Wells' The Time Machine, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. More recently, he has appeared in several episodes of the TV series The Big Bang Theory as himself. Narrator Wil Wheaton is an American actor and writer best known for his role as Wesley Crusher in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and for playing Gordie Lachance in the film Stand By Me. Suddenly he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. And, like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who died with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.įor years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late 20th century. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself.It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. To escape the city, Thibaut must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.īut Sam is being hunted.
A lone Surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of Hell. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world for ever.ġ950. In the strange games of dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant-garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope.
In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group, including Surrealist theorist André Breton. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new.ġ941. A thriller of a war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm.
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