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Time and Stars

By: Anderson, Poul

Price: $6.44

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday Science Fiction: 1964

Seller ID: 001510

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

From the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club comes this new anthology of short stories written by the author. The stories included are: No Truce With Kings, Turning Point, Escape From Orbit, Epilogue, The Critique of Impure Reason, and Eve Times Four. A space ship pilot attempts to isolate a few lovely ladies for his own purposes, on what he thinks is an uninhabited planet (Eve Times Four) . A scout team from Earth discovers that the natives of Joril are more intelligent than human beings (Turning Point) . A future - and fragmented - America fights for its spiritual, as well as its physical in...
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Spider Legs

By: Anthony, Piers; Pickover, Clifford A.

Price: $10.58

Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Tor Books: 1998

Seller ID: 001998

ISBN: 0312864655

Condition: New in New dust jacket

It is said that there are more things under heaven and earth than there are almost anywhere else; true as well that many of them lurk, unsuspected, far below the surface of the planet's ocean. For thousands of years, mankind has simultaneously trusted in the sea's proverbial generosity, and used it as a dumping ground, trusting that in its vastness his garbage will be swallowed up and forgotten. But that was never really true. And now, in an age when the overcrowded Earth swarms with hungry inhabitants whose waste chokes even the sea, whose greedy demands overtax its seemingly endless bounty, ...
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Shadows Bend: a Novel of the Fantastic and Unspeakable

By: Barbour, David; Raleigh, Richard

Price: $6.44

Publisher: E Rutherford, New Jersey, U. S. A., Berkley Pub Group: 2000

Seller ID: 001509

ISBN: 0441007651

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Two future legends. One ancient evil. H. P. Lovecraft was a writer famous for his eerie tales of the macabre; Robert E. Howard was a writer whose barbarian character Conan became a literary legend. But few know the real story that inspired these masters of pulp fiction. The story that begins on a dark and stormy night. A night tortured by the cries of an inhuman infant. A child who would open the gates to the most dangerous force in the cosmos - the ancient god Cthulhu. And only two men - two eccentric writers - can stop him. 311 pages. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall.
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A Paradigm of Earth

By: Dorsey, Candas Jane

Price: $6.44

Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Tor Books: 2002

Seller ID: 001593

ISBN: 0312877978

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

This is a science fiction parable about a woman named Morgan and her offbeat household. In the near future, when political and social conservatism dominate society, Morgan inherits a big, century-old mansion in a prairie city and moves there to rebuild her life. She fills the house with misfits and political outcasts - in a sense, orphans like herself. But the final tenant is one she never could have imagined: An alien child. Publisher's Weekly said of this book: "Dorsey has produced a powerful character study filled with color and highly emotive language. Morgan's development from a depre...
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The Fortress of Glass : the First Volume of the Crown of the Isles

By: Drake, David

Price: $13.80

Publisher: New York, Tor: 2006

Seller ID: 002801

ISBN: 076531259X

Condition: New in New dust jacket

In Lord of the Isles, David Drake has built a towering and complex continuing epic of heroic adventure filled with passion and magic and set in an extraordinary and colorful world. The Fortress of Glass is the first in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude Lord of the Isles. A true trilogy, the action extends over a whole three-book arc. This book begins the story of how the new kingdom of the Isles is finally brought into being by the group of heroes and heroines who have been central to all the books in the series. All journey across the seas on giant triremes filled with soldi...
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The Big Eye

By: Ehrlich, Max

Price: $5.01

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1949

Seller ID: SF-05001

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

This is a science fiction novel The Big Eye refers to the largest refracting telescope, and it is located in New York. But there was something strange; almost all of New York was without light. David Hughes had heard this, now saw it for himself as he was flying over the area, preparing to land. The plane was going to land aand Hughes was the only passanger on the large 70-seat plane. He was on his way to the Palomar observatory and his boss, Dr. Dawson, Binding is good, Wear on all edges and a dent on the top near the corner. 1/2" tear at bottom spine. 221 pages, slightly yellowed. 8vo - ...
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Virtual Light

By: Gibson, William

Price: $7.36

Publisher: New York, Ny, U. S. A., Bantam Books: 1993

Seller ID: 000934

ISBN: 0553074997

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

From the writer who coined the word "cyberspace" comes this fascinating science fiction novel. The entire U. S. Has crumbled due to earthquakes all over. There are squatters making little homes on the Golden Gate Bridge. A young woman, who becomes the main character, is a bicycle messenger who delivers a message to a businessman and he comes on to her in a vulgar way. She leaves, grabbing his sunglasses off his desk, but when she puts them on, they aren't really sunglasses but something that allows her to see into another realm of life. The businessman is killed, and everyone is search...
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The Merlin Mystery

By: Gunson, Jonathan; Coombe, Marten

Price: $6.44

Publisher: New York, Warner Books: 1998

Seller ID: 000401

ISBN: 0446524328

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Hidden in the text and breathtaking illustrations of this tale is an absorbing puzzle. It was published simultaneously all over the world on September 7, 1998, validated by Mensa, and considered more fascinating than the treasure hunt in the bestseller Masquerade. (Contest ended December 31, 2001) The binding has a bit of wear at two corners, and near the bottom spine. 47 pages, all beautifully illustrated with borders and additional illustrations within the text. 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall. ; 4to - over 9Â¾ - 12" tall
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Second Nature

By: Hoffman, Alice

Price: $7.82

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1994

Seller ID: 001229

ISBN: 0399139087

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Second Nature is a modern fairy tale about a place where all things are possible: Where deer can weep, and winter ice turn blood-red, roses bloom all at once - and where love has nothing to do with common sense. It is a spellbinding story that hints at unexpencted answers to timeless questions, questions about innocence and wickedness, desire and obsession. This is a novel of suspense and natural enchantment. The jacket has minor wear at the top and bottom corners and top edge. The spine edges are lightly worn with a 1/2" tear at the top back near the spine. There are a few rubbed spots on...
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Ole Doc Methuselah

By: Hubbard, L. Ron

Price: $8.31

Publisher: Los Angeles, California, U. S. A., Bridge Pubns: 1992

Seller ID: 001945

ISBN: 0884046532

Condition: New in Very Good dust jacket

These are the Intergalactic Adventures of the Soldier of Light. Ole Doc Methuselah was the name by which he was known on a myriad of scattered planets, for he was the most famous member of the most elite organization of the cosmos, the Soldiers of Light. But he was no soldier in the military sense, for the enemies he fought were disease, corruption, and the warped psychology that spead in the isolation of mankind's lost planetary colonies. Encountering double-dealing, mutation and the unexpected, Ole Doc and his unique, multi-armed companion Hippocrates share a series of astonishing adventures...
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The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich: a Study of the Mass-Insanity At Smithville

By: Leiber, Fritz

Price: $7.36

Publisher: New York, New York, U. S. A., Tor Books: 1998

Seller ID: 001541

ISBN: 0312866224

Condition: New with no dust jacket

The Washington Post Book World said "This slim novel delivers a powerful punch and fully deserves its late unveiling. A deeper look reveals a startling postmodernism a very timely fable indeed. Fritz Leiber was one of the most famous fantasy and SF writers of the century, the author of many classics, including the popular Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fantasy series. In 1936, young Leiber, then in correspondence with H. P. Lovecraft, drafted this eerie story. Now Tor is pleased to present in its first paperback publication this short novel of cosmic dread and Lovecraftian horror. 8vo - over 7...
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All the Lives He Led

By: Pohl, Frederik

Price: $11.04

Publisher: New York, NY, TOR: 2011

Seller ID: 003959

Condition: New in New dust jacket

In A. D. 79 Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii under tons of ash, preserving evidence of the city's life before the catastrophe. Now, in 2079, Pompeii is a theme park. In the "new" ancient city, workers act as "authentic" Pompeiians and each morning state-of-the-art virtual reality restores the ruins to their pre-eruption splendor and peoples the city with VR ancients. One of the workers, doing well in Pompeii after Yellowstone Park erupted, spreading ash on much of North America, is searching for his girlfriend. He finds information that terrorists may have killed a coworker, a...
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Science Fiction: Daw 30th Anniversary

By: Various

Price: $9.20

Publisher: Bergenfield, New Jersey, U. S. A., Daw Books: 2002

Seller ID: 001318

ISBN: 0756400643

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

This is a compendium of science fiction short stories that have appeared in DAW in the last thirty years. The stories appear in chronological order, based on the first time the author was published in DAW. Some of the authors are Brian Stableford, C. J. Cherryh, Frederik Pohl, Timothy Zahn, Ian Watson, Lisanne Norman, and so on. 462 pages. 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall.
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Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon: the Illustrated Novel

By: Weis, Margaret; Baldwin, David (Created by) Several Contributing Authors

Price: $11.04

Publisher: New York, Harper Prism: 1997

Seller ID: 001221

ISBN: 0061055433

Condition: New in New dust jacket

I chose Immortality - and eternal servitude in the battle. This is the Premier Edition of this anthology. Open the windows of your imagination, experience the power of the illustrated novel, and meet the Wyrm. . . . My name at one time was Justinian, Earl of Sterling, but I traded my title and my soul to protect my family from the Black Plague. " Justin Sterling's centuries-spanning story begins with these words. A different storyteller escorts us through each mysterious era of Justin's six centuries of service, beginning near the present - in the crime haunted environs of modern Chicago, ...
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