Big engine abingdon oxon (5 résultats)
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Vendeur : COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, Royaume-UniCOLD TONNAGE BOOKS
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Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). Fantasy novel. ''England, 1955. Harriet Locke accepts an invitation to the seaside mansion of Shadow Black and looks forward to joining her fianc Mark Vardell, the handsome avant-garde artist who is painting the reclusive Lord Harrowblest. Her life is about to change, and… change forever, in a household of bizarre characters bound together by ties of deceit, lust and half-truths. At Shadow Black, Harriet meets Yardley Urban, faded Hollywood goddess, and Cora Van Voyd, elderly, seven-times-married gossip and grande dame. There is crippled, embittered media mogul Lord Harrowblest and his faithful servant Collidge; pathetic, drunken songwriter Jellicoe Travers; Milly, the hare-lipped parlourmaid; and Toby Chance, the lonely fifteen-year-old science fiction fan who somehow links them all together. And then there is Mr Vox, mysterious agent of a force that will tear away the veils of deceit from Shadow Black, and from Harriet too, in a climax that boldly mingles fantasy, social comedy and gothic horror''. Fine (as new) copy.
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Vendeur : COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, Royaume-UniCOLD TONNAGE BOOKS
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Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). Historical fantasy. Fine (as new) copy.
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Vendeur : COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, Royaume-UniCOLD TONNAGE BOOKS
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Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). SF novel. Fine (as new) copy.
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Vendeur : COLD TONNAGE BOOKS, Colyton, DEVON, Royaume-UniCOLD TONNAGE BOOKS
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Trade paperback original. First edition (& 1st printing). SF novel: the author's first book. ''the totalitarian world of Unation is ruled over by the omnipresent Mother Necessity. In this rigidly hierarchical society people carry out their duty as designated by Mother in order to climb the ladder of status levels and be material…ly rewarded. Against this dystopian background Ersatz Nation tells the story of two citizens who find themselves deeply alienated from this conformist state. Patrick Dolan has spent the last twelve years abducting people from Earth and bringing them back to Unation. Since the death of his wife and daughter in childbirth he has thrown himself into his work but the stress of his occupation is starting to take its toll on him. He lives in constant fear of his returns to Unation, he starts to hallucinate and even begins to question the reality of Earth itself. Stylistically the novel is more strongly reminiscent of Philip K. Dick. Dick's name is increasingly bandied about in relation to other authors but there is no doubting he was incredibly influential and here the comparison seems justified. At its core Ersatz Nation is concerned with the nature and the perception of reality, the subject that obsessed Dick throughout his career. Even more so the paranoia and confusion of the protagonists, often verging on mental illness, is redolent of Dick's later work from what you might call his Gnostic period, such as VALIS and The Divine Invasion. When Dolan comments: ''I've seen too much to know what's real anymore'' he is making explicit the dilemma of all Dick's protagonists'' (Martin Lewis/The Alien Online). Fine (as new) copy.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Big Engine, [Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom], 2002
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Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-UnisCurrey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. This collection, "edited by David Langford, assembles all the previously uncollected short work that was then known. A further lighthearted story from 'The Steam-Driven Boy' era subsequently came to light in Sladek's papers and appeared as 'The Real Martian Chronicles' (May/June 2010 F&…SF) . As the most formally inventive, the funniest, and very nearly the most melancholy of modern American sf writers, Sladek (1937-2000) always addressed the heart of the genre, but never gained due renown. We needed his attention, which we got: he deserved ours, which he did not receive." - John Clute, SFE (online). Trade paperback format. A fine copy. This edition is uncommon. (#161449).
