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The Novels of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury, Granada Publishing Limited, 8 Grafton Street, London England, 1984, First British Edition. This is a Highly Collectible, SIGNED, Hardcover Book and Dust jacket. The book is Sunflower Yellow Cloth over Boards with Navy Blue Lettering on the spine. The book is SIGNED on the Front Free End Page, EDIE! Ray Bradbury 1/18/93. The dust jacket has been placed in an archival, clear Mylar for further protection and preservation. Here for the first time in one volume are Ray Bradbury's three haunting novels Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Fahrenheit 451 is a famous and terrifying fable which has also been filmed by the French Director Francois Truffault. Dandelion Wine is a Beautiful Novel - full of summer, set in the real world but enriched by Bradbury's original imagination and his unique gift for fantasy. Something Wicked This Way Comes is a novel of pure and classic fantasy imbued with frightening air of evil. Together these novels reveal the range of imagination, the art, the phenomenon that is Ray Bradbury.

In A Distant Universe, Since The Beginning Of Time, Workers Have Spent Their Lives Weaving Intricate Carpets From The Hair Of Women And Girls. But Why? Andreas Eschbach's Mysterious, Poignant Space Opera Explores The Absurdity Of Work And Of Life Itself. 'a Novel Of Ideas That Evokes Complex Emotions Through The Working Out Of An Intricate And Ultimately Satisfying Plot, With Echoes Of Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, And Isaac Asimov' The New York Times Book Review

In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our lives, from cinema and books to history and religion. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

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The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize–winning author Stanislaw Lem.“Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem.”—Paris ReviewBringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure—a future whose strangeness exceeds anything the congress conjectured.Translated by Michael Kandel.“A vision of Earth’s future where the authorities dose the population with ‘psychemicals’ to make life in a desperately over-populated world worth living.”—Boston Globe

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