Ronald Shusett Livres

Publisher's Weekly In 1966, the late Philip K Dick published the novelette ''We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.'' A movie based on the story will be released next year; this book is a novelization of the script and the original novel. The first half of the book follows the original plot closely, despite transforming the unremarkable protagonist Douglas Quail into a musclebound man of action. Frustrated with his life, Quail decides to purchase a memory of a two-week adventure on Mars because he can't afford the real thing. However, while under heavy sedation preparatory to the installation of the memory, Quail remembers that he actually was on Mars as an intelligence agent and killer. Now that he has recovered the memory which had been suppressed by his employers, his life is in jeopardy. Here the novel deviates from Dick's philosophical original, becoming a more pedestrian if exciting slam-bang chase thriller. Judged on its own terms, the book works and it's fun. Library Journal Douglas Quail's dreams are haunted by images of Mars--a place where he has never been--until his visit to a company that specializes in memory implants catapults him into a conspiracy that overturns the basic premise of his life. Based on the Philip K. Dick story, ''We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,'' this sf adventure (to be released as a movie in 1990) by one of the genre's most prolific and respected authors features fast-paced action and vivid imagery.

Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with Alien: Covenant, a new chapter in his groundbreaking Alien adventure. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise. But it is actually a dark, dangerous world.

Uznávaný autor Alan Dean Foster se vrací do vesmíru, s nímž se poprvé setkal při oficiálním románovém přepisu původního filmu o vetřelci. Vetřelec - Covenant je klíčový příběh, který tomuto filmu předcházel a vede k událostem, z nichž se odvíjí jedna z nejděsivějších ság všech dob. Posádka kolonizátorské vesmírné lodi Covenant cestou ke vzdálené planetě na druhém konci galaxie objeví, jak se zprvu domnívá, ztracený ráj. Ve skutečnosti však jde o temný svět plný nebezpečí. Když narazí na hrozbu, která se vzpírá veškeré představivosti, musí se pokusit o riskantní útěk.