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The Last Mimzy (DVD)
Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, …
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R55
Discovery Miles 550
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Sci-fi drama about two children who develop strange powers after
playing with some discarded toys. On a beach vacation near Seattle,
Noah (Chris O'Neil) and Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) Wilder find a
little box washed up on the shore. It contains a strange, pulsing
stone and the pair deign to keep it a secret, sensing its unusual
nature. Further examination reveals a collection of items in the
box including what appears to be a toy rabbit whose name turns out
to be Mimzy and who is perfectly able to communicate with the
children. Mimzy starts to instruct the children on many things that
they're not familiar with, resulting in the pair attaining genius
level very quickly, much to their parents' chagrin. It soon becomes
apparent that there are forces abroad in the Wilder house that
should have been left undisturbed - and that the future may be
trying to send a message back to us in order that we might save our
planet from a certain doom. After a huge power surge, originating
in the Wilder home, takes out half the state power grid, the
government begins to take an interest in the children.
A Fiction House Press Classic Reprint: Elak of Atlantis was a
four-story series first published in Weird Tales pulp magazine. The
two-story Prince Raynor series first appeared in Strange Stories
pulp magazine. We reprint the original pulp text along with the
pulp interior illustrations.
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Fury (Paperback)
Henry Kuttner
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R280
R115
Discovery Miles 1 150
Save R165 (59%)
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The Earth is long dead, blasted apart, and the human survivors who
settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in
an atrophying, class-ridden society ruled by the Immortals -
genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Sam Reed was
born an immortal, born to rule those with a normal life-span, but
his deranged father had him mutilated as a baby so that he wouldn't
know of his heritage. And Sam grew up on the wrong side of the
tracks and the law, thinking of the Immortals as his enemies. Then
he reached the age of eighty, understood what had happened to him
and went looking for revenge - and changed his decaying world
forever. Fury is a powerful, dark and compelling novel that
explores the sensual, bloody and urgent nature of humankind's
striving.
THE LAST MIMZY IS THE IDEAL INTRODUCTION TO AN AUTHOR WHO WAS AHEAD
OF HIS TIME-AND WHOSE TIME HAS FINALLY COME.
These seventeen classic stories create their own unique galaxy of
vain, protective, and murderous robots; devilish angels; and warm
and angry aliens. In "Mimsy Were the Borogoves"-the inspiration for
New Line Cinema's major motion picture The Last Mimzy-a boy finds a
discarded box containing a treasure trove of curious objects. When
he and his sister begin to play with these trinkets-including a
crystal cube that magnifies the unimaginable and a strange doll
with removable organs that don't quite correspond to those of the
human body-their parents grow concerned. And they should be. For
the items are changing the way the children think and perceive the
world around them-for better or worse.
Ray Bradbury called Henry Kuttner "a man who shaped science fiction
and fantasy in its most important years." Marion Zimmer Bradley and
Roger Zelazny said he was a major inspiration. Kuttner was a
writer's writer whose visionary works anticipated our own
computer-controlled, machine-made world. At the time of his death
at forty-two in 1958, he had created as many as 170 stories under
more than a dozen pseudonyms-sometimes writing entire issues of
science fiction magazines-in close collaboration with his wife, C.
L. Moore.
This definitive collection will be a revelation to those who wish
to discover or rediscover Henry Kuttner, a true master of the
universe.
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