A futuristic tale set in a world where reading is forbidden, citizens are drugged from childhood on, and machines dominate humans focuses on two people who teach themselves how to read and how to think independently

Mockingbird

Romance

Tevis, Walter S.

Paranormal

DOUBLEDAY

A futuristic tale set in a world where reading is forbidden, citizens are drugged from childhood on and machines dominate humans, focuses on two people who teach themselves how to read and how to think independently

Contemporary

BANTAM BOOKS

His plots are ingenious - Time Out\nThis long-overdue collection of Walter Tevis' s best short stories proves him to be a master of the form. they range from the ingenuity of The Other End of the Line , in which a man receives a phone call from himself in the future and follows the instructions he is given with unexpected and disastrous results, to the sophistication of Rent Control , where a couple discover that when they are in bed together they can literally make time stop, to the deeply-felt emotion of A Visit from Mother , whose protagonist is revisited by his dead parents.\nEntertaining and perceptive, the stories in Far From Home show the same talent which has made Tevis's novels The Man who Fell to Earth and Mockingbird modern SF classics.\nThe poetic imprints of a fine writer's trail - The Times

Far from Home

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Ultramarine Pub Co

The Hustler (Bloomsbury Film Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

Emshwiller, Carol

Bethke, Bruce

WESTLAKE, Donald E.

DOCTOROW, CORY

Watt-Evans, Lawrence

Schweitzer, Darrell

Sargent, Pamela

Scholes, Ken

DOZOIS, GARDNER

Davidson, Avram

Davis, Grania

STEELE, ALLEN

Lake, Jay

Lanier, Sterling E.

Zebrowski, George

Fontenay, Charles L.

Clough, Brenda W.

Pohl,Frederik

Cole, Everett B.

Nourse, Alan E.

Sheldon, Walter J.

Sheckley,Robert

Laumer, Keith

Stewart, James C.

Raphael, Rick

Wildside Press

L'oiseau moqueur

Literature & Fiction

Literary

GALLMEISTER

This is the 1959 book “The Hustler” by Walter Tevis, that was made into a movie “The Hustler”, a 1961 movie staring Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats and Paul Newman as “Fast Eddie Felson”. In the movie, they are competing in a high stakes gambling game for money to determine who is the best player of the game of straight pool in the world. In the opening scene in the movie, Fast Eddie Felson and his friend Charlie are traveling across the country. They stop in a small town at a local pool hall. They start playing pool against each other while pretending to be drunk. Fast Eddie Felson shows himself to be an average pool player, but not as good as Charlie, and misses many easy shots. Finally, the other players in the pool hall which is also a bar start to take an interest in the big money game they are betting on. A situation arises where Fast Eddie Felson sets up a difficult shot. He bets Charlie he can make this shot. Charlie says it is impossible, that he cannot do it, but he does not have enough money to bet. Then, another spectator in the pool hall says he will take that bet and bet that Fast Eddie Felson cannot make the shot. They both put their money on the table. Amazingly, Fast Eddie Felson makes the shot, picks up the money and quickly leaves the pool hall, followed by Charlie. They get in their car and speed away.

The Hustler

Ishi Press

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