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Christie’s most political thriller — a race against a neo-fascist conspiracy. Passenger to Frankfurt (1970) — from Christie’s final decade — follows diplomat Sir Stafford Nye, who meets a mysterious woman in an airport and is drawn into a plot involving a resurgent fascist movement and a plan to throw the world into chaos. It begins, as the best thrillers do, with a stranger and a question.
Darker and more sprawling than her classic mysteries, this reflects Christie’s engagement with the anxieties of the late 1960s: youth movements, political extremism, the fragility of order. Sir Stafford — world-weary, witty — makes an unusual but compelling Christie hero — urbane, skeptical, and out of his depth.
A standalone — and a fascinating late-career experiment. For Christie completists and readers of political thrillers: the queen of crime confronts the modern world — and finds it darker than St. Mary Mead.
Philip K. Dick dreamed his novels into being — and no one understood that better than D. Scott Apel. Philip K. Dick: The Dream Connection is a remarkable collection of short non-fiction and fiction pieces relating to the last years of one of science fiction’s most visionary writers.
Apel, a close friend of Dick’s from 1977 until the author’s death in 1982, draws on over eight hours of interviews and intimate conversations. He explores how dreams served as Dick’s primary creative source — feeding paranoid masterpieces like Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and the posthumous VALIS — and how they blurred into the mystical visions of his final years.
Hailed by Robert Anton Wilson as “brilliant, original, and damned funny as well,” this anthology offers fans a rare personal portrait: Dick unguarded, funny, troubled, and endlessly fascinating.
For readers of classic science fiction, The Dream Connection is an essential companion — a dream journal, a memoir of friendship, and a key to the imagination of a genius.
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