Three great stories — The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance — the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an attempt to imagine the real pain and horror that would accompany space travel.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York’s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

‘Good b.o means good «box office.» You can smell it from a mile away’The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol’s hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, Fame and beauty.