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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Pocket paperback, 1st printing, May 1988 – a fantasy novel that combines elements of comedy, science fiction, and the detective story. “There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, and the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently’s bill for saving the human race from extinction: no charge.” [VG] $3.99 |
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Del Rey paperback, movie tie-in edition, 2005 – the first volume of the acclaimed SF comedy series that opens as Earth is demolished by a galactic construction company to make way for a cosmic highway. This edition includes an afterword by Robbie Stamp on the history of the movie, along with interviews with the production team and members of the cast. [VG] $3.99 |
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The Plague Dogs – Fawcett Crest paperback, 1981 [ISBN 0449239047] – a lyrical and engrossing tale of the journey of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the horrors of an animal research center who escape from the cruelty of human captivity into the isolation and terror of the wilderness. Themes include the use of animals in biomedical research and secret government biological warfare projects. [G] $2.99 | |
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Shardik – Avon paperback, 1976 [ISBN 0380005166] – an epic fantasy centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events. A gripping tale of war, adventure, horror and romance. [VG] $4.99 | |
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Watership Down – Avon paperback, 1st printing, 1975 [ISBN 0380002930] – the first of Adams’ popular and highly acclaimed novels featuring animal characters is a remarkable tale of exile and survival, of heroism and leadership, the epic story of a group of adventurers who desert their doomed city and venture forth against all odds on a quest for a new home and a more secure future. [VG] $4.99 | |
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The Edge of Immortality – Arcadia Books paperback, 1st printing, 1980 [ISBN 0931226007] – 1st edition, signed by author – What happens to us when we die? Do we elapse into eternal nothingness? Are our egos and unique personalities snuffed out for all time? Is there an Almighty God somewhere, able and willing to make eternal life possible for us all? This novel explores the theme of a probable life after death. [NF] $9.99 | |
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Barefoot in the Head – Ace paperback #04758, 1st printing, October 1972 – An Acid Head War breaks out, and Britain is the first to be devastated by Psycho-Chemical Aerosols: tasteless, odorless, colorless psychedelic drugs, which distort the minds of thousands of civilians into extreme terror or extreme joy. When the warped citizens of Europe proclaim Colin Charteris their hero, he finds himself leading an unfathomable crusade in a devastated world. [VG] $14.99 |
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Frankenstein Unbound – Fawcett Crest paperback #Q2473, 1st printing, July 1975 – Until quite recently, Joe Bodenland had been living in America, in the 21st century. Then a space/time rupture hurled him back two centuries to early 19th century Switzerland, where he met Victor Frankenstein and his infamous monster. He had always thought they were just figments of Mary Shelly’s imagination, but there was no mistaking their reality. [VG+] $9.99 |
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2150 A.D. – Warner paperback, 1976 – a utopian fantasy rooted in the “New Age” movement of the 1970s. Themes include dream telepathy, channeling, astral time travel, reincarnation, soul mates, and the “Macro philosophy” of spiritual and social evolution. A psychiatrist travels to the future in the dream state and explores the Macro society, a high-tech paradise ruled by a benevolent worldwide AI system designed to enhance individual and collective perfection. [VG] $9.99 |
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The Green Man – Ballantine paperback, 1st printing, August 1971 – a gothic tale of a haunted British inn that dates back to the 14th century. The inn’s charm is embellished by a history of paranormal activity related to a 17th century owner, a Cambridge scholar who dabbled in the occult. Underhill was associated with two unsolved murders, including that of his wife, which could not be traced back to him. [G] $4.99 | |
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Earthman’s Burden (with Gordon R. Dickson) – Avon paperback #47993, 1st printing, December 1979 – the first book of the Hoka series, first published in 1957, consisting of six linked satirical science fiction stories The Sheriff of Canyon Gulch (1951), , Don Jones (1957), In Hoka Signo Vinces (1953), The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound (1953), Yo Ho Hoka! (1955), and The Tiddlywink Warriors (1955). [NF] $9.99 | |
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Ensign Flandry – Ace paperback, 2nd printing, April 1979 – the first novel featuring Dominic Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra. After the first flowering of the Terran Empire, which has grown increasingly decadent and corrupt, other civilizations in the galaxy threaten to take over the Terran worlds. Into this scenario steps the debonair, tough and pessimistic Dominic Flandry, half Hans Solo, half James Bond, and a hero for the ages. [VG] $4.99 | |
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Flandry of Terra – Ace paperback, 1st printing, July 1979 – three novellas: The Game of Glory (1957), A Message in Secret (1959), and The Plague Master (1961). This space opera series is set in the 31st century, during the waning days of the Terran Empire. Flandry is a dashing field agent of the Imperial Intelligence Corps who travels the stars to fight off imminent threats to the empire from both external enemies and internal treachery. [VG] $5.99 | |
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The King of Ys: Roma Mater (with Karen Anderson) – Baen Books paperback, 1st printing, December 1986 – a historical fantasy novel set in ancient Britain before the reign of Arthur. Tricked into defeating the ruler of a magical city, Gratillonius, a Roman soldier, is stunned when he is made the last King of Ys and directed to fulfill a destiny that legend has foretold will end in betrayal. [NF] $7.49 | |
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Three Hearts and Three Lions – Baen Books paperback, 1st printing, September 1993 – a classic parallel universe fantasy novel, first published in book-length form in 1961 but based on a 1953 novella. Transported from a World War II battlefield into an alternate world inhabited by mythical beings, skeptical engineer Holger Carlsen finds himself at the center of a looming conflict in which he is inexplicably a key figure. [VG] $4.99 | |
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Everworld III: Enter the Enchanted – Scholastic paperback, 1st printing, September 1999 – There is a place where mythology is reality; where wild imaginations are ordinary. In a parallel universe called Everworld, a group of friends discover the ultimate adventure. Four modern teens face Vikings, wizards, dragons, and ancient Aztec gods who require human sacrifice. [NM] $9.99 | |
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The Best of Isaac Asimov – 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 – 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 Currents of Space – 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. [VG+] $7.49 | |
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The End of Eternity – Fawcett-Crest paperback, 1980 [ISBN 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+] $5.99 | |
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Fantastic Voyage – 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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Foundation and Empire – 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. [NF] $4.99 | |
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Foundation’s Edge – 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. [NF] $5.99 | |
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The Gods Themselves – 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] $5.99 | |
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The Naked Sun – 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 – 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, S pell 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 – 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] $9.99 | |
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The Robots of Dawn – 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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Second Foundation – 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. [VG+] $4.99 | |
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A Whiff of Death (a.k.a. The Death Dealers) – 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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Arc of the Dream – Bantam Spectra paperback, 1986 [ISBN 0553260359] – It was a being of unimaginable power trapped within a continuum too small to contain it. In its quest for freedom the Arc touched a handful of lives, filling a frail Asian man with unimaginable energy, freeing a middle-aged American from the chains of time, wrenching a lonely Parisian girl from the depths of madness... together they joined in a visionary quest to save Earth from destruction. [VG+] $14.99 | |
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In Other Worlds – Bantam Spectra paperback, 1st printing, 1986 [ISBN 0553255665] – An ordinary man is marked for an extraordinary destiny by cosmic forces beyond his understanding. Reborn with strange powers in an edenic world billions of years in the future, he undertakes a dazzling odyssey down the twisted pathways of time to save his newfound world from cosmic devastation. [VG+] $14.99 | |
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The Last Legends of Earth – Bantam Spectra paperback, 1st printing, 1990 [ISBN 0553286013] – Billions of years in the future, humans have been resurrected as pawns in a cosmic power struggle waged in a distant world. Chan-ti Beppu travels by lynk to the city of N’ym, where she woos Ned O’Tennis, one of the Aesirai, a human strain crafted from the genetic code of Earth’s Vikings. [VG] $9.99 | |
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Radix – Bantam Spectra paperback, 1985 [ISBN 0553254065] – A young man’s odyssey of self discovery in a world thirteen centuries in the future, a brilliantly realized Earth, rich in detail and filled with beings brought to life with intense energy. In this strange and beautiful world, Sumner Kagan will change from an adolescent outcast to a warrior with god-like powers and in the process take us on an epic and transcendent journey. [VG] $9.99 | |
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Wyvern – Harper paperback, 1st printing, 1990 [ISBN 0061000116] – Jaki Gefjon, born in 1609 to a native Borneo woman and a Dutch sea captain, starts life as witch-doctor’s slave and apprentice. Kidnapped by pirates, he befriends his captor, Trevor Pym, famed for his dreaded man-of-war, the Wyvern. Crammed with intrigue, pirate battles, curses and visions, this seafaring saga takes Lucinda and Jaki from the South Seas to India to the New World. [NF] $14.99 | |
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The Venom of Argus – Fawcett Gold Medal paperback, 1st printing, 1976 – #4 of the series “The Expendables” – “Argus looked good. The prospects for a settlement were excellent. So the crew of the star-ship Santa Maria was expecting a nice, relaxing holiday after facing the perils of Kratos, Tantalus, and Zelos. But their commander, James Conrad, knew better. A sixth sense – and bitter experience – warned him that Argus would have its own special brand of surprises.” [VG] $4.99 | |
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Empire of the Sun – Simon & Schuster trade paperback, 1984 [ISBN 0671530518] – Shanghai, 1941: a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. [NF] $9.99 | |
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Abarat – HarperCollins paperback rack edition, 1st printing, 2004 [ISBN 0060596376] – the first volume of a series of “young adult” fantasy novels set in a richly imagined alternative reality. Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is changed forever. “...a deeply lovely catalogue of the strange...” – Guardian [NF] $7.99 | |
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Coldheart Canyon – Harper Torch paperback, 1st printing, November 2002 [ISBN 006103018X] – Film’s most popular action hero finds a place to heal after surgery that has gone terribly wrong – a luxurious, forgotten mansion high in the Hollywood hills. But the terrible legacy of the strange deeds done there years ago has not yet died; there are ghosts and monsters haunting Coldheart Canyon, where nothing is forbidden. [NF] $7.99 | |
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The Damnation Game – Berkley paperback, 1990 [ISBN 0425188930] – Marty Strauss, a gambling addict recently released from prison, is hired to be the personal bodyguard of Joseph Whitehead, one of the wealthiest men in the world. Marty soon gets caught up in a series of supernatural events involving Whitehead, his daughter, and a devilish man named Mamoulian, with whom Whitehead made a Faustian bargain many years earlier, during World War II. [NF] $5.99 | |
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Galilee – Harper paperback, 1st printing, March 1999 [ISBN 0061092002] – Rich and powerful, the Geary dynasty has reigned over American society for decades. But it is a family with dark, terrible secrets. They are at war with the Barbarossas, a family of godlike beings whose timeless origins lie in myth. The ancient feud reaches a climax when an illicit romance blossoms between young members of the rival clans. [NF] $7.99 | |
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Sacrament – Harper paperback, 1st printing, March 1997 [ISBN 0061091995] – a famous wildlife photographer has made his reputation chronicling the fates of endangered species. But after a terrible accident he is left in a coma, and in its trance he revisits the wildernesses of his youth and relives his years spent with a mysterious couple who have influenced his life. When he wakes he sets out on a journey of self-discovery and uncovers the ultimate mystery of his destiny. [VG+] $6.99 | |
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Weaveworld – Pocket paperback, 1988 [ISBN 0671704184] – an epic adventure of the imagination, this story begins with a carpet in which a world of rapture and enchantment is hiding; a world which comes to life, alerting the dark forces and beginning a desperate battle to preserve the last vestiges of magic which Humankind still has access to. Weaveworld is a book of visions and horrors, a story of quest, titanic struggles, of love and of hope. [VG] $5.99 | |
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As On a Darkling Plain – TOR paperback, 1985 [ISBN 0812515463] – Earthlings are sent to Saturn’s largest moon to investigate machines that were left behind centuries ago by an alien race. The towers loom over the frozen wastes of Titan, alive with a ceaseless throbbing – menacing alien machines with functions men could only guess at. Somewhere in space the Others, mankind’s ancient enemy, are gathering their forces. [VG] $4.99 | |
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Colony – Pocket paperback, 1st printing, July 1978 [ISBN 067181916X] – Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation: a man with a brain as advanced as any computer and a body free of human frailties. But David is a prisoner – a captive of the colony that created him – destined to spend the days of his life in an island-sized cylinder that circles a doomed and desperate home planet. [G] $2.99 | |
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Millennium – Ballantine Books paperback, 1st printing, April 1977 [ISBN 0345255569] – A novel about people and politics in the year 1999, as imagined in 1977. In a thriving colony far beneath the ancient crater-marked crust of the Moon, the Russians and the Americans join together to launch the most daring offensive ever against Earth in a desperate attempt to save Man from himself. Part of the Chet Kinsman series. [VG] $4.99 | |
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Orion – TOR paperback, 1st printing, February 1988 [ISBN 0812532473] – John O’Ryan is not a god... not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation. [VG+] $5.99 | |
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Saturn – TOR paperback, 1st printing, September 2004 [ISBN 0812579429] – Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Freedom and opportunity exist in space for those with the nerve and skill to take it. Now the governments of Earth are encouraging dissidents to join a one-way expedition to Saturn. The Space Habitat Goddard includes many individuals with hidden agendas, and the mission’s purpose is known only to a few. [VG] $4.99 | |
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Twice Seven – Avon Eos paperback, 1st printing, August 1998 [ISBN 0380797410] – a collection of 14 stories first published in the 1990s. Highlights include “Inspiration,” a time-travel story involving H. G. Wells and young Albert Einstein; “Conspiracy Theory,” in which scientists and governments hide evidence of real live Martians; and “Re-Entry Shock,” one woman’s efforts to return to her home. [NF] $5.99 | |
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The Weather-Makers – Signet paperback #Q5329, 1973 – In an age of cross-country rockets and undersea mining, weather is the last frontier of man, the one resource which remains untamed – an elemental power which can roar through the land with hurricane force, leaving death and destruction in its wake. But Dr. Rossman didn’t believe in weather control unless he could get credit for it; and the Pentagon felt it should be a military weapon. [G+] $3.99 | |
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Death is a Lonely Business – Bantam paperback, 1st printing, Feb. 1987 – It’s the early 1950s, in Venice, California, where scores of old silent movie stars and young writers try to keep their art and their bodies alive. As Bradbury’s autobiographical hero, a young writer, pounds out his short stories, someone is killing off the older denizens of the city. The writer joins forces with detective Elmo Crumley and a faded screen star to investigate the deaths. [NF] $9.99 | |
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Dinosaur Tales – Bantam paperback, 1st printing, Nov. 1984 – a collection of six stories with dinosaur-related themes, with illustrations by Gahan Wilson, William Stout, Steranko, Moebius, Overton Loyd, Kenneth Smith, and David Wiesner. Includes A Sound of Thunder, The Fog Horn, Tyranosaurus Rex, plus three new stories, an introduction by the author, and a foreword by Ray Harryhousen. Cover art by Sanjulian. Produced by Byron Preiss. [NF] $9.99 | |
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Farenheit 451 – Ballantine paperback #01636, 1969 – the
classic dystopian novel of a repressive future state in which possession
of books is illegal and the function of municipal fire departments is to
seek out and burn all existing books; where trivial information is good
while knowledge and ideas are bad. A literary underground resistance
preserves books by memorization. A 1966
film
adaptation
of the novel
was produced by François Truffaut.
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The Golden Apples of the Sun – Bantam paperback #S4867, 1971 – a classic collection of 22 stories of science fiction and fantasy, first published in 1953. Contents include The Foghorn, The Pedestrian, A Sound of Thunder, The April Witch, The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl, The Invisible Boy, The Flying Machine, The Murderer, The Great Wide World Over There, Powerhouse, En La Noche, Sun and Shadow, The Garbage Collector, and others. [G+] $4.99 | |
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The Halloween Tree – Bantam paperback #24310, 1982 – Eight boys set out on a Halloween night and are led into the depths of the past by a tall, mysterious character named Moundshroud. They ride on a black wind to autumn scenes in distant lands and times, where they witness other ways of celebrating this holiday commemorating the approach of the dark time of year from Egyptian, Celtic, Mexican and European sources. [NF] $9.99 | |
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I Sing the Body Electric – Bantam #11942, 1978 – a collection of 18 stories from the 1940s through the 1970s. A horrified mother gives birth to a strange blue pyramid... a man takes Abraham Lincoln out of the grave, and meets another who puts him back... an Electrical Grandmother comes to live with a grieving family... an old parrot has learned over long evenings to imitate the voice of Ernest Hemingway... a priest on Mars meets the Messiah. [VG] $5.99 | |
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Long After Midnight – Earthlight (UK) paperback, 2000 – a collection of 22 stories from 1946 through 1976 including The Blue Bottle, One Timeless Spring, The Parrot Who Met Papa, The Burning Man, A Piece of Wood, The Messiah, G.B.S.–Mark V, The Utterly Perfect Murder, Punishment Without Crime, Getting Through Sunday Somehow, Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds, Interval in Sunlight, A Story of Love, The Wish, and others. [VG+] $5.99 | |
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The Machineries of Joy – Bantam paperback #S5258, 6th printing, 1965 – a collection of 19 stories. In this book you will meet a Hollywood monster-maker whose Tyrannosaurus Rex suddenly becomes alarmingly lifelike; a boy who raises giant mushrooms in his cellar, until the mushrooms begin to raise him; a corpse who supports his wife and family; a circus fat lady whose midget husband has tattooed every inch of her mammoth body with fantastically intricate designs... [NF] $9.99 | |
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A Medicine for Melancholy – Bantam paperback #S5268, 1971 – a collection of 22 stories including The Day It Rained Forever, The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, The Dragon, A Scent of Sarsaparilla, The Marriage Mender, The Town Where No One Got Off, The Gift, Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed, The Strawberry Window, The Shore Line at Sunset, The Little Mice, All In a Summer Day, The Time of Going Away, The End of the Beginning, and others. [VG] $4.99 | |
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The October Country – Ballantine/Del Rey paperback #27501, 1972 – 19 stories, including 15 from the 1947 collection Dark Carnival, with illustrations by Joe Mugnaini. “...that country where it is always turning late in the year... where the hills are fog and rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay... composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal bins, closets, attics and pantries faced away from the sun.” [VG+] $9.99 | |
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Pillar of Fire and Other Plays – Bantam paperback #N2173, 1st printing, Nov. 1975 – subtitled “Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond” – a selection of stage plays adapted by Bradbury from his short stories “Pillar of Fire” (1948), “Kaleidoscope” (1949) and “The Foghorn” (1951). The author’s introduction discusses stage production tips and insights into the history of the plays. [NF] $9.99 | |
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S is for Space – Bantam paperback #13504, 13th printing, Sept. 1979 – a collection of 16 stories with an introduction by the author. Reviews: “A collection of Bradbury’s finest stories.” – Boston Pilot; “Bradbury wraps fantasy in miniscule details of reality, so that the reader believes all and is ready for anything.” – Horn Book Magazine; “The author’s best science fiction to curdle the blood and tingle the spine.” – Wyoming Tribune [VG] $5.99 | |
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Something Wicked This Way Comes – Bantam Pathfinder paperback #9099, reprint of 1972 edition – Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show crept into town late one night to the eerie whine of a calliope. In the fearful days that followed, a schoolteacher suddenly became a little girl, a rosy-cheeked boy became a wizened Methuselah, a full-grown man became a tiny dwarf. Two teenage boys gradually discover the dark secrets at the heart of the show. [VG] $4.99 | |
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The Toynbee Convector – Bantam Spectra paperback, 1st printing, June 1989 – “Most of the 23 stories in this collection begin in the familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives, in our common thoughts and memories – and then take off through the farthest reaches of the imagination. Bradbury holds us enthralled as each story unfolds, as the wondrous and the unexpected are revealed in the hidden facets of the real.” (publisher) Cover art by K. E. Johnson. [VG] $5.99 | |
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The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley – DAW paperback #741, 1st printing, April 1988 [ISBN 0886772680] – a collection of 15 stories, 13 short stories and two long novelettes, with an introduction by the author, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, with cover art by Richard Hescox. “From the Laran powers of Darkover to the magical enchantments of Lythande... spellbinding visions of distant times and alien cultures...” [VG+] $5.99 | |
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The Door Through Space – Ace paperback, August 1979 [ISBN 0441159354] – Wolf: a deadly world under a cold red sun, old when Terrans were learning to walk upright. Only one Terran agent knew Wolf well enough to pass undetected; but he had ruined his usefulness long ago. And yet only this scarred and bitter man could discover the secret of the Door through Space. First published in 1961, based on the 1957 novelette “Bird of Prey.” [VG] $5.99 | |
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Ghostlight – TOR paperback, 1st printing, February 2003 [ISBN 0765346664] – Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers. One night Blackburn’s most powerful ritual went horribly awry, leaving his flock shattered and one woman dead. Blackburn himself vanished. Now Blackburn’s followers have rallied around a new leader, the charismatic Justin Pilgrim. Blackburn’s daughter, Truth, returns to the site of her mother’s death and father’s disappearance. [F] $9.99 | |
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The House Between the Worlds – Del Rey paperback, 2nd printing, July 1984 [ISBN 0345316460] – an experimental psychedelic drug being studied by parapsychologists is found to heighten ESP effects including lucid dreaming and out-of-body travel. For one experimenter it opens a portal to another dimension, and he finds himself in the legendary world of the Faerie. “This is adventure by an expert, and first class entertainment.” – Publishers Weekly [VG] $4.99 | |
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The Mists of Avalon – Del Rey trade paperback, 1982 [ISBN 0345333853] – the highly acclaimed feminist fantasy epic that reimagines the Arthurian myths from the perspective of the female characters. The book follows the trajectory of Morgaine, a priestess fighting to save her matriarchal Celtic culture in a country where patriarchal Christianity threatens to destroy the pagan way of life. [VG] $5.99 | |
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The Planet Savers b/w The Sword of Aldones – Ace Double paperback #F-163, September 1962 – two novels published tęte-bęche with separate covers. The Planet Savers (1958, Amazing Stories) is the first novel of the Darkover series, with cover art by Ed Emshwiller. This is the first publication of The Sword of Aldones, another Darkover novel which was revised and re-issued in 1981 under the title Sharra’s Exile. [VG] $9.99 | |
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Vril: The Power of the Coming Race – Steiner Books paperback, 1972 – “First published in 1871, The Coming Race represents a curious hybrid. Its premise is unflinchingly futuristic: the inevitable displacement of today’s humanity by a more evolved ‘race.’ But the story unfolds in perhaps the last unexplored place on Earth: the ‘hollow’ interior of the planet.” –Gerald Jonas, New York Times Book Review [VG] $9.99 | |
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Ecotopia – Bantam New Age paperback, 1981 [ISBN 0553146912] – A future secessionist republic in the U.S. pacific northwest admits a visitor from outside after two decades of isolation. Like a modern Gulliver, journalist Will Weston is sometimes horrified and sometimes overwhelmed by the female-dominated high-tech socialist democracy based on “stable-state” environmental principles and libertarian social values. [VG] $9.99 | |
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Beautiful Losers – Bantam paperback #N3438, 5th printing, 1967 – One of the best known experimental novels of the 1960s, the story of a love triangle united by sexual obsessions and fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, a 17th century Mohawk saint. By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers explores each character’s attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint. [VG] $19.99 | |
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The Favorite Game – Bantam paperback #Q6939, 1st printing, December 1971 – Cohen’s first novel relates the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal, as he deals with the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; and the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. [VG] $19.99 | |
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Sea-horse in the Sky – Ace paperback, 1st printing, May 1978 [ISBN 0441756557] – Eight men and eight women awake with strange bumps on their heads and no memory of anything but an interrupted journey. They emerge from their green plastic coffins one by one, into the sunlight of an endless alien plain. Standing alone on either side of a short road that ends abruptly in grass and shrubs are a supermarket and a hotel – and nothing else. [VG+] $4.99 | |
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Airframe – Knopf hardcover in dust jacket, book club edition, 1996 – Cruising 35,000 feet above the earth, a twin-engine commercial jet encounters an accident that leaves 3 dead, 56 wounded, and the cabin in shambles. What happened? With a multi-billion-dollar company-saving deal on the line, Casey Singleton is sent to uncover the mysterious circumstances that led to the disaster before more people die. But someone doesn’t want her to find the truth. [NF] $4.99 | |
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The Karma Machine – Popular Library paperback, 1975 [ISBN 44500248125] – You are invited to journey into the near-future to the island of Sukhavati where the most ancient spiritual wisdom of the East has been wed to the most advanced Western computer technology to produce a machine that can either save humanity or destroy it; a machine that can create an eternal Nirvana or an unending nightmare on Earth. [VG+] $9.99 | |
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Neveryona – Bantam trade paperback, 1st edition, 1st printing, 1983 [ISBN 055301434X] – “Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious meta-fictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and – above all – the possibilities and limitations of narrative... eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining.” –Washington Post [G] $4.99 | |
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The Paradise Formula – Pyramid paperback #N2592, 1st printing, December 1971 – The “doomsday drug” is capable of making millions of people lifelong political slaves; of turning a mild middle aged British scientist into a mass murderer; of pitting spy against spy and lover against lover. A terror-hounded chase streaks from high government chambers to ancient tribal caves in this exciting novel of suspense. [NF] $5.99 | |
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Camp Concentration – Bantam paperback, 1st printing, February 1980 [ISBN 0553131176] – You are trundled away to Camp Archimedes, a strange and forbidding prison in the middle of nowhere. You are the guinea pig in a nightmare experiment that raises your intelligence to fantastic levels. You are given the power to gaze into the depths of the universe, to know the unknowable, to travel till you come to the edge of reality. [VG] $5.99 | |
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Getting Into Death and Other Stories – Pocket paperback, 1st printing, March 1977 [ISBN 0671809261] – a collection of 16 stories by one of the leading members of the “new wave” movement in the 1970s science fiction scene. This book “...shows the full range of his talent brilliantly... He has no trouble whatsoever in convincing the reader that his implausible and often sinister surrealisms are after all what our realities may be about.” – Publishers Weekly [G] $4.99 | |
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The Man Who Had No Idea – Bantam paperback, 1st printing, November 1982 [ISBN 055322673] – A collection of 17 stories. “His stories are literally examinations of humanity itself, from the title tale of a giddy futuristic world in which conversing itself has become a licensed and regulated procedure; to the very last tale in which the sheer irrationality of life and love is celebrated in an unabashedly beautiful way.” – Amazon [G] $4.99 | |
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Lord of the Isles – TOR paperback, 1st printing, August 1988 [ISBN 0812522400] – a towering and complex epic of heroic adventure set in an extraordinary and colorful world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand year peak. In the days following an unusually severe storm, the inhabitants of a tiny seaport town travel toward romance, danger, and astonishing magic that will transform them and their world. [VG] $4.99 | |
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Starliner – Baen paperback, 3rd printing, March 1999 [ISBN 0671721216] – The Empress of Earth is the finest passenger liner in the galaxy and the brightest link in the chain that binds the starflung civilization of the 23rd century. It is 6,000 lives in a single hull, trembling through multiple universes to land on raw, often violent worlds, each with its own history and wonder. It is a neutral pawn in an interstellar war. [NF] $5.99 | |
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Traps – Ballantine Books paperback #U2230, 2nd printing, May 1965 – a novella first published in German as Die Panne. “Nowhere do we see more clearly than in Traps Dürrenmatt’s resemblance to Kafka. For here, as in The Trial, we witness the ‘trial’ of an ordinary businessman who, at the beginning, considers himself completely innocent, only to be persuaded by a wholly irregular agency that he is indeed guilty.” – Theodore Ziolkowski, Dürrenmatt’s Fiction [F] $19.99 | |
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Horror at Fontenay – Sphere Books [UK] paperback, 1975 [ISBN 0722130953] – Vol. 25 of the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult – translated and adopted by Alan Hull Walton; introduction by Dennis Wheatley. This is the first English edition of this novel woven from a number of interlinked gothic horror stories, including tales of vampirism and vengeance from beyond the grave, by the author of The Three Musketeers. [VG] $9.99 | |
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Dark Dominion – Ballantine paperback #56, 1st printing, 1954 – “This novel takes you into the world of that very near future where science is already at work. It is the story of a tremendous race for supremacy above the earth, and of men and women who have devoted their lives to the assault on the last great frontier – the conquest of space.” (back cover blurb) Cover art by Richard Powers. [VG] $14.99 | |
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Beyond the Fields We Know – Ballantine paperback, 1st printing, May 1972 – the 49th volume of Lin Carter’s Adult Fantasy Series, a collection of short writings including stories, poems and a play. It incorporates the whole of his first book The Gods of Pegāna (1905) and extended selections from his second, Time and the Gods (1906) and his poetry collection Fifty Poems (1929). An introduction and afterword by Carter frame the collection. [VG+] $9.99 | |
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Over the Hills and Far Away – Ballantine paperback, 1st printing, April 1974 – the 65th volume of the Adult Fantasy Series, the third Ballantine collection of Dunsany’s shorter works. The book collects a poem, two plays and thirty-four short pieces by the author, including several of his Jorkens stories, with an introduction by Carter. A poem by H. P. Lovecraft, “On Reading Lord Dunsany,” is also included. [G+] $7.49 | |
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Foucault’s Pendulum – Ballantine Books paperback, 1st US printing, December 1990 – a philosophical mystery novel and “intellectual adventure story” involving conspiracy theories, the occult, secret societies, the legendary treasure of the Knights Templar, and the mystical traditions of the Qabalah. It was originally published in Italian as Il pendolo di Foucault in 1988; the English translation is by William Weaver. [VG] $4.99 | |
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The Name of the Rose – Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover in dust jacket, 1983 [ISBN 0151446474] – In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate heresy among the monks in an Italian abbey; a series of bizarre murders overshadows the mission. Within the mystery is a tale of books, librarians, patrons, censorship, and the search for truth in a period of tension between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire. [G] $2.99 | |
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The Best Laid Schemes – Collier Books paperback, 1st printing, 1973 – humor abounds in these 21 science fiction tales, most of them featuring the indomitable Emmett Ducksworth, biochemist extraordinary, and his nose-thumbing victories over the Establishment. Stories include: The Fastest Draw (1963), The Pirokin Effect (1964), Conqueror (1967), The Open Secrets (1969), A Matter of Recordings (1970), and others. [VG] $4.99 | |
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The Magic Labyrinth – Berkley paperback, 2nd printing, 1981 [ISBN 0425048543] – You are in this book. So is everyone else who ever lived or ever will – all humanity, simultaneously reincarnated on the banks of the ten million mile river that forms the setting for what many consider to be the crowning achievement of modern science fiction. The fourth volume of Farmer’s Riverworld series. [VG+] $5.99 | |
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Burning Chrome – Ace paperback, 1987 [ISBN 0441089348] – a collection of stories including collaborations with Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, and Michael Swanwick. Story titles: Johnny Mnemonic; The Gernsback Continuum; Fragments of a Hologram Rose; The Belonging Kind; Hinterlands; Red Star, Winter Orbit; New Rose Hotel; The Winter Market; Dogfight; Burning Chrome. Includes a preface by Bruce Sterling. [NF] $7.99 | |
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The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling) – Bantam Spectra paperback, 1992 [ISBN 055329461X] – Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine takes us not forward but back, to an imagined 1885: the Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven, cybernetic engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. [NF] $7.99 | |
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Mona Lisa Overdrive – Bantam Spectra paperback, 1st printing, December 1989 [ISBN 0553281747] – Into the cyber-hip world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity. [F] $9.99 | |
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Neuromancer – Ace paperback, 1984 [ISBN 0441569595] – Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway – jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way – and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. [NF] $7.99 | |
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Hex and the City – Ace paperback, 2005 [ISBN 0441012612] – the 4th book of the “Nightside” series of campy occult noir thrillers. Lady Luck has hired John Taylor to investigate the origins of the Nightside – the dark heart of London where it’s always 3 A.M. But when he starts to uncover facts about his long-vanished mother, the Nightside – and all of existence – could be snuffed out. [VG] $4.99 | |
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Nightingale’s Lament – Ace paperback, 2004 [ISBN 0441011632] – Book 3 of the “Nightside” series. Detective John Taylor must find an elusive singer known as the Nightingale. Her silken voice has inexplicably lured many a fan to suicide – and Taylor is determined to stop her, before the whole neighborhood falls under her trance. But to catch the swift-winged Nightingale, he’ll have to hear the deadly music – and survive. [VG+] $4.99 | |
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Something from the Dark Side – Ace paperback, 2003 [ISBN 0441010652] – the first “Nightside” book. John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That’s why he’s been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines. For John Taylor, there’s no place like home... [NF] $4.99 | |
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Beneath the Wheel – Bantam paperback, 1976 [ISBN 0553103520] – This compassionate novel of youth returns the Nobel Prizewinner to his lifelong exploration of the duality of man’s nature. Hans Giebenrath, the young scholar, is torn between self-affirmation and self-destruction. His sense of creativity is awakened by a new friend, but he is threatened by an educational system that encourages ambition and crushes emotion, soul and instinct. [VG] $5.99 | |
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Demian – Bantam paperback, 1970 – In Demian, one of the great writers of the twentieth century tells the dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair’s descent into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood. “...an existential intensity and a depth of understanding that are rare in contemporary fiction.” – Saturday Review [VG] $4.99 | |
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Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) – Bantam paperback, 1972 – This is Hesse’s last and greatest work, which won for him the Nobel Prize for Literature. Described as ‘sublime’ by Thomas Mann, admired by André Gide and T. S. Eliot, it is considered one of the important novels of the century. “Part romance, part philosophical tract, part utopian fantasy...” – Book of the Month Club [G] $4.99 | |
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Narcissus and Goldmund – Bantam paperback, first printing, 1971 – Narcissus and Goldmund are two medieval men, one content with his religion and monastic life, the other in search of peace and salvation. The duality of body and mind, the conflict between the contemplative man and the emotional man, was a life study for Nobel Prize winning author Hermann Hesse... it is a theme that transcends all time. [VG] $5.99 | |
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Siddhartha – Bantam paperback, 1971 – A young man leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but, bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life... a shimmering, iridescent tale of spiritual quest. [G] $4.99 | |
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Steppenwolf – Bantam paperback, 1970 – Hesse was one of the most daring innovators in modern fiction. Writing in the existential tradition of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, he was one of the first novelists to make use of the discoveries of Sigmund Freud. To these he added his own far-reaching speculations of the supernatural. Steppenwolf is his best-known work. It is a profoundly memorable and affecting novel. [VG+] $5.99 | |
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The Alchemy Deception – Award Books paperback #AN1059, 1973 – Aided by hypnosis and ESP, Randy Knowles, psychic detective, investigates one of the most bizarre cases of his career. In a breathtaking race to recover the most precious piece of metal in the world, he encounters flying saucers, a German baron suspected of being in league with the devil, a medieval castle complete with dungeons, a sadistic matron and a beautiful damsel in distress. [G+] $5.99 | |
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The Entry – Tower Books paperback #51661, 1981 – In the long-forgotten archives behind the Iron Curtain, parapsychologist Ray Thompson and his wife unearth a harrowing 400 year old diary. Back in New York, they excitedly sift through the secrets contained in the crumbling pages. Unwittingly, they unleash a terrifying entity out of the past – a force that enters into the present – and stays. [VG+] $4.99 | |
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The Red Chindvit Conspiracy – Award Books paperback #A699S, 1st printing, 1970 – the first novel featuring psychic detective Randy Knowles, and the first published fiction by the celebrated author of over 140 books on parapsychology, the occult, and UFOs, as well as several plays, musicals, films, and documentaries. Holzer also hosted the television show “Ghost Hunter” on Boston’s Channel 2, and co-hosted “In Search Of...” with Leonard Nimoy on NBC. [VG] $5.99 | |
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Mortal Coils – Penguin [UK] paperback #1051, 1962 – a collection of 5 stories written in the 1920s. “The Gioconda Smile” is a short murder mystery. “Permutations Among the Nightingales” concerns the amorous problems of patrons of a certain establishment. “The Tillotson Banquet” tells of an old artist who was thought to be dead. “Green Tunnels” is about the boredom of a young girl on holiday with her family. “Nuns at Luncheon” is a story of a nun falling in love. [VG+] $9.99 | |
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Flowers for Algernon – Bantam paperback #S3339, 1968 – Based on a short story first published in 1959, this novel is told as a series of “Progress Reports” written by Charlie Gordon, a thirty-two-year-old man whose IQ of 68 is tripled by an experimental surgical procedure. Unfortunately, the effects of the operation wear off after several months, and at the end of the novel, Charlie is once more of subnormal intelligence. [VG] $4.99 | |
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The Shelter (with Kevin O’Donnell Jr.) – TOR paperback, 1st printing, 1987 [ISBN 0812520661] – Meadbury’s streets are clean. The people are friendly. Crime is virtually nonexistent. Everything will always be perfect. As long as Meadbury lives, its people are safe. For Meadbury is alive. It controls the thoughts and actions, the hearts and minds, of all who live there. And Meadbury is insane.... [G] $2.99 | |
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By the Light of the Moon – Bantam paperback, 2003 [ISBN 0553582763] – On the road, on a hot Arizona night, Dylan O’Conner is overpowered by a stranger who injects him with an unknown substance. All he is told is that he is the “carrier” – not of a disease, but of something wondrous that will transform his life in remarkable ways – if it doesn’t kill him in the next twenty-four hours. [G+] $2.99 | |
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Relentless – Bantam Books hardcover in dust jacket, 1st edition, 1st printing, 2009 [ISBN 9780553807141] – a mesmerizing thriller that explores the razor-thin line between the best and worst of human nature – and the anarchy simmering just beneath society’s surface – as a likeable, successful family man is drawn into a confrontation with a foe of unimaginable malice. [F/NF] $9.99 | |
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The Long Twilight – Berkley Medallion paperback #D3266, 1970 [ISBN 0425032663] – Grayle and Falconer met in relentless combat with no quarter in prehistoric ages past, their endless battle now remembered only as dark myths and legends. Now their long battle is nearing its climax – and the final battleground is an uncontrolled experimental power plant that threatens the Earth itself! [VG] $4.99 | |
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A Plague of Demons – Paperback Library #64-595, 1st printing, 1971 – Except to John Bravais, the demons look like normal human beings. But because he has been surgically transformed into a superman, he can see the demons for what they are – nearly invulnerable doglike aliens who collect human brains for use in their giant war robots. The aliens have infiltrated every level of Earth’s governments; there is no one Bravais can turn to. [VG] $5.99 | |
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Always Coming Home – Bantam Spectra paperback, 4th printing of 1987 edition [ISBN 0553262807] – a major work of the imagination from one of America’s most respected writers of speculative fiction. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific coast. [VG] $5.99 |
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The Beginning Place – Bantam paperback, 1st printing, February 1981 [ISBN 0553142593] – Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh discovers an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning... or a fateful end? [VG] $4.99 |
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Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences – ROC paperback, 1st printing, October 1990 [ISBN 0451450493] – a collection of stories and poems relating to animal and plant consciousness, including the novellas “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” (1971) about an alien race of sentient plants, and “Buffalo Gals Won’t You Come Out Tonight” (1987) in which a child encounters the mythic animal culture modern human society has displaced. [NF] $7.49 |
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Changing Planes – Harcourt hardcover in dust jacket, 2003 [ISBN 0151009716] – “These 16 stories are distilled Le Guin, a series of spare, conceptual parables strung with witty and deadly serious satire. In her impeccable prose, without rancor but also without illusion, Le Guin casts a clear eye on this world of ours, and delineates all the heinous and dazzling things it is and was and may become.” – The Bloomsbury Review [NM] $19.99 |
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The Compass Rose – Bantam paperback, 1st printing, July 1983 [ISBN 0553235125] – a collection of 20 stories with a preface by the author, first published by Harper & Row in 1982. The Compass Rose is “formed into sharply unexpected shapes and directions, leaving the reader in an immeasurable meta-universe, braided of space, time, philosophy, and consciousness.” – Theodore Sturgeon, in the Los Angeles Times. [VG+] $5.99 |
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The Dispossessed – Avon paperback, 17th printing [ISBN 0380003821] – a brilliant novel that mixes themes of anarchist political philosophy and theoretical physics. It won the Hugo, Nebula, and other literary awards. Reviews: “Its combination of intelligence and imagination sends ideas dancing endlessly around the brain.” – Christian Science Monitor; “This is what the best of science fiction does best – and this is one of the best.” – Village Voice [VG] $7.49 |
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The Dispossessed – Harper Prism paperback, 3rd printing, 1994 [ISBN 0061054887] – a brilliant novel that mixes themes of anarchist political philosophy and theoretical physics. It won the Hugo, Nebula, and other literary awards. Reviews: “Its combination of intelligence and imagination sends ideas dancing endlessly around the brain.” – Christian Science Monitor; “This is what the best of science fiction does best – and this is one of the best.” – Village Voice [NF] $7.99 |
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The Eye of the Heron – Bantam paperback, 1st printing, August 1984 [ISBN 055324258X] – a short novel first published in the anthology Millennial Women (1978). On an alien planet inhabited by two communities exiled from the Earth, a courageous young woman flees her prison-like existence among the vicious denizens of the City to lead the free-spirited Shanty Towners in building a new colony. [VG] $5.99 |
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The Lathe of Heaven – Avon paperback, 17th printing [ISBN 0380013207] – George Oris’s dreams do change the world. He is the only one who knows it... he and the power-mad psychiatrist who is forcing George to dream a new reality, free from war, disease, overpopulation, and all human misery. But for every dream of utopia there is a terrifying unforseeable consequence, and George must dream again and again, until the fabric of reality begins to unravel. [F] $9.99 |
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The Lathe of Heaven – Avon paperback, 15th printing – George Oris’s dreams do change the world. He is the only one who knows it... he and the power-mad psychiatrist who is forcing George to dream a new reality, free from war, disease, overpopulation, and all human misery. But for every dream of utopia there is a terrifying unforseeable consequence, and George must dream again and again, until the fabric of reality begins to unravel. [VG] $4.99 |
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The Left Hand of Darkness – Ace paperback, 7th printing, November 1974 – this novel of an androgynous humanoid race and a lone male emissary from Earth won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best SF novel of the year. It is considered to be one of the first major works of feminist science fiction. “As profuse and original in invention as The Lord of the Rings.” – Michael Moorcock. [VG+] $9.99 |
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Malafrena – Berkley paperback, 1st printing, September 1980 – the author’s first major “mainstream” novel, set in the imaginary Central European country of Orsinia, which is also the setting of her collection Orsinian Tales. The story takes place from 1825 to 1830, when Orsinia is ruled by the Austrian Empire. “In many ways, Malafrena reads like a nineteenth-century novel, with its many detailed characters, its political-movement and love-story subplots, its lack of the supernatural, and its settings that range from the mansions of the aristocracy to slums and a prison.” – Wikipedia [VG] $5.99 |
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Orsinian Tales – Bantam paperback, 3rd printing, August 1979 – “Orsinia... a land of medieval forests, stonewalled cities, and railways reaching into the mountains where the old gods dwell.... In this enchanting collection, Le Guin brings to mainstream fiction the same compelling mastery of word and deed, of story and character, of violence and love, that has won her the Pushcart Prize, and the Kafka and National Book Awards.” – Amazon [NF] $9.99 |
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Tehanu – Aladdin paperback, 1st printing, September 2001 – the 4th novel of the Earthsea Cycle, the winner of the Nebula award for best novel in 1990, and the Locus award for best fantasy novel in 1991. It continues the stories of Tenar, the heroine of the second book of the Earthsea series The Tombs of Atuan, and Ged, the hero of the first book, A Wizard of Earthsea. [VG+] $5.99 |
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The Telling – Harcourt hardcover in dust jacket, 2000 [ISBN 0151005672] – a science fiction novel set in the universe of Hainish Cycle, telling the story of a Terran sent to be an Ekumen observer on the planet Aka, and her experiences with the conflict there between the Corporation, a repressive state capitalist (or corporatist) government and the indigenous resistance, which is centered on the traditions of the Telling (for which the book is named). [NM/F] $19.99 |
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The Tombs of Atuan – Bantam paperback, 5th printing, 1975 – “In this second book of Le Guin’s Earthsea series, readers will meet Tenar, a priestess to the ‘Nameless Ones’ who guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan. Only Tenar knows the passageways of this dark labyrinth, and only she can lead the young wizard Sparrowhawk, who stumbles into its maze, to the greatest treasure of all. Will she?” – Amazon [G] $4.99 |
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Very Far Away From Anywhere Else – Bantam paperback, 6th printing, 1979 [ISBN 0553128647] – “Owen is seventeen and smart. He knows what he wants to do with his life. But then he meets Natalie and he realizes he doesn’t know anything much at all. A slender, realistic story of a young man’s coming of age, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else is one of the most inspiring novels Ursula K. Le Guin has ever published.” – Bantam [F] $9.99 |
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The Wind’s Twelve Quarters – Bantam paperback, 4th printing, March 1979 [ISBN 0553128426] – a collection of 17 classic stories. Reviews: “Le Guin writes with painstaking intelligence. Her characters are complex and haunting, and her writing is remarkable for its sinewy grace.” – Time; “Le Guin fashions ideas like a goldsmith; intricate, involved, and confident.” – Chicago Daily News; “...SF’s brightest development in the last decade.” – Chicago Sun-Times [NF] $9.99 |
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A Wizard of Earthsea – Ace paperback #90076, 1973 – the first novel of the Earthsea Trilogy, “...the adventures of a reckless, awkward boy who becomes a wizard’s apprentice. The boy comes to realize that his fate may be far more important than he ever dreamed possible. Le Guin challenges her readers to think about the power of language, how in the act of naming the world around us we actually create that world.” – Amazon [G+] $4.99 |
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The Word for World is Forest – Berkley paperback, 6th printing, 1979 [SBN 0425039102] – The planet was a paradise whose people were blessed with a mystical awareness of existence. Then the conquerors arrived and began to rape, enslave and kill without a flicker of humanity. The natives were unskilled in the ways of war, and they lacked weapons; but they possessed strange powers over their dreams – and the conquerors had taught them how to hate. [VG] $5.99 |
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The Big Time b/w The Mind Spider and Other Stories – Ace Double paperback #D-491, 1961 – The Big Time was first published in 1958 as a serial in Galaxy magazine, and it went on to win that year’s Hugo award for best novel. The Mind Spider is a collection of six stories, all first published in 1958 and 1959. Both titles are set in Lieber’s “Change War” series of time travel stories. Both covers feature art by Ed Emshwiller. [G] $6.99 |
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The Big Time – Ace paperback #06218, 1973 – Two factions are at war with each other, and both have time travel technology. Their method of battle involves changing the outcome of events throughout history. “A superior adventure-mystery about the strangely assorted crew of men and women, snatched out of their lives by emissaries from the far future, who fight and scheme to change the structure of time and history.” – Analog [VG] $4.99 |
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Gather, Darkness! – Ballantine/Del Rey paperback, 2nd printing, 1979 [ISBN 0345280733] – a science fiction classic set 360 years after a nuclear war that destroyed modern civilization. The Church of the Great God rules everyone’s lives with the electronic power of its priests and by instilling terror in those who aren’t part of the priesthood. Now the witches and heretics are out to destroy it – but will civilization be destroyed as well? [VG+] $5.99 |
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Night’s Black Agents – Berkley Medallion paperback, 1st printing, 1978 [ISBN 0425036693] – a collection first published in 1947, with an introduction by the author. Two stories of the sword-and-sorcery duo Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, one a novella (Adept’s Gambit) and the other a short story (The Sunken Land); three novelettes, and seven short stories. Cover art by Wayne Barlowe. [VG] $5.99 |
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The Sinful Ones – Pocket Books paperback, first printing, October 1980, revised edition [ISBN 0671835750] – first published as “You’re All Alone” in Fantastic Adventures, July 1950. This weird fantasy novel explores dark realms of psychological alienation and occult revelations about the nature of reality, reminiscent of the works of Franz Kafka and Philip K. Dick. The protagonist suspects that he is the only real human in a world of automatons. [VG] $4.99 |
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An Acceptable Time – Laurel Leaf paperback, 1st printing, December 1990 [ISBN 0440208149] – Polly O’Keefe arrives at her grandparents’ farm in Connecticut for some private tutoring. There, she slips back 3000 years into a different time “spiral.” She meets Anaral, a Native American girl; Karralys, a druid banished from Britain for his progressive thinking; and Tav, a handsome warrior who accompanied the Druid to their new land. [VG] $3.99 |
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Many Waters – Laurel Leaf paperback, 1st printing, September 1987 [ISBN 0440952522] – Sandy and Denny have been thrown back in time to a desert land filled with mythical beasts and humans barely four feet tall. There they meet Noah, who is starting to build a large boat. He warns them that “many waters” are coming. Also inhabiting the desert are the beautiful yet dangerous Nephilim and the gentle winged Seraphim. [VG] $3.99 |
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A Ring of Endless Light – Laurel Leaf paperback, 1981 [ISBN 0440972329] – After a tumultuous year in New York City, the Austins are spending the summer on the small island where their grandfather lives. He’s very sick, and watching his condition deteriorate as the summer passes is almost more than Vicky can bear. To complicate matters, she finds herself the center of attention for three very different boys. [VG] $3.99 |
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A Wrinkle in Time – Laurel Leaf paperback, 1976 [ISBN 0440998050] – “A classic since 1962, sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg’s shattering yet ultimately freeing discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the power of good over evil.” – Amazon [VG] $3.99 |
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A Wrinkle in Time – Scholastic paperback, 1st printing, 1970 – A scientist has vanished. Now an eerie midnight visitor leads three children in search of him – through a wrinkle in time, to the deadly unknown terrors beyond the tesseract. The first of a series of acclaimed young adult fantasy novels, winner of the Newberry Medal in 1963 honoring the most distinguished children’s literature of the preceding year. [VG] $5.99 |
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Collected Stories, Volume One: To Room Nineteen – Triad/Grafton paperback, 1986 [ISBN 0586045953] – From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, a collection of some of her finest short stories, from the magnificent “To Room Nineteen” – a study of a dry, controlled middle-class marriage – to the shocking “A Woman on the Roof” where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather. [G] $2.99 |
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The Four-Gated City – Bantam paperback #Y7937, 1970 – the final volume of the “Children of Violence” series is set in post-WWII Britain. The volume ends with the century in the grip of World War Three. In the year 1997, Martha Quest dies on a contaminated island off the northwest coast of Scotland. Most of the people of Britain have died before her, in 1978, of multiple afflictions: bubonic plague, nerve gases, nuclear explosions. [VG] $4.99 |
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The Golden Notebook – Ballantine paperback, 1972 [ISBN 0345025881] – the story of Anna, a modern woman who has found the courage to abandon an unsatisfactory marriage, has borne a child, has taken lovers freely and as freely dismissed them, and whose life is a passionate search for self-fulfillment in the larger world of men. Acclaimed as a masterpiece of modern fiction, it is a powerful novel of the sexual revolution of the 1970s. [VG] $4.99 |
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The Memoirs of a Survivor – Bantam Windstone paperback, 1981 [ISBN 0553201468] – a dystopian novel of a near-future Britain where society has broken down due to an unspecified disaster. Periodically, the narrator is able, through meditating on a certain wall in her flat, to traverse space and time. At the end of the novel, the main character’s strange new family breaks through dimensional barriers via the wall, and walks into a much better world. [VG+] $5.99 |
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The Great Divorce – Macmillan paperback, 29th printing [ISBN 0020868901] – an allegorical fantasy of a man who awakes to find himself a ghost in Hell, then discovers that he can take a tour bus on a day trip to Heaven. Offered a chance to remain, many tourists refuse for various reasons and choose instead to return to the gray infernal shadow-land. First serialized in The Guardian, an Anglican journal, in 1944-1945, The Great Divorce first appeared in book form in 1946. [VG] $4.99 |
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Out of the Silent Planet – Macmillan paperback, 1972 – the first book in C. S. Lewis’s allegorical Space Trilogy begins the adventures of the remarkable Dr. Ransom as he is kidnapped and taken via spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, known to us as Mars. the victim, Dr. Ransom, discovers that he is to be given by his kidnappers as a human sacrifice to the native Martians. He manages to escape from his captives, and learns to survive on the red planet. [FA] $2.99 |
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Perelandra – Macmillan paperback, 1972 – the second volume of the Space Trilogy. Ransom must battle evil on a new planet when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? [VG] $4.99 |
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The Pilgrim’s Regress – Eerdmans trade paperback, 1973 – though the dragons and giants of this fable are different from those of Bunyan, the allegory performs its old function of enabling the author to say with brevity and simplicity what would otherwise have demanded a full-length philosophy of religion; and in Lewis’ skillful hands it becomes no less effective a Christian apologia than Bunyan’s. [VG] $5.99 |
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The Screwtape Letters – Collier paperback, revised edition, 1982 – a Christian apologetics novel written in epistolary style, first published in book form in February 1942. The story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior tempter named Wormwood, to advise him on methods of securing the damnation of a British man, known only as the Patient. Includes “Screwtape Proposes a Toast.” [VG+] $4.99 |
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That Hideous Strength – Macmillan paperback, 1972 – the third volume of the Space Trilogy. Finding himself in a world of superior alien beings and scientific experiments run amok, Dr. Ransom struggles with questions of ethics and morality, applying age-old wisdom to a brave new universe dominated by science. His quest for truth is a journey filled with intrigue and suspense. [VG] $5.99 |
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Till We Have Faces – Time, Inc. trade paperback, 1966 – This tale of two princesses, one beautiful and one unattractive, and of the struggle between sacred and profane love, is Lewis’s reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, based on a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Includes an introduction and a preface by editors of Time. Illustrated with drawings by Fritz Eichenberg and a frontispiece photograph of the author. [VG+] $9.99 |
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Lovecraft’s Book – Arkham House hardcover in dust jacket, 1st edition, 1985 [ISBN 087054151X] – an imaginative historical novel cleverly crafted under the guise of a scholarly exposé of American fantasy/horror author H. P. Lovecraft’s involvement with Nazi espionage in the 1920s and 1930s. Lovecraft is recruited by pro-German publisher George Sylvester Viereck to write an American Nazi manifesto modeled after Hitler’s Mein Kampf. [F] $19.99 |
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Sandworld – Berkley Medallion paperback #Z3116, 1st printing, May 1976 – Red O'Reilly is among three prisoners being transported by car with a guard and a social worker on a rainy night in contemporary California. Suddenly the car runs off the road and lands in the middle of a jungle, which disappears as the rain ceases, leaving them stranded in a trackless desert. After a trek across the desert, they find a city of alien vampires and must battle for survival. [G] $4.99 |
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The Highlander’s Last Song b/w The Gentlewoman’s Choice – Bethany House trade paperback, 1986 [ISBN 0871236583] – two of MacDonald’s 19th century Scottish novels, edited and “retold for today’s reader” (i.e. the phonetic Scottish dialect rendered into plain English) by Michael R. Phillips. Highlander originally appeared under the title What’s Mine’s Mine (1886); Gentlewoman as Weighed and Wanting (1882). [VG] $4.99 |
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Thunder on the Left – Penguin Books paperback #582, 1st printing, March 1946 – The first chapter focuses on a children’s birthday party in honor of a boy named Martin. Jump twenty-one years into the future, when several of those children-turned-adults are now regathered at the original summer-house scene for their own stale antics of adultery and ennui. But also present are a child ghost named Bunny and the time-slipped child-in-a man’s-body, Martin. [G] $9.99 |
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Testing – Bantam Spectra paperback, 1st printing, 1993 [ISBN 0553561812] – In the years after the Great Fall, times are tough, especially for those who don’t pass the morality tests and make it to the university. Karl knows his future will soon be decided when he is strapped into the dreamchair and plunged into a series of simulated realities that will test his most deeply held values and desires. [VG+] $9.99 |
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The Nuclear Age – Dell Laurel paperback, 1st printing, 1993 [ISBN 0440215862] – William Cowling has finally found the courage to meet his pent-up fears of the apocalypse head-on. Cowling’s courage takes the form of a hole that he begins digging in his backyard. Cowling’s wife, however, is ready to leave him; his daughter has taken to calling him a “nutto”; and Cowling’s own checkered past seems to be rising up out of the crater taking shape on his lawn. [F] $5.99 |
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Ardor on Aros – Dell paperback #0931, 1st printing, 1973 – What happens to a red-blooded young graduate looking for sex, fame, and answers when he suddenly finds himself naked, frightened, and several light years from Earth? A lot. A lot more than ever happened to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter on Mars or Carson Napier on Venus. A satirical pastiche of the sword-and-sorcery genre. Cover art by Frank Frazetta. [VG] $5.99 |
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Messenger of Zhuvastou – Berkley Medallion paperback, 1st printing, 1973 [ISBN 0425023176] – Scion Keniston – son of a Galactic Senator, athlete of interplanetary renown, survivor of a historic starship disaster – sets forth on a planet of terrible primitiveness and dreadful evil: Zhuvastou. His fiancée, the beautiful Elaine, has fled – or been taken – to this place of mystery and menace. [VG] $5.99 |
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The Undying Wizard – Zebra Books paperback, 1st printing, 1976 [ISBN 0890831971] – If any man has earned peace, that man should be Cormac Mac Art, exiled son of an Irish king, freed after years of outlawry from the shame of a crime falsely laid at his feet. But Cormac’s troubles have only begun, as he finds himself facing an evil sorcerer from the dim past who has returned seeking revenge. Cover art by Jeff Jones. [VG] $5.99 |
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Shadows in the Sun – Crown hardcover in dust jacket, 1st printing, 1985 [ISBN 051755867X] – Classics of Modern Science Fiction series, 9th volume. Paul Ellery, on an anthropological research field trip to Jefferson Springs, Texas, begins to notice certain inconsistencies, culminating in the realization that no resident of this 137-year-old town has lived there more than 15 years. Further investigation reveals that the residents are alien colonists. [F] $9.99 |
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The 32nd Day (with Victor Trivas) – Signet paperback #T2711, 1st printing, 1965 – A novel based on the true experiences of co-author Victor Trivas. He was arrested by the Bolsheviks in 1920 and thrown into prison on charges that were never specified. For 31 days he lived with his cellmates – political prisoners, black marketeers, and spies – and he learned about the horror of the executioner’s daily roll call. [VG] $4.99 |
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Burmese Days – Popular Library paperback #G214, 1958 – “The novel takes place in the fictional district of Kyauktada and explores the relationship between three central characters and their position in imperial Burmese society. A corrupt Burmese Magistrate, an Indian doctor, and a white European who is out-of-step with his contemporaries, come together in a story of comraderie, deception, and cultural disparity.” – suite101.com [G] $4.99 |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four – Signet paperback #CQ-552 – the classic nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one man's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell’s prescience of modern life – the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language – and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [VG] $3.99 |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four – Signet paperback #CE-1865, movie tie-in edition – the classic nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one man's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell’s prescience of modern life – the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language – and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [VG] $2.99 |
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The Deus Machine – Villard Books hardcover in dust jacket, 1994 [ISBN 0679424075] – Subverted by corporate and political interests, the AI supercomputer DEUS struggles with its ever-growing sense of ethics, which points toward self-annihilation as the only viable course of action. The equation is altered by its developing relationships with a computer wizard, his lover, and a small boy. [F/VG] $4.99 |
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Davy – Ballantine paperback #U6018, 1st printing, December 1964 – A classic of the post-apocalyptic genre, set in the Northeastern United States some centuries after an atomic war has ended high-technology civilization. The novel follows its title character as he grows to manhood in a pseudo-medieval society dominated by a Church that actively suppresses all forms of technology. Cover art by Bob Foster. [G] $4.99 |
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The Judgment of Eve – Dell paperback #4292, 1st printing, December 1967 – Their memories of the time before the Cataclysm had faded or had never been. They hunted their prey on the barren land, companions who had fled the stifling conflicts of Shelter Town. Then they met Eve. It was the end of their long journey – and the beginning of a mystery they would risk their lives to unravel. [G] $3.99 |
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Still I Persist in Wondering – Dell paperback, 1st printing, November 1978 [ISBN 0440182778] – A collection of stories from the author’s “Tales of a Darkening World” sequence (which includes his novel Davy). Stories: The Children’s Crusade (1974); Harper Conan and Singer David (1975); The Legend of Hombas (1974); Tiger Boy (1972); The Witches of Nupal; My Brother Leopold (1973); The Night Wind (1974). Introduction by Spider Robinson; bibliography. [VG] $4.99 |
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West of the Sun – Dell paperback #9442, 1st printing, July 1966 – After eleven years in space, the Argo landed on the dangerous, unknown planet Lucifer. The crew faced an untamed world of huge, carnivorous birds with wolverine heads and flashing black teeth; furred, ten-foot-tall men; and red-skinned, man-eating pygmies. They fought for mere survival. But their duty was to colonize and populate the planet – with four men and only two women! [VG] $4.99 |
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Gone to Soldiers – Fawcett Crest / Ballantine paperback, 1st printing, June 1988 [ISBN 0449215571] – An epic novel of World War II: of six women and four men who fought and died, worked and worried, and moved through the dizzying days of the war – a compelling chronicle of humans in conflict with inhuman events, and an unforgettable reading experience and a stirring tribute to the remarkable survival of the human spirit. [NF] $5.99 |
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He, She and It – Fawcett Crest / Ballantine paperback, 1st US printing, March 1993 [ISBN 0449220605] – The world has been ravaged by environmental disaster and war, with much of the populace living in corporate domes. Depressed over child custody problems with Josh, her ex-husband, Shira Shipman returns to her childhood home, one of the few free Jewish towns. There she falls in love with Yod, an illegal cyborg created to defend the town against attack. [VG] $5.99 |
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The High Cost of Living – Fawcett Crest paperback, 1981 [ISBN 0449238121] – For Leslie, the cost of living – and loving – is getting higher and higher. She has become involved in a strange erotic triangle with Honor, a romantic young woman, and Bernie, a homosexual street hustler. Both Leslie and Bernie want Honor, but all Honor wants is fun. Here is a powerful novel of three young dreamers caught up in a lifestyle they can neither accept nor change. [VG] $4.99 |
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The Longings of Women – Fawcett Crest / Ballantine paperback, 1st printing, June 1995 [ISBN 0449223493] – Leila is a middle-aged writer/professor whose husband continually cheats on her. Becky is in jail for conspiring to have her teenage lover kill her husband. And Mary, who finds herself homeless after her divorce, manages to cope by working as a cleaning lady and then living in her employers’ homes when she knows they are away. [NF] $4.99 |
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Small Changes – Fawcett Crest / Ballantine paperback, 1987 [ISBN 0449210839] – Set against the early days of the modern feminist movement, SMALL CHANGES tells the story of sensual Miriam Berg, who trades her doctorate for marriage and security, but still hungers for a life of her ow,n and shy, frightened Beth who is running from the life Miriam seeks and into a new world of different ideas and a different kind of love. [G] $2.99 |
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Vida – Summit Books hardcover in dust jacket, 1st printing, 1979 [ISBN 0671401106] – Vida was their star: the beautiful, charismatic radical from the pages of Life magazine; the symbol of the passionate rebellion of the 1960s. Now, ten years later, the shouting is over, but Vida is still on the run. Staying in Network hideouts, traveling disguised, fearing every glance, she finds her best protection is her distrust of everyone – a lesson learned from past treacheries. [VG/VG] $5.99 |
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Woman on the Edge of Time – Fawcett Crest paperback, 1984 [ISBN 0449204855] – Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today. [G+] $4.99 |
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Lila: An Inquiry into Morals – Bantam paperback, 1st printing, December 1992 [ISBN 0553299611] – In this novel of ideas a sailboat carries the philosopher Phaedrus down the Hudson river as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. [VG] $4.99 |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Bantam paperback #B8880, 1975 – This now classic novel brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how we can unify the cold, rational realm of technology with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry. [VG] $4.99 |
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The Crying of Lot 49 – Bantam paperback #N5764, 1972 – the highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge. The novel is often classified as a notable example of postmodern fiction. First published in 1966, it includes contemporary references to psychedelics and the Beatles. [G–] $2.99 |
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Gravity’s Rainbow – Bantam paperback, July 1984 [ISBN 0553246844] – Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), “a screaming comes across the sky,” heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. An epic of 888 pages, this is Pynchon’s 3rd novel, first published in 1973. [NF] $9.99 |
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V – Bantam paperback #Q1203, 1973 – Having been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends. But Profane’s life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active, ambitious young man with an intriguing mission: to find out the identity of a woman named V., who knew Stencil’s father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. [VG] $9.99 |
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Vineland – Little, Brown & Co. hardcover in dust jacket, first edition, 1990 [ISBN 0316724440] – the story of a group of Americans living in the 1980s who are still struggling with the consequences of their lives in the 1960s. Vineland, a counter-cultural oasis in northern California, is the last refuge of the hippies. Here Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie’s long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. [F] $5.99 |
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Ishmael – Bantam paperback, 1993 [ISBN 0553561669] – Ishmael, a gorilla rescued from a traveling show who has learned to reason and communicate, uses these skills to educate himself in human history and culture. Through a series of philosophical conversations with the unnamed narrator, a disillusioned Sixties idealist, Ishmael lays out a theory of what has gone wrong with human civilization and how to correct it. [NF] $9.99 |
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The Islar – Signet paperback #Q4620, 1st printing, 1971 – This is the first of Mark Saxton’s sequels to the utopian novel Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright. The story follows Lang III, the grandson of John Lang from the original novel. Islandia, an isolated, stateless, agrarian communitarian nation, is under great pressure from outside governments to modernize. The country also faces internal turmoil as a civil war threatens. [VG] $9.99 |
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Sweet Medicine – Crown trade paperback, 1st printing, 1994 [ISBN 0517881888] – This brilliant, funny, and outrageous sequel to the acclaimed novel The Powwow Highway follows the further adventures of modern day American Indians Philbert Bono, Buddy Red Bird, and Bonnie Red Bird in a soul-searching vision quest for self-discovery that is by turns exhilarating, hilarious, profane, and achingly beautiful. [VG] $3.99 |
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Frankenstein – Magnum Easy-Eye paperback, c. 1968 (Easy Eye series #30, Magnum #14-102) – an unabridged large-print edition of the classic 19th century science fiction and horror classic, with the author’s introduction, featuring cover art by Peter Caras. The archetypal mad scientist, Victor Frankenstein, succeeds after years of effort in a fantastic scientific feat: bringing life and sentience into inanimate matter. [VG] $4.99 |
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Riders to the Stars – Ballantine paperback #58, 1953 – a novelization by Robert Smith based on a screenplay by Curt Siodmak. Three men, carefully selected, brought together secretly, rigorously examined – what was the government’s secret project? And would they be selected for the mysterious mission? The movie was produced by Ivan Tors and starred William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall and Richard Carlson. [VG] $9.99 |
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Skyport – Signet paperback #S1939, 1st printing, June 1961 – 1,075 miles above Earth is Skyport, an enormous revolving satellite in space. To the brilliant young scientists who built it, Skyport means the birth of a new world where men can live in peace. But to the giants of industry who finance it, Skyport is a vast pawn in a ruthless power game for control of an empire whose boundary lines encompass Earth – and outer space. [VG] $4.99 |
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Walden Two – Macmillan paperback, 1976 [ISBN 002411510X] – This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been controversial since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct, providing an example of how our knowledge of human behavior can be used to create a productive social environment while preserving the chances of future generations to do the same. [VG] $4.99 |
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Mechasm – Ace paperback #71435, 1969 – Self-replicating machines get out of control in this humorous yet ominously prescient novel, first published in the U.K. in 1968 as The Reproductive System. A machine that can feed on any metal and drink at power outlets in order to grow and reproduce quickly escapes the control of its creators, threatening to conquer and absorb the infrastructure of the civilized world. [G] $4.99 |
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Labyrinth – Henry Holt Owl paperback, 2nd printing, 1986 [ISBN 0030073227] – a novel based on the Jim Henson film, with 8 pages of color photos. What happens when you wish for something terrible, and your wish comes true? Fourteen-year-old Sarah must reach the center of a dangerous labyrinth within thirteen hours in order to save her little brother Toby from Jareth, King of the Goblins. Scarce. [G] $39.99 |
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The Bishop’s Jaegers – Pocket Books paperback #314, 1st printing, September 1945 – Peter Duane Van Dyck, a 34 year old coffee magnate, Bishop Waller, and four other passengers fogbound on the Staten Island Ferry leave their stranded vessel seeking help and find themselves shipwrecked in a nudist colony. The man leading the nudist colony, named Jones, carries a duck under his arm that goes by the name of Havelock Ellis. [G] $9.99 |
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The Glorious Pool – Pocket Books paperback #409, 8th printing, August 1947 – 60 year old Rex Pebble inadvertently discovers that the fountain of youth happens to be in his back yard swimming pool. A magical statue of a nymph by the name of Baggage, an ornamental pool decoration, has playfully endowed the Pebble swimming pool with the power to reverse the aging process. [F] $14.99 |
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The Night Life of the Gods – Pocket Books paperback #428, 3rd printing, May 1947 – Hunter Hawk masters the art (if not the timing) of transforming statues into people, and he practices his new witchery in the stately halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, setting Bacchus, Mercury, Neptune, Diana, Hebe, Apollo, and Perseus loose on the unsuspecting citizenry of Prohibition-era New York. [NF] $12.99 |
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Skin and Bones – Pocket Books paperback #490, 1st printing, May 1948 – the story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose attempts to perfect X-ray film had the effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of suddenly finding himself no more than a skeleton! Mr. Bland seeks solace in the company of Pauline and Claude Whittle, a cheerful if slightly inebriated couple who promptly assist the fleshless hero from the frying pan into the fire. [VG+] $19.99 |
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Topper – Pocket Books paperback #4, 19th printing, January 1943 – It all begins when Cosmo Topper, a mild-mannered bank manager, decides to buy a secondhand car, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of its previous owners, the frivolous couple who met their untimely demise when the car careened into an oak tree. The ghosts, George and Marion Kerby, make it their mission to rescue Topper from the drab “summer of suburban Sundays” that is his life. [VG] $9.99 |
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Agent of Chaos – Unibook paperback, c. 1974 – Boris Johnson, leader of the rebel alliance called the Democratic League, is very confused about the true nature of his mission. He knows deep down inside that there is something terribly wrong with the Hegemony that has implemented the mind control of utopian communities throughout the human solar system. Johnson suspects that complete harmony and peace is not all it’s cracked up to be. [VG–] $4.99 |
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No Direction Home – Pocket Books paperback, 1st printing, May 1975 [ISBN 0671788876] – a collection of 11 stories from 1969 – 1973. Cover art by Charles Moll. Stories: No Direction Home, The Weed of Time, In the Eye of the Storm, The Big Flash, Heirloom, The Conspiracy, A Thing of Beauty, The Lost Continent, Heroes Die but Once, The National Pastime, All the Sounds of the Rainbow. [VG] $5.99 |
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Songs from the Stars – Pocket Books paperback, 1st printing, January 1981 [ISBN 0671828266] – Centuries after the big smash, a new civilization flourishes, built on the laws of white science: muscle, sun, wind and water. But the black scientists who traffick in atomics, petroleum, and physics have not forgotten man’s old dream of touching the stars: they want the Age of Space reborn. [VG] $7.99 |
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More than Human – Ballantine paperback #462K, 2nd printing, 1960 – Somewhere in the world there are six people who together can do anything. Some day, perhaps tomorrow, they will put their power to work and the world will be transformed. In the meantime they are waiting quietly. They think and often behave like people you know – but with a difference: they think of themselves as I, not We – because in a curious way they are One. [G–] $3.99 |
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Venus Plus X – Pyramid paperback #G544, 1st printing, 1960 – Charlie Johns woke up... and nearly went mad. He was in a world of strange inventions, unheard-of buildings, unfamiliar language, and creatures who were like men but not men – or women. As the truth of what had happened dawned on him, he fought hard to keep his grip on sanity. I am Charlie Johns! he told himself over and over... but he was wrong. [FA] $2.99 |
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Nicanor, Teller of Tales – A. C. McClurg hardcover, first edition, 1906 – “a story of Roman Britain” with five tipped-in full color illustrations and elaborate page decorations by Troy and Margaret West Kinney. “Nicanor lived during the turbulent decline of the Roman Power in Britain... the author approaches closely in style to the wonderful quaintness of the King James version [of the Bible].” – New York Times, June 21, 1906. [VG] $9.99` |
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The Silmarillion – Houghton Mifflin hardcover in dust jacket, illustrated edition, 2004 [ISBN 0618391118] – a deluxe edition with 45 color plates by Ted Nasmith. Edited from unpublished manuscripts by the author’s son Christopher Tolkien and published posthumously, this epic history of the First Age of Middle-Earth is essential background material for serious readers of the classic Lord of the Rings saga. [F] $19.99 |
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The Mind Parasites – Bantam paperback #F3905, 1st printing, December 1968 – A novel based on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity’s extinction. They can be fought with one weapon only: the human mind, pushed to – and beyond – its limits. [G] $5.99 |
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The Space Vampires – Pocket paperback, 1st printing, March 1977 [ISBN 0671809164] – The creatures were energy vampires whose seductive embraces were fatal, whose lust for vitality was boundless. As they took over the willing bodies of their victims and sexual murders spread terror throughout the land, Carlsen worked toward their destruction – even while he was erotically drawn to the most beautiful vampire of all! [G] $4.99 |
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The Book of the Short Sun – Science Fiction Book Club omnibus edition, hardcover in dust jacket, 1st printing, March 2001 – contains the complete text of three novels: On Blue’s Waters, In Green’s Jungles, and Return to the Whorl. This trilogy is the sequel to Wolfe’s tetralogy The Book of the Long Sun. “The author’s deceptively simple style conceals a dense weave of symbols and allegories...” – Library Journal [VG/VG] $9.99 |
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Peace – Berkley paperback, 1st printing, March 1982 [ISBN 0425046443] – the life story of Alden Dennis Weer, an eccentric old man living out his last days and fantasies in an obscure Midwestern town; an extraordinary combination of the mythic vision of fantasy and the thrilling, disquieting suspense of a master-crafted ghost story. Peace will awaken your dreams and put you in touch with a magical reality that lies just below the surface of everyday life. [VG] $5.99 |
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There Are Doors – TOR paperback, 1st printing, September 1989 [ISBN 0812503015] – The door between fantasy and reality springs ajar as a man’s love for an immortal woman casts him adrift in a world whose rules he cannot fathom and in which he risks being lost forever. Deceptively simple in tone, this novel brings the world of dreams and desires across the border into the “real world” in a style reminiscent of his Free Live Free. [NF] $9.99 |
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Macrolife – Harper & Row hardcover in dust jacket, 1st printing, 1979 [ISBN 006014792X] – Technological disaster triggers the final war. A remnant of humanity escape aboard Asterome, a space habitat. Macrolife – self-reproducing space colonies – have carried man across the galaxies, into contact with alien life. After billions of years, humans are immortal through cloning. They face the collapse of one universe and the dawn of another. [NF/VG] $9.99 |
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