A New York Times bestseller with over 5 million copies sold, Professor Randy Pausch's moving and inspirational book is based on his extraordinary Last Lecture. 'We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.'

At eight o'clock in the evening, on Friday 24th December 2007, Pinewood Military Installation exploded. The blast devastated the remote highland valley where the base was located. No official cause was given for the incident. Inside Pinewood were 185 male and female military personnel, and seven children. This is the story of their last day.

Titus doesn't think much of the moon. But then Titus doesn't think much at all. He's got his "feed" - an Internet implant linked to his brain - to do his thinking for him. It tells him where to party or get the best bargains and how to accessorize the mysterious lesions everyone's been getting.

A powerful narrative marrying fantasy and horrific reality in a compelling and alarming tale.

Dizzyingly imaginative science fiction thriller from one of the most exciting and original new voices in the genre.

An amazingly confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel.

Through computer technology we can abandon reality for a virtual world. In these new computer-generated places, which at first glance seem free from trouble and sorrow, you can create a new self. This work takes us through the electronic looking-glass, as it investigates one of the most bizarre phenomena of the 21st century.

Helps you discover the information about living in Second Life - from how to enter the world, get started, and get around, to the many ways you can earn real-world incomes, and meet other residents. This title also includes a CD.

A trequel to Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass . In this book, Alice travels through time, tumbling from the Victorian age to land in 1998, in Manchester, a small town in the North of England.

Mean Girls meets Freaky Friday in this witty novel about a high school senior whose life gets turned upside down.

Natch is a master of bio/logics, the programming of the human body. He's clawed and scraped his way to the top of the bio/logics market using little more than his wits. Now his sudden notoriety has brought him to the attention of Margaret Surina, the owner of a mysterious new technology called MultiReal.

On New Earth, Epic is not just a computer game, it's a matter of life and death. Seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, Erik subverts the rules of the game, and he and his friends are drawn into a world of power-hungry, dangerous players. Now they must fight the ultimate masters of the game - The Committee.

It is 18 years after Idlewild and the survivors are now adults. A bitter and disillusioned Halloween has chosen to exile himself but his peers seek to repopulate the Earth and rebuild civilization. They are mankind's last, best and perhaps only hope.

Dore Konstantin, officer in charge of Technocrime, Artificial Reality Division has to deal with a stalker. Susannah Ell is the one being stalked, by ex-husband Hasting Dervish or so she claims. She feels Dervish has swapped places with an ambitious AI who wants to infiltrate her AR design studio.

The extraordinary new novel from one of the brightest stars of British SF takes mankind to the brink of a terrifying secret.

In the penultimate year before the Encroachment, the dimming sun still shines on the cloud-high weathered walls of Serehfa Fastness. On the day the Count Sessine dies for the final time, the chief scientist to the clan Accounts/Privileges receives a summons from the office of the High Sortileger.

The third novel from one of the most exciting new British SF writers of the decade.

A story of the Web 2.0 revolution's improbable enterprise: the creation of a virtual 3D world with its own economy, culture, and political system.

Second Life is a virtual online society that allows its members to invent themselves and then explore, build,socialize-and even earn real money. This guide teaches you the ropes of this vast universe, from understanding the interface to accomplishing advanced tasks such as building property and animating objects.

Dave Lister is celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday on a Monopoly board pub crawl round London, and somehow ends up three million years from Earth, marooned in the wrong dimension of the wrong reality, and down to his last two cigarettes.