Imagination is man's most fearsome weapon.

When is a story about a basketball player not even about basketball?

In this far-seeing novel, the nations of the near future come to 1984?

Who killed Kennedy? Many keen minds have their doubts about the findings of the Warren Commission.

In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years.

Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826.

H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops.

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.

Death consists in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing.

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early last man science fiction novel.

The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.

Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.

British writer John Buchan's Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

When "Lucky" Luke Ray, a cocky young American pilot volunteers to fly for the French in World War I.

Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheiers debut work out.

At the centre of the critically acclaimed Fox drama House, British actor Hugh Laurie has become the focus of fans across North America.

A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds outside a seedy bar.

With more Top 10 hits than any other female-fronted music group in history.

Since the beginning of time, men have engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

Lawyer and bluesman Monty Collins is used to defending murderers.