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RADIX by Attanasio, A. A - 1981

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RADIX by Attanasio, A. A - 1981

RADIX

by Attanasio, A. A

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New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The scarce hardbound issue; reportedly only 1000 copies so bound. The author's first book and the first book of the Radix Tetrad sequence that "works as a complex meditation on metamorphosis elaborated within a space opera frame, so that densely ambitious moments of poetic aspiration alternate with episodes out of the rag-and-bone shop of pulp magazine fiction; this early use of space opera as frame or arena for baroque exfoliations of story immediately prefigures the similarly exorbitant work of Iain M. Banks and Dan Simmons ... After losing her radiation shield, which guards her against the full nakedness of the universe, Earth begins to mutate savagely, a transformation articulated clearly in RADIX itself through the story of a mutant superman, who undergoes the same transcendental jumpstart that jolts his planet through terrors and dimensions. - John Clute, SFE (online). 1981 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-55. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. (#126306)
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  • ISBN 10 0688001351
  • ISBN 13 9780688001353
  • Publisher William Morrow and Company
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1981
  • Keywords Coming of Age; Disaster; Evolution; Ruined Earth; Tale of the Future

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Radix

by Attanasio, A. A

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Discoloration to boards and foxing (browning) to page edges. Book is tight and square. Browning to jacket as well..
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Radix

Radix

by Attanasio, A.A. [Alfred Angelo Attanasio]

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New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1981. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. Octavo. Fred Marcellino. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1981. First Edition, and so stated and numbered. One of 1,000 copies. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino, book design by Michael Mauceri. Octavo, 467 pp. Ex-library, with standard markings for that, else in remarkable, sharp, bright handsome condition. Library traces include rubber stamp at page edges, pocket which has been adhered to rear fep, label on jacket spine. Book is other Very Good plus or a bit better. Jacket is price clipped, is otherwise near fine, and quite bright. Certainly the best known - and hardest to acquire as a first edition - of the titles produced by New Jersey-born science fiction writer A. A. Attanasio (Alfred Angelo Attanasio], Radix was the first novel in his Radix Tetrad. An imaginative pre-apocalyptic tale occurring 1300 years in the future and written in an eclectic style of much appeal at the time, Radix… Read More
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Radix

Radix

by Attanasio, A.A. [Alfred Angelo Attanasio]

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First Edition
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Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780688001353
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0688001351
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New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1981. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. Octavo. Fred Marcellino. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1981. First Edition and first printing, and so stated and numbered. One of an estimated 1,000 copies. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino, book design by Michael Mauceri. Octavo, 467 pp. Fine/Fine, flawless, never read. Certainly the best known - and hardest to acquire as a first edition - of the titles produced by New Jersey-born science fiction writer A. A. Attanasio (Alfred Angelo Attanasio], Radix was the first novel in his Radix Tetrad. An imaginative pre-apocalyptic tale occurring 1300 years in the future and written in an eclectic style of much appeal at the time, Radix won a nomination for the Best Novel Nebula Award in 1981. A hard-to-find piece of sci-fi history, beautifully preserved. L-100
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