Ralph Roberts hasn't been sleeping well lately. Every morning he wakes just a little bit earlier until pretty soon, he isn't sleeping at all. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the strange hallucinations--and the nightmares that keep coming to life.
Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an ol...more
Eighteen short stories by the master of science fiction features "The Minority Report," in which Commissioner John Anderton's clever use of "precogs," people who can identify criminals before than can do any harm, turns against him when he is identified as the next criminal. Reprint. (A Dreamworks film, directed by Steven Spielberg, releasing June ...more