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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 04: Centaur Aisle - Del Rey - 4101387   € 4,00 Fantasy - 1982 - 1st edition - pocket - 294 p. - Another great Xanth adventure! Dor is preparing to be the next Magician-King of the magic land of Xanth, when the reigning King fails to return from a mission to Mundania. (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 04: Centaur Aisle - Del Rey - 4100183 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1982 - 1st edition - pocket - 294 p. - Another great Xanth adventure! Dor is preparing to be the next Magician-King of the magic land of Xanth, when the reigning King fails to return from a mission to Mundania. (VG-, name on title page) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 04: Centaur Aisle - Orbit - 4154012 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1988 - reprinting - pocket - 294 p. - Another great Xanth adventure! Dor is preparing to be the next Magician-King of the magic land of Xanth, when the reigning King fails to return from a mission to Mundania. (VG-) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 05: Ogre, Ogre - Del Rey - 4101427 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1982 - first edition - pocket - 307 p. - A Xanth novel. Smash, himself, was part ogre. Although ogres were considered so stupid they coud hardly speak, and spent their time eating young girls, seven assorted females had suddenly turned to him for guidance and saftety? In Xanth, one visit to the Good Magician Humfrey worked wonders... (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 06: Night Mare - Del Rey - 4101424 € 4,25 Fantasy - 1983 - 3rd printing - pocket - 307 p. - Although the Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth, Mare Imbrium discovered that ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Exiled to the day world with a message for King Trent, Mare met the relentless, unforgiving Horseman. For the night mare, it began to be all a horrible nightmare! (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 06: Night Mare - Del Rey - 4122015 € 4,25 Fantasy - 1983 - first edition - pocket - 307 p. - Although the Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth, Mare Imbrium discovered that ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Exiled to the day world with a message for King Trent, Mare met the relentless, unforgiving Horseman. For the night mare, it began to be all a horrible nightmare! (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 06: Night Mare - Orbit - 4153988 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1989 - reprinted - pocket - 307 p. - Although the Nextwave of barbarian warriors was invading Xanth, Mare Imbrium discovered that ever since she had gained the half soul, the night mare had begun to mishandle her job of delivering bad dreams. Exiled to the day world with a message for King Trent, Mare met the relentless, unforgiving Horseman. For the night mare, it began to be all a horrible nightmare! (VG-) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 07: Dragon on a Pedestal - Del Rey - 4101397 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1983 - pocket - 306 p. - There is trouble in Xanth again. The Gap Dragon had escaped and was ravaging across the land, the forget-spell was causing mass amnesia, three-year old Ivy was headed right for a hungry dragon. Could things get any worse? Probably... (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 08: Crewel Lye - A Caustic Yarn - Orbit - 4101393 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1988 - reprint - pocket - 309 p. - Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now. Although once he had been the most valorus of knights - that is, until he was betrayed by two wily magicians and the woman he loves. Now, if he only can remember how he was killed, he'll be able to reassemble his body. And he is getting impatient... (VG-) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 08: Crewel Lye - A Caustic Yarn - Del Rey - 4108288 € 4,25 Fantasy - 1985 - pocket - 309 p. - Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now. Although once he had been the most valorus of knights - that is, until he was betrayed by two wily magicians and the woman he loves. Now, if he only can remember how he was killed, he'll be able to reassemble his body. And he is getting impatient... (VG+) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 09: Golem in the Gears - Del Rey - 4101403 € 4,25 Fantasy - 1986 - pocket - 326 p. - Another episode in the best-selling Xanth series! Tiny Grundy Golem rides the Monster Under the Bed to the Ivory Tower in search of Stanley Steamer, a lost dragon, but he finds Rapunzel instead. (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 09: Golem in the Gears - Del Rey - 4116572 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1986 - 1st edition - pocket - 326 p. - Another episode in the best-selling Xanth series! Tiny Grundy Golem rides the Monster Under the Bed to the Ivory Tower in search of Stanley Steamer, a lost dragon, but he finds Rapunzel instead. (VG-, faded spine) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 09: Golem in the Gears - Orbit - 4153669 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1989 - reprinted edition - pocket - 326 p. - Another episode in the best-selling Xanth series! Tiny Grundy Golem rides the Monster Under the Bed to the Ivory Tower in search of Stanley Steamer, a lost dragon, but he finds Rapunzel instead. (VG-, slightly faded spine, some creasing) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 10: Vale of the Vole - Avon - 4075873 € 4,25 Fantasy - 1987 - pocket - 324 p. - Esk, the young ogre-nymph-human, recruits a band of bizarre creatures from the treacherous depths of Xanth to help him save a lush river valley and its peaceful inhabitants from demon hordes. (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 11: Heaven Cent - Avon - 4101407 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1988 - pocket - 324 p. - A Xanth novel of the year 1988, eleventh in the series. A sequel to "Vale of the Vole". Xanth is a fantasy world, full of creatures beyond imagining and guided by Magicians who can change into anything they like at the slightest whim. The Good Magician Humfrey disappears - can the nine-year-old Prince Dolph solve the riddle of the age? (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 11: Heaven Cent - Avon - 4101406 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1988 - pocket - 324 p. - A Xanth novel of the year 1988, eleventh in the series. A sequel to "Vale of the Vole". Xanth is a fantasy world, full of creatures beyond imagining and guided by Magicians who can change into anything they like at the slightest whim. The Good Magician Humfrey disappears - can the nine-year-old Prince Dolph solve the riddle of the age? (VG-, weak spine) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 11: Heaven Cent - Avon - 4112083 € 2,25 Fantasy - 1988 - pocket - 324 p. - A Xanth novel of the year 1988, eleventh in the series. A sequel to "Vale of the Vole". Xanth is a fantasy world, full of creatures beyond imagining and guided by Magicians who can change into anything they like at the slightest whim. The Good Magician Humfrey disappears - can the nine-year-old Prince Dolph solve the riddle of the age? (G+, some foxing) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 12: Man from Mundania - NEL - 8061217 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1990 - paperback - 343 p. - The third story in the "Magic of Xanth" trilogy shows Xanth three years after Prince Dolph's search for the Good Magician Humphrey. Electra has electra-plated the Heaven Cent whom Dolph's sister Ivy invokes to help her continue the Quest. The author has also written "Vale of the Vole". (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 12: Man from Mundania - Avon - 101420 € 4,25 Essef - 1989 - pocket - reprint - 361 p. - The third story in the "Magic of Xanth" trilogy shows Xanth three years after Prince Dolph's search for the Good Magician Humphrey. Electra has electra-plated the Heaven Cent whom Dolph's sister Ivy invokes to help her continue the Quest. The author has also written "Vale of the Vole". (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 12: Man from Mundania - NEL - 9150124 € 8,50 Fantasy - 1989 - HC with dust jacket - 343 p. - The third story in the "Magic of Xanth" trilogy shows Xanth three years after Prince Dolph's search for the Good Magician Humphrey. Electra has electra-plated the Heaven Cent whom Dolph's sister Ivy invokes to help her continue the Quest.... (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 15: The Color of her Panties - Avon - 4100114 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1992 - pocket - 342 p. - Another great Xanth adventure! Preoccupied with helping Gwenny beat out her awful half-brother, Gobble, for chiefship of the goblin horde, Che Centaur and Jenny Elf, along with Gwenny, must find the fabulous egg in order to reach their goal. (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Magic of Xanth 16: Demons don't Dream - TOR - 4100115 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1994 - pocket - 340 p. - A brand new adventure in the magical land of Xanth! Two young adventurers are drawn into the world of Xanth through a computer game and find themselves in a desperate race against time when treachery, danger, and deceit place Xanth itself in peril, as they learn that some things are more important than winning. (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 1: God of Tarot - H.B.J. - 4101400 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1979 - pocket - 288 p. - 'Welcome to the fantastic planet of Tarot! It is a land of horror and adventure, a nightmarish realm beyond the curtain of the Animation, where dragons, demons and unholy lusts abound. It is into this world of alien horrors that Paul, wanderer-monk, must venture to save a star colony... (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 1: God of Tarot - Ace - 4101401 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1987 - pocket - 288 p. - 'Welcome to the fantastic planet of Tarot! It is a land of horror and adventure, a nightmarish realm beyond the curtain of the Animation, where dragons, demons and unholy lusts abound. It is into this world of alien horrors that Paul, wanderer-monk, must venture to save a star colony... (VG-) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 1: God of Tarot - H.B.J. - 4122045 € 1,75 Fantasy - 1979 - pocket - 288 p. - 'Welcome to the fantastic planet of Tarot! It is a land of horror and adventure, a nightmarish realm beyond the curtain of the Animation, where dragons, demons and unholy lusts abound. It is into this world of alien horrors that Paul, wanderer-monk, must venture to save a star colony... (VG-, name inside) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 2: Vision of Tarot - Berkley - 4121528 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1980 - pocket - 260 p. - On the planet Tarot nothing is real. Or everything. For the shimmering Animation curtain is moving across the worldscape like a storm of monsters, changing fantasy into hideous reality, trapping the wanderer-monk Paul in a nightmare of dragons, demons and spectacular lusts. (F) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 2: Vision of Tarot - Berkley - 4076237 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1980 - pocket - 260 p. - On the planet Tarot nothing is real. Or everything. For the shimmering Animation curtain is moving across the worldscape like a storm of monsters, changing fantasy into hideous reality, trapping the wanderer-monk Paul in a nightmare of dragons, demons and spectacular lusts. (VG) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 2: Vision of Tarot - Berkley - 4053589 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1980 - pocket - 260 p. - On the planet Tarot nothing is real. Or everything. For the shimmering Animation curtain is moving across the worldscape like a storm of monsters, changing fantasy into hideous reality, trapping the wanderer-monk Paul in a nightmare of dragons, demons and spectacular lusts. (VG-, name inside) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 3: Faith of Tarot - Berkley - 4010115 € 4,50 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. (F) |
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Anthony, Piers - The Tarot Sequence 3: Faith of Tarot - Ace - 4101399 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1987 - pocket - 246 p. - The miracle planet is revealed... 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 - 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 - 4076240 € 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 - 4101438 € 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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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 - 4110003 € 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 - 4116571 € 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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Ariosto, Ludovico - Orlando Furioso 1 : The Ring of Angelica - Ballantine - 4153629 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1973 - 1st printing - pocket - 208 p. - Ariosto's immortal classic in a new English translation. An epic fantasy of the age of chivalry, thronged with sorcerers and hippogriffs, ladies and their knights, magic rings, wondrous swords, magnificent horses, and more plots than you can shake a... (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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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 Essef - 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 - 9150128 € 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 1: The Skinner - TOR - 9154107 € 6,50 Essef - 2003 - thick pocket - 583 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... (VG) |
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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... (VG+) |
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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 - 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 - Granada - 4154840 € 6,00 Essef - 1983 - 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+) |
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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 - I, Robot - Harper Voyager - 4154764 € 5,00 Essef - 2018 - 18th printing - paperback - 244 p. - In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with Asimov's trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction. (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 - 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 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 & 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 - 9113237 € 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 & Evans, Linda - 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. & Heck, Peter J. - 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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