Tunnel Vision
10 best books like Tunnel Vision (Keith Lowe): Thin Skin, Dreamworld, The City Under Ground, Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface, The Smoky God, Or, a Voyage to the Inner World, Floating, Fake Liar Cheat, Dogrun, Pieces: A Collection of New Voices
| Author | Emma Forrest |
| ISBN | 0743464818 |
From the author dubbed "a literary Lolita" by Vanity Fair comes the perfect portrait of a young actress caught in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Edgy and funny at the same time, Thin Skin provides a realistic glimpse into the dark and inviting world of fame from the writer who penned Namedropper...
| Author | Jane Goldman |
| ISBN | 0671787209 |
When it comes to crime in Dreamworld, the sprawling Florida vacation resort might as well be never-never land. That's because the bad things that happen there never reach the press. As an ambitious rookie cop on the community's security force, twenty-five-year-old Sylvia Avery toes the company line,...
| Author | Suzanne Martel |
| ISBN | 0888992009 |
A community, known as Surreal, has developed from a small band of survivors who retreated at the time of the Great Destruction, In the following centuries a civilization which is technologically, intellectually, and socially extremely advanced has been developed. Despite the widespread belief...
| Author | Jen Sincero |
| ISBN | 0743453913 |
At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. Items on her new to-do list include:
1) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.
2) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.
3) Hang out in...
Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface
| Author | David Standish |
| ISBN | 0306813734 |
Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 1691 by Sir Edmond Halley (of comet fame), who also suggested that there might be life down there as well. Hollow Earth traces the many surprising, marvelous,...
The Smoky God, Or, a Voyage to the Inner World
| Author | Willis George Emerson |
| ISBN | 1604246723 |
Willis George Emerson wrote the Smoky God in 1908. It is subtitled A Voyage to the Inner Earth. Olaf Jansen was a Norwegian sailor who sailed his sloop though an entrance near the North Pole to the earth's interior. This novel is an early example of an underground civilization. Jansen spent two years living...
| Author | Robin Troy |
| ISBN | 0671024493 |
Winner of the MTV Fiction Contest
Marking the debut of a vibrant new voice in American fiction, Floating is a poignant and sharply original novel about the fragile boundaries between desire, love, and betrayal. For most people, Whitticker, Arizona, population 641, is just a rest stop on a highway...
| Author | Tod Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0743400569 |
Lonnie Milton has all of life's essential accessory pieces: a 401(K) plan, a nice TV, a coffee table from Pottery Barn. The only thing missing is an actual life. Trapped in a dead-end job, Lonnie meets Claire, the perfect deliverance from his safe, boring, and even worse, ordinary life. Sucked into the...
| Author | Arthur Nersesian |
| ISBN | 0671775421 |
mary bellanova came home to her east village apartment, cooked dinner, and fought with her boyfriend, primo. but soon mary realized that primo's silence in front of the tv set was more than just one of his bad moods: primo was actually dead.
other guys had abandoned mary before,but primo's exit was...
| Author | Stephen Chbosky |
| ISBN | 0671001957 |
MTV has discovered the authors of tomorrow. Read them today in Pieces.
This unique short-story collection is more than a good read—it's an exciting glimpse into the future of fiction. The winners of MTV's "Write Stuff" competition share their voices and visions in tales that are endearingly...
| Author | Bruce Hale |
| ISBN | 0060851244 |
It's tough to be ZeKe.
He's got his hands full: There is his prissy, know-it-all twin sister; his mean cousin Caitlyn, who's house-sitting for his missing parents; and a bully making life tough at school (as though it wasn't hard enough already). And now, thanks to a stinky, scruffy, good-for-nothing...
| Author | Spencer Lamm |
| ISBN | 1932700099 |
The masterminds behind The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions unveil a second collection of comics tales based on their epic creation, starring some of the biggest names in comics! Spinning out of concepts by the Wachowski Brothers, this new volume features stories and artwork...
| Author | Lisa Goldstein |
| ISBN | 0312868278 |
Lisa Goldstein has published eight novels, including the recent Walking the Labyrinth. Her novel The Red Magician won the American Book Award for Best Paperback. She has also published a short story collection, Travellers in Magic, and numerous short stories. Her novels and short stories have been...
Worth the price of admission just for the stories "I'm Scared," and "Of Missing Persons." The latter was once a staple of high school literature textbooks (mid-1960s), and still holds up today. This collection was cited by Stephen King as having defined the boundaries of what later became Rod Serling's...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0440410681 |
I love the Edward Gorey cover. Aiken and Gorey go together perfectly well. Aiken and Gorey sounds like the name of some sort of weird and gothic medical drama, sort of like House, if House investigated talking warts and haemogoblins and phantom limbs where you have an extra pair of hands doing unimaginable...
| Author | Louisa Luna |
| ISBN | 0743439953 |
Melody is just out of prison. Faced with the absence of her brother, who's serving life in San Quentin, and hardened by her own experiences in lock-up, Mel sturggles to adjust to the harsh realities of life on the outside. She quickly discovers that freeedom is relative...she has no money, no prospects,...
| Author | Helen Simpson |
| ISBN | 0099494183 |
A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.
Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman finds grief for her lost lover is assuaged when she invests in a new front door. Another grows...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0449243281 |
The book gets off to a bad start by arguing that someone suffering from PTSD is a better judge of human character than a society of pacifists. Why SHOULD refugees fleeing devastated homelands be relentless pillagers? It's rarely so, why would it be so here? Perhaps the narrator's unquestioned assertion...
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
The Little Baron Trump is a man of adventure. He and his dog Bulger have already braved many adventures together, but at the time our story opens, they are kind of dull at home, upset with the increasing familiarity of both two- and four legged neighbours. What to do? Luckily, an old manuscript of the learned...
| Author | Cheryl Kaye Tardif |
| ISBN | 1926997174 |
How far do we go until we've gone too far? The South Nahanni River has a history of mysterious deaths, disappearances and headless corpses, but it may also hold the key to humanity's survival--or its destruction. Seven years ago, Del Hawthorne's father and three of his friends disappeared near the Nahanni...
| Author | Peter Whitfield |
| ISBN | 0712349189 |
A city long shrouded in literary and historical mists--not to mention real ones--London seduces tourists and natives alike. From Big Ben to the grimy Victorian streets of Dickens novels on up to the sleek high-rises that dot the skyline of the twenty-first-century metropolis, the urban landscape...
The return to the caverns of Chthon! The planet Chthon was a prison world of ruby caverns where rebels and outlaws were exiled to endless darkness. Aton's crime was loving a minionette, one of the sensuous woman warriors it was death to touch. His son Arlo was both minion and human. Arlo's destiny was war...
| Author | Bernard Werber |
| ISBN | 2253072982 |
Nous ne sommes pas seuls sur Terre.
À côté de nous, à nos pieds, entre nos maisons, vit une autre civilisation.
Les fourmis.
Elles étaient sur Terre bien avant nous. Il y a plus de 100 millions d'années, alors que nos plus lointains ancêtres ne sont apparus qu'il y a 3 millions d'années.
Elles...
