| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linda Nagata | Limit of Vision | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... a searing portrait of a frighteningly plausible near-future in which biotechnology is spinning wildly out of control... first artificial life form... nicknamed LoVs... act like sentient drugs, enhancing mental functions at will... creativity, clarity, confidence, and even passion... " |
| Linda Nagata | Memory | Tor 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in a like Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "... a human colony whose people have forgotten their past, on a tremendous ring-shaped structure where the sky is bisected by an arch of light and where the mysterious 'silver' rises from the ground each night to completely transform the landscape... " |
| Linda Nagata | The Bohr Maker | Bantam Spectra 1995 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners and edges slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "... The biogenesis function was Fox's pet project - a theoretical complex of assembly codes that would define every element of Summer House and its internal environment in a sequenced construction plan... in theory at least - it would be possible to replicate the entire house... " |
| Linda Nagata | Vast | Bantam Spectra 1998 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners and edges slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "Dethroned cult leader Lot Appolinario and his companions have left the sky-city of Silk with a mission. They aim to find the Chenzeme - the mysterious race that annihilated most sentient life in the galaxy many thousands of millennia ago... " |
| Yvonne Navarro | Afterage | Overlook Connection Press 2002 First Edition Thus First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "It took five days to bring down Chicago, and less than ten to conquer the world. Now the original vampire and her small following struggle to survive in a world reduced to emptiness and ruin by their own savage hunger... " Introduction by Brian Hodge; Victory's Ode; Afterage Red City and Afterword by Yvonne Navarro; Biography and Bibliography |
| Alan Nayes | The Unnatural | Forge 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Dr. Charmaine has only two clues to the beautiful young woman's death: she reeks of the city sewers, and her last word was the Spanish slang for monkey... in an experiment gone horribly awry, Kovacs holds the key to the Sewer Stalker, the bizarre hybrid creature who lusts insatiably for beautiful women... " |
| Ray Faraday Nelson | The Prometheus Man a nrobook | Starblaze 1982 First Edition First Printing (Paper Issue) | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine copy | £3.00 | "'... Asimov... postulated a science he called 'psychohistory,' not realising that the statistical methods... were very similar to... underwriting... only an insurance man could see... how rigorous the statistical probability of human behaviour can be made... '" |
| Kim Newman | The Night Mayor | Simon & Schuster 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the rear fold With Publisher's Review Slip | £5.00 | "In the city it's always two-thirty in the morning and raining. Edward G. Robinson is strangling Joan Bennet on a fire escape, James Cagney is bleeding to death in a gutter, Humphrey Bogart is walking the mean streets and the Night mayor has the power to assume any identity he chooses..." |
| Leigh Nichols (Dean R. Koontz) | The Eyes Of Darkness | Piatkus 1981 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top of spine, top page edges slihghtly marked and page edges browned (as usual) else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, price clipped, Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold. | £20.00 | "People will die, coldly and brutally, before Tina is able to find out what really happened to her son. When she does, she learns a secret so incredible, so frightening and so dangerous that it must be kept at the price of any life... " |
| Douglas Niles | War of the Worlds New Millennium | Tor 2005 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. | £7.50 | "... From an isolated farmhouse in rural Wisconsin to the National Mall in Washington, D. C., our world becomes a battlefield against the alien intruders from Mars, whose superior weapons and defences dwarf the Pentagon's latest weaponry... " |
| Larry Niven | Beowulf's Children | Tor 1995 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a new generation is growing up, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars. On the mainland called Avalon, however, there are monsters that dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the young people will learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart... " Sequel to The Legacy of Heorot. |
| Larry Niven | Burning Tower | Pocket Books 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the fire god Yangin-Atep has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected... From out of the desert come monsters... Lord Sandry and his beloved, Burning Tower, must travel... into a world where the manna that fuels magic is still strong... " Sequel to THE BURNING CITY. |
| Larry Niven | Destiny's Road | Orbit 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Almost 250 years ago, the starcruiser Argos reached the planet Destiny, carrying the first settlers... the landing craft... seared the wide, smooth Road into the rock... no settler who has travelled down the Road has ever returned... Jemmy Bloocher is a young farm boy who...accidentally kills... his flight becomes a quest to... uncover the many mysteries of Destiny's Road." |
| Larry Niven | Dream Park: The Voodoo Game | Pan 1991 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... 25 gamers will line up against the most sophisticated forces in modern technology, cunningly allied with the most potent powers of ancient magic. Their task: to stop Tata Nkiti, undead Man-Demon and desecrator of corpses, and his insatiable army of devils - before they destroy the good followers of the White Path..." |
| Larry Niven | Footfall | Gollancz 1985 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and foxed else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket with faint pressure marks to front panel. | £5.00 | "... Earth was about to receive visitors from another star... Almost everyone agreed... would have to be friendly. But they were soon proved catastrophically wrong... Suddenly Earth was at the mercy of invaders... whose tactical advantage seemed insuperable... " |
| Larry Niven | The Dragons Of Heorot | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Twenty years ago, the colonists of the planet Avalon waged a desperate war against the grendels, reptilian creatures larger than alligators, faster than cheetahs, smarter than dolphins and single-minded murderous... Now the colony is flourishing... But lurking on the mainland is... something that eats grendels... " Sequel to The Legacy of Heorot. |
| Larry Niven | The Legacy of Heorot | Gollancz 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the colonists begin to realise that on Avalon there are complex and lethal biological puzzles which they had not even begun to understand, including the strangest and most dangerous creature any human has ever had to face... the most convincing and hair-raising novel ever of humans struggling to survive on a strange new world." |
| Larry Niven | The Moat Around Murchison's Eye | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly marked else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the spine panel and at the top of the front old. | £5.00 | "On the one hand, the far-flung Empire of Man; on the other hand, the outies, pirate worlds outside the Empire; on the gripping hand, the Moties, the only aliens mankind has ever encountered... " |
| Jeff Noon | Nymphomation | Doubleday 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and top front corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The air of Manchester is alive with burbflies, automated advertisements chanting their slogans... loudest of all is for Domino Bones, the new lottery game... A group of mathematics students are looking at the odds... searching for the hidden mysteries behind the game... The Company is devouring Manchester... They are not scared of killing off a few dumb students... " |
| Jeff Noon | Pollen | Ringpull 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In a strange re-mixed future Manchester a cloud of pollen descends - a new strain, each tiny grain a murderer... People are sneezing themselves to death and the pollen count is racing towards 2,000... shadow-cop Sibyl Jones and her wayward daughter Boda - are on separate paths into the dark place from where the pollen originates... " |
| John Norman | Kajira Of Gor | W. H. Allen 1984 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £35.00 | "... when Tiffany Collins was kidnapped from Earth... she found herself on the throne of a mighty city... Little did she realise that her true role was that of a slave puppet to a conniving woman agent of the monstrous Kurii... between crown and fetters... adulation and total submission... the full-scale panorama... " |
| Andre Norton (Also as Andrew North & Allen Weston) | Iron Cage | Kestrel 1975 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket, worn at the top of the front and rear folds. | £7.50 | "Thousands of years in the future, the young boy Jony and his mother, Rutee, are being held in cages as experimental animals of an alien race. As the alien ship prepares to leave this particular planet, Rutee is discarded and Jony manages to escape... " |
| Andre Norton | Leopard In Exile Carolus Rex: Book II | Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Sarah's love, the Duke of Wessex, is always close behind, balancing the desire to save his wife from unknown perils, his need to save the King of France from Napoleon's and de Sade's clutches, and his responsibility to save King Charles II's England from those who would destroy it... " Sequel to The Shadow of Albion |
| Andre Norton (Also as Andrew North & Allen Weston) | No Night Without Stars | Gollancz 1976 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower corners and page edges a little foxed and marked else Fine copy in price clipped Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Long ago, according to the Rememberers of the Mob, the earth danced and mountains of fire belched forth flames and molten rock. The sea rolled inward, hammering the land into nothingness. Only pockets of men and animals survived... " |
| Andre Norton | Time Traders | Baen 2000 First Combined Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the USA's greatest adversary... is sending its agents back through time! And someone or something unknown to our history is presenting them with... weapons - far beyond our most advanced science... " |
| Andre Norton | Time Traders II The Defiant Agents Key Out Of Time | Baen 2001 First Combined Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Exploring space and time is a dangerous business, and no one knows this better than Time Agents Travis Fox and Ross Murdock. So when both men are stranded on far-off planets with no hope of rescue... " |
| Andre Norton | Wind In The Stone | Avon 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners and lower corner of front free end paper creased else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the corners of the folds | £10.00 | "Once the Wind united the Valley with the Forest, enveloping them in the strongest of magics. It was a union that endured when the Darkness came, and through it the land was preserved and the evil banished... And so there was peace for many centuries... until the Dark returned... " |
| Mary Norton | Are All The Giants Dead? | Dent 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. Illustrated By Brian Froud | £15.00 | "... a fairy tale for modern children. Mildred, a society reporter who mingles with the well-born in her workaday life, is equally at home with fairy-tale princes and takes young James on a moonlight visit to their ageing but still fanciful world... traditional characters, all a little older... " |
| Naomi Novik | Empire Of Ivory | HarperVoyager 2007 First Edition in Hardback and the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "More than a year has passed since Temeraire and Lawrence departed for the Orient... but after many adventures... Britain's welcome shores are in sight... Something is very wrong... " Fourth volume in the fantasy Temeraire series. |
| Naomi Novik | Temeraire | Voyager 2006 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and top page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £30.00 | "As Napoleon's Grand Army tear Europe apart, his vast armada is poised to engage Admiral Nelson's smaller fleet and threaten Britain. But the struggle is over more than land and sea, for both sides have an air force. And the fiery death they rain down... comes from the very guts of the beasts they are flying: DRAGONS... " |
| Naomi Novik | Victory of Eagles | Ballantine/Del Rey 2008 First Edition First Printing | Covers a little worn and torn - around Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "The long-dreaded invasion of Great Britain is at hand. Napoleon's vast armies have consolidated his hold on Europe, and he is poised to attack across the English Channel... Will Lawrence has been jailed for treason, and his dragon, Temeraire, is consigned to the breeding grounds... " |
| Eric S. Nylund | Pawn's Dream | Hodder & Stoughton 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Roland Pritchard has a life of unending tedium, loneliness and despair. His only escape is into the fertile landscape of his dreams: a magical realm of demons, war and miraculous adventure... But now something is happening that cannot be rationally explained. An extraordinary merging of nightmare and daydream... " |
| Peter O'Donnell | Cobra Trap | Souvenir Press 2006 First Edition in Paperback First Printing | Bruised and slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine copy. | £5.00 | "... The first story... sees her in her Network days, set on dealing with a piece of unfinished business... 'The Dark Angels' finds her retired from the Network and allowing herself to be manipulated... by her good friend Sir Gerald Tarrant... in 'Old Alex' she is trapped by an unknown enemy... In... 'Cobra Trap', the dauntless pair face the most testing assignment of their lives... " According to the Author the last, ever, Modesty Blaise. |
| Peter O'Donnell | Cobra Trap | Souvenir Press 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £60.00 | "... The first story... sees her in her Network days, set on dealing with a piece of unfinished business... 'The Dark Angels' finds her retired from the Network and allowing herself to be manipulated... by her good friend Sir Gerald Tarrant... in 'Old Alex' she is trapped by an unknown enemy... In... 'Cobra Trap', the dauntless pair face the most testing assignment of their lives... " According to the Author the last, ever, Modesty Blaise. Scarce. |
| Peter O'Donnell | The Silver Mistress | Souvenir Press 1973 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, spine lean, page edges slightly marked and biro '6' on copyright page else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with the price removed | £25.00 | "When Tarrant of British intelligence finds himself a prisoner... he clings to one slim hope - that Modesty Blaise and her formidable henchman, Willie Garvin, will suspect his well-faked death... There is Angel, the girl with the wire garrotte; Mrs McTurk, the genteel assassin; and the unique Mr Sexton, who rightly claims to be the greatest combat-man in the world... " |
| Peter O'Donnell | The Xanadu Talisman | Souvenir Press 1981 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened else Fine copy in slightly browned and creased Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "... When Modesty set out to fulfil the wishes of a dying man, every move she made was watched by El Mico, for he believed that she would solve the mystery of the Talisman and so lead him to a prize of immeasurable value... There was Little Krell, a prodigy in combat; the Silk brothers, juvenile adults who dealt in death; and the astonishing Nanny Prendergast... " |
| Timothy O'Grady | Motherland | Chatto & Windus 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, slightly damp-marked on the inside (no show-through). | £5.00 | "An ornately bound book containing handwritten records which date from the twelfth century, the chronicle of an ancient family. Clairvoyant visions which point the way towards unknown lives and stir up long-buried memories... driven by a desperate love, a man embarks on a search for his wayward mother... " |
| Andrew J. Offutt | Clansman of Andor | Hale 1979 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "On Earth Robert Cleve was a misfit, a man of action who had no place in an advanced technological civilisation. But a lust for adventure drove him to accept a dangerous assignment on distant Andor. Taking on the bodily form... Cleve became a warrior chief in a barbaric corner of the universe... " Very scarce. |
| Chad Oliver | The Shores Of Another Sea | Robson 1985 | A few page edges slightly marked and torn else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "On the dusty, remote plains of Kenya, Royce Crawford runs a baboonery... One day there is a strange light in the East African sky, and the baboons start disappearing from their cages... he finds that the animals have changed. The strange look of cold intelligence... reveals to Crawford that he is no longer the hunter, but the hunted..." |
| Douglas Orgil | Brother Esau | Bodley Head 1982 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and pages browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £3.50 | "In other words, we have two identical prehistoric skulls. One is a million years old and the other could have been alive one hundred years ago... the ultimate discovery: a creature, alive, something like a gorilla, something like a man, its powerful body covered in reddish hair... DNA tests showed that Esau was of the genus Homo, but definitely not Homo Sapiens..." |
| Paul Park | Coelestis | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base and a few page corners bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... On a distant planet, discovered and developed by America eons ago, two native alien races co-exist; the aboriginals and the Coelestis. One race has sold its soul to the colonists: the other has been hunted to the edge of extinction - the Coelestis - majestic, strange, terrifying. Now only two survive... " |
| Diana L. Paxson | The White Raven | Morrow 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and across lower edge of boards, page edges slightly marked and a couple of page edges a little damp-wrinkled else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... the names Tristan, Isolde, and Mark are linked to an awful destiny, a bond of love and hate, loyalty and betrayal, heroism, devotion, and magic beyond imagining... re-creates the world-famous story of their love, but with a formerly missing element now added to a consequently more vibrant whole... " |
| Tom Piccirilli | Headstone City | Bantam Spectra 2006 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners and edges slightly worn - Very Good to Near Fine Advance Reading Copy | £5.00 | "On the streets of Brooklyn, a haunted man must settle his accounts with the living - and the dead... " |
| Jonathan Pidduck | A Funny Olde Worlde | Matador 2004 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed else Fine copy | £2.00 | "... When Hedral Watcher was in need of a warrior to defeat an all-powerful warlock, he knew that Thane - a brave intergalactic mercenary - was just the man for the job. Unfortunately he ended up with a Ramsgate biker, an inept wizard with an attitude problem and a blonde Amazon in a squirrel-skin bikini. Not a good start... " |
| Marge Piercy | City of Darkness, City of Light | Fawcett 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and spine panel a little uneven else Fine copy in rubbed, printed clear plastic Dust Jacket - as issued. | £5.00 | !"... the French Revolution... the courageous women who sparked the Revolution by taking to the streets... three of the women who played prominent roles... Claire Lacombe... Manon Philipon... Pauline Leon... the Revolutionary Republican Women are born... the sweep of the French Revolution... " |
| Marge Piercy | He, She And It | Knopf 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the middle of the twenty-first century... what used to be North America.. a vast toxic wasteland dotted with huge environmental domes... the 'Glop,' the overwhelmed stretches of the megalopolis where nine-tenths of the Norikans live... It is in this world that Shira Shipman struggles to find her place... " |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | Great Writers Library 1986 - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy with decorated boards, as issued. | £4.00 | 39 stories. |
| Frederik Pohl (Also as Walter Lasly; Edson Mccann & Donald Stacy) | Beyond The Blue Event Horizon | Gollancz 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly foxed else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a short (6mm) tear at the top of the front panel, a crease running the length of the spine panel and the blue spine lettering slightly faded. | £7.50 | "... the sequel to the award-winning Gateway... the alien mysteries of the Heechee are slowly revealed... a novel that convincingly portrays the power of human curiosity and the strengths and failings of human emotions... a breathtaking vista of the alien... " |
| Frederik Pohl (Also as Walter Lasly; Edson Mccann & Donald Stacy) | Black Star Rising | Gollancz 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket a little crumpled at top of spine panel. | £5.00 | "Two hundred years from now the USA and USSR are largely forgotten, having destroyed each other as world powers... China and India have moved in to pick up the pieces... an alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to talk to the President of the USA... there is no such person... but the aliens wont take no for an answer... " |
| Frederik Pohl | Mars Plus | Baen 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and remainder felt pen line across lower page edges else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the events chronicled in... Man Plus were only the beginning. It is now fifty years later. Man is, or seems to be, on Mars to stay, but things have become... strange, even compared to the population of cyborgs, half-cyborgs and just plain humans... " |
| Frederik Pohl (Also as Walter Lasly; Edson Mccann & Donald Stacy) | Midas World | Gollancz 1983 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, slight spine lean and page edges a little marked with a few corners folded else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | ""The Midas Plague" - the story which first described this society and which is included in revised form... quickly became recognised as one of the classic science fiction social satires. Midas World brilliantly unfolds further implications of the ideas... " |
| Frederik Pohl | Narabedla Ltd | Gollancz 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page edges slightly bumped else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a pin-point scratch on the spine panel and the yellow of that panel slightly faded (as usual). | £7.50 | "... an immensely rich foundation supporting both scientific research and cultural events... two performers signing contracts with them and then vanish... on the second moon of the seventh planet of the star Aldebaran... to the advanced civilisations of the galaxy... primitive culture is in vogue... |
| Frederik Pohl | Pohlstars | Gollancz 1986 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | Introduction; The Sweet, Sad Queen of the Grazing Isles; The High Test; Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair; Second Coming; Enjoy, Enjoy; Growing Up in Edge City; We Purchased People; Rem the Rememberer; The Mother Trip; A Day in the Life of Able Charlie and The Way It Was |
| Frederik Pohl | The Annals Of The Heechee | Gollancz 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners bruised else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with orange of spine panel faded to yellow and front panel differentially faded. | £4.00 | "... some time has passed since the events of Heechee Rendezvous... Humans and Heechee maintain the Joint Assassin watch... It falls to Robin... to discover that... the Assassins have returned... " |
| Frederik Pohl | The Day The Martians Came | St. Martin's Press 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Of the two hundred and seventy-six astronauts under Captain Seerseller's charge, only thirty-eight survive to leave the planet. Just as America begins to accept its mission to colonise Mars as a failure, Henry Steegmen... accidentally discovers an underground city... " |
| Frederik Pohl | The Early Pohl | Doubleday 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased. foxed and marked Dust Jacket slightly eroded at the top of the spine panel and with one short tear. | £5.00 | "... Together with eight stories and one poem... is hiss delightful autobiographical commentary on each of them... " Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna; The Dweller in the Ice; The King's Eye; It's a Young World; Daughters of Eternity; Earth, Farewell!; Conspiracy on Callisto; Highwayman of the Void and Double-Cross. |
| Frederik Pohl | The World At The End Of Time | Del Rey 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corners creased else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small split and a little wear at the top of the rear fold. | £10.00 | ""Wan-To was the oldest and most powerful intelligence in the universe, a being who played with star systems as a child plays with marbles... now and then he created new versions of himself for companionship. But those 'offspring' were quite powerful themselves... " |
| Rachael Pollack | Temporary Agency | Orbit 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | Orbit Uncorrected Proof Copy with St. Martin's Press covers. "Ellen Pierson and a Malignant One cross paths - and the world will never be the same... " Set in the world of Unquenchable Fire |
| Tim Powers | Expiration Date | Tor 1996 First US & Hardback Edition & Thus | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "... Los Angeles... a city full of ghosts - and full, too, of unpleasant characters who extend their lives and enhance their power by catching and absorbing the ghosts of the recently dead... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Carpe Jugulum | Doubleday 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Mighty Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest... he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches... And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Discworld's Unseen University Diary 1998 | Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued Illustrated by Paul Kidby | £35.00 | Includes: The Archchancellor's Address; UU Terms (no, NOT that sort); The Library; Information for Freshers; Street Plan of Central Ankh-Morpork; Things to Do; Places to Go, Things to See; Bars (Yes, that sort!); Eateries; Interesting Facts and Figures and more... |
| Terry Pratchett | Going Postal | Doubleday 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top and base of the rear fold | £5.00 | "Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Guards! Guards! | Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £120.00 | "Some night-time prowler is turning the citizens of Ankh-Morpork... into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that's a real problem for Captain Vimes of the City Watch, who must tramp the mean streets of the naked city searching for a seventy-foot-long fire-breathing dragon which, he believes, can help him with his enquiries... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Making Money | Doubleday 2007 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in price-clipped Dust Jacket, with a touch of erosion at the base of the front fold | £7.50 | "It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. but, as former conman Moist von Lipwig is learning, life is not necessarily for long... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Monstrous Regiment | Doubleday 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It all began as a sudden strange fancy... Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time... And now she's enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Mort | Gollancz 1988 Second Impression | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page corner creased, faint water mark to lower corner tip of front board and page edges a little foxed/browned/marked else Fine copy in slightly creased, price-clipped, Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds and a little water marking to inside lower corner of front fold | £25.00 | "... Mort is an unpromising, gangling teenager who becomes an apprentice to Death, but proves less than gifted at his new task of ushering souls out of the world... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Moving Pictures | Gollancz 1990 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly age-darkened else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket slightly crumpled at the head of the spine Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £80.00 | "Cameras roll - which mean that the imps inside have to paint really fast... when alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen. But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill? As the alien clichés of Tinsel Town, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out..." |
| Terry Pratchett | Night Watch | Doubleday 2002 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Commander Sam Vines of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. but now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Reaper Man | Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £50.00 | "Death is missing - presumed... er... gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn... Ghosts and poltergeists fill up the Discworld... Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall, dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Discworld Companion | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "For the newcomer and old hand alike the Discworld can be a fatally confusing planet. From the great city of Ankh-Morpork, featuring a river you could skateboard across if it wasn't so knobbly, to the distant Ramtop Mountains and the mysterious Counterweight Continent, the Discworld is a place where Death waits around every corner... For safety's sake you need a guide... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy | Doubleday 1999 First UK Combined Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with the price removed | £10.00 | Three terrific tales... |
| Terry Pratchett | The Last Hero A Discworld Fable | Gollancz 2002 (Paper) | Covers slightly rubbed else Fine Copy With an extra 16 pages of Illustrations by Paul Kidby not in the Hardback Edition | £7.50 | "He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the days of great adventure. He can remember when a hero didn't have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation... but he can't always remember, these days, where he put his teeth... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Light Fantastic The Graphic Novel | Corgi 1992 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine, lower front corner lightly creased else Fine Copy Illustrated by Steve Ross & Joe Bennett | £10.00 | "Six months ago Rincewind was a perfectly ordinary failed wizard. Then he met Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist, was employed at an outrageous salary as his guide, and has since spent his time being shot at, terrorised, chased and hanging from high places with no hope of salvation... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Truth | Doubleday 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | ""William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Unadulterated Cat A Campaign for Real Cats | Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed and page edges a little marked - Very Good to Near Fine copy Illustrated by Gray Jolliffe | £5.00 | "Can you recognise a real, unadulterated cat when you see one? Or have you grown too used to the boring, mass-produced cats the advertising industry adores? Real cats never eat from bowls (at least, not the ones marked CAT). Real cats never wear flea collars... or appear on birthday cards... or chase anything with a bell in it... " |
| Terry Pratchett | The Wee Free Men A Story Of Discworld | Doubleday 2003 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "There's trouble on the Aching farm - a monster on the river, a headless horseman in the driveway and nightmares spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching's little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Fairies... Tiffany's got to get him back. To help her she has a weapon (a frying pan), her Granny's magic book (well, Diseases of Sheep, actually)... " |
| Terry Pratchett | Thief Of Time | Doubleday 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small paper tear inside the spine panel (no show-through) caused by the rough removal of a bar-code/detector sticker? | £7.50 | "... comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous)." |
| Terry Pratchett | Thud! | Doubleday 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf. Commander Sam Vimes... is going to see it fought again, right outside his office... " Companion volume to Where's My Cow. |
| Tim Pratt | The Strange Adventures Of Rangergirl | Bantam Spectra 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Lower front corner creased, edges/corners slightly rubbed else Fine copy. | £2.00 | "As night manager of Santa Cruz's quirkiest coffeehouse, Marzi McCarty makes a mean expresso, but her first love is making comics... when Marzi opened a hidden door... she saw the face of something unknown... and dangerous... it's up to Marzi to stop this supervillainous superforce... the showdown of her life. For Rangergirl, it's just another day... " |
| Douglas Preston (Also as Lincoln Preston with Lincoln Child) | Still Life With Crows | Warner 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges browned and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a few slivers of lacquer missing from the front panel (?sticker removal). | £5.00 | "... a ghastly murder has taken place. The unknown victim has been placed in a small clearing in a sea of corn, mutilated and arranged... neighbours begin to disappear... No one is safe... the local curse and the truth of Medicine Creek's greatest enigma, the Ghost Warrior Massacre... " |
| Douglas Preston (Also as Lincoln Preston with Lincoln Child) | The Book of the Dead | Warner 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little marked and browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit... His brilliant psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime... A young woman with an extraordinary past, on the edge of a violent breakdown... an ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse about to be unveiled... " |
| Douglas Preston (Also as Lincoln Preston with Lincoln Child) | The Wheel of Darkness | Warner 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "A luxury ocean liner on its maiden voyage... An ancient Tibetan box, its contents unknown, sealed with a terrifying warning... When the Agozyen walks the Western Sea, And darkness upon darkness wheels, The waters shall rise up in fury... " |
| Christopher Priest (Also as John Luther Novak, Petra Christian & Colin Wedgelock) | The Dream Archipelago | Earthlight 1999 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the title page | £15.00 | "... In this interlinked collection of stories, Christopher Priest explores war, relationships and forms of reality... The tale becomes a tapestry in a manner reminiscent of... Pavane, weaving reality together in ways which are never obvious... " |
| Christopher Priest (Also as John Luther Novak & Colin Wedgelock) | The Glamour | Cape 1984 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a few superficial scratches to the back panel. | £7.50 | "...Anyone who reads The Glamour will recognise that its haunting secrets must gradually unfold in their own tantalising sequence and to pre-empt them would be to break the spell that Christopher Priest has so chillingly cast." |
| Christopher Priest (Also as John Luther Novak & Colin Wedgelock) | The Prestige | Touchstone 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £100.00 | "... a masterpiece of magic and illusion, of scientific exactitude coming up against the tricks and mysteries of nature... his most accomplished and compelling novel to date." With Publisher's Press Release and Independent review of C. P. (and the book) - Very Scarce |
| Christopher Priest | The Quiet Woman | Bloomsbury 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | Clute - "...marks a decided return to the external world. Set in the near future, with radioactive contamination impinging upon southern counties, the tale is a scathing vision of an England rapidly becoming a dystopia." |
| Christopher Priest | The Separation | Scribners 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Spine creased in three places. corners slightly bruised and rubbed - Very Good to Near Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "... Jack and Joe Sawyer rowed for Great Britain in the 1936 Berlin Olympics... Jack joins the RAF. His war is savage, spreading firestorms across Germany... Joe... declares himself a pacifist... As their stories play out, possibilities, parallels and confusion surround them... each... an ordinary man party to momentous events." Withdrawn by the Publisher - very scarce. |
| Christopher Priest | The Separation | Gollancz 2003 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and a few page edges slightly bumped else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "In 1936 twin brothers return to Britain from the Berlin Olympic Games with bronze medals and a young Jewish woman, a refugee from the Nazis, concealed in their van... the brothers' bond is broken apart by their rivalry for the girl... a dividing of the ways, becomes a real possibility... " |
| Philip Pullman | The Tiger in the Well | Viking 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £60.00 | "Sally Lockhart had been thinking how good life was when the summons was served... sued for divorce by an unknown man... forging marriage and birth certificates. At stake: all Sally's possessions and custody of her beloved Harriet... " The most thought-provoking of the Sally Lockhart mysteries. |
| Richard L. Purtill | Murdercon | Doubleday 1982 First Edition First Printing (Code M17 on P. 180) | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges slightly browned/marked and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small (5mm) tear at the base of the rear panel | £7.50 | "For some science fiction is a game, for others it becomes an obsession, but when 'death rays' kill, it becomes deadly. And fascinating... The plot unfolds through the eyes of Athena Pierce, a relatively sane philosophy professor thrown in with a bunch of science fiction fans, who finds herself caught up in thus mystery about a legendary writer... " |
| Roberto Quaglia | Somebody Up There is Lusting For Me A science fiction play for three human actors | Quaglia 1993 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Cover slightly marked and creased - Very Good to Near Fine copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £4.00 | 32 page play for Man, He-Alien, She-Alien and Son |
| Ellery Queen | A Room To Die In | Kinnell 1987 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Page edges a little browned and top page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... the heiress who didn't want to be foxed out of her first editions... a hypochondriac beset by her pills... A passed master of chess... A stud-driven contractor... The light-fingered but heavy-handed bibliophile... " Murder mystery written by Vance and originally published in paperback in 1965 |
| Ellery Queen | The Madman Theory | Kinnell 1988 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing (First State Dust Jacket with 'The Mad Man Theory') | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Five friends and colleagues off for a hiking holiday in the redwood forests. Suddenly a shotgun blast blows one of them away. No-one else knew they were coming - surely only a madman could have dealt so cruelly with people he didn't even know... " Murder mystery written by Vance and originally published in paperback in 1966 |
| Robert Rankin | Knees Up Mother Earth | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotion Sheet | £7.50 | "... There's big trouble in little Brentford. Property developers are planning to destroy Griffin Park, the borough's beloved football ground... Horror! Shock! Outrage! Something must be done... Magic, time travel and football: not exactly your everyday combination... " |
| Robert Rankin | Snuff Fiction | Doubleday 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a small wear spot at the lower tip of the rear fold. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "Society's plug is about to be pulled, big time. At the stroke of midnight on 31 December 1999, computer systems all over the world will crash and plunge us into chaos... forget about impending doom and enter the glamorous world of snuff-snorting. Oh, and don’t forget to bring a hankie... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Book Of Ultimate Truths | Doubleday 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower board edges and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "He had walked the Earth as Nostradamus, Uther Pendragon, Count Caligliostro and Rodrigo Borgia. He could open a tin of sardines with his teeth, strike a Swan Vesta on his chin, rope steers, drive a steam locomotive and hum all the works of Gilbert and Sullivan without becoming confused or breaking down in tears... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Brightonomicon | Gollancz 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "When our teenage hero takes his beloved one, Enid Earles, away for a dirty weekend in Brighton, things do not go as he might have wished. Instead of a night of passion... He narrowly escapes... drowning... brought ashore by the Perfect Master, Cosmic Dick and self-styled Logos of the Aeon... Hugo Rune.. " |
| Robert Rankin | The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code | Gollancz 2007 First Edition Second Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Jonny Hooker is a tormented man, but his former problems pale into insignificance when he received a Very Special Letter telling him his name has been selected... to be a WINNER... But to claim his prize, he has to solve the Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Fandom Of The Operator | Doubleday 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "Gary Cheese is twenty-two years of age. His hobbies include music, girls, TV and the detective novels of the twentieth century's bestselling novelist, the now legendary P. P. Penrose. And attempting to reanimate the dead... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse | Gollancz 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at top of front fold. | £5.00 | "... there is a serial killer loose upon the streets of Toy City. One by one the old rich nursery rhyme characters, who made their millions from the royalties on their best-selling rhymes, are being brutally slaughtered... The Toy Cuty police are getting nowhere; and Billie Winkie, Private Eye, has also mysteriously vanished, leaving only his sidekick, Eddie Bear... " |
| Robert Rankin | The Toyminator | Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town... There have been outbreaks of STC - Spontaneous Toy Combustion... strange signs and portents... With the body count rising... it is time for a hero... Eddie Bear... and his loyal sidekick, Jack." Sequel to Hollow Chocolate Bunnies... |
| Robert Rankin | Waiting For Godalming | Doubleday 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... God is dead. He died in mysterious circumstances while on a fishing trip to Norfolk, leaving a wife, three children and a great deal of valuable property... he left his beloved planet Earth to his youngest son, Colin. Which seems mightily suspicious as the meek were expecting to inherit it. Colin is all for flogging it off to the highest bidder... " |
| Robert Rankin | Web Site Story | Doubleday 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... The Millennium Bug... a computer virus and it's about to make the deadly species crosssover from machine to mankind... The Black Death was spread by rats... this plague will be spread by a mouse... " |
| John Rankine (Douglas R. Mason) | Ring Of Garamas | Dobson 1971 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, page edges foxed and slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "They were tall, hitting the two metre mark, narrow and high-shouldered with long arms and legs. Heads balanced symmetrically on short necks, were almost perfect spheres....'' We follow Dag Fletcher again into his harrowing adventures in space, struggling with the war-like, dominant People of Garamas and coming out on top as usual." |
| John Rankine (Douglas R. Mason) | The Weisman Experiment | Dobson 1969 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, boards slightly faded and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly browned and rubbed Dust Jacket with a short tear (3mm) and a little wear at the top edge of the rear panel adjacent to the spine. | £5.00 | "... As a Professional Grade 4 citizen he was not expected to question but to carry out his duties... a scheme which allowed no freedom to individuals... Once convinced of the importance of the Weisman Experiment, all Kanes had to do was discover what it was - no easy task... " |
| Julian Rathbone | Trajectories | Gollancz 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... contrasts the idyll that was the origin of our species with its final decades in a polluted, doomed environment, and the pampered, secure life of the haves with the squalor and civil strife of the majority... " |
| Melanie Rawn | The Mageborn Traitor Exiles : Book Two | Macmillan 1997 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and two corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "The second volume in her enthralling fantasy epic about three magically gifted sisters and their desperate contest for control of their world..." |
| Melanie Rawn | The Star Scroll Dragon Prince: Book 2 | Pan 1990 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Spine lightly creased/cracked and a few page corners lightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £20.00 | "... Rohan, the High Prince, and his Princess Sioned the Sunrunner had vowed to protect the ways and secrets of the dragons from the dark lords that haunted their borders. But the twisted legacy of the former High Prince is abroad in the land, casting its shadow even from beyond the grave... " Very Scarce |
| Robert Reed | The Hormone Jungle | Donald Fine 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and browned Dust Jacket with the lamination at the top edge of the front panel slightly chipped. | £7.50 | "... as story of hunters and hunted, of bizarre life-forms fighting on an overcrowded Earth two thousand years hence... Steward, a warrior and troubleshooter-for-hire... becomes the inadvertent protector of an android Flower - a being created to give sexual pleasure... Flower is considerably more than meets the eye... " |
| Robert Reed | The Well Of Stars | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and upper corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The Great Ship, so vast that contained within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years... is heading on an irreversible course straight for the Ink Well, a dark, opaque nebula... " Sequel to Marrow |
| Judith Reeves-Stevens | Icefire | Pocket 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Antarctica. the Ross Ice Shelf... the size of France, more than 3,000 feet thick... six precisely placed nuclear warheads... detonate in sequence... then a seventh warhead explodes... generating an electromagnetic pulse... an initial wall of water 1,400 feet high... " |
| Judith Reeves-Stevens | Quicksilver | Pocket 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine and page edges browned and a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold | £4.00 | "... six years from now... In a breathtakingly precise, split-second operation using the latest military technology, a team of ruthless commandos takes over America's ultimate military command post - from the inside... their hostages include the top military officials of twenty European nations... the Vice President, the First Lady and the Joint Chiefs of Staff... " |
| Mickey Zucker Reichert | Beyond Ragnarok | DAW 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and cloth faded at base of spine, page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in internally creased Dust Jacket with a little internal damp staining at base of spine. | £5.00 | "... what hope was there for mere humans when Odin... was himself doomed to die in the upcoming battle? Yet Odin had long planned to cheat his fate. His chosen weapon to slay his nemesis, Fenris Wolf, was the demigod Colbey Calistinnson, the son of Thor and the last true survivor of the warrior race known as the Renshai... " |
| Mickey Zucker Reichert | The Last of the Renshai | Millennium 1993 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Down through the centuries... four masters of magic have struggled to maintain the delicate balance of power in the troubled Northlands. But now the mortal world teeters on the brink of the long foretold Great War... When their enemies band together in a surprise attack... one Renshai will escape the genocide... a lone warrior... and a master of destruction... " |
| John Remenham (John A. Vlasto) | The Peacemaker | Macdonald 1947 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges foxed and marked - around Very Good copy in grimy and slightly torn Dust Jacket, frayed and slightly chipped at top and base of spine. | £7.50 | "When Myron P. Lord, American armament manufacturer, had achieved... one thousand million dollars he felt he had fulfilled all ambition. But Charlotte... pleaded with him... to devote his energies and wealth to a new cause: the creation of universal peace... fantasy of the future... " Listed in Bleiler's Checklist of Fantastic Literature. |
| Alastair Reynolds | Absolution Gap | Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Humanity has endured centuries of horrific plague and a particularly brutal interstellar war: you might think it's time for a few decades of peace and quiet. No such luck... " Sequel to Revelation Space and Redemption Ark. |
| Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few small, faint orange specks on top page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £50.00 | "... Nine hundred thousand years ago something wiped out the alien Amarantin. Maybe it was pure bad luck that their star chose to flare just when they were on the verge of discovering space flight... For brilliant but ruthless scientist Dan Sylvestre it's more than just intellectual curiosity... " |
| Alastair Reynolds | Revelation Space | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Sligghtly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £30.00 | "... Nine hundred thousand years ago something wiped out the alien Amarantin. Maybe it was pure bad luck that their star chose to flare just when they were on the verge of discovering space flight... For brilliant but ruthless scientist Dan Sylvestre it's more than just intellectual curiosity... " |
| Mack Reynolds | Compounded Interests | NESFA 1983 First Edition First Printing (No 930/1000) | Bruised and slightly worn at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Introduction; Idealist; Give the Devil His Due; Psi Assassin; Last Warning; Depression or Bust; Completed Angler; Pacifist; The Adventure of the Snitch in Time; Doctor's Orders; Good Indian; Compounded Interest and Three Unanswerable Questions |
| Mack Reynolds | Mission To Horatius | Pocket Books 1999 - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, one top page edge slightly creased and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued - with slightly rubbed, special promotional wraparound band | £5.00 | "... Of the strange things man finds in space, however, one of the strangest is man himself when he must adapt to new environments. Whole sets of new problems arose. Among these was the need for man to discipline himself in the protection of other life forms, and other cultures, other civilisations foreign to his way of life on Earth... " |
| Jenna Rhodes | The Four Forges The Elven Ways: Book One | DAW 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Kerith, a world... bereft of magic after the devastating Magi wars which killed off the Magi, leaving behind their Galdarkan minions, the fighters they had created...the Vaelinars had mysteriously appeared from nowhere... no memory of how they had come... carrying forward an enmity they scarcely understood... a different sort of elemental magic... |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Blackwood Farm The Vampire Chronicles | Chatto & Windus 2002 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Blood And Gold The Vampire Marius | Chatto & Windus 2001 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... one of the oldest vampires of them all... Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires... haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca... the self-styled guardian of 'those who must be kept'... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Christ the Lord The Road to Cana | Chatto & Windus 2008 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Whispers of a virgin birth have long surrounded Jesus. His brother, his mother, his friends, wait for some sign of the path he will take... Both divine and human, he struggles with the demands of his family, the human need for love, and his overwhelming sense of destiny... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Merrick | Chatto & Windus 2000 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the folds. | £5.00 | "... Lestat lives again but in a twilight world of music and memory... Louis de Pointe du Lac... takes centre stage , tortured by the memory of the child vampire Claudia, whom he loved and lost... Merrick must use her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | Pandora New Tales of the Vampires | Chatto & Windus 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "David Talbot, vampire survivor of Memnoch the Devil, calls forth Pandora in modern-day Paris to tell her own story. Two thousand years old, she was a mortal girl in ancient Rome at the time of Caesar Augustus... As a follower of the secret blood-tainted cult of Isis, Pandora had to flee to Antioch... " |
| Anne Rice | Servant Of The Bones | Chatto & Windus 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | ""... Azriel is a rebel ghost who holds in his memories the long and troubled history of Western civilisation. Born almost 2500 years ago... Azriel is forced to take the role of a god for three days, paying for his people's freedom with an eternity of half-death, half-life... his restless spirit can be called forth by whoever holds the casket of golden bones... " |
| Anne Rice | The Mummy or Ramses the Damned | Chatto & Windus 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | A couple of light cover/spine creases, page edges slightly grubby - Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy (bound with the title page upside-down!) | £40.00 | "... Ramses the Great reawakens in the drawing rooms of Edwardian London and becomes infatuated with adventurous and beautiful Julie Stratford... Though Ramses is immortal, he is all too human... " |
| Anne Rice (Also as Anne Rampling & A. N. Roquelaure) | The Vampire Armand The Vampire Chronicles | Chatto & Windus 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in lslightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel... " |
| Anne Rice | Violin | Chatto & Windus 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and lower front corner and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In this powerful confessional novel... another ghost... the mesmeric and dangerous Stefan - part incubus, part inspiration... nineteenth-century violinist appears on the street corner in twentieth century New Orleans, to haunt Triana... Stefan takes Triana back to Vienna in the early 1800s where Beethoven was his teacher... " |
| Anne Rice | Vittorio, The Vampire New Tales of the Vampires | Knopf 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and remainder dot on bottom page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... the mesmerising story of a Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold... Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies... he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue... " |
| Robert Richardson | The Book of the Dead | St. Martin's Press 1989 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... he is especially intrigued by wealthy bibliophile Carrington's tale of a literary treasure - the last unpublished Sherlock Holmes story - passed down through the family... Carrington's murderer steals the precious Holmes story from the safe... But eventually, Gus must turn to the master Holmes... to untangle... this very modern murder case." |
| Phil Rickman (Also as Will Kingdom) | A Crown of Lights | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and top page edges a little rubbed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "The position of exorcist needs to be kept a low-profile role, especially for a woman... the acting Bishop of Hereford insists on her appearing in a late-night TV debate with a group of militant pagans... The scene is all set for a modern witchhunt... a place of ancient mystery... an unexpected psychotic killer... " |
| Phil Rickman (Also as Will Kingdom) | Crybbe | Macmillan 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £25.00 | "... a sombre little town in the haunted hills of the Welsh Border Country. Sunless, secretive and going quietly to seed in the shadows of its gruesome past... until Max Goff, music tycoon... and his modern mystics believe that they can tap into Crybbe's hidden powers... the power it releases in ever darkening shades of evil... " |
| Phil Rickman (Also as Will Kingdom) | The Chalice | Macmillan 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Glastonbury... considered by many to be 'the holiest earth in England... But... the mystical atmosphere of the place becomes soured by bitterness, violence and death... with earthly issues splitting the town and the supernatural beginning to seep into the cracks, someone must face up to the worst of all possibilities... the existence of an anti-Grail - the Dark Chalice." |
| Phil Rickman (Also as Will Kingdom) | The Remains of an Altar | Quercus 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum... heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents... an obsession... around Elgar and The Dream of Gerontius... a place at the centre of an ancient mystery... " |
| John Ringo | Against the Tide | Baen 2005 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | ""... The battle of dragon carrier on dragon carrier is about to start, with the fleets pursuing each other over half the Atlantis ocean in a game of cat-and-mouse. But all the cats are on the side of the UFS. " Follows There Will Be Dragons & Emerald Sea |
| John Ringo | Cally's War | Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top front cornerand top page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "She wanted to quit being her world's best assassin - but the only way to quit was to die!... " Set in the Posleen Universe |
| John Ringo | East of the Sun, West of the Moon | Baen 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... survival for the cause of freedom depends on whether two assassins, one soldier's soldier and an octogenarian physicist can defeat... orcs in space!" |
| John Ringo | Emerald Sea | Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Duke Edmund Talbot has been assigned a simple mission: Go to the Southern Isles and make contact with the scattered mer-folk... convince them to side with the Freedom Coalition... against the fascist dictators of New Destiny... " Sequel to There Will Be Dragons |
| John Ringo | Hell's Faire | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Free CD | £5.00 | "With the defences of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior... are the veterans of the 555th Mobile Infantry... " Fourth in the Posleen Saga |
| John Ringo | Into The Looking Glass | Baen 2005 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 | "... terrorists don't generally leave doorways to another world in their wake... the nearest physicist with a high level security clearance... William Weaver, PhD... fast enough and tough enough to survive when the alien gates start disgorging 'demons'... the gates spread and the evil aliens with them... " |
| John Ringo | Princess of Wands | Baen 2006 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 | "Barbara Everette... had the perfect life. Perfect husband, perfect children, perfect house... the day came when Barbara snapped. She simply had to have 'one weekend off'... Detective Sergeant Kelly Lockheart... had a perfect record on his latest case: not a single suspect... the mystery of the Bayou Ripper had Special Circumstances." |
| John Ringo | The Hero | Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket rubbed at the base of the spine | £5.00 | "A deranged human who lives to deal death vs. an alien who cannot bear to kill, with the Galaxy's future in the balance... " Set in the Posleen Universe. |
| John Ringo | The Road To Damascus | Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing | Front board slightly rubbed, a couple of tiny marks on the front free end paper and lower page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "... In the final mission that would crush the resistance and end for all time the brutal civil war, SOL finds himself in a moral dilemma, facing a small boy who refuses to stand aside... when mission and morals collide, whether, in fact, bolos have a soul... " From a story fragment by Keith Laumer. |
| John Ringo | There Will Be Dragons | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Free CD | £5.00 | "In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill timed-death... And then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net goes to war. With itself... 'Reenactors' create fantasies of a time when... and the time turns out to be now... " |
| John Ringo | Von Neumann's War | Baen 2006 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. | £5.00 | "... Mars is changing. Seemingly overnight the once 'Red' planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural... it's apparent that Mars if being used as a staging ground. The only viable target... is Earth... " |
| John Ringo | When The Devil Dances | Baen 2002 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top edge of front board and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold | £5.00 | "After five years of battling the Posleen invaders, human civilisation is down to this... " Third in the Posleen Saga |
| Jennifer Roberson | Sword-Born A Novel of Tiger and Del | Daw 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small amount of white material trapped under the lamination on the rear panel. | £5.00 | "... Left as an infant to die in the desert, and enslaved by the Southron tribe who found him, he had won his freedom and his name by slaying a deadly sandtiger... Born in the frozen North, she had seen her family brutally murdered... she had studied with the greatest of Northern sword-masters and had become the most deadly sword-singer in the North... " |
| A R R R Roberts (Adam Roberts) | Doctor Whom or ET Shoots and Leaves The Zero Tolerance Approach to Parodication | Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £4.00 | "Join Dr Whom, his reliably pedantic assistant Linnaeus Trout... and Prose Tailor. Don't worry, not even he knows why he's (possessive apostrophe or the other sort? Uhhh) in the story. Oh (Should there be a comma there do you think? Or perhaps an exclamation mark) that's right he's the narrator... " |
| A. R. R. R. Roberts (Adam Roberts) | The Sellamillion | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £4.00 | "... Here at last are all the grand legends and myths of Lower Middle Earth that A. R. R. R. Roberts lovingly compiled after we rang him up last Thursday with the promise of another contract. Also included are numerous early drafts... correspondence with his publisher. And, err, some poems... " |
| A. R. R. R. Roberts | The Soddit or, Let's Cash In Again or, There, and Back Again, dammit, where did I put it, where is it, I don't believe it, I must have left it There, over Again to There, oh for heaven's sake, it's not here either, Back Yet Again, fuming, oh there it is, | Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in a slightly rubbed Dust Jacket Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £4.00 | "Following on (inevitably, some might say) from the frankly unlikely success of BORED OF THE RINGS comes a new book from an entirely different author that parodys Tolkien's other (and undoubtedly shorter) masterpiece. Illustrated throughout in glorious monocolour... " |
| Adam Roberts | On | Gollancz 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page & With Publisher's advertising sheets | £7.50 | "Tighe lives on the wall. It towers above his village and falls away below it. It is vast and unforgiving and it is everything they know. Life is hard on the wall, little more than a clinging on for dear life. And then one day Tighe falls off the world... " |
| Adam Roberts (Also as A. R. R. R. Roberts, A R R R Roberts, A3R Roberts and Robertski Brothers) | Salt | Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "Told by two people, Petj and Barlei, SALT is the story of a planetary colonisation that slips into a tragedy of Biblical proportions. The two communities who went to Salt were united by the dream of a new beginning and, isolated in a landscape of cruel majesty, torn apart by ancient enmities... " |
| Adam Roberts | Swiftly A Novel | Gollancz 2008 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... a tale of illicit love, betrayal, war and plague set in a world where Gulliver's account of his fantastic voyage was all too true... a novel of immense ambition; at once an awe-inspiring account of a universe of infinite variety and a celebration of intimacy." |
| Keith Roberts | Grainne | Kerosina 1987 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author No 14/250 | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket and Box | £20.00 | Together with a poetry collection - A Heron Caught In Weeds. "... Through Bevan's vivid memories we meet Grainne; blue stocking, seductress, darling of the media. Painfully human yet as mysterious as her great namesake, the girl-goddess doomed by her own proud nature... human and divine, a proto-myth for the coming millennium." |
| Keith Roberts | Grainne | Kerosina 1987 First Edition First Printing | Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £35.00 | Spiral bound photocopy of manuscript. Only 6 copies were produced (I think). |
| Keith Roberts | Kaeti & Company | Kerosina 1986 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No 14/200) | Page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With additional numbered booklet "Kaeti's Apocalypse" (one extra story) included. | £25.00 | "... Kaeti and her companions inhabit a strange world; a 'theatre of the mind' where the unexpected is commonplace, where ghosts, vampires and even the odd goddess may be encountered... " Ten Stories, plus Kaeti's Apocalypse. |
| Keith Roberts | Kaeti & Company | Kerosina 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by Four of the Kerosina Collective | £7.50 | "... Kaeti and her companions inhabit a strange world; a 'theatre of the mind' where the unexpected is commonplace, where ghosts, vampires and even the odd goddess may be encountered... " Ten Stories. |
| Keith Roberts | Kaeti On Tour | Sirius 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Kaeti branches out, moves further from her beloved London. In the process she makes a whole range of new, intriguing friends; and lands herself in some scrapes startling even by her standards. The shadows she sprays on the pavements... come alive to haunt her; later, the magic Tiger Sweater... does more than haunt the subjects of her wrath... " |
| Keith Roberts | Kiteworld | Gollancz 1985 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | Clute - "Kiteworld... invokes the atmosphere of earlier work in its depiction of a Britain dominated by religious fanatics, and its constrictive rendering of the life of the crews who man giant kites to guard the frontiers against demons." |
| Keith Roberts | Molly Zero | Gollancz 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "In an England two hundred years hence all children are brought up in single sex creches; the 'Blocks'. Molly Zero, young and intelligent, resilient and loving, is a product of the 'Blocks' and is destined for the Elite - the governing body of a country now crippled by martial law. She rebels and escapes... gradually awakening to the realities of responsibility and the price of caring... " |
| Keith Roberts | The Boat of Fate | Hutchinson 1971 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and previous owner's name and date on half-title else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £45.00 | "This superb historical novel... recreates... the whole experience of the Roman Empire in its death-throes. Written with wit, imagination, pace and great descriptive talent, it recalls for the modern reader an age of violence and disintegration... " |
| Keith Roberts | The Boat of Fate an historical novel | Prentice-Hall 1974 First Edition in the US First Printing | Covers creased and marked, corners rubbed, page edges browned, marked and a little water-marked - Good? Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "The Roman Empire in its death-throes provides the background for this superb historical novel that recreates the experience of one man trying to cope with his changing world... " Early Proofs are very scarce. |
| Keith Roberts | The Lordly Ones | Gollancz 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... The title story is a vision of near-future Britain collapsing in social disorder told from the viewpoint of a slow-witted lavatory attendant... a remarkable and poignant tour de force... 'The comfort station' approaches a similar situation from a quite different perspective... in other stories we see Roberts in a more light-hearted vein... " |
| Michele Roberts | The Wild Girl | Methuen 1984 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "'... here begins the book of the testimony of Mary Magdalene. She who writes it does so at the command of the Saviour himself and of Mary his blessed mother... a fifth gospel... a book of revelations... a Jesus open to sexuality, a Christianity that embraces the female equally with the male... " Scarce |
| R. Garcia Y Robertson | Lady Robyn | Forge 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Robyn's fantasy of courtly romance comes up against the brute reality of medieval politics... murder, warfare, and betrayal... an engrossing time-travel romance... " Follows Knight Errant. |
| Madeleine E. Robins | The Stone War | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... confused reports come from New York. Millions of refugees are streaming out, each bearing contradictory tales of fire, earthquake, explosions, collapse... the full nature of the catastrophe is still unclear, for its roots lie in mystery, in wounds to a human heart... " |
| Frank M. Robinson | Waiting | Forge 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "There are people living among us who look just like normal human beings. They've been here for a long time - waiting. But they aren’t exactly like us at all. There are subtle psychological differences that might be found... and that is something they really want to avoid. They'll kill to prevent it... " |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Escape From Kathmandu | Unwin Hyman 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Top of spine and top front corner bruised, two page corners firmly creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "...things started getting crazy when they met a real, live yeti, the US Secret Service, ex-president Jimmy Carter and a bunch of loony scientists in the Hotel Star in Kathmandu... a wonderfully entertaining read." |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Green Mars | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "Mans dream of a new world is underway, but corrupted. Red Mars is gone, ripped apart by the violent and failed revolution of 2061. The First Hundred have scattered or died, and for the moment their dreams have died with them. The rebels are underground, planning their utopia, waiting... " |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £150.00 | "... In 2019 the first man set foot on the surface of Mars: John Boone, American hero. In 2027 the first hundred - Earth's finest engineers and scientists made the first mass-landing. Their mission? To create a New World. To terraform the planet, turning it from a wasteland into an Eden populated by people, plants and animals..." |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | Sixty Days and Counting | HarperCollins 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small fingernail puncture in the gutter of the front panel. | £7.50 | "... the world's climate is well on the way to irrevocable change... As ecological disaster overwhelms China and carbon figures are close to cooking the rest of the world, the battle of science versus capitalism erupts... " |
| Spider Robinson | Callahan's Lady | Ace 1989 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... Welcome to Lady Sally's: a house of incredible repute whose dedicated staff of erotic artists bring all sorts of fantasies to life. Come and mingle in the Parlour with the Lady's select clientele - including priests, cabbies, KGB agents, and even a purebred werebeagle. Then shed your inhibitions (among other things) for a visit to the Bower... " |
| Spider Robinson | Very Bad Deaths | Baen 2004 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Smelly - notorious for his refusal to bathe - was Russell's college roommate back in 1967. He's lived a hermit's life ever since, and only Russell knows why: Smelly reads minds, can't help it - and it hurts... soon the mild-mannered Sixties survivor finds himself conspiring with a telepathic hermit and an uptight cop to track a monster to his lair... " |
| Justina Robson | Selling Out Quantum Gravity: Book 2 | Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing | Small bump and crease by lower rear corner else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £5.00 | "Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals... and their worlds are open to us. Special Agent Lila Black has been different too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, re-built by humans into a half-robot... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan (Also as Michael Scot, with Allan Scott) | The Gates Of Noon | Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Shadows from the past, from the present - and from somewhere that is neither, where myths and archetypes stalk the world. Entangled by old loves and ancient hatreds, with witches and warlocks to help him and the original Bogyman on his trail, Steve must fight to reconcile past and present... " |
| Michael Scott Rohan (Also as Michael Scot, with Allan Scott) | The Lord Of The Middle Air | Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Young Walter Scot is hot on the heels of cattle raiders in the service of the dark Lord of Soulis when he encounters his kinsman Michael Scot - and his life is changed forever. Even in the turbulent Borderlands of thirteenth-century Scotland Michael had a fearsome reputation as a magician and master of forbidden arts, trafficking with the demons of the middle air... " |
| Mordecai Roshwald | Level 7 | Heinemann 1959 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges marked and foxed - Good to Very Good copy in slightly worn, creased and marked Dust Jacket with a small tear at the top edge of the front flap which appears to have been trimmed. | £10.00 | "Over four thousand feet below ground lies Level 7. Self-sufficient, secure against attack. this deep shelter houses PBX Command, the offensive branch of the country's military power; it is the world in which X-127, a pushbutton officer may have to spend the rest of his life... " One of the classics of Cold War Science Fiction - powerful! |
| Bill Rotsler | The Hidden Worlds Of Zandra | Doubleday 1983 First Edition First Printing (Code N23 on P. 180) | Bruised at top and base of the spine, page edges slightly browned/foxed and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in like, slightly worn. Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Having passed through a time and space warp... fellow passengers on a jetliner... find themselves on Zandra. Peopled by a variety of races, some humanoid and others reptilian... With Princess Falana... the Earth people... become the targets of both a court conspiracy to usurp the Emperor's power and... rebellious subjects... " |
| Rudy Rucker | Saucer Wisdom | Earthlight 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Paper) | Lower corners slightly bumped and slightly creased else Fine Copy | £5.00 | "Rudy Rucker... met 'Frank Shook' at a lecture; Shook talked to him about aliens and 'three-dimensional time'. Was he a madman or had he really been serially abducted and shown the future?... True, false or a creation of Rudy Rucker's mind? All are possibilities in this fascinating book... " |
| Brian Ruckley | Winterbirth The Godless World Book One | Orbit 2007 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, with a small crease in the top edge of the front flap. | £10.00 | ''An uneasy truce exists between the thanes of the True Bloods. Now, as another winter approaches, the armies of the Black Road march south, from their exile beyond the Vale of Stones. For some, war will bring a swift and violent death.... But all, soon, will fall under the shadow that is descending... Porcupine Books |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | The White Mists Of Power | Millennium 1992 First UK & Trade Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corners folded else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel slightly faded | £7.50 | "An innocent excited boy, a prince and heir, takes his first journey to the city. it is nothing like he imagined. Hands pound against his carriage... The streets teem with merchants... magicians, half-mad preachers... But it is the last journey of his life as a prince. soon he will be abandoned and declared dead... " |
| Kristine Kathryn Rusch | Traitors | Millennium 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and letter 'D' stamped across bottom page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with one small tear. | £5.00 | "Two people love Emilio Diate - the Golgoth, the king who raised the refugee boy as his own; and Sheba, second to the throne of the Golgoth's deadly enemy, the Kingdom. Both believe he will betray the other side... " |
| Salman Rushdie | Grimus | Gollancz 1975 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, top page edges poorly guillotined and uncut pages separated without excessive care and with a little foxing else Fine Copy in slightly edge-worn Dust Jacket with purple spine background very slightly faded (as usual). | £100.00 | "... Here you will meet the decrepit, yet somehow majestic, figure of Virgil Jones and his eerily tragic companion Dolores O'Toole; you will be led through the startling forests of Dimension-fever; you will arrive at the town of K. where the blinkered and bizarre citizens successfully blind themselves to unacceptable truths... " His first novel - scarce. |
| Joanna Russ | The Hidden Side Of The Moon | St. Martin's Press 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and small biro mark on front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn and torn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... one of the leading literary craftspeople of our day, a dazzling fabulist and masterful short story writer... science fiction that's more than science fiction, feminist literature that's more than feminist literature... a feast for the imagination and exuberant refreshment for the spirit..." |
| Jay Russell | Celestial Dogs | Raven/Robinson 1996 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Edges slightly bumped/rubbed, else Fine Copy | £4.00 | "... In darkness it sleeps. An evil as pure and ancient as the first sin. Waiting for its moment to rise again. Now darkness has come to sunny Los Angeles... waiting at the end of the trail are demons. Relentless and hungry for human flesh... two supernatural forces will battle for the soul of humanity... " |
| Jay Russell | Celestial Dogs | Raven/Robinson 1996 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Covers slightly bumped, else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £7.50 | "The search for a missing Hollywood hooker draws Marty to the streets of L.A. where he encounters demons relentless and hungry for human flesh.!" |
| Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow & Children Of God | Villard 1996/8 All Are First Edition First Printing (Note: Villard First Printings have number line ending in 2) | Bruised at top and/or base of spine else Fine copies in slightly rubbed First State Dust Jackets Volume 1 with Publisher's Review Sheet; Volume 2 Signed and Inscribed by the Author | £30.00 | "... the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a twenty-first-century scientific mission to a newly discovered extra-terrestrial culture... nothing can prepare them for the civilisation they encounter or for the tragic misunderstanding that brings the mission to a catastrophic end... " With all First State condition points |
| Sean Russell | The Compass of the Soul Book Two of the River into Darkness | DAW 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower rear corner and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a wondrous journey to a world where magic is vanishing as the era of reason and science dawns... two factions vie for control of the magical arts-shrouded and secret, et powerful beyond imagining. Lord Eldrich is last mage... " |
| Sean Russell | The Shadow Road Book Three of the Swans' War. | Orbit 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine copy in a fine dust jacket | £5.00 | "After the King of Ayr died without naming a successor, a century of enmity destroyed the one kingdom... now the decades of hatred have woken the unquiet river spirits from their timeless sleep, and revived a feud more deadly than any conflict of man... " |
| Alan Ryan | Quadriphobia | Doubleday 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | Kiss the Vampire Goodbye; The Man Who Killed Forever; Candlewyck and The Queen of Kilimanjaro. |
| Geoff Ryman | 253 the print re-mix | Flamingo 1998 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top and base of spine, top rear corner lightly creased and upper edge of front panel slightly rubbed else Fine copy | £3.00 | "Everyone you've ever met is in this book. A tube train, optimally full, carries 252 passengers. The driver makes 253. Each has their own personal history, and interaction: imaginative or real, with their fellow travellers. And each has a single page, comprising 253 words, devoted to them... " |
| Geoff Ryman | Air (or Have Not Have) | Gollancz 2005 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing & Thus | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower rear corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Mae lives in the last village in the world to go online, but now there's something new, something that needs neither power lines not computers... now there is AIR... a new communications technology which brings the benefits of the internet to everyone... whether they want it of not... " Scarce. |
| Geoff Ryman | The Child Garden or A Low Comedy | Unwin Hyman 1989 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and corners, and mark to front board else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Clute "...a long rich novel about identity and the making of great art. Set in a transfigured UK - in effect an alternate world - the book stands as one of the sturdiest monuments of 'Humanist' sf..." |
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