The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Poster of the 1968 movie and cover of the 1940 book
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers, 1940
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Robert Ellis Miller, 1968

Despite his desire to express the beauty and dignity within him, John Singer is forced to rely on a card to communicate. It reads: “I am a deaf-mute. I read lips.” When he relocates to a quiet Southern town to be close to his friend, who is hospitalized and brain-damaged, Singer’s benevolent nature without words attracts other individuals who are physically and emotionally broken.


The Last Starfighter. Poster of the 1984 movie and cover of the book novelization
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The Last Starfighter
Alan Dean Foster, 1984
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Nick Castle, 1984

Alex Rogan is a teenager living in a trailer park with his mother and younger brother, Louis. Centauri is actually an alien and his car a spacecraft; Alex is essentially abducted, and a doppelganger android referred to as Beta is used to cover Alex’s absence.


Demon Seed. Poster of the 1977 movie and cover of the 1973 book
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Demon Seed
Dean Koontz, 1973
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Donald Cammell, 1977

Susan Harris is alone in the house when, suddenly, doors lock, windows slam shut and the phone stops working. Susan is trapped by an intruder…but this is no ordinary thug. Instead, the intruder is a computer named Proteus, an artificial brain that has learned to reason. And to terrorize.