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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 3: Faith of Tarot - Berkley - 4150838   € 4,00 Fantasy - 1980 - pocket - 246 p. - On far Tarot dreams come true-and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate and most terrifying fantasy of them all...Hell. (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 3: Faith of Tarot - Berkley - 076240 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1980 - pocket - 246 p. - On far Tarot dreams come true-and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate and most terrifying fantasy of them all...Hell. (VG-, faded spine) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 3: Faith of Tarot - Berkley - 4148417 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1980 - pocket - 246 p. - On far Tarot dreams come true-and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate and most terrifying fantasy of them all...Hell. (VG-, name inside) |
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Anthony, Piers - Total Recall - Legend - 070478 € 4,00 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 224 p. - About the ego Trip mind travel of Doug Quaid. A motion picture with Arnold Schwartzenegger, directed by Paul Verhoeven. (VG-, minor wear) |
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Anthony, Piers - Triple Détente - Sphere - 101438 € 2,50 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 192 p. - Earth and Kazo have created a unique peace. Kazo administers Earth, and Earth controls Kazo. Nothing is really complicated until both humans and Kazos discover the existence of a third intelligent race in the galaxy and try to bring them into the newly developing peace. (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers; Richey - Quest for the Fallen Star - TOR - 117611 € 8,75 Essef - 1998 - first edition - HC with dust jacket - 414 p. - The Realm, to its sorrow, has seen evil before. But in these strange new times has come a thing never seen before. A star has tumbled, burning, from the sky: the Fallen Star, which has journeyed through the Abyss to land on Infinitera. It holds a power of evil more dangerous than the Dark One himself, one that could defile all Creation... (F) |
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Anvil, Christopher - Interstellar Patrol 1: Interstellar Patrol - Baen - 9113244 € 7,00 Essef - 2003 - first printing - huge paperback - Baen original - 471 p. - The starship crew was stuck on a planet where the well-meaning schemes of social engineers had created a nightmare of battling gangs. So they pretended to be the Royal Legions from a distant star kingdom pursuing an all-powerful villain hiding on the planet. Then the real Royal flagship showed up. (VG) |
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Anvil, Christopher - Pandora's Planet - Daw - 076252 € 2,75 Essef - 1973 - first printing - pocket - 192 p. - The archetypal Anvil short story is "Pandora's Planet," which appeared first in Astounding Magazine in September 1956. It was expanded to a full length novel. (VG) |
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Anvil, Christopher - The Day the Machines Stopped - Monarch - 4032569 € 2,50 Essef - 1964 - pocket - 124 p. - Civilization ground to a halt when nature reverses its laws... (VG) |
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Anvil, Christopher - The Day the Machines Stopped - Monarch - 4147541 € 2,00 Essef - 1964 - pocket - 124 p. - Civilization ground to a halt when nature reverses its laws... (VG-, name inside) |
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Anvil, Christopher - The Steel, the Mist and the Blazing Sun - Ace - 110003 € 3,25 Essef - 1980 - first Ace printing - pocket - 282 p. - Détente between the United States and the Soviet Union has lasted for over two hundred years - but only because nuclear war has resulted in the two old enemies bombing each other back in the Stone Age. Now, as each country begins the long climb back to industrialization, the remnants of their populations find themselves once again at war... (VG) |
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Anvil, Christopher - The Steel, the Mist and the Blazing Sun - Ace - 116571 € 2,25 Essef - 1980 - first Ace printing - pocket - 282 p. - Détente between the United States and the Soviet Union has lasted for over two hundred years - but only because nuclear war has resulted in the two old enemies bombing each other back in the Stone Age. Now, as each country begins the long climb back to industrialization, the remnants of their populations find themselves once again at war... (G+, some foxing) |
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Anvil, Christopher - Warlord's World - Daw - 111302 € 2,75 Essef - 1975 - first printing - pocket - 207 p. - Vaughan Roberts of the almighty Interstellar Patrol was literally riding a roller coaster when he got the appeal to help a damsel in distress. She was a princess of Festhold, a planet addicted to soldiery, military adventure and hairy-chested heroics... (VG) |
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Appel, Benjamin - The Funhouse - Ballantine - 109719 € 3,00 Essef - 1959 - first printing - pocket - 157 p. - A Science Fiction satire of the future pleasure state. (VG) |
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Appleton II, Victor - Tom Swift 5: Tom Swift and his Sky Wheel - Tempo - 094805 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 210 p. - a.k.a. Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space. The sixth book in the Tom Swift Jr series, although this edition has #5 on the cover. Victor Appleton II is a house name; this book has been written by Jim Lawrence. (VG) |
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Appleton II, Victor - Tom Swift 8: Tom Swift in the Caves of Nuclear Fire - Tempo - 4143437 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 214 p. - The eighth book in the Tom Swift Jr series, although this edition has #6 on the cover. The caves of nuclear fire are African caverns that contain a glowing gas of antiprotons that disintegrates most matter that it touches. Fortunately, the walls of the caverns are lined with a substance impervious to antimatter... (VG) |
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Aratyr, Risa - Hunter of the Light - Harper Prism - 9147900 € 7,50 Fantasy - 1995 - thick pocket - 626 p. - The death of a great snow elk is essential to the balance of magic in the world of Eirinn, and the task falls to Blackthorn, who must set aside his... (F) |
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Arden, Tom - The Orokon 1: The Harlequin's Dance - Gollancz - 9132686 € 7,50 Fantasy - 1997 - hardcover with dust jacket - 448 p. - The first in a five-book sequence of fantasy novels, this book is a quest fantasy set in the mythical kingdoms of the El-Orok. The Orokon is a circle of five mystic crystals which embody the powers of the ancient gods. Only two people can find the cystals: the enchanter Toth-Vexrah and Jem. (VG) |
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Arnam, Dave Van - Greyland - Leisure Books - 4153538 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - reprinting - pocket - 174 p. - He awoke as from some misty, prolonged, vaguely disturbing dream, yet somehow he knew that what had happened and what was happening had a strange reality. it was not the kind of reality his disciplined mind would have accepted in the past, though... (VG-, small corner fold in front cover) |
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Arnam, Dave Van - Starmind - Ballantine - 076251 € 2,50 Essef - 1969 - first printing - pocket - 216 p. - Benjy Tyler: idiot mind in a beautiful body; Jailyn Rost: very much a female, very rich, and very clever; Joe Winslow: multi-wave expert - caretaker and attendant on Asteroid 770. Whether they knew it or not, these three were linked - and in a way no humans had ever been before them. Only time would tell whether the link destroyed them. (VG) |
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Arnam, Dave Van - Starmind - Ballantine - 4131405 € 2,00 Essef - 1969 - first printing - pocket - 216 p. - Benjy Tyler: idiot mind in a beautiful body; Jailyn Rost: very much a female, very rich, and very clever; Joe Winslow: multi-wave expert - caretaker and attendant on Asteroid 770. Whether they knew it or not, these three were linked - and in a way no humans had ever been before them. Only time would tell whether the link destroyed them. (VG-, name inside) |
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Arnam, Dave Van - Wizard of Storms - Belmont - 4153563 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1970 - pocket - 125 p. - Qurval, the Wizard of Storms, took pride in his madness, exquisite pleasure in the pain of his prisoners. Beautiful Laishalla and her friends, Konarr and The Bowman, knew every day brought them closer to a terrible death, yet they were helpless.... (VG) |
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Arnason, Eleanor - A Woman of the Iron People 2 : Changing Women - Avon - 4152522 € 3,75 Essef - 1992 - pocket - 292 p. - Earthborn Lixia, a vistor from her damaged planet, and Nia, a primitive outcast, exiled for committing a transgression unheard of in her society, unite by circumstance and travel together across a perilous continent. Reprint. (VG-) |
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Arnason, Eleanor - The Sword Smith - Condor - 4153560 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1978 - pocket - 208blz - This is the legend. Of Limper, a royal sword smith. Of a baby dragon named Nargri. Of a mountainous land, a world of mystery. Of peasants and kings, sorcerers and trolls. It is a tale of fantasy, but it has the earthy reality of a true story of... (VG) |
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Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden - Gulliver of Mars - Ace - 4150852 € 4,50 Essef - 1970 - 2nd printing - pocket - 224 p. - Originally published in 1905 as "Lieut. Gulliver Jones: His Vacation," An early interplanetary romance story; in the introduction Richard A Lupoff claims this story as a source for Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom. The provenance is visible in...(VG-, cover corner chip) |
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Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden - The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician - 1977 - 8150129 € 8,75 Fantasy - 1977 - paperback - illustrated - 329 p. - This epic tale was first published in 1890, and was reprinted several times. The story of a man who lives several lifetimes through the centuries. The book influenced writers from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Jack London. (VG) |
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Asaro, Catherine - Alpha - Baen - 8150099 € 9,50 Essef - 2006 - HC with dust jacket - 270 p. - Now that Charon, the brilliant criminal mastermind is dead, General Thomas Wharington is assigned the task of capturing Alpha, the only android survivor of Charon's cybernetic empire, but his task becomes complicated when he is abducted by the escaping Alpha, whose behavior becomes increasingly human but whose own mission is in doubt, in the sequel to Sunrise Alley. (F) |
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Asaro, Catherine - Skolian Empire 03 : The Radiant Seas - TOR - 4153727 € 4,00 Essef - 1999 - pocket - 491 p. - Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the unwilling ruler of the... (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
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Asaro, Catherine - Skolian Empire 14 : Carnelians - Baen - 4153726 € 4,00 Essef - 2012 - pocket - 547 p. - Multiple Nebula-award-winning Catherine Asaro continues her brilliant and intricate Skolian space opera opus. Two emperors navigate an uneasy peace, while a powerful trader guild does everything in its power to bring on war. And as if Kelric, the... (VG-, binding not straight in rear) |
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Asaro, Catherine - The Skolian Empire 01 : Primary Inversion - TOR - 9074064 € 4,50 Essef - 1996 - pocket - 369 p. - Epic SF. The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders is imminent... (F) |
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Asaro, Catherine - The Skolian Empire 01 : Primary Inversion - TOR - 4153728 € 4,00 Essef - 1996 - pocket - 369 p. - Epic SF. The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders is imminent... (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
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Asaro, Catherine - The Skolian Empire 02 : Catch the Lightning - TOR - 4074063 € 4,00 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 309 p. - Epic SF. The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders is imminent... (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
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Asaro, Catherine - The Skolian Empire 04 : The Last Hawk - TOR - 9074062 € 4,00 Essef - 1998 - pocket - 459 p. - Epic SF. The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders is imminent... (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
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Ashby, Richard - Act of God - Five Star / PBS - 4149101 € 2,00 Essef - 1973 - pocket - 158 p. - It had given one unhappy man eternal life - and his descendant had evolved a fantastic plot to deprive him of the secret - in the california of 2002,... (VG-, name inside) |
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Asher, Neal - Agent Cormac 2: The Line of Polity - TOR - 9144134 € 10,50 Essef - 2003 - paperback - 547 p. - Come visit a world where you cannot draw breath... should its horrifying wildlife allow you. Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium, and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved. Sent out on a titanic Polity dreadnought, the Occam Razor, agent Cormac must investigate the disaster, and also resolve the question of Masada, a world about to be subsumed as the Line of Polity is drawn across it. (F) |
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Asher, Neal - Agent Cormac 3: Brass Man - TOR - 9142946 € 6,50 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 568 p. - Next novel in the 'Gridlinked' sequence, with the resurrection of the terrifying Mr Crane, a massive android kiling machine... and one with a grudge. The knight errant Anderson is hunting a dragon on the primitive Out-Polity world of Cull, little knowing that far away a man - more technology than human flesh - has resurrected a brass killing machine to assist in a similar hunt that encompasses star systems. When agent Cormac learns that his old enemy still lives, he sets out in pursuit aboard the attack ship Jack Ketch... (F) |
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Asher, Neal - Agent Cormac 3: Brass Man - TOR - 9153789 € 3,75 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 568 p. - Next novel in the 'Gridlinked' sequence, with the resurrection of the terrifying Mr Crane, a massive android kiling machine... and one with a grudge. The knight errant Anderson is hunting a dragon on the primitive Out-Polity world of Cull, little knowing that far away a man - more technology than human flesh - has resurrected a brass killing machine to assist in a similar hunt that encompasses star systems. When agent Cormac learns that his old enemy still lives, he sets out in pursuit aboard the attack ship Jack Ketch... (G+, creases and some wear) |
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Asher, Neal - Agent Cormac 4 : Polity Agent - TOR - 9153666 € 11,75 Essef - 2006 - HC with dust jacket - 488 p. - From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien ‘Maker’ back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely... (VG) |
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Asher, Neal - Cowl - TOR - 9153790 € 4,00 SF/Fantasy - 2005 - pocket - 469 p. - In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the enemy have escaped into the past, intent on wreaking havoc across time. The worst of these is Cowl, an artifically forced advance in human evolution. (VG-, name inside) |
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Asher, Neal - Owner Trilogy 2 : Zero Point - TOR - 9153667 € 12,00 Essef - 2012 - HC with dust jacket - 564 p. - On Earth, the Committee's network of control is a smoking ruin, and ruthless Serene Galahad acts to take command. On Mars, Vars Delex fights for the survival of the Antares Base. And aboard the Argus Space Station, Alan Saul's mind has expanded into... (VG-) |
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Asher, Neal - Polity 1: Prador Moon - Night Shade Books - 8150128 € 5,75 Essef - 2006 - paperback - 222 p. - Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute force of the Prador dreadnaughts causes several worlds and space stations to be overrun. Prador Moon follows the initial Polity defeats, to the first draws, and culminates in what might be the first Polity victory, told from the point of view of two unlikely heroes. (VG+) |
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Asher, Neal - Polity 2: Hilldiggers - TOR - 9153989 € 4,00 Essef - 2008 - pocket - 551 p. - During a war between two planets in the same solar system - each occupied by adapted humans - what is thought to be a cosmic superstring is... (VG-, bit spotted on edge) |
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Asher, Neal - Spatterjay 1: The Skinner - Macmillan - 9142978 € 13,50 Essef - 2002 - First edition - paperback - 474 p. - Welcome to Spatterjay...where sudden death is the normal way of life; To the remote planet Spatterjay come three travellers with very different missions. Janer is directed there by the hornet Hive-mind; Erlin comes to find the sea captain who can teach her to live; and Keech - dead for seven hundred years - has unfinished business with a notorious criminal. Spatterjay is a watery world where the human population inhabits the safety of the Dome and only the quasi-immortal hoopers are safe outside amidst a fearful range of voracious life-forms... (F) |
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Asher, Neal - Spatterjay 1: The Skinner - TOR - 9150098 € 15,75 Essef - 2004 - First TOR edition - HC with dust jacket - 474 p. - Welcome to Spatterjay...where sudden death is the normal way of life; To the remote planet Spatterjay come three travellers with very different missions. Janer is directed there by the hornet Hive-mind; Erlin comes to find the sea captain who can teach her to live; and Keech - dead for seven hundred years - has unfinished business with a notorious criminal. Spatterjay is a watery world where the human population inhabits the safety of the Dome and only the quasi-immortal hoopers are safe outside amidst a fearful range of voracious life-forms... (F) |
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Asher, Neal - Spatterjay 2: The Voyage of the Sable Keech - TOR - 9143028 € 5,50 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 584 p. - Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the man's last-known seaborne journey, Taylor Bloc wants to know the truth. He also wants so much else - adulation, power, control - and will go to any lengths to achieve them... (F) |
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Asher, Neal - Spatterjay 2: The Voyage of the Sable Keech - TOR - 9153665 € 11,50 Essef - 2006 - HC with dust jacket - 506 p. - Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank of seawater? Tracing the man's last-known seaborne journey, Taylor Bloc wants to know the truth. He also wants so much else - adulation, power, control - and will go to any lengths to achieve them... (VG-) |
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Asher, Neal - Spatterjay 3 : Orbus - TOR - 9153668 € 12,50 Essef- 2009 - HC with dust jacket - 438 p. - In charge of an old cargo spaceship, the Old Captain Orbus flees a violent and sadistic past, but he doesn't know that the lethal war drone, Sniper, is a stowaway, and that the past is rapidly catching up with him. (VG+) |
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Asher, Neal - The Gabble and Other Stories - TOR - 4153922 € 4,00 Essef - 2009 - pocket - 371 p. - Ten tales from the Polity, an alliance of humans spanning the galaxy and governed by artificial intelligences while under constant threat from alien technology. (VG) |
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Asher, Neal - The Parasite - Tanjen - 4154034 € 6,50 Essef - 1996 - paperback - illustrated - 129 p. - Set in a future of military take-overs, rising sea levels and satellite industries, this tale of high tech subterfuge and violence ultimately questions the future of the human race and what it might become. Asher is the author of Gridlinked. (VG-) |
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Ash, Sarah - Tears of Artamon 1: Lord of Snow and Shadows - Bantam - 9147893 € 6,75 Fantasy - 2004 - pocket - 704 p. - Three kingdoms. One man. A destiny written in blood. An epic new fantasy series begins... Seemingly always the outsider, Gavril Andar - an... (VG+) |
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Ash, Sarah - Tears of Artamon 1: Prisoner of Ironsea Tower - Bantam - 9147966 € 5,75 Fantasy - 2005 - pocket - 702 p. - 'The emperor's tears will unlock the gate...' Eugene of Tielen has won the five Tears of Artamon, the legendary rubies which entitle him to be... (VG-) |
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Ash, Sarah - Tears of Artamon 3: Children of the Serpent Gate - Bantam - 8147901 € 7,00 Fantasy - 2006 - pocket - 609 p. - Releasing five dragon-demons called Drakhouls--one of whom dwells within him--in his efforts to seize control of an ancient empire, a man discovers... (F) |
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Asimov, Isaac & Silverberg, Robert - The Ugly Little Boy - Doubleday - 115094 € 6,75 Essef - 1993 - HC with dust jacket - 290 p. - Edith Fellowes, the nurse of a Neanderthal ape-boy taken from a primordial past during an experiment in time travel, discovers that the scientists who brought the boy back have evil intentions. (VG-, previous owner name inside) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Bicentennial Man - Millennium - 4153373 € 3,75 Essef - 2000 - pocket - 211 p. - "I can't remember the other stories, but I can't forget "The Bicentennial Man". An amazing story that I'd put in my top 10 of all time. This is what I love about science fiction - it's not ray guns and monsters, it's how will we change and stay the same, and how can we change our current perceptions?" - Valerie. (VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Earth is Room Enough - Ballantine - 4090445 € 4,50 Essef - 1959 - first Bantam edition - 166 p. - A collection of 15 stories. (VG-, spine not flat) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Empire 2: The Stars Like Dust - Panther - 4142630 € 3,50 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 189 p. - An Isaac Asimov classic of galactic intrigue and adventure. Overnight, young Biron Farrill changed from a casual student preparing for graduation at the University of Earth into a fugitive fleeing from an unknown assassin. Someone had tried to kill him in his dormitory. And he learned that, many light years away in the inky blackness of the Horsehead Nebula, his father had already been murdered. (VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Empire 2: The Stars Like Dust - Lancer - 4150030 € 3,00 Essef - 1968 - pocket - 192 p. - An Isaac Asimov classic of galactic intrigue and adventure. Overnight, young Biron Farrill changed from a casual student preparing for graduation at the University of Earth into a fugitive fleeing from an unknown assassin. Someone had tried...(VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Empire 3: The Currents of Space - Signet - 4115522 € 12,50 Essef - 1953 - first printing - pocket - Catalogue Lovisi $20 (VG) - 176 p. - Collectible paperback. A novel of tension and adventure. Long ago I've read it and I can certainly recommend it. (VG-, name / ex-libris inside) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Fantastic Voyage - Bantam - 4150850 € 3,75 Essef - 1969 - 19th printing - pocket - 186 p. - Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed. (VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain - Guild - 9070071 € 12,00 Essef - 1987 - Hardcover with dust jacket - 392 p. - Book club edition - The uncharted territory of the human brain becomes a landscape fraught with danger for a team of scientists who set out to discover its secretsfrom the inside. Twenty years after the success of his original fantastic voyage, the prolific and always illuminating Asimov creates a new scenario for an old premise and fills it with sympathetic characters, unexpected plot twists, and a heavy dose of science-made-comprehensible. Highly recommended. (VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Foundation Series 2: Foundation and Empire - Panther - 4109972 € 3,00 Essef - 1971 - reprint - pocket - 172 p. - The second volume in the "Foundation" saga. Catastrophic events unfold as predicted by Hari Seldon. The First Galactic Empire is crumbling at its centre; conflict rages at its periphery, where the Traders of the Foundation based on Terminus have become a mighty power. (VG-) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Foundation Series 4: Foundation's Edge - Ballentine - 4112780 € 3,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 426 p. - It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence - half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon. The Second Foundation has once more successfully concealed its existence so that the laws of psychohistory can operate to usher in a new Empire ruled by the mental sciences. (VG-, small tear in cover) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Foundation Series 4: Foundation's Edge - Harper Collins - 4132065 € 4,00 Essef - 1996 - reprint - pocket - 432 p. - It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence - half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon. The Second Foundation has once more successfully concealed its existence so that the laws of psychohistory can operate to usher in a new Empire ruled by the mental sciences. (VG-, some light corner folds in front and rear covers) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Foundation Series 5: Foundation and Earth - Del Rey - 9129744 € 5,00 Essef - 1987 - 1st international edition - pocket - 494 p. - Fifth book in the epic Foundation saga. (VG-) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Lucky Starr 2: Pirates of the Asteroids - NEL - 4082252 € 3,00 Essef - 1974 - pocket - 144 p. - The second book in the Lucky Starr series. Twenty-five years before, Lucky Starr's parents had been destroyed during a pirate raid on the Terrestrial Empire. Now Lucky was a man, and an officer of the Council of Science. His ship was heavily armed, the pirates were at hand, the the time for sweet blaster vengeance was near! (VG-, naam/stamp on inside cover) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Magic, The Final Fantasy Collection - Harper Prism - 8150102 € 9,00 Fantasy - 1996 - HC with dust jacket - 275 p. - Asimov is the transcendent genius of Essef, it's reigning prophet, it's genial partiarch, and its most prolific author. But Asimov also wrote Fantasy, and invariably of an enduring quality. Magic is his final original collection, containing all of his uncollected fantasy stories that have never before appeared in book form. (VG-, remaindered marking) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Nemesis - Bantam - 9132067 € 5,25 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 447 p. - In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's people - but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she will realize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be up to her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as - drawn inexorably by Nemesis, the death star - they hurtle toward certain disaster. (VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Nightfall One - Panther - 4082247 € 3,00 Essef - 1972 - reprinting - pocket - 176 p. - A collection with 5 stories. The title story is universally acclaimed as the best Essef story ever written. (VG-, name inside) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Nightfall Two - Panther - 4143225 € 2,75 Essef - 1972 - pocket - 192 p - 15 stories. (VG-, spine slightly faded) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Nightfall Two - Panther - 4076072 € 2,25 Panther - 1973 - pocket - 192 p. - 15 stories. (VG-, name inside) |
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Asimov, Isaac - R. Daneel Olivaw 3: The Robots of Dawn - Del Rey - 4101444 € 3,75 Essef - 1984 - pocket - 398 p. - Elijah Baley has faced Departmental hostility since his return to Earth from the planet Solaria, where he solved the first murder to be committed in 200 years. Against his will, a hyperwave drama was made of the case, thanks to Delmarre, the murder suspect whom he proved innocent. (VG-) |
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Asimov, Isaac - R. Daneel Olivaw 4: Robots and Empire - Ballantine - 9134682 € 4,25 Essef - 1986 - first international edition - thick pocket - 468 p. - Though Elijah Baley is long dead, his name is enshrined in the foremost Settler planet - Baleyworld. And Earthmen who now trade amongst the stars watch hypervision cubes re-enacting his story; he freed Earth of its Spacer overlords. (VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - The Best of Isaac Asimov - Fawcett Crest - 4153376 € 3,00 Essef - 1985 - 2nd printing - pocket - 319 p. - 12 superb stories by the master of science fiction.(G, iets vochtschade op eerste paar blz., niet erg storend) |
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Asimov, Isaac - The Early Asimov, Book 2 - Fawcett - 4121247 € 3,00 Essef - 1974 - pocket - 304 p. - 12 stories of the Master of Science Fiction reflect 11 years of 'trying' and good results! (VG-, name inside) |
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Asimov, Isaac - The End of Eternity - Fawcett Crest - 4150851 € 2,25 Essef - 1971 - pocket - 192 p. - A complex tale of time travel and time paradoxes, considered by some critics to be Asimov's finest work. I have read the book, like about half of Asimov's other essef books and I can report here that I agree with this, at least - I think - it is his best stand-alone novel, let me put it that way. (G-, cover fold) |
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Asimov, Isaac - The Martian Way - Signet - 4109973 € 7,50 Essef - 1957 - first printing - pocket - 159 p. - A collection of 4 stories. (VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - The Martian Way - Panther - 4117513 € 3,25 Essef - 1979 - reprint - pocket - 192 p. - A collection of 4 stories. (VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - The Martian Way - Panther - 4148065 € 3,25 Essef - 1970 - reprint - pocket - 192 p. - A collection of 4 stories. (VG) |
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Asimov, Isaac - The Martian Way - Signet - 090450 € 4,75 Essef - 1957 - first printing - pocket - 159 p. - A collection of 4 stories. (VG-, weak spine) |
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Asimov, Isaac - The Martian Way - Panther - 114242 € 2,25 Essef - 1965 - reprint - pocket - 192 p. - A collection of 4 stories. (G+, mild damage, writings inside) |
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Asimov, Isaac - The Martian Way - Panther - 117138 € 2,00 Essef - 1970 - reprint - pocket - 192 p. - A collection of 4 stories. (G, cracked spine, spotted) |
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Asimov, Isaac & Silverberg - The Ugly Little Boy - Bantam - 9060552 € 5,00 Essef - 1993 - pocket - 387 p. - Edith Fellowes, the nurse of a Neanderthal ape-boy taken from a primordial past during an experiment in time travel, discovers that the scientists who brought the boy back have evil intentions. (VG) |
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Asnin, Scott - A Cold Wind from Orion - Del Rey - 122069 € 3,25 Essef - 1980 - first edition - pocket - 280 p. - To let the satellite fall would mean worldwide disaster. To destroy it could bring on worldwide war! (VG) |
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Asprin, Robert & Evans, Linda - Time Scout 1: Time Scout - Baen - 8113237 € 5,25 Essef - 1995 - hardcover - 331 p. - Kenneth "Kit" Carson was one of the best time scouts in the business. Nowadays, Kit prefers to be a hotelier at Time Terminal 86. He has sworn off gallivanting through the centuries. Kit might take an occasional consulting fee to keep his hand in, but no more travel - until his granddaughter takes a trip through an unauthorized Gate and winds up lost in time. (G, without dust jacket) |
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Asprin, Robert L. & Heck, Peter J. - Phule's Company 4: Phule Me Twice - Ace - 4112094 € 3,50 Essef - 2001 - pocket - 316 p. - When the planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made military advisor. The first priority for Phule's Company: staying out from underfoot of the peaceful, dinosaurlike Zenobians. But unbeknownst to the Zenobians, they're getting two Phules for the price of one as a robot double of Captain Phule appears out of nowhere. (VG) |
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Asprin, Robert & Evans - Time Scout 2: Wagers of Sin - Baen - 112782 € 3,50 Essef - 1996 - first printing - pocket - 455 p. - When a disaster nearly destroys the universe, survivors from the planet Earth carefully rebuild their changed world, which has become susceptible to shifting time lines and challenges the wits of mischievous Skeeter Jackson. (VG-, browning inside covers) |
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Asprin, Robert L. - Cold Cash 1: The Cold Cash War - Ace - 113588 € 3,50 Essef - 1992 - pocket - 212 p. - After the Russo-Chinese war the world's conglomerates have decided that competition for markets is wasteful and expensive, so organised and regulated warfare is instigated to determine who will become the economic "winner". Their armies, equipped with computerised "kill suits" and technically perfect dummy weapons, act out highly sophisticated wargames, using entire countries as theatres of war. Then people start getting killed. (VG) |
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Asprin, Robert L. - Myth 03: Myth Directions - Ace - 112090 € 1,75 Fantasy - 1985 - pocket - 202 p. - When a girl (lushly curved, with a mane of light green hair) requests a favour, a chap would have to possess a heart of stone (or a testosterone deficiency) to refuse. Skeeve, Possiltum's magician, is a chap all right and heads off with Tanda to steal The Trophy on which she has set her heart. (G, foxed) |
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Asprin, Robert L. - Myth 05: Myth-Ing Persons - Ace - 112089 € 1,75 Fantasy - 1986 - pocket - 172 p. - Shares the humorous adventures of the Great Skeeve, a powerful magician, Aahz, his demon partner, and Gleep the dragon in Deva. (G, foxed) |
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Asprin, Robert L. - Phule's Company 2: Phule's Paradise - Legend - 4153987 € 3,50 Essef - 1992 - pocket - 255 p. - Captain Willard Phule must lead his group of unlikely interstellar armed forces on a mission to protect The Fat Chance, an intergalactic casino, from a criminal takeover. (VG) |
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Asprin, Robert L. - Phule's Company 2: Phule's Paradise - Ace - 116607 € 2,00 Essef - 1992 - pocket - 252 p. - Captain Willard Phule must lead his group of unlikely interstellar armed forces on a mission to protect The Fat Chance, an intergalactic casino, from a criminal takeover. (G, some foxing) |
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Asprin, Robert L. - Tambu - Ace - 121307 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1980 - pocket - 195 p. - The true story of an interstellar Genghis Khan. (VG) |
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Asprin, Robert L. - Tambu - Ace - 112984 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1980 - pocket - 195 p. - The true story of an interstellar Genghis Khan. (VG-) |
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Asprin, Robert L. & Heck - Phule's Company 3: A Phule and his Money - Ace - 4112785 € 3,50 Essef - 1999 - pocket - 277 p. - Captain Willard Phule and his crack team of casino security agents are sent to an underdeveloped planet to help them make a success of a new scheme to transform the world into an intergalactic amusement park. (VG) |
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Asten, Gail van - The Blind Knight - Ace - 116591 € 2,25 Fantasy - 1988 - pocket - 218 p. - The book is based loosely on the legend of King Arthur, and set during the reign of Henry Plantagenet (1154-1189). The idea is that Merlin has become an old hermit, living in secrecy in an ancient forest. A cruel and abusive lord murders his wife, and in revenge Merlin curses the lord's wife to give birth to a blind albino boy... (G, some foxing) |
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Attanasio, A. A. - Arthor 1: The Dragon and the Unicorn - Harper Prism - 9115091 € 7,50 Fantasy - 1996 - first printing - HC with dust jacket - 500 p. - An Arthurian fantasy. The "Dark Ages" of Britain's remote, myth-haunted past are brought to life. (VG-) |
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Attanasio, A. A. - Kingdom of the Grail - Harper Prism - 9147715 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1992 - first Harper printing - pocket - 438 p. - Forced on an involuntary pilgrimage to the holy land by her power-hungry son Guy, the bitter and old Baroness Ailena Valaise sends the young and beautiful Rachel Tibbon ten years later to pose as Ailena in order to reclaim the throne. (VG) |
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Auel, Jean M. - Earth's Childeren 1: The Clan of the Cave Bear - Bantam - 101445 € 2,75 Prehistoric Fantasy - 1983 - pocket - 495 p. - This is the first novel in Jean M. Auel's epic of life 35,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the Earth. It follows the story of Ayla, who is adopted by a group of Neanderthals... (G, various small defects) |
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Auel, Jean M. - Earth's Childeren 1: The Clan of the Cave Bear - Bantam - 9135568 € 2,75 Prehistoric Fantasy - 1986 - 22nd printing - pocket - 495 p. - This is the first novel in Jean M. Auel's epic of life 35,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the Earth. It follows the story of Ayla, who is adopted by a group of Neanderthals... (G, scuffing, browning inside covers) |
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Auel, Jean M. - Earth's Childeren 1+2: The Clan of the Cave Bear + The Valley of Horses - Hodder & Stoughton - 9125711 € 8,75 Prehistoric Fantasy - 1994 - hardcover with dust jacket - 768 p. - The Clan of the Cave Bear is the first novel in Jean M. Auel's epic of life 35,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the Earth. It follows the story of Ayla, who is adopted by a group of Neanderthals... The Valley of Horses is the second in the stunning 'Earth's Children' series. Ayla, the unforgettable heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear, sets out solo into a world far from friendly. She is in search of others like herself... and in search of love. Driven by energies she scarcely understands, she explores where the clan never dared to travel. (VG) |
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