Search Results: Science Fiction from The Book Closet

Hyperion, 2006 Book #1 (Abadazad)

New York: Ballantine, 2010 Stated First Edition; black boards with gold letteringon spine; dj protected with Brodart cover, not price clipped. "March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. the U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nation -- and the battle for New York City has begun." -- from the dj

New York: Dutton, 2013 Light blue boards with purple tape binding; silver foil lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Emma wakes in a hospital, with no memory of what came before. Her husband, Declan, a powerful, seductive man, provides her with new memories, but her dreams contradict his stories, showing her a past life she can't believe possible: memories of war, of a camp where girls are trained to be wives, of love for another man. Somthing inside her tells her not to speak of this, but she does not know why. She knows only that she is at war with herself." -- from the dj

Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007 Number line reads "11 10 09 08 07 5 4 3 2 1" Maroon boards with silver foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover and not proce-clipped. "Kay Kenyon, noted for her science fiction world-building, has in this new series created her most vivid and compelling society, the Universe Entire. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the entire is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alien beings gathered under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders, the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and an exotic, never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme." - from the dj

Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007 New, 2nd printing of Book One of The Entire and the Rose. "Kay Kenyon, noted for her science fiction world-building, has in this new series created her most vivid and compelling society, the Universe Entire. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the entire is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alien beings gathered under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders, the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and an exotic, never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme." - from the dj flap.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1993 Tan boards with dark brown spine cover; gold lettering on spine; small ink mark on FFEP; dj has minor bumps and is protected with Brodart cover. "Once again, Scott constructs a brilliantly complex future society and tells a story that involves the mind and the heart. This is science fiction adventure at its classic best."

Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2009 Book Three of The Entire and the Rose. Red boards with silver lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; number line reads: 13 12 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1" "In this series Kay Kenyon has created her most vivid and compelling society yet, the universe Entire. Reviewers have called this 'a grand world,' 'an enormous stage,' and 'a bravura concept.' On this stage unfolds a mighty struggle for dominance between two universes. Titus Quinn has forged an unstable peace with the Tarig lords. The ruinous capability of the nanotech surge weapon he possess ensures detent. But it is a sham. In what the godwoman Zhiya calls 'a fit of moral goodness,' he's trown the weapon into the space-folding waters of the Nigh. This clears the way for an enemy he could have never foreseen: the people of the Rose." -- from the dj

New York: Del Ray, 2008 Black boards with black tape binding; silver foil lettering on spine; small red remainder dot on bottom; dj is not price clipped and is protected with Brodart cover; stated First Edition. "In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young people -- Ginny, Jack, and Dnaiel -- dream of a decadent, doomed city of the distant future: the Kalpa. Ginny's and Jack's dreams overtake them without warning, leaving their bodies behind while carrying their consciousnesses forward, into the minds of two inhabitants of the Kalpa -- a would-be warrior, Jebrassy, and an inquisitive explorer, Tiadba -- who have been genetically retro-engineered to possess qualities of ancient humanity. As for Daniel: He dreams of an empty darkness -- all that his future holds." -- from the dj

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993 Black boards with black tape binding; blue foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; stated First Edition. "In a world of greenhouse drought and fuel shortage the Arab National Army advances through Spain and Ukraine. Neutral Russia looks on. The Allies, even with state-of-the-art American and German technology, are losing. Then, among the misty slopes of the Pyrenees near Bagneres-de-Luchon, on a field of buttercups and corpses, a CRAV operated by Sergeant Gordon Means encounters a blue light. The light approaches the vehicle, and Gordon hears, in the back of his head, the monotonous, sleepy tap-tap-tap of sleet against a window. The light follows him like a stray dog. He calls it Rover." -- from the dj

New York: Warner Books, 1995 Blue boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; spine is tight and pages are clean; dj is not price clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line. "Astronaut Boston Low was oce NASA's best shuttle pilot. Now he's left the politicking of the space program behind, preferring to spend his time thinking, dreaming and feeding seagulls in the mist of San Franscisco Bay. That is, until a mile-wide asteroid suddenly appears in orbit around Earth. Scientists know that a collision -- and vast destruction -- is imminent. They call on Low to return to space and nudge the menacing new moon into stable order, out of harm's way." -- from the dj

Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, Inc., 1987 Chips and dings to dj, dj now protected with Brodart cover; some water damage to lower right corner. Volume 8 in the Mission Earth series. "A shotgun blasted at the door. Heller grabbed his satchels and three himself on the spacetrooper sled as the shotgun roared. heller hit the controls. Another shotgun blast! THEN THE FIRST EXPLOSION WENT!" -- from the dj

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993 Purple boards with purple marbled tape binding; gold lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "In a future San Francisco, an interfacer wonders who -- wanders what -- she really is. Alexa remembers a grandmother with icy blue eyes. An unmanned ship that came to their mountain village from the sky, bringing technological wonders from the Galactics. Security troops with laser guns who took villagers away. She remembers her proud years at the Academy, her work on the open Net doing glass. Then there was the war, the explosion, the hospital. Alexa is not Alexa now but Ivy...or is she Augustine?" -- from the dj

New York: Del Rey, 2006 No spine creases; minor crease to upper right front corner; number line 1 through 9. "Operated by the National Security Agency, Echelon is the most pervasive global eavesdropping network in history. Today, Echelon will capture three billion electronic communications. Imagine what it will do tomorrow. In the near future, war is unknown, conflict has vanished and life is picture-perfect. Or so it seems. once merely a surveillance net, Echelon has severed its ties with the United States to become the covert power shaping world affiars. It manipulates the data flow at will, snuffs out dissent, and controls information -- and thus the world -- with an iron fist. But after years of silent dominance, Echelon stands on the brink of collapse." -- from the back cover.

New York: Del Rey, 2007 No spine creases; minor rubbing to edges. "For decades, Echelon forced peace on the world. Freedom was a sham: Echelon wielded total, if secret, control. In the end, two bioengineered Echelon agents, Ryan Laing and Sarah peters, brought the consipirary down. But there is no happily ever after for the liberators, or for humanity. With Echelon's fall, a power vacuum is opened -- and all hell breaks loose." -- from the back cover

New York: Bantam, 1991 Blue boards with purple tape binding; silver foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; dj shows yellowing on the edges; not price clipped; full number line (0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); tight, clean pages. "By the twenty-third century, Earth has had two encounters with massive, mysterious, robotic spacecraft from beyond our solar system -- the obvious handiwork of a technology that far exceeds our own." -- from the DJ

New York: HarperPrism, 1997 Maroon boards with black tape binding; silver lettering on spine; dj proected with Brodart cover; not price clipped. "It is 1999. The Last Days, say some; the First, say others. The climate has altered irrevocably, the cities have imploded into vicious shards, and the starts haven't been seen for months. The sky is a shimmering arras of reds and greens and golds, the result of global arming, it is thought." -- from the dj

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1994 Light blue boards with gold spine lettering; tight, clean spine and pages. dj has minor bumps on spine edges, but is now protected with a Brodart cover. "The Golden Queen is a stellar tale of love, adventure, sacrifice, and war set in a fantastic future."

New York: Bonanza Books, 1983 Blue boards with gold lettering on spine; dj is protected with Brodart cover; some shelf rubbing; spine ir tight and pages are clean. "Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fifth Series, continues the popular series sedited by Isacc Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg. Culling the very best from the art form, Asimov and Greenberg now concentrate on the years of 1947 and 1948, the time when science fiction was emerging from the so-called Golden Age into the Diamond Age of the genre, as writers approached their subejct with greater maturity and craft." -- from the dj

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2014 Black boards with silver foil lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line; Book Three of the Testing. "With the United Commonwealth tettering on the brink of all-out civil =war, this is the moment to lead that the gifted student and Testing survivor Cia Vale has trained for. Having discovered the brutal truth behind The Testing, she has vowed to end it once and for all. As Cia plunges through layers of deception and danger, she must risk the lives of those she loves most and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates." -- from the dj

HarperCollins Publishers, 2001 Book Club Edition