The Bird of Time
Effinger, George Alec
ISBN 10: 0385192320 ISBN 13: 9780385192323
Published by Doubleday, New York, 1986
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New York: Doubleday:, 1986. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 177 pp. Cover artwork by: William Naegels First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, Seller Inventory # 75670
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Far into the future, Hartstein's graduation present from his grandparents was a wonderful trip.into the past. He had a long future in the doughnut industry to look forward to but this trip was the icing on the cake. It had been a long time since that first experiment in time travel was successfully pulled off, although not without its flaws. Now, in the future, time travel was a lucrative tourist industry. But the time travel industry was keeping one little fact to itself: two percent never came back. This cover-up was the work of the Agency. The Agency knew what others did not: that the past wasn't really the past but a complicated dynamic of individual perceptions of what the past might have been. The past isn't real and reality becomes a state of mind. While selling their particular brand of escapist entertainment and vacation packages, the Agency didn't bother to tell its clients or the populace in general that a war was going on- a time war. The Agency was spending its time in a neck and neck battle with the Temporary Underground. The battlefield was none other than the space-time continuum, the weapons time shifts and theoretical mathematics. Hartstein had no idea what his trip would be or where it would take him.
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Title: The Bird of Time
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: William Naegels
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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The Bird of Time
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "First Edition" on its copyright page, and first printing code "Q10" (March 1986) on bottom of page 175. Signed, with no personalization or inscription, by author George Alec Effinger on its title page. This book is in very good condition, marred only by a 1.5" black felt-tip pen mark, and remainder spray, on bottom of its text block, plus light bumps on its spine ends. Its binding is sound and square, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn. Pages are unworn and otherwise unmarked. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in near fine condition: whole, bright, and unmarked, with some traces of wear on spine ends but otherwise unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 003058
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The Bird of Time
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