Ballantine Books, 1954. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. Brain Wave was first serialized in Space Science Fiction magazine in 1953, before being issued in book format by Ballantine (1954) with this cover art by Richard Powers. Poul Anderston (1926 - 2001), like so many of his peers, published many stories..... More
Spectra, March 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is..... More
Spectra, April 1997. Mass Market PaperBack. The second novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of..... More
Spectra, October 1991. Mass Market PaperBack. The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here..... More
Little Brown and Company, January 2022. Trade Paperback. A collection of short fiction by the author of The Wasp Factory and Against a Dark Background. The title story is a novella continuing the Culture sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror..... More
Orbit, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Feersum Endjinn is a science fiction novel of great imagination, from the highly celebrated Iain M. Banks. His previous titles include Use of Weapons and Against a Dark Background. More
Orbit, September 2010. Trade Paperback. There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding..... More
Vintage Books, June 1998. Paper Back. "Brisk, fast, memorable, a rare improvisational duet from two of our best". -- Greg Bear, from the Introduction The Black Place of the Soul-Changer was doing business in Rome six centuries before Christ. It will probably be there on the last day of the..... More
Bantam, 1976. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. The summer of '28 was a vintag season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees..... More
Lancer Books, January 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean sound, with slight shelf wear. Textblock edges tinted purple. Glue starting to detach between wrapper and spine. Textbock barely intact at spine back hinge. More
Fall River, July 2011. Trade Paperback. After his death-defying feats in "Princess of Mars," John Carter was forced to return to Earth--but 10 years later, he's finally sent back to the Red Planet. Carter dreams of reuniting with his beautiful wife Dejah Thoris, but first he must join his Martian..... More
Fall River, June 2011. Trade Paperback. Let the adventures begin, as Captain John Carter finds himself transported to the alien landscape of Mars--where the low gravity increases his speed and strength exponentially. Taken prisoner by Martian warriors, he impresses them with his remarkable fighting skills, and quickly rises to a...... More
Fall River, September 2011. Trade Paperback. "The Gods of Mars" ended on a cliffhanger, with John Carter's beloved wife, Dejah Thoris, and her former slave Thuvia caught in the clutches of the evil queen Issus. In order to free them, Carter journeys to the frozen wastelands of northern Mars, where..... More
Seven Stories Press, October 2005. Trade Paperback. A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes Bloodchild, winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and Speech Sounds, winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first..... More
Grand Central Publishing, January 2007. Trade Paperback. A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature. -- The Washington Post This is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman..... More
Tor Books, October 2004. Mass Market PaperBack. Using the lore and the folk-magic of the men and women who settled North America, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate world where magic works, and where that magic has colored the entire history of the colonies. Charms and beseechings, hexes and..... More
Tor Fantasy, September 1996. Mass Market PaperBack. Come here to Orson Scott Card's magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the..... More
Tor Books, June 1993. Mass Market PaperBack. American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults From the author of Ender's Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic is real..... More
Knopf, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST - TIME MAGAZINE - NPR - ESQUIRE - VOX - THE A.V. CLUB - THE GUARDIAN - FINANCIAL..... More
DAW / Donald A. Wollheim, publishers, March 1977. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Diadem from the Stars was Clayton's first book, as far as I can tell, but I am not entirely certain. This is the 2nd mass market printing of this title not issued in hardcover, again as far as..... More
Mariner Books, October 2020. Paper Back. A philosophical science fiction novel from Hugo Award-winning author Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth is a visionary alternate history of a dystopian United States, full of the conspiracy theories and religious themes that became the foundation for his celebrated VALIS trilogy. It is..... More
Jove Books, May 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. 12mo. Edgeworn, Clean, unmarked internal text. Scuffed at margins of cover. 159 pages. More
New English Library ( NEL ), January 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Panther, January 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. appears to be coffee stain along the top spine area on first ~40 pages (in decreasing size). More
Bantam, June 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
HarperTrophy, August 1994. Mass Market PaperBack. When Shasta discovers he is not Arsheesh's son and therefore does not belong in the cruel land of Calormen, he joins forces with Bree the talking horse and flees north towards Narnia, where freedom reigns. And so begins their hazardous journey, fraught with mystery..... More
MacMillan Publishing Company / Collier, 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Pyramid Books, August 1962. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. First edition. Paperback original. A shorter version was issued in Astounding Science Fiction March, 1958 under title 'The Man on the Bottom'. (1959). More
Ballantine Books, January 1970. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Slight lean to spine; else, very good. More
Mariner Books, April 1995. Trade Paperback. "The irreducible strangeness of the universe was first made manifest to Anthony Van Horne on his fiftieth birthday, when a despondent angel named Raphael, a being with luminous white wings and a halo that blinked on and off like a neon quoit, appeared and..... More
Fawcett, January 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy's landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures--and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on..... More
Spectra, June 1997. Mass Market PaperBack. The red planet is red no longer, as Mars. More
Quarry Press, January 2002. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. Textured black boards with bold silver lettering. More
Tor Books, May 2007. Mass Market PaperBack. The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal..... More
Tor Books, July 2008. Mass Market PaperBack. Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That..... More
Tor Books, January 2007. Mass Market PaperBack. Perfect for an entry-level sci-fi reader and the ideal addition to a veteran fan's collection, John Scalzi's Old Man's War will take audiences on a heart-stopping adventure into the far corners of the universe. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday..... More
Spectra, December 1995. Mass Market PaperBack. In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in "Hyperion,"Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secretsthey contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever..... More
Spectra, August 1998. Mass Market PaperBack. In "The Rise of Endymion, " Dan Simmons brings to a triumphant conclusion one of the most celebrated, compelling, and dramatic science fiction sagas of our time. Brilliant, provocative, unfailingly inventive, the odyssey began with the Hugo Award{winning "Hyperion, " continued through the critically..... More
Gollancz, January 2000. Trade Paperback. First published nearly 70 years ago, this text is regarded as one of the most influential science fiction novels of the 20th century. Olaf Stapledon creates a history of the evolution of humankind over the next two billion years. More
Popular Library, Circa 1960s. First Thus. Paper Back. Slightly edgeworn. Unmarked interiors. Blue tinted textblock edges. 128 pages. More
Del Rey, January 1992. Mass Market PaperBack. Whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in his hobbit-hole in Bag End by Gandalf the wizard and a company of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and..... More
Dell Books, March 1975. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd printing. Well worn with edgewear, creasing. Sound spine that is bruised at base with 1/2' tear to surface. Spine leans slightly, and textblock is starting to curl. (204 pages plus four pages of ads for other Dell titles.) This classic comic-science..... More
New York Review of Books, September 2021. Paper Back. Now in paperback, and accompanied by Edward's Gorey's masterful, timelessly haunting illustrations, H. G. Wells's classic story of alien invasion. When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy the civilized world, humanity's vaunted knowledge..... More
