Destination: Void is a science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, the first set in the Destination: Void universe. It first appeared in Galaxy Magazine in August 1965, under the title "Do I Wake or Dream?", but was published as Destination: Void in book form the following year. In the novel’s future, humans have overcome the problems of cloning, and are moving on to artificial inte... Read More
The Jesus Incident is the second science fiction novel set in the Destination: Void universe by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom. It is a sequel to Destination: Void, and has two sequels: The Lazarus Effect and The Ascension Factor. The book deals with concepts such as artificial intelligence, worship, resource allocation, and religious violence. Clones and genetic enginee... Read More
The Lazarus Effect is the third science fiction novel set in the Destination: Void universe by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom. It takes after the events in The Jesus Incident. The book deals with concepts such as artificial intelligence, worship and the inherent problems of totalitarianism. It also addresses the issues of clones, genetic engineering and racism. The senti... Read More
The Ascension Factor is the third to be co-authored by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom. It takes place about twenty-five years after The Lazarus Effect. It completes the story of the humans descended from those left by the Voidship Earthling on the planet Pandora approximately 480 years earlier. Dying before its completion, Herbert was unable to oversee the entire composition of his last novel. T... Read More
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was an American science fiction writer best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his long novels of fantasy, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer. Published in 1965, Frank Herbert’s Dune is a classic science fiction novel about Paul Atreides... Read More
Frank Herbert created the most beloved novels in the annals of science fiction. He was a man of many facets, of countless passageways that ran through an intricate mind. Dune Messiah is a science fiction novel and the second in his Dune series of six novels. It was originally serialized in Galaxy magazine in 1969. The Dune saga, set in the distant future, and taking place over millennia, deals... Read More
Children of Dune is a 1976 science fiction novel land the third in his Dune series of six novels. Initially selling over 75,000 copies, it became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field. Dune is considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, and Frank Herbert left a lasting legacy to fans and family alike. In Children of Dune, Alia has become the gu... Read More
Frank Herbert was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Herbert began researching Dune in 1959. He was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to work full-time as an advertising writer for department stores, becoming the breadwinner during the 19... Read More
Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the fifth in his Dune series of six novels. It was ranked as the #13 hardcover fiction best seller of 1984 by The New York Times. Heretics of Dune tells of life 3,500 years after the death of the Tyrant, Leto II, as ferocious "Honored Matres" stream in from the "Scattering," and the Bene Gesserit work to unite a ghola, Duncan Id... Read More
Frank Herbert, in full Frank Patrick Herbert, was an American science-fiction writer noted as the author of the best-selling Dune series of futuristic novels, a group of highly complex works that explore such themes as ecology, human evolution, the consequences of genetic manipulation, and mystical and psychic possibilities. Dune took six years of research and writing to complete and it was muc... Read More
Susan Lillian Townsend was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole. Townsend left school at the age of 14 and worked in a variety of jobs including packer for Birds Eye, a petrol station attendant and a receptionist. Working at a petrol station allowed her the chance to read between se... Read More
Tony Parsons, a former music journalist and television personality, is the author of Man and Boy, winner of the Book of the Year prize. He began his career as a music journalist on the NME, writing about punk music. Later, he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write for Daily Mirror for 18 years. Since September 2013 he has written his current column for The Sun. Parsons is the a... Read More
John Galsworthy, one of the greatest British writers, was a representative of the literary tradition, which has regarded the novel as a lawful instrument of social propaganda. The Forsyte Saga is a history of three generations of the Forsyte family from the eighties of the 19th century up to the twenties of the 20th century. The Man of Property shows two successive generations of a rich upper-m... Read More
Martina Cole is a British crime writer, businesswoman and occasional television presenter. Cole was born in Essex, England, to Irish Catholic parents, and was the youngest of five children. Her mother was a psychiatric nurse from Glasnevin, County Dublin and her father was a merchant seaman from Cork City. Her cousin is Cork politician Denis Cregan. She was expelled from her convent school aged... Read More
Martina Cole is a British crime writer, businesswoman and occasional television presenter. Cole was brought up in Aveley, Essex. As of 2015, she has released twenty-two novels about crime, most of which examine London's gangster underworld. Four of her novels, Dangerous Lady, The Jump, The Take and The Runaway have been adapted into high-rating television dramas. She has achieved sales of over... Read More
Douglas E. Richards is an American writer, primarily of science fiction and both nonfiction and fiction for children. George Noory wrote, "Douglas E. Richards has been widely praised for his ability to weave action, suspense, and science into riveting novels that brilliantly straddle the thriller and science fiction genres." In Mind's Eye, Nick Hall is a marine biologist while on an expedition... Read More
The author of BrainWeb, Douglas Richards, released his novel with Paragon Press on February 10, 2015. Technically BrainWeb is Richards’ second novel in his Thriller series, the first one being Mind’s Eye, which introduces Nick and how he came to be the owner of this special ability. However, these are standalone novels, Richards briefly explains and references back to the first novel so that th... Read More
Douglas E. Richards has been widely praised for his ability to weave action, suspense, and science into riveting novels that brilliantly straddle the thriller and science fiction genres. He is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. George Noory wrote, "Douglas E. Richards has been widely praised for his ability to weave action, suspense, and science into riveting novels that brill... Read More
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams has established a reputation as a teller of tall tales, insightful writing about the human condition, and a purveyor of deadpan slapstick science fiction. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, private investigator Dirk Gently draws his old college friend Richard MacDuff into a twistin... Read More
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a playful and surreal exploration of the absurdity of life, made through the tale of a man travelling through the universe. In a quiet suburb of London, Arthur Dent is minding his own business when his morning is interrupted by bulldozers and wrecking machines coming to destroy... Read More