A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional "dystopianist" receives a visit from a suicidal sheep. "Men and Cartoons" contains eleven fantastical, amusing, and moving stories written in a dizzyi[...]
Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno's production, it's a record that bursts out of the downtown scene t[...]
Published to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary re-release of the film Blade Runner, a collection of four signature works by the visionary science fiction writer includes the titles, The Man in the High Castle, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and [...]
Jonathan Lethem, editor
"The most outre science fiction writer of the 20th century has finally entered the canon," exclaimed "Wired Magazine" upon The Library of America's May 2007 publication of "Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s," edited by Jonathan Lethem. Now comes a companion volume[...]
This boxed set includes all three Library of America volumes collecting Philip K. Dick's best science fiction novels:
"The Man in the High Castle" - "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" - "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" - "Ubik" - "Martian Time-Slip" - "Dr. Bloodmoney" - "Now Wait for [...]
This is an insightful, witty, and erudite collection of interviews with the "New York Times" best-selling author. "Conversations with Jonathan Lethem" collects 14 interviews, conducted over a decade and a half, with the Brooklyn-born author of such novels as "Girl in Landscape", "Motheriess Brooklyn[...]
Med denne bog præsenteres Jonathan Lethem for første gang for et dansk publikum. Moderløse Brooklyn er på én gang litterær storbyroman (vinder af National Book Critic´s Circle Award) - og fremragende detektivroman, der i 2000 fik Golden Dagger Award, verdens mest prestigefyldte krimipris.
Chase Insteadman er forhenværende barnestjerne og fast del af det fashionable Manhattan. Hans sociale status bliver understøttet af en tragedie i det ydre rum, som uge efter uge optager sensationspressen: Hans kæreste, Janice Trumbull, svæver rundt i en rumstation uden mulighed for at ko[...]
AMA EL är ett referensverk att använda vid upprättande av beskrivning och vid utförande av elektriska arbeten. AMA EL ges ut i nya versioner vart tredje år. AMA EL 12 är en revidering av AMA EL 09.
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Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. "Mind of an Outlaw, " the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer's m[...]
Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists in the West. His first novel, A Hard Rain Falling, published in 1966, has been championed by Richard Price, and George Pelecanos called it "a masterpiece ...the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our criminal justice system[...]