Despite not always being set in some kind of off-world, futuristic space colony, the aforementioned tropes have been featured so heavily in cover designs they have become synonymous with the oft maligned and much adored genre. With the proliferation of mass market science fiction paperbacks through the decades there was a high demand for visually […]
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Who is the better detective, Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot?
As avid readers of the crime fiction genre, here at World of Rare Books we just can not decide who is the best detective out of the two most well-known figures in crime fiction. Whilst they each have different methods, it is very hard to compare them. Sherlock focuses on a clue and all the […]
Step back in time | First Published Books Volume Four
We bring you volume four of our brilliant first published books series. These classic authors debuted the below books before launching a fantastic novel later that just took off. So here are another group of our favourites here from World of Rare Books. George Eliot – Adam Bede (1859) Adam Bede was the first novel […]