Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become national champion and to play the world grandmasters

T.J. Newton, an extraterrestrial on a mission to save his home planet, crash lands on earth, where he is condemned to a life of loneliness as he tries to build another spaceship

After 20 years of hibernation, former pool champion "Fast" Eddie Felson is playing exhibition matches with former rival Minnesota Fats in shopping malls for prizes like cable television. With one failed marriage and years of running a pool hall, Eddie is now ready to regain the skills needed to compete in a world of pool that has changed dramatically since he left it behind. The real challenge comes when Eddie realizes that in order to compete successfully, he must hone his skills in the game of nine-ball as opposed to the straight pool that had once won him fame. With a new generation of competitors, fear and doubt and the daily possibility of failure arise, giving Fast Eddie a new challenge to overcome. The Color of Money is the source of the 1986 film starring Paul Newman in the role he had originated in The Hustler.

Fast Eddie Felson--young, sure of himself, and considered by some to be one of the best pool hustlers around--sets out from California to Chicago until he meets his match in the undefeated Minnesota Fats. Reissue.

On energy-poor Earth of the twenty-first century, all Ben Belsen has to do to realize his dream of finding cheap fuel in outer space is to aquire a spaceship and crew, escape from Earth, locate the fuel, and make it back