooms with windows...
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In this volume from 1956: Imagine: A Proem: Fredric Brown; You're Another, Damon Knight; This Earth Of Majesty, Arthur C. Clarke; Birds Can't Count, Mildred Clingerman; The Golem, Avram Davidson; Pottage, Zenna Henderson; The Vanishing American, Charles Beaumont; Created He Them, Alice Eleanor Jones; Too Far, Fredric Brown; A Matter of Energy, James Blish; Nellthu, Anthony Boucher; Dreamworld, Isaac Asimov; One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts, Shirley Jackson; The Short Ones, Raymond E. Banks; The Last Prophet, Mildred Clingerman; Botany Bay, P. M. Hubbard; A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.; Lament by a Maker, L. Sprague de Camp; The Doctrine of Original Design, Winona McClintic; Pattern For Survival, Richard Matheson; The Singing Bell, Isaac Asimov; The Last Word, Chad Oliver and Charles Beaumont; Survival, Carlyn Coffin. -
A volume of short stories. In this volume: The Moment Of Eclipse; The Day We Embarked For Cythera...; Orgy Of The Living And The Dying; Super-Toys Last All Summer Long; The Village Swindler; Down The Up Escalation; That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life And Art...;Confluence; Heresies Of The Huge God; The Circulation Of The Blood...;...And The Stagnation Of The Heart; The Worm That Flies; Working In The Spaceship Yards; Swastika! Cover art by Jerome Gask. -
Past Doctor Adventures No. VII. The Doctor and Jo have gone off in the TARDIS, leaving the Brigadier and UNIT facing a deadly mystery and a moral dilemma. Robbery and murder are on the increases in Britain as disputes between underworld gangs escalate into open warfare on the streets. The Master seems inextricably linked to the chaos - despite the fact he is safely under lock and key. Meanwhile UNIT is called in when a plane missing in strange circumstances is rediscovered, contaminated with radiation and particle damage that cannot possibly have occurred on Earth. As the mystery deepens, what little light they can shed on the matter leads the Brigadier to believe that with the Doctor away, Earth's only hope may lie with its greatest enemy. This adventure takes place between the TV stories The Day Of The Daleks and The Sea Devils, and is concurrent with The Curse Of Peladon.
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Book III of The Planet Pirates series. These people will save the galaxy: Lunzie, who's discovered that the one good heavyworlder she has ever met isn't so good after all; Fordeliton, who is investigating the connection between the super-rich and the planet pirates, and who is dying from a mysterious slow poison; Dupaynil, who has made the mistake of pushing Sassinak too far and has been exiled; and Aygar, who is out to prove he has brains as well as heavyworlder brawn. And of course, there's Sassinak...ordered to report to FedCentral for the trial of the mutineer Tanegli. She'd been told to disarm her ship when it enters restricted space; she'd been told her crew can't have liberty or leave; and she'd been told to follow all the rules. But the only person who might be able to stop the disaster ahead has never been one to follow the rules...
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An Anthology of Way-Back-When Futures...brought to you by...How Are They All On Deneb IV? C.C. Shackleton; Mouth Of Hell, David I. Masson; Brightside Crossing, Alan E. Nourse; The Sack, William Morrison; The Monster, A.E. van Vogt; The Monsters, Robert Sheckley; Grenville's Planet, Michael Shaara; Beachhead, Clifford D. Simak; The Ark of James Carlyle, Cherry Wilder; On The River and Goddess In Granite, Robert F. Young; The Seekers, E..C. Tubb; When The People Fell, Cordwainer Smith; The Titan, P. Schuyler Miller; Four In One, Damon Knight; The Age of Invention, Norman Spinrad; The Snowmen, Frederik Pohl; Schwartz Between The Galaxies, Robert Silverberg. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Kursaal: Peter Anghelides
$55.00Eighth Doctor Adventures No. VII. Kursaal is a pleasure world, a huge theme park for the Cronus system - or rather, it will be if it isn't destroyed during construction. Eco-terrorists want the project halted to preserve vital archeological sites - areas containing the last remains of the long-dead Jax, an ancient wolf-like race, who remains are being buried beneath the big business tourist attractions. Sam fall sin with the environmentalists and finds her loyalties divided. Meanwhile, the Doctor's own investigations lead him to believe that the Jax are not extinct after all. Cut off from the TARDIS, separated from his companions and pursued for murder, the Doctor realises that Kursaal hides a terrible secret - and that Sam is being affected by events more than anyone would guess. -
A double helping of Dr. Who adventures. The Myth Makers: Long, long ago on the great plains of Asia Minor, two mighty armies faced each other in mortal combat. The Greeks and the Trojans would fight for Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. To the Greeks it seemed that the city of Troy was impregnable and only a miracle could bring them success... And then help arrives in a most unexpected way as a strange blue box materialises close to their camp, bringing with it the First Doctor, Steven and Vicki, who soon find themselves caught up in the irreversible tide of history and legend...The Gunfighters: Back in the gun-totin', hard-hittin', fast-shootin' days of the Old Wild West, when outlaws ruled the land and the good guys stayed off the streets, a troupe of traveling players - Miss Dodo Dupont, Steven Regret and the mysterious Doctor Caligari - moseyed into the town of Tombstone one October afternoon. Their method of transportation was a mite peculiar though. After all, a police box materializing out of thin air sure ain't the usual way to enter a sedate town like Tombstone. And when the Doctor and his pardners meet up with Wyatt Earp and the notorious Clanton brothers, they soon find out that the scene is all set for high noon at the O.K. Corral. Cover art by Andrew Skilleter . -
Book II of The Void. The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer. Not only is the Ocisen Empire fleet fast approaching on a mission of genocide, but also an internecine war has broken out between the post-human factions over the destiny of humanity. Countering the various and increasingly desperate agents and factions is Paula Myo, a ruthlessly single-minded investigator, beset by foes from her distant past and colleagues of dubious allegiance...but she is fast losing a race against time. At the heart of all this is Edeard the Waterwalker, who once lived a long time ago deep inside the Void. He is the messiah of Living Dream, and visions of his life are shared by, and inspire billions of humans. It is his glorious, captivating story that is the driving force behind Living Dream's Pilgrimage, a force that is too strong to be thwarted. As Edeard nears his final victory the true nature of the Void is finally revealed. Cover art by David Marchal and Paul Youll. -
A graphic work from the author of Chariots Of The Gods? that he feels gives credence to his belief of an 'Era of the Gods' on earth - extra terrestrial visitors and astronauts who imparted information to man that enabled him to develop from a primitive into a civilised being. Through wide-ranging travels and indefatigable research, von Daniken speculates on the quality of this ancient life and attempts to unravel the age-old mystery of man's origins and presents open-ended and bizarrely imaginative theories that never fail to fascinate. Lavishly illustrated with black and white photographs.
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