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Bell, Hilari - The Book of Sorahb 1: Flame - Simon & Schuster - 117098   € 6,50 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 2003 - HC with dust jacket - 344 p. - In this first volume of The Book of Sorahb, Bell introduces readers to a world of honor, danger, and magic in a spellbinding tale of self-discovery of three young people who watch as their world is torn apart. (VG) |
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Bemmann, Hans - The Broken Goddess - Penguin - 4147016 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1993 - paperback - 234 p. - After giving a lecture on the contemporary relevance of fairy tales, a skeptical young scholar leaves the hall and steps into a living fairy tale.... (VG-, kreukje) |
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Benford, Gregory & Brin, David - Heart of the Comet - Bantam - 9071188 € 5,00 Essef - 1987 - pocket - 477 p. - An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future. (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory & Brin, David - Heart of the Comet - Bantam - 9143001 € 3,75 Essef - 1987 - pocket - 477 p. - An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future. (VG-, weak spine) |
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Benford, Gregory & Eklund, Gordon - Find the Changeling - Dell - 4153468 € 2,00 Essef - 1980 - first printing - pocket - 249 p. - The Changeling could become anyone or anything - man, woman, child, animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction. Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of Alvea for its next mission - to throw an entire world into eternal chaos and madness. (G+, front cover top edge chip) |
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Benford, Gregory & Eklund, Gordon - If the Stars are Gods - Ace - 4127361 € 4,00 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 215 p. - The complete version of the unforgettable masterpiece, that went from Nebula Award-winner to a timeless classic. Aliens have come to Earth in search of a man who knows the stars, and that man is Bradley Reynolds. They want to know whether the sun loves us. And what Reynolds finds in the end is a transformation so glorious as to be far beyond his capacity to dream - a universe where beings are collected like songs. (F) |
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Benford, Gregory & Eklund, Gordon - If the Stars are Gods - Berkley - 4150861 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - 2nd printing - pocket - 219 p. - The complete version of the unforgettable masterpiece, that went from Nebula Award-winner to a timeless classic. Aliens have come to Earth in search of a man who knows the stars, and that man is Bradley Reynolds. They want to know whether the sun loves us. And what Reynolds finds in the end is a transformation so glorious as to be far beyond his capacity to dream - a universe where beings are collected like songs. (VG-, faded spine) |
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Benford, Gregory & Rotsler, William - Shiva Descending - TOR - 113364 € 3,50 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 394 p. - A gigantic asteroid the size of a mountain, Shiva is set to hit Earth with the force of a hundred thousand nuclear bombs, poised to destroy all life on Earth and blast the human race into instant extinction. Only a last-ditch space mission has a chance of saving the Earth - or what's left of it after the first asteroid rainshower. (VG-, browning) |
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Benford, Gregory - Artifact - TOR - 9142897 € 4,25 Essef - 1986 - thick pocket - 533 p. - A small cube of black rock has been unearthed in a 3500-year-old Mycenaean tomb. An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age, its purpose, and its origins are unknown. Its discovery has unleashed a global storm of intrigue, theft and espionage, and is pushing nations to the brink of war. Its substance has scientists baffled. And the miracle it contains does not belong on this Earth. It is mystery and madness - an enigma with no equal in recorded history. It is mankind's greatest discovery... and worst nightmare. It may have already obliterated a world. Ours is next. (VG-) |
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Benford, Gregory - Galactic Center 5: Furious Gulf - Bantam - 4090286 € 2,50 Essef - 1995 - pocket - 341 p. - The third part of the "Galactic Centre" sequence, following "Great Sky River" and "Tides of Light". On the run again, Killeen and his group are approaching the heart of the galaxy - the Core. And here they find that life-forms do not necessarily need planets or atmospheres. (G, chip, corner fold) |
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Benford, Gregory - Great Sky River - Bantam - 4090284 € 5,00 Essef - 1988 - pocket - 340 p. - Set at the center of our galaxy, within which lurks a black hole a million times more massive than our own sun. It is a future dominated by artificial minds... And the last remnants of humanity are on a desperate flight from extinction, crossing the barren wastes of a once-lush planet called Snowglade... (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - In Alien Flesh - Gollancz - 4152551 € 3,75 Essef - 1986 - pocket - 280 p. - The award-winning author (If the Stars Are Gods, Timescape has a reputation for bridging the often hostile camps of hard-science SF and the more literary, humanist variety. In this collection of stories from the past decade, however, his contentious... (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - In the Ocean of Night - Bantam - 4142912 € 5,00 Essef - 1994 - pocket - 321 p. - A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of "Timescape." (F) |
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Benford, Gregory - In the Ocean of Night - Dell - 4109554 € 3,50 Essef - 1978 - first Dell printing - pocket - 333 p. - A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of "Timescape." (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - In the Ocean of Night - Bantam - 4126702 € 3,50 Essef - 1988 - 3rd printing - pocket - 321 p. - A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of "Timescape." (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - In the Ocean of Night - Orbit - 076270 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 333 p. - A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of "Timescape." (G, spotted) |
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Benford, Gregory - In the Ocean of Night - Warner / Aspect - 4154288 € 3,00 Essef - 2004 - pocket - 435 p. - Essef - A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of "Timescape." (VG-, name inside) |
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Benford, Gregory - Jupiter Project 2: Against Infinity - Pocket Books - 121508 € 3,50 Essef - 1984 - pocket - 251 p. - A gripping, masterfully written adventure set against the violent beauty of a planet in the throes of cataclymic transformation, Against Infinity is Gregory Benford's timeless portrait of a young man's comming of age... (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - Martian Race 1: The Martian Race - Warner - 9113191 € 12,50 Essef - 1999 - first WB printing - hardcover with dust jacket - 340 p. - After a failed NASA mission to Mars, the US government abandons all plans for further manned voyages. Billionaire businessman John Axelrod takes up the challenge to complete the first private mission to the planet. Then comes news that a Chinese-European group are launching a rival mission. (F) |
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Benford, Gregory - The Stars in Shroud - Sphere - 4082050 € 4,50 Essef - 1986 - reprint - pocket - 273 p. - The Quarn struck this universe like a violet streak of strangeness, and an Empire was gone: firestormed with a spark from the first campfires of Olduvai, leaving the Galaxy littered with the unremembered works of Man... (VG-) |
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Benford, Gregory - Tides of Light - Bantam - 9110063 € 5,00 Essef - 1989 - pocket - 407 p. - Continuing the story begun in Great Sky River, Benford creates a stunning novel of the last band of humans fleeing extinction in the Galactic Center. And with one enemy behind them, the humans are dismayed to discover on a remote planet an alien race more awesome than any they have encountered. (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - Tides of Light - Gollancz - 9129995 € 3,75 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 362 p. - Continuing the story begun in Great Sky River, Benford creates a stunning novel of the last band of humans fleeing extinction in the Galactic Center. And with one enemy behind them, the humans are dismayed to discover on a remote planet an alien race more awesome than any they have encountered. (VG-, name inside) |
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Benford, Gregory - Timescape - Pocket Books - 4090327 € 4,50 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 366 p. - The Nebula award winning classic. 1962: a young Californian scientist finds his experiments spoiled by mysterious interference. Gradually his investigations lead him to the shattering truth that scientists from the end of the century are using subatomic particles to send a message into the past to try and avert disaster. (VG-) |
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Benjamin, Chloe - The Immortalists - Tinder Press - 8152608 € 8,50 Essef - 2018 - paperback - 417 p. - It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to... (VG-) |
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Benjamin, Curt - Seven Brothers 3: The Gates of Heaven - Daw - 9145108 € 5,00 Fantasy - 2004 - pocket - 516 p. - The magnificent Seven Brothers series continues with The Gates of Heaven...Even as Prince Llesho's hard-won alliances are threatened, he is caught in a race against time and the evil sorcerer Markko, as he struggles to complete his prophecy-fulfilling quest. Will the price of Llesho's quest prove too high to pay? For every step forward must be paid for with the lifeblood of those he holds dear... (VG+) |
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Benjamin, Curt - Seven Brothers, 1: The Prince of Shadow - Daw - 9148004 € 6,75 Fantasy - 2002 - pocket - 511 p. - Sold into slavery by the ruthless invaders who killed his father, Llesho grows up on Pearl Island, trained as a diver, until a vision of his six... (VG) |
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Benjamin, Curt - The Prince of Dreams - Daw - 9147797 € 5,50 Fantasy - 2003 - pocket - 512 p. - Joining forces with two of his long-lost brothers, the trickster god, the Emperor Shou, several gladiators, and a young witch, Llesho continues his... (F) |
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Bennett, Marcia J. - Ni-Lach 3: Beyond the Draak's Teeth - Del Rey - 113354 € 3,00 Essef - 1986 - pocket - 278 p. - Only Bhaldavin, the young Ni-Lach, stood between the humans - and death! (VG) |
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Bensen, Donald R. - And Having Writ... - Ace - 4113564 € 2,25 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 250 p. - The moving finger writes. Bensen has for years been a major SF editor. Who knew he had such a novel in him... (VG-, cover puncture) |
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Bent, Jorj - Sometime After the Equinox - Tower - 4152734 € 3,75 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 281 p. - Thrown back in time 11,900 years, a contemporary man must save the future by defeating mystical evil! (VG-, name inside) |
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Bentley, C. F. - Harmony - Daw - 9154058 € 8,50 Essef - 2008 - 1st printing - HC with dust jacket - 404 p. - Isolated from the rest of the universe, the world of Harmony and its close-knit colony planets are drawn into the conflict between the human-based Confederate Star System and the alien Marillon Empire, with their unique natural resources at stake,... (VG-, store stamp inside) |
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Beresford, Elisabeth - The Wombles - Benn - 8114493 € 5,00 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 1973 - 2nd impression - HC with dust jacket - 189 p. - Have you ever seen a Womble? Their television appearances have made several of the Wombles, who live with their two hundred and forty/three relations under the Wimbledon Common, well/known to millions of viewers. (G, discolouration of dust jacket) |
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Bergamini, David - Venus Development - Popular Library - 108065 € 2,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 304 p. - Adventure beyond even Space: 1999! A space flotilla of earth rebels, in humankind's ultimate gamble for survival! (VG) |
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Berg, Carol - Books of the Rai-kirah 1 : Transformation - Orbit - 9153869 € 6,00 Fantasy - 2001 - thick pocket - 506 p. - Seyonne is a man waiting to die. He has been a slave for sixteen years and has lost everything of meaning to him: his dignity, the people and homeland he loves, and the Warden's power that enables him to step into a human soul and do battle with... (VG+) |
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Berg, Carol - Collegia Magica 1: The Spirit Lens - ROC - 9132024 € 6,50 Fantasy - 2011 - pocket - 487 p. - In a kingdom on the verge of a grand renaissance, where natural science has supplanted failing sorcery, someone aims to revive a savage rivalry... For Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, sorcery's decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life's bitter disappointments. Reduced to tending the library at Sabria's last collegia magica, he fights off despair with scholarship... (VG-, number inside "1") |
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Berg, Carol - Collegia Magica 2: The Soul Mirror - ROC - 9132021 € 6,50 Fantasy - 2012 - pocket - 533 p. - With no magic talent of her own, Anne de Vernase must take on her sister's magical legacy to unravel the secrets behind the dark sorcery besieging the royal city of Merona-and to uncover the truth behind her sister's death. (VG-, number inside "2") |
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Berg, Carol - Collegia Magica 3: The Daemon Prism - ROC - 9132023 € 6,50 Fantasy - 2013 - pocket - 575 p. - Dante the necromancer is the most reviled man in Sabria, indicted by for crimes against the living and the dead. He salves bitterness with a magical puzzle - a desperate soldier's dream of an imprisoned sorceress and a faceted glass that can grant one's utmost desires. But the dream is a seductive trap. Haunted, blind, driven to the verges of the world, Dante must risk everything he values to unravel a mystery of ancient magic, sacred legend, and the truth of the divine... (VG-, number inside "3") |
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Bergin, Paul A. - Xuan and the Girl from the Other Side - Tower - 4113998 € 3,00 Essef - 1969 - pocket - 138 p. - The Omegans and the zombie-like Telix were battling for control of the circular city. The Omegans stood for freedoma and love, the Telix for repression and ruthless conformity. Outmatched in ferocity, outnumbered in men, the Omegans were fighting a hopeless battle. It was then that Xuan set out on an assignment riddled with dangers and bizarre sexual encounters... (VG) |
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Bernard, Rafe - Invaders 3: The Halo Highway - Corgi - 118467 € 2,50 Essef - 1967 - pocket - 158 p. - Could David Vincent discover the ghastly secret of the Army of the Undead? (VG) |
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Bernobich, Beth - River of Souls 1: Passion Play - TOR - 9154298 € 3,75 Fantasy - 2012 - thick pocket - 532 p. - Lush fantasy. Wild magic. Intrigue, seduction, and treachery, with a kingdom at stake. "Passion Play" is the journey of a woman who must master her passions in order to win all that she desires. (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
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Bernobich, Beth - River of Souls 2: Queen's Hunt - TOR - 4154297 € 5,00 Fantasy - 2013 - pocket - 408 p. - The second title in Bernobich's River of Souls novels, following her startling debut, "Passion Play." Two women become allies in their quest for a third jewel, that means salvation or ruin for their people. (VG) |
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Berry, James R. - Quas Starbrite - Bantam - 121334 € 2,25 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 214 p. - A young star pilot battles a dark horde from beyond space. (VG) |
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Besaw, Victor - The Alien - Fawcett Crest - 4153559 € 2,50 Heroic Fantasy - 1979 - Gold Medal pocket - 191 p. - Godranec, a Nyarlethu of the dwarf nations, suddenly found himself a stranger in a strange land, the captive of a blacksmith and his wife. He wanted desperately to return to his people. He had vague but persistent memories of... (VG-, bottom edge of cover has small damage) |
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Besher, Alexander - Virtual Reality 1: Rim - Harper Prism - 4142936 € 4,50 Essef - 1996 - pocket - 310 p. - Welcome to the World of Rim. The year is 2027. Greenspace patrols the cosmos, Gamespace has been infiltrated by Tibetan zombies and tantric viruses, and the information superhighway forces lanes through our brains. And while everyone loves the interactive sushi and the way virtual reality can unite Tai Chi students with their long-dead masters, neural technology can also go haywire - with potentially deadly, but relentlessly entertaining, consequences... (F) |
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Besher, Alexander - Virtual Reality 3: Chi - Orbit - 091725 € 3,50 Essef - 1999 - pocket - 306 p. - It's the year 2038, and the newest offering on the drug market is chi, the very essence of life-force that can now be drawn from unwilling donors and transfused into the rich, allowing them longer lives, better sex, and enhanced intelligence and vitality. In Bangkok, the lord of this drug trade is Wing Fat, a 650-pound transsexual who discovers that another race superior to Homo sapiens already walks among us. From this new race comes a brand of chi more powerful than that stolen from victims on Wing Fat's slave farms; now Fat is adamant about getting more from the mysterious source... (VG) |
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Bester, Alfred - The Computer Connection - Berkley - 4150842 € 3,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 217 p. - a.k.a. ''Extro". A band of immortals recruit physicist Sequoya Guess - who gains control of Extro, the super-computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. But the task of the merry suddenly becomes a fight for the future of Earth. Sequoya Guess must be killed. And how do you kill an immortal? (VG) |
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Bester, Alfred - The Deceivers - TOR - 4152549 € 4,00 Essef - 1987 - 2nd printing - illustrated - 304 p. - Rogue Winter is King of the Maori Commandos. His lover is the beautiful Demi Jeroux, who has been kidnapped by the villanous Manchu Duke of Death. Rogue must search through the solar system to find the missing Demi Jeroux. But she is merely a pawn in the Duke of Death's gambit to seize control. (VG-) |
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Bester, Alfred - The Demolished Man - Penguin - 4152613 € 2,25 Essef - 1966 - pocket - 191 p. - Ben Reich sets out to conquer the galactic empires of the 24th century. His enemies are 'the peepers', the elite who can read men's mind... (VG-) |
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Betancourt, John G. - Rememory - Warner / Questar - 113353 € 2,75 Essef - 1990 - first printing - pocket - 197 p. - In the black market of the future, some technology is worth killing for... (G+, mild foxing) |
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Biggle, Lloyd - All the Colours of Darkness (NEL) - NEL - 4011057 € 2,50 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 192 p - The Universal Transmitting Company has produced a transmitter capable to transport a person instantaneously from and to terminals in the USA. Soon things go terribly wrong! (VG) |
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Biggle, Lloyd - All the Colours of Darkness (NEL) - NEL - 4101497 € 2,00 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 192 p - The Universal Transmitting Company has produced a transmitter capable to transport a person instantaneously from and to terminals in the USA. Soon things go terribly wrong! (VG-) |
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Biggle, Lloyd - All the Colours of Darkness (Penguin) - Penguin - 032655 € 2,50 Essef - 1966 - pocket - 204 p - The Universal Transmitting Company has produced a transmitter capable to transport a person instantaneously from and to terminals in the USA. Soon things go terribly wrong! (VG) |
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Biggle, Lloyd - All the Colours of Darkness (Penguin) - Penguin - 4148059 € 2,00 Essef - 1966 - pocket - 204 p - The Universal Transmitting Company has produced a transmitter capable to transport a person instantaneously from and to terminals in the USA. Soon things go terribly wrong! (VG-) |
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Biggle, Lloyd - The Fury out of Time - Berkley - 4131533 € 2,25 Essef - 1965 - pocket - 223 p. - The mysterious object ripped across the landscape, tearing a spiral path of devastation along its route; after it crashed, military intelligence took it to Hatch Air Force Base and began a series of top secret tests, trying to uncover the workings of the craft; when the ship was opened, they found an extraordinarily instrumented capsule and the body of a humanoid pilot; as the military was investigating the ship, it was accidentally dispatched again; it reappeared: this time with a new navigator, and destroyed a small French village; the strange craft held the solution to many intriguing problems, including the mystery of time travel. (VG-, cover corner fold) |
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Biggle, Lloyd - The Light that Never was + Monument - NEL - 9083875 € 4,00 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 240+173 p. - Double novel. Monument: A paradise in space, under threat of being turned into a resort world. But the natives have a secret plan for their own survival. (VG) |
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Biggle, Lloyd - The Light that Never was + Monument - NEL - 9101499 € 2,50 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 240+173 p. - Double novel. Monument: A paradise in space, under threat of being turned into a resort world. But the natives have a secret plan for their own survival. (VG-. name on first page, creasing backstrip) |
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Biggle, Lloyd - The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets - Sphere - 4127107 € 3,00 Essef - 1970's - pocket - 192 p - Interplanetary agent Jef Forzon's mission was to touch off a democratic revolution among the oppressed and brutalized people of the planet Kurr. The ruler of Kurr, King Rovva, had so brilliantly controlled his people, through a mixture of torture and kindness, that few were ready to follow young Forzon, and many were ready to betray him.Alone, with a price on his head, Forzon must find a means to "turn on" this music-loving people before it was too late. (VG) |
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Biggle, Lloyd - The Still, Small Voice of Trumpets - Sphere - 4091509 € 1,50 Essef - 1970's - pocket - 192 p - Interplanetary agent Jef Forzon's mission was to touch off a democratic revolution among the oppressed and brutalized people of the planet Kurr. The ruler of Kurr, King Rovva, had so brilliantly controlled his people, through a mixture of torture and kindness, that few were ready to follow young Forzon, and many were ready to betray him.Alone, with a price on his head, Forzon must find a means to "turn on" this music-loving people before it was too late. (VG-, name inside) |
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Binder, Eando - Anton York, Immortal - Belmont - 4032700 € 2,25 Essef - 1965 - pocket - 158 p. - Anton York has discovered the secret of voluntary suspended animation and requires no food or air. He can live where he pleases, when he pleases, for as long as he wants. Somewhere in the dim future ages this man-made God must die. But how? A science fiction classic! (VG) |
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Binder, Eando - Anton York, Immortal - Belmont - 4113562 € 2,50 Essef - 1969 - pocket - 158 p. - Anton York has discovered the secret of voluntary suspended animation and requires no food or air. He can live where he pleases, when he pleases, for as long as he wants. Somewhere in the dim future ages this man-made God must die. But how? A science fiction classic! (VG) |
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Bischoff, David F. & Bailey, Dennis R. - Tin Woodman - Ace - 4119015 € 2,50 Essef - 1985 - 2nd printing - pocket - 182 p. - Talents. This is what 'Normals' call children born with psionic abilities, hated and feared for their powers, they are nonetheless raised to be of service to Normal society. (VG-) |
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Bischoff, David F. & Monteleone, Thomas F. - Dragonstar 1: Day of the Dragonstar - Berkley - 4122168 € 3,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 291 p. - An artificial Jurassic world spins through space, kilometers long and made to order, build to endure for an eternity. An enticing mystery for the humans of the Heinlein exploratory mission, it holds deadly secrets from the universe's savage past... (VG+) |
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Bischoff, David - Nightworld - Ballantine - 4093270 € 2,75 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 197 p. - By day it was paradise. By night it was a seething hell. Nightworld - where for centures werewolves, dragons, griffins, and vampires served a computerized Prince of Darkness. Where every sunset brought forth a call for the most heinous acts imaginable by the most frightening creature of all... (VG) |
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Bischoff, David - Star Fall - Berkley - 4093267 € 3,00 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 233 p. - The first book in the Star Fall series. (VG) |
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Bischoff, David - The Gaming Magi 3: The Unicorn Gambit - Signet - 076265 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 237 p. - The final book in the 'Gaming Magi' trilogy. (VG) |
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Bishop, Michael & Watson, Ian - Urban Nucleus 3: Under Heaven's Bridge - Ace - 4150858 € 3,50 Essef - 1982 - pocket - 198 p. - A multinational expedition has landed on the planet Onogoro, a cold and dour world circling one star of a binary pair. Their objective is to investigate a strange alien race, known to the human visitors as the Kybers. These aliens, dwelling in a great network of ruined palaces, are partly biological creatures and partly machines, with the ability to switch themselves off at will. Expedition scientists discover that the Kyber's sun is soon to blaze up in a nova, yet the Kybers are not alarmed. (VG+) |
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Bishop, Michael & Watson, Ian - Urban Nucleus 3: Under Heaven's Bridge - Ace - 4142811 € 2,50 Essef - 1982 - pocket - 198 p. - A multinational expedition has landed on the planet Onogoro, a cold and dour world circling one star of a binary pair. Their objective is to investigate a strange alien race, known to the human visitors as the Kybers. These aliens, dwelling in a great network of ruined palaces, are partly biological creatures and partly machines, with the ability to switch themselves off at will. Expedition scientists discover that the Kyber's sun is soon to blaze up in a nova, yet the Kybers are not alarmed. (G, corner chip) |
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Bishop, Anne - Tir Alainn 1 : The Pillars of the World - ROC - 9153756 € 5,00 Fantasy - 2001 - pocket - 436 p. - The first novel in New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's Tir Alainn Trilogy. The youngest in a long line of witches, Ari senses that things are changing - changing for the worse. For generations, her kin have tended the Old Places, keeping... (VG+) |
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Bishop, George - The Shuttle People - Golden Apple - 082956 € 3,25 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 210 p. - They were a new breed of space-born supermen. Beyond the reach of Earths laws... (VG) |
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Bishop, Michael - A Little Knowledge - Berkley - 4093285 € 2,75 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 205 p. - The acclaimed SF novel of a born-again earth visited by pilgrims from beyond the stars. (VG-) |
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Bishop, Michael - Beneath the Shattered Moons - Daw - 4109386 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - first printing - pocket - 189 p. - Twelve thousand years in the future, on the island of Ongladred, mankind has survived two enigmatic, civilization-destroying setbacks. Now a third holocaust is anticipated. The people fear invasion by barbarians... (VG) |
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Bishop, Michael - Count Geiger's Blues - Orb - 8142802 € 7,50 Essef - 1994 - paperback - 374 p. - Critic Xavier Thaxton detests popular culture. But when a wildly improbable plunge into a pool of toxic waste gives him an allergy to High Art and transforms him into (of all things) a costumed superhero, he is forced to reconsider his values - and his life. (VG) |
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Bishop, Michael - No Enemy but Time - Pocket Books - 4092046 € 3,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 397 p. - Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the understanding of eminent palaeontologists. As a result, Joshua is invited to join a most unusual time travel project and is transported millions of years into the past of his dreams... (VG) |
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Bishop, Michael - No Enemy but Time - Timescape - 8142804 € 7,50 Essef - 1982 - HC with dust jacket - 339 p. - Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dreamed of Africa. But his dreams are of an Africa far in the past and are so vivid and in such hallucinatory detail that he is able to question the understanding of eminent palaeontologists. As a result, Joshua is invited to join a most unusual time travel project and is transported millions of years into the past of his dreams... (VG-, minor wear) |
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Bishop, Michael - Transfigurations - Berkley - 4142809 € 3,00 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 311 p. - In a clearing in a continental forest on the planet BoskVeld, a hominoid species of alien, the Asadi, daily act out their enigmatic rituals. These lithe, mane-bearing simian creatures trudge about obsessively, their rainbow eyes spinning like pinwheels. Egan Chaney in his anthropological study, "Death and Designation among the Asadi," has persuasively suggested that their lifestyle has devolved from a level of high technological sophistication to one of brute simplicity... (VG) |
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Bishop, Michael - Unicorn Mountain - Grafton - 102922 € 4,75 Fantasy - 1989 - pocket - 495 p. - Unicorns roam the uplands of Libby Quarrels' mountain ranch. When Libby takes the AIDS-afflicted Bo Gavin out of exile in Atlanta to live with her in Colorado, she sees no connection between his disease and the fantastic secret she guards. But it so happens the unicorns suffer from an ugly, implacable plague of their own, and the parallel world that touches the high country has unleashed magic sinister as well as marvelous... (VG) |
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Bishop, Michael - Unicorn Mountain - Arbor House - 8142800 € 7,50 Fantasy - 1988 - HC with dust jacket - 406 p. - Unicorns roam the uplands of Libby Quarrels' mountain ranch. When Libby takes the AIDS-afflicted Bo Gavin out of exile in Atlanta to live with her in Colorado, she sees no connection between his disease and the fantastic secret she guards. But it so happens the unicorns suffer from an ugly, implacable plague of their own, and the parallel world that touches the high country has unleashed magic sinister as well as marvelous... (VG-) |
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Bishop, Michael - Unicorn Mountain - Bantam - 4150859 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1989 - pocket - 418 p. - Unicorns roam the uplands of Libby Quarrels' mountain ranch. When Libby takes the AIDS-afflicted Bo Gavin out of exile in Atlanta to live with her in Colorado, she sees no connection between his disease and the fantastic secret she guards. But it so happens the unicorns suffer from an ugly, implacable plague of their own, and the parallel world that touches the high country has unleashed magic sinister as well as marvelous... (VG) |
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Bixby, Jerome - Space by the Tale - Ballantine - 4152628 € 3,00 Essef - 1964 - pocket - 159 p. - Eleven stories. Scintillating science fiction, diverse and diverting.(VG-, name inside) |
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Black, Christopher - Star Challenge 3: The Cosmic Funhouse - Dell - 4142851 € 3,00 Essef - JUVENILE - 1984 - first printing - paperback - 117 p. - How do you rate as a space ace? (VG-) |
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Blake, E. C. - Masks of Aygrima 2: Shadows - Daw - 4140706 € 3,00 Fantasy - 2015 - pocket - 342 p. In Masks, Mara Holdfast's life changed forever. As the daughter of the Autarch's Master Maskmaker, she had a clearly defined future: a quiet, ordered life in the capital, making Masks with her father and doing work important to the ruling Autarch. But when her Mask, specially made by her own father, cracked and fell to pieces during her Masking ceremony, Mara was exiled from everything she once knew... (G, corner fold) |
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Blake, Kendare - Three Dark Crowns 3 : Two Dark Reigns - Harper Teen - 9149871 € 7,75 Fantasy - YOUNG ADULT - 2018 - paperback - 447 p. - One Crowned, Two Exiled, A Revolution Rising. The battle has been fought, blood has been spilt and a queen has been crowned, but not all are happy with the outcome. Katharine, the poisoner queen, has been crowned and is trying to ignore the whispers that call her illegitimate, undead, cursed. Mirabella and Arsinoe have escaped the island of Fennbirn, but how long before the island calls them back?..(F) |
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Blakeney, Jay D. - Requiem for Anthi - Ace - 074040 € 3,00 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 202 p. - The world of Ruanti is nearly dead, its waters tainted and its earth scorched by a poisonous black sun. Yet a few have survived... (VG) |
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Blish, James & Knight, Norman L. - A Torrent of Faces - Ace - 4075221 € 2,50 Essef - 1967 - pocket - 286 p. - A vast, panoramic novel of the 28th Century... (VG) |
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Blish, James & Knight, Norman L. - A Torrent of Faces - Ace - 4021063 € 2,00 Essef - 1967 - pocket - 286 p. - A vast, panoramic novel of the 28th Century... (VG-, remaindered, sawblade mark) |
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Blish, James - ...And All the Stars a Stage - Corgi - 4093289 € 2,50 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 157 p. - An epic journey across the galaxy, searching for survival. (VG-) |
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Blish, James - A Case of Conscience - Ballantine - 4148694 € 2,75 Essef - 1958 - 1st printing - pocket - 188 p. - Father Ruiz-Sanchez was a dedicated man. A priest who was also a scientist, and a scientist who was also a human being. He found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics until he was sent to Lithia. There he came upon a race of aliens, reptilian in form, who were admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they were incapable of faith and belief... (VG-, name inside) |
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Blish, James - Cities in Flight 1: They Shall have Stars - Arrow - 4082059 € 2,50 Essef - 1974 - pocket - 178 p. - 2018 AD. The Cold Peace, worse even than the Cold War. The bureaucratic regimes which rule from Washington and Moscow are indistinguishable in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history. Behind the screen of official research their desperate project is nearing completion." (VG) |
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Blish, James - Cities in Flight 1: They Shall have Stars - Avon - 4114588 € 2,50 Essef - 1967 - 5th printing - pocket - 159 p. - 2018 AD. The Cold Peace, worse even than the Cold War. The bureaucratic regimes which rule from Washington and Moscow are indistinguishable in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history. Behind the screen of official research their desperate project is nearing completion." (VG) |
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Blish, James - Cities in Flight 1: Year 2018! - Four Square - 4052709 € 2,75 Essef - 1965 - pocket - 159 p. - 2018 AD. The Cold Peace, worse even than the Cold War. The bureaucratic regimes which rule from Washington and Moscow are indistinguishable in their passion for total repression. But in the West, a few dedicated individuals still struggle to find a way out of the trap of human history. Behind the screen of official research their desperate project is nearing completion." (VG-) |
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Blish, James - Cities in Flight 2: A Life for the Stars - Avon - 4090513 € 3,25 Essef - 1962 - pocket - 143 p. - Nomadic earth cities roam the planets... (VG) |
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Blish, James - Cities in Flight 2: A Life for the Stars - Avon - 4148617 € 2,25 Essef - 1966 - 3rd Avon printing - pocket - 143 p. - The earth's cities abandon the worn-out planet, hurtling off into the depths of space. (VG-, name inside) |
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Blish, James - Cities in Flight 3: Earthman, come Home - Avon - 109948 € 4,25 Essef - 1955? - pocket - 191 p. - War of the space cities! A wholly new concept of the far future. When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germanium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police imposed some kind of order on the spaceways... (VG) |
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Blish, James - Cities in Flight 3: Earthman, come Home - Avon - 090512 € 3,50 Essef - 1955? - pocket - 191 p. - War of the space cities! A wholly new concept of the far future. When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germanium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police imposed some kind of order on the spaceways... (G+, some damage on edge of spine) |
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Blish, James - Cities in Flight 3: Earthman, Come Home - Mayflower - 4116487 € 2,00 Essef - 1963 - reprint - pocket - 222 p. - War of the space cities! A wholly new concept of the far future. When the cities left Earth, they exchanged a simple environment for one of constant, sometimes shattering change. The Universe was littered with cultures in every conceivable stage of development. Only the iron hand of the germanium-backed economy and occasional interventions by the Earth police imposed some kind of order on the spaceways... (VG-, name inside) |
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Blish, James - Cities in Flight 4: The Triumph of Time - Avon - 4090511 € 3,50 Essef - 1958 - pocket - 158 p. - An exciting new science-fiction novel about the incredible world of anti-matter! In three years' time the two universes were doomed to inevitable, catastrophic collision! When the scientists of the wandering planet, journeying through intergalactic space, heard the sound of hydrogen atoms coming into existence out of nothing, they realized that they had accidentally discovered the birthplace of continuous creation... (VG) |
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Blish, James - ESP ER (Jack of Eagles) - Avon - 093292 € 3,00 Essef - 1959? - pocket - 190 p. - Danny Caiden's on the run from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department, and the Mob. Only recently, Danny had been an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone else wants him too: an evil group of preternatural men bent on world domination. They'll stop at nothing until they capture Danny... or destroy him. (VG) |
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Blish, James - ESP ER (Jack of Eagles) - Avon - 4148948 € 2,00 Essef - 1959? - pocket - 190 p. - Danny Caiden's on the run from the FBI, the SEC, the Justice Department, and the Mob. Only recently, Danny had been an average New York copywriter, until he suddenly found he had ESP. His knowledge of the future is astonishing, and the rest of Danny's powers are just beginning. But someone else wants him too: an evil group of preternatural men bent on world domination. They'll stop at nothing until they capture Danny... or destroy him. (VG-, name inside) |
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Blish, James - Fallen Star - Avon - 113366 € 3,00 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 191 p. - What could a North Pole expedition possibly reveal about the other planets? Only the most frightning thing of all... (VG-) |
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Blish, James - Fallen Star - Four Square - 4148959 € 2,50 Essef - 1961 - pocket - 156 p. - What could a North Pole expedition possibly reveal about the other planets? Only the most frightning thing of all... (VG-, name inside) |
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