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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Softcover. Etat : Fine. Leichte Risse; Gebogener Buchrücken; Farbveränderung durch Alter/Sonne; Geknickte Ecken. An 87th precinct novel about a leading lady in a play called "Romance" whose life is threatened.

Etat : good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Etat : Used: Good. GOOD OVERALL CONDITION. SOME AGE RELATED FADING BUT A GOOD SOUND COPY SENT NEXT WORKING DAY FROM THE U/K 1ST CLASS. 0.0.

Paperback. Etat : Fine.

Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Etat : Wie neu. 3. Auflage. 802 Seiten. 11 x 17,9 cm. Buchecken eselsohrig. Buchkanten etwas berieben. Gerade noch befriedigender Zustand. - Aus wikipedia-orgElizabeth_George: Susan Elizabeth George (* 26. Februar 1949 in Warren, Ohio) ist eine US-amerikanische Autorin von Kriminalromanen. Elizabeth George wurde durch ihre Inspector-Lynley-Romane, die um einen adeligen Kriminalkommissar und seine aus proletarischen Verhältnissen stammende Assistentin Barbara Havers kreisen, bekannt. Die Amerikanerin lässt ihre Romane in Großbritannien spielen und wählt hierfür vielfach typisch englische" Schauplätze und Anknüpfungspunkte (traditionsreiches Elite-Internat, Universität Cambridge, Umfeld eines Cricket-Stars), ohne in die landläufig damit verbundenen Klischees abzugleiten. Leben: Elizabeth George wurde 1949 in Warren (Ohio) geboren, ihre Familie zog 1950 in die Umgebung von San Francisco. Sie wuchs in Kalifornien auf, studierte Englisch, arbeitete als Englischlehrerin und machte nebenher noch einen Abschluss in Psychologie. Nach Lehrtätigkeiten an Universitäten in den USA, Kanada und Großbritannien, insbesondere zum Thema Creative Writing", lebt sie mittlerweile auf einer Insel vor Seattle im US-Bundesstaat Washington und besitzt eine Zweitwohnung im Londoner Stadtteil Kensington. Elizabeth George ist in zweiter Ehe mit einem ehemaligen Feuerwehrmann verheiratet. Ihre schriftstellerische Tätigkeit begann im Jahr 1983. Ihr erster Mann kaufte einen PC und sie nutzte ihn, um ihren ersten Roman zu schreiben.[1] Diesen erstveröffentlichten Roman Gott schütze dieses Haus", der unter anderem sexuelle Gewalt in der Familie und die Folgen für die Betroffenen thematisiert, schrieb sie innerhalb weniger Wochen. In einem Interview, das in einer Verlagsbroschüre abgedruckt wurde, sagte sie: Für den Kriminalroman habe ich mich entschieden, weil ich zu dieser Zeit gerade einen Kurs zum Thema Krimi gegeben habe, also meinen Schülern genau erklären musste, wie solche Geschichten funktionieren, wie sie aufgebaut und konstruiert werden. Und da habe ich gemerkt, dass auch ich solche Geschichten schreiben könnte. So kam das ganz unwillkürlich, dass ich mich diesem Genre zuwandte, als ich mich entschloss, mit dem Schreiben anzufangen." Werk: Die Kriminalromane von Elizabeth George spielen in England und stehen ganz in der Tradition der britischen Crime Ladies. Wegen ihrer feinen Figurenzeichnung und der stringenten Handlung wurde Elizabeth George auch mit Dorothy Sayers verglichen. Im Mittelpunkt der Bücher stehen Inspektor Thomas Lynley und Sergeant Barbara Havers. Doch mehr noch als beispielsweise bei Martha Grimes spielt neben der eigentlichen Krimihandlung auch das private Leben der Hauptfiguren eine wesentliche Rolle: Thomas Lynley, Lord Asherton, hat sich zwar für eine Tätigkeit bei Scotland Yard entschieden, ist aber finanziell unabhängig, da er aus einer reichen Familie stammt. (Zumindest in dieser Beziehung ähnelt er Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey.) Havers dagegen kommt aus kleinen Verhältnissen und hat dazu die Verantwortung für einen kranken Vater und eine geistig verwirrte Mutter zu tragen. Die Klassenschranken" zwischen dem gutaussehenden Lord und der unscheinbaren Havers bieten vielerlei Reibungspunkte, zumal die Ermittlungen vielfach in Kreisen der gehobenen" und von Havers als elitär betrachteten Gesellschaftsschichten zu führen sind. Dazu kommen Lynleys persönliche Krisen, die meistens entweder seine ehemalige Verlobte Deborah St. James (geb. Cotter), seinen Freund Simon St. James oder aber seine langjährige Vertraute (und spätere Ehefrau) Lady Helen Clyde betreffen. Aber auch Havers muss in Bezug auf ihre Eltern einige Schicksalsschläge meistern und hat zudem im dienstlichen Bereich deutliche Probleme bei der Anerkennung übergeordneter Autoritäten. So führen die Romane nicht nur zur Aufklärung des jeweiligen Falles, sondern zeigen auch in einer durchgängigen Rahmenhandlung über mehrere Episoden die kontinuierliche Entwicklung im Leben der Helden" und der weiteren Protagonisten. Die beiden Romane Im Angesicht des Feindes" und Wer die Wahrheit sucht" zeigen eine weitere Wandlung: Das Böse" ist nicht hinter psychologisch erklärbaren Abartigkeiten" oder schlichtweg Dingen wie Untreue oder fanatischer Liebe zu finden, sondern auch im Irrglauben, der uns letztendlich mit dem Gedanken zurücklässt, dass nur eine einzige falsche Äußerung genügt, um uns in einen Strudel der Zerstörung zu ziehen. In Wo kein Zeuge ist" kommt es durch einen Todesfall am Ende des Romans zu einer tiefgreifenden Änderung im Leben des Thomas Lynley. Die Hintergründe dieser Tragödie beschreibt sie in Am Ende war die Tat". Dieser Roman unterscheidet sich deutlich von ihren bis dahin veröffentlichten Büchern. Hier schildert sie zum ersten Mal keine klassische Krimihandlung, sondern zeichnet ein sozialkritisches Bild der britischen Unterschicht. Ihre Protagonisten Lynley und Havers tauchen gegen Ende kurz auf, spielen jedoch keine zentrale Rolle. In ihrem derzeit letzten Titel Doch die Sünde ist scharlachrot" kehren Lynley und Havers wieder zurück und ermitteln in einem Todesfall an der Küste Cornwalls. Die Romane wurden von der BBC unter dem Titel The Inspector Lynley Mysteries mit Nathaniel Parker und Sharon Small in den Hauptrollen verfilmt. Preise: Gleich das erste Werk von George, Gott schütze dieses Haus", wurde mit dem Agatha Award und dem Anthony Award für das beste Erstlingswerk ausgezeichnet. 1990 hat sie den Grand prix de littérature policière gewonnen. Übersicht: 1989 Anthony Award und Agatha Award 1990 Grand prix de littérature policière. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.

Softcover. Etat : SEHR GUT. 190 g englisch 296 pages.

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Mark Harrison (illustrateur). 2001 Edition. © 2001: 1st in the 'Asteroid Wars' series of books & a part of the 'Grand Tour' series of books. Unknown publication date. 3rd printing of 2001 edition. Copyright page has alternate ISBN 0340769610:- Synopsis: The Asteroid Wars have begun. Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiralling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left - the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph he does not care if Earth perishes in the process. And he knows that the perfect bait to ensnare Dan Randolph and take control of Astro is his revolutionary new fusion rocket propulsion system. As Randolph - accompanied by two beautiful women who are also brilliant astronauts - flies out to the Asteroid Belt aboard a fusion-propelled spacecraft, Humphries makes his move. The future of mankind lies in Randolph's hands:- Review(s): "The science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world" - Ray Bradbury:- (original cost £6.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 1991 Edition. © 1973: 1st in the 'Joe Bodenland' series of books. 1st printing of 1991 edition:- Review(s): "Science Fiction of a high order. Joe Bodenland, a twenty-first century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may as easily have congress as Bodenland himself manages to make love to Mary" - The Guardian / "Brian Aldiss's monster is a beaut. The eerie, icy, last confrontation between it (and its mate) and Joe. is intense and vivid" - The Sunday Times:- (original cost £3.50).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 1993 Edition. © 1992: 1st in the 'Mars' series of books & a part of the 'Grand Tour' series of books. 1st printing of 1993 edition:- Synopsis: To the harsh landscape of Sol's fourth planet travel thirteen astronauts, the best scientists from eleven nations, on a history-making voyage into the unknown. The international crew of the Mars mission have spent nine months in space, crossing 100 million kilometres, to reach the last great frontier. Their voyage is fraught with disputes, both personal and political, and their time on Mars limited to 'footprints and flags'; yet while there they come face-to-face with the most incredible and shocking discovery of all. Six-times Hugo Award-winner Ben Bova combines masterful fiction and scientific fact in his most ambitious novel yet. Earthbound politics, space technology and the writer's imagination combine with sheer story-telling in this epic novel that captures the mystery and wonder of an alien frontier:- Review(s): "A real space novel that predicts many of the problems that will confront the men and women who actually make the trip sometime around 2020" - James A Michener / "There used to be only one Mars and it belonged to Edgar Rice Burroughs. Now Ben Bova has landed, with a new pair of eyes, and Mars is brand new again" - Ray Bradbury / "Extraordinary. This kind of story is the reason science fiction exists in the first place" - Orson Scott Card / "A splendid book. Of his many books, 'Mars' must be the most important" - Arthur C Clarke:- (original cost £5.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Gerry Grace (illustrateur). 1994 Edition. © 1994: A stand-alone novel by Ben Bova. 1st printing of 1994 edition:- Synopsis: In a USAF lab in Ohio, combat veteran and test pilot Jerry Adair experiences for the first time flight simulation enhanced by Virtual Reality. He dies. At a school in Orlando, Florida, twelve-year-old Angela, gliding through the VR underwater wonderland, finds the mermaid princess watching over her father. He is dead. Jace Lowrey is the brilliant one. Dan Santorini, the quiet, regular guy. As a team they are unbeatable. Their ideas work. Up into beyond-state-of-the-art reality. Ideas that a corporation - or government agency - would kill for. Realities that can overwhelm:- Review(s): "I believe that the science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world is Ben Bova" - Ray Bradbury:- (original cost £5.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Mark Salwowski (illustrateur). 1987 Edition. © 1985: A stand-alone novel by David R Palmer. 1st printing of 1987 edition:- Synopsis: The girl was delightful, delicious and disarming. She was also stark naked and trespassing. The man was handsome, dynamic, wealthy. Self-made and proud of it. Used to being obeyed. The cat, which had arrived like the girl as a bolt from the blue, was overweight, short-winded, short-tempered but spoke good English. The girl fixed the man with her wide, blue, tear-filled eyes and explained her sudden and undressed appearance: "Peter, we are losing Armageddon. Only with your help do we have any chance of prevailing. Unless you join us - the galaxy is doomed". The cat backed her up:- Review(s): "Clever, knowledgeable and diabolically inventive. This may well be the space opera to end all space operas" - Spider Robinson / "Every bit as exciting, inventive and witty as 'Emergence'" - Poul Anderson:- (original cost £2.95).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Mick Posen (illustrateur). 1994 Edition. © 1993: 16th in the 'Xanth' series of books. 1st printing of 1994 edition:- Synopsis: In the enchanted kingdom of Xanth, demons play games with life and fate - for fun. So their astoundingly lifelike computer game in our world is full of surprises for unsuspecting players. Dug is cynical about computers, computer games, girls. Until he meets his Game Companion in Xanth - no man has ever been cynical about Nada Naga, the seductive snake woman. Kim is thrilled to be playing. Xanth is so much more exciting than the boring real world. But when an ogre nearly eats Jenny Elf, she has to revise her definition of thrills. For the Xanth computer game is not like other games. It draws the players through their computer screens, and into a world where enchantment, wonder and terror follow each other in breathtaking succession:- (original cost £4.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Mick Posen (illustrateur). 1994 Edition. © 1992: 15th in the 'Xanth' series of books. Unknown publication date. 2nd printing of 1994 edition:- Synopsis: Mela Merwoman lives in the sea. (Well she would, wouldn't she?). The Good Magician Humfrey stays firmly on terra firma. Which poses a bit of a problem when Mela needs his help in finding her a suitable husband. A Prince of course, because with her entrawling personality, she is no easy catch. Not that she is alone in her quest for the Good Magician. Che Centaur needs to know his destiny. Gwenny Goblin has to find her contact lenses before she can see hers. Then there is the great Adult Conspiracy to solve. All in all, it's clear a tail of herring-do and high adventure is about to unfold:- (original cost £4.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Roger Garland (illustrateur). 1993 Edition. © 1991: 14th in the 'Xanth' series of books. 1st printing of 1993 edition:- Synopsis: Lacuna, like her twin brother Hiatus, was a thorough pest as a child. And enjoyed every moment of it. Then, one depressing morning, she woke up to discover she was thirty-four years old and deeply dull. To find out what had gone wrong, she has to take her Question to Magician Humfrey, who of course is away, waiting in the anteroom of Hell. So off to Hell she goes - in a handbasket (what else) - and learns the True History of Xanth while helping to rescue Humfrey's blushing wife, Rose, from a Demon's clutches:- (original cost £4.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 1991 Edition. © 1989: 12th in the 'Xanth' series of books. 2nd printing of 1991 edition:- Synopsis: Heaven Cent to Mundania: a most odd and unexpected destination for Princess Ivy, elder sister of Prince Dolph and future King of Xanth - though of course the totally unexpected is pretty much the usual in Xanth. Meeting Grey Murphy was one lucky consequence for her. And something of a relief for him since his computer had been setting him up with some highly unsuitable girls. The lovely Salmonella for instance; delicious food but problems later. But there are questions. Is Grey a real mundane? Or could he be connected to the Evil Magician Murphy? And his magic talent? He's got to have one to become Ivy's Queen. Still, in the magical, muddling world of Xanth, the path of true love, or untrue love, or just about anything is never going to be smooth:- (original cost £4.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 1989 Edition. © 1987: 10th in the 'Xanth' series of books. 3rd printing of 1989 edition:- Synopsis: It all started when Metria, the shape-shifting demoness, took up residence in Esk's secret tree house. Esk needed his hideaway. When your mother's a nymph and father part-ogre, you have to be able to get away from it all now and again. But Metria was determined to force him out. She tried violence, threats, wheedling and seduction. Seduction nearly did it. So it was that he set out through the Kingdom of Xanth, to find and ask help from the Good Magician. Travelling the enchanted pathways, first he saved Chex, winged she-centaur, from the overheated attentions of a small but nasty dragon. And then they met Volney the Vole, who had a real problem. So one thing just kept on leading to another. And another:- (original cost £4.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Rolf Mohr (illustrateur). 1995 Edition. © 1994: 6th in the 'Company Wars' series of books. 1st printing of 1995 edition:- Synopsis: Conflict in space. The great powers are at peace - but private conflicts are eternal. Like the blood-feud between the Merchanter ships Sprite and Corinthian, inflamed by Sprite Cargo Chief Marie Hawkins's personal vendetta against Corinthian Captain Austin Bowe, a burning crusade that has warped Marie's life. When both ships dock at Mariner space station, Marie vanishes. Fearing that she is bent on vengeance, her 23-year-old son Tom tries to find and stop her, only to find himself shanghaied aboard Corinthian. Now Tom is trapped on a starship speeding him away from all he has known, held prisoner by a crew fanatically loyal to his sworn enemy. The man who, decades before, battered and violently raped Tom's mother. Austin Bowe. Tom Hawkins's father:- Review(s): "Cherryh evokes more tension and danger in one verbal confrontation than most writers can manage in a dozen space battles" - Publishers Weekly / "Science fiction's next household name" - Newsday / "One of the finest writers SF has to offer" - SF Chronicle:- (original cost £5.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 1993 Edition. © 1992: 2nd in the 'Company Wars' series of books. 1st printing of 1993 edition:- Synopsis: Fingers crossed, his onworld posting - a long time dream - was in the bag. But then the order. Priority, Lt Ben Pollard to report to Fleet Strategic Ops HQ. A name from the past: Dekker. Dragged more dead than alive from the Hellburner simulator. Hellburners: the new ships, deep-space war winners. All new technology, very secret and dangerous to fly. Dangerous even to know about:- Review(s): ""'Hellburner' tastes of metal, flesh, speed, intolerable complexities matched by fast minds; it really is the taste of the future" - John Clute / "Suspenseful, cunning machinations and exhilarating slam-bang adventure. Shot through with positively idiosyncratic humour" - Starburst / "One of the finest writers SF has to offer" - SF Chronicle:- (original cost £4.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 1992 Edition. © 1991: 1st in the 'Company Wars' series of books. 1st printing of 1992 edition:- Synopsis: Wildcatters in space, deep in the big empty. Bird and Ben. Looking for the once in a lifetime strike that would make them rich. Hearing the distress call from a sector where no ship should be. Not telling Mama because Mama don't allow - almost anything. Company rules. Not OK by them, but you obeyed because if you crossed the Company, you'd never work again. Maybe not even go on living. So when they found the survivor, babbling but disturbingly convincing in his story of a Company ship, off course, acting illegally, and responsible for the accident, Bird and Ben were already in over their heads:- Review(s): "Another tense, convincing C J Cherryh novel of innocence and skullduggery on the far frontiers of space. Gritty adventure, strong characterisation, and Machiavellian dealing aplenty. It's vintage Cherryh" - Locus / "Taut, gripping, realistic. Agreeably complex" - Kirkus Reviews / "One of the finest writers SF has to offer" - SF Chronicle:- (original cost £4.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 1989 Edition. © 1987: A stand-alone novel by Alan Dean Foster. 2nd printing of 1989 edition:- Synopsis: It was a quiet night in Albuquerque, New Mexico. But then they mostly are. Seeth, token punk for the territory, was bored, bored, bored. Which was why he went ten pin bowling. Not for the bowling, you understand - it was Ladies' League Night - but to spread a little outrage among the upright, mostly overweight citizenry. And so it was he came upon the alien, playing lane 36, saved him from arrest by the pseudo-cops from outer space, found himself in a stolen van, along with Kerwin the nerd and Miranda the born-to-shop, Miss Teen America lookalike, driven by a green-skinned, tentacled shape changer and about to be space chased clean out of the galaxy:- (original cost £3.50).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Gerry Grace (illustrateur). 1st Edition. © 1995: A stand-alone novel by Ben Bova. 1st edition, 1st printing:- Synopsis: Arthur Marshak, a brilliant and driven scientist, dreams of the ultimate biomedical breakthrough: regenerating human organs within the patient's own body. If he succeeds he will be able to cure the incurable, restore sight to the blind, make the paralysed walk once more. But before he can test his theories on human beings, he must convince others. Not just his fellow-scientists, both admirers and enemies. There is the corporation that sees Arthur Marshak alternatively as an asset and an expensive luxury. And his brother Jesse, who once shared his dream. And above all, Jesse's wife Julia. The one woman to whom Arthur ever gave his heart. The woman whose child is about to need Arthur's lifesaving discovery:- Review(s): "Bova tells his tale with panache and suspense" - Chicago Tribune:- (original cost £5.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Mark Harrison (illustrateur). 2001 Edition. © 2000: A part of the 'Grand Tour' series of books. 1st printing of 2001 edition:- Synopsis: Jupiter is a boundless ocean, ten times wider than the entire planet Earth. Heated from below by the planet's seething core, it is the widest, deepest, most fearsome ocean in the solar system. Idealistic young American scientist Grant Archer joins a clandestine expedition to this awesome new world. But Grant does not share the ideals of the scientists he accompanies; he has been planted on their expedition by the New Morality, a religious group that wants to ferret out what the 'godless humanists' have discovered. His mission: to reassure the new religious leaders of Earth that Jupiter holds no intelligent life. But unknown to the New Morality, Grant, though the sin of a minister, is both a believer and a man who sees no reason why science and faith can not co-exist. He has come to the vast, planet-girdling ocean of Jupiter with an open mind, and he is about to tell his masters something that may shatter their conviction:- Review(s): "One of the world's great masters of the genre of science fiction" - Books:- (original cost £6.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Mark Harrison (illustrateur). 1999 Edition. © 1999: 2nd in the 'Mars' series of books & a part of the 'Grand Tour' series of books. Unknown publication date. 3rd printing of 1999 edition:- Synopsis: Mars was the story of the thrilling first manned journey to the mysterious planet. Now a carefully picked international crew of astronauts, engineers and scientists is on its way back. Leading them is Jamie Waterman, the man who defied the accepted wisdom of the scientific community - and the direct orders of his superiors - to discover life on the planet. But there are those who still resent his success; others who have their own reasons to ensure that Waterman, with his almost mystic idealism, does not make the final decisions about the Second Mars Expedition. And among the crew is someone whose mental instability could lead to catastrophe for them all:- (original cost £6.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Ian Craig (illustrateur). 1972 Edition. © 1970: A stand-alone novel by Robert A Heinlein. 9th printing of 1972 edition:- Synopsis: A man's mind transplanted into a woman's body. That is the incredible idea behind one of Heinlein's most inspired novels. Mind versus body. Masculine desires versus feminine appeal. And soul versus soul, for the woman's soul remains locked in her body. Eunice Branca was Johann Smith's personal secretary and confidante before she died. So when they meet again in this new and extraordinary combination their relationship is quick to blossom. Eunice proves a perfect mentor in the art of womanhood. Two people in one body. And when a third soul joins them the situation becomes even more fantastic:- Review(s): "Four times Hugo Award winner, Robert Heinlein has produced yet another masterpiece of futuristic fiction":- (original cost £3.50).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Tim White (illustrateur). 1977 Edition. © 1953: A collection of 3 short stories by Robert A Heinlein that are 3rd in the 'Future History' series of books. 7th printing of 1977 edition:- Contents: If This Goes On - / Coventry / Misfit:- Synopsis: The year is 2100, and America is ruled by a corrupt and despotic religious dictator. He maintains power through the clever use of advanced psychological techniques and a dedicated military clique. An entire population is rendered helpless. But under the surface, rebellion simmers. A steadily growing band of men is preparing to storm the most impregnable Bastille of all - the collective mind of a nation:- Review(s): "No-one else comes even close to Heinlein in consistently and successfully fusing scientific thinking with fictional form" - New York Herald Tribune:- (original cost £2.25).

Paperback: 7¾" x 5¼". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Davies (illustrateur). 1990 Edition. © 1987: An omnibus of the 3 novels in the 'Masters Of Space' series of books. 1st printing of 1990 edition:- Contents: The Stellar Death Plan / The Alien Web / A Plague In Paradise:- Synopsis: Barton Kinsolving never intended to be a spacefaring adventurer. He was a simple mining engineer. He certainly never anticipated being hunted through the galaxy, stalked by killer-robots, framed and wanted for crimes beyond human - and most alien - imagination. As supervisor of Interstellar Materials' Deepdig No 2 mining colony, Barton Kinsolving had a job of great importance. Deepdig produced samarium salts and samarium salts are essential to interstellar travel. The trouble began when Kinsolving stumbled across the horrifying secret. A plan that could involve planetary genocide. A discovery that marked him down for murder by the company he served and the woman whom he loved. Barton Kinsolving was about to become the Most Wanted, most pursued, space fugitive in galactic history:- (original cost £4.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 1989 Edition. © 1988: A stand-alone novel by Charles Sheffield. 1st printing of 1989 paperback edition:- Synopsis: A Trader had no home - yet was at home everywhere. From the Chill settlements to Cap City, from the Strine Interior to the Darklands and out to the space colonies, the Traders were always on the move. They did the deals, turned contacts into contracts. They collected information, exchanged technologies, undertook espionage. Always outsiders, welcomed warily at best, at risk always, they and their systems were everywhere but belonged nowhere. To be a Trader was to live by your wits, survive through training and experience and to relax only with other Traders. Mikal Asparian was about to enter the world of the Traders:- (original cost £2.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Etat : Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Cover Art: Steve Crisp (illustrateur). 1993 Edition. © 1992: A stand-alone novel by Stephen King. Unknown publication date. 8th printing of 1993 edition:- Synopsis: Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But not quite what the police had expected. Dolores Claiborne has a confession to make. She will take her time. Won't be hurried. Will do it her way, sparing neither details nor feelings. Hers or anyone else's This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Truth that takes you to the edge of darkness. Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell and you'd better pay attention - or else:- Review(s): "A svelte and compelling masterpiece" - Sunday Telegraph:- (original cost £5.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Etat : Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrateur). 1986 Edition. © 1984: A stand-alone novel by Richard Bachman. 8th printing of 1986 edition:- Synopsis: 'Thinner' - the old gipsy man barely whispered the word. Billy felt the touch of a withered hand, gentle on his cheek. Billy Halleck, prosperous if overweight citizen, happily married, shuddered, then turned angrily away. The old woman's death had been none of his fault. The court had cleared him. She'd just stumbled in front of his car. Now he simply wanted to forget the whole messy business. Later, when the scales told him he was losing weight, it was what the doctor had ordered. His wife was pleased - as he should have been. But 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, had lodged in his mind like a fattening worm, eating away at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, came violence:- (original cost £2.95).