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1984, Spring: A Choice of Futuresby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0345313577 (0-345-31357-7)
Hardcover, Ballantyne Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984, Spring: A Choice of Futures'Book summary:1984: Spring/A Choice of Futures, by Clarke, Arthur C. [via]
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The Andromeda Strainby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345378482 (0-345-37848-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Andromeda Strain'Book summary:Some biologists speculate that if we ever make contact with extraterrestrials, those life forms are likely to be--like most life on earth--one-celled or smaller creatures, more comparable to bacteria than little green men. And even though such organisms would not likely be able to harm humans, the possibility exists that first contact might be our last.
That's the scientific supposition that Michael Crichton formulates and follows out to its conclusion in his excellent debut novel, The Andromeda Strain.
A Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone, urges the president to approve an extraterrestrial decontamination facility to sterilize returning astronauts, satellites, and spacecraft that might carry an "unknown biologic agent." The government agrees, almost too quickly, to build the top-secret Wildfire Lab in the desert of Nevada. Shortly thereafter, unbeknownst to Stone, the U.S. Army initiates the "Scoop" satellite program, an attempt to actively collect space pathogens for use in biological warfare. When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it asked for.
The Andromeda Strain follows Stone and rest of the scientific team mobilized to react to the Scoop crash as they scramble to understand and contain a strange and deadly outbreak. Crichton's first book may well be his best; it has an earnestness that is missing from his later, more calculated thrillers. --Paul Hughes [via]
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Talesby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0345329457 (0-345-32945-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales'Book summary:A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures...and the carved stones tens of millions of years old...and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. Three additional strange tales, written as only H.P. Lovecraft can write, are also included in this macabre collection of the strange and the weird. [via]
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Bearing an Hourglassby Piers AnthonyISBN 0345313151 (0-345-31315-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bearing an Hourglass'Book summary:When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality--Death, Fate, War, and Nature--made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good.... [via]
Being a Green Motherby Piers AnthonyISBN 0345322231 (0-345-32223-1)
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Bishop's Heirby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345347617 (0-345-34761-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bishop's Heir'Book summary:Once again the Kingdom of Gwynedd under young King Kelson found itself facing the horror of war between the Church and the Deryni. As the Pretender Queen plotted to free Meara from Gwynedd's control, and the ex-Archbishop hatched a devious plan, it looked like the peace of Gwynedd was to be a thing of the past.... [via]
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Blade Runnerby Philip K. DickISBN 0345350472 (0-345-35047-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blade Runner'Book summary:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a book that most people think they remember and almost always get more or less wrong. Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner took a lot from it, and threw a lot away. Wonderful in itself, the film is a flash thriller, whereas Dick's novel is a sober meditation. As we all know, bounty hunter Rick Deckard is stalking a group of androids who have returned from space with short life spans and murder on their minds--where Scott's Deckard was Harrison Ford, Dick's is a financially strapped municipal employee with bills to pay and a depressed wife. In a world where most animals have died, and pet keeping is a social duty, he can only afford a robot imitation, unless he gets a big financial break.
The genetically warped "chickenhead" John Isidore has visions of a tomb-world where entropy has finally won. And everyone plugs in to the spiritual agony of Mercer, whose sufferings for the sins of humanity are broadcast several times a day. Prefiguring the religious obsessions of Dick's last novels, this book asks dark questions about identity and altruism. After all, is it right to kill the killers just because Mercer says so? --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Book of Lost Talesby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 034537522X (0-345-37522-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Lost Tales'Book summary:This second part of THE BOOK OF LOST TALES includes the tale of Beneren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, Necklace of the Dwarves, and the Fall of Gondolin. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay, together with the texts of associated poems, as well as information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages. [via]
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Camber of Culdiby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345347676 (0-345-34767-6)
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Camber the Hereticby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345347544 (0-345-34754-4)
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Castle of Wizardryby David EddingsISBN 0345335708 (0-345-33570-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Castle of Wizardry'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Garion regains the Orb and struggles to escape from the brutal Murgo soldiers and the deadly magic spells of Grolim Hierachs. [via]
Chernevogby C. J. CherryhISBN 0345373510 (0-345-37351-0)
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The Complete Guide to Middle Earth : Tolkien's World from A to Zby Robert Hill FosterISBN 0345324366 (0-345-32436-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramasby George LucasISBN 0345341465 (0-345-34146-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Radio Dramas'Book summary:"'I want to come with you to Alderaan,' Luke said, resolved. 'I want to become a Jedi like my father.'" This marks the start of Luke Skywalker's involvement with the Rebellion in George Lucas's grand narrative of good versus evil, Star Wars. You know the story, you've seen the film--but this chunky little book is a real gem. Star Wars fans of all ages will enjoy both the fine abridgment and Brandon McKinney's 146 two-color illustrations, drawn in classic comic book style. --C.B. Delaney [via]
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Congoby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345378490 (0-345-37849-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Congo'Book summary:If you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you're waiting for that to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team's tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. If you can look past the breathless treatment of '80s technology, like voice-recognition software and 256K RAM modules (the book was written in 1980), you'll find the same smart use of science and edge-of-your-seat suspense shared by Crichton's other work. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Copernick's Rebellionby Leo A. FrankowskiISBN 0345340337 (0-345-34033-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Demon Lord of Karandaby David EddingsISBN 0345363310 (0-345-36331-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Demon Lord of Karanda'Book summary:In this third book of The Malloreon, Garion, Belgarath and their friends follow the quest begun in Guardians of the West and continued in King of the Murgos. It will lead them further into the dark designs of Zandramas and the strange ways of demons...The company now knows that Garion's baby son has been kidnapped by Zandramas and is to be used in a terrible ritual which will make the Dark Destiny supreme. The group, however, has been detained by Zakath, Emperor of all Mallorea, and taken to Mal Zeth, the largest city in the world.When a dire plague strikes, they manage to escape and, as prophesied by the Seeress of Kell, travel on to Ashaba - but, although they find Urvon, mad disciple of the evil god Torak, and the Demon Lord Nahaz, Zandramas is gone. In a desperate race against time, the company turn east once more to follow her spoor...THUS CONTINUES BOOK THREE OF THE MALLOREON [via]
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The Deryni Archivesby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345326784 (0-345-32678-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Deryni Checkmateby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345347641 (0-345-34764-1)
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Deryni Magicby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345361172 (0-345-36117-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deryni Magic'Book summary:Here, for the first time, the secrets of the Deryni, that mysterious race of wizards and healers blessed with arcane mental powers, are revealed. [via]
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Deryni Risingby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345347633 (0-345-34763-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deryni Rising'Book summary:In the kingdom of Gwynedd, the mysterious forces of magic and the superior power of the Church combine to challenge the rule of young Kelson. Now the fate of the Deryni -- a quasi-mortal race of sorcerers -- and, indeed, the fate of all the Eleven Kingdoms, rests on Kelson's ability to quash the rebellion by any means necessary . . . including the proscribed use of magic! [via]
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The Diamond Throneby David EddingsISBN 0345367693 (0-345-36769-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diamond Throne'Book summary:New cover reissue of Book One of the classic ELENIUM series introducing the Pandion Knight Sparhawk and his horse Faron, a sleeping queen, and a jewel that can save her! After a long spell of exile, Sparhawk, Pandion Knight and the Queen's champion, returns to his native land to find it overrun with evil and intrigue -- and his young Queen grievously ill. Indeed, Ehlana lies magically entombed within a block of crystal, doomed to die unless a cure can be found within a year. But as Sparhawk and his allies -- who include Sephrenia, the ageless sorceress, and Flute, the strange and powerful girl-child -- seek to save Ehlana and the land, they discover that the evil is even greater and more pervasive than they feared! Truly a gem of epic fantasy from the modern master of the genre, THE DIAMOND THRONE is a must for Eddings fans -- and an excellent introduction for those who have yet to discover the delights of his work. [via]
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Domes of Fireby David EddingsISBN 0345383273 (0-345-38327-3)
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The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraftby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0345384210 (0-345-38421-0)
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadathby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0345337794 (0-345-33779-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'Book summary:Six bone-chilling tales of bizarre beauty and awesome horror lurk in the dark of the soul, waiting to be called upon by the demons of nightmares, and let loose in the frightened mind. Only H.P. Lovecraft could conjure up these testaments to evil that will live inside of you forever.... [via]
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The Elfstones of Shannaraby Terry BrooksISBN 0345302532 (0-345-30253-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elfstones of Shannara'Book summary:Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the most fearsome of all Demons. And Wil is without power to control them....
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Enchanter's End Gameby David EddingsISBN 0345338715 (0-345-33871-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enchanter's End Game'Book summary:THE DRIVE OF PROPHECY
The quest was over. The Orb of Aldur was restored. And once again, with the crowning of Garion, there was a descendant of Riva Iron-grip to rule as Overlord of the West.
But the Prophecy was unfulfilled. In the east, the evil God Torak was about to awaken and seek dominion. Somehow, Garion had to face the God, to kill or be killed. On the outcome of that dread duel rested the destiny of the world. Now, accompanied by his grandfather, the ancient sorcerer Belgarath, Garion headed toward the City of Endless Night, where Torak awaited him.
To the south, his fiancée, the princess Ce'Nedra, led the armies of the West in a desperate effort to divert the forces of Torak's followers from the man she loved.
The Prophecy drove Garion on. But it gave no answer to the question that haunted him: How does a man kill an immortal God?
Here is the brilliant conclusion to the epic of The Belgariad, which began in Pawn of Prophecy--a novel of fate, strange lands, and a Prophecy that must be fulfilled--the resolution of the war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years! [via]More editions of Enchanter's End Game:
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The Forever Warby Joe HaldemanISBN 0345324897 (0-345-32489-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forever War'Book summary:In the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in The Forever War. The book went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, although a large chunk of the story had been cut out before it saw publication. Now Haldeman and Avon Books have released the definitive version of The Forever War, published for the first time as Haldeman originally intended. The book tells the timeless story of war, in this case a conflict between humanity and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can't adjust to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find himself shuttled endlessly from battle to battle as the centuries pass. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345336275 (0-345-33627-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation'Book summary:Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn't look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for "Best All-Time Series." It's science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Foundation and Earthby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345339967 (0-345-33996-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation and Earth'Book summary:The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encountered along the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy about man's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, who is part of the first world/mind, Gaia. [via]
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Foundation and Empireby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345336283 (0-345-33628-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation and Empire'Book summary:Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets...? [via]
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The Foundation Trilogyby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345340884 (0-345-34088-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foundation Trilogy'Book summary:First Ballantine Books Edition November 1983; Eighth Printing; A DelRay/Ballantine Book, trade paperback; 510 numbered pages; no remainder mark, text unmarked, 3/92 written at the top of the half-title page; front cover has a heavy vertical crease at the center and on the lower corner; no folded page corners as place markers; no reading creases on the spine; toned; contains "Foundation", "Foundation and Empire" and "Second Foundation"; smoke-free; ships quickly in protective packaing; SKUp5363 [via]
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Foundation's Edgeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345308980 (0-345-30898-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Edge'Book summary:Now, 498 years after its founding, the foundation seemed to be following the seldon plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the seldon plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it [via]
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Gatewayby Frederick PohlISBN 0345346904 (0-345-34690-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gateway'Book summary:Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe...and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Bob Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Robinette Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he is...in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!
THE HEECHEE SAGA
Book One:GATEWAY
Book Two:BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON
Book Three: HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS
Book Four: THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE [via]More editions of Gateway:
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Guardians of the Westby David EddingsISBN 0345352661 (0-345-35266-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guardians of the West'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Garion, the King of Riva, finds himself caught between the Dark Prophecy and the Prophecy of Light when he searches a previously obscure part of the Mrin Codex to identify someone or something called Zandramas. [via]
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The Harrowing of Gwyneddby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345363140 (0-345-36314-0)
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High Deryniby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345347668 (0-345-34766-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Deryni'Book summary:With young King Kelson on the throne of Gwynedd, the priesthood of the Eleven Kingdoms felt its control deeply threatened. For Kelson was half Deryni -- part of that race of humans gifted with extrasensory powers...a race that had ruled two centuries earlier, but was dethroned and driven underground.
Now, the final battle for ultimate power was about to break into open conflict, led by the Church which equated the supernatural powers of the Deryni with witchcraft and heresy! [via]More editions of High Deryni:
Jobby Robert HeinleinISBN 0345316509 (0-345-31650-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Job'Book summary:As natural accidents occurred without cease, Alex knew that Armageddon was near. Somehow, he had to bring his beloved heathen, Margrethe, to a state of graceand, while he was at it, save the rest of the world.... [via]
King Javan's Yearby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345384784 (0-345-38478-4)
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King of the Murgosby David EddingsISBN 0345358805 (0-345-35880-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King of the Murgos'Book summary:well written saga. [via]
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The King's Justiceby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345331966 (0-345-33196-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The King's Justice'Book summary:Young Kelson Haldane, King of Gwynedd, heir to both royal and Deryni magical powers, was still no match for ex-Archbishop Loris and the Pretender Queen Caitrin who sought his death. Yet, he raised an army against them both, knowing that honor made defeat impossible.... [via]
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The Last Unicornby Peter S. BeagleISBN 0345353676 (0-345-35367-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Unicorn'Book summary:The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:
The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.
The unicorn discovers that she is the last unicorn in the world, and sets off to find the others. She meets Schmendrick the Magician--whose magic seldom works, and never as he intended--when he rescues her from Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, where only some of the mythical beasts displayed are illusions. They are joined by Molly Grue, who believes in legends despite her experiences with a Robin Hood wannabe and his unmerry men. Ahead wait King Haggard and his Red Bull, who banished unicorns from the land.
This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. --Nona Vero [via]
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Lempriere's Dictionaryby Lawrence NorfolkISBN 0345384237 (0-345-38423-7)
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The Lurking Fear and Other Storiesby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0345326040 (0-345-32604-0)
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Magician's Gambitby David EddingsISBN 0345335457 (0-345-33545-7)
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Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad Book 1by David EddingsISBN 0345335511 (0-345-33551-1)
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Queen of Sorceryby David EddingsISBN 0345335651 (0-345-33565-1)
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The Quest for Saint Camberby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345300998 (0-345-30099-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Quest for Saint Camber'Book summary:When young Kelson, King of Gwynedd is reported drowned in a search for the legendary Saint Camber, Nigel was deemed to be king. But his son, Conoll, was too jealous and struck down his own father. Conoll had forgotten Saint Camber.... [via]
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Rendezvous with Ramaby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0345350561 (0-345-35056-1)
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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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Requiem for a Ruler of Worldsby Brian DaleyISBN 0345314875 (0-345-31487-5)
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Ringworldby Larry NivenISBN 0345333926 (0-345-33392-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ringworld'Book summary:A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again! [via]
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The Ruby Knightby David EddingsISBN 0345373529 (0-345-37352-9)
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Rusalkaby C. J. CherryhISBN 0345369343 (0-345-36934-3)
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Saint Camberby Katherine KurtzISBN 0345347684 (0-345-34768-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint Camber'Book summary:When Camber of Buidi, master of arcane Deryni powers, led a successful revolution against Imre, his sister Ariella, plotted war against Cinhill, her brother's successor. But Cinhill didn't want a fight, he didn't want power, and it was up to Camber to save crown and country.... [via]
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Sapphire Roseby David EddingsISBN 034537472X (0-345-37472-X)
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Second Foundationby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345336291 (0-345-33629-1)
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Seeress of Kellby David EddingsISBN 0345377591 (0-345-37759-1)
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Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Hamby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345336062 (0-345-33606-2)
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The Songs of Distant Earthby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 0345322401 (0-345-32240-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Songs of Distant Earth'Book summary:Thalassa was a paradise above the earth. Its beauty and vast resources seduce its inhabitants into a feeling of perfection. But then the Magellan arrives, carrying with it one million refugees from the last mad days of earth. Paradise looks indeed lost.... [via]
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Sorceress of Darshivaby David EddingsISBN 0345369351 (0-345-36935-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sorceress of Darshiva'Book summary:Troubles and delays continued to mount as Garion, Belgarath, Polgara, and the company pursued Zandramas across the known world. Possessed by the Dark Destiny, she had stolen Garion's infant son to use in a ritual that would destroy all that was fair and good.
Always the quest led onward, across and beyond the continent of Mallorea, where the Evil God Torak had once been supreme until Garion slew him. And always Zandramas was one step ahead of them. The armies she had raised, led by a Demon Lord, threatened to cut them off on one side: on the other, the forces of the Emperor Zakath were seeking to capture them.
Zandramas was taunting them and spying on them, flying over in the form of the great dragon, while the Dark Destiny changed her and etched away the last of her touches of humanity.
Somehow, as the Seeress of Kell had warned them, they had to be at the Place Which Is No More for the ritual at the same time as Zandramas, if they were to have a chance to defeat her evil schemes.
But where that might be they still had no clue. [via]More editions of Sorceress of Darshiva:
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Space Cadetby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0345353110 (0-345-35311-0)
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But before Matt could earn his rightful place in the ranks, his mettle would be tested in the most severe and extraordinary ways -- ways that would change him forever but would still not prepare him for the alien treacheries that awaited him on strange worlds far beyond his own. [via]More editions of Space Cadet:
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Sphereby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345353145 (0-345-35314-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sphere'Book summary:Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since H.G. Wells, and Sphere, his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is classic Crichton. A group of not-very-complex characters (portrayed in the film by Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Queen Latifah) assemble to solve a cleverly designed roller coaster of a mystery while attempting (with mixed success) to avoid sudden death and expounding (much more successfully) on the latest, coolest scientific ideas, including the existence of black holes. Somehow, Crichton manages to convey the complicated stuff in utterly simplistic prose, making him, as his old pal Steven Spielberg puts it, "the high priest of high concept." Yet there is more to Crichton than science and big-ticket show biz. He is also, as any reader of his startling memoir Travels knows, a bit of a mystic--he is entirely open to notions spouted by spoon-bending psychics that most science writers would scorn. Sphere is not only a gratifying sci-fi suspense tale; it also reflects Crichton's keen interest in the unexplained powers of the human mind. When something passes through a black hole in Crichton's fiction, a lesson is learned. The book also contains another profound lesson: when you're staring down a giant squid with an eyeball the size of a dinner plate, don't blink first. [via]
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The Sword of Shannaraby Terry BrooksISBN 0345314255 (0-345-31425-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sword of Shannara'Book summary:Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revaled that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destory the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir of Shannara--Shea being the last of the bloodline, upon whom all hope rested. Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion of Evil, flew into the Vale, seeking to destroy Shea. To save the Vale, Shea fled, drawing the Skull Bearer after him....
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 034531977X (0-345-31977-X)
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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]
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The Tolkien Readerby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345345061 (0-345-34506-1)
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Wielding a Red Swordby Piers AnthonyISBN 0345322215 (0-345-32221-5)
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The Wishsong of Shannaraby Terry BrooksISBN 0345356365 (0-345-35636-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wishsong of Shannara'Book summary:Horror stalked the Four Lands as the Ildatch, ancient source of evil, sent its ghastly Mord Wraiths to destroy Mankind. Only Druid Allanon held the magic power of wishsong that could make plants bloom instantly or turn trees from green to autumn gold. But she, too, was in mortal danger, and Ildatch waited for Brin to fall into his trap....
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With a Tangled Skeinby Piers AnthonyISBN 0345318854 (0-345-31885-4)
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Charles SantoreISBN 0345335902 (0-345-33590-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:In spite of the fact that L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) is one of the most popular stories in America, relatively few people have actually read the book. It's well worth the effort! Young readers expecting rainbows, Munchkin songs, and wicked witches with burning brooms will instead find a complex country populated with mocking Hammerhead men, dainty people made out of china, and fierce monsters with heads of tigers and bodies of bears. Through the fantastic land of Oz ramble Dorothy and her trusty companions--Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion--each seeking his or her heart's desire. Although the premise of the book and the 1939 movie is the same, the book--as so often is the case--delivers a far more subtle and intricate plot. A child's imagination will run rampant in these pages as one extraordinary creature after another leads the motley crew into strange and magical adventures. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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