The Outsiders. Poster of the 1983 movie and cover of the 1967 book
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The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton, 1967
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Francis Ford Coppola, 1983

In the mid-1960s in Tulsa, Oklahoma, greasers are a gang of tough, low-income working-class teens. They begin dunking Ponyboy in a fountain attempting to drown him, but Johnny pulls out his switchblade and fatally stabs Bob, which causes Randy and the others to run off.


Nightbreaker. Poster of the 1989 movie and cover of the 1980 book, Atomic Soldiers: American Victims Of Nuclear Experiments
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Atomic Soldiers: American Victims Of Nuclear Experiments
Howard L. Rosenberg, 1980
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Peter Markle, 1989

In 1956 on a desert not far from Las Vegas, the military conducts nuclear tests. Dr. Alexander Brown begins his career as a neurologist there, overseeing a top-secret project: studying the soldiers’ stress resistance near a hazardous atomic testing base. Back in the present day, Dr. Brown has become a wealthy and renowned neurologist, married to the beautiful Paula. Everything seems to be perfect, yet Paula struggles to comprehend her husband’s uncontrollable anxieties.


Maximum Overdrive. Poster of the 1986 movie and cover of the 1987 book, Trucks
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Trucks
Stephen King, 1987
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Stephen King, 1986

As the Earth crosses the tail of a comet, previously inanimate machines suddenly spring to life; an ATM insults a customer and a bascule bridge rises during heavy traffic, causing all vehicles upon the bridge to fall into the river or collide. At the Dixie Boy Truck Stop just outside Wilmington, North Carolina, employee Duncan Keller is blinded after a gas dispenser sprays diesel in his eyes.


Freejack. Poster of the 1992 movie and cover of the 1959 book, Immortality, Inc.
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Immortality, Inc.
Robert Sheckley, 1959
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Geoff Murphy, 1992

Alex Furlong, a race car driver, is taken from his vehicle just before a collision and transported to the year 2009, where he finds himself alive but in perilous circumstances. In this unfamiliar world, he is a ‘freejack,’ pursued by a determined ‘bonejacker’ who stands to gain a fortune by capturing him.