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Adventures of Professorby Steven Stiles, Dick LupoffISBN 1560970685 (1-56097-068-5)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Against the Dayby Thomas PynchonISBN 159420120X (1-59420-120-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Day'Book summary:Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.[via]With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.
-Thomas Pynchon
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Battle Chasers: A Gathering of Heroesby Joe MadureiraISBN 1563895382 (1-56389-538-2)
Softcover, DC Comics
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Begum's Fortuneby Jules VerneISBN 1592242553 (1-59224-255-3)
Softcover, Wildside Press
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A Blazing World Vol. II: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemenby Jess Nevins, Alan Moore, Kevin O'NeillISBN 1932265104 (1-932265-10-4)
Softcover, MonkeyBrain
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The Book of Schuitenby Francois Schuiten, Benoit PeetersISBN 1561634026 (1-56163-402-6)
Hardcover, NBM Publishing Company
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Clockwork Angelsby Lea HernandezISBN 1582400830 (1-58240-083-0)
Softcover, Image Comics
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The Death Collectorby Justin RichardsISBN 1582347212 (1-58234-721-2)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury USA
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Dinotopiaby James GurneyISBN 1878685899 (1-878685-89-9)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Dinotopia: The World Beneathby James GurneyISBN 0060530650 (0-06-053065-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinotopia: The World Beneath'Book summary:After they are shipwrecked on a mysterious island called Dinotopia, Professor Arthur Denison and his son, Will, discover an awe-inspiring new world where dinosaurs and humans have lived together peacefully for centuries. They have only begun to adjust to this remarkable civilization before heading off on separate quests. Will takes to the sky as the pilot of a giant pterosaur known as a skybax, while Arthur leads an excavation deep underground to discover the origins of the world beneath Dinotopia. Little does either of them know of the dangers they are about to face ...
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El hombre invisible / the Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 9507820760 (950-782-076-0)
Hardcover, Arte Grafico Editorial Argentino
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The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victorianaby Jess NevinsISBN 1932265155 (1-932265-15-5)
Hardcover, MonkeyBrain
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana'Book summary:This enormous volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of fantastic literature of the nineteenth century. From detective fiction to historical novels, from well-known authors like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to Russian newspaper serials and Chinese martial arts novels, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASTIC VICTORIANA is a truly exhaustive look at every aspect of fantastic literature in the days of Queen Victoria. Readers of science fiction and fantasy will be surprised to find here the roots of genres thought to be strictly contemporary, and students of literature will be amazed at the breadth and scope of writings produced in the Victoriana era. This is an invaluable reference, and truly one-of-a-kind. [via]
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The First Men in the Moonby H. G. WellsISBN 1578401968 (1-57840-196-8)
Softcover, Acclaim Books
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Softcover, Echo Library - The First Men in the Moon: ISBN 1421809362 (1-4218-0936-2)
Hardcover, 1st World Publishing, Incorporated - First Men in the Moon: ISBN 1576465187 (1-57646-518-7)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub - The First Men in the Moon: ISBN 1578401968 (1-57840-196-8)
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Five Fingers: Port of Deceitby Iron KingdomsISBN 1933362073 (1-933362-07-3)
Hardcover, Privateer Pr
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Flaming Londonby Joe LansdaleISBN 1596060255 (1-59606-025-5)
Hardcover, Subterranean
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Frakensteinby Mary W. ShellyISBN 846630407X (84-663-0407-X)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1561561428 (1-56156-142-8)
Softcover, Kidsbooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 1566191416 (1-56619-141-6)
Softcover, Dorset Pr - Frankenstein: ISBN 1587260883 (1-58726-088-3)
Softcover, Ann Arbor Media Group - Frankenstein: ISBN 1593080050 (1-59308-005-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1593081154 (1-59308-115-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1853260231 (1-85326-023-1)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1561563099 (1-56156-309-9)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks - Frankenstein: ISBN 1566190916 (1-56619-091-6)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble - Frankenstein: ISBN 1593081618 (1-59308-161-8)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Frankenstein: ISBN 1851960775 (1-85196-077-5)
Hardcover, Pickering & Chatto Publishers, Limited - Frankenstein: ISBN 1854771175 (1-85477-117-5)
Hardcover, Woodstock Books - Frankenstein: ISBN 1551110385 (1-55111-038-5)
Softcover, Broadview Press - Frankenstein: ISBN 1577656865 (1-57765-686-5)
Hardcover, Spotlight - Frankenstein: ISBN 3895080896 (3-89508-089-6)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft - Frankenstein: ISBN 1561561428 (1-56156-142-8)
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- Frankenstein: ISBN 1566191416 (1-56619-141-6)
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Frankensteinby Mary . ShelleyISBN 1562548980 (1-56254-898-0)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation as it destroys everything Victor loves is a powerful story of love friendship and horror. Grades: 4 - 12. Level(s): Intermediate Middle School High School. Author: Mary Shelly. Binding: Paperback. Publishing Date: Jan 2005. Number of Pages: 61. Language: English. [via]
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Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, David Lorne MacDonald, Kathleen ScherfISBN 1551113082 (1-55111-308-2)
Softcover, Broadview Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus'Book summary:Mary Shelley's deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read and more widely discussed by scholars than any other work of the Romantic period. From the creature's creation to his wild lament over the dead body of his creator in the Arctic wastes, the story retains its narrative hold on the reader even as it spins off ideas in rich profusion. Macdonald and Scherf's edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel for the general reader and the student as much as for the scholar. The editors use as their copy-text the original 1818 version, and detail in an appendix all of Shelley's later revisions. They also include a range of contemporary documents that shed light on the historical context from which this unique masterpiece emerged. Macdonald and Scherf have now revised and updated their introduction, notes and bibliography, and have added new documents (including a review of Frankenstein by Percy Shelley). [via]
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From the Earth to the Moonby Jules VerneISBN 1557423709 (1-55742-370-9)
Softcover, Wildside Press
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From the Earth to the Moon and Round theby Jules VerneISBN 1596051310 (1-59605-131-0)
Softcover, Cosimo, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From the Earth to the Moon and Round the'Book summary:This darkness... showed that the projectile has passed the atmospheric strata, for the diffused light spread in the air would have been reflected on the metal walls, which reflection was wanting. This light would have lit the window, and the window was dark. Doubt was no longer possible; the travelers had left the earth. "I have lost," said Nicholl. "I congratulate you," replied Ardan. "Here are the nine thousand dollars," said the captain, drawing a roll of paper dollars from his pocket. "Will you have a receipt for it?" asked Barbicane, taking the sum. "If you do not mind," answered Nicholl; "it is more business-like." ~ ~ ~ This is the legendary novel of technological speculation and social satire that launched an entire genre of adventure fiction: Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and 'Round the Moon is the first story of space exploration and remains a beloved work of daring exploits-and surprisingly accurate scientific conjecture. When the members of the Baltimore Gun Club-bored Civil War veterans-decide to fill their time by embarking on a project to shoot themselves to the moon, the race is on to raise money, overcome engineering challenges, and convince detractors that they're anything but "Lunatics." With this work, Verne inspired the first science fiction film, 1902's Le Voyage dans la lune, and accurately predicted that that ideal location for a spacebase is in Florida. First published in France in 1865, this replica 1918 edition includes the sequel, 1870's Round the Moon. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon OF INTEREST TO: science fiction fans, readers of 19th-century literature French author JULES GABRIEL VERNE (1828-1905) is considered the father of modern science fiction. Among his many groundbreaking books are Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). [via]
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From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moonby Jules VerneISBN 1595400435 (1-59540-043-5)
Softcover, 1st World Publishing, Incorporated
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Hardcover, 1st World Publishing, Incorporated - From The Earth To The Moon And Round The Moon: ISBN 1582871035 (1-58287-103-5)
Hardcover, North Books - From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon: ISBN 1595400435 (1-59540-043-5)
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Girl Genius: Omnibus Edition #1 : Omnibus Edition #1by Phil Foglio, Kaja FoglioISBN 1890856401 (1-890856-40-1)
Softcover, Studio Foglio, LLC
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Heroes and Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemenby Jess Nevins, Alan Moore, Kevin O'NeillISBN 193226504X (1-932265-04-X)
Softcover, MonkeyBrain
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heroes and Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'Book summary:This book-length celebration and analysis of the Artistic Event of the Century includes an exclusive interview and introduction by League of Extraordinary Gentlemen co-creator and author Alan Moore; commentary by co-creator and illustrator Kevin O'Neill: detailed, panel-by-panel annotations of the first League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series. [via]
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The Hollow Earthby Rudy RuckerISBN 1932265201 (1-932265-20-1)
Softcover, Monkeybrain
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The Invisible Frontierby Benoit Peeters, Francois SchuitenISBN 156163400X (1-56163-400-X)
Hardcover, NBM Publishing Company
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 1581180772 (1-58118-077-2)
Hardcover, Library Reproduction Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone. [via]
Iron Kingdoms Liber Mechanikaby Iron KingdomsISBN 1933362014 (1-933362-01-4)
Softcover, Privateer Pr
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrellby Susanna ClarkeISBN 1582346038 (1-58234-603-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell'Book summary:It's 1808 and that Corsican upstart Napoleon is battering the English army and navy. Enter Mr. Norrell, a fusty but ambitious scholar from the Yorkshire countryside and the first practical magician in hundreds of years. What better way to demonstrate his revival of British magic than to change the course of the Napoleonic wars? Susanna Clarke's ingenious first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, has the cleverness and lightness of touch of the Harry Potter series, but is less a fairy tale of good versus evil than a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes, occasional period spellings, and a dense, lively mythology teeming beneath the narrative. Mr. Norrell moves to London to establish his influence in government circles, devising such powerful illusions as an 11-day blockade of French ports by English ships fabricated from rainwater. But however skillful his magic, his vanity provides an Achilles heel, and the differing ambitions of his more glamorous apprentice, Jonathan Strange, threaten to topple all that Mr. Norrell has achieved. A sparkling debut from Susanna Clarke--and it's not all fairy dust. --Regina Marler [via]
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Softcover, St Martins Pr - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: ISBN 1582344167 (1-58234-416-7)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: ISBN 1596910534 (1-59691-053-4)
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A Land Apart from Timeby James GurneyISBN 1878685236 (1-878685-23-6)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Larklight or The Revenge of the White Spiders! or To Saturn's Rings and Back!: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Spaceby Philip Reeve, David WyattISBN 1599901455 (1-59990-145-5)
Softcover, Bloomsbury USA
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Legends from the End of Timeby Michael MoorcockISBN 1565041895 (1-56504-189-5)
Hardcover, Psi
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Maddigan's Fantasiaby Margaret MahyISBN 1869505611 (1-86950-561-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins (New Zealand)
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The Man Who Was Thursdayby G.K. ChestersonISBN 1586170422 (1-58617-042-2)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Was Thursday'Book summary:In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called The Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon."
But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via] -
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmareby G. K. ChestertonISBN 1595970010 (1-59597-001-0)
Softcover, Idylls Pr
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But Chesterton is also concerned with more serious questions of honor and truth (and less serious ones, perhaps, of duels and dualism). Our hero is Gabriel Syme, a policeman who cannot reveal that his fellow poet Lucian Gregory is an anarchist. In Chesterton's agile, antic hands, Syme is the virtual embodiment of paradox:
He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realization; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinthe and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.... Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--sanity.
Elected undercover into the Central European Council of anarchists, Syme must avoid discovery and save the world from any bombings in the offing. As Thursday (each anarchist takes the name of a weekday--the only quotidian thing about this fantasia) does his best to undo his new colleagues, the masks multiply. The question then becomes: Do they reveal or conceal? And who, not to mention what, can be believed? As The Man Who Was Thursday proceeds, it becomes a hilarious numbers game with a more serious undertone--what happens if most members of the council actually turn out to be on the side of right? Chesterton's tour de force is a thriller that is best read slowly, so as to savor his highly anarchic take on anarchy. --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
Ministry of Spaceby Warren Ellis, Chris Weston, Laura MartinISBN 1582404232 (1-58240-423-2)
Softcover, Image Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ministry of Space'Book summary:This is the story of how we could have gone to space. Maybe how we should have gone to space. This is the story of the Ministry of Space: The black budget that financed the move into space. The deaths of the test pilots taken from the surviving Spitfire flyers of the Battle of Britain. And in 2000, the end of the Golden Age, as America and Russia begin moving into space. The secret revealed, and the destruction of a man who sacrificed himself for the Ministry of Space. Plus, a sketchbook section by Chris Weston and an all-new appendix by Warren Ellis revealing the facts behind the fiction! [via]
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The Mortal Immortalby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 1892391015 (1-892391-01-5)
Softcover, Tachyon Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mortal Immortal'Book summary:This collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's supernatural stories, and will hopefully shed much needed light on an author often credited with writing the first science fiction novel. Here you will find the secrets of eternal youth, souls that exchange bodies, and ancient Englishmen and Romans newly thawed out of ice. In addition to several stories by Mary Shelley, this volume also features a brand new story by renowned science fiction author Michael Bishop. This work serves as a narrative introduction for this collection. Mary Shelley's considerable reputation rests squarely on the shoulders of her one great novel - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 and revised under her own byline in 1831. Her powerful tale of blasphemous creation is perhaps more familiar to modern readers through its many film adaptations as it is from the book itself. From Boris Karloff's electrifying performance as Frankenstein to Kenneth Branaugh's latest directorial rendering, the story has received numerous interpretations which have renewed interest in the book time and time again. However, Shelley's other works have not fared as well as Frankenstein. She wrote just a handful of novels, of which only The Last Man (1826) has remained sporadically in print, due to its great length and slow, ornate and often tedious use of language. A precursor to such disaster novels as George R. Stewart's Earth Abides and Richard Jeffries' After London, The Last Man follows its protagonist Lionel Verney through a distant future world which has been depopulated by plague. The shorter works of Mary Shelley have remained even more obscure. During her lifetime, she published just over two-dozen stories, only three of which were of interest to readers of science fiction and fantasy. In addition to these three supernaturally-themed stories, two additional stories were published after Shelley's death. "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman," was printed in a volume of reminisces by a magazine editor who had commissioned the story thirty years earlier. "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman," a story in a similar vein to "Roger Dodsworth," remained unpublished until 1976, when both stories were discovered by Charles E. Robinson, a Shelley scholar and professor of English at the University of Delaware. [via]
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A Mouthful of Tongues: Her Totipotent Tropicanaliaby Paul Di FilippoISBN 1587155060 (1-58715-506-0)
Hardcover, Wildside Press
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Mouthful of Tongues: Her Totipotent Tropicanalia : Her Totipotent Tropicanaliaby Paul Di FilippoISBN 1587155079 (1-58715-507-9)
Softcover, Wildside Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mouthful of Tongues: Her Totipotent Tropicanalia : Her Totipotent Tropicanalia'Book summary:In his new novel, A Mouthful of Tongues, Paul Di Filippo, cult author of Ciphers, The Steampunk Trilogy, and Ribofunk, makes his boldest fictional statement yet. Writing in the tradition of Kathy Acker and Samuel R. Delany, but with a subversive brio all his own, Di Filippo here imagines a true erotic revolution, a crusade of the libido that will topple a corrupt and jaded future world order, and possibly much besides . . . Kerry Hackett is just another corporate pawn in the urban cauldron of 2015, besieged on all sides by those who would possess and exploit her. Driven to desperation, she undergoes a mysterious transformation into an alchemical goddess, wanderer of the timelines. In a magnificently evoked parallel Brazil, a place of seedy splendor and charismatic lusts, Kerry, or that which she has become, tests her carnal arsenal on targets deserving and undeserving; but the attention of a more powerful agency has been attracted, and a yet stranger metamorphosis awaits. A tale of heartbreak, revenge, and liberation, written in Paul Di Filippo's most fantastically effervescent prose, A Mouthful of Tongues is a work of science fiction which crosses boundaries and breaks taboos with brilliant savage abandon. It can only add to its author's rapidly growing following, and will shake the world of speculative fiction to its very foundations. "Out of a rich impasto of language, a story that is sensual, sexual, and hot takes shape around one of the most engaging heroines since Southern and Hoffenberg's Candy." --Samuel R. Delany "Sacred sin, that's Di Filippo's force here. We have participated in a transpersonal act that lifts our consciousness above the situational polarities of morality and into the psyche's unknown, where objective energetic processes fuse dream and matter--and make us us. A ruthless fantasy of aggressive sexuality and archaic intentions." --A. A. Attanasio [via]
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Windby Hayao MiyazakiISBN 1569312117 (1-56931-211-7)
Softcover, Viz Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'Book summary:Humanity, in its hubris, has precipitated a devastating environmental disaster. Armed with clumsy flying gunships, Princess Nausicaa and her allies battle over the last of the world's precious natural resources. [via]
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Softcover, Viz Media - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: ISBN 1569312117 (1-56931-211-7)
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R. O. Dby Shutaro YamadaISBN 1421505096 (1-4215-0509-6)
Softcover, Viz Media
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Ribofunkby Paul Di FilippoISBN 1568580622 (1-56858-062-2)
Hardcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ribofunk'Book summary:Nebula finalist Paul Di Filippo follows The Steampunk Trilogy, a collection of alternate-history novellas, with Ribofunk, a biotechnological hard-SF collection. As the radical shift of genres may indicate, Ribofunk is astonishingly diverse in subjects and styles, even though its 13 stories make up a future history. Despite the generous number of stories, the book's quality and creativity remain high throughout. In "Brain Wars," a genetically engineered disease afflicts an Antarctic army with enough psychobiological horrors to frighten even the famed neurologist Oliver Sacks. In "The Boot," a 2060s-era private investigator seeks a bio-enhanced thief-gambler who can see the dynamics of chaos and may therefore be able to beat any odds, even those of capture. In "The Bad Splice," the PI finds himself trapped alone in the superseaweed-choked, storm-torn North Atlantic with the diabolical Krazy Kat, a "splice," or genetically engineered animal-man, who has escaped bondage and become a splice-rights terrorist. A few characters recur sporadically, but one appears in every story: the Earth, its biosphere progressively altering with every tale, until the ultimate transformation of the final story, which brings the collection, novel-like, to a tremendous, terrifying, apocalyptic climax.
Few SF writers are as imaginative, energetic, or idea rich as Paul Di Filippo, and fewer still have as broad a knowledge of science and culture. And there's no contemporary SF writer who's more fun to read. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The San Veneficio Canonby Michael CiscoISBN 1894815688 (1-894815-68-8)
Softcover, Prime
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Scarlet Tracesby Ian Edginton, D'IsraeliISBN 1569719403 (1-56971-940-3)
Hardcover, Dark Horse Comics
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Silverheart: A Novel of the Multiverseby Michael Moorcock, Storm ConstantineISBN 159102336X (1-59102-336-X)
Softcover, Prometheus Books, Publishers
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Sorcery & Steam: Legends & Lairsby Fantasy Flight GamesISBN 1589941152 (1-58994-115-2)
Hardcover, Fantasy Flight Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sorcery & Steam: Legends & Lairs'Book summary:The Legends & Lairs line of sourcebooks expands the options for any d20 game, providing new rules and statistics for everything from new races and character options to traps, treachery, and adventuring on the high seas. Sorcery & Steam contains all the rules that players and DMs need to explore a hybrid fantasy world filled with magic and Victorian technology - steam-driven monstrosities, clockwork beasts, black powder firearms, and more. [via]
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Steam Punk: Manimatronby Joe Kelly, Chris Bachalo, Richard FriendISBN 1563897628 (1-56389-762-8)
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The Time Machine and the Invisible Manby H. G. Wells, Alfred Mac AdamISBN 1593083254 (1-59308-325-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Machine and the Invisible Man'Book summary:[via]The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.The Time Machine, H. G. Wellss first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two strange humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and the gentle but nearly helpless Eloi.
The Invisible Man mixes chilling terror, suspense, and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers the formula for invisibilitya secret that drives him mad.
Immensely popular during his lifetime, H. G. Wells, along with Jules Verne, is credited with inventing science fiction. This new volume offers two of Wellss best-loved and most critically acclaimed scientific romances. In each, the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action, not merely to tell a ripping yarn, but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. The strength of Mr. Wells, wrote Arnold Bennett, lies in the fact that he is not only a scientist, but a most talented student of character, especially quaint character. He will not only ingeniously describe for you a scientific miracle, but he will set down that miracle in the midst of a country village, sketching with excellent humour the inn-landlady, the blacksmith, the chemists apprentice, the doctor, and all the other persons whom the miracle affects.Alfred Mac Adam teaches literature at Barnard College-Columbia University. He is a translator and art critic.More editions of The Time Machine and the Invisible Man:
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Trigun No. 1: Deep Space Planet Future Gun Actionby Yasuhiro NightowISBN 1593070527 (1-59307-052-7)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trigun No. 1: Deep Space Planet Future Gun Action'Book summary:It's a western, it's sci-fi, it's punk, and it's popular. It's Trigun and it's become one of the most popular anime in America. But before it was animated, it was a manga. And now Dark Horse has finally brought that manga to America! Continuing our foray into the world of non-Westernized manga publishing, Trigun promises to be entertaining with its huge guns, signature characters, wild shoot-em-up action, and funny writing. Vash is a nice guy, but everyone wants to kill him. An enigma of a man with a coat full of bullet holes, he's widely feared because of the destruction left in his wake. And he's also highly valued for the price on his head. But he's no easy man to kill. Of course, that doesn't stop people from trying. What's his mission? Where's he from? This volume may have the answers to those questions, and more. See what you've been missing in the video, visit Vash in true black and white coolness. Finally, Trigun is here! [via]
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Un Mal Principioby Lemony SnicketISBN 9685958300 (968-5958-30-0)
Softcover, Montena
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, David McKeeISBN 0140366938 (0-14-036693-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz'Book summary:After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. [via]
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The Wizard of Oz Book and Charmby L. Frank BaumISBN 0060757728 (0-06-075772-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wizard of Oz Book and Charm'Book summary:When Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are swept away from Kansas in a wild cyclone, they find themselves in the strange and magical land of Oz. On a quest to find her way back home, Dorothy and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion journey to the Emerald City where the great and powerful Wizard lives. Discover Dorothy's unforgettable adventures in one of the most enchanting fantasy novels of all time.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, William StoutISBN 0060293233 (0-06-029323-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'Book summary:Robert Sabuda has created a resplendent pop-up version of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the original publication. This glorious edition is told in a shorter version of L. Frank Baum's original text, with artwork in the style of W. W. Denslow. With sparkling touches of colored foil and Emerald City eyeglasses, this classic tale is certain to find an honored place on the family bookshelf. [via]
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The World Beneathby James GurneyISBN 0060280069 (0-06-028006-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World Beneath'Book summary:Welcome back to James Gurney's fantastic lost world of Dinotopia, where humans and an ancient race of dinosaurs coexist in harmony. The adventure continues in The World Beneath as Professor Denison travels to ancient caves beneath Dinotopia and discovers a civilization older and more advanced than any known to man. [via]
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De la Tierra a la Lunaby Julio VerneISBN 8497643666 (84-9764-366-6)
Softcover, Edimat Libros, S. A.
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De La Tierra a La Luna/ From the Earth to the Moonby Julio VerneISBN 8497862643 (84-9786-264-3)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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Frakensteinby Mary W. ShellyISBN 8440619537 (84-406-1953-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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El Hombre Que Fue Jueves / the Man Who Was Thursdayby Gilbert K. ChestertonISBN 8489163987 (84-89163-98-7)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Hombre Que Fue Jueves / the Man Who Was Thursday'Book summary:En el hombre que fue jueves se han reunido dos grandes escritores, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, uno de los novelistas ingleses mas originales, y el mexicano Alfonso Reyes, quien hizo la traduccion y el prologo de esta divertidisima historia de aventuras, enredo, intriga y suspenso. A lo largo de mas 200 paginas, perseguidor y perseguido cobran una significacion inesperada, hasta convertirse en principios eternos del universo. [via]
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Jonathan Strange y el Senor Norrellby Susanna ClarkeISBN 8478889736 (84-7888-973-6)
Hardcover, Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A.
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Los quinientos millones de la Begun / Los 500 millions of the Begumby Jules VerneISBN 8420659231 (84-206-5923-1)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Sally y el Tigre en el Pozoby Philip Pullman, Isabel de MiquelISBN 8495618494 (84-95618-49-4)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano S. A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sally y el Tigre en el Pozo'Book summary:En cualquier momento, cuando todo está bien en tu vida, puedes caer al pozo... donde aguarda el tigre
Londres, 1881. La valiente Sally vive dedicada a su hija, Harriet, en una bonita casa que comparte con sus amigos, Jim Taylor y Webster Garland, y su negocio nunca había ido tan bien. Sin embargo, alguien acecha su casa, alguien sigue sus pasos, alguien está a punto de tirar de la cuerda que abrirá la trampilla bajo sus pies. Lo llaman el Tzaddik, y se enriquece a costa de la miseria ajena, que en la Europa de finales del siglo XIX, se traduce en migraciones, mano de obra barata y corrupción.
Es tan poderoso y malvado que se ha convertido en leyenda, y su nombre provoca escalofríos, desde las heladas aldeas de la estepa rusa hasta las mismas barriadas de Londres.Sally Lockhart necesitará reunir toda su astucia y sangre fría para no desmoronarse ni perder el pulso, porque la vida de su hija corre serio peligro. Esta vez estará sola, pero contará con el consejo y el apoyo de Daniel Goldberg, su nuevo amigo, que comparte con ella el gusto por la aventura, la audacia y una inagotable sed de justicia. [via]
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Sally y la Princesa de Hojalataby Philip Pullman, Isabel de MiquelISBN 8495618524 (84-95618-52-4)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano S. A.
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Sally Y LA Sombra Del Norte / The Shadow in the Northby Philip PullmanISBN 8495618435 (84-95618-43-5)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sally Y LA Sombra Del Norte / The Shadow in the North'Book summary:En el Londres victoriano, las estrafalarias oficinas de Lockhart y Garland -socios, amigos y mucho más- bullen de frenética actividad. Mientras Jim Taylor, el aventurero, intenta ayudar a un asustado mago a desaparecer por un tiempo, Fred Garland, el fotógrafo, estudia la forma de captar en imágenes una fraudulenta sesión de espiritismo.
Pero la misión más difícil es sin duda la de Sally Lockhart, intrépida asesora financiera. Ella sola se enfrentará a un hombre que constituye una terrible amenaza para la humanidad.
Sally Lockhart, la sagaz protagonista de esta novela de aventuras que nos traslada a la Inglaterra del siglo XIX adivinará las intenciones de esta maléfica sombra del norte y conseguirá detener su avance. ¿Pero a qué precio?
Una emocionante novela de amor, amistad y aventura. [via]
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