The Queen's Gambit

Walter-Tevis

Penguin??Books

<p>Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth. Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce, a chemistry professor in Iowa, is intrigued by some of the new products Newton's company brings to the market, and already suspects Newton of being an alien. As Bryce and the FBI close in, Newton finds his own clarity and sense of purpose diminishing.</p>

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Pan Books

Fast Eddie Feslon, "The Hustler", returns to the game of pool only to find that it has changed. The author has also written "The Man Who Fell To Earth" and "The Queen's Gambit".

The Color Of Money

Literature & Fiction

Literary

<p>Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying.  Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose a quick suicide rather than slow extinction. Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to live, and a man and a woman who must discover love, hope, and dreams of a world reborn.</p>

Mockingbird

Romance

Paranormal

Del Rey

The original novel for "The Hustler", which starred Paul Newman and Piper Laurie.

Hustler

AVON.

THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT.

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Heinemann

Far from Home

Fantasy

Corgi Books

In a future time in which America's power has been destroyed by energy depletion and the Chinese rule, one man undertakes a daring search for new mineral resources among the stars

Steps of the Sun

Gollancz

The Hustler

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd

Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea,  which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose  inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on  Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of  saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced  Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to  build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth.  Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce, a chemistry professor in Iowa, is intrigued by  some of the new products Newton's company brings to the market, and  already suspects Newton of being an alien. As Bryce and the FBI close  in, Newton finds his own clarity and sense of purpose diminishing.

Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, London

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