Edward Cadence was a brilliant man, and a dedicated scientist. He had invented Sensitape, a means of recording the thoughts and emotions of great musicians, religious figures, etc. so that others could experience at first-hand just what it was like to play a magnificent concerto, or to slip peacefully toward an untroubled death with the sure expectation that Heaven lies waiting. And he had added Sexitape, whereby people whose sex lives weren’t completely satisfying could experience everything that the most compatible couple in the world felt together.For all this he was given the Nobel Prize, became enormously wealthy and famous.But finally he set to work on the ultimate application of his experiments: SYNTHAJOY. And when the enormity of this dehumanizing process became clear, he was murdered.  Here is a novel of the day after tomorrow that will grip your imagination from start to finish and that will make you think.

In answer to an unanswerable future, science has created Bohn, the omnipotent computer whose flashing circuits and messianic pronouncements dictate what tomorrow will - or will not - be.But Matthew Oliver is flesh and blood and full of questions - not nearly as certain as the machine he's appointed to serve.And the right hand of science seldom knows what the left hand is doing . . .-Matthew Oliver was enthusiastic when he received the invitation to work at the Colindale Institute. The Institute's computer resources had been set up to correlate research findings throughout the whole European Community—a huge forward step for Western science, and a fascinating project to work on.But then a member of the underground CLC asked him to serve as a spy for them, to uncover the secret they were sure was hidden behind the Colindale's quiet academic exterior. One day later, that man was dead, murdered. And when Oliver got to the Colindale, he found that his predecessor too had been killed.Something very important and very deadly was going on at the Institute, that was obvious. But Matthew could never have guessed just how awesome the project was... and how chilling.

In the near future, the super-modern city of Gloucester has been transformed - completely redesigned and rebuilt to the principles of 'scientific city planning'. This gleaming city is threatened with extinction by a mysterious spore from space that brings mankind's proud structures crashing to the ground . . .

A forgotten SF classic that exposed the pitfalls of voyeuristic entertainment decades before the reality show crazeA few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause except old age. The few exceptions provide the fodder for a new kind of television show for avid audiences who lap up the experience of watching someone else's dying weeks. So when Katherine Mortenhoe is told that she has about four weeks to live, she knows it's not just her life she's about to lose, but her privacy as well. D. G. Compton foresaw "reality television" long before anyone had heard of Big Brother.About the AuthorD. G. Compton is a science fiction author who also has written crime novels under the name Guy Compton and Gothic novels under the name Frances Lynch. His 1970 novel The Steel Crocodile was nominated for the Nebula Award, and he was named the 2007 Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He lives in Maine. Lisa Tuttle is the Nebula Award-winning author of The Mysteries, The Pillow Friend, and The Silver Bough.

A mysterious explosion, a haunting indefinable smell. Sitting quietly by a Cornish creek, reading his favorite comic book, Roses Varco hears the bang, catches a trace of the odor - and understands nothing. Which is hardly surprising, since Roses has just witnessed the death of a time-traveler lost in a limbo between worlds. Had he known the truth, it would have terrified him - for that traveler was himself.