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By: Blish, James
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Avon: 1970
Seller ID: 036454
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; Here is James Blish's novel written with brilliance and astonishing realism - about that ultimate moment in time when - THE FIRST ALIEN FROM OUTER SPACE ARRIVES ON EARTH: How "it" communicates and what "it" wants. How we greet "it", nourish "it", communicate with "it". What we learn from "it" of interstellar worlds, galactic powers, the void beyond. And how, in the terrifying moment of Earth's ultimate crisis - we defend the complex civilization of tomorrow from "it!". View more info
By: Bloch, Robert
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Belmont: 1968
Seller ID: 021269
Condition: Good
172 pages; spine creasing, edge wear, hinge crease, some soiling to back cover; Two complete novels in one volume: Ladies' Day and This Crowded Earth both by Robert Bloch. View more info
By: Blum, Ralph
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Bantam Dell Pub Group: 1971
Seller ID: kb004386
Condition: Good
edge wear; A chilling factual novel about man-made-minds for a cold new world. The agency specializes in surgical alterations, government bureaucrats set about making one man's brain the receptable for the memory of another. ''Bear''--the input. ''Black Bear''--the receiver. A research scientist & a convicted murderer become two men with one 'shared' mind. View more info
Price: $13.99
Publisher: Amherst, NY, Pyr Science Fiction: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: kb010933
ISBN: 1591023149
Condition: New
359 pages; This coming-of-age literary work of speculative fiction by the author of X, Y is the story of Payne, a Grotesque, or Tesque, whose ill-formed body is offset by his rare, highly prized power to cure others of illness and injury. Humans shun the mutant Tesques even while they exploit their healing abilities. Treated little better than a slave, Payne desperately craves a connection with others, a goal that seems less possible after a devastating mishap involving another of his kind. View more info
Price: $3.99
Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 1987
Edition: Book Club
Seller ID: 030935
Condition: Very Good
light edge wear to boards and jacket; In the twenty-first centruy humanity has united after countless years of warfare, and turns toward the stars. But when an alien spacecraft crashlands in the South Pacific bearing visitors from another world, the Vulcans, Earth must decide whether to extend the hand of friendship, or the fist of war. In the distant future, horrible dreams torment Admiral James T. Kirk, dreams prompted by his reading of "Strangers From the Sky", a book about that historic first contact. He dreams of an alternate reality where he somehow changed the course of history,... View more info
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 1987-07-01
Seller ID: 034213
ISBN: 0671640496
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; In the twenty-first century humanity has united after countless years of warfare, and turns toward the stars. But when an alien spacecraft crashlands in the South Pacific bearing visitors from another world, the Vulcans, Earth must decide whether to extend the hand of friendship, or the fist of war.In the distant future, horrible dreams torment Admiral James T. Kirk, dreams prompted by his reading of "Strangers From the Sky", a book about that historic first contact. He dreams of an alternate reality where he somehow changed the course of history, and destroy... View more info
By: Bova, Ben
Price: $1.49
Publisher: New York, Tor: 1987-01-01
Seller ID: 029622
ISBN: 0812532066
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure in the history of Earth--but disaster struck when a bomb placed on the Soviet craft forced its recall. Stoner refused to return to Earth, staying behind in the strange ship alone where he fell into suspended animation. Jo Camerata, the ambitious young student who fell in love with Stoner, is now head of Vanguard Industries. Jo's dogged determination has forced the recovery of t... View more info
By: Bova, Ben
Price: $1.49
Publisher: New York, Harper Voyager: 1998-03-01
Seller ID: 030888
ISBN: 0380786974
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; Moonbase--the first permanent human settlement on the Moon--was the dream of ex-astronaut Paul Stavenger. Although he did not live to see his vision become a reality, his widow, the powerful corporate head Joanna Masterson Stavenger, ensured that Moonbase would become a bustling center for manufacturing and technological development vital to all humankind--on Earth and on the Moon. Here is the story of Moonbase: the power, passion, and personalities that drive the project to fruition--and threaten to destroy it. View more info
By: Bova, Ben
Price: $1.49
Publisher: New York, St Martins Press: 1986-01-01
Seller ID: 030926
ISBN: 0812532236
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; When billionaire Dan Randolph moves a mineral-rich asteroid into orbit around the Earth, the new despotic masters of the solar system commandeer it and slaughter his unarmed workers in cold blood. Suddenly, America is exposed to danger and the entrepreneur must use his skill and cunning to strike hard at his foes. View more info
By: Bova, Ben
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Del Rey: 1982
Seller ID: kb008812
ISBN: 0345302486
Condition: Good
294 pages; spine crease, some edge wear, pages a bit yellowed; The second book of "The Kinsman Saga", which also includes "Kinsman" and "Colony". The story of a man driven to create the future, and forced to save two worlds from the death throes of the millennium. View more info
By: Bova, Ben
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Avon Books: 1998
Seller ID: kb0001168
ISBN: 0380797267
Condition: New
Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money and women--though not necessarily in that order. He's a hero without peer...or scruples; a man with the ego and stature of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P.T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a newly pubescent teenage boy. He's Sam Gunn, the finest astronaut NASA ever trained...and dumped. But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice! (Though he does dearly love women and money.) Whether he's suing the Pope, coming to the aid of voluptuous twin sisters in the ''virtual sex'' trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplane... View more info
By: Bova, Ben
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Tor Books: 1985-06-15
Seller ID: 036475
ISBN: 0812532007
Condition: Good
edge wear, library stamp on bottom page ends; The discovery of huge alien machines operating on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is just the beginning of a nightmare for Dr Sidney Lee. He is convinced that, without the intervention of his crew, these machines will destroy mankind. The author is a six-times winner of the Hugo Award. View more info
By: Boyer, Elizabeth
Price: $1.49
Publisher: New York, Del Rey: 1982-08-12
Seller ID: 033960
ISBN: 0345302362
Condition: Good
spine crease, edge wear; Brak just wanted to help Ingvold, the elfin girl who was cursed by the witch-queen Hjordis to act as a hag. He never expected his efforts to lead him through a strange gate to the world of the Alfar, where the dark elves were fighting to destroy all the light elves. As a humble thrall, he had no business there. But he was trapped. Ingvold had given him the dragon's heart, the only hope the light elves had to summon aid from the Rhbus. He could not let that fall into the hands of Hjordis or Myrkjartan, the dreadful necromancer who was mustering armies of the dead agains... View more info
Price: $1.77
Publisher: Ballantine Del Rey: 1981-08-12
Seller ID: 026911
ISBN: 034529212X
Condition: Good
297 pages; spine creasing, edge wear; Ivarr had been sold to the witch Birna. But now Birna was dead, slain by the evil sorcerer Lorimer. Ivarr was stranded in the land of the elves. His only chance to return to his own realm was to become a hero for group of outcast, incompetent elves and a wizard of doubtful qualifications. As he discovered, being a hero was a little difficult. First he had to seek out a magic sword concealed somewhere in the land of the fire giants. Then, to seize a horde of gold, he must somehow find and destroy a terrible dragon. And, finally, he would have to overcome th... View more info
By: Brackett, Leigh
Price: $4.00
Publisher: New York, Ace Books: 1955
Seller ID: kb011575
Condition: Very Good
148 pages; light edge wear; ACE 06061; All signs pointed to the fact that no human could come back alive from Barnard's Star. Something elusive, beyond comprehension, existed out there; something that was a perpetual bait, a perpetual trap. But Arch Comyn knew he had to join tht second fated mission. For somehwere beyond the veil of the Transuranae lay the answer to the question that was more important than life to him. View more info
By: Brackett, Leigh ;Hamilton, Edmond
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Tom Doherty Associates: 1989
Seller ID: kb0001137
ISBN: 0812559606
Condition: Fair
spine creasing; cover creasing, edge wear; TOR Double #8 - Edmond Hamilton's ''Battle For the Stars'' and Leigh Brackett's ''The Nemesis From Terra'' View more info
By: Bradbury, Ray
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Barcelona, Debols!llo: 2004
Seller ID: 036868
Condition: Good
ex-library with usual markings; light edge wear; Fahrenheit 451 cuenta la historia de un sombrío y horroroso futuro. Montag, el protagonista, pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos cuya misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Porque en el país de Montag está terminantemente prohibido leer. Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en el país de Montag está prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en el país de Montag hay que ser feliz a la fuerza... View more info
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, DAW: 1986-08-05
Seller ID: 027864
ISBN: 0886771544
Condition: Good
237 pages; spine creasing, edge wear; A Pilgrim Adept of the Blue Star, Lythande had mastered all the true magics of the world. But the power of an Adept was always bound to a Secret, and whoever discovered this sorcerer's Secret could steal away the Blue Star power, leaving the Adept defenseless, fit only for death.And Lythande's secret was perhaps the most dangerous of all, setting the mage apart from all humanity, forcing Lythande to war against spell beast, sorcerer, thief, swordsman, and the magic of the gods themselves.?As an added bonus, Lythande includes a special guest appearance by H... View more info
Price: $1.77
Publisher: New York, Tor Books: 2003-02-17
Seller ID: 027865
ISBN: 0765346664
Condition: Good
374 pages; spine creasing, edge wear; Truth Blackburn?s father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night, something went badly wrong during Thorne?s most powerful ceremony. When the chaos had passed, Thorne had vanished, and Katherine, mother of Thorne?s young daughter Truth, was dead. Thirty years later, Truth Blackburn searches for smaller truths: what really happened that night at Shadow's Gate? Did Thorne truly have magical powers?... View more info
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Tor Books: 1995-09-01
Seller ID: 027978
ISBN: 0312858817
Condition: Good
edge wear to boards, corners bumped; binding split; From the bestselling author of The Mists of Avalon and The Forest House comes a novel of self-discovery for the modern age. Truth Blackburn, whose parents were killed in the 1960s, during a ceremony held by occultists determined to return the old gods to Earth, travels back to her family's estate--and finds it haunted by the spirit of her father. View more info
