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NEW DESTINIES, Volume IX, Fall, 1990: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact,
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Ace Books, (1990). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Pournelle at his article " Another Step Farther Out." Also includes contributions by Elizabeth Moon, Mark van Name, Timothy Zahn, Spider Robinson, S.M.Stirling, Marc Stiegler and others. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-671-653857.
Condition: Very good minus condition - creasing to spine, some wear to covers, usual toning to pages.
Book ID: 91311More details Price: $13.50 -
CLARION SF.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
Condition: Very good minus - usual toning to the pages, some wear to the covers, straight spine. Note: all vintage paperbacks are fragile and need to be handled carefully.
Book ID: 91223More details Price: $28.50 -
BLOOD MUSE: Timeless Tales of Vampires in the Arts.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (ARC, trade paperback format. )
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1995). SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories about vampires in the various arts - from painting to sculpture, film, and dance, edited and with an introduction by Esther M. Friesner SIGNED by Laura Anne Gilman at her story 'Exposure.' Other contributors include Christie Golden, Adam-Troy Castro, Cynthia Ward, Chuck Rothman, Jane Yolen, Susan Schwartz, Richard Parks and many more. 339 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (light crease on back cover)
Book ID: 91092More details Price: $25.00 -
ANALOG 1
Edition: First thus - book club edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1963) dj. Hardcover - The first anthology collecting short stories which originally appeared in the digest magazine 'Analog' in 1960 and 1961. Edited and with an introduction by John W. Campbell. Authors include Lloyd Biggle Jr, Teddy Keller, T. R. Fehrenbach, Christopher Anvil, Winston P. Sanders (Poul Anderson), Sterling E. Lanier, Gordon R. Dickson and Leigh Richmond. First book club edition with code of #D52 on page 217. Cover art by Hiram Ash.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some rubbing to folds of dj, corner of front flap clipped)
Book ID: 91048More details Price: $16.50 -
WEIRD HEROES: VOLUME EIGHT (8)
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Jove / HBJ, (1977). First edition - A paperback anthology which collects 5 stories by Michael Moorcock, J. Michael Reaves (2 stories), Ben Bova and Maxwell Grant, edited and with an introduction and afterword by Byron Preiss. Illustrated by Steve Hickman, Craig Russell, Howard Chaykin and Alfredo Alcala. 281 pp. plus publisher's ads. ISBN: 0-515042579.
Condition: Very near fine - usual toning to pages, no creasing to spine.
Book ID: 91040More details Price: $10.00 -
WEIRD HEROES: VOL 1: A New American Pulp.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Pyramid, (1975). First edition - A paperback anthology with stories by Philip Jose Farmer, Archie Goodwin, Ron Goulart, Joann Kobin and Byron Preiss introducing 5 new heroes - Gypsy, Guts, Adam Stalker, Greatheart Silver and Rose. Illustrated by Steranko, Jeff Jones, Alex Nino, Tom Sutton and David Sheridan. Introductory conversation by Fritz Leiber. Pyramid Books A3746. 247 pp plus promotional info. ISBN: 0-51503746X.
Condition: Very good - usual toning to pages, slight sunning to spine, no creasing to spine.
Book ID: 91017More details Price: $10.00 -
FREEDOM!
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Baen Books, (2006). First edition - An omnibus edition which combines two previous anthologies - Give Me Liberty and Visions of Liberty - short stories which explore the quest for freedom and the nature, future, and possibilities of a free society. Includes contributions from Jack Williamson, Michael Resnick, Michael A. Stackpole, Jane Lindskold, James P. Hogan, Robert J. Sawyer, and others. Notes on contributors. 516 pp. ISBN: 978-1416520726.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease to upper corner of back corner and last several leaves.)
Book ID: 91016More details Price: $18.50 -
NOT OF WOMAN BORN.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Roc - Penguin Books, (1999). SIGNED first edition - Stories of high-tech reproduction by Kara Dalkey, Sage Walker, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia A. McKillip, William F. Wu, Jack McDevitt, Robert Silverberg and more. Includes the Nebula award-winning novelette by Walter Jon Williams, "Daddy's World." SIGNED by Susan Palwick at her story "Judith's Flowers." Introduction by Constance Ash. ix, 272 pp. ISBN: 0-451456815.
Condition: Very good - some reading creases to spine.
Book ID: 90709More details Price: $13.50 -
DARWIN'S BASTARDS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, (2010). First edition - An anthology containing "twenty-three dazzling stories which take us on a twisted, wild ride into some future times and parallel universes" divided into four categories: survivors, lovers, outliers and warriors. Among the contributors are William Gibson, Yann Martel, Heather O'Neill, Sheila Heti, Timothy Taylor, Matthew Trafford, Douglas Coupland, Laura Trunket and Neil Smith. Brief notes on the contributors. 453 pp. ISBN: 978-1553654926.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 90306More details Price: $17.50 -
COSMIC CRITIQUES: How and Why Ten Science Fiction Stories Work.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Cincinnati, OH: Writers Digest Books, (1990). SIGNED first edition - Ten stories which illustrate the major topics found in current science fiction. Each story begins with an introduction by Asimov, with background on the story, and an examination of why it is representative of that genre. Following each story is commentary by Ansen Dibell. SIGNED by Larry Niven at his story "Neutron Star," an example of "hard science fiction." Also includes stories by Pat Cadigan, J.G. Ballard, James Schmitz. Arthur C. Clarke and more. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-898793947.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 90273More details Price: $24.50 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY, 2014 Edition.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Prime Books, 2014. First edition - This sixth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by Peter Watts, Linda Nagata, Yoon Ha Lee, James Patrick Kelly, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Edited and with an introduction by Rich. Horton. Brief biographies of the contributors. Recommended reading. 575 pp. ISBN: 978-1607014287.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers. (lower corner of back cover creased)
Book ID: 90185More details Price: $18.50 -
THE BEST FROM FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes twenty-one stories published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction between 1994 and 1998 with contributions by Elizabeth Hand, Bruce Sterling, Gene Wolfe, John Crowley, Robert Reed, Harlan Ellison, Terry Bisson, Tanith Lee, Paul Di Filippo, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rachel Pollack and others. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-312869738.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90156More details Price: $21.50 -
GATEWAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology described as a "feast of great new science fiction honoring grand master Frederik Pohl", edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Anne Hull, his wife. Contributions from Ben Bova, Gregory Benford, Cory Doctorow, Sherri Tepper, Brian W. Aldiss, Phyllis and Alex Eisenstein, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Greg Bear, Joe Haldeman, David Brin, Mike Resnick, Vernor Vinge, Connie Willis, Gardner Dozois, Robert Sawyer, Gene Wolfe, James Gunn, Frank M. Robinson and Mike Resnick. 416 pp. ISBN: 978-0765326621.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90155More details Price: $21.50 -
THE NORTON BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION: North American Science Fiction 1960 - 1990.
Edition: First printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects 67 stories spanning a 30 year period representing most of the most influential North American authors, although the selections are often less frequently anthologized examples of their stories. Includes stories from Damon Knight in 1960 through Fritz Leiber, Samuel R. Delany, Zenna Henderson, James Tiptree Jr., Barry N. Malzberg, Harlan Ellison, Joanna Russ, John Varley, Octavia Butler, Orson Scott Card and Connie Willis to Margaret Atwood, Kate Wilhelm, Diane Glancy, Lisa Goldstein and John Kessel in 1990 and many more in the interim years. Long introduction by Le Guin, brief notes on the authors, index. 869 pp. ISBN: 0-393035468.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (dustjacket partially split along fold of front flap, price of 27.50 still present, now protected by archival cover)
Book ID: 90120More details Price: $40.00 -
NEW DIMENSIONS: SCIENCE FICTION NUMBER 5 (FIVE).
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1975.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth in an annual series of original short story anthologies featuring new authors. 16 stories, by such authors as Jack Dann ("The Dybbuk Dolls"), Michael Bishop ("Rogue Tomato"), and Marta Randall ("A Scarab in the City of Time"), George Alec Effinger ("The Mothers March on Ecstacy"), and others. SIGNED by Gregory Benford at his story "White Creatures," Brief biographical introductions to each story. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-06013870X.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 89882More details Price: $21.50 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Ninth (9th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89872More details Price: $18.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Twentieth (20th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (2003.) dj. Hardcover - Thick book - on the cover it says more than 300,000 words of fantastic fiction. Includes stories by Ian R. MacLeod, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert Reed, Paul McAuley, Michael Swanwick, Robert Silverberg, Charles Stross, John Kessel, Gregory Benford, Molly Gloss, Kage Baker, Alistair Reynolds and many others, as well as a summary of the year and a recommended reading list. Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology. . xlvi, 797 pp. ISBN: 0-312-308590.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (short tear to bottom edge of front cover of d)
Book ID: 89870More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES: Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury.
Edition: First printing.
New York: ROC - Penguin, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of 22 original stories (including one by Bradbury himself) written as a tribute anthology in horor of Ray Bradbury. SIGNED by Gregory Benford at his story 'Centigrade 233.' . Also includes contributions from Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov, F. Paul Wilson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Richard Matheson and many others. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-451-451341.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, remnants of a brodart liner pasted on, some spline slant, in a near fine unmarked dj -
Book ID: 89851More details Price: $30.00 -
BEST SF: 1969.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1970.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology collecting the best science fiction stories of the year from the best sf magazines (and other magazines too) - the fifth in this series. Included are contributions from Anthony Burgess, J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. le Guin, Algis Budrys and others. SIGNED by Frederick Pohl at his story 'The Schematic Man.' 243 pp. Cover art by Paul Lehr
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (tape ghosts to endpapers, slight spine slant)
Book ID: 89846More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR # 8.
Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1979.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED by Gregory Benford at "A Hiss of Dragon" which he co-wrote with Marc Laidlaw. Also includes stories by Joan Vinge, John Varley; Harlan Ellison; James Patrick Kelly; Fritz Leiber; Marc Laidlaw; Ian Watson; Dean Ing; Hilbert Schenck; Gordon Eklund and Thomas M. Disch. Introduction and recommended reading by Carr and notes on the year in science fiction by Charles N. Brown. Gutter code J 28. Dust jacket art by Gary Viskupic. 311 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (tape ghosts on endpapers) Book club brochure laid in.
Book ID: 89845More details Price: $28.50 -
TWENTY YEARS OF THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collect 20 stories from the first 20 years of this digest magazine with an introduction by Isaac Asimov and an afterword by Ferman. Includes stories by Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Alfred Bester, P.K. Dick, Larry Niven, Charles Beaumont and more. 264 pp. Cover art by Mel Hunter. Uncommon in the hardcover edition.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, some edgewear to the blue cloth, etc, in a fair dust jacket with rubbing, remnants of a spine label.
Book ID: 89842More details Price: $17.50 -
THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR 2007: Twentieth Annual Collection.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: St Martin's, (2007). First edition - Includes stories by Margo Lanagan, Joyce Carol Oates, Gene Wolfe, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Klages, a novella by Ysabeau S. Wilce, articles by Charles de Lint, Jeff van der Meer and more. Overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, including in the media and in graphic novels; obituaries, honorable mentions and more. cxxxi, 472 pp. ISBN: 0-312356145.
Condition: Very good in glossy wrappers (usual toning to the pages, corners slightly curling)
Book ID: 89829More details Price: $17.50 -
YEAR'S BEST SF 18.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Harper Collins, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Collects the best short stories published in the previous year, edited and with an introduction by Hartwell. Contributors include Pat Cadigan, Ken Liu, Gene Wolfe, Yoon Ha Lee, Gwyenth Jones, Linda Nagata, Bruce Sterling, John Barnes, Gregory Benford, Lewis Shiner and more. SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Pat Cadigan, Ken Liu and Linda Nagata. 415 pp. ISBN: 978-0765338204.
Condition: Very good (toning to pages, curling to outer edges of covers)
Book ID: 89815More details Price: $32.50 -
YEAR'S BEST SF 18.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Harper Collins, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Collects the best short stories published in the previous year, edited and with an introduction by Hartwell. Contributors include Pat Cadigan, Ken Liu, Gene Wolfe, Yoon Ha Lee, Gwyenth Jones, Linda Nagata, Bruce Sterling, John Barnes, Gregory Benford, Lewis Shiner and more. SIGNED by two authors at their stories: Pat Cadigan and Linda Nagata. 415 pp. ISBN: 978-0765338204.
Condition: Very good (toning to pages, curling to outer edges of covers)
Book ID: 89814More details Price: $27.50 -
DAW Books Complimentary Fantasy and Science Fiction Sampler.
Edition: Trade paperback - advance review copy.
New York: DAW Books, (2009). SIGNED first edition - Includes excerpts from new novels by John Marco, Tanya Huff, Mercedes Lackey, Julie E. Czerneda, Seanan McGuire, and Jim C. Hines. SIGNED by Seanan McGuire twice - on the table of contents and at her contribution from 'Rosemary and Rue.' 13- pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy black illustrated wrappers. Uncommon.
Book ID: 89794More details Price: $21.50 -
GREAT SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES.
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Lancer, (c 1963). Contains four short novels originally published in the 1950s set on "other worlds in the universe of the future" - The Starcombers by Edmond Hamilton; The Man from the Big Dark by John Brunner; The World Otalmi Made by Harry Harrison; Hunt the Space Witch by Robert Silverberg. Lancer 74-944, in the "Easy Eye" edition with "larger type, non-glare paper." 285 pp plus ads.
Condition: Very good (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 89778More details Price: $10.00 -
ANOTHER ROUND AT THE SPACEPORT BAR.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Avon, (1989). SIGNED first edition - The second title in this series - the first was nominated for a Locus award. SIGNED by Larry Niven at his story "The Subject Is Closed." Also includes stories by Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Michael Swanwick, John M. Ford and others. Brief notes on the author following each story. vii, 248 pp. Doug Beekman cover art. ISBN: 0-380-899434.
Condition: Very near fine,
Book ID: 89720More details Price: $16.50 -
THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF THE YEAR # 2 [Two.]
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1973.). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Frederick Pohl at "The Meeting" and Joe Haldeman at "Hero." Also includes stories by Ben Bova, Joanna Russ, Gene Wolfe, R. A. Lafferty, Robert Silverberg and more. Edited and with an Introduction byTerry Carr. xi, 370 pp. Cover art by Chris Foss. ISBN: 0-3450331246.
Condition: Fine. Uncommon signed and especially so in this condition.
Book ID: 89719More details Price: $30.00 -
THE MANY WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Dutton, (1971.) dj. Hardcover - The first anthology edited by Bova. Includes eight short stories by Burt K. Filer, Harlan Ellison, Andre Norton, Gordon R Dickson, Robert Silverberg., Gene Wolfe, Anne McCaffrey and Keith Laumer, with an introduction by Bova. SIGNED by Bova on the title page. 217 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89710More details Price: $15.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY STORIES 13.
Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing.
New York: DAW Books, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Nancy Kress at her story 'Phone Repairs.' Also includes stories by Tanith Lee, Judith Tarr, Jane Yolen, Nancy Springer, Kevin J. Anderson and others.178 pp. Dust jacket art by Daniel R. Horne.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dustjacket (some short tears and associated creasing to edges of dj) .
Book ID: 89709More details Price: $25.00