 | THE CASTLE by Franz Kafka (Hardcover Definitive Edition) by Franz Kafka
Buy used from: $14.50 This is a good start.
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 | A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Buy used from: $31.00 violent reality.
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: $15.75 / Used from: $12.74 Science (scream!) fiction and the future. Also: cyberpunk.
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 | 1984
Buy used from: $23.85 We all know this one, but have you seen the movie?
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 | THIS PERFECT DAY by Ira Levin
Buy used from: $12.98 Dystopia disguised as paradise?
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 | The Island
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $1.20 A believable scenario in the not-so-distant future. Exciting conclusion. What if it were you?
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 | Brazil
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.45 A fantasy mixed into a seeming reality. Terry Gilliam has spoken.
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 | Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.94 A book of great predictive force. Welcome to the future.
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 | Re-Animator (2 Disc Set + Highlighter)
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $11.81 If you've never seen this prepare for some laughs.
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 | Bride of Re-Animator
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $7.04 NOT quite as hilarious as the first movie but really hard to go through sober.
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 | Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $26.89 Read this anthology in my youth. Try "The Jigsaw Man" by Larry Niven. Scifi writers sometimes get it right.
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 | The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, Revised and Expanded Edition by Jonathan Clements
Buy new: $22.76 / Used from: $2.32 Wonder what the kids are watching on video? This is an excellent overview and reference on anime. 2006
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 | Seven Samurai (Criterion Collection Spine #2)
Buy used from: $10.73 Skill, courage, and the ability to work for free to defend peasants makes this one of the greatest epics of all time. Copied by Hollywood.
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 | eXistenZ
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.58 Now this is really bizarre! Worth a look.
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 | Strange Days
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.98 How new technology becomes prohibited because of people's ingenuity.
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 | The 6th Day
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.49 Now this futuristic Schwarzenegger really starts to roll!
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![Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged [WEB 3RD NEW INTL DICT UNABRIDG]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41vBoLh4utL._SL75_.jpg) | Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged [WEB 3RD NEW INTL DICT UNABRIDG]
Buy used from: $130.00 Every home should have one--or the on-line version.
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| KABUKI ENCYCLOPEDIA: AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE ADAPTATION OF KABUKI JITEN by Samuel L Leiter
Buy used from: $3.39 For those adventuresome individuals out there who would like to know the art-forms of a major culture. Informative.
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 | Asimov's New Guide to Science (Penguin Press Science) by Isaac Asimov
Buy used from: $18.65 With Isaac Asimov, you learn more than you intended.
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 | The Matrix Reloaded (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $0.01 Did you think I was going to forget this one?
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 | Minority Report (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.72 The road to hell is paved with good intentions. In this dystopia we have technology that (again) fails.
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 | Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.62 This is the big one. Cyberpunk becomes Hollywood.
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 | Manga: The Complete Guide by Jason Thompson
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $1.93 Back to Japanese again. Manga [comic books] is for adults too!
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 | A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to DVDs and Videos by Donald Richie
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.02 Historical perspective. A detailed analysis of Japan's film industry.
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 | Ran - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $26.50 Kurasawa's King Lear. Spectacular filmsets and great acting make this a want-to-see. Subtitles.
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 | Metropolis
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $3.50 Dystopia, Anime style. Simply ravishing coloring.
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