| Pat Cadigan |
Mindplayers |
Gollancz 1988 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with yellow background of spine panel slightly faded |
£5.00 |
"Mindplayers are tomorrow's psychoanalysts, linked directly to their patients using sophisticated equipment attached to the optic nerve. In one-to-one Mindplay contact, you can be inside someone else's head, wandering the landscapes of their consciousness... " |
| Pat Cadigan |
Mindplayers |
Gollancz 1988 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with yellow background of spine panel slightly faded Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"Mindplayers are tomorrow's psychoanalysts, linked directly to their patients using sophisticated equipment attached to the optic nerve. In one-to-one Mindplay contact, you can be inside someone else's head, wandering the landscapes of their consciousness... " |
| Michael Cadnum |
Nightlight |
St. Martin's Press 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£20.00 |
"... a superb tale of the macabre, building subtly from a low note of queasy foreboding to a shattering pitch of terror. Leonard Lewis was an odd child... almost obsessed... by the grandfather who had died when he was born. It was when he began photographing cemeteries that his mother began to worry. Of course, it was nice that Len had a hobby... " His first novel. |
| Martin Caidin |
Buck Rogers A Life In The Future |
TSR 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and felt pen remainder line across lower page edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. With the facsimile booklet 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' by Philip Nowlan and Dick Calkins |
£5.00 |
"... The authorised story of America's first and foremost space hero!... From the moment of the terrible crash... the very life of Anthony 'Buck' Rogers hung by the thinnest of threads... ... until he regained consciousness more than four hundred years later... " |
| Moyra Caldecott |
The Son Of The Sun |
Allison & Busby 1986 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... set in ancient Egypt during the magnificent eighteenth dynasty, at a time when the pharaoh Akhenaten was engaged in a dramatic power struggle... But, unusually, the events are seen from the point of view of... Smenkhkare... that mysterious and elusive figure who reigned briefly between Akhenaten and Tutankhamun... |
| Ian Caldwell |
The Rule of Four |
Century 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, small surface tear to front free end paper and a couple of page edges slightly damp-wrinkled else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death... of his father... who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and valuable books in the world... When a long-lost diary surfaces, it seems the two friends have found... a secret worth dying to protect... " |
| Italo Calvino |
Marcovaldo or The seasons in the city |
Secker & Warburg 1983 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a sticker 'ghost' on the front flap and the price removed. |
£7.50 |
"Marcovaldo is a labourer working in a vast manufacturing city... He is more in tune with the life of the seasons than with the rhythms of urban existence... infiltrating mushrooms, improbable leaves, a passing flock of migrant birds - but he is unable to ignore the pulsations of neon advertising signs... " |
| Italo Calvino |
Mr Palomar |
Secker & Warburg 1986 Second Printing |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a sticker 'ghost' on the front flap and the price removed. |
£5.00 |
"it's no accident that the surname of the narrator recalls the famous telescope, for Palomar is an obsessive observer, capable of turning his alarmingly concentrated focus from the Milky Way to the cheese counter of the local delicatessen... Palomar is inclined to focus on the specific - the night sky, a breast, a roofline, the decaying ranks of television aerials... " |
| Ramsey Campbell (Also as Jay Ramsay) |
Scared Stiff Tales Of Sex And Death |
Macdonald 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and towards top of fore-edge of front board and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. Illustrated by J. K. Potter |
£7.50 |
The Bare Bones: An Introduction by Clive Barker; Dolls; The Other Woman; Lilith's; The Seductress; Stages; Loveman's Comeback; Merry May and Afterword by the Author |
| Ramsey Campbell (Also as Jay Ramsay) |
The Count Of Eleven |
Macdonald 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner, page edges a little browned and one page corner creased else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket slightly worn at the top of the rear fold. |
£5.00 |
"... his ailing video shop burns down... Jack remembers a chain letter he received... Surely if he sends the thirteen copies required, his luck will change... But when further catastrophe befalls... Jack can only think that someone must have not responded to the letter... Armed with all their names and addresses... " |
| Ramsey Campbell (Also as Jay Ramsay) |
The Darkest Part of the Woods |
PS Publishing 2000 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (First Printing - Wods on DJ spine, last page omitted) |
Bruised at top and base of spine and small mark on top page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Additionally Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£20.00 |
"The yielding of the forest floor reminded him of flesh. He needn't imagine that they were walking over a face the size of the woods, a flattened face that was holding its breath while they approached its mouth... There have always been tales about the Severn Valley village of Goodmanswood - tales of ghosts and less familiar things... " Withdrawn First State marked 'PC' - Very Scarce. |
| Orson Scott Card |
Ender's Shadow |
Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best... the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean... who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend... " |
| Orson Scott Card |
Hart's Hope |
Severn House 1993 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and upper corners and page edges marked else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with a little damp marking on the inside (no show-through). |
£20.00 |
"... It was for mercy's sake that Palicroval the Fair left you to live after the desecration of your honour... to live and become great Queen Beauty, whose power makes the very gods tremble and whose mercy is that of the grave. you would lay the world to ruin for your soul's ease, and see the corruption of the heavens for your pain... " |
| Orson Scott Card |
Heartfire The Tales of Alvin Maker V |
Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Using the lore and folk magic of the men and women who settled the North American continent, Card has created an alternate world in which that magic really works and has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and potions, all have a place... " |
| Orson Scott Card |
Homecoming |
Tor 1992-95 First Edition First Printings (5 volumes) |
Bruised/slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in slightly rubbed Dust Jackets. |
£50.00 |
"... Harmony had been settled by humans nearly forty million years before... placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, called the Oversoul... Its systems were failing... its core must be taken back to lost Earth... " The complete set. |
| Orson Scott Card |
Maps In A Mirror The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card |
Orbit 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page corners, blocked spine lettering applied at an angle and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
Split into 5 'Books' Each with an Introduction and Afterword: The Hanged Man Tales of Dread; Flux Tales of Human futures; Maps in a Mirror Fables and Fancies; Cruel Miracles Tales of Death, Hope and Holiness and Lost Songs The Hidden Stories - 46 stories 675 pages |
| Orson Scott Card |
The Call Of Earth |
Legend 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... this second volume of his brilliant new series, Homecoming... continues the story of the planet Harmony and its computer guardian, the Oversoul... another masterpiece, set over forty million years in the future, with wonderful characters and a glorious backdrop..." Homecoming Volume 2. |
| Orson Scott Card |
The Shadow Saga |
Orbit 1999-2002 First Edition in the UKs First Printings (3 Volumes) |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. |
£25.00 |
"... Ender's destiny among the stars awaits him, but for his young army it is time to return to earth. One by one, however, they are disappearing. earth faces a new danger, and this time the enemy is much closer to home. " |
| Orson Scott Card |
The Tales of Alvin Maker Volumes 1, 2 & 3 |
Tor 1987-89 (Volume 1 Second Printing Volumes 2 & 3 First Edition First Printings) |
Slightly/bumped at top and/or base of spines and a few corners, and spines leant - Very Good copies in Near Fine Dust Jackets. |
£20.00 |
Clute - "... set on... an alternate-world version of the USA... seems to come as close as humanly possible to the telling of an sf tale as Mormon parable... The early 19th-century USA... has never experienced a Revolution; certain forms of magic are efficacious; and Alvin may become a Maker, one who can delve to the heart of things and transform them... " |
| Jayge Carr (Margery Krueger) |
Leviathan's Deep |
Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code J 13 on P. 212) |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Delyafam is our world! And these 'human' strangers had best move warily... we are outgunned, outmanned and outscienced... yet I must somehow drive these 'guests'-who-would-be-conquerors from our blue seas. I restore equity. There-must-be-a-way... " |
| Jonathan Carroll |
A Child Across The Sky |
Legend 1989 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges and a couple of page corners creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a tiny nick on the edge of the front fold |
£15.00 |
"Web Gregston and Philip Strayhorn are best friends. They were at college together; they struggle as nobodies in Hollywood together. Weber soon becomes the most acclaimed director of his generation. Phil... makes a series of notorious horror films... Then he takes a gun and blows his head off... " |
| Jonathan Carroll |
After Silence |
Macdonald 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"... What do you do when you know your beloved is the worst kind of criminal? What should you do when the right and moral choice will ruin the rest of your life - as well as those you most love?... " |
| Jonathan Carroll |
From The Teeth Of Angels |
HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously |
Bruised at top of spine and across top board edges and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Whilst on holiday in Sardinia Ian McGann goes to sleep one night - and meets Death in a dream. It promises to answer any of McGann's questions, but if he fails to understand the answers he will have to pay with his life... and in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead... " |
| Jonathan Carroll |
From The Teeth Of Angels |
Doubleday 1994 First Edition in the US First Printing - Issued Simultaneously |
Covers bruised and rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy |
£15.00 |
"Whilst on holiday in Sardinia Ian McGann goes to sleep one night - and meets Death in a dream. It promises to answer any of McGann's questions, but if he fails to understand the answers he will have to pay with his life... and in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead... " |
| Jonathan Carroll |
Kissing the Beehive |
Gollancz 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and top corners and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... bestselling novelist Sam Bayer decides it's time he wrote his Great Book... his subject the death of teenage beauty, Pauline Ostrova - the 'Beehive'... Bayer's gesture of respect to his youth turns sour in the face of all that he unearths; and, for many people close to him, this leads to devastating - and fatal - consequences... " |
| Jonathan Carroll |
Outside the Dog Museum |
Macdonald 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... From a world-renowned master of fantastical fiction and sheer inventiveness, a novel to provoke the mind and haunt the imagination." |
| Jonathan Carroll |
Sleeping In Flame |
Century 1988 First Edition First Printing (Second State with P240/1 correct) |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners, boards lightly marked and page edges a little marked and browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. With publisher's Review Slip |
£20.00 |
"... who, really, is... Walker Easterling... abandoned as an infant and discovered by a vagrant prowling the garbage bins... in Atlanta... Maris York... brings him all the warmth and sense of belonging he has never quite experienced before. But she also provokes a chain reaction of increasingly bizarre events - threats from some dark otherworld..." Scarce. |
| Jonathan Carroll |
The Marriage Of Sticks |
Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top rear corner else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£15.00 |
"... Through a series of extraordinary events, Miranda learns from both the living and the dead just who she is and how far back her history goes. It is not a happy discovery but there is the possibility of redemption. If she has the courage and imagination to recapture a life she one thought her own... But if she fails, there will be hell to pay. And more... " |
| Jonathan Carroll |
The Marriage of Sticks |
Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Through a series of extraordinary events, Miranda learns from both the living and the dead just who she is and how far back her history goes. It is not a happy discovery but there is the possibility of redemption. If she has the courage and imagination to recapture a life she one thought her own... But if she fails, there will be hell to pay. And more... " |
| Jonathan Carroll |
The Wooden Sea |
Gollancz 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"What would happen if, in the middle of a contented middle-aged life, your seventeen-year-old self suddenly appeared? And what if he said you had done everything wrong?... But there's still hope because he's come to help. He's going to show you how to live the rest of your life the right way... and... the fate of the universe could well be determined by what you decide to do next... " |
| Angela Carter |
The Bloody Chamber and Other Adult Tales |
Harper 1980 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with spine panel and first vertical inch of front panel partly faded.. |
£15.00 |
"... Its material is drawn from fairy and folk tales... as well as from the darker annals of the folk imagination where the myths of werewolves and vampires, ogres and devils are kept...these twelve stories... are connected by a common theme - women misled by the masculine abuse of the life-force, who reclaim it for themselves and for the benefit of us all." |
| Lin Carter |
Zarkon, Lord Of The Unknown In The Earth-Shaker |
Doubleday 1982 First Edition First Printing (Code M25 on P.174) |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"'I hold supreme power of life and death... Surrender Zarkon - or die!'... Two banks had been disintegrated by fiendishly targeted earth-quakes. And the latest message from Lucifer, arch-villain and criminal mastermind... was clearly a challenge to... Prince Zarkon and his Omega Men... a takeoff on every pulp hero of the '30s and 40's... " |
| Michael Cassutt |
Tango Midnight |
Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... International terrorists have released a genetically modified disease, called X-Pox... Biochem billionaire... TM... 'll buy research time on the International Space Station, to work on a cure... But the equipment... was salvaged, and... a small hole in the seal of the isolation box... the disease... kills within three weeks." |
| Hugh B. Cave (Also as C. H. Barnett, Cary Barnett; Allen Beck; Judy Case; Justin Case; J. C. Cole; Jack D'Arcy; William Decatur, Carl Hughes, R. T. Maynard; Max Neilson; Maxwell Smith; Geoffrey Vace; John Wayne) |
Isle of the Whisperers |
Pumpkin Books 1999 First Edition First Printing (Limited to 750 copies) |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Dr. Martha Rowe is a most experienced archaeologist surveying a cave system on an island... looking for a passage to what may be another dimension... when the doorway is accidentally opened, everyone on the island suddenly becomes prey... " |
| Mark Chadbourn |
Nocturne |
Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£30.00 |
"He woke up on a New Orleans trolley car. He was wearing his best suit and carrying a wallet full of travellers' cheques, a reservation at a smart hotel and a suitcase full of bloodstained clothes. But David Easter had no idea how he had got there... he is drawn inexorably into a darkness that stretches back to the dawn of the jazz age... " |
| Mark Chadbourn |
The Queen of Sinister |
Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, boards a little rubbed and one spot on top page edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"With the sudden return of magic, our modern, technological society has crumbled. Cities lie in ruins, communications are limited. Ancient Gods and mythic creatures rage across the land, but in this new order good and evil are never quite as they appear. Welcome to Britain's new Dark Age... " |
| Paul Chafe |
Destiny's Forge |
Baen 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges and rear fixed end paper a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a few fine scratches on the rear panel. |
£5.00 |
"For fifty thousand years the Kzinti Patriarchy thrived on battle... Against all odd the humans stopped them... internal strains have built up within the Patriarchy... When the ambitious Kchula-Tzaatz makes a bid for ultimate power... the flames of war burn hot... " |
| Jack Chalker |
Kaspar's Box |
Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"For centuries, interstellar prospectors had searched for the fabled Worlds of the Three Kings... The mad cyborg Prophet, Ishmael Hand, discovered the mysterious system, with artefacts indicating a superhuman technology... Now a chance encounter... " |
| Anne Chamberlain |
The Merlin of St. Gilles' Well Book 1 of the Joan of Arc Tapestries |
Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... the true story of Joan of Arc. The saga of her rise from obscurity to lead the armies of France... Joan's astounding destiny was predicted by ancient prophecies attributed to none other than Merlin himself... " |
| Anne Chamberlain |
The Merlin of the Oak Wood Book Two of the Joan of Arc Tapestries |
Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... the year is 1425. France lies in bloody fragments, torn apart by decades of warfare... Gilles de Rais is a loyal soldier... driven by dreams of chivalry and sacred honour... Merlin's ancient prophecy foretells that a Maid will come... " |
| Joy Chant (Eileen Joyce Rutter) |
The High Kings |
Allen & Unwin 1983 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously? |
Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and a few spots of foxing on the page edges else Fine copy in like, slightly creased and rubbed, Dust Jacket. Illustrated by George Sharp |
£5.00 |
"The Celts - that artistically rich, magnificent people whose legendary history culminated in the heroic reign of King Arthur... had no written tradition... Joy Chant has chosen to tell their magnificent legends as... by bards around a campfire... that of King Arthur... each tale within a framework that includes a note about the historical or cultural background... " |
| Vera Chapman |
The Enchantresses |
Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Ygraine, the beautiful Duchess of Cornwall, once inflamed the lust of a king, Uther Pendragon, and of him and sorcerous trickery was born Arthur... But Ygraine's husband, Duke Gorlais, had given her there daughters, Arthur's half-sisters... Morgause... Vivian... and Morgan... born into witchcraft, and it falls to Merlin to educate them... " |
| Suzy McKee Charnas (Also As Rebecca Brand) |
Dorothea Dreams |
Arbor House 1986 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket a little eroded at the top of the front fold. |
£5.00 |
Clute - "... a ghost story in which modern Albuquerque, New Mexico (where the author lives), intersects with Revolutionary France, bringing its protagonist sharply into an awareness of her human obligations to the world... ’’ |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Angel With The Sword |
Daw 1985 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little wear at the fold tips |
£5.00 |
"Welcome to Merovingen - a fantastic city of canals... where the wealthy and powerful literally dwell in the highest towers... where intrigue and politics, unexpected alliances and battles to the death are commonplace, only the quick and cunning can long survive... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Chanur's Legacy |
Daw 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Top corners bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... Hilfy Chanur is captain of her own vessel, Chanur's Legacy. It should have been an ideal existence for Hilfy, her fondest dream fulfilled. But instead, the young captain finds herself more and more deeply entangled in seemingly insoluble problems... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Cyteen |
Warner 1988 First Edition First Printing (Grey cloth spine and grey paper-covered boards) |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a couple of light pressure marks detectable on the rear panel |
£15.00 |
"... an epic struggle for power... and a riveting story of politics and passions, manipulation and love, destiny and individual courage... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Finity's End |
Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel background a little faded |
£5.00 |
"... the award-winning universe of her classic Cyteen and Downbelow Station... an evocative, richly realised exploration of loyalty, family and transition... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Foreigner A novel of first contact |
Daw 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix set out... despite careful preparations, all did not go according to plan... a completely uncharted area of space... the nearest G5 star... the world of the atevi... where war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship... |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Forge of Heaven |
Eos 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... At the far edge of the galaxy, tiny Concord Station holds a unique place in the universe - the one place where humans form Earth, the strange Outsider worlds, and the extremely powerful alien ondal all coexist, bound together by the fate of the fragile world below... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Hammerfall |
Eos 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of his planet... he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious eternal dictator of his world. For years he has successfully hidden the visions that plague him... " First in the Gene Wars SF Series |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Heavy Time |
New English Library 1991 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously |
Top page edges a little browned else Fine Copy in Fine Dust Jacket |
£5.00 |
"... Set in the 24th century... paints a frighteningly plausible picture of a future where greed, dishonesty and fear rule... an utterly believable vision of the brutal life in space, and a marvellous evocation of an interstellar culture... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Hellburner |
New English Library 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a small (5mm) tear at the top of the rear panel, adjacent to the spine. With Publisher's promotional Booklet |
£5.00 |
"Training on the Hellburners wasn't easy. These new ships were powerful, fast, and unstable, so most of the training took place in simulators... And Dekker... 'd been found, nearly dead, in a simulator; and they needed to know what had gone wrong... the Hellburners weren't just any ship... they were Earth's new, secret defence... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Invader |
Daw 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket where the metallic inlay is tarnished. |
£5.00 |
"Nearly two centuries ago the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans... struggling to reach an understanding with their alien overlords... 178 years after its departure, the Phoenix suddenly returns, throwing both atevi and human governments into crisis... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Precursor |
Daw 1999 First Edition Second Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£3.00 |
"Over three years have passed since the appearance of the starship Phoenix - the same ship which two centuries before disappeared into space - leaving an isolated colony of humans to fend for themselves on the world of the atevi... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Rimrunners |
New English Library 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges a little browned and "B.S." stamped on rear fixed end paper else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"In a world where those who lose the galaxy's wars become criminals and pirates, meet Elizabeth Yeager, 'spacer, machinist, temp'. Once a marine Beth Yeager is now on the run. The action-packed world beyond the lawless edge of interstellar culture is the setting for a hard-edges, tough-minded adventure... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
The Second Foreigner Trilogy |
Daw 1999-2002 All are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) |
Bruised at top and/or base of spines and Precursor page edges a little marked else Fine copies in like Dust Jacket. |
£17.50 |
"Over three years have passed since the appearance of the starship Phoenix - the same ship which two centuries before disappeared into space - leaving an isolated colony of humans to fend for themselves on the world of the atevi... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
The Third Foreigner Trilogy |
Daw 2005-7 All are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) |
Bruised at top and/or base of spines and top page edges of Pretender a little browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. |
£25.00 |
"It has been almost two years since the starship Phoenix left Alpha Station on a rescue mission... Now, the Phoenix is almost home... when the ship makes the final jump into atevi space, things do not seem right... " |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Tripoint |
Warner 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the plastic lamination pulling away from the embossed letters |
£5.00 |
"... Tom is trapped, destination unknown, on a starship speeding him away from all he has known, with no hope of rescue or return... held prisoner by a crew fanatically loyal to Tom's sworn enemy. The man who, decades before, battered and violently raped Tom's mother. Austin Bowe. Tom Hawkins's father... " |
| George C. Chesbro |
An Affair of Sorcerers |
Severn House 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine. slight spine lean and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the orange spine lettering a little faded |
£5.00 |
"Mongo Frederickson is a Private Detective... also Professor of Criminology... black-belt karate expert and former circus artist. He is also a dwarf... asked to investigate... the suspicious actions of Doctor Vincent Smathers... the murder charge against... a psychic healer... " |
| George C. Chesbro |
In the House of Secret Enemies |
Mysterious Press 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Dr. Robert Frederickson... dwarf, private detective, criminology Ph. D., martial arts expert, ex-circus headliner... faced with evil in the form of maniacal scientists, gangsters intent on subjugating entire countries, murderous espionage agents, diabolical mystics and sorcerers, and a full-grown Bengal tiger... " |
| R. W. Chetwynd-Hayes |
Kepple |
Hale 1992 First Edition First Printing (Library binding - Blue leather-look boards, silver lettering) |
Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"A mysterious criminal organisation known to the underworld as The Management, have engaged an American hit-man - Kepple - to terminate certain wealthy businessmen...there is no record of Kepple's birth or any kind of official records... As the violence escalates it becomes clear that Man has created Kepple after his own image... " |
| R. W. Chetwynd-Hayes |
Tales From The Shadows |
Kimber 1986 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, page edges slightly browned and name written on front fixed end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"It was on the second flight of steps to the railway platform that Joan Herbert stumbled, cried out - and disappeared in full view of three people! Enmeshed in a time warp, Joan was trapped in a previous century. But Raymond, who loved her, was determined that this should not be the end of their life together... outstanding stories... " |
| R. W. Chetwynd-Hayes |
The Brats: A Novel of the Future |
Kimber 1979 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a tiny print chip at top of spine panel adjacent to the rear panel. |
£5.00 |
"The big blow-up had taken place twenty-five years before... Brats were sub human hairless creatures that hunted in packs... the oldies could no longer reproduce their own kind... What the solution is, and whether it represents anarchy or order, salvation or destruction, is Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes' absorbing and riveting theme for this outstanding novel of the future." |
| R. W. Chetwynd-Hayes |
The Curse Of The Snake God |
Inner Circle 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and spine slightly creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... made even more chilling by the suggestion that it could be based on bizarre but well-founded truth. The long forgotten dreams of childhood, the whispers that can sometimes be heard in a dark room, the unexpected vision seen through a window, all bear testimony to the existence of Hellvonia and the lands that pertain thereto..." |
| R. W. Chetwynd-Hayes |
The Partaker A Novel of Fantasy |
Kimber 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small triangle of wear at the top of the spine, adjacent to the back panel Signed and Dated by the Author on the Title Page |
£15.00 |
"The partaker is a little known species of vampire, only to be found now in small groups... ...in isolated communities. Possessed of a superhuman strength and beauty, and often immortal they prefer to live quietly, out of the curious gaze of meat-eaters. Or they did - until Carlos Markland was born... for as a growing child he has to be absorbed into the state education system... " |
| R. W. Chetwynd-Hayes |
World Of The Impossible |
Hale 1998 Second Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... A party of courageous people find ways and means of entering the World of the Impossible. Here there are man-eating giants, air-attacking rocs, a magician who can turn a Prince of the Blood into a roof-haunting cats, and by no means least a monstrous two-headed dragons. Our heroes however have some help... " |
| Mike Chinn |
The Paladin Mandates |
Alchemy Press 1998 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Fine Copy Illustrated by Bob Covington |
£4.00 |
Mixing in generous dollops of The Scorpion, The Shadow and Dominic Fortune, with a childhood fascination for old airplanes which he never outgrew, a taste for 30's detective fiction, and the simple desire to tell a creepy tale - Good Evening, Princess; I've Got You Under My Skin; Ace In The Hole; You Ought To Be In Pictures; Racketeer's Blues and Song Of The Dawn |
| Richard Chizmar |
Midnight Promises |
Gauntlet 1996 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No 371/500) |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket with a small (1mm) tear This copy additionally Inscribed by the Author to Jerry (the author of "Cracked Rear View") |
£10.00 |
Introduction by Ed Gorman, Afterword by Ray Garton, "... 17 stories of crime, terror and dark mystery crafted in a style rich in detail but beautifully simple in its cunning and guile... " |
| Mary Higgins Clark |
Where Are The Children? |
Talmy Franklin 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, small cloth tear at the top edge of front board, page edges stained, prelim page and title page marked - Good Copy in like Dust Jacket with orange spine lettering faded to pale yellow With a Warm Inscription and Signature from the Author on the front free end paper |
£10.00 |
"To escape the terrible secret in her past... Nancy Harmon... moved across the country to Cape Cod... Seven years have passed... Then one day an article appears about a famous Californian murder trial along with a picture of a woman who looks suspiciously like Nancy... her two children mysteriously disappear... " |
| Simon Clark |
Darker |
Hodder & Stoughton 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and across lower edge of rear board and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£35.00 |
"Video scriptwriter Richard Young is looking forward to a week at home with his wife Christine and their four-year-old daughter Amy. He thinks it's going to be a pleasant time of barbecues and lazy summer days. It isn't. IT'S GOING TO BE HELL... " |
| Simon Clark |
King Blood |
Hodder & Stoughton 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, page edges browned, a couple of page corners lightly creased and 9 or 10 pages lightly spotted with ?machine oil? - Very Good copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
"... Rick Kennedy feels good. Tonight there's going to be the party of the summer... And this is the night that Rick encounters the mysterious stranger in the wood... Soon he wakes to find 30,000 refugees... running for their lives... The ground heats up... Roads melt. Cities erupt in flame. Lakes boil... " |
| Simon Clark |
The Fall |
Hodder & Stoughton 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned and a few page corners slightly creased else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... In a summer meadow, time has begun to run backwards... more than fifty accidental time travellers are transported into the past... Sam Baker... and his fellow travellers must learn to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly alien. 'Seventies skinheads are a menace... Credit cards won't buy a meal... There are those who watch the world of yesteryear with envious eyes... " |
| Simon Clark |
Vampyrrhic Rites |
Hodder & Stoughton 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... They didn't want it to happen... but David Leppington, Bernice Mochardi and Electra Charnwood are drawn together once more to face the vampiric creatures that are Nosferatu: the undead. The desolate North Yorkshire Moors have held their secret for more than a thousand years... " |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Inner Circle 1983 |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... a dramatic and radically new slant on man's evolution... " With a new epilogue written by the author. |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
2010 Odyssey Two |
Granada 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Near Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. The very scarce first state - withdrawn because the author's name was misspelled on the title page! |
£60.00 |
"Out among the moons of Jupiter, the empty spaceship Discovery and the enigmatic alien monolith still float in the silent depths of space... To them comes the Leonov... on a mission of investigation and recovery... " |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
2010 Odyssey Two |
Granada 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Second State with Author's name spelled correctly) |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the price removed |
£7.50 |
"Out among the moons of Jupiter, the empty spaceship Discovery and the enigmatic alien monolith still float in the silent depths of space... To them comes the Leonov... on a mission of investigation and recovery... " |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
3001 The Final Odyssey |
Del Rey 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and across page fore-edges else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"It began four million years ago with a gleaming black monolith... it continued at the dawn of the twenty-first century... Only Dave Bowman would survive to encounter a third, and far more massive, monolith on Jupiter's moon Europa - and be forever transformed into the star-child... " |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
Against The Fall Of Night/Beyond The Fall Of Night |
Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a short crease in the rear flap |
£5.00 |
"... the story of a young man, Alvin... born in the enclosed city of Diaspar... not... the only city left on an Earth turned to desert. There is another city... In Benford's sequel Alvin's discoveries have lead to a renaissance... But along with creativity, evil has returned to the Earth." |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
Rama II |
Bantam 1989 First Edition in the US |
Top corners slightly bumped and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... Now the Ramans have finally returned... near the dawn of the twenty-third century, a spacecraft is identified hurtling across our solar system... Some of the best and brightest minds on Earth are assembled... " Sequel to 'Rendezvous With Rama'. |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
The Fountains Of Paradise |
Gollancz 1979 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and upper and lower edges of boards slightly faded (as usual) and page edges a little marked and bumped else Fine copy in slightly creased and worn Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
Clute - "...tells of the construction on Earth of a space elevator 36,000 km high, and combines ACC's favourite themes of technological evolution and mankind's apotheosis with moving directness; it is the most considerable work of the latter part of ACC's career... " |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
The Garden of Rama |
Bantam 1991 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the plastic lamination lifting from around the front panel embossed lettering |
£5.00 |
"... Atomic warheads meant for the second Raman craft... have detonated - with cosmonauts Nicole des Jardins, Richard Wakeman and Michael O'Toole trapped aboard... travelling at half the speed of light toward an uncertain destination... " Still with Spectra Summer Proof of Purchase |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
The Ghost From The Grand Banks |
Bantam 1990 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with the lamination loosening around the cover's embossed letters. |
£5.00 |
"In the decade before the centennial of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, two of the world's most powerful corporations... race to find a way to raise - and then preserve - the doomed luxurious ocean liner... the biggest worldwide story of the century... " |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
The Light of Other Days |
Voyager 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, is launching the greatest communications revolution in history. By manipulating wormholes in space, his WormCams can connect any point to any other, faster than the speed of light... When WormCams are made to work across time as well as space... " |
| Arthur C. Clarke |
The Light of Other Days |
Voyager 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Lower spine corners slightly rubbed else Fine uncorrected proof copy. With Review card from HarperCollins |
£10.00 |
"... Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communication revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light... Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space... " |
| Susanna Clarke |
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell |
Bloomsbury 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing (With both number lines ending in 1) |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£15.00 |
‘‘Centuries ago, when magic still existed in England, the greatest magician of them all was the Raven King. A human child brought up by fairies, the Raven King blended fairy wisdom and human reason to create English magic. Now at the beginning of the nineteenth century, he is barely more than a legend... ’’ |
| Jo Clayton |
Drum Warning |
Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"Iomard and Glandair, two worlds which exist in separate universes, are connected by magical forces beyond the control of even the strongest sorcerer. As they move closer together, conditions on both worlds become increasingly chaotic. The Drums of Chaos rumble in the background... " Book One of The Drums of Chaos |
| Hal Clement (Harry Clement Stubbs) |
Half Life |
Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... About two centuries from now, the human race on Earth is in trouble, perhaps even facing extinction, because of the rapid evolution of diseases. A crew of young men and woman travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life conditions there in the slim hope of discovering something that might save Earth... " |
| Hal Clement (Harry Clement Stubbs) |
Noise |
Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... a new planetary adventure in the tradition of... Mission of Gravity... using established principles of orbital mechanics, geology, chemistry, biology and -physics. Kainui is one of a pair of double planets in a binary star system. Mike Hoani has come there to study the language of the colonists... " |
| John Clute |
Appleseed |
Orbit 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£5.00 |
"It is the dawn of the fourth millennium, and for trader Nathanael Freer it is business as usual. Tile Dance, his ship, is in the safe hands of an Al with two minds and a krewe of helpers. And his latest commission... is routine enough... But.. A galaxy-wide data plague is infecting the spiral arm of local stars all the way from Old Earth... " |
| J. Maclaren Cobben |
Master of his Fate |
Greenhill 1987 |
Page edges lightly marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... what if the vital forces could be transmitted from one person to another? Could this make the recipient immortal? And what was the terrible secret that tormented Lefevre's friend Julius Courtney? First published in 1890... skilfully built crescendo of tension and mystery... " |
| Molly Cochran |
World Without End |
Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and Clute's distinctive inscription on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... the lost continent of Atlantis... in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle... with... the people whom time and myth-making transformed into Zeus, Hades, and the other Gods of the Greek pantheon. Trapped in the turmoil and panic of Atlantis' destruction is a modern-day man... mysteriously transported into the past... " |
| David B. Coe |
Children of Amarid Book I of the LonTobyn Chronicle |
Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with a small (4mm) tear at the top of the rear panel adjacent to the spine |
£7.50 |
"... Tobyn-Ser is a beautiful land endowed with magic that allows those with the gift to bond with avian familiars. These are the Children of Amarid... whose magic can create and heal - or wound and destroy... But... there is a traitor among the Children of Amarid... who threatens... to destroy all of Tobyn-Ser ... " |
| David B. Coe |
Rules Of Ascension Book One of Winds of the Forelands |
Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a 2mm tear at the tip of the rear fold |
£5.00 |
"... For centuries the Forelands were disputed by several tribes. Then came the magically gifted Qirsi - physically no match for their foes, but capable of mindsight, creating and controlling mists and fire, and bending solid matter to their purpose... when Tavis, the heir to the Kingdom of Curgh, is wrongfully blamed for the murder of a noble... " |
| Virginia Coffman |
The Vampyre of Moura |
Severn House 1997 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Anne must come to grips with the ghosts of her own memories, as well as the strangely disturbing aura at Moura... While starving and desperate wolves prowl just beyond the doors, more sinister events occur within. And despite her revulsion towards the Maitre, Anne is irresistibly drawn to him, mesmerised by his unnatural powers... " |
| Jack Cohen |
Are You Content in Your Context? |
B.S.F.G. 1990 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) No 12/450 |
Fine copy Cover by Dave Mooring |
£7.50 |
Short article published to celebrate Jack Cohen as Guest of Honour at Novacon 20 |
| Adrian Cole |
The Sleep of Giants |
Spindlewood 1983 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Stuart Littlejohn |
£7.50 |
"Roddy and Donna, two teen-agers from very different backgrounds, take a boat for a spree on the river, but the boat gets mysteriously drawn out to sea by a mysterious current. they scramble ashore on Lundy Island to find hidden powers stirring from a long sleep... " |
| Allan Cole |
The Timura Trilogy |
Hodder & Stoughton 1997-9 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) |
Bruised at top and/or base of spines and page edges a little browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. |
£20.00 |
"Safar is a gentle lad, so troubled by his growing magical abilities that he determines to turn his back on the world of sorcery.; then the fates intervene... an epic adventure in which Protarus will carve out the mightiest empire in history... " |
| Allan Cole |
The Warrior's Tale |
Legend 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned, foxed and marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a short (1-2 mm) tear at the base of the rear fold . |
£4.00 |
"Embroiled in mighty skeins of magic, the Archons of Lycanth plot once again to conquer Orissa, home of Almaric Antero. Almaric's return from the fabled Far Kingdoms with tomes of arcane sorcery had stymied their plans, but now their own new-found magic contends for mastery... But wars are not won by magic alone... " |
| John Collier |
The Scandal And Credulities Of John Aubrey |
Peter Davies 1931 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, red stain on top page edges a little faded and greyed, slight browning to spine panel, board edges, page edges, free end papers and tape stain outlines on front free end papers and darkening on subsequent/previous pages - Very Good copy Engravings by Helen Kapp |
£10.00 |
"John Aubrey... in 1670 a country gentleman... scholar... magpie collection of anecdotes... " His Brief Lives edited to remove the tedious bits "... here are passages which, though... not the work of a conscious artist, are works of art... two or three episodes which show us all the man, unfolding in this limpid mind as Japanese paper flowers do in a glass of clear water, and as prettily... " With 33 page introduction by J.C. |
| David Guy Compton |
Justice City |
Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower rear corner else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"...D. G. Compton has given us a brilliantly complex mystery, set ten minutes into the future, and with a hard political edge... " |
| David Guy Compton (Also as Guy Compton & Frances Lynch) |
Scudder's Game |
Kerosina 1988 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No 173/250) |
Fine Copy in like Dust Jacket and slightly rubbed box. |
£20.00 |
"...In his vividly realised novel of the near future D. G. Compton charts the growth of CHI and the bland, idyllic world they engineered. Too idyllic for some; for beneath the surface darker forces were at work. At their heart Scudder Laznett; brilliant, irascible, uncompromising... The result was quietly horrifying..." With an additional hardbound booklet - Radio Plays |
| David Guy Compton |
Scudder's Game |
Kerosina 1988 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small fingernail pressure mark in the gutter of the rear panel |
£5.00 |
"...In his vividly realised novel of the near future D. G. Compton charts the growth of CHI and the bland, idyllic world they engineered. Too idyllic for some; for beneath the surface darker forces were at work. At their heart Scudder Laznett; brilliant, irascible, uncompromising... The result was quietly horrifying..." |
| Stoney Compton |
Russian Amerika |
Baen 2007 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Alaska, 1987. in a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigoriy Grigorievich... was cashiered for disobeying an insane direct order. Now, ten years later, Grisha... discovers his past has not only caught up with him but is about to violently change his future... and all nine... nations of North America... " |
| Michael G. Coney |
Cat Karina |
Gollancz 1983 First Edition in Hardback First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a number of very fine surface scratches on the front panel and the red spine lettering very slightly faded |
£10.00 |
"... set in the distant future, when true humans coexist uneasily with a variety of not-quite-human beings, the products of ancient genetic experiments... one member of the race, Karina, whose destiny it is to bear the child of a true human... " |
| Michael G. Coney |
Charisma |
Gollancz 1975 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine lettering slightly faded. |
£7.50 |
"...the existence of an apparently infinite series of parallel worlds... ... but the only person who can possibly visit and explore a parallel world is the rare individual whose counterpart has lately died there and whose place he can therefore take - which in turn presages his own death on his version of Earth..." |
| Michael G. Coney |
The Girl With A Symphony In Her Fingers |
Elmfield Press 1975 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower edge of rear board bumped, small pressure mark at the top left hand corner of the front panel with page edges foxed and end papers a little foxed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with pink spine background faded |
£5.00 |
"Joe Sagar... is a Freeman in a society that uses its criminals for the benefit of others, either as temporary slaves or as living banks of limbs and organs for transplants. But when he meets 'the girl with a symphony in her fingers' and realises the horrors and abuses of the penal system, Sagar determines to bring about its exposure and downfall." |
| Storm Constantine |
Aleph |
Orbit 1991 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Covers slightly creased and worn and small area of plastic delamination on front panel (sticker removal?) Very Good to Near Fine Copy |
£10.00 |
"After the events of The Monstrous Regiment, Corinna Trotgarden, her family and friends, have travelled away from the hated city of Silven Crescent... Unbeknownst to the Freespacers, Artemis has been in contact with the outside world... and an interstellar tour company has sent a representative... to check the planet out... " Scarce. |
| Storm Constantine |
Sea Dragon Heir |
Gollancz 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... In the land of Caradore, the ruling family, the Palindrakes, are under siege from the emperor, who seeks the powers and ancient wisdom which are channelled to the eldest son of each generation through the sea dragons. Valgraven Palindrake ... is forced to submit to a rite which surrenders his heritage... " |
| Storm Constantine |
Sign For The Sacred |
Headline 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"The Church of Ixmarity is under siege - the followers of the maverick prophet Resenence Jeopardy are winning new converts daily and their heresy threatens the state itself, as well as the wealth and position of those who govern it, particularly the ecclesiarch, Wilfish Implexion. Implexion is determined to stamp out the Jeopardites by any means at his disposal... " |
| Storm Constantine |
The Way of Light |
Gollancz 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and clear water marking to upper board edges Good copy in like slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
Volume three in The Chronicle of Magravandias trilogy - following Sea Dragon Heir and Crown of Silence |
| Storm Constantine |
When The Angels Came |
B.S.F.G. 1992 First Edition First Printing Limited State (Paper) No 235/350 |
Fine copy Cover by Dave Horton |
£7.50 |
Short story published to celebrate Storm Constantine as Guest of Honour at Novacon 22 |
| Glen Cook |
Sung In Blood |
Night Shade 2006 |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"For three centuries, Shasesserre, the Crossroad of the World, has been kept safe from harm, shielded by the wizardry of its legendary Protector, Jehrke Victorious. His web of sorcery blankets the City, insulating and guarding it from the slightest threat... the Protector has just been brutally slain... " |
| Tom Cool |
Secret Realms |
TOR 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower rear corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... In the first half of the next century, a band of warriors is raised from infancy in ignorance of the real world. Instead, they live in a virtual-reality environment of endless battle; they all become superb soldiers... as war breaks out in the real world... the puppet masters who control their lives tighten the leash... " |
| C. Everett Cooper (Robert Reginald/Michael Burgess) |
Up Your Asteroid! A Science Fiction Farce |
Borgo Press 1977 First Edition First Printing (Paper) (Stapled Wraps) |
Upper rear corner slightly bumped, covers a little rubbed - Near Fine copy |
£3.00 |
Pastiche |
| Louise Cooper |
Sacrament of Night |
Headline 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"They've been visiting the human world for centuries, the strange frail, totally colourless denizens of the Twilight Dimension. Lured by the colour, the brightness, the sheer vitality of mankind's world, they mean no harm - but few of them ever return home... " |
| Basil Copper |
The Curse Of The Fleers |
Harwood 1976 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly torn Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"Ghoulish apparitions haunt the battlements of Fleer Manor and Sir John Fleer is driven to the brink of madness. Is this the fulfilment of the gruesome ancestral curse... or is there a yet more sinister explanation for the horrifying deaths which ensue... Can Hammond unravel the treacherous web of deadly intrigue surrounding this noble family?" |
| Bernard Cornwell |
Harlequin |
HarperCollins 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... the first book of The Grail Quest series... " |
| Bernard Cornwell |
Vagabond |
HarperCollins 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... the second book of The Grail Quest series... " |
| Mary Corran |
Darkfell |
Orion 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Ninian is heir to Arcady, the last matriarchal estate in Avardale and the wetlands, the heir to the secret of her home lake and the Tearstone. Quest has been her friend for life, her lover for moments. Now it looks like their love is souring under the pressure of Quest's ambition... " |
| Albert E. Cowdrey |
Crux |
Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a spot of wear at the top of the front fold. |
£5.00 |
"Centuries ago, the Time of Troubles left Earth shattered and nearly empty... Now the Government of the Universe is spread out among hundreds of worlds... Into this glorious golden age comes a new threat. scientists... have created a wormhole generator - a machine that can send people into the past... Even the smallest change to the past will destroy the future... " |
| Richard Cowper |
Clone |
Doubleday 1973 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, pages and board-edges remainder-sprayed on base, else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Can four clones, saint-like, with perfect eidetic memories and rather plain features, find happiness in the brutish world of 2072?... A delightfully humorous (and at times bitingly satirical) free-for-all through the inevitable red tape of the future." |
| Richard Cowper |
Kuldesak |
Doubleday 1972 First Edition in the US First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top of spine and boards slightly damp-marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Mel was different from other Roamers. He was always asking questions: Why are men forbidden from the upper Levels? What is 'Outside'? What is the difference between Roamers and Plants? Why are man's numbers shrinking The answer was always 'Godswill' But who was God, and where did he get his authority?... " |
| Richard Cowper (John Middleton Murry, [Jr.] - also as Colin Murry) |
Shades Of Darkness |
Kerosina 1986 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 14/250) |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket together with matching numbered (unsigned) booklet The Magic Spectacles and Other Tales (Illustrated by Simon Olney) Illustrated by SMS |
£15.00 |
"...Full length ghost stories are rare, and this elegant and literary novel of a modern haunting in an English seaside bungalow, and of forbidden passions in a colonial Africa long since forgotten, will be a welcome addition to a neglected genre... " N. B. This Kerosina Limited Edition was not issued in a box. |
| Richard Cowper |
The Road To Corlay |
Gollancz 1978 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... returns to the world described in his story 'Piper At The Gates of Dawn'... It is more than a thousand years in the future. The sea level has risen dividing Britain into seven Kingdoms; technology has regressed to primitive levels... the martyrdom of Tom the boy piper... eighteen years have passed... " |
| Richard Cowper (John Middleton Murry, [Jr.] - also as Colin Murry) |
The Web Of The Magi and Other Stories |
Gollancz 1980 First Edition First Printing |
Fine copy in like, price-clipped, price-stickered, Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
Four stories examining first encounters with other intelligent life, an apparently paranormal phenomenon which proves to have an even stranger scientific explanation and an adventure fantasy where a Victorian Army officer discovers a cult in Asia Minor whose members literally tend and spin the loom of human destiny... " Drink Me, Francesca, The Attleborough Poltergeist, Out There Where The Big Ships Go and The Web Of The Magi |
| Jim Crace |
Continent |
Heinemann 1986 First Edition First Printing (With Original Sticker on Jacket Front Panel) |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... a seventh continent where past and present are discontinuous, where custom and progress form a dangerous flux. The seven narratives combine to explore the irreconcilable forces implicit in all cultures - telling of a tribe 'on heat', of a calligrapher who loses his skill, of a runner pitched against a horseman, of a love story... " |
| Kit Craig (Kit Reed) |
Strait |
Headline 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a 10mm tear at the base of the rear fold |
£5.00 |
"When urbane, attractive Will Strait comes to teach at Evard College... Clair Sailor... senses something wrong... She is right. Buried in his contorted past, behind the spurious façade of his perfect family and his perfect career, is a secret that drives Will Strait to corrupt, torture and kill... " |
| Wes Craven |
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