Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Element 79

By: Hoyle, Fred

Price: $4.25

Publisher: New York, NY, Signet : 1968

Seller ID: 001311

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Covers slightly creased, corners bumped.. Small dent/stain on front cover. Owner's name on title page.

"A fantastic, frightening plunge into the future; an era of interplanetary espionage, airborne orgies, galactic extravaganzas-when man is the servant of superior creatures from distant worlds."
This is a collection of 15 short stories by this noted astronomer/science fiction writer.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Elluvon Gift, The

By: Lang, Simon

Price: $4.10

Publisher: New York, NY, Avon : 1975

Seller ID: 000276

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

"On the starship Skipjack, a valiant and costly mission of rescue has just ended -- and an ordeal of terror is about to begin. For while dand rumblings of mutiny divide the starship's crew, a strange and alien entity -- the Elluvon -- appears in the midst, seeking shelfter and offering a gift both precious and mysterious. The coming of the Elluvon plunges the Skipjack into a turmoil which threatens to engulf the entire galaxy. As the seeds of rebellion grow aboard the Skipjack, an ominous, deadly threat appears from without; an invasion by vicious uintergalactic pirates determined to seize...
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End As a Hero

By: Laumer, Keith

Price: $4.50

Publisher: New York, Ace : 1985

Seller ID: 9324

ISBN-13: 9780441206568

Binding: Mass Market paperback

Condition: Very Good

A little chipping to upper corner, slight edge wear. An attractive copy. ; Paperback original, first printing. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 150 pages; "Mankind was at war with the hideous Gool ... And losing. Then, beyond Ganymede, one man fought the searing brain probe of an alien spy ... And won. He mastered the power of its telepathic mind-control, captured the secret of its matter transmitters, and learned how to destroy the Gool Overlords. He called Intelligence with news of the victory, and headed home. "Straight into a barrage of Terran nuclear warheads. "Past missiles, shells,...
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Ender's Game

By: Card, Orson Scott

Price: $5.25

Publisher: New York, Tor : 1994

Seller ID: 006121

ISBN-13: 9780812589047

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Spine slightly and creased, minor edgewear, corners bumped, one corner creased. A nice, attractive copy. "Aliens have attacked earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses - and then training them in the arts of war. . . The early training, not surprisingly, takes the form of 'games'. . . Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he wins all the games. . . He is smart enough to know that time is running out. But is he smart enough to save...
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Enemy Mine

By: Longyear, Barry B. ; Gerrold, David

Price: $2.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Charter Books : 1985

Seller ID: 001452

ISBN-13: 9780441206728

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

First 50 pages have water damage along the fore edge, about 3" tall, 1" into the page. Corners bumped, some edge wear. Book is a bit stiff and slightly bowed out. "On a far distant planet, at the height of the war between the Dracon Empire and Earth, two military pilots crash in the heat of battle. One is human, one is Drac. Each if a repulsive alien to the other. Each is a professional warrior, filled with hatred for his blood enemy. Marooned on a hostile planet, they have a choice. They can complete their missions in a mutual pact of violence and death. Or they can do the most p...
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Eon

By: Bear, Greg

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New York, Tor : 1986

Seller ID: 182891

ISBN-13: 9780812520477

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped, minor edgewear. A nice copy. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 504 pages; "The 21st Century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, MATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad. For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not our space; it came from the future--but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteriod was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A human--English...
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Exploring New Fields (The Child Development Readers Series)

By: Parker, Beryl; Harris, Julia M.

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1938

Seller ID: 004066

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

440 pp, glossary. An elementary school reader illustrated throughout accompanied with photographs.. Edgewear/bumping including some chipping, edges darkened. Former school textbook.

Photos precede stories about animals (of many different species and locals), Children from the South Seas, and Scandinavia, information about fruit-especially apples, and how a wild river in the western US is tamed.
Age Level - Grade 4; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Eye for Eye and the Tunesmith

By: Card, Orson Scott; Biggle, Lloyd, Jr.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Tor Books : 1990

Seller ID: 002348

ISBN-13: 9780812508543

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Corners a bit bumped, slight edge wear, slight yellowing. Paperback original. A tight, attractive copy. Card's novel had never been published in book form, plus this issue includes a special essay by Card on Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Eye for Eye: "Mick Winger is only seventeen - and already he's killed over a dozen people. Not on purpose; he never meant to hurt anyone. But when Mick gets angry, people die, even the people he loves the most. Now he's on the run . . ." The Tunesmith: "Erlin Baque is the last true musician on Earth. Commercial jingles have replaced real art. The Performers'...
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Fantastic Voyage

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $2.95

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books : 1982

Seller ID: 005176

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0553115278 Corners bumped, some edge wear, rubbing, some marks across leading edge. Yellowing but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy of one of the Good Doctor's most popular works. Adapted from a screenplay by Harry Kleiner "Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding a miniaturized atomic sub and being injected into a dying man's carotid artery. Passing through the heart, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium. Their objective. . . to reach a blood clot and des...
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Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine July 2007, Vol 113, No. 1

By: Van Gelder, Gordon (Ed.); Shepard, Lucius; Connolly, Lawrence C.; Cunningham, P. E.; Vukcevich, Ray; Hobson, M. K.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Hoboken, NJ, Spilogale : 2007

Seller ID: 007871

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Slight edge wear.

Stories: Stars Seen Through Stone (cover) (Shepard); Daughters of Prime (Connolly); Car 17 (Cunningham); Cold Comfort (Vukcevich); Powersuit (Hobson).; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Fantasy: The Best of 2002

By: Silverberg, Robert & Haber, Karen (editors)

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New York, Ibooks : 2003

Seller ID: 005739

ISBN-13: 9780743458672

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Very slight shelfwear. A bright, tight, attractive copy.

The best stories of the year, as selected by one of the world's most honored SF authors and his long-time collaborator, including stories by Ron Wolfe, Chris Willrich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Sheckley, Jeffrey Ford, Brian Stableford, David Prill, James Patrick Kelly, Robert Reed, Paul di Filippo, and John Langan; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 358 pages
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Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Scotland

By: Haviland, Virginia

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Co : 1963

Seller ID: 007082

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Blue cloth with black lettering, black illustration on front board showing Assipattle and flock of geese, 92 pp, b/w and color illustrations throughout. Spine slightly faded with a little soiling, corners bumped, minor edge wear primarily along top edge. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, some edge wear with a little chipping at corners, 2" tear from top of spine diagonally onto front panel, 1" nearly closed tear at top edge near front flap. 2.95 price in top corner of front flap, bottom corner of that flap is clipped. A nice copy. Six Scottish fairy tales retold from stories published betw...
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Fire Season [Signed] (Star Kingdom #2)

By: Weber, David; Lindskold, Jane

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, Baen Books : 2013

Seller ID: 8647

ISBN-13: 9781451639216

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Signed by both David Weber and Jane Lindskold on title page. A bright, attractive copy. ; Sequel to A Beautiful Friendship, this is the second volume in the Star Kingdom trilogy. ; Star Kingdom; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 287 pages; "Fire weather ... That's what the treecats call those rare seasons when the slightest spark can set aflame the vast green reaches they call home. " Teenager Stephanie Harrington rapidly learns just how deadly those fires can be. Guided by her treecat companion, Lionheart, Stephanie and her good friend Karl Zivoni...
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Fireball

By: Mayhew, Vic & Long, Doug

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New York, Signet : 1977

Seller ID: 000231

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Slight creasing in spine, minor shelf wear

"The first one to see the fearsomely sized, fiery planetoid streaking through the heavens was a teenaged boy with a passion for astronomy. His discover was quickly confirmed . . . earth was faced with total destruction within eight days unless the greatest gamble in human history succeeded"; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Fires of Azeroth (Morgaine Cycle Ser.)

By: Cherryh, C. J.

Price: $4.20

Publisher: New York, D A W Books, Incorporated : 1984

Seller ID: 001392

ISBN-13: 9780879979256

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine is somewhat creased, shelf-cocked, corners bumped. Some darkening, some edge wear/chipping. Third book in the Morgaine series of the Qhal and the Gates through Time and Space they left behind. "Morgaine, the closer of world gates, and her henchman Vanye, came to the land called Azeroth from drowned Shiuan. There was a star gate in Azeroth marked by alien fires and this, too, Morgaine must seal. But they brought to that peaceful land devastation and terror. For the hordes of Shiuan were hot on their heels determined to conquer new lands for themselves and to avenge their lost pla...
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Fires of Azeroth (Morgaine Cycle Ser.)

By: Cherryh, C. J.

Price: $3.75

Publisher: New York, D A W Books, Incorporated : 1984

Seller ID: 004621

ISBN-13: 9780879979256

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Ex-library with stamps on leading edge and sticker at base of spine. Spine a bit creased, slightly slanted, corners bumped, minor edge wear with a little chipping, date and name on front end paper. Edges yellowed but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. Third book in the Morgaine series of the Qhal and the Gates through Time and Space they left behind. "Morgaine, the closer of world gates, and her henchman Vanye, came to the land called Azeroth from drowned Shiuan. There was a star gate in Azeroth marked by alien fires and this, too, Morgaine must seal. But they brought to that pea...
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First Step Outward

By: Hoskins, Robert (editor)

Price: $4.75

Publisher: New York, NY, Dell Publishing : 1969

Seller ID: 001790

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine/covers slightly creased, corners bumped, some edge wear. Some darkening, text is clean and unmarked. Paperback original.

Blast off into the unknown through this collection of short stories by such great science-fiction writers as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Frederik Pohl, Murray Leinster, Robert A. Heinlein and others. Introduction by Poul Anderson.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Five Little Martins and the Martin House

By: Van Buren, Caroline

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Chicago, The Goldsmith Publishing Company : 1936

Seller ID: 002904

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

1" chip missing from top of spine, corners bumped/chipped, edgewear, small spot on front board, back board has scuff mark, PO's name on free endpaper. Text is yellowed and has small tears and tiny chips but is clean and unmarked.

The further adventures of the five Little Martin children start with the honeymoon visit of their Uncle Bob and new Aunt Bettina in which the five little Martins try to stay clean for an hour, fail miserably, and have to be fished out of the river.
Age Level: Grades 3-7; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Five to Twelve

By: Cooper, Edmund

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's : 1968

Seller ID: 003302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slanted, very minor edgewear. DJ shows very minor edgewear, some foxing. A clean, attractive copy.

"This provocative science-fiction novel tells of the revolt of a lone, implacable male against a future society run entirely by women. At a time some hundred years from now, in what used to be Merry Old England, Dion Quern, sensitive, independent, and intellectually affluent is an anachronism in an unbalanced society consisting of five enslaved men for every twelve superwomen."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Flying to Valhalla

By: Pellegrino, Charles R.

Price: $11.75

Publisher: New York, Morrow/Avon : 1993

Seller ID: 002931

ISBN-13: 9780688125066

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, corners bumped. Jacket shows slight edge wear. A bright, attractive copy. "At the midpoint of the 21st century, as the relativistic spacecraft Valkyrie approaches the inhabited fourth world of Alpha Centauri A, the masters on Earth harbor grave fears about the mission's outcome. Transmissions from Chris Wayville, the male half of the husband and wife team manning Valkyrie, have revealed that the man who may control the destiny of an alien planet, and perhaps his homeworld's as well, is quite possible insane. In a moment of weakness, the Wayvilles will bring crisi...
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Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy