"Send me your tired, your poor, your hopeless, yearning to be free. To them I raise the lamp beside the brazen door. . ."
So reads the inscrip tion over the portal to the euthanasia center. From a common beginning -- William Bailey's death there -- five of today's top writers of science fiction create their separate visions of Bailey's fate. No two are even remotely alike."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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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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"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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"Dominic Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra. His duty, as officially defined: to seek out threats to the Pax Terrestria, and to neutralize them-or, failing that, to call in His Majesty's military forces, who will end them in a more drastic and final way. As defined by Dominic Flandry: to stick his finger in the dike of civilization, to hold off for his lifetime the inevitable coming of the barbarians and the Long Night. To this end he battles gloriously, murders remorselessl...
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"Dominic Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra. His duty, as officially defined: to seek out threats to the Pax Terrestria, and to neutralize them-or, failing that, to call in His Majesty's military forces, who will end them in a more drastic and final way. As defined by Dominic Flandry: to stick his finger in the dike of civilization, to hold off for his lifetime the inevitable coming of the barbarians and the Long Night. To this end he battles glo...
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"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 cr...
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First novel in the first Foreigner triology.
"Lost in space, the starship Phoenix charts its way to the nearest G5 star and discovers the world of the atevi-a world where law is kept by the use of registered assassination, where alliances were not defined by geographi...
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"In the enchanted realm of Merilon, magic is life. Born without magical abilities and denied his birthright, Joram is left for dead. Yet he grows to manhood in a remote country village, hiding his lack of powers only through constant vigilance and ever more skillful sleight-of-hand. Forced to kill a man in self-defense, Joram can keep his s...
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The sixth of Asimov's Foundation novels to be written, but actually this is the first chronologically.

"It is the year 12,020 G. E. And Emperor Cleon, First of that Name, sits uneasily on the Imperial throne. Here on Trantor, the great multi-domed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. It is a world so intricately woven that pulling one thread would unravel i...
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Eleven tales by a top notch science fiction author, with an introduction by editor Sandra Miesel.
"What can measure the advancement of Man? The eye, which sees the stars and knows we soon will reach them? The mind, which catalogs more knowledge than was dreamed of in ancient philosophies? Or perhaps the heart, the fount and spring of all our desires?
No sky can set a limit to the soaring spirit of man. He who best uses his eyes, and his mind, and his heart, will blaze the way -- a way that lesser men can only hope to follow.&...
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This is the first book in the original Foundation Series, winner of a Hugo Award for Best Series ever.
The trilogy starts with a Galactic Empire that has endured for more than 10,000 years but is now falling (think Roman Empire). Hari Seldon, psychological specialist and genius, has devised the new science of psychohistory that both predicts the Fall and enables him to cre...
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After writing the Foundation trilogy in the 1940s, Isaac Asimov abandoned the series for a third of a century before finally returning to it with 'Foundation's Edge'. Of course, once he started there was no stopping him and book after book poured forth from his typewriter. But this was the first, so very long awaited, of his sequels to the original trilogy.
498 years after its founding, the Foundation...
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One of the classic tales of the first journey to the Moon, originally published in 1865 by the man many regard as the father of modern science fiction.
"The War of the Rebellion is over -- and the members of the American Gun Club, bored with inactivity, look around for a new project. At last they have it: "We will build the greatest projectile the world has ever seen -- and make the moon our 38th State!"; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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"Was it heaven, or was it hell? John Brunt wasn’t too sure, but wherever he was, he was frightened. The newspapers and the government also wanted to know where he was. They suspected that the great scientist David Packard knew where the tough and womanizing adventurer was, but no one calculated that John Brunt had been sent on the last exploration left to man-an escape into the future. Not even John Brunt could have known the i...
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"The Galactice Medal of Honor was the most important, the most coveted award of all time. It was given only to a handful of the bravest and most self-sacrificing of those defending Earth from the mysterious alien invaders that had appeared fifty years before. It was almost always given posthumously.
The bearer of this medal became the idol of all mankind, would never want for any necessity or luxury -- would never want for anything.
Every...
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Book 1 of A Song of Fire and Ice series.
"In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the North of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epi...
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DAW #188. First book in the Morgaine series of the Qhal and the Gates through Time and Space they left behind.
"Scattered about the galaxy were the time-space Gates of a vanished but not forgotten alien race. In their time, long before the rise of the native civilizations, they had terrorized a hundred worlds -- not from villainy but from folly, from tampering with the strands that held a universe together.
Now the task was to uproot these Gates, destroy their potency for mischief, take horror out o...
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A trio of novellettes by an excellent science fiction writer of yesteryear.
"A planet that was literally bald, completely covered by sand and devoid of life . . . or so the stranded spaceman thought until he saw the huge menacing girders whose origin and purpose he could not begin to fathon."
"A gold locket containing a picture of a girl, found in millenia-old ruins on a planet some hundreds of light years from Earth -- threatens the existence of the entire human race."
A lost space ...
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"When Lois McDonald learned that the mysterious old house, known as Ghost Gables, was to be occupied, she had to get all the facts about its new tenant promptly. At Ghost Gables she met pretty Glenna Brockman, who had plans to turn th...
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