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Three BBC radio productions of major works by James Joyce - plus Gordon Bowker’s fascinating biographical account of his life.

En route to London from New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Struggling to stay alive, the survivors soon realize that the world they've crashed in is very different from the one they left. But where are they? Why are they here? And how will they get back home?

Today’s fans of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to hear about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and Diana Gabaldon, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.  

A young woman fighting to break her chains. A young man fighting to keep his own shackles locked tight. A dying world only they can save. The Confederacy of Man is on the brink of collapse twenty years after its armies brutally wiped magic from its thirsting lands, but all that rebellious Kathiria can focus on from within the confining walls of her manor is evading her dreaded duty as a bride prize. When Deklan, a handsome but mysterious noble with a shadowy past, shows up with a proposition that promises escape, she jumps at the chance to break out of her box.

Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett’s last - and most successful - novel. Following the enormous success of The Thin Man movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length novellas for the films that became After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man.