Author: Stephenson, Neal
Published: June 1992

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.

“Brilliantly realized . . . Stephenson turns out to be an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow.”
—The New York Times Book Review

Author: Lovecraft, H. P.
Published: March 1922

A university student is forced, by his lack of funds, to take the only lodging he can afford. In a strange part of the city he had never seen before, on a street named “Rue d’Auseil”, he finds an apartment in an almost empty building. One of the few other tenants is an old German man named Erich Zann.