Anything You Can Do. (Doubleday Science Fiction)
Language: English
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1963
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.Coffee Cat Books
AbeBooks seller since September 15, 2021
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 25.78
Quantity: 1 available
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VG/VG. Book Club Edition (BCE). 1963. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Unmarked. Hardcover. Very Good tan boards w/ pink lettering, pink publisher stain to upper text block, unblemished; deckled edges. Very Good dust jacket; 2 small stains to back cover near spine, some rubbing and scuffing, light edge & corner wear; stored protected in mylar sleeve. 192 pp. 8.5x6 in. Classic mid-century Doubleday science fiction thriller by Randall Garrett, writing as Darrel T. Langart, in which a covert alien predator forces the transformation of a human volunteer into a genetically enhanced super-agent. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Book Club Edition. Originally serialized in John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and published in hardcover by Doubleday & Company in 1963, Anything You Can Do. is a classic mid-century speculative thriller written by prolific Golden Age author Randall Garrett under his pseudonym Darrel T. Langart. This fast-paced, psychologically intense work explores the boundaries of transhumanism, biological engineering, and the existential cost of humanity's survival. The plot centers on the arrival of the Nipe, a highly intelligent and technologically sophisticated extraterrestrial creature that crash-lands on Earth. Operating on an alien worldview that treats humans as simple prey, the Nipe goes on a devastating covert rampage. To counter the alien's superior reflexes and nervous system, Earth's leading scientists undergo the radical genetic, surgical, and psychological reconstruction of a human candidate, Bart Stanton, transformed into a biologically enhanced 'superman' at the cost of his baseline human identity. Randall Garrett's work under his various pseudonyms, including Darrel T. Langart, is closely followed by Golden Age completists and collectors of classic alien-contact and transhuman fiction.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Anything You Can Do. (Doubleday Science Fiction)
- Author
- Darrel T. Langart (Randall Garrett)
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York
- Publication year
- 1963
- Condition
- VERY GOOD
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item weight
- 29 ounces
- Dimensions
- 8.5x6 in.
- Seller catalogs
- Classics, Science Fiction, Vintage Science Fiction
Coffee Cat Books
Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since September 15, 2021
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