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THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Fifteenth (15th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. Includes stories by Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Nancy Kress, Robert Silverberg, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly, Goeffrey A. Landis, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, Williams Sanders, Howard Waldrop, Gregory Benford, Greg Egan, and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1997 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises 'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories: Nancy Kress, G; David Nordley, Michael Swanwick and Gregory Benford at "A Cold Dry Cradle." 623 pp. Cover art by John Foster. ISBN: 0-312-187793.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61899More details Price: $45.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Fifteenth (15th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. Includes stories by Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Nancy Kress, Robert Silverberg, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly, Goeffrey A. Landis, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, Williams Sanders, Howard Waldrop, Gregory Benford, Greg Egan, and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1997 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises 'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories: Nancy Kress, G; David Nordley, Michael Swanwick and Gregory Benford at "A Cold Dry Cradle." 623 pp. Cover art by John Foster. ISBN: 0-312-187793.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 57127More details Price: $40.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Thirteenth (13th) Annual Collection.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: St Martin's, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by FOUR authors: Joe Haldeman, Pat Cadigan, Michael Swanwick and Nancy Kress at their stories. Also included in this volume are stories by Dan Simmons, Ian R. MacLeod, Terry Bisson, John Kessel, Allen Steele, Robert Reed, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ursula LeGuin, John Patrick Kelly and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1995 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises 'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. 592 pp. Cover art by Bob Eggleton. ISBN: 0-312-132212.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (one crease on spine, minor wear to covers, overall tight and clean.)
Book ID: 64458More details Price: $45.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Twelfth (12th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories: Nancy Kress, Joe Haldeman, Pat Cadigan and Mike Resnick Includes stories by Robert Reed, Lisa Goldstein, Michael Flynn, Katherine Kerr. Walter Jon Williams, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Pat Cadigan, Nancy Kress, Joe Haldeman, Ursula LeGuin and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1994 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Dustjacket advertises 'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. 697 pp. ISBN: 0-312-132220.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56030More details Price: $45.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Twelfth (12th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED on the title page by Dozois, and also SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Robert Reed, Lisa Goldstein and Nancy Kress. Included in this volume are stories by Walter Jon Williams, Mike Resnick, Greg Egan, Pat Cadigan, Nancy Kress, Joe Haldeman, Ursula LeGuin and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1994 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Dustjacket advertises 'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. 697 pp. ISBN: 0-312-132220.
Condition: Good only in a very good dust jacket (dampness and crinkling to lower corner of textblock.).
Book ID: 42005More details Price: $28.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Ninth (9th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (short closed tear to back cover of dj.).
Book ID: 41608More details Price: $35.00 -
KILLING ME SOFTLY: Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
New York: HarperPrism, (1995.). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Pat Cadigan at her story " She's Not There." Also includes Waltzing on a Dancer's Grave by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Hard Drive by Nancy Kress; North of Diddy Wah Diddy by Michael Swanwick; Unchosen Love by Ursula K. Le Guin; The Gardner by Mary Rosenblum; The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard; The Affair by Robert Silverberg; Relationships by Robert Sampson; In the Air by Maureen F. McHugh; Nunc Dimittis by Tanith Lee; Chihuahua Flats by Michael Bishop; The Two Headed Man by Nancy A. Collins; The Joy of Hats by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario; and The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1053287).
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers
Book ID: 73468More details Price: $20.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Eighteenth (18th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by SIX authors: on the title page by Dozois and by Susan Palwick, Michael Swanwick, Ian MacDonald and Alastair Reynolds and INSCRIBED by Nancy Kress at their stories. Also included in this volume are stories by Stephen Baxter, Greg Egan, Peter F. Hamilton, Paul J. McAuley, Ursula Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Charles Stross, Brian Stableford, Steven Utley, Tananarrive Due, and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 2000 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises 'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. lv, 744 pp. ISBN: 0-312-274653.
Condition: Near fine in a good dust jacket (short tears with associated creasing to dj.).
Book ID: 51449More details Price: $40.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Eighteenth (18th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by FIVE authors: on the title page by Dozois and by Nancy Kress, John Kessel, Alastair Reynolds and Robert Charles Wilson at their stories. Also included in this volume are stories by Stephen Baxter, Greg Egan, Peter F. Hamilton, Paul J. McAuley, Ursula Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Charles Stross, Brian Stableford, Michael Swanwick, Steven Utley, Tananarrive Due, and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 2000 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises 'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. lv, 744 pp. ISBN: 0-312-274653.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 49776More details Price: $45.00 -
MODERN CLASSICS OF FANTASY.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A collection of 33 short stories ranging from 1940's stories by L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber to more modern stories. SIGNED by FOUR authors: on the title page by Dozois and by Michael Swanwick at his story "The Changling" (a story which he called 'autobiographical - he ran away as a boy and became an elf himself) and by Terry Bisson at his classic "Bears Discover Fire" and by Peter Beagle at "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros." Also includes stories by John Crowley, Avram Davidson, Bruce Sterling, Jane Yolen and many others. List of recommended reading. 645 pp. Dust jacket illustration by James Gurney. ISBN: 0-312-15173x.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.(edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 51451More details Price: $45.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Twentieth (20th) Annual Collection.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (2003.) dj. SIGNED 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. SIGNED on the title page by Gardner Dozois and by SIX authors at their contributions: Gregory Benford, Nancy Kress, Michael Swanwick, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds and Ian MacDonald. xlvi, 797 pp. ISBN: 0-312-308590.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46285More details Price: $45.00 -
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: Sixteenth (16th) Annual Collection
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - One of the best and most significant anthologies of modern science fiction, with works by established prize-winning writers and newcomers to the field. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Steven Baxter and Ian McDonald. Also included in this volume are stories by Greg Egan, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, William Browing Spencer, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick and others, along with the editor's annual summary of the year - 1998 - and his list of Honorable Mentions. Cover advertises'more than 250,000 words of fantastic fiction'. lix 609 pp. ISBN: 0-312204450.
Condition: Very good condition (some crinkling to the lower edges of the first quarter of the textblock.)
Book ID: 38908More details Price: $29.50 -
SHOWCASE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of original science fiction stories by Ben Bova, Joanna Russ, R.A. Lafferty, Raylyn Moore, Bruce McAllister, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Siverberg, Barry N. Malzberg, Joseph A. Howell, Joseph L. Green, Joe Haldeman, and Gene Wolfe. Introduction by Jack Dann. SIGNED by Joe Haldeman at his story "John's Other Life." 191 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0111771.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, pocket remnant, slight spine slant in a very good unmarket dust jacket.
Book ID: 51491More details Price: $19.50 -
SHOWCASE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of original science fiction stories by Ben Bova, Joanna Russ, R.A. Lafferty, Raylyn Moore, Bruce McAllister, Carol Emshwiller, Robert Siverberg, Barry N. Malzberg, Joseph A. Howell, Joseph L. Green, Joe Haldeman, and Gene Wolfe. Introduction by Jack Dann. SIGNED by FIVE authors at their stories: Raphael. A. Lafferty, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, Joe Haldeman and Ben Bova (INSCRIBED by Bova at Torcon 2 - that is, in 1973 - 4 of the signatures were from Torcon2 where Lafferty and Bova received Hugo awards; Haldeman's was later) Both Joanna Russ and R. A. Laferty's signatures are fairly uncommon. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0111771.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (upper corner of half title page clipped, some small and very neat notations on table of contents) Rather scarce with a great group of signatures like this copy.
Book ID: 73228More details Price: $150.00 -
STRANGE GODS.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1974.). SIGNED first edition - SIGNED and dated by Richard Lupoff at his story "Musspelsheim." Also includes an introduction by George Zebrowski and 12 stories - "The Porphet of Zorayne" by Terry Dixon; "In His Own Image" by Rachel Cosgrove Payes; "Try Again" by Barry N. Malzberg; "C h o l o M" by Virginia Kidd; "What Hath God Wrought?" by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; "The Director" by James Howard; "Return to a Hostile Planet" by John B. Thomas and more. 191 pp. Cover by Charles Moll. ISBN: 0-671-777548.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 55037More details Price: $15.00 -
CUTTING EDGE.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology containing twenty original stories by Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Haldeman, Marc Laidlaw, Roberta Lannes, Steve Rasnic Tem, Les Daniels, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Nicholas Royle, Ray Russell, Whitley Strieber, Robert Bloch, W.H. Pugmire & Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Charles L. Grant, George Clayton Johnson, Richard Christian Matheson, William F. Nolan, Ramsey Campbell, Edward Bryant, and Karl Edward Wagner. SIGNED by FOUR authors at their stories - Peter Straub, Richard Christian Matheson, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Introduction by Dennis Etchison. xv, 290 pp. ISBN: 0-385-234309.
Condition: Very near fine in a good dustjacket (small chip, short closed tear and a bit of rubbing to dj, now protected by an archival cover).
Book ID: 59103More details Price: $40.00 -
NEBULA AWARDS: SHOWCASE 2010: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
New York: New American Library - ROC, (2010). SIGNED first edition - Includes fiction and commentary by Catharine Asaro, David Drake, Ursula LeGuin and others. SIGNED by THREE authors at their contributions: Kevin Anderson, Mike Resnick and Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Introduction by Bill Fawcett. Information on the Nebula Awards, including lists of previous winners. 420 pp. ISBN: 978-0451463166.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73454More details Price: $31.50 -
THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION: 23rd Series.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes stories by Damon Knight, Joanna Russ, Edward Bryant, Jane Yolen and more. SIGNED by Samuel R. Delany at his story "Prismatica." 273 pp. ISBN: 0-385-152256.
Condition: Very good in very near fine dust jacket (light remainder spray, some foxing to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 86894More details Price: $45.00 -
THE BEST OF JIM BAEN'S UNIVERSE II.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback original.
New York: Baen Books, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Collects 22 short stories - 13 science fiction and 9 fantasy - with a preface by Flint and Resnick. SIGNED by SIX contributors: by Mike Resnick on the title page and by Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Bear, Nancy Kress, Garth Nix and L. E. Modesitt at their stories. 487 pp. ISBN: 1-416555706.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 81902More details Price: $45.00 -
THE BEST OF JIM BAEN'S UNIVERSE II.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback original.
New York: Baen Books, (2008). SIGNED first edition - Collects 22 short stories - 13 science fiction and 9 fantasy - with a preface by Flint and Resnick. SIGNED by L. E. Modesitt at his story "The Lord Protector's Daughter." 487 pp. ISBN: 1-416555706.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 81901More details Price: $30.00 -
NEW EVES: Science Fiction about the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow.
Edition: First printing.
Stamford, Connecticut: Longmeadow Press, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology spanning seven decades, from the 1920's to the 1980's and beyond. Collects thirty-two stories by Francis Stevens, Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton, Zenna Henderson, Judith Merril, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, Karen Joy Fowler,Nancy Kress, and others. SIGNED by THREE contributors: by Laura Freas in gold on the front cover of the dj, and by authors: Karen Joy Fowler at her story "The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things" and Nancy Kress at 'Down Behind Cuba Lake." Introduction, authors' note. xvi , 427 pp. Cover art by Laura Freas. ISBN: 0-681-005254.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48024More details Price: $50.00 -
EMERALD MAGIC: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by THREE authors - Charles De Lint at his story "The Butter Spirit's Tithe" ; Jacqueline Carey at "Isle of Women" and L. E. Modesitt, Jr, at "The Swan Pilot." Also includes stories by Jane Lindskold, Ray Bradbury, Jane Yolen, Judith Tarr, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Morgan Llewelyn, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Hayden and others. Notes about the authors. 364 pp. ISBN: 0-7653-05046.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (name on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 57330More details Price: $45.00 -
STARFALL ( A Star Drive Anthology. )
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
Renton, WA: TSR, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - A book in the Star Drive series. SIGNED by Kristine Kathryn Rusch at her story "The Great Negotiator." 338 pp. ISBN: 0-7869-1355X.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 52062More details Price: $12.00 -
BENDING THE LANDSCAPE: Science Fiction, Volume One.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The first book in a new series of original gay and lesbian writing, a "groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's and science fiction's most notable and daring writers - gay and straight - creating worlds where time and place and sexuality are alternative to the empirical environment." Among the contributors are Keith Hartman, Ellen Klages, Jim Grimsley, Rebecca Ore, Stephen Baxter and more. SIGNED by Nancy Kress at her story "State of Nature." Notes on authors. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-879517328.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88824More details Price: $18.50 -
THE YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR: 2013 Edition.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback original.
Prime Books, (2013). SIGNED first edition - Includes stories by Peter S. Beagle, Jim Butcher, Neil Gaiman, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Ellen Klages, Joseph Bruchac, Jeffrey Ford, Genevieve Valentine and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors at their stories: Ken Liu at "Good Hunting," Joe R. Lansdale at "The Tall Grass" and John Shirley at "When Death Wakes Me to Myself." Brief bios of each author at the end of each story. 527 pp. ISBN: 978-1607013976.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64035More details Price: $50.00 -
TIME TRAVELERS: Fiction in the Fourth Dimension.
Edition: First thus - a hardcover reissue.
New York: Barnes and Noble Books, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short fiction edited and introduced by Peter Haining, originally published under the title "Timescapes." Includes stories by William Gibson, J. G. Ballard, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Martin Amis, Brian Aldiss, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, and many more. SIGNED by William Nolan at his story "Time and Kathy Benedict." 288 pp. ISBN: 0-760709149.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 88963More details Price: $30.00 -
BEST SF: 1971.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1972.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Harry Harrison on the title page. An anthology collecting the best science fiction stories (and even some poetry by Kingsley Amis and Charles Baxter) of the year from the best sf magazines (and other magazines too) - the fifth in this series. Included are contributions from Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Sheckley, Donald Barthleme, Cynthia Ozick, Gahan Wilson, Richard E. Peck, Norman Spinrad and more. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-399-109846.
Condition: Very good in a fine dust jacket. (tape ghosts on the endpapers, discoloration on front free endpaper, but overall a tight, straight and clean copy.) Uncommon, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 57420More details Price: $45.00 -
BEST SF: 1973.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1974.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by Harry Harrison on the title page. An anthology collecting the best science fiction stories (and even some poetry, including one by W. H. Auden) of the year from the best sf magazines (and other magazines too) - the seventh in this series. Included are contributions from Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, R .A. Lafferty, Joe Haldeman, Kingsley Amis, Michael Bishop and more.Intrduction by Harrison and afterword by Aldiss. xvii, 238 pp. ISBN: 0-399113010.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (tape ghosts on the endpapers, discoloration on front free endpaper, slight spine slant and some reading wear. ) Uncommon, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 78561More details Price: $30.00 -
BEST SF: 75: THE 9TH ANNUAL.
Edition: First printing.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1976.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of stories by Joh Updike, Algis Budyrs, Thomas M. Disch, Michael Moorcook and more. SIGNED by Joe Haldeman at his story 'End Game' - part of 'The Forever War.' Introduction by Harrison and an afterword 'Science Fiction on the Titanic' by Aldiss. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-672-521970.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (discoloration to endpapers, shelfwear to lower edges of boards, corners slightly bumped,)
Book ID: 51497More details Price: $30.00 -
NOVA 2.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Walker, (1972.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An anthology of fifteen original stories. SIGNED by Robert Silverberg at his story 'Now + n, Now - n." Also includes contributions from Robert Sheckley, Frank M Robinson, Barry N. Malzberg, Philip Jose Farmer, Naomi Mitchison, Damon Knight and more. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-5550x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 42677More details Price: $50.00