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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Wilson McLean (illustrator). First Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. How Many Co-existing Selves Does a Man Have? SYNOPSIS: After millennia of probing out into the galaxy, the long retreat had begun. Centaur was a temporary plug in the dike that kept out the flood of marauding extra-terrestrials. But her crew of two had their own problem when the Time Beacons began to fail. Still, life has to be lived out, whenever or wherever consciousness is, at the level of the situation that exists there. Ava Mallan and Bob Dogood had a complex maze to tread in sorting out the angles of twin lives in counterpoint. And meanwhile time was catching them both up in a deathly grip. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. John Berkey (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. IT WAS JUST A SIMPLE TRIP TO GANYMEDE AND NO ONE PAID MUCH ATTENTION TO THE SAFETY RULES. ALSO KNOWN AS: Part of this work, under the title Dark Inferno, was first published as a serial in Galaxy Magazine. SYNOPSIS: Disaster! The passengers were the usual varied lot, some nervous, some boisterous, some smart-aleck, some quiet. The ship's Medical Officer was brand new and didn't anticipate having to do much more than take care of a few queasy stomachs and bruises among his charges--from learning how to handle weightlessness. It was a routine trip. And so was the safety drill. Until the disaster call went out. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Dean Ellis (illustrator). First Edition 1st Printing. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Rear Cover, Spine, Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. What race had built an artifact older than time - and still functioning? SYNOPSIS: Flinx was gutter-bred and gutter-wise. Raised on the planet Moth, crossroads of the galaxy, at sixteen he was experienced in extra-legal and nefarious means of accomplishing his ends. And in ways that Bran Tse Mallory, the eminent human scientist, and Truzenzuzex, his thranx soul-partner, would never suspect. Yet neither these three, nor the knowledgeable merchant, Malaika, held the real key to the ultimate power of the Krang. - and - THE PLANET MOTH. so-named because of its beautiful "wings" - great golden clouds forever suspended in space. And like its namesake, the planet attracted unwary tourists, travellers, space-sailors, merchants - a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying-snake, Pip. The pickings were easy enough so that with care you didn't even have to be dishonest. In fact, you could hardly call it dishonest - steeling a starmap from a dead body that didn't need it any more. But Flinx wasn't quite smart enough. He should have wondered why the body was dead. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Mati Klarwen (illustrator). First Edition 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A NEW STAR IN THE FIRMAMENT OF SCIENCE FICTION. CONTENTS: All of Them Were Empty; Oracle for a White Rabbit; Love Story in Three Acts; Yarst!; Battle Hum and the Boje; With a Finger in My I; How We Saved the Human Race; This Crystal Castle; In the Deadlands. SYNOPSIS: A NEW BALLANTINE BOOKS STAR Of the nine stories in this collection demonstrating the remarkably variegated talents of David Gerrold, six are completely original, never having appeared in print anywhere before. - and - Just about everyone has had the experience of suddenly becoming aware of the literal meaning of words: this usually induces a fit of the giggles and/or chuckles - as when one contemplates the possibilities of "soft shoulders" lining the highways or wonders what kind of "diversion" is being prepared ahead. But what if one is confronted with a world in which all one's words are taken literally? As happens in the title story. As, oddly enough, can happen when one is talking to a computer, or when one is wired in for sensation, or a number of other possibilities. Despite the varied contexts of these stories, they have a connective thread - of which, indeed, the author may not himself be aware. And it is words. As communication. And used as descriptions of other kinds of communication. Proof positive, we believe, that the profession of writing is far from being a dying art. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Michael McInnerney (illustrator). First Thus 2nd Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. A Planet Waited To Be Plundered. ALSO KNOWN AS: A much shorter version of World of Ptavvs first appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow. SYNOPSIS: Larry Greenberg was a sensitive. His telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed by working with dolphins, learning their 'language' and teaching them English. The trouble was that such interchanges were basically emotional and the two personalities involved could become confused about who was who. But it was a detail only, one that could be controlled. Until the day Larry's physicist friend came up with a "Sea Statue"--a creature frozen in time--and found a way to release it. And Larry found himself inside the mind of a thrint, a naturally telepathic creature of enormous power and with murderous inclinations toward all inferior organisms such as Larry! - and - With uncanny facility, one enters the mind of an alien-an overbearing, careless, superior alien. Superior in technology, superior in thought power, resources, development--in just about everything. Except that the thrint is not a sociable creature to anything but other thrints. He seems to be entirely motivated by a desire to grab off a planet, a whole planet, for himself. To own. Somehow Larry Greenberg's frailly developed telepathic capacities have to offset this creature: Some way Larry must divert it without losing his own mind. The world--Larry's world--is waiting to be plundered. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Dean Ellis (illustrator). First Thus 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Perhaps mankind's time space is as limited as his living space. SYNOPSIS: Jim Carson was Security Chief at the Hart-Ewing plant--and he was very good at his job. That is, he accomplished what he had to unobtrusively. The nature of the job made Carson cautious and meticulously thorough. What he brought to his profession was a most thoughtful sensitivity. So when Carson became uneasy he knew something was really wrong. And methodically, as usual, he started going over the multitude of details and impressions he had picked up day-by-day for weeks back. He came up with a most astonishing result. - and - The Hart-Ewing Company was a very large installation indeed. It started from scratch with research scientists and experimental labs, including plants to make the tools to make the experiments, all the way to the vast structure that created and housed finished pieces of the final products that would eventually take men into space. Hart-Ewing was an enormous and varied undertaking and the end results of its functions would have political as well as cultural effects. And there were, of course, innumerable avenues for leakage of information. Which, in a way, is what made Carson's job as Security Chief so interesting and worthwhile. So he was understandably put out when he discovered that something was so secure that it was being kept from the Security Chief! Naturally, he had to find out what it was. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Gino D'Achille (illustrator). First Edition 3rd Printing. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. Volume V in The Chronicles of Counter-Earth. MOVIE TIE-IN: This series was the basis for the 1987 feature film Gor. CONTENTS: 1. Kuurus 2. Ar 3. The Game 4. Cernus 5. In the House of Cernus 6. I Sit Table with Cernus 7. The Ship 8. Breakfast 9. I Learn of the House of Cernus 10. To the Pens 11. Two Girls 12. The Peasant 13. Mip 14. The Prisoner 15. Portus Comes to the House of Cernus 16. The Tarn 17. Kajuralia 18. The End of Kajuralia 19. The Curulean 20. A Game is Played 21. The Stadium of Blades 22. The Stadium of Tarns 23. I Finish my Business in the House of Cernus 24. The Court of the Ubar. SERIES: 5th in series. Here is the magnificent world of Gor, known also as Counter-Earth, a planet as strangely populated, as threatening, as beautiful as any you are likely to encounter in the great works of fiction. Here too is Tarl Cabot - the one picked out of millions to be trained and schooled and disciplined by the best teachers, swordsmen, bowmen on Gor . . . Toward what end, what mission, what purpose? Only Gor holds the answer. SYNOPSIS: Kuurus, of the dread caste of assassins, was on a mission of vengeance. For in the newly rebuilt city of Ko-Ro-Ba, someone had foully murdered a young warrior with flaming red hair - the mark of Tarl Cabot of Ko-Ro-Ba, and formerly of Earth. All guilty men feared a hunting assassin - for none knew which was to be the victim. - and - Slowly they were gathering in Ar, the city from which the great Ubar, Marlenus, had long since been banished. First, there was Kuurus, he of the hooded face and blood-bright sword, seeking vengeance-and something more. And Vella-Vella of Gor, once Elizabeth Cardwell of Earth - a slave now, and willingly, in the infamous House of Cernus, the most powerful slave dealer in Ar. Elizabeth too had a secret mission. As did Cernus. And Hup the Fool - who was no fool at all. And Ho-Sarl and Mip and a dozen more. None of them were what they seemed to be; each had a different purpose. Why were they all gathered here, in Ar? The answers would lie, for each of them, in the battles to be fought in the Stadium of Blades, but most of all in the Stadium of Tarns, when a great, black, warrior tarn, Ubar of the Skies, would lead the way for some - and seal the doom of others . . . Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Dean Ellis (illustrator). First Separate 1st Printing. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. By curing this patient, Sector General might start a war! ALSO KNOWN AS: The novelettes comprising this volume first appeared in New Writings In S-F Nos. 7, 12, 14, 16 and 18. SYNOPSIS: James White, himself a doctor, has long been fascinated by the problem that will exist when it comes to treating other life forms. Taking as the centre of operations his magnificent creation, Sector General, he has written a body of stories based on the drama and tension that inevitably exist in any major hospital. But the excitements that occur at Sector General are necessarily unique. For no other hospital on or off the Earth encounters the wildly diverse problems created by the hundreds of different alien life forms that turn up at Sector General entry-ports for treatment. Being a doctor, human or otherwise, in this establishment, requires a degree of adaptability Hippocrates never dreamed of. And the implications of what is accomplished--or not accomplished--go far beyond medical practice. - and - Sector General had met many a challenge that was literally out of this world. This was only normal. After all, it was the single greatest structure ever put together in space--hundreds of floors with every conceivable form of environment, pressure and gravity, designed to accommodate virtually any creature brought to it for observation and medical care. It was staffed with at least a hundred different species of doctors and nurses, and it was run by humans--probably the most generalized oxygen breathers in the galaxy. But it appeared that Sector General had finally met its match. For some life form had entered the great hospital which was invisible, incommunicable, and undetectable even by the empathetic Cinrusskins--and it was creating hallucinations that caused serious accidents. But that was only the beginning. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.