The first season of Westworld built a very strong fan-base for what was one of the most intriguing shows on TV Based on the 1973 film this Westworld got deeply inside the philosophical element of what it means to be an android whilst retaining a thrilling story line The show ended season one on a cliff-hanger of sorts & as the show&s first season was HBO&s highest ever rated a 2nd series due in 2018 has already been commissioned The show is particularly notable for the high level of acting talent & many of the lead characters are in this extensive first series of POP! The Westworld POP! vinyl figure stands around 9cm tall Packed in an illustrated window box ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Clarissa befriends impoverished stunner Hesther who then repays her friendship by trying to steal Clarissa&s evil husband An all-star cast (Margaret Lockwood James Mason Phyllis Calvert & Stewart Granger) bring this elaborate romantic melodramatic costume drama to life ...

A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station & finds herself of a ship bound for South Africa Pretty young Anne came to London looking for adventure In fact adventure comes looking for her
- & finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station Anne is present on the platform when a thin man reeking of mothballs loses his balance & is electocuted on the rails The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death But Anne is not satisfied After all who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? & why did he race off leaving a cryptic message behind 17-122 Kilmorden Castle'?
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An official tie-in edition of Philip K Dick's dazzling speculative novel to accompany the new TV series executive produced by Ridley Scott Philip K Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world
- one where the Allies have lost the Second World War In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York the Japanese control California & the African continent is virtually wiped out In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers lives the author of an underground bestseller His book offers a new vision of reality
- an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated
- giving hope to the disenchanted Does 'reality' lie with him or is his world just one among many others?' The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet' Rolling Stone' Dick's finest book & one of the very best science fiction novels ever published' Eric Brown


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NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES' Truth she thought As terrible as death But harder to find' America fifteen years after the end of the Second World War The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils the Nazis control New York while California is ruled by the Japanese But between these two states
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- lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies

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A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle

Includes:: an introduction by Eric Brown in Penguin Modern Classics Philip K Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world
- one where the Allies have lost the Second World War In this nightmare dystopia the Nazis have taken over New York the Japanese control California & the African continent is virtually wiped out In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers lives the author of an underground bestseller His book offers a new vision of reality
- an alternative theory of world history in which the Axis powers were defeated
- giving hope to the disenchanted Does 'reality' lie with him or is his world just one among many others? Philip Kindred Dick (1928-82) was born in Chicago in 1928 His career as a science fiction writer comprised an early burst of short stories followed by a stream of novels typically character studies incorporating androids drugs & hallucinations His best works are generally agreed to be The Man in the High Castle & Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the inspiration for the movie Blade Runner If you enjoyed The Man in the High Castle you might like Yevgeny Zamyatin's We also available in Penguin Classics' The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet' Rolling Stone' Dick's finest book & one of the very best science fiction novels ever published' Eric Brown




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With an Introduction & Notes by Keith Wren University of Kent at Canterbury The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D' Artagnan Athos Porthos & Aramis who first appeared in The Three Musketeers Some thirty-five years on the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV & change the face of the French monarchy In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark Dumas pitches us straight into the action What is the secret shared by Aramis & Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? & what is the nature of the threat he poses? Dumas the master storyteller keeps us reading until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers ...

In the final adventure of the Musketeers THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK sees D' Artagnan remain in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have gone their separate ways Meanwhile a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask languishes in the Bastille where he has been for eighteen years When the destinies of the King & the prisoner converge D' Artagnan & the Three Musketeers must face the ultimate conflict of loyalties The Man in the Iron Mask is an incomparabletale of honour loyalty & adventure ...

One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's essentials
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Its &all for one & one for all& as the Three Musketeers along with D& Artagnan reunite in this swashbuckling tale of action & adventure Leonardo Di Caprico stars in the dual role of the cruel King Louis XIV & the mysterious prisoner encased in the iron mask Paris is starving but the King of France is more interested in the debauched affairs of court The Musketeers devise a daring plot to save France from the tyranny of this King only D& Artgnan stands in their way The Man in the Iron Mask is a stunning film of intrigue danger action & romance ...