'It is to the Vietnam War what Catch-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire' Thomas M. Disch

Mr Mee searches the Internet for the Rosier's Encyclopaedia. Instead he enters a world of cyber-hoaxers. University lecturer Dr Petrie, an expert on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, recounts his infatuation with one of his own students. Rousseau's neighbours Ferrand and Minard hold the key to Rosier's Encyclopaedia, Rousseau's madness, and Mr Mee himself.

'EDUCATION: NONE. SKILLS: NONE. MERITS: NONE RECOMMENDATIONS: NONE'

Gateway: an artifical spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control - some come back with discoveries which make their pilots rich; others return with their remains barely identifiable.

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel.

A daring and explosive take on the crucifixion by one of England's most respected SF writers