Vendeur : Burm Booksellers, Beckley, WV, Etats-Unis
Soft cover. Etat : Good. Soft cover. Pocket paper back. Light edge/shelf wear. Corner bumped, lightly. Pages toned with age. 1st printing [stated/no number line]. Cover art [Bob Adragna]. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. N° de réf. du vendeur 044927-SCIFI
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Vendeur : Memories Lost and Found, Avondale Estates, GA, Etats-Unis
Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. TU. N° de réf. du vendeur 4466
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Vendeur : Turn the Page, Albany, NY, Etats-Unis
Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Miracle Visitors by Ian Watson Ace Books, New York, 1978 ? First Ace Edition / First Printing (ISBN 0-441-53355-8). Book Condition: Very Good+. Mass market paperback; 342 pages. Covers crisp and bright with light edge wear and rubbing only; spine uncreased ? a notable strength. Pages clean and unmarked with light uniform age-toning. No ownership markings, stamps, price stickers, or remainder marks. First Ace printing, 1978. An exceptionally clean and well-preserved copy. Edition / Printing Notes First Ace edition, first printing; Ace Books, New York, 1978; ISBN 0-441-53355-8; 342 pages. World first edition published simultaneously by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1978 (ISBN 0-575-02474-7, 240 pages, hardcover); the Ace edition is the first US edition in any format and the first paperback edition worldwide. Published in the same year as Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, capitalising on enormous public interest in UFO phenomena. Ian Watson (b. 1943) is one of British science fiction's most original and challenging voices, a Nebula Award nominee and author of the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Experiments in hypnosis result in repressed memories of alien contact, triggering a series of alarming events ? but Miracle Visitors is far more than a UFO novel. Rather than a straightforward contact narrative in the manner of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Watson constructs a complex theory of altered mental states, overlapping realities, and a Total Planetary Life ? weaving together hypnosis, Sufi mysticism, altered consciousness, and genuine scientific speculation into one of the most mind-stretching and philosophically ambitious science fiction novels of the 1970s. Praised as "an unusually brilliant and mind-stretching metaphysical" work, Miracle Visitors is a landmark of British New Wave science fiction and among Watson's most celebrated novels ? an ideal find for readers of Philip K. Dick, Christopher Priest, and Stanis?aw Lem. A near-fine first Ace printing in exceptional condition. N° de réf. du vendeur 002345
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