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Putnam Adult, 2003-08-11. Hardcover. Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. (more information)

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NY: Putnam's, 2003. Appears Unread with a light edge ripple; covers have a tiny bit of corner wear.. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). (more information)

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New York: Putnam, 2003. Softcover. Fine/No. First edition, uncorrected proof. Softcover. Fine book in pictorial wrappers. (more information)

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 2003. Like new 'Uncorrected Proof for Limited Distribution'. Minor 'shelf wear'. Carl Sagan's son. Author's first book. From The Critics Publisher's Weekly Billed as a near-future thriller, Sagan's first novel plods through terrain all too familiar to SF readers. The narrator awakens with amnesia in a mysterious realm easily identified as a computer-generated virtual reality, fraught with metaphors and symbols. He slowly grasps that his name is Halloween, and that he may have murdered someone called Lazarus. Eventually, he realizes he's one of a handful of high school students attending "Immersive Virtual Reality" classes at the Idlewild IVR Academy, sponsored by the Gedaechtnis Corporation, a multinational biotech company. Intimidated by the villainous teacher, Maestro, and wary of his fellow students, Halloween is determined to recover his memory, apparently damaged in a power surge that threatened to destroy the IVR, and learn what really happened to the missing Lazarus. Despite a compelling twist near the middle, the low tension and meandering plot will likely frustrate the primary target audience, mainstream fans of such futuristic action films as The Matrix and Minority Report. Sagan may not be the next Philip K. Dick or William Gibson, but he shows enough talent here to suggest he can improve on pacing in the promised sequel. (Aug. 11) Forecast: As the son of the late popular astronomer Carl Sagan, the author is bound to get more than the usual media attention for a first novel. The stark, stylish jacket-of an impressionistic brown-toned butterfly superimposed on a "solar eclipse"-signals that, unlike a lot of genre SF, this is a class act. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Library Journal Awakening with amnesia after a near-death experience, the 17-year-old narrator, alias Halloween, is propelled into a "virtual reality" educational landscape supervised by a mysterious teacher dubbed the Maestro and populated by eight other students playing dangerous games. Certain that someone is trying to murder him, Halloween begins to delve beneath the layers of illusion to discover that not only his life but also that of humanity is at stake. In this fast-paced debut set in the near-future, the son of the late astronomer Carl Sagan touches upon contemporary issues such as technology immersion, youth violence, and the fear of biological disaster. But filtered through the eyes of an angsty, self-absorbed, albeit smart, teenager, the narration becomes claustrophobic and thin, despite the ambitious scope of the plot. Aimed at the audiences of The Matrix and Minority Report and fans of Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, and Mark Danielewski, Sagan's novel lacks their richness and depth, occasionally reading more like a drawn-out short story rather than a novel. Still, disregarding publicity hype, it is a fine debut by a writer with potential to grow, and fans of those same authors will enjoy this as a quick beach read. Recommended.-Ann Kim, "Library Journal" Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Kirkus Reviews Multiple layers of virtual reality unfold like onion skins in this future-shocker. In a rather blatant example of genre-plot-staple cross-pollination, first-novelist and screenwriter Sagan (Carl Sagan fils) takes the killer-virus-decimating-humanity-plot, wraps it inside an is-this-real? VR environment and tosses in some moody dark fantasy scene-stealers with a hint of David Bowie’s Space Oddity as the icing on top. Gabriel Hall, a teenager with a morbid imagination (thus his nickname: "Halloween"), attends an exclusive college in the future where he and his small band of classmates spend most of their time in a VR world. The environment they embody, with its field trips spent talking to Charles Darwin, and odd conflicts involving gibbering clones with machine guns and faceless Lovecraftian "nightnauts," is a fun but frightening place, something like Disneyworld seen through a Hieronymous Bosch filter. Gabe has anxieties at the start of the story, since he doesn’t remember anything about why he’s in the world a short-circuit in the system temporarily wiped much of his memory and he believes he might have killed his classmate Lazarus (they all have names like that: Fantasia, Mercutio, Champagne). Sagan occasionally dips out of Gabe’s nightmarish quest for truth to check in with the scientists at Gedaechtnis, a research center connected to Gabe’s school that’s frantically trying to find the cure for Black Ep, a hundred-percent fatal disease that lurked for years in humanity’s DNA and is now sweeping the globe like a scythe. The official reason for all the VR loopiness the students endure is that it’s all education, but after a scene in which Gabe is (virtually) buried alive byMaestro, the VR instructor, it’s pretty obvious that something else is going on behind the scenes. While it might seem a rather lumbering affair when laid out, Idlewild nips along quite nicely, deftly sidestepping the overly drawn-out or too-fraught-with-meaning scenarios one might expect from this apocalyptic masquerade. Sagan may have more imagination than he knows what to do with a wonderful thing in a new author. Agent: Richard Pine/Arthur Pine Associates. 1st Edition. 1st Impression.. Trade Paperback. 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Putnam, 2003, 1st . Hardcover . Fine/Fine. Remainder mark, else as new. (more information)

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New York: NAL, 2003. Trade Paperback. Minor edgewear, spine is uncreased. Edgy psuedo-cyberpunk novel about an exclusive private school and Virtual Reality. (more information)

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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2003. NOT a remainder or an ex library book. clean interior pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.. Complete Numbers Starting with 1. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9 1/2". (more information)

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Putnam Adult, 2003-08-11. Hardcover. Good. Has only slight shelf wear to the dust jacket. (more information)

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New York: Putnam Publishing, 2003. Very nice clean275 page hardcover first edition. Waking up with no memory of his identity and a certainty that someone is trying to kill him, a young man reacquaints himself with eight companions under the training of the enigmatic Maestro.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9 1/2 h x 6 1/2w. (more information)

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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2003. Trade paper format. Uncorrected proof. Author's 1st book. Son of Carl Sagan. . 1st Edition. 1st Impression.. Trade Paperback. Fine. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). (more information)

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G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Book has crease to first 2 pages; DJ has small wrinkle to bottom spine; 288 pages . (more information)

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Putnam Publishing Group, The. Fine. 2003. Soft Cover. 0399150978 Galley/Proof Publisher's comment card laid in. Softcover. Crisp, clean, bright, no marks, no creases in spine, tight straight binding. Pictorial wraps. Digital image available on request. . (more information)

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New York, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. Hardcover. As New/As New. A teen named Halloween wakes from a violent nightmare, convinced that he has killed someone. Or was it just a virtual nightmare? At the Idlewild Academy, nothing is certain, nothing seems real, except that Lazarus is missing and Halloween has to find out whether in fact he did kill his fellow student, or whether the power surge that destroyed his brain is making him believe that he did. ISBN: 0-399-15097-8. (more information)

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Putnam Adult, 8/11/2003. Hardcover. New. Hardback w/ DJ. Enjoyable reading copy for your personal pleasure. This copy is nearly flawless! Dust jacket has barely noticeable shelf wear. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now!!! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again!!!! (more information)

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New York:: Putnam, 2003. hardcover. fine with fine dust jacket. 8vo. 279pp. . ISBN: 0399150978. (more information)

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003 This copy of Idlewild looks brand new and is signed by the author! It is beautifully decorated with abstract monarch butterflies, and has only a tad of edgewear on back where plastic lining the cover has ever so slightly peeled up. ***We ship daily. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes (not envelopes).***. Signed by Author. Decorative Hardback. Fine/Fine. 9.25 x 6. (more information)

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Putnam Adult, 2003 Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. (more information)

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G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. Full number line present. corners are bumped or would be near new, Slight wear to heel and head of spine, binding tight, pages clean, no PO markings. DJ has no flaws and is not price clipped. (more information)

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New York: G P Putnam's Sons. 2003. First (Number Line w/ 1 present). Hard Cover. Very Good. Bumped and rubbed corners. . Signed by Author (more information)

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New York: Putnam, 2003 Author's debut novel. From a bold new talent comes a smart, stylish near-future thriller that fuses the fierce imagination of The Matrix with the chilling social vision of Minority Report. Set in the day after tomorrow, Idlewild opens as a young man awakes with amnesia: He cannot remember who he is and doesn't recognize anything around him-all he knows for sure is that someone is trying to kill him. Not certain whom he can trust, he becomes reacquainted with eight companions, all of whom are being trained at a strange school run by an enigmatic figure named Maestro. Working to uncover the identity of the person who has attempted to murder him, the young man quickly starts to unravel a series of truths, making it clear that much more than just his life is at stake. Taking the best of the genre and transcending it, Sagan's cool debut will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman and Orson Scott Card, while also drawing in readers of novels such as House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski and Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hard Cover with Jacket. As New, Unread/As New. 275+ Pages. Fiction, Suspense. (more information)

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Putnam Adult. Hardcover. 0399150978 SIGNED and inscribed by author first edition. Tiny little stain on upper page edges. Otherwise clean and tight. Not ex-library. No markings. Presents well in new dust jacket protector. . Very Good. (more information)

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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2003. As new in as new Dj covered with protective clear 'brodart' dj cover. Unread, tight, clean copy. Signed by author on blank, tipped in signature page. Autograph guarateed authentic. Purchased signed directly from the publisher.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. 1st Impression.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. (more information)

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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2003. As new in as new DJ covered with protective clear 'brodart' DJ cover. Unread, tight, clean copy. Signed by author on FULL TITLE page. Autograph guaranteed authentic. Purchased from book dealer that I have bought from for many years and is noted forgetting author autographs either from signing at the store or drop-shipped to the author for autograph. Ask for pictures if interested.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition, 1st Impression. Hard Cover. As New/As New. (more information)

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2003. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. (more information)

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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 2003. New in new DJ. Purchased directly from publisher. Signed by author on blank front end paper (blank tipped in signature sheet?). Signature guaranteed. Purchased from the Publisher. Ask for pictures. Author's 1st book. Son of Carl Sagan.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition, 1st Impression. Hard Cover. New/New. (more information)

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New York: G P Putnam, 2003. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.. First Edition First Printing. (more information)

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