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From early work like \"Rescue Party\" and \"The Lion of Comarre,\" through classics like \"The Star,\" \"Earthlight,\" \"The Nine Billion Names of God,\" and \"The Sentinel\" (kernel of the later novel, and movie, \u003ci\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e), all the way to later work like \"A Meeting with Medusa\" and \"The Hammer of God,\" this immense volume encapsulates one of the great SF careers of all time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScience Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eShort Stories\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Used - Poor","offer_id":45261062045886,"sku":"0312878214-6","price":44.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/61cCQndclnL.jpg?v=1754076233"},{"product_id":"1888363657-no_more","title":"No More","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eSex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) ... and impossible to achieve (death). But no book of hers embodies this idea so powerfully, so excessively, as No More (C'est Tout), the book she composed during the last year of her life until just days before her death. No More is literature shorn of all its niceties, a shout from the depths of Duras's being, celebrating life in defiance of the death she knew had already entered her immediate future. In part, it is also Duras' raucous salutation welcoming death. 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