Walter Tevis
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Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction.
When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless,
2) Mockingbird
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In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. A dying world of no children and no art, where reading is forbidden. And a strange love triangle: Spofforth, who runs the world, the most perfect machine ever created, whose only wish is to die; and Paul and Mary Lou,...
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The novel that inspired the film starring David Bowie, from a Nebula Award finalist… The Man Who Fell to Earth tells the story of Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien disguised as a human who comes to Earth on a mission to save his people. Devastated by nuclear war, his home planet, Anthea, is no longer habitable. Newton lands in Kentucky and starts patenting Anthean technology-amassing the fortune he needs to build a spaceship that will bring the last...
4) The Hustler
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The novel that inspired the classic film starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason, The Hustler tells the story of Fast Eddie Felson, a young pool player who hustles suckers in small towns, looking for stake money so he can reach his goal: a marathon match in Chicago against Minnesota Fats.
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A legendary pool hustler tries to make a comeback in the novel that inspired the Martin Scorsese film. Fast Eddie Felson was the best in the country. Then he walked out on his talent and for the next twenty years ran a poolroom, got married, and watched pool games on television. One evening he watches a pool player who reminds him of his old rival, Minnesota Fats, and it sparks something in him. Feeling a sudden grief at the loss of his old self and...
6) Sinsonte
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Con ecos de Fahrenheit 451, Un mundo feliz o Blade Runner, Sinsonte es una de las novelas de ciencia ficción más míticas de nuestro tiempo, que se lee como una elegía a los olvidados y un viaje de autodescubrimiento.
Han pasado cientos de años y la Tierra se ha convertido en un planeta sombrío y distópico en el que los robots trabajan y al ser humano solo le queda languidecer, arrullado por la dicha electrónica y la felicidad narcótica....
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In a world where America's power is rapidly being overshadowed by China's, only one man has the wealth, resources, and courage to seek the mineral resources his country needs to reclaim its greatness. Ben Belson, the richest man in the world, lacks for nothing his wealth can buy-but he is haunted by the memory of a barren and loveless childhood. When he travels to the stars in search of the mineral wealth, America needs, he finds more than he bargains...
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Three science fiction novels from the Nebula Award—nominated author of The Hustler and The Color of Money.
The Man Who Fell to Earth
After his home planet is devastated by war, an alien disguised as a human comes to Earth on a mission to save his people. He begins amassing wealth needed to build a spacecraft to bring his people to join him, but his plans get sidelined when he descends into alcoholism.
Mockingbird
On a post-apocalyptic Earth...
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Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and...
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Walter Tevis, autor de Sinsonte y El buscavidas, demuestra su capacidad de combinar distopía y humor en unas novelas que retratan lo peor de nuestro mundo.
Año 2063. Los recursos de la Tierra se están agotando. Todas las expediciones espaciales en busca de nuevos combustibles han fracasado, China es una potencia global, Estados Unidos agoniza en manos de la mafia, y la gente se muere de frío en el centro de Manhattan. El magnate estadounidense...
12) Gambito de dama
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Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become a national champion and to play the world grandmasters.
14) The hustler
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Itinerant pool shark challenges the top man for the championship, sacrificing everything until he realizes the stakes are too high.