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By: Bischoff, David; Monteleone, Thomas F.
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Berkley Books: 1985-07-01
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 036470
ISBN: 0425079635
Condition: Good
spine crease, edge wear, library stamp on bottom page ends; After establishing communications with the sentient dinosaurs aboard the gigantic alien warship Dragonstar, the human exploration forces were ready to reveal their accomplishments to an eager public.THEN DISASTER STRUCK.During a live holovision broadcast, something made the co-operative Saurians go berserk - and begin slaughtering and eating their former friends.At the same moment the Dragonstar's access hatches closed down, imprisoning all aboard.Then, for the first time in centuries, the engines started up.. View more info
By: Bishop, Anne
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Roc Fantasy: 1999-04-01
Seller ID: 027851
ISBN: 0451456726
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; Witch - the Queen who would bring freedom to the realms - has come, but now she is lost in darkness, and has a long road to recovery ahead of her. While her adopted father, Saeten, waits for her to return to the living world, the third side of the triangle needed to complete the prophecy - the lover, Daemon - walks in the Twisted Kingdom on the edge of madness. As insidious whispers and dark schemes ferment treachery and betrayal, Jaenelle must make a choice: to protect those she loves, she must be more than an heir, she must become a Queen. View more info
By: Bisson, Terry
Price: $9.99
Publisher: New York, Orb Books: 1994-11-15
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 037277
ISBN: 0312890354
Condition: Very Good
light edge wear; Signed by the author on the title page; "Bears Discover Fire, " the title story in this eagerly awaited collection, is one of the most acclaimed science fiction stories of the Nineties. "Particularly delightful, " raved The Christian Science Monitor, while Newsday called it "the finest story in the Dozois [Best of the Year] volume." Michael Swanwick, the Nebula Award-winning author of Stations of the Tide, pronounced it "one of the best genre stories of the decade, and an encouraging omen of what we might expect from the Nineties." "Bears Di... View more info
By: Blackhall, Ray
Price: $1.99
Publisher: Sparkling Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: kb002567
ISBN: 0976356554
Condition: Very Good
light soiling to top page ends; David Striker's random discovery of a hidden planet changes his life and unites the world. The human desire to explore leads the international space community to dedicate countless resources and untested technologies to reaching the Stealth Planet instead of pursuing the relatively safe journey to Mars. Striker, an astronaut with a dream and a desk job, along with his partner, Margie Ritter, push each other and develop themselves, and their relationship, into becoming the exemplars of human achievement necessary for selection as part of the elite crew. With mor... View more info
Price: $8.99
Publisher: New York, Ace Hardcover: 2008-12-02
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 026173
ISBN: 0441016537
Condition: Near Fine
294 pages; When Calvin Bryson visits his aunt and uncle, he learns that their small California town is harboring some strange secrets--including a modern-day incarnation of the legendary Knights Templar. View more info
By: Bledsoe, Alex
Price: $1.99
Publisher: New York, Tor Fantasy: 2009-06-30
Seller ID: 036441
ISBN: 0765362031
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; A princess is missing, and typically a king would be willing to pay in gold for her return. But before he realizes it, sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse is swept up in a web of mystery and deceit involving a brutally murdered royal heir, a queen accused of an unspeakable crime, and the tragic past he thought he'd left behind. In order to uncover the answers he seeks, Eddie must delve into the dark underbelly of society while digging deep into his own private history, drawing past and present together. Vast conspiracies, women both beautiful and deadly, and a centuries-old ... View more info
By: Blish, James
Price: $2.99
Publisher: New York, Avon: 1974
Seller ID: 036500
ISBN: 0380411865
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; When the sun explodes all life will end. No one will survive the blow-up; except the men and women who crowd into a few starships and fly away into space while there is still time, to look for a new home in the infinite void, a new planet on which to settle.Jorn, unskilled, unemployed, seemingly a reject from society, finds that he has what it takes to become one of the brave survivors, blasting off in hastily built ships that have never flown before. Jorn and his companions begin a long search, threatened by repeated disasters and despair, but ultimately leading thr... View more info
By: Blish, James
Price: $0.99
Publisher: New York, Signet: 1960
Seller ID: 036511
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear, hinge creases; Collection of science fiction short stories including: "Tomb Tapper"; "King of the Hill"; "Common Time"; "A Work of Art"; "To Pay the Piper"; "Nor Iron Bars"; "Beep"'; "This Earth of Hours" View more info
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: Bone, J. F.
Price: $2.99
Publisher: Laser Books: 1976-08-01
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 036469
ISBN: 0373720378
Condition: Good
spine creasing, edge wear; Though few in the confederation realize it, the great empire is on the brink of destruction. Infiltrated by efficiently organized political agitators, its once solid central government is crumbling. But Warren Robertshaw realizes it. By chance, he has stumbled onto the sinister truth. But if Warren is to defeat those who would destroy his world, he too must destroy - a life-style. And as he manipulates the primitive people of Tharn, Warren realizes that he is not the first to meddle in their lives. 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
