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Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. Darrell K. Sweet Ilustrador. First Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Line of "35" Stamped on Upper Edge. With primitive weapons, an army of mutants and outcasts struggles to keep freedom alive! SYNOPSIS: THE CIRCLE UNBROKEN. Late in the Twentieth Century farsighted men had hidden the colony Yggdrasil far underground. From there it could guide the survivors of the Final War toward a true civilization, one that would never settle its problems on the battlefield. Yet after just two centuries, tribes were in revolt, high-tech supplies were running low, and the colony's leaders were planning to enslave aborigines so that Yggdrasil could continue to live in the luxurious fashion of the ancients. But a ragtag band of mutants and outcasts had other ideas. And one man among them knew the secret of the ancients' power. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Barclay Shaw Ilustrador. First Edition 2nd Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Homesick and stranded on an alien world, he wasn't looking for trouble - but big trouble was looking for him. SYNOPSIS: SNARLED IN A TANGLED WEB When violence and illness put a sudden end to Bill Anderson's brief career in space, he found himself stranded on Orion, the homeworld of Talan, the catlike alien who had saved his life. Despite the warm Oriani welcome, Anderson felt lost and lonely among Talan's people. So he made his way to the local spaceport, the only spot on the planet that drew offworld commerce - alien and human. At the bustling spaceport, Anderson's talents as a translator got him a job as all-around errand boy to Steven Black, the local underworld kingpin. Anderson enjoyed the intrigue that came with the job. And by the time he realized just how dirty the job was, it was too late. Galactic peace was at stake - and Anderson was in over his head. Once again Talan came to Anderson's aid, for Talan had need of his human friend. Between Steven Black and the Oriani, Anderson's life was no longer his own. Especially once he stumbled upon the Oriani's dark secret. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. Michael Whelan Ilustrador. First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A NEW CRYSTAL SINGER NOVEL--A CAPTIVATING BLEND OF ADVENTURE, INTRIGUE AND ROMANCE. SYNOPSIS: BAD VIBRATIONS. Killashandra Ree's life was one of catastrophic changes. She had joined the Heptite Guild to become a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget the past. And at first everything went just as she had hoped. In one season on the deadly beautiful world of Ballybran, she had sung Black Crystal, grown wealthy, and met a man who made her sorrows seem unworthy of notice. But then, a year later, a devastating storm turned her claim to useless rock. In short order she was broke, she had crystal sickness so bad she thought she'd die, and the only way she could be true to the man she loved was to leave him. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Fair. Darrell K. Sweet Ilustrador. First Edition 5th Printing. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; 1st Page of Front Matter Missing; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. Blazing action a thousand years in the future when a lone man crosses a continent to defend his people against despicable nomads armed with weapons from before the atomic holocaust. MAP BY: Chris Barbieri. ISBN: 0-345-32434-X (Copyright Page)/345-32434-X (Spine). SYNOPSIS: THE IDEAL EXILE. To the Pelbar, the sentence seemed a living death--exile to distant Northwall for a year, isolated from the security and order of Pelbarigan society, facing the barbarian tribes of the Shumai and Sentani. But the rebellious Jestak embraced his punishment--for only with the lore of Northwall and the battle craft and bravery of the wild tribes could he accomplish what he sought. The woman he loved was a captive in Emerta, fabled city of the slaveholding Emeri. Jestak meant to free her--and, if he had to, destroy utterly the power of the Emeri. This sweeping tale of the far future is a rich depiction of a colorful world--and an engrossing account of one man's role in changing the destiny of that world. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. David B. Mattingly Ilustrador. First Edition 3rd Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. The aliens' spacecraft needed Earth's help and would pay well for it. SYNOPSIS: A FRIEND IN NEED. Before Man's ancestors began to walk upright, the Maker civilization was already ancient. When Man first used fire, the Makers had been searching slowly through space for millennia. Then, after a 10,000 year journey, a Maker Life Probe blundered across twenty-first-century Earth--and eons of Maker science would soon be Man's for the asking. All Earth had to do was repair the Probe. But first both Earth and the Probe had to survive a war. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. Ralph Brillhart Ilustrador. First Edition 2nd Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Moderate Sticker Pull to Front Cover. Particle beam weapons and a fleet of modern warships vs. one decrepit battleship and two dozen disabled Texans - the enemy had to be crazy. SYNOPSIS: A CALL TO ARMS It was 1994, but Gwillam Forte was an entrepreneur of the old school. Twenty-three disabled Veterans needed a reason to live, so he gave them a rusty hulk - the battleship U.S.S. Texas - and unlimited funds to make her beautiful and seaworthy in time for Independence Day, 2000. But the world changed quickly and for the worse. By 1998, the Texas and her supermodern weapons were needed for duty far more important than guarding the National Monument in which she rode at anchor. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. H. R. Van Dongen Ilustrador. First Thus 8th Printing. Lightly Scuffed; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. An exciting novel of Known Space, by the author of Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers. ALSO KNOWN AS: A shorter version of this novel appeared under the title, The Adults, in Galaxy Magazine, June 1967. SYNOPSIS: THE MISSION OF PHSSTHPOK. Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his 32,000 years--his mission, to save, develop, and protect the group of Pak breeders sent out into space some 2 1/2 million years before. Brennan was a Belter, the product of a fiercely independent, somewhat anarchic society living in, on, and around an outer asteroid belt. The Belters were rebels, one and all, and Brennan was a smuggler. The Belt worlds had been tracking the Pak ship for days--Brennan figured to meet that ship first. He was never seen again--at least not by those alive at the time. - and - PAK POWER. Phssthpok was a Pak. That meant he had three stages of growth--Childhood, Breeder, and finally, Protector, the last achieved around the age of 45 Earth years. At that time, all being well, basic physiological changes would take place, and provided a Pak had access to proper food--his tree-of-life root--a Protector could be virtually immortal. In this rigidly structured species, a Protector has only one genetically implanted objective--to Protect his bloodline. A Protector without progeny loses the will to live, ceases to be hungry, and so dies of starvation. Unless he can find a way to transfer his personal bloodline drive to a more generalized drive for survival of the species. This prime drive, plus his superlative intelligence, his physical strength and structural simplicity, make him a most effective Protector--and a viciously formidable fighter. Since the Pak spend most of their time fighting one another in murderous planet-wide wars, they have never spread out to conquer the galaxy-- Until Phssthpok set out to find a lost group of Breeders. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Don Dixon Ilustrador. First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. It was a tragic mismatch: the unsuspecting stalked by the unrelenting. But the victim was an entire civilization. SUB-TITLE: a novel. CONTENTS: The Sun Tycoons 1 Janoort 2 Starbird 3 Kwanlon 4 Metabrake 5 Solar Halo 6 Skyfish 7 Fermi Paradox 8 Sun Company 9 "Empires Die" 10 Skyweb 11 Cotopaxi High 12 Sunblood 13 Synfare 14 High House 15 Solarpolitics 16 Survival Paradox 17 Mexamerica 18 Azteca 19 Revelator 20 Armageddon 21 Black Companion 22 Lifeburst 23 The Eldermost. SYNOPSIS: THE ULTIMATE TEST Somewhere, eons past, the Seekers had begun as weapons--cyborg war machines. Nuclear explosions and powerful lasers meant little to them, for each was larger than ten battleships and subsisted on a diet of heavy metals, preferably radioactive. Nothing was known of the Seekers' creators, for their expansion into space had failed. Their cyborgs ate them. Soon the Seekers had begun their own Lifeburst into space, flying to nearby stars, evolving, hiving, eatingbut always destroying the native life. Such was their way. Eventually, a Seeker queen sought refuge in the asteroid belt of the Solar System. She was huge, mean, hungry, and very pregnant. And all that stood between her and the total destruction of Man were a handful of the Seekers' most recent victims and a young man with an unproven secret weapon. Jack Williamson began writing science fiction in 1928, before it got that name. With time out for service as an Army Air Force weather forecaster during World War II and a more recent career as a college English professor, he has devoted his life to science fiction, and he says he has no regrets. A Southwesterner, he was born in Arizona of pioneering parents who took him to a Mexican mountain ranch before he was two months old, moved from there to Pecos, Texas, and then, the year he was seven, brought him by covered wagon to the Staked Plains of eastern New Mexico, where he and his wife, Blanche, still live. The best known of his thirty-odd novels is probably The Humanoids. He has been honored by the Science Fiction Writers of America with their Grand Master Nebula Award, and he has served for two terms as president of the organization. He taught one of the first college courses in science fiction and has edited a guidebook for science fiction teachers. Now retired from teaching, he writes on a word processor. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. Dale Gustafson Ilustrador. First Thus 1st Printing. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. MAP BY: Diane Duane. SYNOPSIS: RETURN TO THE RINGWORLD. It's been 20 years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and Speaker-To-Animals are going back, captives of The Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. With Louis' help, it intends to regain its status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that its fellows will have to be impressed. But when they arrive, Louis discovers that the Ringworld is no longer stable.and will destroy itself within months. To survive, he must locate the control centre of the legendary engineers who built the planet. His quest becomes a wild and gripping venture, blended with mysteries and spectacular technologies that only Niven can conjure! - and - RINGWORLD REDUX. Ten years after the publication of Ringworld, Larry Niven, winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and author of one of the true popular classics of modern science fiction, has at last satisfied the call of his many fans and written a sequel--a return voyage to that astonishing world, with even more remarkable adventures and surprises, and a solution to that tantalizing question left from the earlier book: how was the Ringworld built and by whom? Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Michael Whelan Ilustrador. First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; Line of "20" Stamped on Upper Edge. SYNOPSIS: "TAKE US TO YOUR LEADER, IF YOU CAN." When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and underscore its seriousness, you would expect the President to talk. Problem is, in the late twenty-first century, there is no President--not even a United States. In fact, in this world of the future, China rules the Americas; and, to most people, "USA" and "USSR" are just quaint abbreviations in historical dictionaries. Then the aliens prove unreasonable about accepting substitutes.so one Anglo rice-cultivator from the Heavenly Grain Collective Farm--near Biloxi, Mississippi--is forced to begin an adventure that will take him from peasant to President, from Pettyman to Spaceman. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. First Separate. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled. CONTENTS: Introduction - Terry Carr; Galatea Galante, the Perfect Popsy - Alfred Bester; Sandkings - George R. R. Martin (1980 Nebula Award Winner); Time Shards - Gregory Benford; In the Country of the Blind, No One Can See - Melisa Michaels; Re-deem the Time - David Lake; Down & Out on Ellfive Prime - Dean Ing; The Exit Door Leads In - Philip K. Dick; Options - John Varley; In Trophonius's Cave - James P. Girard; Fireflood - Vonda N. McIntyre; No More Pencils, No More Books - John Morressy; The Vacuum-packed Picnic - Rick Gauger; The Thaw - Tanith Lee; In a Petri Dish Upstairs - George Turner; Recommended Reading - 1979 - Terry Carr; The Science-Fiction Year - Charles N. Brown. SYNOPSIS: EVERY YEAR CRITICS HAIL TERRY CARR'S ANTHOLOGY AS THE BEST OF THE BESTS! Galatea Galante - Alfred Bester - He created the Perfect Woman, then fell in love with her - but she hated him! The Exit Door Leads In - Philip K. Dick - In the ultra-computerized future, there seemed to be no room for individuality. Then he got a fantastic break. Options - John Varley - She was happily married and the mother of two - but she wondered what it might be like to become a man. Fireflood - Vonda N. McIntyre - The genetic changes she had undergone made her ugly.and suddenly useless. But she had one last chance for a beautiful life. - PLUS - 10 More Stories; Terry Carr's Recommended Reading List; Charlie Brown's Wrapup of the Science-Fiction Year - and - MORE OF THE BEST. Sandkings - George R. R. Martin - His strange pets were an amusing novelty - and they worshiped him most gratifyingly. But being a god is a dangerous pastime for a human. Time Shards - Gregory Benford - Sending the future a message is a proud and incredible achievement - If you know what you're saying. The Vacuum-Packed Picnic - Rick Gauger - Outdoor love-making's a time-honored sport on Earth - but on the Moon, it calls for a new set of rules! The Thaw - Tanith Lee - Flash-frozen at the point of death, they could now be revived in a world two centuries past their time - but resurrections aren't always what they seem. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. Don Davis Ilustrador. Fourth Canadian Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel.the gripping story of a ring-shaped world around a distant sun. SYNOPSIS: THE DIMENSIONS OF RINGWORLD. "I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93 million miles in radius one Earth orbit which would make it 600 million miles long. It we have the mass of Jupiter to work with, and if we make it a million miles wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much sturdier than a Dyson sphere." "There are other advantages. We can spin it for gravity. Rotation on its axis of 700 miles/second would give the Ringworld one gravity outward. We wouldn't even have to roof it over. Put walls a thousand miles high at each rim, aimed at the sun, and very little of the air will leak over the edges." "The thing is roomy enough: three million times the area of the Earth. It will be some time before anyone complains of the crowding."--Larry Niven - and - FOUR TRAVELERS COME TO THE RINGWORLD. Louis Wu - human and old, old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it. Nessus - a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern on nonviolence. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane. Teela Brown - human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experiences, no abilities. And all the luck in the world. Speaker-To-Animals - kzin; large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy. Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed? AWARDS: 1970 Nebula Award; 1971 Hugo Award. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Don Dixon Ilustrador. First Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. It was time to return Life Probe to its Makers--all Earth had to do was find them. SYNOPSIS: A DEBT UNPAID. For hundreds of millennia, the Makers' robot probes had slowly crossed space in search of a faster-than-light drive. To each race encountered along the way, the same offer was made--all the Makers' immense knowledge in return for a fast interstellar drive or help in finding one. Among the species that accepted the offer was Mankind. And 24th -Century Earth had been made very comfortable because of it. But the Community of Nations was about to learn that a promise is a contract--and the Makers would collect for breach. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. Michael Whelan Ilustrador. First Thus 1st Printing. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A NATIONAL BESTSELLER. SYNOPSIS: THE SNOUTS ARE COMING. Men first saw the invader as a series of dots on astronomical plates. It moved in a way that meant it was operating under power, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. And since no life was possible on Saturn or its moons, the ship had to be a visitor from another star. THE ALIENS WERE ON THEIR WAY! Mankind's frantic efforts to signal the invader went unanswered. First contact came when the aliens blasted the Soviet space station, seized the survivors and proceeded to destroy every dam and installation on Earth by a rain of asteroids from Space. Now the Snouts are descending on Kansas, demanding servile surrender or death for all humans. Caught up in the ensuing war of indescribable violence and incredible destruction are dozens of truly memorable characters. THIS IS HOW IT COULD HAPPEN--IN A NOVEL NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN! - and - FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. Harry Reddington - The man who crossed half a ruined continent to save another man's wife. Harpanet - The alien who gave his allegiance to humanity. Jeanette Crichton - She brought news of the impending invasion to a frightened Earth and was quickly caught up in the President's councils. Congressman Wes Dawson - Captured by the aliens, he tried to serve both sides. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Slightly Cocked. COMPLETE WITH A FABULOUS FULL-COLOR PHOTO INSERT! SUB-TITLE: A Novel. MOVIE/RADIO/TV TIE-IN: This novel is based on a Screenplay by Steven Lisberger. Story by Steven Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird. SYNOPSIS: AN ELECTRONIC WONDERWORLD COME TO LIFE. Denied access to a program he created, computer expert Alan Bradley seeks out Flynn, a video game virtuoso who is the only man clever enough to outwit the powerful Master Control Program. Flynn's efforts are in vain. The Master Control Program shoots him into an incredible electronic world, where computer programs are the alter-egos of their programmers, where video games are battles of life and death. It is here than Flynn finds TRON, the alter-ego of Alan Bradley and the only program who can overthrow the Master Control. The video wizard and the electronic program join forces in a battle to decide whether man or machine will control the system. This electrifying novel shows the world of computer gaming from the inside - where real people become electronic pawns in a world they do not understand. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.