Used, Rare & Signed Science Fiction & Fantasy Books - pg. 2 including Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Scienceby: Gregory Benford, George Zebrowski (Editors)

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 355 pages. An illustrated collection of thrilling tales from science fiction masters such as Bradbury, Asimov, and Vinge focuses on life in space habitats and includes essays by scientists that discuss the potential realities of space stations and homes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages. In 2007, just five years before the centennial of the sinking of the "Titanic," two corporations--one English, one Japanese--each using futuristic technology, contend with each other over the ship's retrieval. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Berkeley Publishing, BC Ed., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 183 pages. The 1000-year old Terran empire, loosely governed by the capitalist Polesotechnic League of trading companies, is decaying. The old order is dying -- the PL is collapsing and a few huge corporate blocs are taking power. A dispute over the ownership of Mirkheim, a recently discovered, mineral rich planet, precipitates the formation of the first union of interplanetary governments with the PL, and members clamor for war -- the first interstellar war is about to begin. Anderson's novel features two of his series characters: Nicholas Van Rijn and David Falkayne. Part of Anderson's future history series. Clean Book Club edition.

Softcover. NY, Avon Books, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. A cheap faster-than-light drive has permitted populating the galaxy. Each planet has become home for different social groups. 400 years post-diaspora, a Earth spaceship visits three -- a 1st step to galactic unification. Things don't go as hoped, as the ship's incompetent military authoritarians encounter three very different societies.

Softcover. NY, Avon Books, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. A Mirror for Observers recounts the story of Angelo Pontevecchio, a child prodigy and "potential ethical innovator" caught between two contesting factions of Martians, Observers and Abdicators. The Martians, living secretly on Earth after evacuating their dying home world, have been trying to guide the development of human civilization for thousands of years. The novel is told from the point of view of Elmis, Angelo's designated Martian guardian, who must shield him from the malignant Abdicators. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Del Rey, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, based upon his 1958 short story of the same title. Of all of his novels, Clarke stated that this was his favorite. The story is set on a distant planet whose society is disturbed by the arrival of the last survivors from a destroyed earth. Some sunning to rear of dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hawthorne Books, BC Ed., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 182 pages. Three short novels by some of science fiction's greatest writers. The New Atlantis, by Ursula K. Le Guin: In a dark near-future, global warming and a ruined ecology is causing the continents to sink into the oceans just as the towers of Atlantis re-emerge above the sea. Locus award winner and Hugo finalist. Silhouette, by Gene Wolfe, and A Momentary Taste of Being, by James Tiptree, Jr., present two different masterpieces on a similar theme: A deep-space colony exploration ship approaches their target planet, where they must investigate whether or not it's hospitable enough to signal Earth to send more colonists. Things are not as they seem... Nebula / Locus award finalist stories. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Avon Books, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 511 pages, b&w illustrations. Britain's most illustrious SF writer, Brian Aldiss, provides a witty and perceptive history of this extraordinary phenomenon, set in its social and literary context. Crammed with fascinating insights, this generous spree takes us through decades of treats for the escape to other dimensions, flights to other planets, lost worlds, utopias, mechanical creatures and intelligent aliens. Amusing, intelligent and authoritative, it takes us on a tour through that zone where literature and science engage in an eternal flirtation. Examining the great writers SF has produced, and the images that have become the cultural wallpaper of the present day, this comprehensive expedition is for buffs and tenderfoots alike. Remainder line to bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Nelson Doubleday, BC Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. A solid collection of seventeen short stories and one novelette tackling serious themes such as PSTD, drug culture, anti-war movements, the clash of ideologies, mechanization, etc. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, BC Edition, 1991, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 358 pages. A race of turtle-like creatures conquers Earth, imposing a gentler set of values on humankind, outlawing destructive technology, and denying the validity of human scientific theories. When their home planet disappears into a black hole, however, the aliens' only hope for the future hinges on the possibility that humanity's flawed sciences might contain a glimmer of truth. Two veteran sf authors combine their strengths to produce a novel that both explains and explores the ''mysteries'' of modern science. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ballantine/Del Rey, BC Ed., 1987, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 237 pages. A science fiction novel by Larry Niven. Like much of Niven's work, the story is heavily influenced by the setting: a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star. There is no "ground" in the Smoke Ring; it is a world consisting entirely of sky. Thus, most animals can fly, even the fish. It is a sequel to The Integral Trees. Blacked out price on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. London, Gollancz, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 338 pages. A fantasy novel, first published in 1948, under the pseudonym George U. Fletcher. The land of Dalarna is under the heel of the Vulkings, whose heavy taxation is forcing the Dalecarl yeomen out of their holdings. The protagonist, Airar Alvarson, is one of the dispossessed. On the advice of his mentor, the magician Meliboe, he joins the underground Iron Ring resistance, only to face defeat and failure. Captured and enslaved by the free fishers on the Gentebbi Islands, he goes through a series of adventures in which he gradually rises from a homeless fugitive to a great war leader. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, SFBC (Science Fiction Book Club), BC Ed., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 422 pages, 3 novels in one book. An attractive book club edition. Jacket art by Leo and Diane Dillon. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, BC Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with a short close tear, 275 pages. With their discovery by the CoDominium Imperial Navy ending their one-thousand-year isolation, Prince Samual's World will become a lowly administrated colony, unless the monarch can discover the secrets of space technology. Spine sunned. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Berkeley Publishing, Book Club Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 367 pages. One of the great modern works of the imagination, this book tells of the trader van Rijn and the adventurer Falkayn; it rounds and completes the future history of the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empire; and it chronicles Mankind's encounters with the great-winged Ythri, who kept this record at far Stormgate."Behold these animals from the discovery on through the World-Taking. They are garnered from different trees, and few of them will seem at once to grow toward the same sun. Yet they do."This is the tale, told afresh, of how Avalon came to settlement and thus our choth to being. This is the tale as told by Terrans, who walk the Earth..." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Berkeley Publishing/Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 389 pages. Collects twelve stories that make up the final volume of Anderson's future history series. Includes a "Chronology of Technic Civilization." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ace, BC Ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 696 pages. In The Final Encyclopedia the human race is split into three Splinter the Friendlies, fanatic in their faith; the truth-seeking Exotics; and the warrior Dorsai. But now humanity is threatened by the power-hungry Others, whose triumph would end all human progress. Hal Mayne is an orphan who was raised by three an Exotic, a Friendly, and a Dorsai. He is the only human capable of uniting humanity against the Others. But only if he is willing to accept his terrifying destiny...as savior of mankind.

Hardcover. NY, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 282 pages. In the year 2020, the Reverend Hornswell Hake is drafted into the Team--the successor to the CIA--and thrust into the front line of the cool war of intrigue and sabotage which has replaced armed conflict. Dj with short closed tears, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, BC Ed., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages. After awakening from cryosleep, a man escapes state servitude in a spaceship, he finds an unrecognizable world. Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Del Rey / Ballantine, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 291 pages. Stated First Edition. This is the sequel to his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, though Clarke changed some elements of the story to align with the film version of 2001. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Del Rey Ballantine, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 337 pages. Mysterious, incredibly superior alien beings assemble a new Earth out of bits and pieces of the old one, which they snatch from various eras. So a UN helicopter crew from 2037, a crew of astronauts from the same era, Genghis Khan and his Horde, Alexander the Great and his army, a British Indian outpost where Rudyard Kipling (rendered here in all his youthful complexity) is visiting, and a remnant of Babylon end up coexisting. Not at all peacefully, either, especially when one astronaut, a ruthless and foul-mouthed American woman, decides to aid and abet the Mongols in their career of world conquest, which can be halted only by the other civilized time travelers joining forces with a very well portrayed Alexander. In the end, civilization's prospects have been propped up, and one of the UN crew is off to find the aliens. CD-ROM included.

Hardcover. NY, TOR Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 370 pages. Two of SF's liveliest veterans here collaborate on a post-holocaust novel that shoots off into unexpected channels. The authors portray idyllic undersea cities where ocean beds are farmed and giant squid are trained as intelligent helpmates, in contrast to the overpopulated land masses, swayed by demagoguery. Catastrophe comes not from war, however, but from a comet whose debris burns off the atmosphere, creating a deadly "ozone summer." Survivors encounter the mixed blessing of new, alien-controlled leaders who feed and house them for their labor on the vast project of building a spaceship so that an alien life form, called the Eternallong dormant beneath the sea and activated by the comet explosion can resume its interstellar journey. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st pbk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages. Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising, a physicist and war veteran awakens 150 years later--on the eve of a new Dark Age. Edward Shanks (1892-1953) was an English author, poet, critic, and journalist. He was the editor of Granta just before serving in World War I and is perhaps best remembered today as a war poet. The People of the Ruins is his only science fiction novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. Illustrated with black & white comic panels selected from the years 1929 - 1949. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Minor wear to dust jacket. Additional postage required due to size and weight of book. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Ltd. Ed., 1986, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Masterpieces of Science Fiction Series. 220 pages, b&w illustrations by Vincent DiFate. Red genuine leather with gilt decorations, no dust jacket as issued. All edges gilt, ribbon bookmark. Lovely copy, like new. Collectors notes laid in.

Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Collectors, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Masterpieces of Science Fiction Series. 281 pages, lovely color frontispiece by Richard Powers. Blue genuine leather with gilt decorations, no dust jacket as issued. All edges gilt, ribbon bookmark. Lovely copy, like new. Collectors notes laid in.

Hardcover. New York, Poseidon Press, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover with very nice dust jacket in brodart cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Garden City NJ, Doubleday, reprint , 1958, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 222 pages. Hardcover. Price clipped dust jacket with rubbing, chipping along edges. Foxing to all edges and dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Sauk City, Arkham House, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 203 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy. The author's final collection, stories from Weird Tales, Strange Stories, Amazing and other sources. This includes two macabre mystery stories which feature Judge Peck.

Hardcover. Sauk City, Mycroft & Moran, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Gregg Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Part of the Gregg Press Science Fiction Series edited by David G. Hartwell and L. W. Currey. Features examples of storyboards from the film production, and black & white stills from the movie. No dust jacket as issued. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Collector's Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Black leather bound, gilt lettering and design. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Patterned end papers. Collector's notes laid in. Introduction by Larry Niven. Illustrated with full-color, full-page, plates by A. C. Farley, printed on glossy stock. A 1953 novel of alternate history. The point of divergence occurs when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in the "War of Southron Independence" on July 4, 1864 after the surrender of the United States of America.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Light soiling, small tear to dust jacket; in brodart. Small remainder dot on top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.