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Alien Tasteby Wen SpencerISBN 0451458370 (0-451-45837-0)
Softcover, Roc
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The Bachman Booksby Stephen KingISBN 0452257743 (0-452-25774-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bachman Books'Book summary:The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man. This is a compelling collection of three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense. It includes: "The Long Walk", "Roadwork", and "The Running Man" - in which Stephen King also explains 'Why I was Richard Bachman'. [via]
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The Bachman Books : Four Early Novelsby Richard Bachman, Stephen KingISBN 0452277752 (0-452-27775-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bachman Books : Four Early Novels'Book summary:Four of Richard Bachman's eerie works are gathered here in a posthumous edition. They are Rage, a story of stunning psychological horror about an "estra" ordinary high school student; "The Long Walk," a contest with death; "Roadwork, a strange variation on the theme of "Home Sweet Home"; and "The Running Man," where you bet your life--literally. [via]
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Belarusby Lee HoganISBN 0451458680 (0-451-45868-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Beyond The Blue Moonby Simon R. GreenISBN 0451458052 (0-451-45805-2)
Softcover, Roc
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Broken Timeby Maggy ThomasISBN 0451457854 (0-451-45785-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presencesby Ursula K. Le GuinISBN 0452264804 (0-452-26480-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Carrieby Stephen KingISBN 0452267196 (0-452-26719-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Code Noir: The Second Parrish Plessis Novelby Marianne De PierresISBN 0451461002 (0-451-46100-2)
Softcover, Roc
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Complete Poems and Selected Essaysby Edgar Allan Poe, Richard GrayISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Poems and Selected Essays'Book summary:This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, a plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. This selection presents all of Poe's poetry, and includes the less well known poems written before he was 20, among them "To Helen", which Poe said was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him "with half his heart to inhabit other worlds". The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's life and times. [via]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0451529588 (0-451-52958-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Conquistadorby S. M. StirlingISBN 0451459334 (0-451-45933-4)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conquistador'Book summary:[via]A new alternate history of America from the author of The Peshawar Lancers, the bestselling novel the Chicago Sun-Times called "a pleasure to read" and Harry Turtledove hailed as "first-rate adventure all the way."
1945: An ex-marine has discovered a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows-and a virgin America untouched by European influence. 21st century: The two realities collide...
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Deathstalker Codaby Simon R. GreenISBN 0451460243 (0-451-46024-3)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deathstalker Coda'Book summary:As foretold, Owen Deathstalker has returned to save the Empire from the mysterious entity known as the Terror-leaving his descendant Lewis with the task of leading an army against the legions of the madman who has usurped the throne. [via]
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Deathstalker Returnby Simon R. GreenISBN 0451459660 (0-451-45966-0)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deathstalker Return'Book summary:[via]Branded an outlaw and hunted by agents of the Empire, Lewis Deathstalker must stop the encroaching Terror that threatens all of humanity. But he can succeed only with the help of Owen Deathstalker, who supposedly died more than 200 years ago.
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The Dog from Hell: A Star Risk Ltd., Novelby Chris BunchISBN 0451460391 (0-451-46039-1)
Softcover, Signet
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The Doublecross Programby Chris BunchISBN 0451459865 (0-451-45986-5)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doublecross Program'Book summary:M'chel Riss and the Star Risk, Ltd. team find themselves in the middle of a strange assignment: a staged bank robbery that involves putting money back. But the job soon takes an even stranger turn when they get caught up in a full-fledged war over an addictive new consumer product. The roguish mercenaries will need to rely on every resource possible to make a buck and make it out alive-in this fast-paced tale of hard-hitting action and a double-cross or three... [via]
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Vladimirovich NabokovISBN 0451523938 (0-451-52393-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: '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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The Drawing of the Threeby Stephen King, Phil HaleISBN 0452284708 (0-452-28470-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drawing of the Three'Book summary:Like The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three is a brilliant work of dark fantasy, inspired by Browning's romantic poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocaine on the New York/Bermuda shuttle. [via]
Dreamerby Steven R. HarperISBN 0451458435 (0-451-45843-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Dreams Made Fleshby Anne BishopISBN 0451460707 (0-451-46070-7)
Softcover, Roc
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End of the Beginningby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0451460782 (0-451-46078-2)
Softcover, Roc
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Enemiesby Lee HoganISBN 0451459199 (0-451-45919-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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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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The Fallen Hostby Lyda MorehouseISBN 0451458796 (0-451-45879-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Firestarterby Stephen KingISBN 0452273307 (0-452-27330-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram StokerISBN 0451523636 (0-451-52363-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein/Dracula/Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:Three horror classicswith an introduction by Stephen King[via]
Some of literatures most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome.
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Herlandby Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN 0486404293 (0-486-40429-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Herland'Book summary:Delightfully humorous account of a feminist utopia in which 3 male explorers stumble upon an all-female society isolated in a distant part of the earth. Early 20th-century vehicle for Gilman's then-unconventional views of male-female behavior, motherhood, individuality, sense of community, sexuality, and other topics. Mischievous, ironic approach used to telling effect.[via]More editions of Herland:
In The Presence Of Mine Enemiesby Harry TurtledoveISBN 0451459598 (0-451-45959-8)
Softcover, Roc
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Is Data Human?: The Metaphysics of Star Trekby Richard HanleyISBN 0465045480 (0-465-04548-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is Data Human?: The Metaphysics of Star Trek'Book summary:Professor Richard Hanley faced the dilemma plaguing so many philosophy professors todayhow to entice students into the classroom. Based upon his own successful course, Is Data Human presents a thoroughly unique and enjoyable way of introducing students to the basic concepts of philosophy as seen through the lens of Star Trek. From the nature of a person, of minds, and of consciousness, to ethics and morality, to the nature and extent of knowledge and free will, Hanley brings a fresh perspective to the contemporary debates concerning humankinds place in the world.Dare to boldly go where no philosophy professor has gone beforea classroom packed with eager and enthusiastic students.[via]More editions of Is Data Human?: The Metaphysics of Star Trek:
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Last and First Men and Star Markerby William Olaf StapledonISBN 0486219623 (0-486-21962-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last and First Men and Star Marker'Book summary:The greatest future histories in science fiction. In Last and First Men the protagonist is "mankind" in an ultimate definition intelligence. Star Maker, in a sense its sequel, is concerned with the history of intelligence in the entire cosmos.[via]More editions of Last and First Men and Star Marker:
The Last Mortal Manby Syne MitchellISBN 0451460944 (0-451-46094-4)
Softcover, Roc
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Live Without a Netby Lou Anders, Pat CadiganISBN 0451459253 (0-451-45925-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Live Without a Netby Cadigan, Pat (AFT), Lou AndersISBN 0451459458 (0-451-45945-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Live Without a Net'Book summary:What would happen if the vastness of cyberspace was replaced by things surprising and strange?
Includes masters of speculative fiction:
Stephen Baxter, David Brin, Pat Cadigan, Paul Di Filippo, John Grant, David Hutchinson, Alex C. Irvine, Terry McGarry, John Meaney, Paul Melko, Mike Resnick & Kay Kenyon, Chris Roberson, Adam Roberts, Rudy Rucker, S.M. Stirling, Del Stone, Jr., Charles Stross, Matthew Sturges, and Michael Swanwick [via]More editions of Live Without a Net:
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Lost Worldby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486400603 (0-486-40060-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost World'Book summary:Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter, and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he's a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behavior toward Native Americans, he's a lot of fun. [via]
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The Meekby Scott MacKayISBN 0451458230 (0-451-45823-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Metaphysics of Star Trekby Richard HanleyISBN 0465091245 (0-465-09124-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soulby Daniel C. Dennett, Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0465030912 (0-465-03091-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul'Book summary:Ever wondered who you are? Who you really are? This collection of writings and reflections by some of today's most notable thinkers is designed to enliven this most central, and most baffling, question in the philosophy of mind. In some ways, the questions posed and bantered about in this book are at the heart of all philosophical reasoning. They are the ultimate questions about the self. The Mind's I contains an astonishing variety of approaches to answering the question, "Who am I?" Between the covers of this book one encounters the literary erudition of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges alongside the analytic rigor of John Searle. There are sophisticated metaphorical pieces (such as "The Princess Ineffabelle" by Polish philosopher and writer Stanislaw Lem), intriguing dialogues (like Raymond Smullyan's "Is God a Taoist?"), and serious but engaging philosophical essays from a host of thinkers (see Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?").
Editors Hofstadter and Dennett--leading lights in the study of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind--follow each selection with a short reflection designed to elaborate on their main themes. The Mind's I admirably broadens their fields to a more general audience. The book's essays are grouped into six categories, each successively raising the philosophical stakes by introducing new levels of complexity. Ultimately, one confronts some of the thorniest questions in modern philosophy here, such as the nature of free will, our place in the metaphysical world, and the possibility of genuine artificial intelligence. The book closes with a playful and perplexing piece by Robert Nozick, an adequate summation to The Mind's I. He writes, "Perhaps God has not decided yet whether he has created, in this world, a fictional world or a real one.... Which decision do you hope for?" --Eric de Place [via]
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The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soulby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 046504624X (0-465-04624-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul'Book summary:Ever wondered who you are? Who you really are? This collection of writings and reflections by some of today's most notable thinkers is designed to enliven this most central, and most baffling, question in the philosophy of mind. In some ways, the questions posed and bantered about in this book are at the heart of all philosophical reasoning. They are the ultimate questions about the self. The Mind's I contains an astonishing variety of approaches to answering the question, "Who am I?" Between the covers of this book one encounters the literary erudition of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges alongside the analytic rigor of John Searle. There are sophisticated metaphorical pieces (such as "The Princess Ineffabelle" by Polish philosopher and writer Stanislaw Lem), intriguing dialogues (like Raymond Smullyan's "Is God a Taoist?"), and serious but engaging philosophical essays from a host of thinkers (see Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?").
Editors Hofstadter and Dennett--leading lights in the study of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind--follow each selection with a short reflection designed to elaborate on their main themes. The Mind's I admirably broadens their fields to a more general audience. The book's essays are grouped into six categories, each successively raising the philosophical stakes by introducing new levels of complexity. Ultimately, one confronts some of the thorniest questions in modern philosophy here, such as the nature of free will, our place in the metaphysical world, and the possibility of genuine artificial intelligence. The book closes with a playful and perplexing piece by Robert Nozick, an adequate summation to The Mind's I. He writes, "Perhaps God has not decided yet whether he has created, in this world, a fictional world or a real one.... Which decision do you hope for?" --Eric de Place [via]
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The Mysterious Stranger and Other Storiesby Mark TwainISBN 0486270696 (0-486-27069-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories'Book summary:The author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works, and novels. [via]
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2003by Nancy KressISBN 0451459091 (0-451-45909-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2004by Vonda N. McIntyreISBN 0451459571 (0-451-45957-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nebula Awards Showcase 2004'Book summary:Presented by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America(r), the Nebula Awards honor the extraordinary work of those authors whose stories offer fresh perspectives on the genre. Featuring the year's best, the Nebula Awards Showcase is an annual tradition bringing readers the finest science fiction from today's most respected authors.
This year's winners include New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Richard Chwedyk, Carol Emshwiller, and Ted Chiang. [via]More editions of Nebula Awards Showcase 2004:
Nightmareby Steven R. HarperISBN 0451458982 (0-451-45898-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Omnifixby Scott MacKayISBN 0451459601 (0-451-45960-1)
Softcover, Roc
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0460011987 (0-460-01198-7)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories: ISBN 0451526015 (0-451-52601-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Picture of Dorian Gray: ISBN 0460011987 (0-460-01198-7)
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Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Storiesby Oscar WildeISBN 0451523849 (0-451-52384-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Proven Guiltyby Jim ButcherISBN 0451461037 (0-451-46103-7)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Proven Guilty'Book summary:Elevated "into the front rank of urban fantasy heroes" (SF Site), professional wizard Harry Dresden is pledged to fight crime, banish evil, and outwit the masters of dark arts in the shadowy corners of Chicago.
Harry, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, is drafted to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City. And if that wasn't enough, he must help the daughter of an old friend, whose boyfriend was the only one in a room where an old man was attacked. He insists he didn't do it. And what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film turns out to be-well, something quite close to that, as Harry discovers that malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago. [via]More editions of Proven Guilty:
Psychotopeby FanproISBN 0451457137 (0-451-45713-7)
Softcover, Fanpro Llc
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Psychotropeby Lisa SmedmanISBN 0451457080 (0-451-45708-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Rebel Iceby S. L. ViehlISBN 0451460626 (0-451-46062-6)
Softcover, Roc
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Salems Lotby Stephen KingISBN 0452267218 (0-452-26721-8)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salems Lot'Book summary:Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Sarah Canaryby Karen Joy FowlerISBN 0452286476 (0-452-28647-6)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarah Canary'Book summary:When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.[via]More editions of Sarah Canary:
The Science of Aliensby Clifford PickoverISBN 0465073158 (0-465-07315-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Science of Aliens'Book summary:Scientist and author Clifford Pickover poses the question, "Can creatures dream of things beyond their sensory capacity?" Clearly Pickover thinks humans can--to some extent, at least. To this end, he wrote The Science of Aliens, an intriguing book featuring chapters such as "What Aliens Look Like," "Origin of Alien Life," and "Alien Abduction." And, of course, "Alien Sex." (Don't say you weren't curious.) To stimulate the reader's imagination, Pickover focuses on the characteristics of the earth's creatures--their appearance, their senses, their environments, their sexual behaviors--and argues that this diversity pales in comparison to the far wider possibilities in alien worlds.
Whether or not you believe in life on other planets, the artist's renditions of creatures such as Cheelas, Mesklinites, and Radiates from SF novels, as well as mathematical "alien messages" to decipher, are a real treat. (Here's an easy one: "Aliens are waiting for humanity to replace the question mark with the next value in the sequence before they will consider us worthy for further communication: 77, 49, 36, 18, ?") He also raises interesting issues; for example, what form would art take for creatures sensitive to smells or heat rather than light? To top it off, Pickover includes examples of potential interplanetary humor taboos: "Don't make puns around Scolexes because it outrages their sense of linguistic symmetry, which they've fought holy wars over." SF fans will enjoy this entertaining and thought-provoking book. --C.B. Delaney [via]
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The Scoundrel Worldsby Chris BunchISBN 0451459369 (0-451-45936-9)
Softcover, Roc
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Seven Science Fiction Novels of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 048620264X (0-486-20264-X)
Hardcover, Dover Pubns
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The Silver Branchby Patricia KennealyISBN 0453006272 (0-453-00627-2)
Hardcover, New Amer Library
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The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travelby Gregory L. Matloff, Eugene F. MalloveISBN 0471619124 (0-471-61912-4)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel'Book summary:The Starflight Handbook A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel "The Starflight Handbook is an indispensable compendium of the many and varied methods for traversing the vast interstellar gulf--don't leave the Solar System without it!" --Robert Forward "Very sensible, very complete and useful. Its good use of references and technical 'sidebars' adds to the book and allows the nontechnical text to be used by ordinary readers in an easy fashion. I certainly would recommend this book to anyone doing any thinking at all about interstellar flight or the notion of possibilities of contacts between hypothetical civilizations in different stat systems." --Louis Friedman Executive Director, The Planetary Society The Starflight Handbook is the first and only compendium on planet Earth of the radical new technologies now on the drawing boards of some of our smartest and most imaginative space scientists and engineers. Scientists and engineers as well as general readers will be captivated by its:
* In-depth discussions of everything from nuclear pulse propulsion engines to in-flight navigation, in flowing, non-technical language
* Sidebars and appendices cover technical and mathematical concepts in detail
* Seventy-five elegant and enlightening illustrations depicting starships and their hardware [via]More editions of The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel:
Stephen Kingby Stephen KingISBN 0451931416 (0-451-93141-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Stolenby Kelley ArmstrongISBN 0452285933 (0-452-28593-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stolen'Book summary:It was in Bitten, Kelley Armstrongs debut novel, that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful womanand the only living female werewolf.
In Stolen, on a mission for her own elite pack, she is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the "other races" and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormalswitches, vampires, shamans, werewolvesare then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he finally meets his match. [via]
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The Stormforceby Chris BunchISBN 0451456882 (0-451-45688-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486266885 (0-486-26688-5)
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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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Tarzanby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486295303 (0-486-29530-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan'Book summary:Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators. Large, easy-to-read type, accompanied by 18 striking illustrations. Abridged.[via]More editions of Tarzan:
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0451524233 (0-451-52423-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
Technogenesisby Syne MitchellISBN 0451458648 (0-451-45864-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Thinnerby Richard BachmanISBN 0453004687 (0-453-00468-7)
Hardcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinner'Book summary:Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence [via]
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The Third Policemanby Flann O'BrienISBN 0452259126 (0-452-25912-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Policeman'Book summary:A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chilling fable of unending guilt, The Third Policeman is comparable only to Alice in Wonderland as an allegory of the absurd. Distinguished by endless comic invention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, The Third Policeman is unique in the English language. [via]
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Tono-bungayby H. G. Wells, John HammondISBN 0460872591 (0-460-87259-1)
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Valentine's Exile: A Novel of the Vampire Earthby E. E. KnightISBN 0451461614 (0-451-46161-4)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valentine's Exile: A Novel of the Vampire Earth'Book summary:Welcome to the year 2072. Earth is under new management.
Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the Reapers came to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it's night, as sure as darkness, they will come.
In a valiant rebellion against the half-century Kurian occupation, the newly formed Texas and Ozark Republics have dealt the vampiric aliens their first major defeat. Resistance member David Valentine is revered as a hero, but he has a dangerous enemy within his own ranks, who will have him facing charges for abusing the Quisling prisoners-the human pawns of the Kurians. When fellow freedom fighter William Post is badly wounded, he asks Valentine to find his wife, who has vanished into the darkness of the Kurian Order. But what Valentine finds there will shake his sanity to its very core. [via]More editions of Valentine's Exile: A Novel of the Vampire Earth:
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypseby Stephen KingISBN 0452284716 (0-452-28471-6)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse'Book summary:In this fantastical third book in the series, Stephen King once again takes readers on a journey of incomparable imagination. Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares. As he and his friends cross a desert of damnation in their macabre new world, revelations begin to unfold about who - and what - is driving him forward. A blend of riveting action and powerful drama, "The Waste Lands" leaves readers breathlessly awaiting the next chapter. [via]
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A Wild Sheep Chaseby Haruki Murakami, Alfred T. BirnbaumISBN 0452265169 (0-452-26516-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wild Sheep Chase'Book summary:Murakami has crafted a taut and suspenseful novel that is equal parts detective story, fantasy, and Kafkaesque allegory. In a Japan of the imagination, an advertising executive is sent on a harrowing journey in pursuit of a mythical sheep reported to embody an irresistible will to absolute power. [via]
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Wizard and Glassby Stephen KingISBN 0452284724 (0-452-28472-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wizard and Glass'Book summary:Wizard and Glass, the fourth episode in King's white-hot Dark Tower series, is a sci-fi/fantasy novel that contains a post-apocalyptic Western love story twice as long. It begins with the series' star, world-weary Roland, and his world-hopping posse (an ex-junkie, a child, a plucky woman in a wheelchair, and a talking dog-like pet named Oy the Bumbler) trapped aboard a runaway train. The train is a psychotic multiple personality that intends to commit suicide with them at 800 m.p.h.--unless Roland and pals can outwit it in a riddling contest.
It's a great race, for the mind and pulse. Movies should be this good. Then comes a 567-page flashback about Roland at age 14. It's a well-marbled but meaty tale. Roland and two teen homies must rescue his first love from the dirty old drooling mayor of a post-apocalyptic cowboy town, thwart a civil war by blowing up oil tanks, and seize an all-seeing crystal ball from Rhea, a vampire witch. The love scenes are startlingly prominent and earthier than most romance novels (they kiss until blood trickles from her lip).
After an epic battle ending in a box canyon to end all box canyons, we're back with grizzled, grown-up Roland and the train-wreck survivors in a parallel world: Kansas in 1986, after a plague. The finale is a weird fantasy takeoff on The Wizard of Oz Some readers will feel that the latest novel in King's most ambitious series has too many pages--almost 800--but few will deny it's a page-turner. [via]
Worlds That Weren'tby Mary Gentle, S. M. Stirling, Walter Jon Williams, Harry TurtledoveISBN 0451528980 (0-451-52898-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Wyrmholeby Jay CaselbergISBN 0451459490 (0-451-45949-0)
Softcover, Roc
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