Five seminal science fiction classics are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt."Frankenstein" (1994) is adapted from one of the first science fiction novels, Mary Shelley's tale of a scientist who tries to play God and creates a monster."The Time Machine" (2009) dramatises one of the first stories to feature time travel, H...

Wells' thrilling story of an inventor who travels in time and discovers a nightmarish dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This first ever UK radio adaptation, starring Robert Glenister as the Time Traveller and William Gaunt as H. G. Wells, brings Wells' fascinating ideas and extraordinary visions to vivid life. It opens in 1943, when Wells is recording a talk for the Home Service in which he questions mankind's future. After the broadcast, he spends the evenin...

Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fictionDark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of time-travel, totalitarianism and terror, written by some of the masters of speculative fiction and adapted for radio with all-star casts.The Time Machine

The Law of Shipbuilding Contracts examines the principles of English contract law as these apply to shipbuilding. The leading text on shipbuilding and marine construction, widely used by the global maritime community, this new edition is updated to account for the "long tail" effects of the global economic crisis on the sector.The authors provide expert analysis on the key shipbuilding contract forms, including sections dealing with agreements ancillary to the shipbuilding...

The Galactic Union now knows of Galanar's covert mission to find the Daleks. But what exactly has Galanar discovered?The Daleks seem poised to eradicate the deadly NFS plague. The Graxis Wardens are adrift in Dalek territory, hopelessly outnumbered. It would seem that the future belongs to the Dalek Supreme...©2004 Big Finish Productions (P)2004 Big Finish Productions

At the end of Dalek Empire 2, Siy Tarkov set off from Valyshaa with vital information warning of an imminent Dalek invasion.20 years later, the only proof Tarkov ever existed is a garbled message, calling for help. But no-one is listening...©2004 Big Finish Productions (P)2004 Big Finish Productions

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative st...

"Fugitives still at liberty!"Galanar and Elaria have discovered that they were transformed into genetically augmented warriors over two thousand years ago. The Alternative Daleks responsible have long departed. Galanar and Elaria also know that they were created to destroy the Daleks forever...But how can they do that when they are facing a Dalek execution squad?The Graxis Wardens have penetrated deep into Dalek territory, without a hope of victory. Meanwhi...

"We should only be scared of the unknown... And we know what's going to happen here!"The Graxis Wardens, Galanar, Elaria and Tarkov are heading for the planet Velyshaa, where ultimate knowledge, victory or defeat awaits them.But the Dalek Supreme's forces are in pursuit. They have superior numbers, firepower and technology. And the largest Dalek army history has ever known is being created.How will history remember these final days on Velyshaa?©2004...

Siy Tarkov must convince a doubting Galactic Union that a Dalek invasion is imminent. Agent Galanar is on a covert mission to find a definitive proof of menace of the Daleks.But the Border Worlds are being ravaged by a deadly plague infection. An infection the Daleks are offering to cure.Meanwhile, the Graxis Wardens' ecological paradise is about to be torn apart...©2004 Big Finish Productions (P)2004 Big Finish Productions

The Galactic Union remain blissfully unaware of the Dalek threat. And in the Border Worlds, the Daleks appear to be helping cure the deadly NFS plague which has claimed millions of lives.Only the Graxis Wardens know the truth about the Daleks... And they have been all but wiped out.The Daleks are beginning to show their true colours, but now it may be too late to stop them.©2004 Big Finish Productions (P)2004 Big Finish Productions

‘A novel to marvel at’ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH‘Like Karl Ove Knausegaard at the end of the world’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Astonishing’ MICHAEL MAGEE‘Left me awestruck’ HANNAH MURRAYThe acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.In a famed but crumbling university c...