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Greenwich: A Fawcett Crest Book - Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1973. Previous Owner Markings; 2.3 cm Gouge on Front Cover; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Moderate Writing Impressions on Front Cover; Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this novel have been previously published in Galaxy magazine (March 1972 and May 1972) and If magazine (April 1972). SYNOPSIS: THE YEAR IS 2100 A.D... And Man no longer stands alone in the universe. Now there are other worlds, other living beings. Alien beings who mate in threes and live on pure energy. New breeds of humans who have created their own environment and freed themselves from every social and sexual taboo. Yes, it is a future of new worlds, ever-changing worlds. And yet among them there is still Earth. Earth, where Man still strives to be the best. To advance himself beyond all other beings and their worlds. And this final, glorious step in… Read More

Toronto: A Del Rey Book - Random House of Canada, Limited, 1981. 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 Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel...the gripping story of a ring-shaped world around a distant sun. SYNOPSIS: THE DIMENSIONS OF RINGWORLD. "I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius one Earth orbit which would make it 600 million miles long. It we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much sturdier than a Dyson sphere." "There are other advantages. We can spin it for gravity. Rotation on its axis of 700 miles/second would give the Ringworld one gravity outward. We wouldn't even have to roof it over. Put walls a thousand miles high at each rim, aimed… Read More

New York: Beagle Books, Inc., 1977. Previous Dealer Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled. The brilliant, long-awaited novel by the master of science fiction. What happens to a man when he becomes more than a man? SYNOPSIS: THE NEW SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC BY FREDERIK POHL. WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD AND FOUR-TIME HUGO AWARD WINNER. Take a man. Replace his eyes with faceted red globes, his nose with flaring, leathery nostrils, his skin with poreless, hairless plastic. Add bat ears, which are photo receptors, and huge black wings, which are solar energizers... A novel of unbearable suspense...a desperate political gamble to save earth from destroying itself...the struggle of a man who is more than a man to become the first Martian... - and - The screen showed a man. He did not look like a man. He was--among other… Read More

Markham: Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster, Inc./PaperJacks Ltd., 1984. Repaired; Light Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. In the Winter Skies, Above the Seas and Cities of Earth, the Constellation of the Hunter Shines Again! SYNOPSIS: CENTURIES AFTER THE NUCLEAR CATACLYSM, EARTH IS ONCE MORE TURNING TOWARD WAR! The nature-loving empire of the Maurai is trying to control the atomic-minded North. Europe is beginning to rebel against Skyholm, the hovering aerostat that commands absolute authority. In this beautiful, frightening epic, lovers, fighters, poets and spies play out the drama of their time. Mankind has learned from its violent history - but now only transcendent heroism and courage can keep the Earth from burning again! - and - MAN OF THE MAURAI! He had passed many marching hours in devising the story he would tell, if and when he met human beings. It had better be a good story, as wild as his appearance was.… Read More

New York: A Berkley Medallion Book - Berkley Publishing Corporation 2 cm x 2 cm Chunk Missing from Title Page; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front Cover Moderately Chipped; Rear Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. ISBN: 0-425-03744-4/425-03744-4 (Copyright Page). SYNOPSIS: WELCOME TO RIVERWORLD It is not like our world - or any world that can be imagined by anyone but Philip Jose Farmer. It is huge and mysterious. It has a central river, rimmed by mountains, with a hidden source and an unknown end. Reborn there is every last soul who ever lived on Earth - from prehistoric apemen to moondwelling future civilizations. Reborn there is Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator of The Arabian Nights, explorer, brawler, scholar, womanizer - adventurer. His quest to discover the end of the river, the meaning of this world's existence - and lovely Alice Hargreaves (the real-life model for Alice in Wonderland) form… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1991. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; First Page of Front Matter Missing; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. EDITION: Spectra Special Editions (Spectra Special Editions is a program dedicated to original works by today's most visionary writers. Titles selected as Special Editions are ambitious, imaginative fiction representative of the finest writing in any genre). SYNOPSIS: To be a Synner is to join the on-line hardcore, an outlaw band of video hackers, simulation pirates, and reality synthesizers--hot-wired socket-jockeys hooked on artificial reality and virtual space. Now you can change yourself to suit the machines--jack into cyberspace dreamworlds and leave the meat behind. All it costs you is your freedom--and your humanity. But something new is loose… Read More

London: Methuen Paperbacks Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1976. Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. ALSO KNOWN AS: Here Gather the Stars. SYNOPSIS: It was a resting point for the alien races that roamed the universe. As keeper of the way station, Enoch Wallace was the only human privileged to communicate with the rest of the galaxy. He looked like any other man on Earth, except that he was 124 years old and showed no signs of aging. And his house seemed like any other, though mysteriously impregnable. All was quiet around Enoch's isolated farm--until someone raided the family graveyard and discovered an unknown horror. - and - The inhabitants of the alien planets had many benefits to offer Earth--and were… Read More