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Alas, Babylonby Pat FrankISBN 0553278835 (0-553-27883-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alas, Babylon'Book summary:Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away.
But for one small Florida town, spared against all the odds, the struggle was just beginning, as men and women of all ages and races found the courage to join together and push against the darkness. [via]
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Animal Farmby George Orwell, C. M. WoodhouseISBN 0452277507 (0-452-27750-7)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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Animal Farmby Naura HaydenISBN 0582530083 (0-582-53008-3)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
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The Arctic Incidentby Eoin ColferISBN 0613629272 (0-613-62927-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arctic Incident'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold. [via]
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Artemis Fowlby Eoin ColferISBN 0606246185 (0-606-24618-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Blue Marsby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553573357 (0-553-57335-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Mars'Book summary:On the brink of completing the terraforming effort on Mars, colonists find their work complicated by a crisis on Earth, new colonization projects on Jupiter and Saturn, and the onset of a Martian ice age. [via]
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
Hardcover
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Cradleby Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry LeeISBN 0575041641 (0-575-04164-1)
Hardcover, V. Gollancz
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The Difference Engineby Bruce Sterling, William GibsonISBN 055329461X (0-553-29461-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Difference Engine'Book summary:A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. [via]
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The Difference Engineby William GibsonISBN 055307346X (0-553-07346-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Difference Engine'Book summary:A collaborative novel from the premier cyberpunk authors, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0460017675 (0-460-01767-5)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 055321277X (0-553-21277-X)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYD: ISBN 0553212001 (0-553-21200-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0582018188 (0-582-01818-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories: ISBN 0460017675 (0-460-01767-5)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 055321277X (0-553-21277-X)
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Ear, the Eye and the Armby Nancy FarmerISBN 0531068293 (0-531-06829-3)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ear, the Eye and the Arm'Book summary:In Zimbabwe, in the year 2194, young Tendai and his siblings are kidnapped and put to work in plastic mines, only to escape and be hunted by detectives with superior senses and a plan to sacrifice Tendai to ignite a spirit invasion of their land. [via]
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Equal Ritesby Terry PratchettISBN 0552131059 (0-552-13105-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Equal Rites'Book summary:The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did before he died was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic world of magic, he failed to check on the newborn baby's sex. From the author of GUARDS! GUARDS!, WYRD SISTERS, and HOGFATHER. [via]
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The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Leonard WolfISBN 0452269695 (0-452-26969-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature has given voice to our own fears of the depravity within all of us. Wolf's extensive annotations throughout the text reveal the psychological depths of the Jekyll and Hyde story and bring the tale's intricate details to light. [via]
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Eyre Affairby Jasper FfordeISBN 0613629019 (0-613-62901-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyre Affair'Book summary:Penzler Pick, January 2002: When I first heard the premise of this unique mystery, I doubted that a first-time author could pull off a complicated caper involving so many assumptions, not the least of which is a complete suspension of disbelief. Jasper Fforde is not only up to the task, he exceeds all expectations.
Imagine this. Great Britain in 1985 is close to being a police state. The Crimean War has dragged on for more than 130 years and Wales is self-governing. The only recognizable thing about this England is her citizens' enduring love of literature. And the Third Most Wanted criminal, Acheron Hades, is stealing characters from England's cherished literary heritage and holding them for ransom.
Bibliophiles will be enchanted, but not surprised, to learn that stealing a character from a book only changes that one book, but Hades has escalated his thievery. He has begun attacking the original manuscripts, thus changing all copies in print and enraging the reading public. That's why Special Operations Network has a Literary Division, and it is why one of its operatives, Thursday Next, is on the case.
Thursday is utterly delightful. She is vulnerable, smart, and, above all, literate. She has been trying to trace Hades ever since he stole Mr. Quaverley from the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and killed him. You will only remember Mr. Quaverley if you read Martin Chuzzlewit prior to 1985. But now Hades has set his sights on one of the plums of literature, Jane Eyre, and he must be stopped.
How Thursday achieves this and manages to preserve one of the great books of the Western canon makes for delightfully hilarious reading. You do not have to be an English major to be pulled into this story. You'll be rooting for Thursday, Jane, Mr. Rochester--and a familiar ending. --Otto Penzler [via]
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The Food of the Gods: And How It Came to Earthby H. G. WellsISBN 0486448460 (0-486-44846-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Food of the Gods: And How It Came to Earth'Book summary:Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals and humans! The chilling results are disastrous. First published in 1904, this gripping, newly relevant tale of science fiction combines fast-paced entertainment with social commentary as it considers the ethics involved in genetic engineering.[via]More editions of The Food of the Gods: And How It Came to Earth:
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From the Earth to the Moonby Jules VerneISBN 0553214209 (0-553-21420-9)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From the Earth to the Moon'Book summary:Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, jules verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite baltimore gun club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the civil war, their president, impey barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race. A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination, from the earth to the moon is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as verne's timeless masterpieces 20,000 leagues under the sea and around the world in eighty days [via]
From the Earth to the Moon : The Annotated Jules Verneby Walter James Miller, Jules VerneISBN 0517148331 (0-517-14833-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Ghost Legionby Margaret WeisISBN 0553763458 (0-553-76345-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Gods Themselvesby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553288105 (0-553-28810-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gods Themselves'Book summary:Winner of the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. [via]
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The Hammer of Godby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 055356871X (0-553-56871-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. RowlingISBN 0613287142 (0-613-28714-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:What makes the Harry Potter series so successful? Maybe it's the fact that J.K. Rowling doesn't write children's books, she writes children's stories, more in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm than Dr. Seuss. The exploits of Harry and his friends captivate even the shortest attention spans by engaging the imagination with vivid characters and fast-moving action, instead of trying to merely catch the eye with colorful pictures or pop-up effects. Not surprisingly, the Potter tales sound wonderful read aloud, and adapt to the audiobook format extremely well. Broadway actor Jim Dale's impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice--a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing. And thankfully, since the book is read unabridged, no one's favorite character is omitted. Engaging for children without being childish, the audio version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is worthy addition to the deservedly popular series. (Running time: 9 hours, 7 CDs) --Andrew Nieland [via]
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireby J. K. RowlingISBN 0606250336 (0-606-25033-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. RowlingISBN 0613371062 (0-613-37106-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'Book summary:For most children, summer vacation is something to look forward to. But not for our 13-year-old hero, who's forced to spend his summers with an aunt, uncle, and cousin who detest him. The third book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series catapults into action when the young wizard "accidentally" causes the Dursleys' dreadful visitor Aunt Marge to inflate like a monstrous balloon and drift up to the ceiling. Fearing punishment from Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon (and from officials at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who strictly forbid students to cast spells in the nonmagic world of Muggles), Harry lunges out into the darkness with his heavy trunk and his owl Hedwig.
As it turns out, Harry isn't punished at all for his errant wizardry. Instead he is mysteriously rescued from his Muggle neighborhood and whisked off in a triple-decker, violently purple bus to spend the remaining weeks of summer in a friendly inn called the Leaky Cauldron. What Harry has to face as he begins his third year at Hogwarts explains why the officials let him off easily. It seems that Sirius Black--an escaped convict from the prison of Azkaban--is on the loose. Not only that, but he's after Harry Potter. But why? And why do the Dementors, the guards hired to protect him, chill Harry's very heart when others are unaffected? Once again, Rowling has created a mystery that will have children and adults cheering, not to mention standing in line for her next book. Fortunately, there are four more in the works. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPréISBN 0590353403 (0-590-35340-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'Book summary:Paperback edition about 5"x8"x1/2" book that looks just as the picture indicated in the photo of Harry Potter. [via]
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- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: ISBN 059035342X (0-590-35342-X)
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Hardcover, Bt Bound - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: ISBN 0606170979 (0-606-17097-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: ISBN 0590353403 (0-590-35340-3)
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- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: ISBN 059035342X (0-590-35342-X)
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Have Space Suit, Will Travel: Library Editionby Robert HeinleinISBN 0606004793 (0-606-00479-3)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Have Space Suit, Will Travel: Library Edition'Book summary:Kip Russell wants nothing more than to go to the moon. But after entering a contest to help realize his dream, he is thrust into a space adventure he could never have imagined--with the most unlikely of friends and enemies. A favorite among Heinlein readers.
"Here is superior science fiction."
The New York Times
"Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world."
Stephen King
"There is no other writer whose work has exhilarated me as often and to such an extent as Heinlein."
Dean Koontz
"One of the most influential writers in American Literature."
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. Wells, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0460872583 (0-460-87258-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0486290271 (0-486-29027-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of Dr Moreau'Book summary:Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells's prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing "smarter" human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick's adventures on Dr. Moreau's island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read. [via]
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A Journey to the Center of the Earthby Jules VerneISBN 0486440885 (0-486-44088-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journey to the Center of the Earth'Book summary:Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Vernes prophetic novel of mans race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.
When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicanes adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a manned flight, one mans dream turns into an international space race.
A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination, From the Earth to the Moon is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail and startling immediacy as Vernes timeless masterpieces 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days.
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Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - A Journey to the Center of the Earth: ISBN 0590085522 (0-590-08552-2)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - A Journey to the Center of the Earth: ISBN 0606018875 (0-606-01887-5)
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Journey to the Center of the Earthby Billy AronsonISBN 0613052846 (0-613-05284-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Jumperby Steven GouldISBN 0613460812 (0-613-46081-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Lilith's Broodby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0613279417 (0-613-27941-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Machineries of Joyby Ray BradburyISBN 055324695X (0-553-24695-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Maze of Deathby Philip K. DickISBN 0575006943 (0-575-00694-3)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guideby Douglas AdamsISBN 0517693119 (0-517-69311-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The New Rebellionby Kristine K. RuschISBN 0553100939 (0-553-10093-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Rebellion'Book summary:Award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch brings her remarkable talents to the Star Wars(r) universe, where the New Republic faces sudden and total annihilation....
Somewhere in the galaxy, millions suddenly perish--a disruption of the Force so shocking it is felt by Luke at his Jedi academy and by Leia on Coruscant. While Leia must deal with an assassination attempt, a rumored plot against the New Republic, and allegations that Han Solo is involved, Luke seeks out a former Jedi student who may hold the key to the mass destruction. But Brakiss is only the bait in a deadly trap set by a master of the dark side who is determined to rule as emperor. He's targeted Luke, Leia, and Leia's Jedi children to die. Then billions will follow, in a holocaust unequaled in galactic history.
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The New Rebellionby Kristine Kathryn RuschISBN 0553574140 (0-553-57414-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Planet of Twilightby Barbara HamblyISBN 0553575171 (0-553-57517-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Pollenby Jeff NoonISBN 0517599902 (0-517-59990-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pollen'Book summary:If you like challenging science fiction, then Jeff Noon is the author for you.
Pollen is the sequel to Vurt (winner of the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke award), and both are concerned with a world in which dreams, drug-induced hallucination, and reality become completely intermingled. In this volume, the dream world unleashes a pollen that threatens to cause people in the real world to sneeze to death.
But no review can do Noon's writing justice: it's a phantasmagoric combination of the more imaginative science fiction masters, such as Phillip K. Dick, genres such as cyberpunk and pulp fiction, and drug culture.
If you would like a more accessible approach to Jeff Noon's richly imagined world, I recommend Automated Alice, a modern recasting of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. [via]
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The Postmanby David BrinISBN 0553278746 (0-553-27874-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Postman'Book summary:Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a post-apocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the made-up role of a "Restored United States" postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he's been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth for a desperate nation. Gordon goes through the motions of establishing a new postal route in the Pacific Northwest, uniting secluded towns and enclaves that are starved for communication with the rest of the world. And even though inside he feels like a fraud, eventually he will have to stand up for the new society he's helping to build or see it destroyed by fanatic survivalists. This classic reprint is not one of David Brin's best books, but the moving story he presents overcomes mediocre writing and contrived plots. [via]
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Rendezvous with Ramaby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0553287893 (0-553-28789-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rendezvous with Rama'Book summary:An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears. The astronauts given the task of exploring the hollow cylindrical ship are able to decipher some, but definitely not all, of the extraterrestrial vehicle's puzzles. From the ubiquitous trilateral symmetry of its structures to its cylindrical sea and machine-island, Rama's secrets are strange evidence of an advanced civilization. But who, and where, are the Ramans, and what do they want with humans? Perhaps the answer lies with the busily working biots, or the sealed-off buildings, or the inaccessible "southern" half of the enormous cylinder. Rama's unsolved mysteries are tantalizing indeed. Rendezvous with Rama is fast moving, fascinating, and a must-read for science fiction fans. Clarke collaborated with Gentry Lee in writing several Rama sequels, beginning with Rama II. [via]
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Rendezvous With Ramaby Clarke Arthur C.ISBN 0613069498 (0-613-06949-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rendezvous With Rama'Book summary:An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears. The astronauts given the task of exploring the hollow cylindrical ship are able to decipher some, but definitely not all, of the extraterrestrial vehicle's puzzles. From the ubiquitous trilateral symmetry of its structures to its cylindrical sea and machine-island, Rama's secrets are strange evidence of an advanced civilization. But who, and where, are the Ramans, and what do they want with humans? Perhaps the answer lies with the busily working biots, or the sealed-off buildings, or the inaccessible "southern" half of the enormous cylinder. Rama's unsolved mysteries are tantalizing indeed. Rendezvous with Rama is fast moving, fascinating, and a must-read for science fiction fans. Clarke collaborated with Gentry Lee in writing several Rama sequels, beginning with Rama II. [via]
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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illustrationsby Neil GaimanISBN 0606246959 (0-606-24695-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Sparesby Michael M. SmithISBN 0553579010 (0-553-57901-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spares'Book summary:Suppose for a moment you're Jack Randall. You're a loner, an ex-cop, the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All you've held dear has long ago been destroyed. For the last five years you've been hiding out on a spares farm, working at the only job that will still have you: guarding people who have never seen the outside world and can't even spell the word "escape." In short, your luck has run out.
You might think things couldn't get any worse. You'd be wrong. Because Jack Randall has a talent for attracting trouble: the kind most people run screaming
from. But Jack Randall is not most people. That's part of his trouble. Now he's on the run with seven of the Farm's inmates (well, six and a half), and the people who own them will do anything to get them back. All Jack wants to do is score enough money to disappear with his human contraband. But things aren't as simple as that. For Jack Randall, they never are.
Jack is on a head-on collision course with the man responsible for all this misery--a cold-blooded killer with one purpose: to cancel Jack once and for all.
Now Jack has a decision to make: keep running or even the score? Either way spells more trouble. And when the ghosts of the past meet the terrors of the future, the result for Jack will be one hell of a scary ride.
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Spectreby William Shatner, Judith Reeves Stevens, Garfield Reeves StevensISBN 0671008803 (0-671-00880-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spectre'Book summary:Retired and happily in love, Kirk believes his adventuring days are over. But as he returns to Earth for the first time since his apparent "death" upon the Enterprise-B, events elsewhere in the galaxy set in motion a mystery that may provide Kirk with his greatest challenge yet.
The Enterprise-E, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, is exploring an unstable region of space on a scientific mission of vital concern to Starfleet when they discover the last thing they ever expected to find: a lonely, battle-scarred vessel that is instantly recognizable to every member of Picard's crew. Five years after being lost with all hands in the Delta Quadrant, the Starship Voyager has come home!
The commander of Voyager, one Tom Paris, explains that Captain Kathryn Janeway and half of the original crew is dead, but if that is true, who is the mysterious woman who has kidnapped Kirk back on Earth, pleading with him to assist her against a threat to the entire Federation?
All is not as it seems, and soon Kirk is forced to confront the hideous consequences of actions taken more than a hundred years prior, as well as his own inner doubts. After years of quiet and isolation, does he still have what it takes to put things right-and join with Captain Picard to save the lives of everyone aboard a brand-new Enterprise?
An unforgettable saga peopled by old friends and ancient enemies, "Star Trek: Spectre" propels Kirk on a journey of self-discovery every bit as harrowing as the cataclysmic new adventure that awaits him. [via]
The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Draftedby Harry HarrisonISBN 0553273078 (0-553-27307-8)
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Star Wars - Wraith Squadronby Aaron AlstonISBN 0553577948 (0-553-57794-8)
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Star Wars: Children of the Jediby Barbara HamblyISBN 0553095404 (0-553-09540-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Wars: Children of the Jedi'Book summary:Prepare yourself for a nonstop Leia-fest. The New Republic's new leader is back in bondage again, but at least this time she doesn't have Jabba the Hut slobbering all over her. Kidnapped after a clandestine mission to the former prison-planet Nam Chorios goes awry, Leia relies on her wits, her ever-developing Jedi powers (including some mean saber-swinging), and her pals to escape, survive, and resolve the conflict on the desolate planet. Han, Chewie, and Lando may get short shrift in Planet of Twilight, but Luke gets in some good scenes on the trail of Force-sensitive babe Callista, and the droids provide more than their share of laughs. While veteran writer Hambly doesn't subscribe to the admittedly entertaining shut-up-and-start-blasting school of Star Wars writing, her skilled characterizations and more literary stylings are a welcome addition to the fold. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Star Wars the Rebel Dawn: The Han Solo Trilogyby A.C. CrispinISBN 0553574175 (0-553-57417-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Star Wars the Rebel Dawn: The Han Solo Trilogy'Book summary:Book 3 of the Han Solo trilogy, Rebel Dawn tells the tale of young Han from his winning of the Millennium Falcon from Lando Calrissian in a sabacc tournament to his fateful meeting in the Mos Eisley cantina with Luke and Obi-Wan. Along the way, Han gets his first taste of the Rebel Alliance, and runs afoul of Jabba the Hutt--which comes back to haunt him later. Performer David Pittu's delivery is quiet and controlled, relying more on the sound effects and John Williams's music from the Star Wars Trilogy films for dramatic effect. At times, Pittu's voice is positively deadpan--perhaps allowing the listener to find his own humor in events such as the Wookiee betrothal ceremony (FYI: it involves the male Wookiee killing a small Kashyyykan animal and offering it to the female. If she bites into its soft underbelly, she has accepted the proposal). Ah, romance. (Running time: 3 hours, 2 cassettes) --C.B. Delaney [via]
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The Stars My Destinationby Alfred BesterISBN 053115050X (0-531-15050-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stars My Destination'Book summary:When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science-fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. First published in 1956 (as Tiger! Tiger!), the novel revolves around a hero named Gulliver Foyle, who teleports himself out of a tight spot and creates a great deal of consternation in the process. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for forty years. (Bester fans should also note that Vintage has reprinted The Demolished Man, which won the very first Hugo Award in 1953.) [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486266885 (0-486-26688-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd - The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories: ISBN 0460871978 (0-460-87197-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0460877925 (0-460-87792-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0670888710 (0-670-88871-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0531002853 (0-531-00285-3)
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That Hideous Strengthby C. S. LewisISBN 0613071832 (0-613-07183-2)
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This Day All Gods Dieby Stephen R. DonaldsonISBN 0553573284 (0-553-57328-4)
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Timescapeby Gregory BenfordISBN 0553297090 (0-553-29709-0)
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie WillisISBN 0553575384 (0-553-57538-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Say Nothing of the Dog'Book summary:To Say Nothing of the Dog is a science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-traveling tale, or a highly comic romp, or a great, allusive literary game, complete with spry references to Dorothy L. Sayers, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle? Its title is the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's singular, and hilarious, Three Men in a Boat. In one scene the hero, Ned Henry, and his friends come upon Jerome, two men, and the dog Montmorency in--you guessed it--a boat. Jerome will later immortalize Ned's fumbling. (Or, more accurately, Jerome will earlier immortalize Ned's fumbling, because Ned is from the 21st century and Jerome from the 19th.)
What Connie Willis soon makes clear is that genre can go to the dogs. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a fine, and fun, romance--an amused examination of conceptions and misconceptions about other eras, other people. When we first meet Ned, in 1940, he and five other time jumpers are searching bombed-out Coventry Cathedral for the bishop's bird stump, an object about which neither he nor the reader will be clear for hundreds of pages. All he knows is that if they don't find it, the powerful Lady Schrapnell will keep sending them back in time, again and again and again. Once he's been whisked through the rather quaint Net back to the Oxford future, Ned is in a state of super time-lag. (Willis is happily unconcerned with futuristic vraisemblance, though Ned makes some obligatory references to "vids," "interactives," and "headrigs.") The only way Ned can get the necessary two weeks' R and R is to perform one more drop and recuperate in the past, away from Lady Schrapnell. Once he returns something to someone (he's too exhausted to understand what or to whom) on June 7, 1888, he's free.
Willis is concerned, however, as is her confused character, with getting Victoriana right, and Ned makes a good amateur anthropologist--entering one crowded room, he realizes that "the reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over." Though he's still not sure what he's supposed to bring back, various of his confederates keep popping back to set him to rights. To Say Nothing of the Dog is a shaggy-dog tale complete with a preternaturally quiet, time-traveling cat, Princess Arjumand, who might well be the cause of some serious temporal incongruities--for even a mouser might change the course of European history. In the end, readers might well be more interested in Ned's romance with a fellow historian than in the bishop's bird stump, and who will not rejoice in their first Net kiss, which lasts 169 years! [via]
Vurtby Jeff NoonISBN 0517196182 (0-517-19618-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Wraith Squadronby Aaron AllstonISBN 0553578944 (0-553-57894-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Harry Potter Y El Prisionero De Azkaban / Harry Potter And the Prisoner of Azkabanby J. K. Rowling, Nieves Martin Azofra, Adolfo Munoz GarciaISBN 0613359585 (0-613-35958-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter Y El Prisionero De Azkaban / Harry Potter And the Prisoner of Azkaban'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths. [via]
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