This is another in the SF Masterworks series and I’m not alone in thinking it’s brilliant:
Exciting, intelligent galaxy-spanning stuff that these days would require six brick-thick volumes. This is the real heady wine of science fiction – Terry Pratchett
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The story starts with two inventions – spindizzies (kind of anti-gravity engines) and anti-agathic drugs (that enable citizens to live for a thousand years) – and takes the reader on a journey to explore their exploitation. On the way, we encounter vast experimental stations on Jupiter, cities taking flight from earth to explore the galaxy, the economic collapse of the galaxy and even the end of time itself.
This book tells the journey taken by the author in his attempts to find and interview all the remaining astronauts who have walked on the moon. Twelve men in history have known what it is like, and at the time of his writing, only nine were alive. The book describes the impact such an event had on the lives of the men.
This is another Harry Bosch thriller by Michael Connelly. This one is set at a period of time when Harry is married to Eleanor, but the marriage is in trouble. A bad time, then, to be assigned to a highly sensitive case which could trigger riots in the discontented city if handled injudiciously. 
This is the 2015 Jack Reacher thriller which I received in a lovely hard back edition for Christmas. I was lucky to hear 
Randall Munroe’s excellent Thing Explainer is on the shelves at 
The author is probably more widely read as the illustrator of 
This book is part of the SciFi MasterWorks series, so I had high expectations, especially as it was written by the lauded Philip K Dick. However, this book is different to others that I’ve read by him – it starts very slowly, seemingly in a normal family in a sleepy American town. Only much later does the plot encompass a more science fiction element, and a more sinister reason behind the daily puzzle that Ragle Gumm must complete is revealed.
This book is part of the Science Fiction MasterWorks series, which hints at its pedigree, although the series covers a broad range of SciFi styles. This one tells of adventures in space, where we follow the trail of John Truck and his ship the My Ella Speed.
This is the second book I’ve read by Andrew Gross, the first being Judge and Jury. That book started off with children being blown up on a school bus and I found it so tasteless that I didn’t finish the book.
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