| Linda Nagata |
Limit of Vision |
Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and literary agency stamp on prelim page 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 |
| Grant Naylor (Rob Grant & Doug Naylor) |
Last Human |
Viking 1995 |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in unpriced Dust Jacket. |
£3.00 |
"Lister gazed out of the porthole and his facial muscles accessed the programme: 'No One At Home'. He began to catalogue the series of disasters that had lead him to this point in Space and Time... the bad decisions, the poor career choices, the unreliable friendships that had lead him here - to a prison ship bound for the most inhospitable penal colony... |
| 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 |
Bad Dreams |
Simon & Schuster 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small (1mm) tear near the base of the front fold, with a little wear and associated creasing. Signed and dated by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"...Anne meets the Monster, an immortal life-taker who lives at the centre of his own twisted and ever-changing dream... sucked through a corpse-haunted wardrobe into a nightmare that fuses the worst of London's nightlife, the Monsters immortal memories..." |
| Kim Newman |
Judgement Of Tears Anno Dracula 1959 |
Carroll & Graf 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£15.00 |
"... Jet setters, intellectuals, artists, film stars, socialites, vampires - everyone who was anyone among the living and the undead was making the scene in the Eternal City that year. Celebrities rollicked; warm blood flowed... the upcoming social event of at least several centuries: the October wedding of Vlad, Count Dracula... " |
| Kim Newman (Also as Jack Yeovil) |
Life's Lottery A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Book |
Simon & Schuster 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... an entirely new kind of novel, an interactive fiction which invites the reader to become the central character... and make choices with him, from childhood, through adolescence to maturity and beyond. You may choose your friends, education, partners, job, habits, obsessions, family, future, life... " |
| 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 |
Building Harlequin's Moon |
Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a solar system populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids... extremely low on the antimatter needed... they must shape the nearby planet Harlequin's moon, Selene, into a new, temporary home... " |
| 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 |
Inferno |
Allan Wingate 1977 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, slight fading to top board edges, and page edges brown else Fine copy in like, slightly browned and rubbed Dust Jacket with a short (3mm) tear at the upper edge of the front fold. |
£40.00 |
"... takes the reader on a new conducted tour of Dante's underworld, conducted by an astonishing modern version of Vergil as a guide, in which we encounter a host of contemporaries in appropriate places on the way. Carpentier's journey takes him through dim nether regions where flame-coloured demons wield diabolically sharp pitchforks, and tormented vixens reign for ever in a pond of sheer ice." |
| 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 Integral Trees |
Macdonald 1984 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, one page corner creased and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket creased and slightly rubbed at the top of the spine. |
£7.50 |
"... an immense doughnut-shaped gaseous envelope had formed around a neutron star - and a vast volume of that nearly empty cloud was comfortably habitable to Man. Though it had very little useable land, the Smoke Ring had evolved a huge variety of free-fall life-forms, most of which were edible and all of which could fly... " |
| 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 base of spine and across lower page edges and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£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... " |
| Larry Niven |
The Smoke Ring |
Macdonald 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, lower corners bumped and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"in the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring - a doughnut-shaped gaseous envelope surrounding a neutron star - whole societies had evolved... None of them remembered their Earth roots... " |
| Jeff Noon |
Automated Alice |
Doubleday 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed, Inscribed and doodled on by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"... What Alice encounters in the automated future... mutant hybrids, sinister game-play, chaos theory, a roboAlice, quantum physics, computermites, jigsaw killers, tickling Vurt feathers... Jeff Noon takes on the mantelpiece of Lewis Carroll, bringing Alice thoroughly up to date. Not so much a sequel... more a trequel, the third book in a series of misadventures even weirder than your dreams." |
| 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 |
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 |
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: Black Powder War |
Voyager 2007 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. |
£25.00 |
"... urgent new orders. the British Government, having purchased three valuable dragon eggs from the Ottoman Empire, now require Lawrence and Temeraire... to collect and escort the precious cargo back to England... before they hatch... " Third in the series. |
| 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 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 |
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 |
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... " |
| 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..." |
| Rebecca Ore |
Gaia's Toys |
Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and one small spot on top page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... a riveting journey to a dark and brooding American future... where gene restructuring is the norm and everyone's plugged into their computers... where saving endangered species in micro-eco bubbles has become a fad with intellectuals and the wealthy, but children go hungry in the streets... " |
| 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 |
A Princess Of Roumania |
Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a couple of small rub marks. |
£7.50 |
"Many girls dream that they are princesses adopted by commoners. In Miranda Popescu's case, her dream is literally true... at the same time she stands at the fulcrum of a deadly political and diplomatic battle between conjurors in an alternate world, a place of magic and intrigue... " |
| 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... " |
| Steve Perry |
Isaac Asimov's I-Bots Time Was |
HarperPrism 1998 First Edition First Printing |
Bumped at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... the I-Bots are eerily human in appearance, but not in abilities. their genetic components... and mechanical infrastructures give them physical strength and powers humans can only imagine, and a measure of free will impossible in robots... Surrounded by enemies, Zac and the I-Bots can find no safe place... " |
| 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... " |
| Ricardo Pinto |
The Standing Dead Book Two of The Stone Dance Of The Chameleon Trilogy |
Bantam 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"... Captive among the tribes of Earthsky, Carnelian... grows to love these simple people... but the dark forces Carnelian helped to unleash in Osrakum begin to cast their shadow over his adopted tribe... the presence Carnelian has unwittingly brought with him... " Book Three due out in March 09! |
| Nicholas Playford |
The Prisoner Gains A Blurred Skin |
Black Pepper 1994 First Edition First Printing (Paper) |
Lower rear spine corner bruised, front corners slightly rubbed - Near Fine Copy |
£2.00 |
"... fourteen tales of the imagination, of bizarre transformations of the mind... in the tradition of Poe and Borges. Fringe citizens of Australian society are revealed in ways which haunt us... These stories are subtle and innovative... clinically satirical and have a miniaturist visual style... " |
| 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 Boy Who Would Live Forever |
Tor 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... In Gateway, long after the alien Heechee abandoned their space station, Gateway... allowed humans to explore new worlds... Now... humans who dream of life among the stars are joining the Heechee... " |
| 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. |
£7.50 |
"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 |
| Arthur Porges |
The Mirror And Other Strange Reflections |
Ash-Tree Press 2002 First Edition First Printing |
Fine Copy in Fine Dust Jacket |
£15.00 |
The Mirror; What Crouches in the Deep; Solomon's Demon; Swamp Demon; The Shadowsmith; Brilliant Career; The Shakespeare Manuscript; $1.98; The Other Side; In the Tomb; Puddle; The Fanatical Ford; The Groom; The Second Debut; The Moths; The Man Who Wouldn't Eat; The Fanatic; Josephus and 9 others |
| Tim Powers |
Earthquake Weather |
Legend 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£40.00 |
"Set in a California which is like the one we know and yet inhabited by ghost-eaters, Greek gods and dead psychopaths who are not quite dead enough, his fantastical visions have the power of mythology, of genius." Scarce. |
| 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. |
£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 |
Going Postal |
Doubleday 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a small tear at the head of the spine panel. |
£7.50 |
"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 |
Hogfather |
Gollancz 1996 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a spot of wear at the top and base of the front fold and a short split (3mm) near the top of the rear fold. |
£7.50 |
"It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. There's snow, there're robins, there're trees covered with decorations, but there's a notable lack of the big fat man who delivers the toys... " |
| Terry Pratchett |
Interesting Times |
Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
"... The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil... Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. Warlords are struggling for power... And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard... Cohen the barbarian hero... and a very special butterfly." |
| Terry Pratchett |
Jingo |
Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top front corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the spine panel. |
£5.00 |
"... A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds. And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called 'war'... " |
| Terry Pratchett |
Lords And Ladies |
Gollancz 1992 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£30.00 |
"It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere - even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg. aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning... " |
| Terry Pratchett |
Men At Arms |
Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£10.00 |
" 'Be a Man in the City Watch! The City Watch needs Men!' ... And they need all the help they can get. Because there's evil in the air and murder afoot and something very nasty in the streets. It'd help if it could all be sorted out by noon, because that's when Captain Vimes is officially retiring, handing in his badge and getting married... " |
| Terry Pratchett |
Monstrous Regiment |
Doubleday 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"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 |
Moving Pictures |
Gollancz 1990 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£35.00 |
"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 of spine and slightly bumped at base, and lower corners else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"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 |
The Discworld Companion |
Gollancz 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower rear corner, one small mark to top page edges and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in Fine 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 Fifth Elephant |
Doubleday 1999 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little bumped and browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Sam Vines is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask)... there are monsters on his trail. They're bright, they're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up... " |
| 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 Truth |
Doubleday 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased 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... " |
| 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 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 |
£250.00 |
"... 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 |
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... " |
| 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. |
| 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 |
Cover slightly marked and creased - Very Good to Near Fine copy |
£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 |
Sprout Mask Replica |
Doubleday 1997 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£7.50 |
"His great-great--grandfather died at the Battle of Little Big Horn. he wasn't with Custer though. He was holding a sprout-bake and tent meeting in the field next door and went over to complain about the noise... Can this be Robert Rankin's autobiography? He swears that it isn't... " |
| 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 Greatest Show Off Earth |
Doubleday 1994 First Edition First Printing |
Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Raymond's had a rough couple of days. snatched from his allotment by a flying starfish from Uranus and sold as a delicacy in a Venusian food market, it seems like his luck has changed when he is rescued by the travelling circus. But then this isn't an ordinary circus... the professor has a little job for Raymond... save Planet Earth from extinction by Friday... " |
| 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 |
The Witches of Chiswick |
Gollancz 2003 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"... We have al been lied to. A great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep us from uncovering the truth about our past... The War Of The Worlds was a true account of real events... Captain Nemo's Nautilus even now lies rusting at the bottom of the North Sea... there really was an invisible man... Queen Victoria had a sexual relationship with Dr Watson... " |
| Robert Rankin |
Waiting For Godalming |
Doubleday 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£10.00 |
"... 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 |
| William I. I. Read |
Skeletons In The Closet |
Sarob Press 1998 First Edition Limited State (No. 128/200) |
Fine Copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket With a warm inscription on the front free end paper, possibly from 'Nick', perhaps Nick Maloret, the artist |
£25.00 |
'This collection consists of nine stories featuring DENISTOUN (possibly the World's Most Haunted Man)... ghost stories... the Denistoun stories were first created as an antidote to the more frightening ones... " |
| 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. |
£7.50 |
"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 |
Century Rain |
Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine, and one signature differentially browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£5.00 |
"Verity Auger... has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber... With time running out, Auger retraces... footsteps across a Europe that isn't quite the one in the history books. Shadowed by forces that would rather see her dead... " |
| Alastair Reynolds |
Chasm City |
Gollancz 2001 First Edition First Printing |
Small mark on top page edges else Fine Copy in Fine Dust Jacket with faint mark inside front panel (no show-through) Signed by the Author on the Title Page |
£7.50 |
"Return to the Universe of Revelation Space... Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake... until the day a woman in his care was blown away during an attack by a vengeful young postmortal named Argent Reivich... " |
| Alastair Reynolds |
Galactic North |
Gollancz 2006 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with a short tear (5mm) at the base of the spine panel . |
£5.00 |
Collecting all the Revelation Space universe stories (so far): Great Wall of Mars; Glacial; A Spy in Europa; Weather; Dilation Sleep; Grafenwalder's Bestiary; Nightingale; Galactic North and Afterword |
| Alastair Reynolds |
Revelation Space |
Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing |
A couple of corners slightly bumped 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... " |
| Alastair Reynolds |
Revelation Space |
Gollancz 2000 First Edition First Printing |
Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. |
£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... " |
| 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; Co |