The Lion Game
by Schmitz, James H
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0441484336
- ISBN 13
- 9780441484331
- Seller
-
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Synopsis
Synopsis - ‘What’s the Lion Game?’ asked Telzey of her captors. ‘You’re engaged in it now,’ was their answer. It was a game of mental chess played on the intricate closed transit circuits of an entire world by a race of giant mentalists who acknowledged no allegiance to the civilized planets. Talzey was a human and, as such, a test piece either a pawn to be sacrificed or a wild queen who could make her own decisions, she was never sure which. Either way the loser would not be just one talented Earthling: the loser would be a whole civilization, and possibly a few peaceful planets as well...
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- Bookseller
- John McCormick (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013293
- Title
- The Lion Game
- Author
- Schmitz, James H
- Illustrator
- Wayne D. Barlowe (front cover)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- .
- ISBN 10
- 0441484336
- ISBN 13
- 9780441484331
- Publisher
- New York: Ace Books # 48433 1st Printing
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1982
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction & Fantasy;
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