Podkayne of Mars; Farnham's Freehold; Stranger In A Strange Land; 3 Books!!

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Group, 1983. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. All 3 books have some light rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine and some places on outside edges. Podkayne of Mars - Meet Podkayne Fries, a thoroughly Martian Ms. who thinks that Earth is not really fit for habitation and that humanity evolved on the now-exploded Fifth Planet Paddy has one goal in life; to be the first female starship captain.She has her strategy all scoped out, and with her determination, looks and I.Q. she'll get there, never you doubt! But all work and no play would make Poddy a Dull Girl, so when a chance comes her way to travel to distant Earth to Venus witrh her elderly uncle, Paddy jumps at it, even if it does mean having her loathsome little brother along for the trip. Travel, Adventure, the chance to cuddle up (in a nice way) with real spaceship officers and ruthlessly pump their brains- she'll have it all! What Poddy doesn't know is that "Unca Tom" is more than her warmly supportive relative: he is also the Ambassador Plenipotentiary from Mars to the Three-Planets Conference (travelling not quite incognito enough) and that certain parties will stop at nothing to gain control of his vote -including kidnapping and doing terrible things to sweetly innocent Poddy Fries.176 pages. 2" crease on rear cover across the bottom left corner and the bottom 1/8" corner tip has the coating rubbed off. Farnham's Freehold - Hugh Farnham was a practical, self-made man, and when he saw the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he built a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. What he hadn't expected was that when the apoicalypse came, a thermonuclear blast would tear apart the fabric of time and hurl his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings. But Farnham's small group had barely settled down to the back-breaking business of low-tech survival when they found that they were not alone after all. The same nuclear war that had catapulted Farnham two thousand years into the future had destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere. And the world had changed in more ways than one. In the new world order, FArnham and his family, being members of the race that had nearly destroyed the world, were fit only to be slaves. After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham had no intention of being anybody's slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen Race reached throughout the world. Even if he managed to escape, where could he run to.? 320 pages. ISBN: 0-425-07178-2. Spine is creased. 1/4" crease on front cover across the top right corner tip. Stranger In A Strange Land - An enormous number of readers have found this book a brilliant mind-bender, a wonderfully humanizing artifact for those who can enjoy thinking about the place of human beings not at a dinner table but in the universe. Valentine Michael Smith is the stranger. A young human, reared by Martians on Mars, he is brought to Earth where he must adapt not only to the planet's social injustices and its population's foibles, but to its strong gravitational field and rich atmosphere. 1982. 438 pages. ISBN: 0-425-04688-5. A 1-1/2" crease on rear cover top edge and multiple 1/2" and smaller creases across bottom left corner. 1" crease on front cover across the top right corner..