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Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Tim Kirk (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: PRESCOT OF ANTARES Once again in the grip of the Star Lords of the Constellation Scorpio, Dray Prescot found himself torn from the battles of the Inner Sea for a mission in the air. For it was now his duty to carry his betrothed Delia by airboat to that far kingdom from whence she had come. But the route lay across the gaunt mountains and shadowy jungles of the Hostile Territories - and there Dray was to be plunged among stranger peoples and more fantastic challenges than even his Kregen princess had known. The saga of Dray Prescot, comparable only to those of Cabot of Gor and Carter of Barsoom, continues in this thrill-packed fully detailed adventure novel of the marvel lands of the planet Kregen of Antares. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Etat : Very Good Plus. Etat de la jaquette : No DJ. First Thus. Second printing. Lightly rubbed along edges, faint brown smudge line (1/4 inch) on top edge, else very good plus. Pages darkened but clean, and binding firm. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. George Barr (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. The Norton-of-the-year: a marvel adventure in alternate worlds. BOOK NUMBER: 196. SYNOPSIS: Would you like to dream high adventure--and have the dream become reality? This is the novel of one who did. She was Tamisen the Dreamer--trained to explore other worlds through her genetic ability to transfer herself through dream to their actualities. To a dreamer all worlds, all times, were open. But there were risks. There were perils such as no landbound explorer could conceive. For in an infinity of worlds, there must be an infinity of enemies, of beasts, of personal peril--as well as an infinity of rewards and pleasures. Here is Andre Norton's imaginative best, taking Tamisen through a series of worlds as real as her own towards an ultimate destiny none could suspect. - and - Tam-sin knew dreams; she had been able to summon and dismiss them at her own will; they and the people in them had been but toys with which she could play at desire. Until she had dreamed for Lord Starrex and plunged them both into such a venture as she could not control. Somehow she had brought them here, to new identities, new adventures, and doubtless, new dangers. But there was Kas, who had striven to put an end to both in two times, two worlds, and who must also have been wrenched with them into this, though not in her company? She was to find out, and the doing was to bring her into the alien laws and unmapped lands of yet a third world, and eventually a fourth and a fifth. For Tamisen, or Tam-sin, or whatever her name in whatever world, dreamed true--and in so doing altered continually the writing of the histories of the stars. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Jack Gaughan (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A FIVE-TIMES HUGO WINNER SELECTS HIS BEST IN THIS STUNNING NEW ANTHOLOGY. BOOK NUMBER: 87. CONTENTS: The Spider; Monsters and Monster Lovers; A Hitch in Space; Hottest and Coldest Molecules; Kindergarten; Those Wild Alien Words; Crazy Annaoj; Debunking the I Machine; When the Last Gods Die; King Lear; Yesterday House; After Such Knowledge; Knight to Move; Weird World of the Knight; To Arkham and the Stars; The Whisperer Re-examined; Beauty and the Beasts; Masters of Mace and Magic; Cat's Cradle. SYNOPSIS: Author's prospectus: "There will be over sixty thousand words in all." "The stories will make up two-thirds of them." "There will be ten stories, all of them previously un-anthologized, most of them of recent origin." "All the chief types of story I do will be represented: hard science fiction, Fafhrd-Mouser (sword & sorcery), romantic science fiction, Change War stories, cat stories, Lovecraft-related stories, supernatural-horror stories." "The non-fiction will amount to about ten items." "They will be of all sorts and closely related to the fiction. There will be book reviews, a pop. science article in the Asimov vein, my Monsters and Monster Lovers, and so on." "Stories and articles will alternate in the book, illuminating each other." And that's the way it worked out, proving that Anthony Boucher was right when he said, "Fritz Leiber stands very firmly in the front rank of modern science fiction writers," and that Lin Carter was correct in saying, "Fritz Leiber is probably the finest living writer of sword & sorcery." - and - HOW DO YOU SUMMARIZE THE TALENTS OF A ONE-OF-A-KIND PERSON LIKE FRITZ LEIBER? You can say that he has won the Hugo for best science fiction five times. That tells you something about his writing. You can say that he edited a science magazine for many years. That tells you something about his learning. You can say that he has taught speech, dramatics, and creative writing at various colleges. You can say that he has acted in films and plays. Or you can read The Book of Fritz Leiber which contains his own selection of the best of his unanthologized stories and articles in all these fields and more. That's the best way to enjoy a new look at Fritz Leiber. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Fair. Don Maitz (illustrateur). First Edition 2nd Printing. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Slightly Sticky Reside to Inside Front Cover; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Heavy Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 585. ALSO KNOWN AS: This is a revised and updated version of a novel originally titled A Plague of Pythons; a shorter magazine version of which appeared in Galaxy. SYNOPSIS: Something had seized his mind, something that rode his body like a speed-maniac would drive a stolen car--for he had committed atrocities against his friends and neighbours, he had done unspeakable things--and yet his own conscious mind had only stood aside and watched in horror. For a demonic intelligence had taken over inside his skull and left him a helpless observer. He was not unique. It was happening all over the world--society was breaking down in an epidemic of crimes, vicious and senseless, and it would seem as if the world had been invaded by a legion of invisible devils from some interplanetary hell. There had to be a solution, and when at last he found a clue, he set out to pursue it to the bitter end. Frederik Pohl's Demon in the Skull is a revision and upgrading of his A Plague of Pythons, bringing this classic science fiction shocker into the real-time world of 1984 and after. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Peter Manesis (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A cosmic extravaganza. BOOK NUMBER: 127. SYNOPSIS: On the cover of this book we use the phrase, "a cosmic extravaganza." There is really no other way to describe this astonishing work of science fiction. There is no other writer quite like Ian Wallace and no background as logically complex and as endlessly fascinating as the one you will find in this remarkable novel. There is a trip between galaxies. There is a parallel universe which may or may not be the one in which we all dwell. There is a man named Croyd. And there is a something which seeks to control all the galaxies for its own inscrutable purposes. The man named Croyd stands in this something's way. This is possible because Croyd is a lot more than what he seems. He has, for instance, an identical twin somewhere out there who may or may not have similar powers. As to what those powers are, perhaps even Croyd does not know their full extent. It is best to say that A Voyage to Dari most closely resembles the sort of mind-tingling novel that A. E. Van Vogt might have written had he, in addition to his own talents, those of Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and others skilled in hard science and psychological insight. But then those are the talents of Ian Wallace. And A Voyage to Dari is by Ian Wallace, not anyone else. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Chris Foss (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Front Cover, Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A unique concept in time paradoxes. BOOK NUMBER: 43. SYNOPSIS: The ruins were getting younger. They were thought to be the ruins of an invading force of space monsters that men had defeated during the Dark Ages centuries before. But the ruins were visibly getting newer - rebuilding themselves. The militarists who had reconstructed society after the supposed invasion were getting panicky. Until they found a complete invader vehicle - and learned it travelled through time. But what was Time? What was Now? Could there be more than one Time Front - one going forward, one in reverse? And what would happen when two such fronts met in the inevitable Collision Course? - and - Far from Earth, the Interstellar Space Society known to its inhabitants as Retort City floated as if transfixed in the blackness of space, approximately midway between Altair and Barnard's Star - that is, as far from any celestial body as it could manage. Retort City was, in fact, a city in a bottle, its outer skin being transparent and having a glassy sheen. An observer watching from the void would have discerned within the glass envelope a sort of double spindle, this being the general plan of the city's internal structure, and would have seen through a muted blaze of lights an intermittent movement as the internal transport facilities passed up and down. Though no one in the double city had had any desire for contact with the rest of humanity for the past five thousand years, this interstellar hermitage was to prove the last hope for the double worlds of Earth on their single-track Collision Course. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Greg Theakston (illustrateur). First Thus 3rd Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Dawn of the Dorsai era! BOOK NUMBER: UE1481. SYNOPSIS: At the crisis point of humanity's near future, the mysterious cult called the Chantry Guild arose. It was their contention that the computerized world society would fall of its own weight - that it would reduce Earth's billions to a mass of faceless biped ants. They raised the call of destruction. They called upon alternate laws of science - the powers of nature men had once called witchcraft, the necromantic anti-science of the past brought forward to save the world by destroying it! Gordon Dickson's astonishing novel of the not-quite-human hero who turned the tide for the world - and set the conditions for the cosmic migration that lead to the Dorsai - is one of his most effective and most unusual. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Fair. Jack Gaughan (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 215. When the Martians tried again! SYNOPSIS: THE MARTIANS ARE COMING.AGAIN! As everyone knows, there are parallel Earths. So when the Martians failed in their effort to conquer the Victorian world as told in H. G. Wells' famous eye-witness account, they took one short step X-wise and, having immunized themselves against Terrestrial bacteria, tried again. Earth's parallel world is called Annwn, and it was just slightly behind Victorian England in technology. So when they detected the explosions on the fourth planet, it looked as if this time the Martians would succeed. But the Martians had failed to take into account one peculiarity of Annwn. Almost everything was the same as Earth, but there were certain curious scientific differences. Find out for yourself in this delightful, action-packed new novel of the Second Invasion from the Red Planet. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Podium II (illustrateur). First Thus 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; 0.6 cm x 5 cm Chunk Missing from Last Page (Advertising) (No Impediment to Text); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; Heavy Fading Due to Sun Exposure; "12" Stamped on Upper Edge. BOOK NUMBER: 77. INTRODUCTION TO THIS EDITION BY: John Brunner. REVIEWS: "It isn't difficult to recall some of the previous so-called 'science fiction'. There was scoffing--and perhaps a few shudders--at tales of men going to the Moon, cataclysmic explosions which destroyed cities and aircraft, carrying huge loads of passengers at the speed of sound. But they have all come to pass." "When Philip Wylie wrote The End of the Dream shortly before his death he was being no newcomer to perhaps being labeled a 'prophet of doom'. His Generation of Vipers was written long before the present attacks on 'the establishment' and the accompanying violent protests. What he wrote about then is happening, at least to an extent." "His The End of the Dream is both timely and 'far out'."--The Cincinnati Enquirer. "The superb imagination of Philip Wylie, plus his burning desire to save mankind from its own wilful, unheeding poisoning of the air, land, sea and rivers, plus his very deep knowledge of the environment and its perils, make this novel of the near-destruction of a world seem like factual history rather than a look into the future." "The incidents that take place as a world turns to waste and its population perishes are spectacular. The heroics of the scattered leaders and geniuses, scholars and helpers, struggling to restore bands of people turned wild, and to nurse humanity back to life, are gripping. Wylie's simple, straightforward writing strikes home, as it has in so many of his dozens of books."--Long Beach Press-Telegram. "I hope everyone reads it, twice, and Stanley Kubrick makes a movie from it.I intend to thrust a copy into the hands of everyone I know who helps make decisions on our environment."--Los Angeles Times. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Podium II (illustrateur). First Thus 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 77. INTRODUCTION TO THIS EDITION BY: John Brunner. REVIEWS: "It isn't difficult to recall some of the previous so-called 'science fiction'. There was scoffing--and perhaps a few shudders--at tales of men going to the Moon, cataclysmic explosions which destroyed cities and aircraft, carrying huge loads of passengers at the speed of sound. But they have all come to pass." "When Philip Wylie wrote The End of the Dream shortly before his death he was being no newcomer to perhaps being labeled a 'prophet of doom'. His Generation of Vipers was written long before the present attacks on 'the establishment' and the accompanying violent protests. What he wrote about then is happening, at least to an extent." "His The End of the Dream is both timely and 'far out'."--The Cincinnati Enquirer. "The superb imagination of Philip Wylie, plus his burning desire to save mankind from its own wilful, unheeding poisoning of the air, land, sea and rivers, plus his very deep knowledge of the environment and its perils, make this novel of the near-destruction of a world seem like factual history rather than a look into the future." "The incidents that take place as a world turns to waste and its population perishes are spectacular. The heroics of the scattered leaders and geniuses, scholars and helpers, struggling to restore bands of people turned wild, and to nurse humanity back to life, are gripping. Wylie's simple, straightforward writing strikes home, as it has in so many of his dozens of books."--Long Beach Press-Telegram. "I hope everyone reads it, twice, and Stanley Kubrick makes a movie from it.I intend to thrust a copy into the hands of everyone I know who helps make decisions on our environment."--Los Angeles Times. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Jack Gaughan (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A special selection of the best stories by the most innovative writer in the sf world. BOOK NUMBER: 136. CONTENTS: The Long Way Home; Planeteer; Volume Paa-Pyx; Seven Doors to Education; Deep Space; Pressure; Starsong; Calendars; Young Girl at an Open Half-Door; What Do You Want Me To Do To Prove I'm Human Stop. SYNOPSIS: No one who has ever read one of Fred Saberhagen's Berserker stories will forget the premise: a robotic culture with but one overriding directive--to destroy all organic sentient life wherever it is encountered. How do you counter such an enemy, who cannot be compromised, asks no favors, gives no quarter, and is not afraid of death because it is not alive? Saberhagen has shown many of the astonishing turns such a combat might take, and the reader will find such here. But not all the tales in The Book of Saberhagen are Berserker tales--not even half. For this author is equally inventive in many directions and his name is a guarantee of originality in science fiction. The Book of Saberhagen is a welcome addition to the acclaimed DAW series of authors' own selections. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Jack Gaughan (illustrateur). First Edition 3rd Printing. Previous Owner Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Light Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing, Fading Due to Age, Sun Exposure. by the creator of Dune. BOOK NUMBER: UW1301. CONTENTS: Seed Stock; The Nothing; Rat Race; Gambling Device; Looking for Something?; The Gone Dogs; Passage for Piano; Encounter in a Lonely Place; Operation Syndrome; Occupation Force. SYNOPSIS: The "Dune" Man. Add to the names of Heinlein, Clarke, Le Guin, Ellison and other titans of science fiction the name of Frank Herbert whose epic novel Dune made SF bestseller history--along with his Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. DAW Books proudly presents Frank Herbert's own selection of his most outstanding fiction--ten mind-tingling tales of time, space and the enigmas of man's future. - and - What is man? What is man's world? What is man's fate? These three questions have engaged the minds of philosophers and scientists alike since the dawn of civilization. They are still not fully answered to any universal satisfaction. Yet, in science fiction, writers are always probing these questions, each in his own pictorially imaginative way. Leader among these is the writing of the talent that created Dune. Frank Herbert presents here ten of his finest stories, each of which in its own way suggests new aspects of the three questions upon which all the future will eventually turn. The Book of Frank Herbert is a dream-box for every science fiction reader. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Kelly Freas (illustrateur). Second Edition 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front Cover, Spine Moderately Chipped; Rear Cover Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. WOE TO ALL WHO DEFY THE NETWORK. BOOK NUMBER: UQ1136. ALSO KNOWN AS: Original edition entitled Das Gedankennetz, copyright 1963 by Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag Munchen. TRANSLATION BY: Christine Priest. SYNOPSIS: Herbert W. Franke, who is rated as one of the four best science fiction writers of modern Europe, is quite tricky. What may seem simple usually turns out to be deceptively complex. What may seem irrelevant may have an impact like an earthquake. In The Mind Net we encounter a vast spacefleet exploring the cosmos. They find some organic remnants in the lifeless soil of an ancient world. But when the space explorers test these mysterious objects they suddenly find their ship trapped in an alien mental web and face a menace never allowed for on their computers. But that is only the beginning and thereafter we encounter seemingly isolated scenes on alien worlds with unearthly growths, in mechanical civilizations, in rebel cities where everyday people face extraordinary problems. The whole ties in with a shocking impact.and The Mind Net will prove again that the name of Franke ranks with those of Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem as a science fiction innovator. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Vincent Di Fate (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; Line of "Z" Stamped on Lower Edge. Intelligence Quotient Ten Thousand! BOOK NUMBER: 224. SYNOPSIS: RESEARCH ALPHA sought the answer to the ultimate intelligence--and also to certain problems of other intelligent beings sharing our galaxy. RESEARCH ALPHA sought the reason for humanity's very existence in a vast and apparently hostile cosmos. RESEARCH ALPHA found answers they never expected. What they found ultimately lead to. POINT OMEGA--when man becomes one with totality! Supermind reveals the classic science-fictional hand of A. E. Van Vogt. Here is science fiction in the grand old style! - and - TAKE A SENTIENT BEING - Everyone aboard the Dreegh supership that flew to the moon Europa in thirty hours (instead of many weeks) fitted that description: the Dreeghs, Pat, Professor Ungarn, and the sleeping Hanardy. They had brought along Hanardy's freighter to be their landing craft. They came down without incident into Hanardy's permanent spaceship berth in Spaceport, the large moon's principal city. CONSIDER ANY SENTIENT PERSON - That includes a man asleep.like Hanardy. There he lies, helpless. In that fourth sleep stage that Hanardy was in--the deep delat-wave stage--push at him, hit him, roll him over. It is enormously difficult to awaken him. Yet it is in this state that a person can act out a sleep-walker's strange goal. FORCE THIS SENTIENT INDIVIDUAL TO INTERACT WITH A GROSSLY VAST UNIVERSE. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Vincent Di Fate (illustrateur). First Edition 2nd Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; "JUN" Stamped on Lower Edge. Presenting the top ten stories of the year by: Robert Silverberg, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Greg Bear, Tanith Lee, and others. BOOK NUMBER: UE1934. CONTENTS: Introduction; Blood Music - Greg Bear; Potential - Isaac Asimov; Knight of Shallows - Rand B. Lee; Spending a Day at the Lottery Fair - Frederik Pohl; In the Face of My Enemy - Joseph H. Delaney; The Nanny - Thomas Wylde; The Leaves of October - Don Sakers; As Time Goes By - Tanith Lee; The Harvest of Wolves - Mary Gentle; Homefaring - Robert Silverberg. SYNOPSIS: WOLLHEIM SELECTS. Treat yourself to the best, from the man who first put the words "science fiction" on the cover of an anthology--you deserve no less! - and - Selecting the top tales from the reams of science fiction short stories, novelettes and novellas published last year is a time-consuming yet fascinating task. But as always when your editors are finished, there is a sense of surprise--because somehow each of the finalists is a gem that fits into place in the final collection quite rightly. Here we have an unusual mixture of the old giants such as Silverberg, Asimov, Pohl, and the young giants such as Tanith Lee, Greg Bear, and the new bloods including Mary Gentle, Rand Lee, Don Sakers, and more. So join us in this year of 1984 and see what Orwell overlooked! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Tim Kirk (Illustrations), Josh Kirby (Cover Art) (illustrateur). First Edition 3rd Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: SLAVES OF ANTARES Slave of the colossus builders or scourge of the Inland Sea? Both roles awaited Dray Prescot on his return to Kregen. Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wanted only to find his beloved, the Princess Delia of the Blue Mountains. But the powers that had drawn him across interstellar space to the world that orbited the two suns of the brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio had set him a task, the nature of which even he could not fully estimate. Here is an adventure-packed, full-bodied novel of danger and daring on a planet that is fully the equal of Burroughs' Barsoom and Norman's Gor - and that has already established a new high for interplanetary sagas. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Tim Kirk (Illustrations), Josh Kirby (Cover Art) (illustrateur). First Edition 3rd Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Repaired (by Previous Owner); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SYNOPSIS: SLAVES OF ANTARES Slave of the colossus builders or scourge of the Inland Sea? Both roles awaited Dray Prescot on his return to Kregen. Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wanted only to find his beloved, the Princess Delia of the Blue Mountains. But the powers that had drawn him across interstellar space to the world that orbited the two suns of the brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio had set him a task, the nature of which even he could not fully estimate. Here is an adventure-packed, full-bodied novel of danger and daring on a planet that is fully the equal of Burroughs' Barsoom and Norman's Gor - and that has already established a new high for interplanetary sagas. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. H. R. Van Dongen (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Grow young or lose the world! BOOK NUMBER: 308. SYNOPSIS: Croyd brought peace to a warring world by means of his Comcord system. When a nation's discord quotient rose to the boiling point, Comcord would trigger the ultimate peace weapon called Z-sting. Z-sting would encapsulate the war-seeking nation, cutting it off totally from the world and from civilization. Comcord worked and peace had reigned for a century--until an inexplicable rise in militarism blew the terror whistle. It was up to Croyd who had created the system to find out what had gone wrong, but Croyd was by then a very ancient old man. Aided by his great-granddaughter, he undertook to prevent the Z-sting trigger from being falsely activated. To achieve this, they had to: Bring Croyd back his youth and vigor. Uncover the motive behind the war crisis. Find the trigger--hidden at the edge of the Solar System. The resultant novel is a vibrant and complex work of science fiction comparable to Ian Wallace's other great novels such as The World Asunder, Dr. Orpheus, and A Voyage to Dari. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Jack Gaughan (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. The year's leaders.including Fritz Leiber, Vernor Vinge, John Brunner, Barrington J. Bayley, Richard Cowper, and others. BOOK NUMBER: 192. CONTENTS: Introduction; Catch That Zeppelin! - Fritz Leiber; The Peddler's Apprentice - Joan D. Vinge and Vernor Vinge; The Bees of Knowledge - Barrington J. Bayley; The Storms of Windhaven - Lisa Tuttle and George R. R. Martin; The Engineer and the Executioner - Brian M. Stableford; Allegiances - Michael Bishop; Child of All Ages - P. J. Plauger; Helbent 4 - Stephen Robinett; The Protocols of the Elders of Britain - John Brunner; The Custodians - Richard Cowper. SYNOPSIS: FIRST IN THE FIELD. "Donald A. Wollheim was first in the field and he still manages to beat his competitors to the draw each year. As usual, his pick of the best makes for a satisfying anthology." So wrote a Toronto weekly about last year's Annual World's Best SF. In this new selection, the 1976 volume, the long-established tradition of the Wollheim "best of the year" anthologies continues to hold true. "Wollheim is a reader's editor, and his selections reflect his preference for tales with a beginning, middle, and end.He has assembled a first-rate collection." Such was the viewpoint of the American Library Association's journal The Booklist. Again, a guarantee of high quality, good readability, and really solid science fiction. The 1976 Annual World's Best SF is first in the field in every way. - and - A guaranteed "good read" is the hallmark of this first and most authentic of the year's best science fiction anthologies. Here are the names of the writers of the ten best sf stories of the year: Fritz Leiber, John Brunner, Joan D. Vinge, Vernor Vinge, Lisa Tuttle, George R. R. Martin, Michael Bishop, P. J. Plauger, Barrington J. Bayley, Brian M. Stableford, Stephen Robinett, Richard Cowper. Including past, present and future award winners! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Jack Gaughan (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Donald A. Wollheim Presents the authentic ten best of the year, featuring: Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Brian M. Stableford, Gordon R. Dickson, George R. R. Martin, and others. BOOK NUMBER: 148. CONTENTS: Introduction; A Song for Lya - George R. R. Martin; Deathsong - Sydney J. Van Scyoc; A Full Member of the Club - Bob Shaw; The Sun's Tears - Brian M. Stableford; The Gift of Garigolli - Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth; The Four-Hour Fugue - Alfred Bester; Twig - Gordon R. Dickson; Cathadonian Odyssey - Michael Bishop; The Bleeding Man - Craig Strete; Stranger in Paradise - Isaac Asimov. SYNOPSIS: TOP NOTCH. RELIABLE. AUTHENTIC. EXCELLENT. BEST OF "THE BEST". HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. These are just a few of the favorable comments made by reviewers about this series in past years. They will be made again for this prime and authentic selection of the superior science fiction stories of the year past. It is a DAW tradition that the "World's Best" is not merely the first of its kind each year but that it holds up as the most solidly certain selection of the finest and most memorable science fiction stories by the writers, old and new, of the highest talent. The 1975 Annual World's Best SF is always what its name implies. - and - THE YEAR OF SCIENCE FICTION. Every indication points to 1975 as a year in which science fiction will reach new heights in popularity. In times of transition and uncertainty, it is to science fiction that readers turn for that wide-angle lens that puts our personal problems in galactic perspective. In presenting herewith our traditional annual selection of the best novelettes and short stories of the year, we find a certain optimism already being reflected. Here you will find wonders by Isaac Asimov and George R. R. Martin, marvels by Gordon R. Dickson and Sydney Van Scyoc, and other enchantments by the best spinners of logical science fiction projections. The 1975 Annual World's Best SF is the first and the authentic best. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Michael Whelan (illustrateur). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front Cover; Front Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Fading on Spine Due to Sun Exposure. A novel of "ler" and human - by the author of The Gameplayers of Zan. BOOK NUMBER: UE1492. SYNOPSIS: His name was Meure and he hired out on an alien ship to see the universe. There were ler aboard that vessel - transmuted humans who were partial supermen - and specifically there was the ler girl Flerdestar who had a mission. When Meure and Flerdestar were marooned on the world called Monsalvat, they were confronted by a planetary enigma involving time and space. For Monsalvat had a myriad human species, all alien to each other, and all in awe of the Mystery that dominated their isolated planet. Here is the long-awaited major novel by the author of The Gameplayers of Zan and Warriors of Dawn. It is a masterwork of alien wonders, human ingenuities, of the past invading the present, and of the perverted legacy of the legendary mistress of the first starship, the mad ler Sanjirmil. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format). 157 pp, ads. Issued as DAW SF Books No. 380 ($1.95). Canadian Edition, with PRINTED IN CANADA on copyright page. Correct 1st printing with code to "1". Slight discolouration to spine panel (not fading but perhaps small stains); otherwise a fine, uncreased copy; unread. A superior copy. Vampire novel. A paperback original, here first published.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Michael Whelan (illustrateur). First Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 241. SYNOPSIS: She called herself Reee and she was the last human being on Earth. This was the one thing she was sure of. Because Earth was not a dead planet, not by a long way. There were all manner of strange plants and bizarre animals, and there were the blue boys who insisted they were human--but she always set fire to them. There was however Indigo, the all-devouring protoplasmic ocean that was literally gobbling up everything in the world. And there was the enigmatic Emeroo to whom she owed her continued existence. There were also the so-called Martians--humans who had fled to Mars and only came back to Earth to scout for survivors and vent their futile furies on the inhospitable homeworld. And that is as much as we are going to tell about Earthchild, one of the strangest and most fascinating science fiction novels DAW Books (or anyone else) ever published. It's by Doris Piserchia, author of A Billion Years of Earth and Star Rider, and it's a very original DAW Original. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (paperback format). 172 pp, ads. Issued as DAW SF Books No. 401 ($1.95). Canadian Edition, with PRINTED IN CANADA on copyright page. Correct 1st printing with code to "1". A fine, uncreased copy; unread. A superior copy. A paperback original, here first published.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. John Schoenherr (illustrateur). First Edition 5th Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: UE1349. ALSO KNOWN AS: Formerly titled: The 1972 Annual World's Best SF. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Fourth Profession - Larry Niven; Gleepsite - Joanna Russ; The Bear With the Knot on His Tail - Stephen Tall; The Sharks of Pentreath - Michael G. Coney; A Little Knowledge - Poul Anderson; Real-Time World - Christopher Priest; All Pieces of a River Shore - R. A. Lafferty; With Friends Like These. - Alan Dean Foster; Aunt Jennie's Tonic - Leonard Tushnet; Timestorm - Eddy C. Bertin; Transit of Earth - Arthur C. Clarke; Gehenna - Barry Malzberg; One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty - Harlan Ellison; Occam's Scalpel - Theodore Sturgeon. SYNOPSIS: The term "World's Best SF" is a tall order, but if anyone can qualify for its selection it would be Donald A. Wollheim, whose annual selections have become fast-selling and highly applauded anthologies. In response to constant demand for these high-quality selections, DAW is now reissuing the best of these anthologies for those who may have missed some. In this, Series One, will be found fourteen marvelous science fiction stories by fourteen of the best sf writers, authors who have won Hugos and Nebulas, and whose ranks include Arthur C. Clarke and Larry Niven, Theodore Sturgeon and Harlan Ellison, Poul Anderson and Joanna Russ. World's Best SF: 1 represents the most outstanding novelettes and short stories of the United States and England in a single year. - and - Tomorrow's, Today's, and Yesterday's Award-Winning* Science Fiction Authors Are Sure to be Among the Following: Larry Niven, Joanna Russ, Stephen Tall, Michael G. Coney, Poul Anderson, Christopher Priest, R. A. Lafferty, Alan Dean Foster, Leonard Tushnet, Eddy C. Bertin, Arthur C. Clarke, Barry N. Malzberg, Harlan Ellison, Theodore Sturgeon. They are all in this exciting expertly-selected collection of the finest fantastic fiction of the year. * Hugos, Nebulas, Oscars, Edgars, Sfans, plaques, certificates.you name them. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. Hans Arnold (illustrateur). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 286. CONTENTS: Mr. Costello, Hero; The Touch of Your Hand; Affair with a Green Monkey; A Crime for Llewellyn; It Opens the Sky; A Touch of Strange; The Other Celia; The Pod in the Barrier; The Girl Had Guts. SYNOPSIS: One of Theodore Sturgeon's basic and original collections of his unforgettable novelettes and short stories is brought back to print with DAW's new presentation of A Touch of Strange. Here are nine masterpieces of the imagination from the period of Sturgeon's finest creativity. Included here are Affair with a Green Monkey, The Other Celia, The Touch of Your Hand, and more. The name of Theodore Sturgeon is a magic word in the field of science fiction and fantasy--in A Touch of Strange you will find out for yourself ample reasons for this. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.