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The Best of Isaac Asimov
[SF]
Fawcett Crest paperback, reprint of 1976 edition – a collection of 12
stories, 1939–1972. Titles of stories: Marooned Off Vesta (Asimov’s
first published story), Nightfall,
C-Chute, The Martian Way, The Deep, The Fun They Had, The Last Question,
The Dead Past, The Dying Night, Anniversary, The Billiard Ball, and
Moving Image. With author’s introduction and bibliography.
[VG] $4.99 |
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The Caves of Steel
[SF, mystery] Bantam paperback,
1991 – First serialized in Astounding Science
Fiction magazine in 1953 and published in hardcover in 1954, this is
one of Asimov’s acclaimed
Robot Series
novels that combine science fiction with the murder
mystery genre. A human detective teams up with a humanoid robot to
pursue criminals in a future civilization that stretches to the stars.
[VG] $4.99 |
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The Collapsing Universe [non-fiction] Walker & Co. hardcover in dust jacket, book club ed., 1977 – Asimov explores the implications of black holes with lucid excursions into related questions: Was the mysterious 30-megaton blast that flattened a Siberian forest in 1908 caused by a black hole? Does matter drawn into a black hole reappear out the “other side” as anti-matter? Do black holes support the theory of the universe’s origin in a “big bang”? [VG/VG] $2.99 | ||||
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The Currents of Space
[SF] Fawcett Crest
paperback #P2495, first printing, March 1971 – The second novel in
Asimov’s
Galactic Empire
series, first published in 1952. Set in the distant future (around
11,000 CE) during a period of expansion of a galactic empire, this
is a story of interstellar trade and intrigue. A valuable agricultural
planet essential to the empire’s economy is threatened by the imminent
explosion of a supernova.
[NF] $5.99 |
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The End of
Eternity
[SF]
Fawcett-Crest paperback, 1980 (USBN 0449237044) – a classic time travel
novel, first published in 1955. Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose
job it is to range through past and present centuries, monitoring and,
where necessary, altering time’s myriad cause-and-effect relationships.
But when Harlan meets a non-Eternal woman, he seeks to use the awesome
powers of the Eternals to twist time for personal reasons.
[VG+] $4.99 |
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Fantastic Voyage
[SF, movie]
Bantam paperback, 1969 – a novel based on the movie screenplay. A
medical team is reduced to microscopic size. Boarding a tiny atomic
submarine, they are injected into a man’s bloodstream. They fight their
way past giant antibodies, through the heart, and through the inner ear
where the slightest sound could destroy them, and into the brain. Their
mission: to reach a blood clot and destroy it with a laser gun.
[VG+] $4.99 |
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The Foundation Trilogy
[SF] Science Fiction Book Club
hardcover omnibus edition including 3 complete novels: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second
Foundation. The novels appeared originally as a series of
short stories and novelettes in Astounding Science Fiction
magazine in the 1940s. Widely considered one of the
primary classics of modern science fiction, the trilogy relates the rise
and fall of a galactic empire.
[VG] $3.99 |
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Foundation and Empire
[SF] Ballantine/Del Rey paperback #33628, 11th printing, September 1986
– the second volume of the Foundation Trilogy, first published in book
form in 1952, based on two novelettes that appeared in Astounding
Science Fiction magazine in 1945. This volume describes the struggle
between the Foundation, a repository of human civilization and culture,
and a decaying empire determined to destroy it. [F] $5.99 |
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Second Foundation
[SF] Avon
paperback #38125, 26th printing of 1964 edition – the third volume of
the Foundation Trilogy, first published in Astounding Science Fiction
magazine in 1948 and in book form in 1953. Themes include the emergence
of psychic powers as a mutation of the human mind. The Second Foundation
meets the threat of a perilous mutant, only to face the challenge of the
corrupt First Foundation for control of the galactic empire. [NF] $5.99 |
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Foundation’s Edge
[SF] Ballantine/Del Rey
paperback #30898, first printing, November 1983 – The war between the
two Foundations has come to an end. Two exiled citizens of the
Foundation set out in search of the mythical planet Earth and proof that
the Second Foundation still exists. Soon representatives of both
Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called
Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe.
[F] $5.99 |
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The Gods
Themselves
[SF]
Fawcett Crest paperback, 1st printing, June 1973 – The year is 2100 AD,
and Man no longer stands alone in the universe. Sentient forces have
penetrated our reality from another universe, and brought with them an
unlimited, non-polluting energy source. But what seems to be progress
may end in complete tragedy as the new energy source threatens to
trigger an unprecedented catastrophe.
[VG] $4.99 |
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The Naked Sun
[SF, mystery]
Fawcett Crest paperback #M1759, November 1972 – the second of Asimov’s
Robot Series.
The planet Solaria has developed the ultimate weapon: a massive army of
robots that could obliterate Earth and rule the universe. One of
Solaria’s most eminent scientists has been brutally murdered. Only
Earth’s most famous detective, Elijah Baley, could solve the baffling
mystery. Earth’s very existence was at stake.
[VG+] $5.99 |
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Nine Tomorrows
[SF] Fawcett
Crest paperback #P2262, 1972 – subtitled “Tales of the Near Future,”
this is a collection of nine stories: Profession, The Feeling of Power,
The Dying Night, I’m in Marsport without Hilda, The Gentle Vultures, All
the Troubles in the World, Spell My Name with an S, The Last Question,
and The Ugly Little Boy. Includes two satirical poems by Asimov: I Just
Make Them Up, See! and Rejection Slips.
[VG] $4.99 |
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Pebble in the
Sky
[SF] Bantam
paperback, 1st printing, 1957 – Two minutes before he disappeared from
the face of the Earth he knew, Joseph Schwartz strolled along the
streets of Chicago. Then, between one step and the next, he was whirled
through space and time to a weird and terrifying future. The habitable
worlds of the galaxy were controlled by a great empire, and he realized
that he had arrived on the eve of a huge galactic revolution.
[VG] $7.49 |
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Robots of Dawn
[SF, mystery]
Bantam Spectra paperback, 1st printing, 1994 – the novel that bridges
Asimov’s Robot and Galactic Empire/Foundation novels; the third novel
featuring police detective Elijah Baley and his humanoid robot partner.
Baley is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of
roboticide, and gets caught up in a web of interstellar political
intrigue. His life, his career, and Earth’s right to pioneer the galaxy
all lie in the balance.
[VG] $4.99 |
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A Whiff of
Death
a.k.a. The Death Dealers
[mystery]
Lancer paperback #75315, ca. 1972 – Chemistry
professor Lou Brade finds a dead graduate student in his lab. He must
find the young man’s killer before the police finger him as the
likeliest suspect. But how can he conduct an investigation without
uncovering so many faculty intrigues and departmental resentments that
he jeopardizes his own job? He must find the courage to suspect even his
closest colleagues.
[G+] $4.99 |
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