Tom De Haven is an author celebrated for his extensive body of work, encompassing multiple novels, a collection of novellas, and a trilogy. His writing is marked by an innovative approach to genre and a distinctive narrative voice. De Haven crafts stories for both adult and young adult audiences, often exploring complex human experiences and fantastical realms. His literary significance lies in his unique synthesis of styles and his contribution to contemporary prose through elements of graphic novels and other unconventional forms.
Grinner and his bride Reeni, members of a race of Freaks created by mutation and quarantined in Freaktown ghetto, plunge into pornography in order to save money for a Syntha-skin treatment, but although Grinner wants normality, Reeni does not
Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler, former hack and 'console cowboy' who crashed and burned. His nerves were damaged and thus cut off from the digital matrix, he slouches through life. Until he meets Molly, an augmented 'razorgirl', who offers him a deal on behalf of a shadowy man called Armitage. His nerves repaired and matrix access restored, in exchange for a single job. But it's not so simple - unless he completes the job, sacs of poison will explode inside him and cripple him again. And the job? That might be impossible. The first novel to win the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer has become a seminal part of SF history, coining the term 'cyberspace' and lighting a fuse on the Cyberpunk movement. Part thriller, part warning, it is one of the 20th century's most potent visions of the future. 'A ground-breaking success' - Empire 'Gibson is better than almost anybody at noticing what's genuinely interesting about the world' - Ned Beauman 'Neuromancer is a book of exquisitely observed detail' - Eileen Gunn Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction
Die Welt kann aufatmen! Die Welt ist gerettet. Jack der Tramp hat den Gynanthropos, das furchterregende Lehmwesen, vernichtet. Doch da tauchen seltsame Schattenwesen auf, die jenseits aller Zeit in einem Labyrinth an einer ungeheuren Aufgabe arbeiten: Sie haben nichts Geringeres vor, als sämtliche drei bekannten Menschenwelten aus den Angeln zu heben. Jack muss sich wieder als Weltenretter versuchen. Zum Glück findet er sein magisches Königsschwert. Aber als er zuschlagen will, stellt sich ihm eine höchst geheimnisvolle Frau gegenüber: die Königin des Lärms. Und ihr Schrei bringt Tod und Chaos. Tom DeHaven ist ein Meister der neuen modernen Fantasy. Über seine Trilogie „Der Tramp des Königs“, die mit diesem Band komplett vorliegt, schrieb der San Francisco Chronicle: „Höchst lesenswert ... voll faszinierender schriller Einfälle.“
