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Garden City, New York:: Nelson Doubleday,, 1979.. Hardcover -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. Original book club edition. First thus - an omnibus edition containing three stories about Dr. Who -Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks; Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen; Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster - originally published in paperback and inspired by the popular BBC series. New introduction for this edition by Harlan Ellison. Code of J-31. 307 pp. Dust jacket art by Gary Viscupik.

New York:: DAW Books,, (2006). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Book 4 of the Dragon Jousters. Illustrated with a frontispiece drawing and small headers. 291 pp. Wraparound cover art by Jody Lee.

New York:: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates,, (2011). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot, small peeled spot on rear pastedown). First printing. A novel about superheroes and the people who have to live with them. "It's not easy being a superhero's daughter.... Most people dream of having superheroes for parents, but not Celia West. The only daughter of Captain Olympus and Spark, the world's greatest champions, she has no powers of her own. Meanwhile, she's the favorite hostage of every crime boss and supervillain in Comemrce City. She doesn't have a code name, but if she did, it would probably be Bait Girl, the Captive Wonder." 304 pp.

New York:: William H. Morrow,, (1992.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Post apocalyptic novel set in 2023, thirty years after a nuclear holocaust has destroyed the world as we know it. "A powerful, deeply disturbing book.bleak, uncompromising."--Harry Stein. Translated from the Swedish by Lone Thygesen Blecher and George Blecher. 251 pp.

New York:: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates,, (2007.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (just a few very light specks of foxing on the top of the text block, appears unread). First printing. Adventure story set in the near-future, of rugged independent high-tech prospectors, who are mining the asteroid belt and running ore-carriers across the asteroid belt. SIGNED on the title page. 396 pp.

New York:: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates,, (2015). SIGNED -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (some light toning to the pages).. 1st trade paperback printing. A high tech thriller which "begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them." And one of the most dangerous is a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. SIGNED on the title page. 302 pp.

New York:: Baen Books,, (2000). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Military science fiction by this award-winning author: Fleet is tearing itself apart, and Esmay Suiza-Serrano finds herself booted out, apparently a victim of Family politics. Sequel to "Change of Command." 396 pp. Dust jacket by Gary Russell.

New York:: Belmont Books, 1967. First edition -. Very good in wrappers with light creasing to spine and one corner, usual toning to the pages.. Paperback original - first printing. Belmont B 50-739. Author's 2nd novel. The hero fights for democracy against a totalitarian state using many disguises on many planets, but is thwarted at every turn by a mysterious group of renegades. Ultimately he must choose between the failing democracy movment or the Brotherhood of Assassins as an agent of chaos. 157 pp.

New York:: Belmont Books, 1970. Very Good in wrappers with light creasing to spine and one corner.. Paperback. Belmont B 505-2003-75. Author's 2nd novel. The hero fights for democracy against a totalitarian state using many disguises on many planets, but is thwarted at every turn by a mysterious group of renegades. Ultimately he must choose between the failing democracy movment or the Brotherhood of Assassins as an agent of chaos.

New York:: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (glue remnants on pastedowns and under dj flaps, but overall this appears unread). First printing. A "dark, sharp urban fantasy . . . What if you could live for centuries, and the only price was your soul...? Agyar is a man who has paid this price. Born over a century ago, and once a frivolous young man in search of pleasure, he found instead immortality in a woman's blood-red lips. Now he roams from woman to woman, from decade to decade, and from land to land." 254 pp.

Los Angeles:: Bridge Publications,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Novelization by Kevin Anderson of a short story by L. Ron Hubbard. - a "rollicking adventure through the world of spies and double spies." 370 pp.

New York:: Berkley Putnam,, 1978.. Hardcover first edition -. VG/G (rem stamp, some edgewear, short tears). First printing. A science fiction novel set in the not so distant future where some can live forever as "retreads" - surgically implanted in new young bodies.

New York:: World Editions,, (1951). First edition -. Very good - bright cover, no creasing, but the usual toning to pages, slight mustiness. Ownership slip of Ken Krueger (1926-2009), collector, publisher and one of the founders of Comic Con, laid in. . First thus --Digest magazine format. "A gripping novel of discovery and conquest in interstellar space - a complete original book, unabridged." 500,000 years after the extinction of intelligent life on Mars, a hibernating Martian is found in a cube - with instructions on how to bring it back to life. 160 pp. Digest magazine format. Attractive cover art. Original price 35c. 126 pp.

New York:: Harper & Row,, (1972). SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine in very good dust jacket. (corner clipped). Book club edition. A delightful comic fantasy, but also a sharp social satire, reminiscent simultaneously of Anthony Burgess, Oscar Wilde, and H.G. Wells, set on an earth in a remote future, where death no longer exists, birth hardly at all and the small remaining population is very bizarre and very decadent. SIGNED on the title page. 147 pp.

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, 1985.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.. First edition. Two centuries after the nearly total destruction of Earth by a sudden nuclear storm, three agents of a galactic federation dedicated to peace and progress return to the solar system to find out more about what caused this disaster. 182 pp.

New York:: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates,, (2016). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock). First printing. A very highly praised "first contact" novel, one Ben Bova called the best he has seen in decades, while Robert Sawyer commented that Wilber is "one of the most thoughtful and literate science fiction writers working today." From the dust jacket: "Peter Holman is a freelance sweeper. The year 2030 sees a new era in social media with sweepcasting, a multi-sensory interface that can convey every thought, touch, smell, sight, and sound, immersing the audience in another person's experience. He is perfectly positioned to be the one human to document the arrival of the aliens, the S'hudonni. The S'hudonni offer advanced science in exchange for various trade goods from Earth, but nothing is as simple as it seems." 300 pp.

New York:: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (discoloration from glue under dj flaps and on pastedowns). First printing. A collection of 17 short stories and an essay written over a span of 35 years; many were previously unpublished, and original to this volume. Each is introduced by the author's comments about the events that prompted him to write it. 255 pp.

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a very near fine dustjacket (toning to the edges of the textblock) . First printing. "They came, they saw, they conquered, we survived." A sobering epic novel of an alien invasion that pushes earth back into the dark ages, told from the viewpoint of a California family. 428 pp.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1977.). SIGNED hardcover -. Very good+ in very good dust jacket. (some rubbing and wear to the dj.). Book club edition. A novel of fast-paced adventure on several very bizarre worlds.SIGNED on the title page. 182 pp. Dust jacket art by Paul Stinson.

New York:: St Martin's,, (1977.). SIGNED hardcover -. Very good in very good dust jacket. (prev owner's name, some rubbing and wear to the dj.). Book club edition. A novel of fast-paced adventure on several very bizarre worlds.SIGNED on the title page. 182 pp. Dust jacket art by Paul Stinson.