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Transfigurations by Michael Bishop
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: S.F. Masterworks
In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a strange, ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their almost-incomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning like pinwheels. Egon Chaney, in his anthropological study, 'Death and Designation Among the Asadi' has shown how thei ...Show more
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.f. Masterworks
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own ...Show more
Ubik: The reality bending science fiction masterpiece by Philip K Dick
Category: Science Fiction | Series: S.F.Masterworks
Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own ti ...Show more
Valis by Philip K Dick
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F.Masterworks
It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right. Part science fiction, part theological detective story ' in wh ...Show more
Van Gogh: A Life in Art and Letters by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art | Series: Masterworks
Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. We all know of Van Gogh's troubled genius, but now through his letters to his brother Theo, a ...Show more
Vermeer and the Dutch Masters by Flame Flame Tree (Created by); D. A. Morrison
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
Today we marvel at the shimmering light, the detail and hidden significances within the subtle techniques of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Frans Hals and their compatriots. The luminescent art of the Dutch Masters grew from the bounding confidence of the newly independent Netherlands in the early 1600s. ...Show more
Vincent Van Gogh by Rosalind Ormiston
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masterworks Ser.
A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world's greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. We all know of Van Gogh's troubled g ...Show more
Votan and Other Novels by John James
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Fantasy Masterworks
In the second century AD, a Greek nobleman is travelling and living abroad in Germany while carrying on an affair with a military man's wife. When discovered, he takes an emergency business trip to save his life and packs amongst his belongings certain items that lead the people he encounters to think h ...Show more
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
'No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's...' So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killi ...Show more
Wasp by Eric Frank Russell
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
The war had been going on for nearly a year and the Sirian Empire had a huge advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge. Which was where James Mowry came in. If a small insect buzzing around in a car could so distract the driver as to cause that vehicle to crash, think what havoc one pro ...Show more