Written by the author of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series and "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", this is another story about Dirk Gently, the self-styled holistic detective and master of all things alternative.
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The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magicians, junkies and whores. Now a stranger has come, ...

A novel based on a brand new interactive CDROM computer game, which in turn developed from a germ of an idea first mentioned in Adams' "Life, The Universe And Everything", and which is based around state-of-the-art graphics and a language parser which allows the player to make conversation with the game's characters. A strategy guide to the game is also published in Pan paperback this month. ...

One Thurday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has already had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very strange and startling place.
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What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and ...

Latest paperback from one of our most highly acclaimed science fiction authors, telling a story of secrecy, deceit, love and betrayal which builds to a devastating climax. Banks' reputation and readership are at an all-time high and sales of this title should be excellent. "As imaginative as anything Banks has written" )TLS(. "An intriguing and powerfully realised tale" )New Scientist(. A nationwide P.R. tour will include media interviews and ...

From the author of the bestselling Night's Dawn Trilogy, a new space adventure on a galactic scale. Standing quite apart from his previous novels, this is a very welcome new science-fiction adventure by the bestselling British leader of the field. ...

Auf dem entfernten Wasserplaneten Spatterjay, der außer tödlichen Gefahren kaum etwas zu bieten hat, kreuzen sich die Schicksale dreier Menschen: Janer wird vom allumfassenden Computersystem dorthin beordert,
sein Auftrag ist unklar. Erlin reist ebenfalls nach Spatterjay, um einen alten Kapitän zu finden, der ihr einige Fragen über ihr Leben beantworten soll. Und Keech, Agent der ECS und seit 700 Jahren tot,
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Lawrence Newton desertiert aus der Söldnerarmee, in der er angeheuert hatte, um Abenteuer zu erleben. Mit einer Hand voll Gefährten macht er sich auf die Suche nach dem geheimnisvollen Drachentempel,
einem mythischen Platz, wo vor vielen Jahrtausenden ein fremdes Wesen vom Himmel abgestürzt sein soll und wo nun Priester einen ungeheuren Schatz horten. Aus der einfachen Schatzsuche wird jedoch bald
ein gefährliches ...

Just when Arthur Dent's sense of reality is at its most clouded, he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it. This is volume four in the Trilogy of five. ...