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The Book of Skulls
[fantasy, occult,
life extension]
Signet paperback #Q5177, 1st printing, Sept. 1972 – Following clues
found in an ancient manuscript, four friends go to Arizona searching for
the House of Skulls, where a mystic brotherhood guards the secret of
eternal life. There, the four aspirants will present themselves – and a
horrific price will be demanded. For immortality requires sacrifice.
Now, beneath the gaze of grinning skulls, the terror begins.....
[VG+] $5.99 |
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Dying Inside
[SF,
telepathy] Ballantine paperback
#24822, 2nd printing, Feb. 1976 [ISBN 0345348228] – the novel of a man born with the
amazing gift of being able to peer into people’s minds, to read their
thoughts, to know their feelings, and to hear their unspoken lies... and
of what happens when his power begins to ebb, stranding him slowly in an
incomprehensible alien world, leaving him outwardly living – but dying
inside.
[G+] $3.99 |
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Earth’s Other Shadow [SF, short stories] Signet paperback #Q5538, 1973 – a collection of nine stories: Something Wild Is Loose (1971), To See the Invisible Man (1963), Ishmael in Love (1970), How It Was When the Past Went Away (1969), To the Dark Star (1968), The Fangs of the Trees (1968), Hidden Talent (1957), The Song the Zombie Sang (1970), and Flies (1967). [VG] $3.99 | |||||
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The Face of the Waters
[SF, exobiology] Bantam Spectra paperback,
1992 [ISBN 0553299077] – on the watery world of Hydros, scattered
outposts of humans live on artificial islands in uneasy peace with the
native race of amphibians. But the humans on one island anger their
hosts and are sent into exile, castaways set adrift on the planet’s vast
and violent sea swarming with exotic life. A planetary secret awaits
them: a mysterious landmass shrouded in myth and mystery.
[VG] $4.99 |
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The Feast of St. Dionysus [SF, story collection] Berkley paperback, first printing, Aug. 1979 [ISBN 0425041743] – a collection of five stories, all first published in 1973, with an introduction by the author. Includes the title novella, winner of the Jupiter Award presented by the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education, plus the stories Schwartz Between the Galaxies, Trips, In the House of Double Minds, and This Is the Road. [VG] $4.99 | |||||
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First American Into Space [non-fiction] Monarch Books paperback #SP1, first printing, May 1961 – “The first American is back from outer space, safe, sound, and ready for further adventures which, a few years back, would have been considered the pipe dreams of a science fiction addict... Here is a factual account of the history of rocketry, its triumphs and its failures, our shame in the neglect of it and our pride in its later accomplishments.” (publisher’s description) [VG] $4.99 | |||||
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Lord Valentine’s Castle
[SF, fantasy]
Bantam paperback,
first printing, July 1981 [ISBN 0553144286] – the first book
in the Majipoor series, set in an immense world teeming with alien races
and fantastic magical machinery. Valentine wakes up one morning with
only a vague and troubled idea of who he is. His dreams suggest he is
the ruler of Majipoor – but no one will believe him. He sets off on a
quest to regain his identity and claim his destiny. [VG] $4.99 |
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Majipoor Chronicles [SF, fantasy] Bantam paperback, first printing, Feb. 1983 [ISBN 0553229281] – the second volume of the Majipoor series, this book is a collection of interconnected short stories that first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Azimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and Omni. Stories include Thesme and the Ghayrog, The Time of the Burning, In the Fifth Year of the Voyage, Calintane Explains, The Desert of Stolen Dreams, and five more. [NF] $4.99 | |||||
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Needle in a Timestack [SF, short stories] Ballantine paperback #U2330, first printing, Nov. 1966 – a collection of ten stories: The Pain Peddlers (1963), Passport to Sirius (1958), Birds of a Feather (1958), There Was an Old Woman (1958), The Shadow of Wings (1963), Absolutely Inflexible (1956), His Brother’s Weeper (1959), The Sixth Palace (1955), To See the Invisible Man (1963), and The Iron Chancellor (1958). [VG] $4.99 | |||||
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Recalled to Life [SF, life extension] Ace paperback #71085, 1976 – a revised edition of a novel that first appeared in Infinity magazine (1958) and was reissued as a Lancer paperback (1962), with an introduction by the author. A scientific breakthrough provides a method of reversing the process of death, bringing the dead back to fully functioning conscious life – but it runs into widespread opposition from the political and religious establishments. [F] $5.99 | |||||
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The Silent Invaders [SF, extraterrestrial politics] Ace paperback #76390, 2nd printing, Aug.1973 – a novel of interplanetary intrigue involving two potentially hostile alien races, expanded from a novella that appeared in Infinity Science Fiction, Oct. 1958, and as half of Ace Double #F-195, 1963. A Darru agent is disguised as a human being with a synthetic body and a plausible identity, on a mission to counter a threat from the Medlins – with conquest of the known universe at stake. [VG] $4.99 | |||||
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Son of Man [SF, time travel, future evolution] Ballantine paperback, 2nd printing, March 1977 – a visionary “new wave” novel, first published in 1971, in which a contemporary Earthman is transported by a “time-flux” to an incomprehensibly distant future. He meets beings who are the distant evolutionary descendants of Humanity, who have developed the power to dissolve their bodies and travel at will through time and space. [VG] $5.99 | |||||
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Stepsons of Terra [SF, interplanetary war] Ace paperback #78600, 1976 – For 500 years the distant Terran colony of Corwin had no communication with Earth. But now the invincible war-horde of the Klodni was on the march and the long-forgotten planet desperately needed Earth’s help. But Earth had degenerated into a decadent world of worthless pleasure seekers, and would never be able to give the aid that would save Corwin. First published in 1958 as Ace #D-311. [VG+] $4.99 | |||||
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Thorns [SF, media] Ballantine/Del Rey paperback, 4th printing, March 1979 – Duncan Chalk is a media mogul with an appetite for other people’s pain. He feeds off it, and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. Minner Burris is a space traveler whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again differently. Burris’ pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by scientists to supply eggs for 100 children and then ruthlessly discarded. [VG+] $4.99 | |||||
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Those Who Watch [SF, extraterrestrial visitors] Signet paperback #W8149, 5th printing of 1967 edition – Only three humans would ever know that the blinding flash in the sky was an exploding flying saucer. Only they would learn the truth about the alien beings from the stars who came to watch, then crash-landed on Earth, threatening to trigger an interplanetary conflict – and sparking the world’s most unusual love story. [VG+] $5.99 | |||||
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Time of the Great Freeze [SF, climate change, young adult] Ace paperback #81190, 1st printing, Aug. 1980 – survivors of the New Ice Age of 2300 A.D. have lived in their underground city for 300 years. Now the few remaining scientific instruments seem to indicate that conditions may be changing on the surface; the climate may be moderating enough to support life. A group of rebel scientists risks their lives to investigate. [NF] $5.99 | |||||
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To Live Again [SF, mind uploading] Dell paperback #8973, 1st printing, Jan. 1971 – Imagine a future world where death is not exactly the end. You can record everything about you that ever made you a distinct human being and then be implanted in the mind of someone living. Paul Kaufmann had been the richest and most powerful man on Earth. Imagine having his knowledge and insights integrated with your own persona. [NF] $5.99 | |||||
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To Live Again [SF, mind uploading] Berkley paperback, 1st printing, June 1978 [ISBN 0425037746] – The tycoon’s mind becomes the prize in a deadly game for those still living who want more out of life than they could ever achieve on their own. The great man’s “soul” is stored in the Scheffing Institute, waiting for the time when someone hungry enough gives him back his appetite. The dead are slaves to the living – until at last someone leads a rebellion. [VG] $4.99 | |||||
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To Open the Sky [SF, population, transhumanism] Ballantine paperback #U6093, 1st printing, May 1967 – At the beginning of the 22nd century, Earth colonies are established on Mars and Venus, but the ultimate dream – to travel to the stars – is still out of reach. Two religious movements pursue the dream: one seeks to augment human powers through technology; the other develops new human potentials through genetic mutation. [VG] $4.99 | |||||
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Tower of Glass
[SF, androids,
mind uploading]
Bantam paperback, 2nd printing, Jan. 1980
[ISBN 0553126415] – Simeon Krug has a vision, and the vast wealth
necessary to turn dream into reality: to communicate with the stars, to
answer signals from deep space. The colossal tower he’s constructing for
this purpose soars above the Arctic tundra, and the seemingly perfect
androids building it view Krug as their god. [VG+] $4.99 |
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Up the Line
[SF, time travel]
Ballantine/Del Rey paperback, 3rd
printing, June 1978 [ISBN 0345273885] – Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs
Judson ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group
after group of tourists back to the same historic event without meeting
yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to
become intimately involved with the past and cause accidental interference with events to
come. [NF] $4.99 |
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The World Inside
[SF,
dystopia]
Signet paperback #Q5176, 1972 – Earth, 2381: Humanity lives
inside thousand-story buildings, in a worldwide high-tech
urban society characterized by free sex and unrestricted population
growth. Nearly all of Earth’s 75 billion people live in the monolithic structures scattered across the globe, with the exception of
a few small agricultural communes. Harmony in the buildings is
maintained by authoritarian control and brutal repression of
dissidents. [NF] $4.99 |
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