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DAW Books, Inc. Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1975. 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… Read More

DAW Books, Inc. Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1976. 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… Read More

New York: DAW Books, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 3320. CONTENTS: Introduction; In the Hall of the Martian Kings - John Varley; A Time to Live - Joe Haldeman; The House of Compassionate Sharers - Michael Bishop; Particle Theory - Edward Bryant; The Taste of the Dish and the Savor of the Day - John Brunner; Jeffty is Five - Harlan Ellison; The Screwfly Solution - Raccoona Sheldon; Eyes of Amber - Joan D. Vinge; Child of the Sun - James E. Gunn; Brother - Clifford D. Simak. SYNOPSIS: A self-made millionaire gets a chance to live his life over...an accident victim who is given a mechanical body adapts to it so thoroughly that all things human repel him...an elderly man insists that he has a twin brother--although there's no record of the brother's existence. The 1978 Annual World's Best SF explores these intriguing concepts, and more:… Read More

New York: DAW Books, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 1251. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Scourge - James White; A Letter From the Clearys - Connie Willis; Farmer on the Dole - Frederik Pohl; Playing the Game - Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann; Pawn's Gambit - Timothy Zahn; The Comedian - Timothy Robert Sullivan; Written in Water - Tanith Lee; Souls - Joanna Russ; Swarm - Bruce Sterling; Peg-Man - Rudy Rucker. SYNOPSIS: Every year for more than a decade, Donald A. Wollheim's Annual World's Best SF has presented the highest achievement in science fiction writing...and the greatest pleasure in SF reading. This year, The 1983 Annual World's Best SF offers ten thrilling, thought-provoking stories that show today's most adventurous writers--old masters and new talents alike--pushing ever further the boundaries of their chosen genre. Among the tales… Read More

DAW Books, Inc. Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited 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… Read More

New York: Avon Books A division of The Hearst Corporation, 1970. Previous Dealer, Owner Markings; Impression of Handwritten "Oldfield" on Front Cover; Moderately Scuffed; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. Novelettes by three acknowledged masters, available in no other paperback edition. BOOK NUMBER: V2357. CONTENTS: Editor's Preface: Ray Bradbury; The Lost City of Mars - Ray Bradbury; A Ray Bradbury SF/Fantasy Index; Editor's Preface: Theodore Sturgeon; One Foot and the Grave - Theodore Sturgeon; A Theodore Sturgeon SF/Fantasy Index; Editor's Preface: Chad Oliver; The Marginal Man - Chad Oliver; A Chad Oliver SF/Fantasy Index. SYNOPSIS: Here are contemporary classics by these masters of science fiction: A new Martian chronicle by Ray Bradbury; A poignant adventure in deep space by Chad Oliver; An unforgettable tale of witchcraft by Theodore… Read More

New York: Crest Books published by Fawcett World Library - Fawcett Publications, Inc. Previous Dealer Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; 2 Light Circular Impressions on Rear Cover (Left From Glass/Cup); Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A breathtaking journey through time and space with five top writers of science fiction. BOOK NUMBER: S197. ALSO KNOWN AS: The stories included in Five Tales from Tomorrow were originally published by Frederick Fell, Inc., Publishers, in The Best Science-Fiction Stories and Novels: 1955, and this new Crest selection is reissued at $0.35 through arrangement with that company. CONTENTS: Push-Button Passion - Albert Compton Friborg; The Cold Equations - Tom Godwin; How-2 - Clifford D. Simak; Deep Space - Robert Abernathy; Exile - Everett B. Cole. SYNOPSIS: THE TIME: TOMORROW...when ...space travel is as simple as suburban… Read More

New York: A Dell Book - Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1965. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Science Fiction and Fantasy by Bernard Malamud, Jules Feiffer, Andre Maurois, Fred Saberhagen, Richard Matheson, Fredric Brown, J. F. Bone, R. Bretnor, Fritz Leiber, Gerald Kersh, Charles Beaumont, William Tenn, and many others. BOOK NUMBER: 9775. CONTENTS: Bernie the Faust - William Tenn; Fortress Ship - Fred Saberhagen; Mr. Waterman - Peter Redgrove; Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well - R. Bretnor; Tree Trunks - John Gallagher; They Don't Make Life Like They Used To - Alfred Bester; Great Nebraska Sea - Allan Danzig; The Faces Outside - Bruce McAllister; A Slight Case of Limbo - Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; 237 Talking Statues, etc. - Fritz Leiber; The Jazz Machine - Richard Matheson; Mourning Song - Charles Beaumont; Dog Eat Dog - Jules Feiffer; The Jewbird - Bernard Malamud; On… Read More

New York: A Signet Book - New American Library Times Mirror Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin, Piers Anthony, and others. CONTENTS: Introduction: An Assault of New Dreamers - Harlan Ellison; Keynote Entry: The Counterpoint of View - John Heidenry; Ching Witch! - Ross Rocklynne; The Word for World is Forest - Ursula Kroeber Le Guin; For Value Received - Andrew J. Offutt; Mathoms from the Time Closet - 1: Robot's Story; 2: Against the Lafayette Escadrille; 3: Loco Parentis - Gene Wolfe; Time Travel for Pedestrians - Ray Nelson; Christ, Old Student in a New School - Ray Bradbury; King of the Hill - Chad Oliver; The 10:00 Report is Brought to You by... - Edward Bryant; The Funeral - Kate Wilhelm; Harry the Hare - James B. Hemesath; When it Changed - Joanna Russ; The Big Space Fuck - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.;… Read More

New York: A Macfadden-Bartell Book published by Macfadden-Bartell Corporation A subsidiary of Bartell Media Corporation, 1969. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Man discovers his limitations - and his dangers - in a world where the trees talk, robots think and heartless machines make the final decisions. BOOK NUMBER: 75-219. CONTENTS: Alien Earth - Edmond Hamilton; The Past Master - Robert Bloch; Rain Magic - Erle Stanley Gardner; Ultimate Melody - Arthur C. Clarke; The Loot of Time - Clifford D. Simak; Doodad - Ray Bradbury; Automaton - A. E. Van Vogt; The People of the Crater - Andre Norton; Franchise - Isaac Asimov. SYNOPSIS: IN ALIEN WORLDS ...a man learns wisdom from the trees and risks death to keep his forbidden knowledge...a time traveler tries to save the world from destruction and is hunted down because he doesn't "belong"...a sailor jumps… Read More

New York: Paperback Library, Inc., 1968. Previous Owner, Dealer Markings (Including Upper Right Corner of Front Cover Cut Off); Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover; Light Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front Cover, Spine Moderately Chipped; Rear Cover Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. The incredible future that awaits us on Alien Worlds. Ten startling science-fiction adventures by Anderson/Bloch/Brunner/Campbell/Dick/Hamilton/Russell/Sheckley/Simak/Wyndham. CONTENTS: Afternoon of a Fahn - Eric Frank Russell; The Cosmic Poachers - Philip K. Dick; Dawn Invader - Robert Sheckley; The Last Monster - Poul Anderson; The Fear Planet - Robert Bloch; Singleminded - John Brunner; The Stars, My Brothers - Edmond Hamilton; The Brain Stealers of Mars - John W. Campbell, Jr.; The Man From Beyond - John Wyndham; Madness From Mars - Clifford D. Simak. SYNOPSIS: In just a few pages your imagination will embark on the strangest journey it will ever… Read More

New York: TOR A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1996. BOOK: Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Scratched; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. ALSO KNOWN AS: Parts of this book have been previously published, sometimes in slightly different form. JACKET DESIGN BY: Carol Russo. CONTENTS: Strangers; Neptune Diary; Requiem for a Universe; John Campbell; In Memoriam; The House of Sorrows; Uncleftish Beholding (from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle); Losers' Night; Science Fiction and History; Rokuro; Rudyard Kipling; The Forest; Johannes V. Jensen; Fortune Hunter; Wolfram; The Visitor; Wellsprings of Dream; The Voortrekkers. SYNOPSIS: Poul Anderson himself has put together a retrospective collection of his recent writings, fiction and nonfiction, under the title All One Universe. This is the first major Poul Anderson collection in a decade. It encompasses all his strengths as a teller of tales and, in addition, provides a running commentary in the story notes and in the essays… Read More

New York: A Berkley Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1978. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. THE BRILLIANT SERIES-ANTHOLOGY OF THE GREATEST CONTEMPORARY SF MASTERPIECES. CONTENTS: Introduction - Robert Silverberg; Dumb Waiter - Walter M. Miller, Jr.; The Monsters - Robert Sheckley; The Sliced-Crosswire Only-on-Tuesday World - Philip Jose Farmer; The Funeral - Kate Wilhelm; The Book - Michael Shaara; Dusty Zebra - Clifford D. Simak; Goodlife - Fred Saberhagen; Nobody's Home - Joanna Russ. SYNOPSIS: THESE STORIES ARE SF AT ITS FINEST. Since 1970 this unique Alpha series has brought together the classics of SF's thirty years of maturity and greatness--the finest stories of the 50's and 60's along with the most challenging of today. Here is number 9 in this acclaimed library of SF masterpieces. - and - Dumb Waiter: The war was over, but nobody had… Read More

New York: A Berkley Windhover Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1978. Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Ursula K. Le Guin's Science Fiction Writing Workshop. CONTENTS: Editor's Note - Lee Harding; Foreword - Bruce Gillespie; Introduction - Ursula K. Le Guin; THE TRANSGLOBAL WORKSHOP The Eye Altering - Ursula K. Le Guin; The Workshopping; The Character Stories; Stabbed Alive - Randal Flynn; Duplicates - Annis Shepherd; Lonely Are the Only Ones - John Edward Clark; Background - Stefan Vucak and Annis Shepherd; The Ins and Outs of the Hadhya City-State - Pip Maddern; The Gift - Edward Mundie; Background - John Edward Clark; Single Changes - David Grigg, Pip Maddern and Barbara J. Coleman; THE LOVE STORIES Introduction - David Grigg; Islands - David Grigg; Emily, My Emily - John Edward Clark; Song and Dance - Rob Gerrand; Vegetable Love - Bruce Gillespie; Fulfilment - Stefan Vucak; Down Toward the Sun… Read More

New York: Belmont Books Published by Belmont Productions, Inc., 1970. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Front Cover, Edges Lightly Soiled; Edges Slightly Faded Due to Age. Eleven excellent science fiction stories ranging from the ends of the galaxy to the Mafia of the future. CONTENTS: Aim for the Heel - John T. Phillifent; Fiesta Brava - Mack Reynolds; Free Vacation - W. Macfarlane; The Featherbedders - Frank Herbert; Weyr Search - Anne McCaffrey; Lost Calling - Verge Foray; The Last Command - Keith Laumer; Dead End - Mike Hodous; There is a Crooked Man - Jack Wodhams; Elementary Mistake - Poul Anderson; Burden of Proof - Bob Shaw. SYNOPSIS: The seventh annual anthology from Analog, best-selling science fiction magazine, offers a spell-binding assortment by the best writers of the day. - and - An exciting, generous helping of the best stories of the year from the most popular science fiction magazine of them all, Analog. From the furthest reaches… Read More

New York: Bantam Books published by Bantam Books, Inc., 1980. 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 best of the early work of science fiction's most famous team of collaborators, including four stories never before in book form. Outlandish tales of alien invasions, metamorphosis and dying worlds. SUB-TITLE: and other stories. BOOK DESIGNED BY: Cathy Marinaccio. CONTENTS: Mars-Tube; Trouble in Time; Vacant World; Best Friend; Before the Universe; Nova Midplane; The Extrapolated Dimwit. SYNOPSIS: At the mysterious nexus where space and time cease to be lie worlds of fearful wizardry and dazzling enchantment. Worlds where humans slumber awaiting their savior...or their executioner. Where a race of sea creatures can colonize Earth and transplant its inhabitants to another dimension. Where protean beings transform themselves at will. And two crazy geniuses go… Read More

New York: A Berkley Medallion Book - Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1973. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. the 6th annual; THE YEAR'S DEFINITIVE SELECTION; Novellas, stories, cartoons, poems, commentary--and surprises. CONTENTS: Introduction - Harry Harrison; In the Matter of the Assassin Merefirs - Ken W. Purdy; As for Our Fatal Continuity... - Brian W. Aldiss; The Old Folks - James E. Gunn; From Sea to Shining Sea - Jonathan Ela; Weihnachtabend - Keith Roberts; Graphics; The Years - Robert F. Young; Darkness - Andre Carneiro, translated by Leo L. Barrow; Five Poems; Cymbal Player - Lawrence Sail; Report from the Planet Proteus - Lawrence Sail; Columbus on St. Domenica - John Cotton; After Death - Patricia Beer; Faex Delenda Est - Theodore R. Cogswell; Words of Warning - Alex Hamilton; Out, Wit! - Howard L. Myers; An Imaginary Journey to the Moon - Victor Sabah; The… Read More

New York: A Berkley Medallion Book - Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1973. Small Slice Cut Through Cover Into Last Several Pages; Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Moderate Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Line of "10" Stamped on Upper Edge. the 6th annual; THE YEAR'S DEFINITIVE SELECTION; Novellas, stories, cartoons, poems, commentary--and surprises. CONTENTS: Introduction - Harry Harrison; In the Matter of the Assassin Merefirs - Ken W. Purdy; As for Our Fatal Continuity... - Brian W. Aldiss; The Old Folks - James E. Gunn; From Sea to Shining Sea - Jonathan Ela; Weihnachtabend - Keith Roberts; Graphics; The Years - Robert F. Young; Darkness - Andre Carneiro, translated by Leo L. Barrow; Five Poems; Cymbal Player - Lawrence Sail; Report from the Planet Proteus - Lawrence Sail; Columbus on St. Domenica - John Cotton; After Death - Patricia Beer; Faex Delenda Est - Theodore R. Cogswell; Words of Warning… Read More

New York: A Del Rey Book Published By Ballantine Books - Random House, Inc., 1979. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Introduction - Terry Carr; The Barbie Murders - John Varley; A Hiss of Dragon - Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw; Black Glass - Fritz Leiber; To Bring in the Steel - Donald Kingsbury; The Very Slow Time Machine - Ian Watson; Devil You Don't Know - Dean Ing; Count the Clock That Tells the Time - Harlan Ellison; View from a Height - Joan D. Vinge; The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck - Hilbert Schenck; Vermeers' Window - Gordon Eklund; The Man Who Had No Idea - Thomas M. Disch; Death Therapy - James Patrick Kelly; Recommended Reading - 1978 - Terry Carr; The Science Fiction Year - Charles N. Brown. SYNOPSIS: Every Year Critics Hail Terry Carr's Anthology As The Best of The Bests! The Barbie Murders - John Varley - The murder had been committed in front of dozens of… Read More

Toronto: A Del Rey Book - Random House of Canada, Limited, 1980. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Introduction - Terry Carr; Galatea Galante, the Perfect Popsy - Alfred Bester; Sandkings - George R. R. Martin (1980 Nebula Award Winner); Time Shards - Gregory Benford; In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See - Melisa Michaels; Re-deem the Time - David Lake; Down & Out on Ellfive Prime - Dean Ing; The Exit Door Leads In - Philip K. Dick; Options - John Varley; In Trophonius's Cave - James P. Girard; Fireflood - Vonda N. McIntyre; No More Pencils, No More Books - John Morressy; The Vacuum-packed Picnic - Rick Gauger; The Thaw - Tanith Lee; In a Petri Dish Upstairs - George Turner; Recommended Reading - 1979 - Terry Carr; The Science-Fiction Year - Charles N. Brown. SYNOPSIS: EVERY YEAR CRITICS HAIL TERRY CARR'S… Read More