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By: White, Ted
Price: $1.49
Publisher: New York, Warner Books: 1974-04-12
Seller ID: kb014260
ISBN: 044675532X
Condition: Good
175 pages; Good+, some faint spine creasing, light edge wear; "You are an artificially constructed human being, a mobile gathering device." That is what the computer's metallic voice tells Tanner when it releases him from his cell. Naked, unarmed, with no memory to guide him, he emerges into a savage world, into the ruins of Manhattan in the 23rd century where wild animals roam and men have become cannibals in a frantic struggle to survive. Who has unleashed this chaos upon the world? Has Tanner really been dispatched to gather facts to help save the tragic remnants of humanity? Or... View more info
By: Whiteford, Wynne
Price: $2.99
Publisher: New York, Ace: 1986
Seller ID: 028674
ISBN: 0441749623
Condition: Very Good
light edge wear; The voyage to Alpha Centauri usually takes years but Max Vanmore, reluctant heir to Vanmore Titanium, dares to make the journey in a ship powered by an experimental FTL drive. View more info
By: Whiteford, Wynne
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Ace: 1986
Seller ID: 028675
ISBN: 0441072887
Condition: Very Good
light edge wear; The world was a wilderness, a nuclear waste ruled by violence and death where the only safety was fear and the only hope was isolation. Then the visitors came, the stationary light in the sky overhead every night. Some whispered that they were the lost children of Earth returning with the gift of immortality. The elders called them evil, told the people to shun them, and hoped they would go away. But Roy was young and foolish, and he did what the young have always done. He looked up toward the stars... View more info
By: Whiteford, Wynne
Price: $3.49
Publisher: New York, Ace: 1989-05-01
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 036334
ISBN: 0441469914
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; When the explosions began, shaking the very roof of his world, only Rah had the courage to climb to the surface to investigate. There he found a strange machine, tended by two-eyed creatures with silvery skin. Aliens! A deep chill touched Rah's very soul. The unbelievable had happened. Mars had been invaded! View more info
By: Whitfield, Kit
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Del Rey: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: kb005658
ISBN: 0345491637
Condition: Very Good
light soiling to page ends; It is a world much like our own, with one deadly difference: Ninety-nine percent of the population is lycanthropic. When the full moon rises, humans transform into lunes, bloodthirsty beasts who cannot be reasoned with or tamed. Those few born unable to change are disparagingly known as barebacks and live as victims of prejudice and oppression. All too often, they are targets of savage mauling and death by lunes who break the law to roam free on full-moon nights. Twenty-something bareback Lola Galley is already a veteran of the Department for the Ongoing Regulation... View more info
By: Wilhelm, Kate
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Pocket: 1982-08-01
Seller ID: 038971
ISBN: 0671441167
Condition: Very Good
light edge wear; They came to his deathbed. Four dutiful children. Each the victim of a different mother. Each mother the victim of a tragic accident, unsolved murder, mysterious disappearance. As he sank away they glowered their hatred. It was a hatred he expected, and his revenge was well-planned. He left a multimillion dollar legacy, bearing a ghoulish price tag. They could pay with their sanity, or their psyches, or their souls, they would be part of an experiment., something to do with brain waves. It would be a great service to science, they were told. Just one last little joke on his ki... View more info
By: Wilkins, Kim
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Warner Books: 2006-01-01
Seller ID: 038473
ISBN: 0446617288
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; Taking a job on an isolated island in the Sea of Norway, scientist Victoria Scott wants a quiet place to finish her doctoral thesis. But Victoria isn't prepared for the strange shadows outside her cabin window, the rumors of a murderous hag who sucks one's soul during sleep, and the tales of mythic monsters lurking in the forest. More frightening than the islands nightmarish mysteries: to Victoria, everything is hauntingly familiar.When an enigmatic stranger appears on the island, Victoria's sense of foreboding peaks. For she learns that they are connected by a confl... View more info
By: Wilks, Eileen
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Berkley: 2005-11-01
Seller ID: 030497
ISBN: 0425202909
Condition: Very Good
light edge wear; Former cop Lily Yu has her sister's wedding to attend, a missing magical staff to find, and now must deal with her grandmother's decision to return to the old country. Lily could turn to the man she's involved with for advice, but for all the passion that flares between them, she doesn't really know Rule Turner--she's just bound to him for life. Rule happens to be a werewolf, and Lily wonders just how far she can trust him. View more info
By: Willett, John
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Baen: 1984-12-01
Seller ID: kb006149
ISBN: 0671559249
Condition: Fair
spine creasing, edge wear, corners torn from back cover; From cancer cures to germ warfare, life extension to genocide, nothing seems impossible to the men and women who are learning to control life itself. Aubade for Gamelon is for the New Biology what the works of Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein have been for physics and space travel. View more info
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Del Rey: 1982-09-12
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: kb014280
ISBN: 0345305957
Condition: Very Good
214 pages; light edge wear, small stain on corner of first few pages; Eleven hundred years after the apocalyptic destruction of the United States of America, peace between the remaining warring tribes has finally been achieved. Despite this peace, the Pelbar stronghold Threerivers retains its secretive and reclusive ways, keeping its distance from the other remaining tribes and guarding against change. A strict matriarchy, Threerivers remains the most conservative Pelbar community under the unquestioned and unyielding rule of its leader, Udge. Life in Threerivers continues without change unti... View more info
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Del Rey: 1984-06-12
Seller ID: 029846
ISBN: 0345316584
Condition: Very Good
light edge wear; Twenty years after the great battle at Northwall, the disparate warring tribes are moving toward a peaceful unity for the first time since before the Time of the Fire. With the comfort of peace, the running bands of nomadic Shumai Axemen are settling down and forgoing their traditional ways. So Tor, last of the great Shumai Axemen, takes his nephew Tristal on a last run to teach the boy the Way of the Axeman. But Tristal will have to survive deadly encounters, endure a seductive captivity, and even suffer enslavement before he learns that there is more to the Axeman's skill th... View more info
Price: $2.99
Publisher: New York, Lancer: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: KB004409
Condition: Good
[Lancer 73-644] yellowing, edge wear; In the 21st Century, law enforcement was helplessly hamstrung. Science kept developing new weapons of almost unbelievable power and flexibility.. but criminals always got them first. The police and other government agencies fought back as best they could... but they were always several steps behind. Emergency measures were needed. And, where ultra-advanced systems had failed, a small group of dedicated men decided to return to more primitive methods. They fought back with raw strength and unpredictable tactics. They were vigilantes... View more info
By: Williams, Tad
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, DAW Books, Inc.: 1999-09-01
Seller ID: kb013162
ISBN: 0886778441
Condition: Good
675 pages; spine creasing, edge wear; Otherland, an incredibly complex and detailed virtual reality, has appeared. Surrounded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares of its users and its creators. Vast amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have laboured to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource - its children. View more info
By: Willis, Paul J.
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Avon Books: 1993-08-01
Seller ID: 037939
ISBN: 0380720779
Condition: Very Good
edge wear; For William, a cynical and aimless 'serious' climber abandoned in a breathtaking alpine wilderness, the strange old man's gift if a key to a magical realm--where marmots speak and terrible beasts dwell... and two sisters--one good, one evil--vie for dominion. View more info
Price: $3.99
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2012-06-05
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 039050
ISBN: 0385535155
Condition: Very Good
light edge wear to boards and jacket; It?s the near future, and scientists have developed implants that treat brain dysfunction?and also make recipients capable of superhuman feats. Exploiting societal fears of the newly enhanced, politicians pass a set of laws to restrict the rights of ?amplified? humans, instantly creating a new persecuted underclass known as ?amps.? On the day that the Supreme Court passes the first of these laws, twenty-nine-year-old schoolteacher Owen Gray is forced into hiding, only dimly aware of the latent powers he possesses. To escape imprisonment, and to find out wh... View more info
By: Wolverton, Dave
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Spectra: 1995-04-01
Seller ID: kb014276
ISBN: 0553569376
Condition: Very Good
374 pages; very slight edge wear; Darth Vader and the Emperor are dead, but the Empire lives on. Princess Leia considers a marriage proposal that could tip the balance of power against the evil Empire, but as starcruisers battle for control of space, can Han Solo finally win the heart of Leia? View more info
By: Wood, N. Lee
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Ace Science Fiction: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: kb006128
ISBN: 0441002986
Condition: New
some copies *may* have some light shelf wear; N. Lee Wood portrays an all-too-possible near-future where the face of global politics appears ominously familiar. Where a microchip holds the secret of angels. And where technology meets its match in human nature... Halton was a humanoid fabricant, created to serve as a bodyguard in the Middle East. Kay was an all-too-human correspondent, assigned to deliver him to a country from which she had barely escaped with her sanity. She didn't know it was a setup...until it was too late. And the only one she could trust - the only one who hadn't betrayed... View more info
By: Wouk, Herman
Price: $2.99
Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 1968
Seller ID: 031441
Condition: Good
hinge crease, edge wear, hole-punch in front cover; Pocket 75226 first printing thus. As in the Caine Mutiny, which won him the Pulitzer Prize, Herman Wouk again writes of the Navy--but in a startling new wayHere is the eerily realistic account of a naval lieutenant's expedition to the moon -- and his strange encounter with its inhabitants.But more than a "log" of life on the moon, this fantastic tale of space travel reads today like a dramatic prophecy of things about to happen -- not only out in space, but also here on Earth! View more info
By: Wurts, Janny
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Ace: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: kb004355
ISBN: 0441787576
Condition: Good
0441787576 spine creasing, edge wear; Written in the records at Vaere is the tale of the binding of the Mharg-demons by Anskiere, wizard of wind and wave. Anskiere was aided in this task by Ivain, master of fire and earth, for the skills of a single sorcerer were not enough against so formidable a foe. It is further recorded that at the moment of greatest peril, Ivain betrayed his companion out of jealousy. Nonetheless the demons were defeated, the wards sealed, and Anskiere survived to swear a powerful oath against his betrayer. So potent was the magic in the words spoken by Anskiere that s... View more info
By: Wurtz, Janny
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Roc: 1994-12-01
Seller ID: kb005970
ISBN: 0451454162
Condition: Good
0451454162 spine creasing, some edge wear; It began with a Mistwraith that smothered all the world in fog and dampness, and followed with a war that upended order and overthrew the rule of the High Kings. Now after five long centuries, the only power that can challenge the Mistwraith's stranglehold is split between two princes. Arithon, Master of Shadows, able to weave darkness to his will. And Lysaer, Lord of Light, is sworn to justice. Driven apart by distrust and opposing convictions, the half-brothers must master their inborn enmity and meld their powers into a unified force. Should they ... View more info
