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Arthur Conan Doyle is well known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but he also wrote numerous works in which the great detective played no part. Included here are a selection of the best, ranging from science fiction to tales of supernatural terror and rip-roaring adventures set in Jacobean and Regency England.

A window is but a piece of glass through which we view the world outside. It is not meant to distort. It is not intended to do anything but show us things as they are. At Oxford, though, there is a very particular window that reveals a very particular view. It is a view that defies all laws of nature and science. And when a detective is called in to investigate, he is startled to find that view opens a window into his own life–and a mystery he has never been able to solve.

It is a simple question that is as profound as any we can ask: “Who am I?” Dr. Vikram Anthony is that rare person who believes the answer is relatively simple. I am my work; I am my skill; I am my mind. It is only when the noted surgeon faces his own mortality that the answer gets more complex. And the opportunity for a new life–a decidedly different life–opens a world of possibilities he’d never imagined.

Dr. Schneider bekommt Besuch von der Erde: Seine beiden Söhne, Roland und Martin, wollen einige Zeit bei ihrem Vater wohnen, der auf der Raumstation Orbit Challenger nach einem neuartigen Medikament forscht. Den beiden Jungen fällt sofort James Wingrove unangenehm auf; als kurz nach ihrer Ankunft eine Explosion im Labor ihres Vaters stattfindet, wird Wingrove sofort von den beiden verdächtigt.

Auf der Raumstation "Orbit Challenger" wird eine Bombe entdeckt, im letzten Moment kann der gefährdete Bereich isoliert werden, aber damit ist klar geworden, dass irgendjemand vorhat, die Station zu zerstören. Der Verdacht fällt auf einen nordafrikanischen Staat, dessen Präsident Kadidi sich gegenüber den westlichen Staaten profilieren will. Kurz darauf wird ein Space Shuttle der Station entführt, schafft aber den Eintritt in die Erdatmosphäre nicht und explodiert.

Coupland's iconic novels brought to life in two full-cast adaptations: In this adaptation by Theo Toksvig-Stewart, Douglas Coupland's brilliantly funny novel Microserfs takes a microscope to working culture in the early days of the tech boom. Perhaps one of Coupland's most iconic novels, Girlfriend in a Coma begins in December 1979 when 17-year-old Karen unexpectedly falls into a deep coma after a teen house party.

It is June 1940. The war against Hitler’s forces is raging. And the tide is turning against the British. In this hour of despair, Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives a mysterious letter from an even more mysterious woman, offering a Faustian bargain and a promise of victory. But if Churchill accepts, will he be condemning his nation’s very soul?