Radio Free Albemuth: Film tie-in edition
A preliminary to Dick’s masterwork, Valis, in which Phil appears as an explicitly named autobiographical character for the first time. Soon to be a major new film.
Science fiction
Jumper: Film tie-in edition
Written in the 1990s by American author Steven Gould, Jumper tells the story of Davy Rice as he escapes his tortured childhood to explore the world via teleportation and find his long lost mother.
Jumper: Griffin’s Story: Film tie-in edition
Jumper: Griffin’s Story was written by Gould to compliment the 2008 film Jumper starring Samuel L Jackson.
The novel explores the life of Griffin O’Connor as he uses his teleportation powers to hunt his parents’ murderers.
2061: Odyssey Three
2061 is the year Halley’s Comet makes its next pilgrimage to the inner Solar System – and the year centenarian Heywood Floyd encounters once again the alien Monoliths. Near Jupiter, the transfigured forms of Dave Bowman and HAL the computer are Heywood’s only chance of survival – if they too are not now alien beings.
2010: Odyssey Two
To the spaceship Discovery, floating in the silent depths of space since Dave Bowman passed through the alien ‘Star Gate’, comes Heywood Floyd on a mission of recovery. What he finds near Jupiter is beyond the imaginings of any mere human.
3001: The Final Odyssey
When Frank Poole, whose body has been frozen in deep space for 1000 years, is resurrected, his second life brings him enlightening culture shocks a-plenty, but his Odyssey eventually leads him to defy the limitless power of an alien technology. The final sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Sentinel
The best collection ever of Arthur C. Clarke’s short fiction, including the stories on which 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood’s End were based.
Mona Lisa Overdrive
The last of the Sprawl trilogy: the AIs of Neuromancer have suffered a traumatized, cataclysmic coming to self-awareness and now haunt cyberspace as voodoo powers.