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Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business?deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in ?half-life,? a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter?s face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all.

In a dusty school room on the outskirts of Jerusalem, an elderly Rabbi unearths an extraordinary and inexplicable pattern within the hidden codes of the Torah. In a tiny laboratory in Seattle, a young physicist begins work on a revolutionary wave-pattern theory that could change the face of science forever. In a lecture hall in Orlando, intelligence operative Calder Farris uncovers a clue to a potentially devastating threat to national security. While off the coast of Florida, freelance reporter Denton Wyle receives information that could blow the lid off every missing persons case in the history of mankind. Soon their investigations will uncover a common link and, as their paths converge, the future of all mankind will hang in the balance.

In THE GUNSLINGER, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, THE GUNSLINGER leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. And the Tower is closer.

Earth is no longer humanity's only home and new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between, and in the year 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future, and an unexpected death will change the life of Swan Er Hong, a designer of worlds.