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Stableford, Brian M. - Hooded Swan 2: Rhapsody in Black - Pan - 4081407   € 2,25 Essef - 1976/77 - pocket - 138 p. - Hooded Swan was the best starship in the Galaxy, and Grainger the best pilot. The trip to Rhapsody brought nothing but trouble. The poverty stricken fanatics who lived in its subterranean labyrinths had found a source of riches. In the race for the planet's secret wealth, Grainger found it could destroy civilization. (VG-, name inside) |
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Stableford, Brian M. - Hooded Swan 4: The Paradise Game - Daw - 4106977 € 2,25 Essef - 1974 - first printing - pocket - 158 p. - Everyone seeks paradise. If the explorers of the planets could find a world that answered the description, it could be a holiday world beyond price. When the Hooded Swan landed on Pharos, it was indeed all that paradise could be. They came to investigate, they stayed to protect. for unless they played the role of the angel with the flaming sword, very soon this softest & gentlest world of all men's dreams would become another gaudy hellhole of exploitation... (VG) |
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Stableford, Brian M. - Hooded Swan 4: The Paradise Game - Pan - 4081410 € 2,25 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 158 p. - Everyone seeks paradise. If the explorers of the planets could find a world that answered the description, it could be a holiday world beyond price. When the Hooded Swan landed on Pharos, it was indeed all that paradise could be. They came to investigate, they stayed to protect. for unless they played the role of the angel with the flaming sword, very soon this softest & gentlest world of all men's dreams would become another gaudy hellhole of exploitation... (VG-, name on titlepage) |
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Stableford, Brian M. - Hooded Swan 4: The Paradise Game - Daw - 4131408 € 1,75 Essef - 1974 - first printing - pocket - 158 p. - Everyone seeks paradise. If the explorers of the planets could find a world that answered the description, it could be a holiday world beyond price. When the Hooded Swan landed on Pharos, it was indeed all that paradise could be. They came to investigate, they stayed to protect. for unless they played the role of the angel with the flaming sword, very soon this softest & gentlest world of all men's dreams would become another gaudy hellhole of exploitation... (VG-, name inside) |
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Stableford, Brian M. - Hooded Swan 5: The Fenris Device - Daw - 113601 € 2,25 Essef - 1974 - first printing - pocket - 156 p. - The oldest spacefaring race in the galaxy were the secretive Gallacellans. The most difficult type of planet to explore is the heavy gas giant, the Jovian-Saturnian type planet with which all star systems abound. Somewhere on the storm-ridden unapproachable surface of such a monstrous gas giant an abandoned Gallacellan warship was lying... (VG) |
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Stableford, Brian M. - Hooded Swan 6: Swan Song - Daw - 4131409 € 1,75 Essef - 1975 - first printing - pocket - 158 p. - Grainger's time of service was nearly up. Pilot of the marvel spaceship Hooded Swan, the strange double-mind that occupied his brain had pulled him out of difficulties that would have doomed anyone else. But now Grainger had been warned. This trip could be the end. Because nobody knew what a newly created reality meant in terms of physics and chemistry... (VG-, name inside) |
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Stableford, Brian M. - The Mindriders - Daw - 4106135 € 2,25 Essef - 1977 - first printing - pocket - 192 p. - If millions pay today just to watch two men fight for a champion's crown, tens of millions will pay for the additional thrill of being actually within the mind and body of the boxers themselves, without having to feel the pain. This is the story of Ryan Hart's final fight... (VG) |
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Stableford, Brian M. - The Realms of Tartarus 1: The Face of Heaven - Quartet - 4071347 € 2,00 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 151 p. - Dare you descend into a man-made hell on Earth? (VG) |
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Stableford, Brian M. - War Games - Pan - 4148678 € 2,75 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 205 p. - Throughout the centuries that have passed since humans first ventured into interstellar space, they have been at war with the alien Veich. The human... (VG-, name inside) |
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Stackpole, Michael A. - Age Of Discovery 1: A Secret Atlas - Bantam - 9111719 € 4,50 Fantasy - 2006 - pocket - 604 p. - In Nalenyr, the family of the Royal Cartographer stands in a unique position. They not only draw the maps, but also explore uncharted territories, expanding and updating the existing knowledge of the world. Their talent has yielded them enormous power and wealth-and it can also cost them their lives... (G+, some wear on spine, cracked spine) |
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Stackpole, Michael A. - Dragon Crown War 1: Fortress Draconis - Bantam - 9053760 € 6,50 Fantasy - 2002 - pocket - 706 p. - Just as the Hobbit foreshadowed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Michael Stackpole follows his THE DARK GLORY WAR with an epic series, launching with Fortress Draconis. Nearly twenty five years have passed since conflict rocked the world in THE DARK GLORY WAR. Now the survivors and a new generation of heroes must, however reluctantly take up the battle again... (VG) |
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Stallman, Robert - The First Book of the Beast : The Orphan - Granada - 4147560 € 3,00 Horror - 1983 - pocket - 251 p. - Book 1 of the Horror trilogie "The Book of the Beast" (VG+) |
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Stapledon, Olaf - Odd John - Beacon - 4113619 € 30,00 Essef - 1959 - Beacon K236 - Catalogue Lovisi $35 (VG); $ 100 (F) - Catalogue Warren $ 22,50 (VG); $ 45 (F) - cover by Robert Stanley - pocket - 191 p. - collectible paperback - He had to be stopped, for all women were his playthings and all men his pawns... Odd John is the story of a mutated superman - a young man must accept that he is different, and decide what to do with his gifts. (VG+) |
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Stapledon, Olaf - Sirius - Penguin - 4114095 € 2,50 Essef - 1964 - first Penguin books printing - pocket - 188 p. - Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment, a dog with the brain and intelligence of a human, raised and educated in Trelone's family alongside his daughter Plaxy. But Sirius isn't human and the conflicts and inner turmoil that torture him cannot be resolved. (VG-, faded spine, name inside) |
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Stapledon, Olaf - Star Maker - Magnum - 4032457 € 2,50 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 264 p. - One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars, the next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun. (VG-, name inside) |
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Starbuck, Kathlyn S. - India's Story - Harper Collins - 4153890 € 3,00 Essef - 1993 - pocket - 338 p. - India has psychokinetic powers and her teacher, Shannon, cannot fully unlock them. So India must travel between dimensions to reach her new teacher, Anara. But the journey is a treacherous one, for there is no conventional route and India... (VG-, small stamp inside) |
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Starr, Bill - Farstar & Son 1: The Way to Dawnworld - Ballantine - 4093451 € 1,75 Fantasy - 1975 - first printing - pocket - 249 p. - The spirited adventures of a father and son team... The most inimitable pair of intergalactic merchants ever! (G, cover damage) |
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Starr, Bill - Farstar & Son 2: The Treasure of Wonderwhat - Ballantine - 4093452 € 2,75 Essef - 1976 - first printing - pocket - 232 p. - The starblazing adventures of of spacetraders who are looking for a treasure locked in the tail of a comet. (VG) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Rogue Wizard 3: A Wizard in Bedlam - Daw - 4120888 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1980 - first printing - pocket - 191 p. - Dirk Dulain, a revolutionary, teams up with Gar, an immensely powerful serf, an attempt to start a rebellion against the cruel and wealthy few who have enslaved the planet Melange's population of serfs and cloned servants. (VG) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Rogue Wizard 3: A Wizard in Bedlam - Ace - 4112576 € 1,50 Fantasy - 1986 - pocket - 191 p. - Dirk Dulain, a revolutionary, teams up with Gar, an immensely powerful serf, an attempt to start a rebellion against the cruel and wealthy few who have enslaved the planet Melange's population of serfs and cloned servants. (G+, some foxing) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Starship Troupers 1: A Company of Stars - Del Rey - 4110624 € 4,00 Essef - 1992 - pocket - 313 p. - The perennially popular author of Her Majesty's Wizard and The Warlock in Spite of Himself launches a spectacular new series. When theater is condemned by political fanatics on Earth, the newly formed Star Company rushes to buy a spaceship to take their shows way off-broadway... before they're grounded forever. (VG) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 01: The Warlock in Spite of Himself - Ace - 122531 € 3,50 Essef / Fantasy - 1982 - reprinting - pocket - 284 p. - The groundbreaking classic that first combined technology and magic. (VG-) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 01: The Warlock in spite of himself - Mayflower - 4062326 € 2,50 Essef / Fantasy - 1982 - pocket - 284 p. - The groundbreaking classic that first combined technology and magic. (VG-, name inside) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 01: The Warlock in Spite of Himself - Mayflower - 4148524 € 3,00 Essef / Fantasy - 1974 - pocket - 284 p. - The groundbreaking classic that first combined technology and magic. (VG-, name inside) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 02: King Kobold Revived - Ace - 4105787 € 2,50 Essef / Fantasy - 1985 - 3rd printing - pocket - 216 p. - Gramarye is a forgotten colony of Earth, an abandoned planet of telepathic outlaws, where elves and witches are real, and the fantasies of the Middle Ages endure. Wizard Rod Gallowglass is the only one who can save Gramarye from doom - if he can rid himself of the insidious mental fog that drains his powers. (G, faded spine) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 03: The Warlock Unlocked - Ace - 112539 € 2,00 Essef / Fantasy - 1982 - first Ace printing - pocket - 282 p. - When the pope receives a message from a thousand years in the past he decides send someone to investigate Rod Gallowglass, who is living as a warlock on the planet Gramarye. (G, scuffing, chipped on spine) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 04: The Warlock Enraged - Ace - 115029 € 3,00 Essef / Fantasy - 1985 - pocket - 251 p. - Protecting the planet Gramarye from a band of renegade sorcerers, the Gallowglass family suffers a weakening in their collective psychic powers, forcing warlock Rod Gallowglass to confront his alter-ego. (VG) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 05: The Warlock Wandering - Ace - 105784 € 2,50 Essef / Fantasy - 1986 - pocket - 297 p. - On the magical planet Gramarye, 500 years from their own time, Rod and Gwen Gallowglass are held captive in an alternative universe - a world where purple-skinned, fur-kilted men challenge them in primitive battle. Lost within time and space, and unable to communicate with the combative natives, Rod and Gwen must fight for their freedom and survival. (VG-, faded spine) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 06: The Warlock is Missing - Ace - 105986 € 2,50 Essef / Fantasy - 1986 - pocket - 201 p. - When their parents suddenly disappear, the four Galloglass siblings - Magnus, Cordelia, Geoffrey, and Gregory - must combine the skills of their mother's power and their father's training in order to save them. (VG-, slightly faded spine) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 07: The Warlock Heretical - Ace - 105790 € 2,50 Essef / Fantasy - 1987 - pocket - 233 p. - Warlock Rod Gallowglass, an agent for a political group of the future, travel back in time to save the people of the planet Gramarye from the forces of anarchy. (VG-, slightly faded spine) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock of Gramarye 10: The Warlock Rock - Ace - 105793 € 3,25 Essef / Fantasy - 1990 - pocket - 275 p. - When the townspeople of Gramarye become mesmerized by the beat of strange floating musical crystals, Rod Gallowglass sets out to uncover their mysterious origins before he loses his children to their sinister charm. (VG) |
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Stasheff, Christopher - Wizard in Rhyme 4: The Secular Wizard - Ace - 4105799 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1995 - pocket - 379 p. - Donning the guise of a minstrel in order to investigate his new king's resistance to peace, Lord Wizard Matt Mantrell encounters a variety of unusual characters, including a Grecian ghost and a manticore. (VG-) |
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Stateham, B. R. - Banners of the Sa'yen - Daw - 122765 € 3,00 Essef - 1981 - first printing - pocket - 207 p. - If you can find it get it, it's great. (VG) |
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Staton, Mary - From The Legend of Biel - Ace - 081404 € 3,00 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 333 p. - A strikingly different first novel by a brilliant new writer. It is the story of a probe team from Earth and its exploration of MC6, the seemingly empty paradisaical worl dominated by the scattered complexes of geometrical forms an domes of an advanced intelligence. It is, in the end, the story of the growth of consciousness - human and alien... (VG) |
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Staton, Mary - From The Legend of Biel - Ace - 104689 € 2,25 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 333 p. - A strikingly different first novel by a brilliant new writer. It is the story of a probe team from Earth and its exploration of MC6, the seemingly empty paradisaical worl dominated by the scattered complexes of geometrical forms an domes of an advanced intelligence. It is, in the end, the story of the growth of consciousness - human and alien... (VG-, name on first page) |
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Steele, Addison E. - Buck Rogers 2: That Man on Beta - Dell - 093473 € 3,75 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 251 p. - Based on a story and teleplay by Bob Shane. (VG) |
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Steele, Allen - Near-Space 2: Clarke County, Space - Ace - 4032443 € 4,50 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 231 p. - From a two-time Hugo Award winner - called by John Varley "the best hard SF writer to come along in the last decade", comes this novel about the citizens of mankind's first orbiting space colony, who want independence - at any cost. (F) |
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Steele, Allen - The Tranquility Alternative - Ace - 4143441 € 5,00 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 309 p. - Six inactive missile silos on the dark side of the moon are at the focus of a volatile story when they are taken over by corporate interests and then activated. (F) |
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Stephen Baxter - Time - Harper Prism - 9146936 € 5,50 Essef - 2000 - pocket - 456 p. - The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the... (VG+) |
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Stephenson, Neal & George, Frederick - Interface - Arrow - 9150507 € 10,00 Essef - 2002 - paperback - 641 p. - A biochip in presidential candidate William Cozzano's brain hardwires him to a computerized polling system that channels the mood of the electorate directly into his brain. (F) |
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Stephenson, Andrew M. - Nightwatch - Dell - 4142878 € 3,00 Essef - 1979 - first Dell printing - pocket - 320 p. - The Alien ship embarked before the fall of Rome for a rendezvous with the last remnants of mankind... (VG) |
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Stephenson, Andrew M. - Nightwatch - Orbit - 4075320 € 2,50 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 238 p. - The Alien ship embarked before the fall of Rome for a rendezvous with the last remnants of mankind... (G, saw blade mark) |
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Stephenson, Andrew M. - The Wall of Years - Dell - 4118562 € 3,25 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 431 p. - The hunters searched through time for the twisted genius who meant to destroy their world. (VG) |
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Stephenson, Andrew M. - The Wall of Years - Futura - 4076587 € 3,00 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 384 p. - The hunters searched through time for the twisted genius who meant to destroy their world. (VG-) |
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Stephenson, Andrew M. - The Wall of Years - Futura - 4147904 € 2,00 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 384 p. - The hunters searched through time for the twisted genius who meant to destroy their world. (G, saw blade mark) |
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Stephenson, Neal - Anathem - Harper Collins - 9144929 € 6,00 Essef - 2009 - pocket - 981 p. - Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable - yet strangely inverted - world... (G, wear) |
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Stephenson, Neal - Baroque 1: Quicksilver - Harper Collins - 9133660 € 8,50 Fantasy / Historical Fiction - 2004 - paperback - 927 p. - As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson's new novel is set in the 17th century, in another world of secrets, codes and conflict. Having challenged Robert Harris in his previous book, Stephenson now sets his sights on Patrick O'Brien... Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he tells the stories of Daniel Waterhouse and Enoch Root... (VG-) |
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Stephenson, Neal - Baroque 1: Quicksilver - Heinemann - 9135576 € 8,50 Fantasy / Historical Fiction - 2003 - 1st/2nd printing - paperback - 927 p. - As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson's new novel is set in the 17th century, in another world of secrets, codes and conflict. Having challenged Robert Harris in his previous book, Stephenson now sets his sights on Patrick O'Brien... Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he tells the stories of Daniel Waterhouse and Enoch Root... (VG-) |
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Stephenson, Neal - Baroque 1: Quicksilver - Harper Torch - 9144930 € 4,50 Fantasy / Historical Fiction - 2006 - pocket - 456 p. - As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson's new novel is set in the 17th century, in another world of secrets, codes and conflict. Having challenged Robert Harris in his previous book, Stephenson now sets his sights on Patrick O'Brien... Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller, the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon, with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he tells the stories of Daniel Waterhouse and Enoch Root... (VG-) |
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Stephenson, Neal - Baroque 2: The Confusion - Arrow - 9116228 € 9,50 Fantasy / Historical Fiction - 2005 - paperback - 815 p. - 'The Confusion', the shelf-bending sequel to Neal Stephenson's equally meaty Quicksilver, continues his epic Baroque Cycle by following a remarkable cast of late-17th-century characters that includes spies, vagabonds, and historical figures like Sir Isaac Newton and German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. (VG-) |
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Stephenson, Neal - Baroque 2: The Confusion - William Heinemann - 9142972 € 12,50 Fantasy / Historical Fiction - 2004 - thick paperback - 815 p. - 'The Confusion', the shelf-bending sequel to Neal Stephenson's equally meaty Quicksilver, continues his epic Baroque Cycle by following a remarkable cast of late-17th-century characters that includes spies, vagabonds, and historical figures like Sir Isaac Newton and German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. (VG) |
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Stephenson, Neal - Baroque 3: The System of the World - William Heinemann - 9143040 € 12,75 Fantasy / Historical Fiction - 2004 - paperback - 892 p. - Set in the early 18th century and featuring a diverse cast of characters that includes alchemists, philosophers, mathematicians, spies, thieves, pirates, and royalty, The System of the World follows Daniel Waterhouse, an unassuming philosopher and confidant to some of the most brilliant minds of the age, as he returns to England to try and repair the rift between geniuses Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. (VG) |
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Stephenson, Neal - Cryptonomicon - Harper Collins - 9142824 € 11,50 Essef - 1999 - paperback - 918 p. - Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. Weaving together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data haven' for digital information in the present, Cryptonomicon explores themes of power, information, secrecy and war in the twentieth century in a gripping and page-turning thriller. (VG-) |
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Stephenson, Neal - Zodiac - Bantam - 4142898 € 5,00 Essef / Thriller - 1995 - pocket - 308 p. - An Eco-thriller. (VG+) |
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Sterling, Bruce - Distraction - Millennium - 9142942 € 6,50 Essef - 2000 - pocket - 489 p - Distraction begins in 2044, and its plot revolves around Oscar's political battle with the mad governor of Louisiana, Green Huey, who is one of Sterling's most entertaining if least subtle creations. This gets started with a hilarious scene where an Air Force base is conned/forced by Huey into holding a bake-sale/road-block shakedown; Oscar is among the shaken. This sort of thing happens in broken-down empires with hyper-inflation, terminal political stagnation, and a collapsed economic base... (F) |
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Sterling, Bruce - Globalhead - Bantam - 4144117 € 5,00 Essef - 1994 - pocket - 339 p. - This second collection of short fiction by Bruce Sterling, set in such disparate environments as ancient Assyria and posthuman France, provides a stimulating and entertaining glimpse inside the "global head" of one of imaginative fiction's most exciting talents. (VG+) |
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Stevenson, Laura Caroline - The Island and the Ring - Avon - 4153803 € 2,75 Fantasy - 1992 - pocket - 275 p. - Princess Tania escapes from her beloved father's burning castle with a sapphire ring that is the source of her enemy's power, which she vows to use to save her people and destroy him. Recommended. (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
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Stevenson, Robert L. - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Wolters-Noordhoff - 4082200 € 2,75 Essef - 1995 - Blackbirds series - thin paperback - 80 p. - The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born of a nightmare and "produced in white-hot haste", this classic story has had a cultural impact out of all proportion to its size. Here is arguably stevenson's most famous work in small format once again, to be read and re-read with amazement, terror and delight. (F) |
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Stevenson, Robert L. - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Wolters-Noordhoff - 4137106 € 2,25 Essef - 1995 - Blackbirds series - thin paperback - 80 p. - The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born of a nightmare and "produced in white-hot haste", this classic story has had a cultural impact out of all proportion to its size. Here is arguably stevenson's most famous work in small format once again, to be read and re-read with amazement, terror and delight. (VG) |
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Stevenson, Robert L. - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other Stories of the Supernatural - Scholastic - 101008 € 1,75 Essef - JUVENILE - 1972 - 7th printing - pocket - 216 p. - 4 stories: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'The Bottle Imp', 'Markheim' and 'The Bodysnatcher'. Born of a nightmare and "produced in white-hot haste", the classic titlestory has had a cultural impact out of all proportion to its size. Here is arguably Stevenson's most famous work in small format once again, to be read and re-read with amazement, terror and delight. (G, writings in front and back) |
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Stevenson, Robert L. - The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson - Pocket Books - 124956 € 3,75 Essef - 1952 - Cardinal edition - 1st printing - pocket - nr. C-48 - 370 p. - 10 stories: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'The Bottle Imp', 'Markheim' and many more. To be read and re-read with amazement, terror and delight. (G, some wear) |
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Stevenson, Robert L. - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Noordhoff - 4132352 € 3,50 Essef - 1954 - 4th edition - paperback - Dutch school edition with notes on bottom of pages, partly in Dutch - 119 p. - The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born of a nightmare and "produced in white-hot haste", this classic story has had a cultural impact out of all proportion to its size. Here is arguably stevenson's most famous work in small format once again, to be read and re-read with amazement, terror and delight. (VG-) |
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Stevenson, Robert L. - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Collins - 4144187 € 3,50 Essef - HC without dust jacket - 254 p. - The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born of a nightmare and "produced in white-hot haste", this classic story has had a cultural impact out of all proportion to its size. Here is arguably stevenson's most famous work in small format once again, to be read and re-read with amazement, terror and delight. (VG-, faded spine) |
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Stevermer, Caroline - The Serpent's Egg - Ace - 122034 € 1,25 Fantasy - 1988 - pocket - 200 p. - The conspirators gathered... from all walks of life. the soldier, the gambler, the minstrel, the scholar. The Queen's own waiting woman. The Queen's own son. They gathered to prove the treachery of a duke who wanted the kingdom for his own. But the duke had the trust of the queen. And the sorcery of The Serpent's Egg. (G, back cover damage) |
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Stewart, George R. - Earth Abides - Fawcett - 4123678 € 3,25 Essef - 1970's - pocket - 317 p. - Apocalyptic tale of a depopulated America and the rise of a new civilization. (VG) |
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Stewart, Jean - Isis Rising 1: Return to Isis - Rising Tide Press - 122891 € 3,50 Essef - 1992 - second printing - 173 p. - A futuristic lesbian tale of high adventure, mystery and love, in which Whit, a bold warrior from an Amazon nation, rescues Amelia from a dismal world where females are either breeders or drones. (VG) |
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Stewart, Mary - A Walk in Wolf Wood - Fawcett Crest - 4153799 € 3,25 Fantasy - 1981 - pocket - 188 p. - The popular novelist weaves a magical tale in which the children of Wolf Wood journey to the long ago to rescue a werewolf, a ruined castle comes to life, and a wicked enchanter vies with the lord of the castle and the latter's betrayed friend. (VG-, light rear cover fold) |
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Stewart, Mary - Merlin 1: The Crystal Cave - Hodder & Stoughton - 8070059 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1971 - pocket - 464 p. - Arthurian Fantasy. Fifth century Britain is a country in chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is Merlin's world - the illegitimate son of a South Wales princess - he is aware of the gift of "the sight". The other books in this trilogy include "The Hollow Hills" and "The Last Enchantment". (VG-) |
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Stewart, Mary - Merlin 1: The Crystal Cave - Fawcett Crest - 4144350 € 2,25 Fantasy - 1971 - pocket - 384 p. - Arthurian Fantasy. Fifth century Britain is a country in chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is Merlin's world - the illegitimate son of a South Wales princess - he is aware of the gift of "the sight". The other books in this trilogy include "The Hollow Hills" and "The Last Enchantment". (VG-, creases / name inside) |
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Stewart, Mary - Merlin 2: The Hollow Hills - Coronet - 4082433 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1974 - 2nd impression - pocket - 464 p. - Tells the story of Merlin's guardianship of the young Arthur from his birth to his accession to the throne. Set in the colourful world of 5th century Britain, this is the first book of this trilogy that includes "The Crystal Cave" and "The Last Enchantment". (VG) |
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Stewart, Mary - Merlin 2: The Hollow Hills - Fawcett - 8147618 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1974 - pocket - 447 p. - Tells the story of Merlin's guardianship of the young Arthur from his birth to his accession to the throne. Set in the colourful world of 5th century Britain, this is the first book of this trilogy that includes "The Crystal Cave" and "The Last Enchantment". (VG-, name inside) |
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Stewart, Mary - Merlin 3: The Last Enchantment - BCA - 120369 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1980 - HC with dust jacket - 412 p. - This is the final book in the trilogy of dark age Britain which finds Arthur king by right of drawing the sword, Caliburn, from the stone. Merlin, the king's adviser, is once again the narrator of this story. (VG) |
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Stewart, Mary - Merlin 4: The Wicked Day - Fawcett Crest - 4114722 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1984 - pocket - 370 p. - Far from being the scourge of Arthur, his bastard son Mordred actually strives to resist Merlin's prophecy of doom. But he is thwarted by the schemes of his sorceress mother, Queen Morgause, who has brought him up to be her revenge incarnate. (G+, creasing to the backstrip, browning inside covers) |
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Stewart, Mary - Omnibus with two Merlin Novels - NEL - 062605 € 6,00 Fantasy - 1979 - HC - 187 p - Bumper volume which contains two novels about Merlin and King Arthur: The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills. The third novel: Wildfire at Midnight is a thriller about a young divorcee caught up in a ritual murder in modern day Scotland. (G, water stain) |
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Stewart, Mary - The Prince and the Pilgrim - Coronet - 4153798 € 2,50 Arthurian Fantasy - 1996 - pocket - 343 p. - Alexander, nephew of the murderous King March of Cornwall, seeks to avenge his father: but things do not go according to plan, particularly when the young prince's path leads him to the Dark Tower of the sorceress, Morgan le Fay, the evil focus of opposition to the High King Arthur. (VG-, adhesive book covering film applied) |
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Stickgold, Bob & Noble - Gloryhits - Del Rey - 093470 € 3,50 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 280 p. - A great Essef thriller. Even though it's a couple decades old, this book still does not disapoint with its science. Highly recommended. (VG-) |
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Stiegler, Marc - Earthweb - Baen - 122366 € 4,00 Essef - 1999 - 1st printing - pocket - 308 p. - Twenty years ago, "Shiva I" swept aside Earth's defenses and rained down destruction until a suicide squad boarded it and blew it to smithereens. Now "Shiva V" has entered the Solar System and there's only one way to defeat it: get inside and kill it. (VG-) |
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Stirling, S. M. & Drake, David - Raj Whitehall 1: The Forge - Baen - 121281 € 5,00 Essef - 1991 - 1st printing - pocket - 323 p. - On a planet that was once part of a vast interstellar civilization, humans survive on the edge of barbarism amid the ruins of the once-great empire. (VG) |
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Stirling, S. M. & Drake, David - Raj Whitehall 2: The Hammer - Baen - 4123224 € 4,00 Essef - 1992 - 1st printing - pocket - 307 p. - The Computer Voice in Raj's Mind is God - and God is on His Side! Raj Whitehall and his hard-bitten troops must conquer a continent of barbarians descended from the crews of a squadron of starships! But his biggest problem is not defeating this formidable enemy, but the cowardice and envy among his own officers and the grasping officials of an emperor likely to view success as treason. And Raj must succeed, to reclaim the stars for mankind. (VG+) |
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Stirling, S. M. & Drake, David - Raj Whitehall 5: The Sword - Baen - 123238 € 3,25 Essef - 1995 - 1st printing - pocket - 343 p. - For five years Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue. With saber and bayonet he has conquered one barbarian nation after another. Now his greatest enemy is his own overlord, Barholm Clerett, who's so paranoid of Raj's victories that he is reduced to only one thought: Raj Whitehall must die. (VG) |
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Stirling, S. M. & Drake, David - Raj Whitehall 6: The Chosen - Baen - 121880 € 4,25 Essef - 1996 - pocket - 472 p. - Working with an ancient battle computer in order to prepare hundreds of planets for membership in the Second Federation of Man, Raj Whitehall encounters the militarist planet of Visigar, where racist practices are used to prevent unity. (VG) |
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Stirling, S. M. & Drake, David - The Reformer - Baen - 4153876 € 2,50 Essef - 2000 - pocket - 312 p. - When philosopher Adrian Gellert touches the holy relic containing the minds of the human Raj and the computer called Center, he is launched into a perilous journey with the future of all humankind at stake. (G+, creasing to the backstrip, mild wear) |
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Stirling, S. M. - The Sunrise Lands - ROC - 111640 € 6,50 Essef - 2008 - thick pocket - 512 p. - A generation has passed since The Change that rendered technology inoperable around the world, and western Oregon has finally achieved a degree of peace. But a new threat has risen in Paradise Valley, Wyoming. A man known as The Prophet presides over the Church Universal and Triumphant, teaching his followers to continue God's work by destroying the remnants of technological civilization they encounter-and those who dare use them... (F) |
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Stirling, S. M. - The Sunrise Lands - ROC - 112348 € 12,50 Essef - 2007 - first printing - HC with dust jacket - 453 p. - A generation has passed since The Change that rendered technology inoperable around the world, and western Oregon has finally achieved a degree of peace. But a new threat has risen in Paradise Valley, Wyoming. A man known as The Prophet presides over the Church Universal and Triumphant, teaching his followers to continue God's work by destroying the remnants of technological civilization they encounter-and those who dare use them... (F) |
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Stith, John E. - Deep Quarry - Wildside Press - 8126658 € 6,50 Essef - 2002 - paperback - 156 p. - Private detective Ben Takent investigates a theft at an archaelogical dig on the planet Tankur, where humans and aliens coexist in relative harmony until murder and the discovery of ancient artifacts awaken a threat from the planet's distant past... (VG+) |
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Stith, John E. - Manhattan Transfer (without dust jacket) - TOR - 8113236 € 4,75 Essef - 1993 - hardcover - 379 p. - The aliens have landed... and Manhattan is the ultimate souvenir. With clever, compelling characters, fast-paced action, and hard science concepts, Stith is at his best here. Manhattan Transfer is about survival, and how humans can rise to their best in the face of adversity. (G, without dust jacket) |
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Stith, John E. - Redshift Rendezvous - Wildside Press - 8126656 € 6,50 Essef - 2001 - paperback - 243 p. - Redshift Rendezvous, a Nebula Award nominee, is a murder mystery set aboard a space ship travelling so fast that light is bent. The solution respects the laws of physics. (VG+) |
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Stoker, Bram - The Jewel of Seven Stars - Arrow - 4105602 € 2,50 Horror - 1975 - reprint - pocket - 254 p. - The story is about an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. When The Jewel of Seven Stars was first released in 1903 the publishers received a great deal of criticism from both critics and readers because of its gruesome ending. Shortly before his death in 1912 when Stoker attempted to republish the book he was told that he would have to change the ending if he didn't want it to go out of publication. (VG) |
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Stolze, Greg - Ashes and Angel Wings - White Wolf Publishing - 4153805 € 4,00 Dark Fantasy - 2003 - pocket - 292 p. - The gates of Hell have cracked and demons have escaped to walk the earth, dressed in human flesh. But when the ancient Scourge Hasmed finds himself in the body of three-time loser and mob bagman Harvey Ciullo, he finds the world a... (VG) |
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Stone, Elna - The Visitation - Fawcett - 121808 € 3,00 Essef - 1982 - pocket - 284 p. - The strange, saucerlike craft had touched down in the field and then disappeared. Four people had seen it. But their minds would not let them remember. Suddenly the young teacher Stella Lindell had miraculous healing powers. Miss Matty found her every suggestion accepted immediately, J. T. Clayton, the farmer, could not help telling the truth and Warner Fox, the traveling salesman, had disappeared without a trace. The town of Lanier, Alabama, would never be the same again. (VG) |
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Storm, L. Elizabeth - Quantum Leap 12: Angels Unaware - Boulevard - 4136620 € 3,50 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 308 p. - Years after Al appears to a young girl and leads her to believe he is her guardian angel, the girl, now grown, loses her faith and goes to a monastery to die, and Sam, having leaped into the body of a priest, must prevent her death. Original. (VG) |
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Stranger, Joyce - The Hare at Dark Hollow - Target - 4140070 € 2,25 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 1975 - pocket - illustrated - 122 p. - A book about the dangerous life of a wild hare and the nature around him. (VG) |
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Strickland, Brad - Thaumia 1: Moon Dreams - Signet - 116001 € 2,75 Fantasy - 1988 - first printing - pocket - 288 p. - Atlanta copywriter Jeremy Moon wakes from a series of bizarre nightmares to discover that he is trapped in another worldthe victim of a cross-dimensional cultural exchangeand only his mastery of the laws of magic can lead him home. Strickland brings a decidedly light-hearted approach to the classic struggle between the forces of Light and Darkness... (VG-) |
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Strickland, Brad - Thaumia 2: Nul's Quest - Signet - 121960 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1989 - first printing - pocket - 274 p. - A quest to save the remnants of the furry, diminutive race of Pikas leads former Atlanta ad-man-turned-wizard Jeremy Moon on a journey to the magic-draining Twilight Valley where a great evil seeks the destruction of all life. The classic clash of good and evil takes on a humorous twist as animated gargoyles and philosophical elementals augment more standard fantasy characters in the sequel to Moondreams. (VG) |
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Strickland, Brad - Thaumia 3: Wizard's Mole - Signet - 4147654 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1991 - pocket - 284 p. - The spell's the thing. And Jeremy Moon, former Earth ad man, current honorary Mage of Thaumia, had been quite content living in a land where magic is as easy as coming uop with a catchy slogan. But now the Great Dark One is rousing demons from another dimension... (VG+) |
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Strickland, Brad - Thaumia 3: Wizard's Mole - Signet - 116011 € 2,00 Fantasy - 1991 - pocket - 284 p. - The spell's the thing. And Jeremy Moon, former Earth ad man, current honorary Mage of Thaumia, had been quite content living in a land where magic is as easy as coming uop with a catchy slogan. But now the Great Dark One is rousing demons from another dimension... (G, foxing) |
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Strieber, Whitley & Kunetka - Warday and the Journey Onward - Coronet - 108497 € 4,50 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 415 p. - Vividly imagined earth five years after a "limited" nuclear war and describing it in the compelling details of day-to-day life. (VG) |
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Strieber, Whitley & Kunetka - Warday and the Journey Onward - Coronet - 9135555 € 3,00 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 415 p. - Vividly imagined earth five years after a "limited" nuclear war and describing it in the compelling details of day-to-day life. (G, cover discolouration) |
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Stross, Charles - Dark State - TOR - 9150687 € 14,50 Essef - 2018 - First Edition - HC with dust jacket - 352 p. - Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes multi-verse Dark State ups the ante on the already... (F) |
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Stross, Charles - Empire Games 1 : Empire Games - TOR - 9150522 € 12,50 Essef - 2017 - First Edition - HC with dust jacket - 336 p. - Charles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution... (F) |
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