Books For Sale - October 2008

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 Fury	Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing	Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet	£5.00	"... The Berserkers have developed a new trick: Berserker units that can pass for human-created androids. They're... massing for an all-out attack on human-held space. But the humans have... cracked the Berserkers' basic codes and know what their battle plans are... "
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... "
Fred Saberhagen	Shiva In Steel	Tor 1998 First Edition First Printing	Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket.	£5.00	"... one Berserker computer has suddenly and mysteriously developed a tactical strategy unlike anything the human opposition has seen before... Shiva, like the Hindu god of destruction... annihilates whole colonies... "
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.
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	Climb The Wind A Novel of Another America	HarperPrism 1999 First Edition First Printing	Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket.	£5.00	"... What if the warlike Indian nations of the high plains had combined under a strong leader. What if they had struck eastward at a weakened America, still reeling from the devastation of the Civil War? What if they had won?... "
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... "
Robert J. Sawyer	Frameshift	Tor 1997 First Edition First Printing	Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a few light, fine scratches on the front panel.	£5.00	"Pierre Tardival is a scientist working on the Human Genome Project... A driven man, Pierre works with the awareness that he may not have long to live: he has a fifty-fifty chance of dying from Huntingdon's disease... "
Robert J. Sawyer	Mindscan	Tor 2005 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine and lower edge of rear board else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket.	£5.00	"... Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form... the original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, has taken hostages... demanding the return of his rights of personhood... "
Josephine Saxton	Little Tours Of Hell: Tall Tales Of Food And Holidays	Pandora Press 1986 First Edition First Printing	Slightly bumped at base and bruised at top of spine and page edges differentially browned else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket.	£7.50	A Little Tour of Hell; Spaghetti Halifax; The Sea Urchin; The Rabbit Pie Man; Tea and No Sympathy; Dinner at the Manse; Virginia and Bread; Souvenirs of Devon; The Cure; First Day at Herradura; The Golden Mile; Jackie Loves Food - True; Oily Foreign Muck and Falling in Love at Christmas.
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... "
Stanley Schmidt	Argonaut	Tor 2002 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket.	£5.00	"Three decades in the future, in a public garden north of New York City, a man enjoying the seasonal blossoms, butterflies, and buzzing bees notices a strange flying insect unlike any he's ever seen before. When it stings him between the eyes, he is overwhelmed by a tidal wave of memories crashing through his mind in a flood of simultaneous sensations and emotions... "
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... "
James H. Schmitz	The Witches Of Karres	Baen 2004	Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a little rubbing at the top of the rear fold.	£7.50	("Captain Pausert thought his luck had finally turned... but then he made the fatal mistake of freeing three slave children from their masters... those three adorable girls quickly made Pausert the mortal enemy of his fiancee, his home planet, the Empire, warlike Sirians, psychopathic Uldanians... " Marked 'Edited by Eric Flint' but I cannot see any textural changes.
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.
Michael Scot (Mike Scott Rohan & Allan Scott)	The Ice King	New English Library 1986 First Edition First Printing	Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket.	£7.50	"... a team of archaeologists... uncovers the remains of a thousand-year-old Viking ship... A brutal attack on the dig's nightwatchman and the bizarre death of a guard dog are only the first in a series of killings... But in the end it is Hal Hansen who... comes face to face with Raven, the Ice King himself."
Martin Scott	Thraxas at the Races	Orbit 1999 First Edition First Printing (Paper)	Bruised at corners and lower edge of rear panel else Fine copy	£5.00	"It hasn't been a good morning for Thraxas. A vindictive judge has fined him almost every guran he has, and two old enemies have threatened his life. To cap it all, the rainy season has started and it's wetter than a mermaid's blanket... What Thraxas desperately needs is a winner in the big chariot race... " Scarce.
Melissa Scott	The Armor of Light	NESFA 1997 First Edition in Hardback First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine and mark on page edges (?chocolate?) else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket.	£7.50	"...an Elizabethan alternate history, in which magic works the way Elizabethan Englishmen thought it should... Christopher Marlowe... didn't die in the tavern brawl... Sir Philip Sydney... did not die of the wound... when Queen Elizabeth's horoscope reveals a terrible danger from a Scottish wizard...
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... "
Melissa Scott	Trouble And Her Friends	Tor 1994 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket.	£7.50	"... combines cyberpunk computer technology and sociological extrapolation... the closing of the cyberspace frontier, the time when hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado and drugs come up against the encroachments of civilisation and responsibility - and must adapt or die... "
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	£10.00	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 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	Night Walk	Gollancz 1976 First Edition in Hardback 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	Orbitsville Departure	Gollancz 1983 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, price-clipped, Dust Jacket. Signed and dated by the Author on the Title Page	£7.50	"Two hundred years have passed since the events of Orbitsville, and in that time the vast majority of the human race has emigrated to its vast and hospitable spaces. Garry Dallen...discovers...a larger mystery: that of Orbitsville, of who built it, and...why?"
Bob Shaw	Orbitsville Judgement	Gollancz 1990 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 with the pale orange spine background slightly faded to yellow Signed by the Author on the Title Page	£15.00	"... what happens next... " The last in the Orbitsville Trilogy
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 (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.	£15.00	"... 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	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.	£7.50	"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	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 Jaguar Hunter	Kerosina 1988 First Edition in Hardback First Printing Thus	Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine copy in creased and slightly rubbed Dust Jacket.	£7.50	Drops "R & R" from the original Arkham House edition and adds Solitario's Eyes, Delta Sly Honey and The Exercise of Faith to The Night of White Bhairab; Salvador; How the Wind Spoke at Maraket; Black Coral; The End of Life As We Know It; A Traveller's Tale; Mengele; The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule; A Spanish Lesson and the title story
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... "
Lewis Shiner	Deserted Cities Of The Heart	Doubleday 1988 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners slightly bumped else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with a crease in the top corner of the front flap	£7.50	"Amid the Mayan ruins of Na Chan where, it is said, the bite of a sacred mushroom can send a man hurtling back in time, three people will plumb the very core of their lives... "
John Shirley	Darkness Divided	Stealth Press 2001 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine and a few page corners creased else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket.	£10.00	My Victim; Nineteen Seconds; Jody and Annie on TV; Occurrence At Owl Street Ridge; Wings Burnt Black: A Tale of the Crow; Tighter; Your Servants in Hell; Whisperers; Learn At Home! Your Career in Evil!; Sweetbite Point; In The Road; To Make Children Good; Two Strangers; The Prince; A Walk Through Beirut and seven more...
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
John Shirley	Silicon Embrace	Ziesing 1996 First Edition First Printing	Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and corners brused else Fine copy in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket.	£7.50	"... Could it be true? That humanity has a secret history and that secret history is coming to fruition?... crises like the Second American Civil War. the ecological breakdown that lead to the American Famine, the balkanisation of the country - are all part of a startling convergence... which will transform humanity, or destroy it... "
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)	Kingdoms Of The Wall	HarperCollins 1992 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in unpriced Dust Jacket with the spine panel a little faded Signed by the Author on the Title Page	£5.00	"This is the book of Poilar Crookleg, who has been to the roof of the World at the top of the Wall, who has seen the strange and bewildering gods that dwell there, who has grappled with them and returned rich with the knowledge of the mysteries of life and death... "
Robert Silverberg (Also as Ivar Jorgenson; Calvin M. Knox; David Osborne & Robert Randall)	Phases Of The Moon Stories of Six Decades	Subterranean Press 2004 First Edition First Printing Limited State Signed by the Author (No. 220/1500)	Page edges a little marked else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket.	£20.00	23 stories with introductions, memoirs and commentary...
Robert Silverberg	Sorcerers Of Majipoor	Macmillan 1997 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket .	£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... Surely some 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)	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 Face Of The Waters	Bantam 1991 First Edition in the US First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like, slightly worn Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page	£5.00	"Earth is no more. Centuries have passed since its fiery final hour, and the descendants of those who managed to break free have been scattered across the galaxy. One such outpost is an artificial island on the watery world of Hydros - a former penal colony from which there is no escape... "
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	The New Springtime	Gollancz 1988/9 First UK/First Edition First Printings (Two Volumes)	Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, one page corner creased and slightly torn and top page edges a little dusty and bumped else Fine copies in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jackets.	£15.00	"Everyone on Earth for a million years or more had known that the death-stars were coming, that the Great World was doomed... Each of the peoples of Earth addressed its fate in its own fashion. The vegetals and the sapphire-eyes people knew they would not survive... The mechanicals knew they could survive if they wanted to... "
Robert Silverberg	Thebes Of The Hundred Gates	HarperCollins 1993 First UK & Trade Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in slightly rubbed, price-clipped, Dust Jacket.	£5.00	"Two time-travellers from the twenty-seventh century have gone missing in ancient Egypt. Edward Davis, a promising rookie in the Time service, is sent back in time to find them... beetles that talk, snakes with legs, baboon-gods, vulture-gods... Davis has thirty days... "
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	Aliens For Neighbours Science Fiction Stories	Faber 1961 First Edition in the UK First Printing & Thus	Marbled green paper crinkled over the spine panel and page edges a little marked - Very Good to Near Fine Uncorrected Proof Copy	£15.00	Dusty Zebra; Honourable Opponent; Carbon Copy; Idiot's Crusade; Operation Stinky; Jackpot; Death Scene; Green Thumb & Neighbour. Uncorrected Proof Copies from this era are most uncommon.
Clifford D. Simak	The Marathon Photograph And Other Stories	Severn House 1986 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little 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." The Birch Clump Cylinder; The Whistling Well; The Marathon Photograph and The Grotto of the Dancing Deer
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	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	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	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 - The Fall Of Hyperion First Thus - with missing page of text restored)	Bruised at top and base of spines, page edges browned and slightly rubbed else Fine copies in slightly rubbed Dust Jackets, Hyperion with a 10mm slit at top of rear fold and a touch of wear.	£40.00	"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	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.	£10.00	"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... "
Dan Simmons	Worlds Enough And Time Five Tales of Speculative Fiction	Subterranean Press 2002 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket.	£15.00	Introduction by the author; Looking for Kelly Dahl; Orphans of the Helix; The Ninth of Av; On K2 with Kanakaredes and The End of Gravity
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.. "
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)	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 (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 (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	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.	£20.00	"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.
Cordwainer Smith (Also as Felix C. Forrest; Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger & Carmichael Smith)	Norstrilia	Gollancz 1988 First Trade Hardback Edition First Printing	Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket, with slight fading to orange spine panel background to yellow (as usual).	£7.50	"Roderick McBan was a nice young man on the road to trouble... due to inherit the Station of Doom... although he had passed the Test of the Garden of Death, Rod remained... a telepathic cripple . . . not the best person... to inherit the most lucrative landholding on Norstrilia, the universe's wealthiest planet, and the only source of the life-prolonging drug stroon... "
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!
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	Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges browned else Fine copy in Fine Dust Jacket.	£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 else Fine Copy	£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	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)	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)	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 (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	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)	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... "
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 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 (Also as Brian Craig)	Serpent's Blood The First Book of Genesys	Legend 1995 First Edition First Printing	Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges a little browned else Fine copy in like Dust Jacket with two small tears near the top of the rear fold Signed by the Author on the Title Page	£5.00	"A world without mountains or volcanoes, where the seas shift and all matter rots sooner or later. A world where forgetting is the deadliest sin... but little is remembered of ancient days... where Andris Myrasol, imprisoned prince and soldier of fortune, faces two unpleasant alternatives... " Followed by Salamander's Fire and Chimera's Cradle
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	The Dictionary Of Science Fiction Places	Fireside 1999 First Edition First Printing (Paper)	Lamination missing where price sticker removed on rear panel else Fine copy Illustrated by Jeff White	£5.00	"... extraordinary directory of the most famous and interesting locations, both on and off Earth... Stableford illuminates the history, geography, and inhabitants of the strange worlds created by more than 250 writers... Meticulously cross-referenced, with brilliant illustrations... "
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 Vols.)	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... "