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Slan
de Van Vogt, A. E
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Librería
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Garden City: Nelson Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1968. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, DJ is sun-faded at spine, short edge tears,pages somewhat yellowed. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 176 pages; " Tells the story of Jommy Cross, a young slan, and his quest to discover his father's legacy as well as to find others like him, while fleeing from a repressive dictatorship, Slan was both a ground-breaking SF novel, and perhaps the first Young Adult paranormal adventure. Jommy is just a kid, but, like all slans, can read minds, which helps Jommy survive when slans are hunted and killed by the government. A novel of racial conflict set in a disrupted culture that delivers relentless action, super science, and high adventure." .
Sinopsis
Slan is a science fiction novel written by A. E. van Vogt, as well as the name of the fictional race of superbeings featured in the novel. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (September - December 1940). It was subsequently published in hardcover in 1946 by Arkham House, in an edition of 4,051 copies. Lydia van Vogt, A. E. van Vogt's widow, and Kevin J. Anderson wrote a sequel to Slan, titled Slan Hunter, based on an unfinished draft by van Vogt.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 21787
- Título
- Slan
- Autor
- Van Vogt, A. E
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edición
- Book Club Edition
- Editorial
- Nelson Doubleday
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
- Palabras clave
- slan, SCI-FI
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Ainsworth Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
Sobre Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- Shelf Wear
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- Book Club Edition
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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