Walter Tevis Sci-Fi Novels: The Man Who Fell to Earth, Mockingbird, The Steps of the Sun
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The basis for the 1976 science fiction film staring David Bowie, WalterTevis’s The Man Who Fell to Earth is included in this bundle withtwo of the authors other science fiction novels, Mockingbird and The Steps of the Sun . Futuristic settings make the stark, grimrealities of his character’s lives all the more startling.The Man Who Fell to Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien disguised as a human who comes to Earth ona mission to save his people. Devastated by nuclear war, his home planet,Anthea, is no longer habitable. Newton lands in Kentucky and startspatenting Anthean technology, amassing the fortune he needs to build aspaceship that will bring the last 300 Anthean survivors to Earth. Butinstead of the help he seeks, he finds only self-destruction, sinking intoalcoholism, abandoning his spaceship, and can save neither his people norhimself.In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, ahandful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic,dying landscape. A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled byelectronic bliss. A dying world of no children and no art, where reading isforbidden. And a strange love Spofforth, who runs the world, themost perfect machine ever created, whose only wish is to die; and Paul andMary Lou, a man and a woman whose passion for each other is the only hopefor the future of human beings on earth.The Steps of the In a world where America’s power is rapidly being overshadowed by China’s,only one man has the wealth, resources, and courage to seek the mineralresources his country needs to reclaim its greatness. Ben Belson, therichest man in the world, lacks for nothing his wealth can buy—but he ishaunted by the memory of a barren and loveless childhood. When he travelsto the stars in search of the mineral wealth America needs, he finds morethan he bargains for—and gets more than he ever believed was possible.