| Author | Title | Edition | Condition | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Saberhagen | Berserker Death | Baen 2005 First Combined 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 folds | £7.50 | Three complete novels set in a seemingly endless war against death itself |
| Fred Saberhagen | Berserker Man | Baen 2004 First Combined Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped and with a short slit at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "For countless millennia the dreadful Berserker fleets have ranged across the galaxy in a relentless war against all things living. Their equally relentless opponent has been the human race... " |
| Fred Saberhagen | Rogue Berserker | Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Harry Silver had already had a lifetime of trouble from Berserkers... Then Winston Cheng, one of the wealthiest humans in the galaxy, offered to buy him a new top-of-the-line ship in return for doing a job... " |
| Nick Sagan | Idlewild | Bantam 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... I(t is the late twenty-first century and a deadly virus has seeped into humankind's genetic make-up. In only a few generations this plague will have wiped up off the face of the planet... teams of scientists, geneticists and programmers race to find a cure, our only hope lies in a... desperate gamble... " |
| H. F. Saint | Memoirs Of An Invisible Man | Viking 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and rear corners, and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... So what happens to a person in today's world who becomes invisible? This is the incredibly funny, and almost credible, story of Nick's adventures after the happening. he learns how to procure food and how to eat, what to do about a job where people generally expect you to be seen... " Made into a film with Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah. |
| Mark Samuels | The Face Of Twilight | PS Publishing 2006 First Edition Limited State Signed by the Author (Paper) (No 3/500) | Fine copy. | £7.50 | "Ivan Gilman had little choice when it came to deciding to rent the studio flat on the Archway Road. His departure from his last address was owing to a gas explosion... His first impression... was that in order to afford a roof over his head, he would have to starve (giving up the booze was unthinkable)... " 132 page novella,: introduction by Mark Morris. |
| Pamela Sargent | Behind the Eyes of Dreamers and Other Short Novels | Five Star 2002 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top of spine and covers slightly rubbed else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £10.00 | Introduction by George Zebrowski; Shadows; Behind the Eyes of Dreamers and The Renewal |
| Pamela Sargent | Child of Venus | Eos 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corners slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The Project - the terraforming of Venus - was begun centuries ago. And generations more will come and go before the planet's surface has been rendered fully habitable and its human settlers... can finally leave their protective domes... The already fragile alliance between Earth and Venus shows signs of shattering... " Conclusion of the Venus trilogy. |
| Pamela Sargent | The Golden Space | Timescape 1982 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower board edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The theme of immortality... tackled... in a unique and daring way... produced a fascinating speculation on what humanity would undergo if universal human immortality became available... " |
| Pamela Sargent | The Shore Of Women | Chatto & Windus 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Spine slightly creased, covers slightly worn - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy | £3.00 | "... a love story, set in the future... the nuclear holocaust has left women in charge of the world, living in walled cities of tremendous scientific sophistication; men, now considered incapable of responsible government, roam the great wilderness outside in nomadic bands... " |
| John Saul | The Blackstone Chronicles | Severn House 1998 First Trade Hardback Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... From the top of Blackstone's highest hill, the old Blackstone Asylum casts its intimidating shadow over the village... now the wrecker's ball is poised to strike, demolishing the old building, an action which will unleash upon the town a terrible evil long locked within its walls... " |
| Robert J. Sawyer | Calculating God | Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Inscribed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "... An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. a six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English 'Take me to a paleontologist.'.. Earth and the alien' home planet... experienced the same five cataclysmic events at about the same time... this proves the existence of God... " |
| Hilbert Schenck | Chronosequence | Tor 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... in reading the journal, Eve finds the seeds of a very great mystery... perhaps more than two hundred years ago, several alien beings landed on earth... two have been influencing nearby human beings in strange and sometimes wonderful ways... " |
| James H. Schmitz | The Best Of James H Schmitz | NESFA 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket which was produced a few mm shorter than the book. | £15.00 | Mischief in the Spaceways by Janet Kagan; Grandpa; Lion Loose...; Just Curious; The Second Night of Summer; Novice; Balanced Ecology; The Custodians; Sour Note on Palayata; Goblin Night and Bibliography |
| James H. Schmitz | The Demon Breed | Macdonald 1969 First UK & Trade Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £25.00 | "... the Parahuans had come out of space... They had captured Ticos Cay, the only man who knew they were there, until Nile Etland came looking for him... she was faced with two problems: to rescue Ticos... and to stay alive long enough to get a message to the rest of the population... " |
| James H. Schmitz | The Lion Game A Telzey Amberdon Novel | Sidgwick & Jackson 1976 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges foxed - Very Good copy in Fine Dust Jacket with £3.95 price sticker on front flap | £30.00 | "... It was a game of mental chess played on the intricate closed transit circuits of an entire world by a race of giant mentalists... Telzey was a human and, as such, a test piece - either a pawn to be sacrificed or a wild queen... " |
| James H. Schmitz | The Telzey Toy | Sidgwick & Jackson 1976 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges foxed - Very Good copy in unpriced Dust Jacket bruised at base of the spine. | £30.00 | "One Telzey Amberdon was usually more than a match for any ill-intentioned mentalist or alien psi-power, but two... ? The master operator of the most advanced puppet show on Orado... created the Telzey Toy... But which was the real Telzey and which the perfect duplication? Even the real Telzey did not know... " |
| David J. Schow | The Kill Riff | Tor 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Lucas dreams it every night... the glittering rockshow... an insane mob storms the stage... his beloved daughter, dying trampled beneath the frenzied fans... he cradles revenge to his breast. His ultimate target: Whip Hand's lead singer. Neither man is what he seems... In their confrontation, there will be no winner." This author's first novel. |
| C. A. Dawson Scott | The Haunting | Tabb House 1985 | Lower corners and edges bruised, a few page corners crumpled and previous owner's details on front free end paper - Very Good Copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with short (4 mm) tear at top edge of front panel adjacent to spine | £5.00 | "... novel of paranormal suspense makes compelling reading; its setting provides an evocation of a small Cornish town in times that have now gone, while her psychological insight underlines the perennial nature of human character and emotion" |
| Manda Scott | The Crystal Skull | Bantam 2008 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and upper corner of front free end paper slightly rubbed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... it's not just a lump of rock. It's a life-sized blue crystal made by the Maya to save the world from ruin... the skull's last keeper... died that it might keep its secret... if the thirteen skulls already in existence are not reunited, the world will end on 21 December 2012. Four times already, life on earth has been destroyed... " |
| Melissa Scott | The Jazz | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In the not too distant future the Internet is filled with Jazz: intentional misinformation and bewildering disinformation. there are even virtual Web sites devoted entirely to satirical and entertaining lies. Tin Lizzy, a young woman techie with a criminal past, is a theatrical Web sites designer... " |
| William Shatner | Tekwar | Bantam 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine copy in Dust Jacket with one 45mm closed tear to bottom of rear panel. | £4.00 | Clute - "set in a 22nd-century Los Angeles where crime is rife, and where a wise-mouth robot resignedly helps a lanky protagonist solve a mystery - WS acknowledges the assistance of Ron Goulart, who is otherwise uncredited as co-author." |
| Bob Shaw | Cosmic Kaleidoscope | Gollancz 1976 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly creased dust jacket | £7.50 | Includes: Skirmish On A Summer Morning; Unreasonable Facsimile; A Full Member Of The Club; The Silent Partners; The Giaconda Caper; An Uncomic Book Horror Story; The Brink; Waltz Of The Bodysnatchers and A Little Night Flying |
| Bob Shaw | Night Walk | Gollancz 1976 First Edition in Hardback & Thus First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and lower corners else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed and dated by the Author on the title page | £7.50 | "... Sam Tallon is the possessor of perhaps the most important single secret in the universe: and the security force of Emm Luther would do anything to stop him getting the information back to Earth. They do, in fact, take his eyesight away and banish him to a prison from which there should be no escape... " |
| Bob Shaw | Night Walk | Gollancz 1976 First Edition in Hardback & Thus First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and board edges very slightly faded else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Sam Tallon is the possessor of perhaps the most important single secret in the universe: and the security force of Emm Luther would do anything to stop him getting the information back to Earth. They do, in fact, take his eyesight away and banish him to a prison from which there should be no escape... " |
| Bob Shaw | Terminal Velocity | Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The invention of a cheap and easy to use anti-gravity harness revolutionises society. Airborne delinquents and criminals are practically impossible to control - and can be lethal." Expanded from his 1978 novel Vertigo. |
| Bob Shaw | The Ragged Astronauts Trilogy | Gollancz 1986-9 All Are First Edition First Printings (Three Volumes) | Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in like Dust Jackes (Volume 1 price-clipped). Volume 2 Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £20.00 | Clute - '... with the Ragged Astronauts sequence, the author returned to his very best and most inventive form, describing with joyful exactness the sensation of emigrating, via hot-air balloon, up the hourglass funnel of atmosphere that connects two planets which orbit each other... '' |
| Bob Shaw | Warren Peace | Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Warren Peace joined the Space Legion to forget... he got turned into an Oscar... invulnerable superbeings immune to everything... Warren is bored witless... a chance encounter with... pryktonite turns him back into a human and Warren embarks on a new career - as a galactic troubleshooter..." |
| Robert Sheckley | The Robert Sheckley Omnibus | Gollancz 1973 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, with a crease running the length of the rear flap. | £30.00 | "... twelve of Sheckley's stories which present a spectrum of his best writing. In addition to the stories, the volume contains Sheckley's famous novel, Immortality Inc., about a man involved in a car crash who wakes to find himself in the 22nd century - and in a new body... ingenious, sardonic, intelligent and entertaining... " |
| Charles Sheffield | Science Fiction Special 41 Sight of Proteus The Web Between The Worlds | Sidgwick & Jackson 1982? First Combined Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Slight spine creasing, pages browned, and a few ?oil? splashes on title page - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in slightly rubbed laminated boards | £10.00 | ‘‘his first novel, describes in ultimately optimistic terms the wide-ranging effects of machine-driven shapechanging technologies...’’with ".‘‘his second novel, famously posited a sky-hook space elevator at almost exactly the same time as Arthur C. Clarke presented an astonishingly similar space elevator... " - Clute |
| Charles Sheffield | The Spheres of Heaven | Baen 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and four small spots on page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Spacer Chan Dalton is torn between two masters. The pacifistic aliens who hold Earth under Quarantine want him to find out why their starships have been disappearing... " |
| Mary Shelley (Also as Author of 'Frankenstein') | Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus | Great Writers Library 1987 - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Fine copy with decorated boards, as issued. | £4.00 | "... I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed: when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created... " |
| Lucius Shepard | Barnacle Bill The Spacer and Other Stories | Orion 1997 First Edition First Printing (First State - ISBN 185798501X & £16.99 on DJ) | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a superficial scratch on the rear panel. | £12.50 | "... Hugo Award winning 'Barnacle Bill the Spacer' a science fiction that is both eerie and enchanting, forward looking and nostalgic. The six further works demonstrate in spectacular fashion the breadth of Shepard's unique imagination... " There is evidence that Hardbacks with ISBN 0752816098 & no price on DJ were issued for export markets a year later. |
| Lucius Shepard | Green Eyes | Chatto & Windus 1986 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "When scientist Dr Ezawa discovers a method of extracting bacteria from the dirt of old graveyards and injecting them into the brains of the dead, he little suspects the powers of black magic he evokes. Life the second time around is short, strange and terrifying to the awakened, until one of them breaks away... " |
| Lucius Shepard | Kalimantan | Legend 1990 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and across bottom board edges and small previous owners name written on front fixed end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Now with Kalimantan he has written a compelling story of myths and uneasy dreams in the heart of Borneo... Seribu aso does not... alter the perceptions of only the user. It changes the concrete reality of the land itself... " |
| Lucius Shepard | Life During Wartime | Grafton 1988 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Page edges slightly browned and slightly bumped else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "David Mingolla is... destined for greater-than-average things. In the sensuous and savage jungle, he is about to enter a war zone of the spirit where the well-guarded borders between good and evil, love and hate, myth and reality will become irrevocably blurred..." |
| Lucius Shepard | Sports & Music | Ziesing 1994 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (Paper) (No 411/1000) | A couple of light cover dents else Fine centre-stapled 50 page booklet with card covers Artwork by Arnie Fenner | £5.00 | Sports in America & A Little Night Music revised and expanded from their original appearances in Playboy and Omni. Additionally signed by the artist |
| Lucius Shepard | The Golden | Ziesing 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In the year 186-, the community of vampires known as the Family meets in Castle Banat high in the Carpathians to celebrate the Decanting, a ritual that marks the successful conclusion of a five-hundred-year breeding program designed to produce that rarest vintage of all human blood, the Golden... " |
| Lucius Shepard | The Golden | Millennium 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Castle Banat: a stronghold of insane enormity, created by a monstrous architectural genius: holds an infinity of mystery and terrible wonder. The castle is home to the Family, the clans that make up the vampires of the world. One of their greatest rites is the Golden, the sacrifice of a victim whose blood is the sweetest and most powerful... " |
| David Sherman | Starfist Lazarus Rising | Del Rey 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... In their fiercest combat yet, the hard-charging Marines of 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team... have finally won their battle against a full-scale alien invasion of planet Kingdom, But victory over these savage enemies comes at a terrible price... " |
| Delia Sherman | The Porcelain Dove or Constancy's Reward | Dutton 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a 13mm tear at top of rear fold | £7.50 | "... Eighteenth century France... Berthe Duvet, maid... tells her tale of a doomed society and of a family seeking to break a terrible curse... deep in the primitive Jura mountains... wolf-haunted, rooted in the memory of blood... " |
| John Shirley | Demons | Del Rey 2002 First Edition Thus First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In a future uncomfortably close to the present day, the apocalypse has surpassed all expectations. Hideous demons roam the streets in an orgy of terror, drawing pleasure from torturing humans as sadistically as possible... these grisly invaders... seem horrifically to belong in our world... " |
| John Shirley | Heatseeker | Scream Press 1988 First Edition First Printing | Page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | What Cindy Saw; Under the Generator; Sleepwalkers; Tahiti in Terms of Squares; Silent Crickets; I Live in Elizabeth; The Almost Empty Rooms; The Gunshot; Equilibrium; Uneasy Chrysalids, Our Memories; Quill Tripstickler Eludes a Bride; Recurrent Dreams of Nuclear War Lead B.T. Quizenbaum into Moral Dissolution; What It’s Like to Kill a Man and 6 others |
| Neal Shusterman | Thief Of Souls Book Two of the Star Shards Trilogy | Tor 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the survivors... confront a more insidious but equally terrifying foe: The Bringer. Imprisoned for thousands of years by the ancient gods... he breaks free and invades the world... only one power exists that can stop him... " |
| Robert Silverberg (Also as Ivar Jorgenson; Calvin M. Knox; David Osborne & Robert Randall) | Hot Sky At Midnight | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly bumped and rubbed else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a short crease in the rear flap | £4.00 | "... There's no mistaking the terminal phase of irreversible catastrophe: all over Earth oxygen-breathers are very nearly dead from the crud in the air, the water, the food, the soil... time has run out... With Earth a lost cause, the satellite worlds have become prime territory for takeover... " |
| Robert Silverberg (Also as Ivar Jorgenson; Calvin M. Knox; David Osborne & Robert Randall) | Sorcerers Of Majipoor | HarperPrism 1997 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | " A thousand years before Lord Valentine... a time of ancient mysteries and new wonders. The aged Pontifex Prankipin... is at last near death. Omens are seen, prodigies are born... Truly, a great change is at hand!... whispered words... will plunge the planet into a fearsome conflagration... in a war to alter destiny itself... " |
| Robert Silverberg (Also as Ivar Jorgenson; Calvin M. Knox; David Osborne & Robert Randall) | The Alien Years | HarperCollins 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else, page edges a little browned, lower page edges slightly marked and a couple with very short tears (1-2mm) - Very Good to Near Fine Copy in fine Dust Jacket except for a little erosion at the top of the front fold | £5.00 | "... the aliens make no announcements, no demands... They do not communicate anything... They are simply here. Soon an attempt at resistance brings down upon the planet the first major catastrophe... the aliens take control of the world, effortlessly enslaving what remains of its population... " |
| Robert Silverberg | The Mountains Of Majipoor | Bantam 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... For young Prince Harpirias, the journey into the frozen tundra of the remote borderlands of Majipoor might well have been a death sentence... a mission that could represent suicide or salvation... " |
| Robert Silverberg | Valentine Pontifex | Gollancz 1984 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped and rubbed at top of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. Dustjacket illustrated by Jim Burns | £4.00 | "... Valentine is now established as the rightful and popular Coronal of Majipoor, but sooner or later he must reluctantly succeed to the title of Pontifex and retire to the Labyrinth... The old Pontifex, Tyeveras, ahas held the title for generations, but is now almost wholly senile... Soon he must be allowed to die... " |
| Clifford D. Simak | The Marathon Photograph And Other Stories | Severn House 1986 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "...fine examples of the craft which has made Clifford D Simak one of the brightest stars in the SF firmament. Though each story contains many elements, there is one underlying theme - the paradox of time." Introduction by Francis Lyle; The Birch Clump Cylinder; The Whistling Well; The Marathon Photograph |
| Clifford D. Simak | The Visitors | Sidgwick & Jackson 1981 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It looked like a big black box - perhaps fifty feet high, two hundred long... had scooped him up... then let him go... He knew that the visitor was a living, intelligent creature. Then more... descended..." |
| Dan Simmons | Darwin's Blade | Morrow 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... an expert in accident reconstruction, Darwin uses science and instinct to unravel the real causes of unnatural disasters, and his is brilliant... A series of high-speed car accidents... seem staged, but the participants have all died... why would anyone commit fraud at the cost of his own life? The deeper he digs, the more enemies he seems to make... " |
| Dan Simmons | Endymion | Headline 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The daughter of Brawne Lamia and the cybrid John Keats, eleven-year-old Aenea... is in grave danger. The powerful Pax military... thinks that... Aenea may well be... a threat to the Church... and then there's the unpredictable entity called the Shrike, which, it's thought, could control the fate of all mankind... " |
| Dan Simmons | Endymion | Bantam 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "It is 274 years after the Fall and the universe is in chaos. The WorldWeb, that interlinking of hundreds of human worlds via instantaneous farcaster portals, has been destroyed... Into the vacuum of power has stepped the Catholic Church... Offering teachings of love, nonviolence, and the promise of literal immortality, the Church has only one threat to its undisputed reign: an eleven year old girl named Aenea... " |
| Dan Simmons | Fires Of Eden | Headline 1995 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 like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Business tycoon Bernard Trumbo is the owner of the Mauna Pele, a luxurious Hawaiian resort... instead of making money... guests have been disappearing... when giant beasts capable of human speech are spotted, visitors turn up dead and dismembered, and volcanic eruptions fill the sky... " |
| Dan Simmons | Hardcase | St. Martin's Minotaur 2001 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Joe Kurtz has been wronged one too many times. So when he takes out the drug-dealing thug who killed his girl-friend, the ex P. I. gets to cool his heels... As the story twists and turns, and the body count rises, Kurtz no longer knows who he can trust... " A Thriller. |
| Dan Simmons | Hyperion & The Fall Of Hyperion | Headline 1990-1 First Edition in the UK First Printings (Two Volumes) | Bruised at top and base of spines and page edges browned else Fine copies in slightly rubbed Dust Jackets. | £50.00 | "It is the twenty-ninth century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat... On the eve of disaster, seven citizens... set out on a pilgrimage to the planet Hyperion, where the fabled Time Tombs seem poised to reveal their secrets... " |
| Dan Simmons | Ilium | HarperCollins 2003 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned and slightly marked else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a short tear (3mm) at the top of the rear fold. | £7.50 | "From the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars, the mighty Zeus and his immortal family... look down on a momentous battle... the legendary exploits of Paris, Achilles. Hector, Odysseus, and the clashing armies of Greece and Troy. Thomas Hockenberry, former twenty-first century professor... watches as well... to observe and report on the Trojan War's progress... " |
| Dan Simmons | Lovedeath Five Tales of Love and Death | Headline 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly creased, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... Showing perfect mastery of his craft, Dan Simmons explores his themes of love and death in five novellas of intense power and imagination... destined to garner further acclaim for an author already regarded as one of the most exciting talents in the field." |
| Dan Simmons | Phases Of Gravity | Headline 1990 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. | £7.50 | "Richard Baedecker once walked on the moon but... His quest for higher meaning begins when he meets a mysterious young woman who leads him on a journey to the 'places of power' in his own past... " |
| Dan Simmons | Prayers To Broken Stones | Headline 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges a little browned and a few page edges bumped and slightly torn else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with small wear spot at the tip of the folds | £5.00 | Introduction by Harlan Ellison - each story introduced by the author: The River Styx Runs Uphill; Eyes I Dear Not Meet In Dreams; Vanni Fucci Is Alive And Well And Living In Hell; Vexed To Nightmare B Y A Rocking Cradle; Remembering Siri; Metastasis; The Offering; E-Ticket To ‘Namland; Iverson’s Pits; Shave And A Haircut, Two Bites; The Death Of The Centaur; Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds and Carrion Comfort |
| Dan Simmons | Summer of Night | Putnam 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £15.00 | "... It is the summer of 1960, and someone - or something - is stalking the young people of Elm Haven, Illinois. One child has already disappeared, perhaps in the twisted, ancient depths of Old Central, the hulking relic of a school... " |
| Dan Simmons | The Hollow Man | Bantam 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he has been cursed with the unwanted ability to read minds... For years his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the intrusive thoughts of those around him... But now Gail is dying... and Jeremy comes face-to-face with the horror of his own omniscience... " |
| Dan Simmons | The Hollow Man | Headline 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with dark blue of spine panel faded to mid-blue | £7.50 | "All his life, Jeremy Bremen has been cursed with the unwanted ability to read minds... For years his wife Gail has served as a shield between Jeremy and the world's neurobabble... But now Gail is dying and Jeremy comes face to face with the horror of his own omniscience... " |
| Dan Simmons | The Rise Of Endymion | Bantam 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The final chapter of this magnificent saga begins with two momentous events: the death and resurrection of Pope Julius XIV and the coming-of-age of the new messiah... Her name is Aenea... " |
| Wm. Mark Simmons | Dead On My Feet | Baen 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "A year ago Chris... was completely human - then a blood transfusion from the Lord of the Undead changed everything. Now he is a hunted man... So far he's dodged undead assassins, werewolves, a 6,000-year-old Egyptian necromancer, and Vlad Dracula himself. But now he's really got problems... " Humorous Fantasy. |
| Alison Sinclair | Blueheart | Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Near Fine Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The adaptive humans who have colonised the planet, covered in the main by ocean, are at the limit of their usefulness and the debate on the desirability of further terraforming is becoming heated. The discovery of a corpse deep beneath the sea is nothing unusual ... this is the catalyst for a tragedy of global proportions... " |
| Alison Sinclair | Cavalcade | Millennium 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "Just as the aliens promised, a ship has landed and taken away those who took up their invitation to a new life, a better brighter future. But when the pioneers awake aboard the alien vessel there is no welcoming committee... something... is decommissioning anything electronic... someone is going to have to find a way to communicate with the being or beings that has taken them prisoner... " |
| Clive Sinclair | Augustus Rex | Andre Deutsch 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Original Drawings by Yosl Bergner | £5.00 | "All the reputable sources inform us that August Strindberg, the great Swedish playwright, died on 14 May 1912. But there is one dissenting voice: Beelzebub. Lord of the Flies. If Beelzebub is to be believed, Strindberg did not die but sold his soul in the nick of time. Raised from the grave in 1961, he was thereafter led into temptation.. " |
| Iain Sinclair | Radon's Daughters A voyage, between art and terror, from the Mound of Whitechapel to the limestone pavements of the Burren | Cape 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Tod Sileen, a rage-driven cripple, attempting to live down the shame of a single published novel, ekes out a living in a spectacularly wasted East London borough by acting as a police informer. He pays for his addiction to X-rays by selling dubious information. Destructive fixes of hard radiation evoke in him nightmare visions... " |
| Denys S. Sissons | The Interlopers | United Writers 2005 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Strange vibrations and an eerie light in the sky wake Mike Hunt one night... Further bizarre nocturnal occurrences are witnessed at an old kirk... with the suspicion being that the phenomena are by-products of visits by interlopers from either the spirit world or some other space/time continuum... " |
| Michael Slade (Jay Clarke, also with John Banks, Lee Clarke, Rebecca Clarke, and Richard Covell) | Ghoul | W. H. Allen 1987 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and across a few page edges else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with spine and front panel purple lettering slightly faded | £10.00 | "Spectre-like and sinewy. dressed in a grey cape and top hat, with a bone-white face and madman's eyes, The Ghoul crawls from London sewers to kill perversely, bloodily, inexplicably... In Vancouver, the horror-rock group Ghoul cavort on stage... Is there a connection... The answer could lie in the dark obsessions and twisted fantasies of an old Rhode Island family... " |
| Michael Slade (Jay Clarke, also with John Banks, Lee Clarke, Rebecca Clarke, and Richard Covell) | Headhunter | W. H. Allen 1984 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, covers a little rubbed and page edges a little browned and marked - Very Good to Near Fine Copy like Dust Jacket with a small tear (5mm) at the lower edge of the rear panel. | £5.00 | "The Headhunter is loose on the streets of Vancouver. The Headhunter's victims are everywhere - floating in the Fraser River, buried in a shallow grave, tacked to an Indian totem pole on the University of British Columbia campus. All women. All headless... a mystery to defy the imagination, tension enough to snap you in two and a climax as shocking as it is unexpected." |
| Michael Slade | Zombie | Hodder & Stoughton 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £12.50 | "A murderous battle against overwhelming odds in Africa over a hundred years ago and a crazed killer on a mission of primal vengeance today... bloody age-old rituals of unspeakable mutilation and their grisly echoes in a series of atrocities... " Scarce |
| John Sladek (Also as Thom Demijohn; Cassandra Knye; Richard A. Tilms & James Vogh) | Black Aura | Cape 1974 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly worn, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... Lamenting the passing of the golden age of detection... Thackeray Phinn... has condescended to investigate the supernatural... Doc Lauderdale... mysteriously disappears from behind a locked lavatory door... the impalement of a pop star on garden railings... convince the amateur sleuth that he is on the trail of... a tangled web of fraud and duplicity... " Detective novel - fun. |
| John Sladek | Bugs | Macmillan 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and light shelf-wear to lower edges else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a 9mm closeable tear to the top edge of the front panel | £5.00 | "... Fred Jones is an impoverished writer who goes to America to seek his fortune. He finds instead a bewildering, soulless shopping mall of a world where seemingly everything and everyone is for sale. In Las Vegas, Jones meets a serial killer... in Minnesota's 'Silicon Prairie', Jones finds himself building a robot for the Army... " |
| John Sladek (Also as Thom Demijohn; Cassandra Knye; Richard A. Tilms & James Vogh) | Roderick At Random or Further Education of a Young Machine | Kerosina 1990 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 10/250) | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket and slightly dusty Box | £20.00 | Clute - "Roderick... and Roderick at Random... two texts conceived as a single novel... The novel represents the autobiography of the eponymous robot and is the author's most ambitious work to date, conveying with considerable ingenuity and some pathos its protagonist's Candide-like innocence... " |
| John Sladek (Also as Thom Demijohn (With Tom Disch); Cassandra Knye; Richard A. Tilms & James Vogh) | Roderick At Random or Further Education of a Young Machine | Kerosina 1990 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a spot of wear at the top of the front fold | £10.00 | Clute - "Roderick... and Roderick at Random... two texts conceived as a single novel... The novel represents the autobiography of the eponymous robot and is the author's most ambitious work to date, conveying with considerable ingenuity and some pathos its protagonist's Candide-like innocence... " |
| John Sladek | Roderick Or The Education Of A Young Machine | Granada 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "Roderick is a robot who learns... Adopted by friendly small-town folks, Roderick is brought up a s a 'real' boy - or that's the idea... " Very funny. |
| John Sladek (Also as Thom Demijohn (With Thomas Disch), Cassandra Knye, Richard A. Tilms & Jmes Vogh) | The Lunatics Of Terra | Gollancz 1984 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "... a devastating and hilarious look at the future of our society... " 18 stories - scarce. |
| John Sladek | The Muller-Fokker Effect | Hutchinson 1970 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine and top page edges a little marked and foxed else Fine copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket with a 14mm tear at base of front fold and creases in both flaps | £15.00 | "... Appeal to Serious critics: Enumeration is the theme of this immensely powerful, compellingly striated Pythagoras of a novel, in which a hubristic man calls into question the dictatorship of all his gods... " |
| John Sladek | Tik-Tok | Gollancz 1983 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Fine, price clipped, Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "Tik-Tok is programmed with 'asimov circuits'... they cease to work, and so... sets out to injure as many human beings as possible - preferably fatally." Uncommon. |
| Edward E. Smith | Galactic Patrol | Fantasy Press 1950 First Edition First Printing Currey (A) State - Blue Cloth Gold Letters | Bruised at top and base of spine, covers slightly rubbed and marked, fixed end papers discoloured, page edges foxed and marked and a faint red crayon 3 on front fixed end paper around Very Good copy in slightly chipped, marked and worn Dust Jacket frayed and creased at the top of the spine | £30.00 | "There are novels and novels of adventures in space - but few, indeed, are the tales of the spaceways with the scope and drive and power of 'Galactic Patrol'... " |
| Edward E. Smith | Triplanetary | Fantasy Press 1948 First Edition First Printing Currey (A) State with Triplanetary in Red on DJ | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, spine worn, end papers discoloured, a faint red crayon 1 on front fixed end paper, page edges slightly foxed, marked and dusty - around Very Good copy in chipped, torn, creased marked and worn Dust Jacket with a few mm eroded at the base of the spine. | £25.00 | "Two thousand million or so years ago, two galaxies were colliding... " History! |
| Martin Cruz Smith (Also as Martin Smith) | Stalin's Ghost | Macmillan 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy | £4.00 | "Moscow lies under deep snow, and Arkady Renko is called in to handle a delicate matter: passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin on the platform edge... " |
| Michael Marshall Smith (Also as Michael Marshall) | One of Us | HarperCollins 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Hap Thompson - ex-criminal, ex-barman and ex-husband - has fallen on his feet at last. After years of scuffling in the shadows of crime, he's finally found something he can do better than anyone else. And it's legal. Almost... " |
| Michael Marshall Smith | Only Forward | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Corners slightly rubbed and page edges a little browned - Near Fine copy | £10.00 | "MAY WE INTRODUCE YOU TO STARK OH AND BY THE WAY - GOOD LUCK. . . " 'a dark labyrinth of a book: shocking, moving and surreal. Violent, outrageous and witty - sometimes simultaneously - it offers us a journey from which we return both shaken and exhilarated. An extraordinary debut.' CLIVE BARKER |
| Michael Marshall Smith (Also as Michael Marshall) | Spares | HarperCollins 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges lightly browned and a few page corners lightly creased else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a little wear at the top of the front fold Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £20.00 | "Luck? Don't talk to Jack Randall about luck... A loner veteran of a savage war, he's spent the last five years buried deep, hiding out on a Spares farm with people who can't even spell luck. Forced to flee... Jack returns to the city... Unfortunately... His escape... brings him head to head with the man who destroyed everything he once held dear... " |
| Michael Marshall Smith | When God Lived In Kentish Town & Others | HarperCollins 1998 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | A couple of shallow scrape marks on back cover and lower front corner slightly rubbed else Fine Copy Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £40.00 | The title story plus Everybody Goes; Save As... and Diet Hell. - W. H. Smith’s promotional giveaway, limited to certain shops only - this copy still with £3 Off voucher at rear - very scarce. |
| Robert Sobel | For Want Of A Nail If Burgoyne Had Won At Saratoga | Greenhill 1997 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and across the rear board else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The outcome of one battle in the American Revolution diverges from reality, and sparks an unstoppable chain of events which affects the history of the whole North American continent... " |
| S. P. Somtow (Also as Somtow Sucharitkul) | Darker Angels | Gollancz 1997 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... At the heart of the tale is the houngan Old Joseph, a voodoo priest who has given up one eye in exchange for ultimate knowledge and who has dared to raise the dead from the battlefields of the Civil War. From the college rooms of the young Lord Byron to the slave auctions of Haiti, from revival meetings to dark rituals of resurrection..." |
| S. P. Somtow (Also as Somtow Sucharitkul) | Darker Angels | Tor 1998 First Edition in the US First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... At the center of the tale is the houngan Old Joseph, the one-eyed voodoo priest who dares to raise the dead from the battlefields of the Civil War. Into his circle of power, over the course of eighty tumultuous years, comes an unforgettable cast of characters..." |
| S. P. Somtow (Also as Somtow Sucharitkul) | I Wake From A Dream Of A Drowned Star City | Axolotl Press 1992 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (Paper) | Slightly rubbed at base of spine else Fine copy | £4.00 | "Every day, tides flood the lower floors of the high-rise kingdom of Dreambreak... And every day young Morry Draus stares out from his tower room, across the water toward the drowned star-city of the past, dreaming of the future. A cloned prince of the ruling family, he will one day have the power to affect change... " |
| S. P. Somtow | Jasmine Nights | Wyatt 1995 First US & Hardback Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "It is 1963. Twelve-year-old Justin has been entrusted to the care of three maiden aunts, an ancient great-great-grandmother, and a wicked uncle... the boy tumbles through a year of magic and discovery... Jasmine Nights is about the American civil rights movement, the Kennedy assassination, growing up in the sixties, the Thai aristocracy, the sexual eccentricities of relatives and the meaning of friendship... " |
| S. P. Somtow (Also as Somtow Sucharitkul) | Jasmine Nights | Hamish Hamilton 1994 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy in creased, Proof, Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Here is a strange, beautiful, funny story of a twelve-year-old Thai boy called Mr Little Frog. The year is 1963... Little Frog refuses to accept that he is Thai... speaks only English, eats only English food, and secretly calls himself Justin... he keeps the company of his books and his pet chameleon until he meets Virgil, a black American boy. Together they embark on a year of magic and discoveries... " |
| S. P. Somtow (Also as Somtow Sucharitkul) | Tagging The Moon: Fairy Tales From L A | Night Shade 2000 First Edition First Printing | Bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and top edge of front board and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... The loss of innocence. The seduction of death. The tragedy of desperate obsession... these are the things men and women are made of... ten extraordinary stories set in the surreal urban nightmare known as Los Angeles... " |
| S. P. Somtow | The Shattered Horse | Tor 1986 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... takes an intriguing premise beyond myth and fantasy, into powerful drama and challenging considerations of theology and language, human relationships and the course of history, the natures of power and frailty, and the potentials of timeless periods after one legend has ended, before the next begins... " |
| S. P. Somtow | Vampire Junction | Macdonald 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges a little marked and browned and a couple of page corners folded else Fine copy in slightly worn and creased Dust Jacket. | £20.00 | "Timmy Valentine is the dark side of love; a beautiful boy with hypnotic dead eyes, a shape-shifting vampire with a million dollar voice. He'll steal your heart - and have it for breakfast... " |
| S. P. Somtow | Vanitas Escape From Vampire Junction | Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Timmy Valentine... relinquished his vampiric immortality and transferred his archetypal essence to young Angel Todd, sending him out into the dark forest of the soul. Now Timmy Valentine is an ordinary twelve-year-old boy, awakened from a two-thousand-year-old nightmare.. but there is something missing..." |
| Craig Spector | To Bury The Dead | Stealth 2001 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corners creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... As a firefighter and paramedic, Paul Kelly is a man defined by action... a devoted husband and father... And then the unthinkable happens... A shocking crime... Consumed by grief, pushed to the brink of madness and moral outrage... how far would you go... " |
| Sally Spedding | Wringland | Macmillan 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Abbie Parker is just starting her new job as sales negotiator for a prestige housing development in sinister and vaporous Black Fen - rumoured to be the most haunted corner of England... a chilling and disturbing sortie into that twilight world that hovers between reality and nightmare." Her first novel. |
| William Browning Spencer | Irrational Fears | White Wolf 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Jack Lowry, ex-college professor, awakens in Hurley Memorial Hospital's shabby detox unit... not the first time his alcoholism has brought him here... Enter The Clear, a cult whose leader has some very peculiar theories... alcoholism is not a disease; it is a damnation. Alcoholics are the progeny of an ancient tribe... who worshipped Tsathoggua... " |
| Norman Spinrad | Bug Jack Barron | Macdonald 1970 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine, spine leant, page edges slightly marked and worn spot on front end paper else Fine copy in internally creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Benedict Howards: head of the Foundation for Human immortality... uses his head coldly and ruthlessly to do in everyone in sight... Jack Barron: a man with a different kind of power... the man who gives the masses a chance to air their grievances... And... a naked game of power with immortality at stake and no holds barred... " |
| Norman Spinrad | The Last Hurrah Of The Golden Horde | Doubleday (S.F.B.C.) 1970 First Edition First Printing (Code 27L on P. 211 = Early July 1970) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, slightly 'musty' smell and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the lower corner of the front flap removed. | £7.50 | Carcinoma Angels; The Age of Invention; Outward Bound; A Child of Mind; The Equaliser; The Last of the Romany; Technicality; The Rules of the Road; Dead End; A Night in Elf Hill; Deathwatch; The Ertsatz Ego; Neutral Ground; Once More, With Feeling; It's a Bird! It's a Plane; Subjectivity; The Entropic Gang Bang Caper and... |
| Nancy Springer | Chains Of Gold | Macdonald 1987 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Among the lakes and islands of Catena's magical land rests the Sacred Isle. There the Lady Cerilla... is betrothed to Arlen; betrothed and doomed. For Arlen is the chosen Winterking of the Sacred Isle - his fate, to marry, enjoy the love of his bride for but a single night, and then to die, a sacrifice to the island's jealous goddess... " |
| Nancy Springer | Larque On The Wing | AvoNova/Morrow 1994 First Edition First Printing | Fine Copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "Guitar-shaped, forty-year-old wife, mother and successful crafter of home decoration products Larque Harootunian is going through a very messy mid-life crisis... embarrassing habit of producing temporary doubles... of people and their inner aspects from out of thin air> But... " |
| Nancy Springer | The Hex Witch Of Seldom | Baen 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly browned and rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The King, the Sorceress, the Trickster, the Virgin, the Priest... in full they form the Circle of Twelve... whose powers are manifest in us all... those who have the Sight, like young Bobbi Yandro, can speak with them at will... her own budding powers are beyond control... events sweep her into the very hands of the Twelve... " |
| Nancy Springer | The White Hart | Richard Drew 1984 First Trade Hardback Edition First Printing (Bound in red leatherette) | Page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Long ago, so long ago that the enchantment of the Beginning was yet on it, there was a little land called Isle... Vast oceans peopled by Sylkies encircled the land even as the thick-woven Forest surrounded each village... " First in The Book Of The Isle Trilogy. |
| Steven Spruill | The Imperator Plot | Doubleday 1983 First Edition First Printing (Code N28 on P. 186) | Page edges slightly browned/marked and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly marked Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... a series of assassination attempts on the Imperator of the Terran Empire... his body is totally destroyed - but his head and brain are kept working... Elias Kane... direct the investigation... something more than a duty when Kane's fiancee dies, and its conclusion is more complex and disturbing than he, or anyone, imagined." Second in the Elias Kane trilogy. |
| Brian Stableford (Also as Brian Craig) | Salamander's Fire | Legend 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned and marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "The world is crumbling, literally and metaphorically. Had humanity retained their ancient lore they would understand these changes but in this - as in so much - the truth is lost behind a cloud of legend and myth... " Sequel to Serpent's Blood. |
| Brian Stableford | The Angel Of Pain | Simon & Schuster 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket with a short (2mm) tear at the top of the rear fold Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £10.00 | "... It is twenty-one years since David Lydyard returned to England... The strange visions which have afflicted him since he was bitten by a snake in Egypt have been nourished by the constant pain of a crippling disease... now the visions are becoming more urgent and more extravagant... David must undertake the strangest voyage in human history... to discover the truth of what the fallen angels really are... " |
| Brian Stableford (Also as Brian Craig) | The Empire Of Fear | Simon & Schuster 1988 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked and bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with 'ghost' of old price sticker on front flap Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... a magnificent epic of alternative history, which spans three centuries... set in a brilliantly imagined world ruled by a powerful aristocracy of vampires; long-lived, extraordinarily handsome humans who are immune to pain but must drink the blood of their common subjects... " |
| Robert Stallman | The Beast Trilogy | Kinnell 1989-90 First Edition in Hardbacks First Printings (3 Volumes) | Bruised at top and/or base of spines, volume 2 page edges a little browned, else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. | £12.50 | "... the powerful fantasy trilogy... the story of the strange and mysterious creature locked within the body of a young man in the rural mid-West of the 1930's... " Quite a 'realistic' look at some problems associated with animal shape-changers - Great fun. |
| Mary Stanton | The Heavenly Horse From the Outermost West | New English Library 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly creased, unpriced, Dust Jacket with a small (3mm) tear at top of rear fold | £20.00 | "..is the Dancer, a shining Appaloosa stallion, first of all horses in the Army of One Hundred and Five and guardian of the Courts of the Outermost West? Anor the executioner, monstrous and fanged, is the servant of the Dark Horse... and if he can, he will destroy the Dancer... " Apparently scarce hardback copy of Stanton's fable of the eternal battle between good and evil. |
| Mary Stanton | Unicorns of Balinor Books 1-3 | Scholastic 2005 First Combined & Hardback Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in laminated boards - as issued | £5.00 | "Balinor is a magical and peaceful land protected by beautiful unicorns until on day, the dark forces of evil fall upon Balinor. Only the royal princess, Arianna, and her unicorn, Sunchaser, can save the kingdom. But the princess has lost her memory... " |
| Christopher Stasheff | A Wizard In Midgard | Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "When last we left Gar Pike, he was setting off to roam the galaxy alone after his longtime friend and companion, Dirk Dulaine, found his one true love and settled down for good. Now, a lonely and loveless Gar is determined to throw himself into his work and heads for the planet Siegfried... " Sixth Chronicle of the Rogue Wizard. |
| Christopher Stasheff | A Wizard In Mind | Tor 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the first volume in a rousing new series featuring Rod's renegade son Marcus, a hero every bit as brave, though twice as headstrong, as his famous father... young Magnus sets out to sew anarchy across the stars and prove himself a greater liberator than his sire ever was... " |
| Allen Steele | Coyote | Ace 2002 First Edition | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, page edges a little marked and previous owner's blind stamp on front free end paper else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... The crime of the century begins without a hitch. On July 5, 2070, as it's about to be launched, the starship Alabama is hijacked -- by her captain and crew. In defiance of the repressive government of the United Republic of Earth, they replace her handpicked passengers with political dissidents... These become Earth's first pioneers in the exploration of space... " |
| Allen Steele | Rude Astronauts | Legend 1993 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 with a little damp marking inside the base of the spine panel. | £5.00 | "... his first short story collection... you will find old friends from the novels... You will also find half-a-dozen non-fiction pieces, which will make you think as much as the fictions. But above all, you'll find the true sense-of-wonder which makes Allen Steele a writer to read and be astounded by... " |
| Bruce Sterling | Globalhead | Ziesing 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few top page edges/corners bumped/creased else Fine copy in slightly creased and rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | Our Neural Cherobyl; Storming the Cosmos (With Rudy Rucker); The Compassionae, The Digital; Jim and Irene; The Sword of Damocles; The Gulf Wars; The Shores of Bohemia; The Moral Bullet (With John Kessel); The Unthinkable; We See Things Differently; Hollywood Kremlin; Are You For 86? and Dori Bangs |
| Bruce Sterling | Heavy Weather | Bantam 1994 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 | £7.50 | "... vividly depicts a world wasted by ecological disaster, fueled by a black market in everything from semilegal narcotics and privatized currency to human organs, and populated by a cast of characters living on the edge of civilisation... the Storm Troupe is a refuge... They survive on wreckage, scrap, gunge, free software, and the charisma of their leader... " |
| Bruce Sterling | Holy Fire | Millennium 1996 First Edition First Printing With the author's name misspelled as 'Stirling' on the title page. | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page (With spelling corrected) | £7.50 | "Mia Ziemann, 93 years old, with decades of living before her... the body and mind of a thirty year old, but she's seen it all and done it all... what next?... In Prague, Mia confronts not only her boredom, her fear of entropy, but a whole new philosophy that challenges her very sense of self. Pleasure, creativity, joie-de-vivre - with 'holy fire' in your blood, anything is possible." |
| Bruce Sterling | Holy Fire | Bantam 1996 First Edition in the US First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and ?dart? punctures at top corner of rear board else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £5.00 | "Mia Ziemann is a ninety-four-year-old medical economist who enjoys all the benefits of her position. But a deathbed visit with a long-ago ex-lover and a chance meeting with a young bohemian dress designer brings Mia to an awful revelation. She has lived her life with such caution that it has been totally bereft of pleasure and adventure. She has one chance to do it all over... " |
| Bruce Sterling | Islands In The Net | Legend 1988 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine and page edges browned and marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "The year is 2023, the place Galveston, and Laura Webster is happy. She and her adored David are bringing up their new baby in a world where nuclear weapons, environmental crises and national politics are all things of the past. Net - a global telecommunications system... provides activity, friendship, and support... " |
| Bruce Sterling | The Zenith Angle | Ballantine/Del Rey 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and around 25 page corners bumped and creased else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a couple of small spots of wear at the top of the spine | £5.00 | "... America's most powerful and crucial 'eye in the sky,' the KH13 satellite... is perilously close to becoming an orbiting billion-dollar boondoggle, unless Van can debug the glitch... what's really wrong... will force Van to make the unlikely leap from scientist to spy, team up with a ruthlessly resourceful... commando, and root out an unknown enemy... " |
| Desmond Stewart | The Vampire Of Mons | Hamish Hamilton 1976 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket with blue of spine panel background faded to pale grey and orange letters faded to yellow | £5.00 | "... Clive Swinburne, arriving at his new public school in the last months before the outbreak of war in 1939. recently expelled from another, distinctly superior, school he joined Mons House - the toughest, most barbaric house... The influence of Dr Vitaly, the mysterious teacher of music and physics, with his beautiful Egyptian wife, his interest in vampires... " |
| Ian Stewart | Heaven | Warner 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page corners folded else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Across the vast cosmos, a diverse array of creatures must band together to defeat the galaxy's deadliest and most destructive force... " |
| Ian Stewart | Wheelers | Warner 2000 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and lower page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Twenty-third century civilisation is recovering from a decades-long anti-technology frenzy that has left the world underpopulated, the Moon and asteroids controlled by a Tibetan... sect... archaeologist Prudence Odingo ... returns to Earth to report that she's recovered 100,000-year-old wheeled artefacts - from... Callisto... " |
| Mary Stewart | The Hollow Hills | Hodder & Stoughton 1973 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... the story of Merlin, and of the boyhood of Arthur from his birth to his accession to the throne of Britain... in the Dark ages... " |
| Sean Stewart | Mockingbird | Ace 1998 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and felt remainder pen line on lower page edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Tony Beauchamp never liked her mother's world of magic and visions and six strange gods that took over her body at will. So when her mother died, Tony and her sister Candy thought it meant a new beginning, a life free of magic... " |
| Sean Stewart | The Night Watch | Ace 1997 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped and rubbed at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a touch of shelf-wear at the base of the spine panel. | £5.00 | "It is now 2074. Magic has been in the world for as long as anyone can remember - and has taken over. Children are sacrificed to gods and ghosts. Man-made machines have conquered the inner cities And people who enter the forests are never seen again." Set in the world of Resurrection Man |
| S. M. Stirling | A Meeting At Corvallis | Roc 2006 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In the tenth year of the change, the survivors in western Oregon have learned to live in a world without technology. The city-state of Corvallis has preserved its university, and trade flourishes... they have held the Lord Protector... the warlord of Portland - at bay... " Third in The Change series |
| S. M. Stirling | T2 Rising Storm | HarperEntertainment 2002 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 with a crease running he length of the front flap. | £5.00 | "... continues the bestselling Terminator adventures... Hunted for years, Sarah and John Connor have waged a grave battle to save humanity from destruction... now the heroes have been separated... more infiltrators have initiated their own clandestine operation, including the hunt to terminate the Connors... " |
| S. M. Stirling | T2 The Future War | HarperEntertainment 2003 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "The triumphant conclusion... The future war is now... mass destruction across the globe... nuclear winter... the first Hunter-Killer and T-90 Terminator units begin to exterminate their human prey... But there is still one rallying cry of hope... " |
| S. M. Stirling | The Protector's War | Roc 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... It's been eight years singe the Change rendered technology inoperable across the globe,. Rising from the ashes of the computer and industrial ages is a brave new world... " Third in the Change sequence |
| S. M. Stirling | The Reformer | Baen 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "After the collapse of the galactic Web, civilisations crumbled and chaos reigned on thousands of planets... On Hafardine... Adrian Gellert was a philosopher... until he touched the 'holy relic'... Adrian's search for wisdom... lead him to a life of action... battlefields bloodier than any in the history he'd learned. The prize was the future of humanity." |
| John E. Stith | Manhattan Transfer | Tor 1993 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "When Manhattan - and everyone on it - is kidnapped into space by some unknown alien force, the humans trapped on the island are faced with a baffling (and terrifying) enigma. A new artificial dawn reveals that the city is encased in a bubble - resting on a vast plain, surrounded by dozens of other bubbles containing a multitude of alien cultures. Is this some sort of cosmic zoo exhibit, part of a scientific experiment? Or perhaps fresh groceries?... " |
| J. Michael Straczynski | Othersyde | Headline 1991 First Edition in the UK First Printing ? | Bruised at top of spine, a couple of page corners creased and page edges slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket with a small nick at the base of the spine and a spot of wear at the top o the front fold | £10.00 | "... It's every teenager's dream - 'Happy Birthday, kid - now pack your bags, we're moving to California!' Chris Martino is heading for Los Angeles from the backwoods of New Jersey, to a new home, a new life and a new school, 'California Dreamin', of sun sea, sand and beautiful girls. But at Lennox High the dream turns to nightmare... " |
| Peter Straub | Ghost Story | Cape 1979 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, green stain on top page edges slightly faded and and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like, unpriced and slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket, slightly worn at the tip of the folds and a small print chip missing from the edge of the rear fold | £10.00 | "... It began shortly after the party at which one of their members... had died - or was killed. The Chowder Society, who for years had met in customary evening dress with the object of telling each other tales of every kind, now found themselves drawn towards the supernatural... They began to tell ghost stories... that did not always stop when the teller had finished speaking... " |
| Peter Straub | Koko | Viking 1988 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... fifteen years later at a Vietnam reunion... four vets from the platoon meet again... brought together by a series of grisly murders being committed throughout Asia. The killer's signature - a regimental playing card with the name KOKO scrawled across it - carries an awesome significance for them... " |
| Peter Straub | Mr. X | Random House 1999 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | ",,, Ned Dunstan's birthday is fast approaching, and every year on this date, Ned experiences a paralysing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious and malevolent figure... Mr. X... he is shadowed by an identical twin brother who can pass through doors and otherwise defy the laws of nature... " |
| Peter Straub | Pork Pie Hat | Orion 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... a graduate... with a passion for jazz arrives in New York to discover a legendary musician he had assumed long dead... is not only still alive but playing in an East Village club... an interview on Halloween... unfolds... an extraordinary story... centred upon the Halloween night of his eleventh year... " Part of the Criminal Records series of novellas edited by Otto Penzler |
| Victoria Strauss | The Burning Land | Eos 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "After long years of oppression, the rightful rulers of Arsace have finally reclaimed the holy city of Baushpar and the First Temple of the God. At last, the desecrated temples can be rebuilt and the people's suffering redressed. But tensions between the secular and sacred worlds abound... " |
| Craig Strete (Also as Sovereign Falconer) | Death Chants Short Stories | Doubleday 1988 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket torn at the top edge of the rear panel adjacent o the spine | £5.00 | Introduction by Salvador Dali; Two novellas and thirteen short stories "With a unique blend of American Indian lore, tantalising fantasy, and a boundless imagination... " |
| Craig Strete (Also as Sovereign Falconer) | Dreams That Burn In The Night | Doubleday 1982 First Edition First Printing (No Code) | Slightly bumped at top and at base of spine, faint blue marks in gutter of front and rear end papers and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a little foxing on the inside (no show-through) | £7.50 | 28 stories with titles like: Secrets of the White-Head Hawk; Dancing the Dead Safe into their Beads; Love Life of the Leglorn; Last Wish Fulfilment and Testament; Into Every Rain a Little Life Must Fall; Closely Watched Urinals; We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About... |
| Whitley Strieber | Confirmation The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us | Simon & Schuster 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top of spine, a couple of page corners creased and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... he had an apparent close encounter in 1985... what he's needed is physical proof... how he got it and what it is... five implants surgically removed under controlled and documented conditions from the bodies of people who have reported contact with aliens... " |
| Charles Stross | Singularity Sky | Ace 2003 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 | £20.00 | "... the discovery of faster-than-light travel and the creation of the Eschaton, an artificial intelligence that achieved independent sentience. Four hundred years later... the New Republic... want no part of the Eschaton... are attacked by an information plague that calls itself The Festival... the colony slips into revolutionary turmoil... " |
| Charles Stross | Singularity Sky | Ace 2003 First Edition First Printing | Corners slightly rubbed, a few surface tears/abrasions - Very Good Uncorrected Proof Copy Signed by the Author on a printed bookplate fixed to the prelim page | £5.00 | "... the discovery of faster-than-light travel and the creation of the Eschaton, an artificial intelligence that achieved independent sentience. Four hundred years later... the New Republic... want no part of the Eschaton... are attacked by an information plague that calls itself The Festival... the colony slips into revolutionary turmoil... " |
| Nigel Suckling | The Cloth Merchant's Apprentice | Big O 1979 First Edition First Printing | Near Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Illustrated by the Author. | £7.50 | "... Rufus' fate leads him far from home and across timeless and barren lands to the city of the Brown Gods. His meeting with Aznavor, man of secrets and ambition, the blind woman whose eyes pierce the mists of the future, and his encounters with the strange beasts and ancient mystical symbols, begin to reveal a destiny beyond any of his imaginings..." |
| Tricia Sullivan (Also as Valery Leith) | Double Vision | Orbit 2005 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Fine copy | £5.00 | "... When shy, psychic bookworm 'Cookie' Orbach watches television, she sees things... The Grid - a strange, shifting landscape where human forces battle against an enemy they dare not kill... Cookie's quiet life is about to be shattered... " |
| Tricia Sullivan (Also as Valery Leith) | Lethe | Gollancz 1995 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top front corner and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Eighty years after the Gene Wars devastated Earth, decimating the population and producing a horde of strange mutations, the planet is ruled by an oligarchy of once-human brains, preserved in glass jars and communicating through permanent computer interfaces. They are aided by... gene-doctored humans who regress to pre-human aquatic form and share a strange telepathic link with dolphins... " |
| Tricia Sullivan (Also as Valery Leith) | Maul | Orbit 2003 First Edition First Printing (Paper) | Slightl;y rubbed at top and base of spine else Fine Copy | £6.00 | "... The gun straps to the inside of my leg with Velcro. It's not the absolute zenith of fashion to do this anymore, but girls who wear theirs with leather straps and buckles aren't serious: with Velcro you can get at the thing when you need it. I have a pink ammo belt. It's heavy, but who said fashion was easy?... " |
| Lucy Sussex | The Scarlet Rider | Forge 1996 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top of spine else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "Intertwining the tale of two Australias more than a century apart... a literary coming-of-age story and a compelling double-layered mystery of the 1860s... " |
| Rosemary Sutcliff | The Shining Company | Bodley Head 1990 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket | Bruised at top and base of spine, board background slightly faded and pages slightly marked else Fine copy in like laminated boards, s issued. | £7.50 | "It is many years since King Arthur drove the Saxons from the land and the British tribes are once again threatened by the growing power of the invaders. King Mynydogg the Golden dreams of uniting the tribes and repeating Arthur's heroic deeds. He calls for an army of three hundred fighting men to be trained... " |
| Rosemary Sutcliff | The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table | Bodley Head 1981 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corners folded else Fine copy in slightly worn, price-clipped, Dust Jacket with some erosion at the base of the spine panel | £7.50 | "... the age-old stories of Arthur's birth, how he became King of Britain by drawing a miraculous sword from the stone in which it was embedded, the formation of the Fellowship of the Round Table, and the many adventures... " |
| Steph Swainston | The Year Of Our War | Gollancz 2004 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Jant is the Messenger. one of The circle, a cadre of fifty immortals who serve the Emperor. He is the only immortal, indeed the only man alive, who can fly. The Emperor is seeking to protect mankind from the hordes of giant insects who have plagued the land for centuries... " |
| Michael Swanwick | Griffins Egg | Legend 1991 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of edge-wear. | £4.00 | " Driven from an ecologically torn earth, hi-tech industries have annexed the moon... dependent still upon the world they have already destroyed, they are carelessly laying waste to the chill and ancient beauties of the lunar surface... When the inevitable war on earth threatens to shut down the pipeline... priorities must change... " |
| Michael Swanwick | Jack Faust | Avon 1997 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the silver cover lettering tarnished Signed by the Author on the Title Page | £7.50 | "... unlike the classic Mephistopheles, the seductive demon who approaches... Johannes Faust is not the devil as we know him, but rather a representative of a mysterious race that seeks nothing less than the extermination of the hated human animal... so begins Faust's transition from madman to saviour... as he accelerates human progress at blinding speed... " |
| Michael Swanwick | Vacuum Flowers | Simon & Schuster 1988 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "In the sprawling space civilisations of the future, where humans live in hollowed-out asteroids, tunnelled comets and other artificial habitats, Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark awakes in the Medical Centre in the body of another woman. In her world brains and psyches can be re-programmed in hours, bodies cloned and copyrighted and human capabilities enhanced by instant 'wetware' programming..." |
| Judith Tarr | The Golden Horn The Hound and the Falcon Trilogy Volume II | Bantam 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little foxed else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... elf-born Alfred has left the monastic sanctuary of St. Ruan's and, with his spirited partner, Thea, turned eastward to Constantinople... War is raging throughout the Empire and its capital, the richest prize in the 13th-century world, is rife with intrigue, and surrounded by hostile armies intent on plundering its treasures... " |
| Judith Tarr | The Isle of Glass The Hound And The Falcon Trilogy Volume I | Bantam 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Lower corners bruised, one signature slightly differentially browned else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket | £5.00 | "...in 12th-century England... Alfred grows up a devoted monk, determined to ignore his extraordinary beauty, his uncanny agelessness. his healing powers and his ability to read another's mind. But worldly events intrude... " |
| Roger Taylor | The Return Of The Sword The Last Chronicle of Hawklan | Headline 1999 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "The dark lord Sumeral is dead - His mortal body destroyed and his will scattered... somewhere, Sumeral is whole again and struggling to return... other, even darker threads are being drawn together... More terrible than Sumeral. More terrifying by far... " |
| Roger Taylor | Whistler | Headline 1994 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine. spine leant and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... one fateful day, ominous clouds gather over Canol Madreth, and - mysteriously affected by whatever brought them - the impetuous Brother Cassraw is transformed into a fiery religious demagogue. The stability of the whole of Gyronlandt and beyond is suddenly threatened by his strange compulsive power... " |
| William Tenn (Philip J. Klass) | Here Comes Civilization The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn Volume II | NESFA 2001 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and a few top page edges else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | Includes the novels Of Men And Monsters, A Lamp For Medusa, and all the stories not collected in Volume I - Short introduction by Robert Silverberg, afterword by George Zebrowski |
| William Tenn (Philip J. Klass) | Immodest Proposals The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn Volume 1 | NESFA 2001 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly runbbed and creased Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | Thirty-three of some of the most satirical, witty, anarchic stories ever published in the SF field. Introduction by Connie Willis |
| William Tenn (Philip J. Klass) | Time In Advance | Gollancz 1963 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners, ? rust? stain at spine end of top page edges, faint trace of label removal from front board, black line across lower page edges, previous owner's name on each front end paper and a few ink spots on rear end papers - probable Boots Library copy in quite badly torn, creased and eroded ?fair? Dust Jacket | £10.00 | Firewater; Time In Advance; The Sickness and Winthrop Was Stubborn - Excellent! |
| Emma Tennant | Wild Nights | Cape 1979 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Aunt Zita's annual visits... herald every wild night of the imagination: here fabulous feasts precede fantastic flights on the wind's back over the sleeping village to all the glittering balls and exotic colours of an unknown world... startling blend of the real and the fantastic transports the reader to the lost world of childhood dreams and imaginings... " |
| Sheri S. Tepper | Beauty | Doubleday 1991 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower edge of front board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well-remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought-provoking, finely crafted, and moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature. Set against backdrops both enchanted and horrific, the story thoroughly involves the reader in the life of Beauty, one of the most captivating heroines in modern fantasy..." |
| Sheri S. Tepper | Beauty | HarperCollins 1992 First Edition in the UK First Printing & Thus | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Drawing on a wellspring of much-loved fairy tales, Beauty is a powerful and moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature... when her wicked aunt's curse is fulfilled... Beauty is able to sidestep the tragedy, and... finds herself transported to the world of the future... Here her adventures begin... " The author's preferred text. |
| Sheri S. Tepper | Gibbon's Decline And Fall | Voyager 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine, lower front and top rear corner else Fine copy in slightly creased Dust Jacket a little eroded at the top of the front fold and with an 11mm tear at the base of the rear fold | £5.00 | "A group of six women made a pact when they were students together in the heady sixties, vowing that each of them would find a place to stand where she could be woman as woman was meant to be, and thereafter she would never fall or decline from that place... Fast forward to the year 2000... Something evil is threatening the world... Of the six extraordinary women... five remain... " |
| Sheri S. Tepper | Shadow's End | HarperCollins 1994 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... Dinadh, the strangest and most secretive of all inhabited worlds... Astounding insights, extraordinary aliens and colossal dangers... " |
| Sheri S. Tepper | Sideshow | HarperCollins 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, cloth over gutter edge of front board slightly split (manufacturing fault) and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Humanity fled to Elsewhere, at the far end of an attenuated galaxy arm, one thousand years ago to escape enslavement by the Hobbs Land... gods - actually a benign symbiote... prohibited the asking of the Great Question: What is the ultimate destiny of man?... " |
| Sheri S. Tepper | Sideshow | Bantam 1992 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the front flap plastic lamination slightly browned. | £5.00 | "On the planet of Elsewhere... a mysterious force has arisen... one-time hallucinations of religious rituals have taken on real shape... Enforcer Fringe Owldark has been sent with a small crew to investigate... the arrival of Hobbs Land gods... " |
| Walter Tevis | The Steps Of The Sun | Doubleday 1983 First Edition First Printing (Code Y 37 on P. 251) | Bruised at top and base of spine, boards slightly marked, page edges bumped in a couple of places and a few speckles on top page edges else Fine copy in slightly worn Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... It is the year 2063 and all energy sources have been depleted or declared unsafe. An ice age has begun, China's world dominance is growing, and America is sliding into impotence. Benson... embarks on a highly publicised search for an extraterrestrial fuel supply... " |
| Patrick Tilley | Star Wartz Tales of Adventure from the Rimworld | Orbit 1995 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the top edge of the spine panel With Publisher's Advertising Sheet | £5.00 | "Struggling freelance journalist Andrew Webber... is offered a lunch appointment... he is understandably perturbed to discover that the venue has changed. By several zillion miles. Miraculously transported to the Rimworld... promising untold wealth and excitement... " |
| Patrick Tilley | The Amtrak Wars Book 2: First Family | Severn House 1985 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in slightly spine faded Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | Clute - "... more vividly set primitive Mutes against the blindly technocratic Amtrak Federation in a post-holocaust USA; as the sequence develops, the geopolitical realities governing the land become increasingly complex and the fulfillment of the revelatory Talisman prophecy... gives the books an increasing momentum... one of the most compelling sf-adventure series of the decade." |
| Richard A. Tilms (John Sladek) | Judgement Of Jupiter | New English Library 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "Using a unique blend of astronomy, astrology, meteorology, myth, political history, numerology and hard scientific fact, Richard A. Tilms here proves that the great disasters of the past - and the future - are a direct result of the terrific forces born of the conjunction of two or more planets, the most catastrophic involving Jupiter..." |
| Mark Timlin | Quick Before They Catch Us | No Exit Press 1999 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 5/100) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed on Limited, Numbered Label affixed to front free end paper | £10.00 | "Family trouble! Growing old quietly was never an option for Nick Sharman. When he takes on a job for a prosperous Manchester businessman, looking for his runaway daughter, he should perhaps have known better. But he finds himself in a race against time to save the girl... " |
| James Tiptree, Jr. | Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home | Eyre Methuen 1975 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine, page edges a little foxed and two page edges with a short (ca 5mm) tear - not affecting text - else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... an outstanding collection of fifteen stories including... And I Awoke and Found Me Here on a Cold Hill's Side... The Man Who Walked Home... Mother in the Sky with Diamonds... " Faithful To Thee, Terra, In Our Fashion... The Man Doors Said Hello To... I'll Be Waiting For You When The Swimming Pool Is Empty... I'm Too Big But I love To Play... |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | Sir Gawain & The Green Knight | Oxford University Press 1930 First Edition Thus First Printing (Corrected Impression) | Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine, board edges a little rubbed and discoloured, page edges browned and a little foxed and two sections (I & IV - 32) heavily annotated in pen (to aid comprehension) - Good Copy in browned, marked and torn Dust Jacket with the spine panel missing | £10.00 | Preface; Introduction; Select Bibliography; The Text; Notes; Metre; Language; Glossary and Index of Names. Text taken from a ca 1400 manuscript in the British Museum. |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Book Of Lost Tales Part II | Allen & Unwin 1984 First Edition First Printing | Fine copy in slightly worn, unpriced, Dust Jacket with a 2mm tear at base of spine | £40.00 | The Tale of Tinuviel; Turambar and the Foaloke; The Fall of Gondolin; The Nauglafring; The Tale of Earendel; The History of Eriol or Ealfwine and the End of the Tales. With Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales - Part II; Short Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic and Rare Words and Index |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Lord Of The Rings | HarperCollins 2002 First Impression (Film Tie-In Edition) | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, transparent, Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... in ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him... After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins... " |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | The Silmarillion | Allen & Unwin 1977 First Edition First Printing Printed by Billings and Sons £4.95 | Bruised at top and base of spine and end papers slightly browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £10.00 | "... the story of the First Age in Tolkien's world, the ancient drama to which characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel took part... the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the Gods... and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy..." |
| Nicholai Tolstoy | The Coming Of The King | Bantam 1989 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with red on spine panel faded. | £5.00 | "... takes us into the world of Merlin, into the bright daylight and the deep shadows of Britain in what we call the Dark Ages. It is a world of warriors in love with slaughter and death, but also of poets and druids, a world of savage cruelty but also of intense natural beauty, of laughter and proud boasting, but also of magic and mysticism... " |
| Peter Tremayne (Peter Beresford Ellis) | The Fires of Lan-Kern | Bailey Bros. 1980 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "... more than drama, romance and mysticism, it offers a deep philosophical approach to life and contains many telling parables of our own times... based firmly in the fantastic - and often misinterpreted - world of Celtic mythology... persuasive and thought-provoking product of a keen imagination." First of the trilogy. |
| Thomas Tryon (Also as Tom Tryon) | The Night of the Moonbow | Hodder & Stoughton 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and top rear corner else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... back to 1938... an idyllic landscape, a sunlit world that evokes the halcyon days of childhood... to be overtaken by the darkness that lies beneath its surface... We are held spellbound in the shadow of a blossoming terror... and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax... Leo becomes the unwitting catalyst and prime actor in an explosion of evil." |
| Tom Tryon (Also as Thomas Tryon) | Night Magic | Simon & Schuster 1995 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with the price removed and a short scratch on the rear panel | £10.00 | "... a mesmerising novel of ancient secrets and black magic... Michael Hawke, a young actor making a living as a street performer... attempts to involve the old man in his act... And that is when it happened: Michael experiences real magic - a mind-numbing, soul-shocking glimpse into a dark and sinister and utterly seductive world of secrets... " |
| E. C. Tubb (Also as Chuck Adams; Judy Cary; J. F. Clarkson; James S. Farrow; James R. Fenner; Charles S. Graham; Charles Grey; Volsted Gridban; Gill Hunt; E. F. Jackson; Gregory Kern; King Lang; Mike Lantry; P. Lawrence; Chet Lawson; Arthur Maclean; Carl Maddox; M. L. Powers; Paul Schofield; Brian Shaw; Roy Sheldon; John Stevens & Edward Thompson) | A Scatter Of Stardust | Dobson 1976 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket | £7.50 | "... Magic and science, mind and matter, strange worlds and deadly weapons, all these must be contended with in E. C. Tubb's universe... " Eight short stories - The Bells of Acheron; Anne; Return Visit; The Shrine; Survival Demands; Little Girl Lost; The Eyes of Silence and Enchanter's Encounter. |
| E. C. Tubb (Also as Chuck Adams; Judy Cary; J. F. Clarkson; James S. Farrow; James R. Fenner; Charles S. Graham; Charles Grey; Volsted Gridban; Gill Hunt; E. F. Jackson; Gregory Kern; King Lang; Mike Lantry; P. Lawrence; Chet Lawson; Arthur Maclean; Carl Maddox; M. L. Powers; Paul Schofield; Brian Shaw; Roy Sheldon; John Stevens & Edward Thompson) | STAR Flight | Hale 1980 First Edition in Hardback First Printing | Bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned and a little marked - Very Good to Near Fine copy in slightly worn and marked Dust Jacket with an 11mm tear at the base of the front panel, with one crease. Signed by the Author on the title page. | £5.00 | "Only the Secret Terran Armed Resistance Movement opposes the Kaltich tyranny. And only Martin Preston S.T.A.R. agent, can possibly steal their secrets. If he fails, earth will become a planet of billions of starving people... " |
| Frederick Turner | A Double Shadow | Sidgwick & Jackson 1979 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | Clute - "... set on a far-future terraformed Mars, it depicts in dying-Earth flavours the conflicts of two characters who represent deeply contrasting classes of evolved humans; their strife leads them to transcend their volatile human condition." |
| George Turner | The Destiny Makers | Morrow 1993 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "In the era of 'the big squeeze' - when an environmentally ravaged Earth groans beneath the weight of twelve billion people - two men control the destiny of humankind. One was recently senile... the other is going insane..." His last book. |
| George Turner | Vaneglory | Faber 1981 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £4.00 | "... Beloved Son was the first volume in what is now recognised as one of the outstanding science fiction achievements of the past decade. Vaneglory is its successor; and, though completely self-contained, it develops with gripping imaginative brilliance the characters and situations already established in Beloved Son." |
| George Turner | Yesterday's Men | Faber 1983 First Edition First Printing | Slightly rubbed at top and base of spine and top corners a little slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... third in a series of novels concerning the reconstructed world of the twenty-first century. On Earth the aims of the Ethical Culture... are under fire from thinking men, and an extraordinary experiment is designed to examine the real natures of the despised ancestors who had ruined the world with violence and greed... recreate the New Guinea wartime conditions... and sit back to observe human nature in the raw... " |
| Harry Turtledove (Also as Dan Chernenko, Erik Iverson & H. N. Turteltaub) | American Empire | Hodder & Stoughton 2001-3 All Are First Edition in the UK First Printing (Three Volumes) | Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £15.00 | "... As the 1920's begin... the seeds of a new conflict have already been sown, The United States, led by Theodore Roosevelt, swings wildly towards socialism. In Canada - now a US colony - nationalist terrorists strike against the new American oppressors. But it is in the Confederacy... where fascism begins to spread... " |
| Harry Turtledove | Colonization | Del Rey 1999-2001 All Are First Edition First Printing (Three Volumes) | Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. | £20.00 | "During the Worldwar, Washington, D.C., Tokyo, and dozens of other cities perished in the radioactive holocaust of nuclear battle. Twenty years later, a fitful peace reigned over the continents... the invaders lorded over most of the world... Then... the arrival of the colonisation fleet... " |
| Harry Turtledove (Also as Dan Chernenko, Erik Iverson & H. N. Turteltaub) | End of the Beginning | New American Library 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... A puppet king sits on Hawaii's throne... American POW's, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them... the strain is starting to take its toll on the Japanese... across the United States... the military is marshalling its forces... " Sequel to Days of Infamy |
| Harry Turtledove | Homeward Bound | Del Rey 2005 First Edition First Printing | Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "Now - in the twenty-first century - a few daring men and women embark upon a journey no human has made before. Warriors, diplomats, traitors, and exiles - the humans who arrive in the place called Home find themselves genuine strangers on a strange world, and at the centre of a flash point with terrifying potential... " |
| Harry Turtledove | Homeward Bound | Hodder & Stoughton 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... As the twentieth century ends, a daring few men and women embark upon a journey no human has made before. Warriors, diplomats, traitors, and exiles - the humans who arrive in the place called Home find themselves genuine strangers on a strange world, and at the centre of a flashpoint with terrifying potential... " Following on from WorldWar and Colonisation |
| Harry Turtledove | The Great War Walk In Hell | Hodder & Stoughton 2000 First Edition in the UK | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a spot of wear at the base of the rear fold. | £5.00 | "It is 1915, the Great War is intensifying, and the time of darkness has come... " |
| Harry Turtledove | World War - The Series | Hodder & Stoughton 1994-6 All are First Edition in the UK First Printing (Four Volumes) | Slightly bumped at top and/or base of spines and page edges a little browned else Fine copies in like Dust Jackets. | £25.00 | "The Second World War as you've never seen it fought before... Alien beings even worse than the Nazis were loose on the Earth... the nations of the world had been forced into an uneasy alliance... and hitherto unthinkable tactics were brought into action against the common enemy... " |
| Harry Turtledove | World War Striking The Balance | Hodder & Stoughton 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges slightly marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page. | £7.50 | "... alien beings armed with devastatingly superior military technology and bent on global conquest invaded Earth... Suddenly humans were forced to... unite against this deadly new enemy from beyond the Solar system... the Aliens faced a challenge tougher than any they had faced before... " |
| Lisa Tuttle | The Pillow Friend | White Wolf 1996 First Edition First Printing | Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little dusty else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £7.50 | "Agnes Grey, a young child growing up in Houston, Texas in the early sixties, is troubled by her mother's depressive and erratic mood swings. She escapes to a delusional dream state... A beloved porcelain doll whispers unintelligible mutterings... as Agnes... enters adulthood, her fantastical relationships... become deceptively real, with a chilling and bizarre aftermath... " |
| Kathy Tyers | Star Wars The New Jedi Order Balance Point | Century 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing | Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. | £5.00 | "... continues the epic struggle between good and evil as the New Republic, led by the battered but still unbroken Jedi, braces for the next onslaught of its merciless alien foe... " |
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