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The Armageddon Inheritanceby David WeberISBN 0671721976 (0-671-72197-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Armageddon Inheritance'Book summary:Colin MacIntyre has gone from being a NASA astronaut to commander of a vast space armada. But the ancient and powerful alien enemy is approaching, and all his forces may not be enough to save the Earth. [via]
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Bloodchild and Other Storiesby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 1888363363 (1-888363-36-3)
Softcover, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Bloodhypeby Alan Dean FosterISBN 0345332857 (0-345-33285-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Brightness Falls from the Airby James TiptreeISBN 0312854072 (0-312-85407-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brightness Falls from the Air'Book summary:They have gathered now on Damien and are about to witness the last rising of a manmade nova. They are 16 humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence--horror and murder oddly complemented by a bizarre unforgiving love. But justice is not all that's about to be found. Judgment is coming and the 16 unsuspecting ones are on the threshold of the murdered star. [via]
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Callahan's Secretby Spider RobinsonISBN 0441090745 (0-441-09074-5)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Callahan's Secret'Book summary:Callahan's Place is open for business, and all of the "regulars" are here--a talking dog, an alcoholic vampire, and two telepaths--enhancing their joys by drowning their sorrows. Everyone, that is, but Mickey Finn, a seven-foot tall alien in danger of enslavement at the hands of a traveller from across the galaxy...[via]
Come inside, pull up a chair, order a drink, make a toast, and let Spider Robinson introduce you to the most unique patrons to frequent any establishment, at a bar where the most important law is "shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased." And if there's time left at the end of the night, just maybe they'll save the world...More editions of Callahan's Secret:
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Catspawby Joan D. VingeISBN 0765303418 (0-7653-0341-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catspaw'Book summary:In 25th-century New York, embassies of interstellar power brokers rise above the depths of Dickensian underclass. Here a nefarious assassination plot is the most visible element in a vast conspiracy of political manipulation, one that draws a tormented young telepath into its web. [via]
The Compass Roseby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0060914475 (0-06-091447-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Compass Rose'Book summary:North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness...South to discover Antarctica with three ladies from Chile...West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death...and onward to all points on and off the compass. Twenty astonishing stories from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin that carry us to worlds of wonder and horror, desire and destiny, enchantment and doom. [via]
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- The Compass Rose: ISBN 0061056073 (0-06-105607-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Compass Rose: ISBN 0061001813 (0-06-100181-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Compass Rose: ISBN 0060149884 (0-06-014988-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Compass Rose: ISBN 0517604167 (0-517-60416-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - The Compass Rose: ISBN 0060914475 (0-06-091447-5)
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- The Compass Rose: ISBN 0061056073 (0-06-105607-3)
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Crashlanderby Larry NivenISBN 0345381688 (0-345-38168-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crashlander'Book summary:Crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer has long been one of the most popular characters in Known Space. Now, for the first time ever, Larry Niven brings together all the Beowulf Shaeffer stories--including a brand-new one--in one long tale of exploration and adventure! PLUS--an all-new framing story that pulls together all of Beowulf Shaeffer's adventures and allows Shaeffer and his family to make a clean start at life once and for all! [via]
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Dark Mirrorby Diane Duane, Kevin RyanISBN 0671794388 (0-671-79438-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Deepsixby Jack McDevittISBN 0061020060 (0-06-102006-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deepsix'Book summary:Deepsix is concerned with the motivating force that drives all scientists--the quest for truth, for expanding the limits of human knowledge. How much are we willing to risk for that moment of discovery, of knowing what no other soul yet knows? Our time? Our reputations? Our careers? Our lives?
The premise is this: just weeks before the planet Deepsix will be destroyed by a collision with a gas giant, ruins are detected on its surface, suggesting the presence of civilization. The Academy diverts scientists from the nearest spaceship to go down and explore, and they are joined by their century's Ellsworth Toohey: a misogynistic, sanctimonious gadfly who has never before been off of Earth's surface. The party's landers are destroyed in an earthquake induced by the approaching gas giant, so now they must find a way to get off of Deepsix before it is destroyed by the collision. Needless to say, their excavations are placed on the back burner.
The physics describing the space travel and the archeology used to reconstruct the lost culture of Deepsix are interesting and explained well. There is plenty of action and suspense--will the party survive? And the evolving characters and group dynamics are more complex than those usually found in science fiction books, making Deepsix a worthwhile read. --Diana Gitig [via]
Destroyerby C. J. CherryhISBN 0756403332 (0-7564-0333-2)
Softcover, Daw Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Destroyer'Book summary:The first book in the new Foreigner trilogy from the Hugo Award-winning author
C.J. Cherryh, one of the most prolific and acclaimed science fiction writers in the world, now delivers the seventh book in her Foreigner series and the first book in the new Foreigner trilogy-the epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey. [via]-
Dies the Fireby S. M. StirlingISBN 0451460413 (0-451-46041-3)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dies the Fire'Book summary:It all started when an electrical storm over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash, causing all electronic devices to cease to function-computers, telephones, engines, radio, television, even firearms-and plunged the world into a darkness humanity was unprepared to face. But even as some people band together to help one another, others are building armies for conquest... [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 014600177X (0-14-600177-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'Book summary:You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? [via]
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- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0194230325 (0-19-423032-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0394847199 (0-394-84719-9)
Softcover, Pendulum Pr - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0439295750 (0-439-29575-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: ISBN 014600177X (0-14-600177-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ISBN 0194230325 (0-19-423032-5)
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The Early Asimovby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345325907 (0-345-32590-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Enchantress from the Starsby Sylvia EngdahlISBN 0142500372 (0-14-250037-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Exiles at the Well of Soulsby Jack L. ChalkerISBN 0345324374 (0-345-32437-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exiles at the Well of Souls'Book summary:Antor Trellig, head of a ruthless interstellar syndicate, had seized a super computer with godlike powers, which could make him omnipotent. The Council offered master criminal Mavra Chang any reward if she stopped Trellig - and horrible, lingering death if she failed. But neither Trellig nor Mavra had taken the Well World into consideration. Built by the ancient Markovians, the Well World controlled the design of the cosmos. When the opponents were drawn across space to the mysterious planet, they found themselves in new alien bodies, and in the middle of a battle where strange races fought desperately, with the control of all the Universe as the prize. [via]
Expedition to Earthby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0345328248 (0-345-32824-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Expedition to Earthby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0345430735 (0-345-43073-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Expedition to Earth'Book summary:There are many ways to recapture the sheer fun that science fiction was back when it wasn't even a bit respectable and the idea that Arthur C. Clarke would one day be Sir Arthur was more or less inconceivable. One of the best ways is to go back to a classic short story collection like this, with its bitterly ironic title story of archaeology and its misunderstandings--the classic "Breaking Strain" in which two spacemen struggle over supplies that will do for one--and "The Sentinel," the story that acted as the seed for the late Stanley Kubrick's collaboration with Clarke, 2001.
Clarke always had a more delicate and poetic side, and this collection includes one of his finest stories along this vein, "Second Dawn," in which telepathically gifted aliens without hands deal with the moral dilemmas of science. Many of the stories address a Space Age that never was--Clarke was assuming that things would happen later than they did, but that more would follow quicker; this in itself gives the book charm as an add-on to its considerable conceptual wit. Few short story collections are SF classics, but this is a major exception. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Final Reflectionby John M. FordISBN 0671743546 (0-671-74354-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Final Reflection'Book summary:Klingon Captain Krenn is a ruthless war strategist. But on a mission to Earth, Krenn learns a lesson in peace. Suddenly he must fight a secret battle of his own. His empire has a covert plan to shatter the Federation. Only Krenn can prevent a war -- at the risk of his own life! [via]
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- The Final Reflection: ISBN 0671038532 (0-671-03853-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Final Reflection: ISBN 0671473883 (0-671-47388-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Final Reflection: ISBN 0839828853 (0-8398-2885-3)
Hardcover, Gregg Press - The Final Reflection: ISBN 0671743546 (0-671-74354-6)
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- The Final Reflection: ISBN 0671038532 (0-671-03853-2)
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Freedom's Ransomby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0441010202 (0-441-01020-2)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom's Ransom'Book summary:Freedom's Ransom is the fourth novel in Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series, also known as the Catteni Sequence. The sequel to Freedom's Landing, Freedom's Choice, and Freedom's Challenge, Freedom's Ransom will please some fans of this star-spanning science fiction series, but others will find the book slow-paced, talky, and lacking in action. Freedom's Ransom ends conclusively, with no major unresolved plot lines, yet leaves space for at least one sequel.
The planet Botany was settled by a mixed group of humans and aliens, slaves of the alien Catteni and their alien masters, the Eosi. But one Catteni was dropped on Botany with the slaves: Zainal, who helped them win their independence. Now Botany must establish trade with other planets in order to survive. But the other worlds have been ravaged by the Catteni, and once-proud Earth has been reduced to primitive poverty, its technology stolen by corrupt Barevi merchants. To save Botany, Zainal and Kris Bjornsen, his human lover, must find a way to help all the worlds.
While the preface of Freedom's Ransom crisply summarizes the preceding books, this series has so many characters, races, and planets that newcomers should start with the first book, Freedom's Landing. Sophisticated SF readers aren't likely to enjoy the series, but it should hook young adults; if you're looking to broaden a child's reading beyond Harry Potter, try Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series and Dragonriders of Pern series. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Galactic Pot-Healerby Philip K. DickISBN 0679752978 (0-679-75297-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Galactic Pot-Healer'Book summary:What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination. [via]
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The Hammer of Godby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 055356871X (0-553-56871-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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I Dareby Steve Miller, Sharon LeeISBN 1892065037 (1-892065-03-7)
Softcover, Meisha Merlin Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Dare'Book summary:The dynamic conclusion to the Agent of Change series in Lee and Miller's Liaden Universe®!
Val Con yos'Pheliuma Scout, former Agent of Change, husband, brother to Turtles, and designated heir to Clan Korval's fortune and mission&whether you considered him respectable or not, no one would call him a gambling man. When he reappears demanding Balance and retribution, he looks exactly like the kind of leader his clan has been producing for generations. On his capable shoulders the fate of his Clan, his world, and his civilization&
Pat Rin yos'Pheliumfond father, bon vivant, ne'er-do-well&and a professional gambler. The enemies of Korval have offered Pat Rin the Ring that would make all of Korval's holdings his own and a Juntavas Judge has offered Pat Rin a world& When he appears with hired guns in tow no one is expecting him and no one knows what he'll do. Pat Rin is a gambling man, and on his wild-card shoulders the fate of his Clan, his world, his civilization&
This long-awaited culmination of the Agent of Change sequence of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's internationally acclaimed Liaden Universe® novels pits unexpected friends and unexpected enemies against each other in a war that spans planets and races and threatens to bring interstellar violence to the very surface of fabled Liad. [via]
Jovah's Angelby Sharon ShinnISBN 0441005195 (0-441-00519-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Lazarus Effectby Frank Herbert, Bill RansomISBN 0441475213 (0-441-47521-3)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lazarus Effect'Book summary:# Paperback: 393 pages # Publisher: Ace (September 15, 1987) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0441475213 # ISBN-13: 978-0441475216 # Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.2 inches # Shipping Weight: 8 ounces [via]
The Lazarus Effectby J. T. Edson, Frank Herbert, Bill RansomISBN 0425097900 (0-425-09790-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Life of the World to Comeby Kage BakerISBN 0765354322 (0-7653-5432-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of the World to Come'Book summary:From idea to flesh to myth, this is the story of Alec Checkerfield: Seventh Earl of Finsbury, pirate, renegade, hero, anomaly, Mendoza's once and future love.[via]
Mendoza is a Preserver, which means that she's sent back from the twenty-fourth century by Dr. Zeus, Incorporated - the Company - to recover things from the past which would otherwise be lost. She's a botanist, a good one. She's an immortal, indestructible cyborg. And she's a woman in love.
In sixteenth century England, Mendoza fell for a native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. He died a martyr's death, burned at the stake. In nineteenth century America, Mendoza fell for an eerily identical native, a renegade, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiated determination and sexuality. When he died, she killed six men to avenge him.
The Company didn't like that - bad for business. But she's immortal and indestructible, so they couldn't hurt her. Instead, they dumped her in the Back Way Back.
Meanwhile, back in the future, three eccentric geniuses sit in a parlor at Oxford University and play at being the new Inklings, the heirs of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Working for Dr. Zeus, they create heroic stories and give them flesh, myths in blood and DNA to protect the future from the World to Come, the fearsome Silence that will fall on the world in 2355. They create a hero, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality.
"Now," stranded 150,000 years in the past, there are no natives for Mendoza to fall in love with. She tends a garden of maize, and she pines for the man she lost, twice. For Three. Thousand. Years.
Then, one day, out of the sky and out of the future comes a renegade, a timefaring pirate, a tall, dark, not handsome man who radiates determination and sexuality. This is the beginning of the end.More editions of The Life of the World to Come:
MacRoscopeby Piers AnthonyISBN 097236708X (0-9723670-8-X)
Softcover, Mundania Pr
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Necromancerby Gordon R. DicksonISBN 0441568564 (0-441-56856-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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The Neutronium Alchemistby Peter F. HamiltonISBN 0446605174 (0-446-60517-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Nine Princes in Amberby Roger ZelaznyISBN 0380014300 (0-380-01430-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nine Princes in Amber'Book summary:Awakening in an Earth hospital unable to remember who he is or where he came from, Corwin is amazed to learn that he is one of the sons of Oberon, King of Amber, and is the rightful successor to the crown in a parallel world. Reissue. [via]
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The Persistence of Visionby John VarleyISBN 0441662218 (0-441-66221-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Rest of the Robots.by Isaac AsimovISBN 0385090412 (0-385-09041-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Search for Spockby Vonda N. McIntyreISBN 0671731335 (0-671-73133-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Search for Spock'Book summary:No One On The Enterprise Can Believe That Mr. Spock Is Gone!
As the crew grieves for Mr. Spock, the awesome Genesis Device, now controlled by the Federation, has transformed an inert nebula into a new planet teeming with life. But Genisis can also destroy existing worlds.
The creators of the Device want it given freely to the Galaxy. But Starfleet Command fears that it will become a force for evil. And the enemies of the Federation will not rest until they seize it -- as their most powerful weapon in the battle to conquer the Galaxy! [via]
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The Sentinelby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0743407210 (0-7434-0721-0)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sentinel'Book summary:Originally published in 1983, the "2001 Anniversary Edition" of Arthur C. Clarke's The Sentinel offers insight and commentary on 10 of Clarke's most notable short stories.
In Clarke's introduction, he explores why he became the kind of writer he did, and he offers a look at the very first paragraph he ever published--in 1933. This anthology spans three decades, beginning in 1946 with the second story he published, "The Rescue Party," and offers a chance to read some of the short stories that later germinated into his most spectacular works.
It's a special treat to be able to see the beginnings of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End, along with Clarke's thoughts on how each story came about. The truly amazing thing is that Clarke's short fiction still holds up, by and large. It's unavoidable that time would catch up with Clarke, though. In fact, he almost apologetically reminds the reader that while "Jupiter V" is dated, Sputnik was still six years in the future when it was written in 1951.
While it would have been wonderful if Clarke had added an additional introduction about the human race's journey into 2001 and beyond for this special edition, that was not to be. His most recent words in this anthology were written in 1983. But that's a minor quibble. With exceptional illustrations by Lebbeus Woods, The Sentinel is a must-read, not only for Clarke fans, but for all readers of science fiction. --Kathie Huddleston [via]
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Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - The Sentinel: ISBN 0425093891 (0-425-09389-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - The Sentinel: ISBN 0743407210 (0-7434-0721-0)
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- The Sentinel: ISBN 0743479750 (0-7434-7975-0)
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Shikastaby Doris May LessingISBN 0394749774 (0-394-74977-4)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shikasta'Book summary:This is the first volume in the series of novels Doris Lessing calls collectively Canopus in Argos: Archives. Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, this purports to be a general study of the planet Shikastaclearly the planet Earthto be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives. For eons, galactic empires have struggled against one another, and Shikasta is one of the main battlegrounds.Johar, an emissary from Canopus and the primary contributor to the archives, visits Shikasta over the millennia from the time of the giants and the biblical great flood up to the present. With every visit he tries to distract Shikastans from the evil influences of the planet Shammat but notes with dismay the ever-growing chaos and destruction of Shikasta as its people hurl themselves towards World War III and annihilation. [via]
Shikasta : Re: Colonised Planet 5by Doris LessingISBN 0394507320 (0-394-50732-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Slow Riverby Nicola Griffith, Ellen Key HarrisISBN 0345395379 (0-345-39537-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slow River'Book summary:The dark and intensely involving story of a young woman's struggle for survival and independence on the gritty underside of a near-future Europe, by the author of Ammonite, which won the Tiptree and Lambda Awards. [via]
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Star Trek Iii, the Search for Spockby Vonda N. McIntyreISBN 083982839X (0-8398-2839-X)
Hardcover, Gregg Pr
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermistonby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 019281740X (0-19-281740-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston'Book summary:This volume includes Stevenson's famous spine-chilling thriller Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as Weir of Hermiston, a brilliant autobiographical portrayal of a father-son relationship. [via]
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert MighallISBN 0141439734 (0-14-143973-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a "chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, "Jekyll And Hyde" is a brilliantly original study of man's dual nature -- as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror. Published in 1866, "Jekyll And Hyde" was an instant success and brought Stevenson his first taste of fame. Though sometimes dismissed as a mere mystery story, the book has evoked much literary admirations. Vladimir Nabokov likened it to "Madame Bovary" and "Dead Souls" as "a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction." [via]
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The Strange Cases of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydeby Katherine Linehan, Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0393974650 (0-393-97465-0)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Cases 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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Tales of the Dying Earthby Jack VanceISBN 0312874561 (0-312-87456-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Tau Zeroby Poul AndersonISBN 0425050777 (0-425-05077-7)
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Thursday Next in the Well Of Lost Plotsby Fforde JasperISBN 0143034359 (0-14-303435-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thursday Next in the Well Of Lost Plots'Book summary:The third installment in Jasper Fforde's New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful BookWorld literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books-like the one she has taken up residence in-are scrapped for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking the personnel of Jurisfiction and it's up to Thursday to save the day. A brilliant feat of literary showmanship filled with wit, fantasy, and effervescent originality, this Ffordian tour de force will appeal to fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse. Thursday's zany investigations continue with Something Rotten. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including One of Our Thursdays is Missing and Jasper Fforde's latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world! [via]
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Thuvia, Maid of Marsby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0345339932 (0-345-33993-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Time Travelers Strictly Cashby Spider RobinsonISBN 0425097226 (0-425-09722-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Under Pressureby Frank HerbertISBN 0345298292 (0-345-29829-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Well of Lost Plotsby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340825928 (0-340-82592-8)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Well of Lost Plots'Book summary:Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ...With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'. In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.' [via]
The Witches of Karresby James H. SchmitzISBN 1416509151 (1-4165-0915-1)
Softcover, Baen Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Witches of Karres'Book summary:Captain Pausert, master of the old pirate-chaser Venture has finally found his niche. Unlucky in love and unsuccessful in business on his home planet, he seems to have a knack for selling job-lot cargoes around the fringes of the Empire. In fact, he's so far ahead of the game that he even finds time for the occasional heroic act. Like rescuing three poor child-slaves from their abusive masters. And then discovers he's broke again, wanted by the authorities and at odds with the most malevolent force in all of space. For Pausert hasn't rescued any ordinary put-upon juvenile slaves but three of the legendary witches of Karres complete with awesome psi powers... [via]
The Year's Best Science Fictionby Gardner DozoisISBN 0312288786 (0-312-28878-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Year's Best Science Fiction 2001by Gardner DozoisISBN 0312288794 (0-312-28879-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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