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Reynolds, Alastair - Revelation Space 3: Redemption Ark - Gollancz - 9143578   € 11,50 Essef - 2002 - 1st edition - large paperback - 567 p. - Return to the universe of REVELATION SPACE: the Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed! Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect life and then suppress it... but after hundreds of millions of years, the machines started to fail and intelligent cultures started to emerge. Then Dr Dan Sylveste and the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the Amarintin race... and awakened the Inhibitors. On Yellowstone, where no one is quite who they appear, the Inquisitor and the planet's Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials... (VG) |
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Reynolds, Alastair - Revelation Space 5: The Prefect - Gollancz - 9150654 € 14,00 Essef - 2007 - HC with dust jacket - 410 p. - om Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life. A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case - until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. (F) |
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Reynolds, Alastair - Revenger Universe 1: Revenger - Gollancz - 9150621 € 17,50 Essef - 2016 - HC with dust jacket - 425 p. - The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilisations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives. And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them... Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded with layers of protection - and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely-remembered technologies inside... (F) |
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Reynolds, Mack - After Some Tomorrow - Belmont - 4090430 € 3,00 Essef - 1967 - pocket - 158 p. - A world could be changed by ESP, but only if a man wanted to risk everything. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - After Some Tomorrow - Belmont - 4131191 € 2,00 Essef - 1967 - pocket - 158 p. - A world could be changed by ESP, but only if a man wanted to risk everything. (VG-) |
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Reynolds, Mack - After Utopia - Ace - 108011 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 250 p. - It is the far future. Earth is a beautifully planned, efficiently run and happily united. But still it is a world with problems- people have become so lazy, so self-satisfied, that human progress has all but ceased. Addicts of the newly-developed "programmed dreams" are increasing at an enormous rate. Only a few individuals realize that the human race is destroying itself. This book is about what those few people do. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Bat Hardin 1: Commune 2000 A.D. - Bantam - 090420 € 2,50 Essef - 1974 - pocket - 181 p. - The secret rebellion against the greatest society in human history. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Bat Hardin 1: Commune 2000 A.D. - Bantam - 4148394 € 2,00 Essef - 1974 - pocket - 181 p. - The secret rebellion against the greatest society in human history. (VG-, name inside) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Depression or Bust + Dawnman Planet - Ace - 4122204 € 3,00 Essef - 1974 - pocket - 157 + 156 p. - The two complete novels presented in this book are typical examples of Mack Reynolds' exceptional talents. Dawnman Planet is a classic interplanetary adventure of the United Planets Organization, a popular feature of many of Reynolds' novels, and its attempts to prevent a power hungry madman and an advanced alien intelligence from conquering the galaxy. And Depression Or Bust, a novel making its first paperback appearance, is a biting but insightful satire on the political chaos resulting from an economic collapse that sweeps the United States of the future. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Earth Unaware - Leisure Books - 4122207 € 3,00 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 174 p. - His words alone could change the world-his words alone DID change the world. Was it mass hypnosis, a hex, or THE POWER? - "This is one of most the unusual books we have ever published & defies categorization: it is more than sci-fi , more than a novel. It is one of the most shocking books you will ever read".. The Editor. (VG+) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Earth Unaware - Leisure Books - 4147773 € 2,00 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 174 p. - His words alone could change the world-his words alone DID change the world. Was it mass hypnosis, a hex, or THE POWER? - "This is one of most the unusual books we have ever published & defies categorization: it is more than sci-fi , more than a novel. It is one of the most shocking books you will ever read".. The Editor. (VG-, name inside) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Equality: in the Year 2000 - Ace - 4093571 € 3,25 Essef - 1977 - 1st Ace printing - pocket - 272 p. - A Science Fiction Novel. Sequel to: Looking Backward, from the Year 2000. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Galactic Medal of Honor - Ace - 033078 € 2,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 279 p. - It was the highest and most coveted award of all time. It was given to only the bravest among those defending Earth from the mysterious Kradens. Many had sacrificed their lives for it. The current bearer of the medal became the idol of all mankind - a man above the law, a man who would never want for anything. One man was going to cheat to win it - and live to regret it. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Galactic Medal of Honour - Magnum - 081355 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 279 p. - It was the highest and most coveted award of all time. It was given to only the bravest among those defending Earth from the mysterious Kradens. Many had sacrificed their lives for it. The current bearer of the medal became the idol of all mankind - a man above the law, a man who would never want for anything. One man was going to cheat to win it - and live to regret it. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Joe Mauser 2: The Earth War - Four Square - 4148399 € 2,50 Essef - 1965 - pocket - 141 p. - Soldiers of fortune in the war-crazy world of the 21st century... (VG-, name inside) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Joe Mauser 3: The Fracas Factor - Stoneshire Books - 081354 € 3,00 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 192 p. - In a future world of perfect peace, someone was trying to kill Joe Mauser! (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Joe Mauser 3: The Fracas Factor - Stoneshire Books - 4148371 € 2,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 192 p. - In a future world of perfect peace, someone was trying to kill Joe Mauser! (VG-, name inside) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Looking Backward, from the Year 2000 - Ace - 110825 € 3,00 Essef - 1973 - first Ace printing - pocket - 237 p. - Awake in a dream of the future! A book in the Julian West series. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - North African Trilogy 3: The Best Ye Breed - Ace - 4093583 € 3,25 Essef - 1978 - first Ace printing - pocket - 279 p. - Alexander Ghengis Khan Napoleon, Liberator of North Africa, charismatic conqueror of Islam... in reality he is Homer Crawford, "turncoat" black American sociologist who is determined to lead the Dark Continent into the modern age by whatever means are necessary. Arrayed against him are all the forces of the status quo: the combined military might of the North African states, mercenary hirelings of corrupt oil sheikdoms, Moslem religious fanatics, and the American CIA. Only the people are for El Hassan, and they, only so long as he is victorious. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Perchance to Dream - Ace - 4093573 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - 1st Ace printing - pocket - 229 p. - It looked remarkably like a sterile, cold metallic coffin. It was the intuitive computer, fantastic invention that would allow a user to assume the identity of any historical figure. Napoleon, Cleopatra, Hitler, anyone who ever existed... (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Perchance to Dream - Ace - 4113082 € 2,25 Essef - 1977 - 1st Ace printing - pocket - 229 p. - It looked remarkably like a sterile, cold metallic coffin. It was the intuitive computer, fantastic invention that would allow a user to assume the identity of any historical figure. Napoleon, Cleopatra, Hitler, anyone who ever existed... (VG-) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Police Patrol: 2000 A.D. - Ace - 4111505 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - 1st Ace printing - pocket - 181 p. - Mack Reynolds presents his readers with an imaginative and action-packed look into the everyday life of a twenty-first century policeman. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Rex Bader 5: Chaos in Lagrangia - TOR - 122212 € 3,00 Essef - 1984 - pocket - 256 p. - Rex Bader has finally solved the mystery of who is trying to kill the Director of the first L-5 space colony. The Mafia? The KGB? Anti-Space fanatics? Answer: all three. The question now is can Rex continue to protect the Director against his many enemies. If he can't the history of man in space may be short indeed. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Rolltown - Ace - 4033077 € 2,25 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 165 p. - In this novel an entire colony of artists is able to move en mass across the Mexican border, with plans to head farther south into Central America. The basic notion of entire communities of nonconformists traveling freely from one country to another was simple but ultimately powerful. Who knows? It may yet become a reality. (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Rolltown - Ace - 4148660 € 2,00 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 165 p. - In this novel an entire colony of artists is able to move en mass across the Mexican border, with plans to head farther south into Central America. The basic notion of entire communities of nonconformists traveling freely from one country to another was simple but ultimately powerful. Who knows? It may yet become a reality. (VG-, name inside) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Space Pioneer - Four Square - 4032278 € 2,25 Essef - 1966 - pocket - 160 p. - When space conquest turns to Civil War... (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - The Cosmic Eye - Leisure Books - 4122206 € 3,00 Essef - 1969 - pocket - 157 p. - Rex Morris belonged to the master class which ruled the entire world by brain power or brutality, depending on which was needed. He should have functioned perfectly in the rigid totalitarian society of the future where every thought, word, and action was controlled by the superstate, where everyone was watched night and day by the Great Eye of the internal security forces... (VG+) |
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Reynolds, Mack - The Cosmic Eye - Leisure Books - 4148401 € 2,25 Essef - 1969 - pocket - 157 p. - Rex Morris belonged to the master class which ruled the entire world by brain power or brutality, depending on which was needed. He should have functioned perfectly in the rigid totalitarian society of the future where every thought, word, and action was controlled by the superstate, where everyone was watched night and day by the Great Eye of the internal security forces... (VG-, name inside) |
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Reynolds, Mack - The Towers of Utopia - Bantam - 033023 € 2,25 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 201 p. - A book in the Bat Hardin series. It is the year 2000... and something has gone wrong in the perfect city... The enemy has no face. It does not show on the scanners. It avoids the world's most sophisticated surveillance system. But it leaves a wake of profitless crime and motiveless murder... And puts the future of mankind's paradise-on-earth in peril! (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Tomorrow might be Different - Ace - 4093581 € 2,75 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 190 p. - What would the world be like if the Russians discovered how to beat us at our own capitalistic game, and began dumping inexpensive, quality goods on the world market? In this brand new novel, Mack Reynolds deposits us into just such a future. It is a world where America is rapidly being turned into a second-rate power as its industries go bankrupt... (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Tomorrow might be Different - Sphere - 4131156 € 2,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 140 p. - What would the world be like if the Russians discovered how to beat us at our own capitalistic game, and began dumping inexpensive, quality goods on the world market? In this brand new novel, Mack Reynolds deposits us into just such a future. It is a world where America is rapidly being turned into a second-rate power as its industries go bankrupt... (VG) |
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Reynolds, Mack - Trample an Empire Down - Leisure Books - 122208 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 172 p. - Utopia was no fun. They had a Guaranteed Annual Income and an automated world where no one had to work - but there was nothing to do! When Morris and his friends ran out of beer, there was only one alternative - they decided to overthrow the government! (VG) |
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Rhinehart, Luke - Long Voyage Back - Granada - 9094465 € 3,50 Essef - 1983 - thick pocket - 495 p. - Armageddon and after... The unthinkable becomes horrific reality: World War Three erupts. Nuclear bombs obliterate most of the world's major cities, wiping out untold millions of human lives. With the fate of the planet hanging in the balance, retired naval officer and Naval Academy graduate Neil Loken steers a trimaran and her passengers to the literal end of the earth in this taut thriller about a small group of friends escaping a nuclear holocaust. (VG-) |
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Rice, Anne - Mayfair Witches 3: Taltos - Ballantine - 4152195 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1995 - pocket - 520 p. - The third volume in the series featuring the Mayfair witches, following "The Witching Hour" and "Lasher". The Taltos are the spirits - immortal, dangerous and damned - from whom the Mayfairs derive their occult powers, and at whose mercy they are. (VG-) |
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Rice, Anne - New Tales of the Vampires 2: Vittorio, The Vampire - Arrow - 4139970 € 4,50 Fantasy / Horror - 2000 - pocket - 344 p. - Sixteen-year-old Vittorio, sole survivor of a violent massacre at his father's Tuscan hilltop palazzo, escapes to the Florence of Cosimo de Medici seeking vengeance. He has been saved from death by a mysterious woman, only to find himself at the mercy of demonic and bloody nightmares. (VG+) |
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Rice, Anne - Pandora - Ballantine - 4145690 € 5,00 Fantasy / Horror - 1999 - pocket - 344 p. - Presents the first in a series of novels featuring David Talbot, a fledgling vampire, who sets out to become a chronicler in Paris, where he meets Pandora, a two-thousand-year-old vampire. (VG+) |
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Rice, Anne - Pandora - Arrow - 4120382 € 3,50 Fantasy / Horror - 1999 - pocket - 406 p. - Presents the first in a series of novels featuring David Talbot, a fledgling vampire, who sets out to become a chronicler in Paris, where he meets Pandora, a two-thousand-year-old vampire. (G, plastic covered) |
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Rice, Anne - The Vampire Chronicles 1: Interview with the Vampire - Time Warner - 4154735 € 2,50 Horror - 1993 - 48th printing - pocket - 346 p. - A vampire with a conscience recounts how he departed from human existence and became a vampire but, reluctant to take human life, he sustains himself on the blood of animals. (VG-, slightly spotted) |
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Rice, Anne - The Vampire Chronicles 2: The Vampire Lestat - Ballantine - 122338 € 6,00 Fantasy / Horror - 1986 - thick pocket - 550 p. - Lestat is a vampire, but not one of the conventional undead. He is vivid, esctatic, stagestruck, and in his extravagant story he plunges from the Rome of Augustus to the demonic Egypt of prehistory, and from fin-de-siecle New Orleans to the frenetic world of 20th-century rock stardom. (VG) |
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Rice, Anne - The Vampire Chronicles 7: Merrick - Knopf - 120749 € 13,50 Fantasy - 2000 - HC with dust jacket - 307 p. - In this seventh volume of the Vampire Chronicles, it is Lestat's friend and coeval Louis de Pointe du Lac who takes centre stage, tortured by the memory of the child vampire, Claudia, whom he loved and lost. Merrick must use black witchcraft to call up her ghost, however dangerous this may be. (VG+) |
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Richard, Mark - Fishboy - Anchor Books - 8132169 € 6,00 Horror - 1994 - first Anchor Books edition - paperback - 227 p. - In the brilliant idiom of a modern Melville or Conrad, an odyssey of discovery by a bold and outrageous talent, the PEN/Hemingway Award winning author of The Ice At The Bottom Of The World. |
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Richmond, Walt & Leigh - Challenge the Hellmaker - Ace - 4125109 € 2,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 202 p. - An intriguing novel by a husband and wife team of scientists who have been absent from the Science Fiction world for too long. Drawing on their exhaustive knowledge and imagination they have conjured up a near-future world dominated by the repressive U.N. Security Corps. (VG) |
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Richmond, Walt & Leigh - Siva! - Ace - 4062919 € 2,25 Essef - 1979 - reprint - 172 p. - A science Fiction novel of the far past. In 1962 Walt Richmond developed his theory of the Solar tap. It makes a lot of anomalies of the past fall into place. He has written an Esssef book about it and you as reader may decide whether the story approaches the actual beginning of our civilization... (G+, saw blade mark) |
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Richmond, Walt + Leigh - Siva! - Ace - 4147884 € 2,50 Essef - 1979 - pocket - reprint - 172 p. - A science Fiction novel of the far past. In 1962 Walt Richmond developed his theory of the Solar tap. It makes a lot of anomalies of the past fall into place. He has written an Esssef book about it and you as reader may decide whether the story approaches the actual beginning of our civilization... (VG) |
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Rimmer, Robert H. - Love Me Tomorrow - Signet - 124304 € 4,25 Essef / Erotica - 1978 - first Signet printing - pocket - 455 p. - In the late 1990's, the world that Rimmer originally predicted for 2025 has yet to happen. In the meantime, although Love Me Tomorrow has been out-of-print for twenty years, it has become an underground cult novel. It's told in the first person by Christina North, a 32-year-old suicidal poet with a doctorate degree in the Sylvia Plath tradition. Christina is sexually attractive and uninhibited. A one-time porno star, she's frozen in 1976 and comes back to life in 2000, still 32-years-old with an aging husband and grown children. Her first lover, Newton Morrow, is offering a vibrantly different world. (VG) |
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Ringo, John & Cochrane, Julie - Posleen War 6: Cally's War - Baen - 8126575 € 4,00 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 490 p. - Cally O'Neal was trained from childhood as a premier killer. Officially listed as dead, for the past forty years she has lived a life of aliases, random lovers and targeted assassinations. This has led her to become the top in her profession, undefeatable, invulnerable. And in the process, she has lost, her soul. Now she, and the man she loves, must battle to reclaim it. But Cally will find that leaving her dark world of shadow identities, murder- for-hire, and deadly secrets will be more difficult than any of the many lethal operations she carried out in the past... (VG-, initials inside) |
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Ringo, John - Council Wars 1: There Will Be Dragons - Baen - 9126993 € 5,00 Essef - 2004 - thick pocket - 746 p. - In the future there is no want, no war, no disease or ill-timed death. The world is a paradise - and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net fragments and goes to war, leaving people who have never known a moment of want or pain wondering how to survive. (VG+) |
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Ringo, John - Council Wars 2: Emerald Sea - Baen - 9126944 € 6,00 Fantasy - 2005 - first PB printing - pocket - 648 p. - In the future the world was a paradise - and then, in a moment, it ended. The council that controlled the Net fell out and went to war, while people who had never known a moment of want or pain were left wondering how to survive. Duke Edmund Talbot has been assigned a simple mission: Go to the Southern Isles and make contact with the scattered mer-folk-those who, before the worldwide collapse of technology, had altered their bodies in the shape of mythical sea-dwelling creatures... (F) |
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Riordan, Rick - Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters - Puffin - 4152141 € 5,00 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 2008 - paperback - 288 p. - Percy Jackson, the young demi-god, is back for his second exciting adventure in the bestselling series by Rick Riordan. You can't tell by looking at me that my dad is Poseidon, God of the Sea. It's not easy being a half-blood these days. You mortals... (F) |
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Riordan, Rick - Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse - Puffin - 4152578 € 3,75 Fantasy - 2013 - JUVENILE - paperback - 294 p. - When the goddess Artemis disappears while hunting a rare, ancient monster, a group of her followers joins Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian... (VG-, some spots on edge) |
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Rivkin, J. F. - Age of Dinosaurs 1: Tyrannosaurus Rex - ROC - 4135946 € 3,25 Fantasy - 1992 - first printing - pocket - 251 p. - Sixty years after the disappearance of explorer Percy Fawcett into the Brazilian rain forests, Christine Fawcett travels to the region, along with boyfriend Tony and his buddy Manuel, to find out what really happened to her ancestor. (VG-) |
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Robbins, Harold - Descent from Xanadu - Pocket Books - 4090224 € 3,25 Fiction / Fantasy - 1984 - pocket - 407 p. - The shocking and compelling saga of one man's quest for the ultimate treasure - immortality. (VG-, name inside) |
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Robb, J. D. - Born in Death - Berkley - 9148102 € 4,00 Essef / Romantic Suspense - 2007 - pocket - ps. of Nora Roberts - 354 p. - When a pair of young lovers, employees of a prestigious accounting firm, are brutally murdered, mid-twenty-first-century lieutenant Eve Dallas finds... (F) |
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Roberson, Chris - Bonaventure-Carmody Sequence 2: Paragaea - Pyr - 9150569 € 12,50 Fantasy - 2006 - HC with dust jacket - 399 p. - Paragaea: A Planetary Romance is the story of Akilina "Leena" Chirikov, who shortly after launching from Star Town in the Soviet Union, finds herself thrown into another dimension, a world of strange science and ancient mystery. There she meets... (VG-, dust jacket not perfect) |
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Roberson, Chris - The Dragon's Nine Sons - Solaris - 8150482 € 7,50 Essef - 2008 - paperback - 334 p. - It is the age of the Celestial Empire, and the mighty civilizations of China and Mexica have taken their ancient war into space. As they fight a desperate war of attrition for control of the red planet, Fire Star, two disgraced soldiers are picked... (F) |
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Roberson, Jennifer - Cheysuli 1: Shapechangers - Daw - 121760 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1984 - first printing - cover art: Boris Vallejo - pocket - 221 p. - The story of an ill-fated union between a Homanan princess and a Cheysuli warrior, that brought on a war of annihilation against the Cheysuli race... and the daughter of that union, who must accept her place in an ancient prophecy she cannot deny. (VG) |
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Roberson, Jennifer - Cheysuli 2: The Song of Homana - Daw - 121761 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1985 - first printing - pocket - 352 p. - Book two of this magical series find Homana strangling in the grasp of a usurper king. The time has come for Prince Carillon, Homana's rightful ruler, to free his land and restore the Cheysuli to their proper position. must overcome the fear and prejudice of an ignorant population... and answer the call of a prophecy he never chose to serve. (VG) |
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Roberson, Jennifer - Cheysuli 3: Legacy of the Sword - Daw - 121764 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 384 p. - In the aftermath of the revolution, Prince Donal is being trained as the first Cheysuli in generations to assume the throne. But will he be able to overcome the prejudice of a populace afraid of his special magic and succeed in uniting the realm in its life-and-death battle against the enemy armies and evil magicians? (VG) |
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Roberson, Jennifer - Cheysuli 4: Track of the White Wolf - Daw - 121763 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1987 - first printing - pocket - 373 p. - Niall, the heir to the crown, has been forced to flee the kingdom of Homana. But in exile, the prince finds his true power - a power which may prove Homana's only hope for salvation from a deadly menace. (VG) |
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Roberson, Jennifer - Cheysuli 5: A Pride of Princes - Daw - 121765 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1988 - first printing - pocket - 453 p. - The prophecy of the Firstborn has shaped the lives of the Cheysuli nobility since the beginning of their kind. Now the time has come for the three Cheysuli sons of Homana's current ruler to fulfill their destinies. The price if even one of them fails will be the total destruction of their kingdom. (VG) |
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Roberson, Jennifer - Cheysuli 6: Daughter of the Lion - Daw - 121762 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1989 - first printing - pocket - 372 p. - She is Keely, twin sister to Corin, and daughter of Niall, the ruler of Homana. She alone has the power to shapechange into any form, a power akin to that of the Firstborn. And like her brothers, Keely has been chosen to play a crucial part in the Firstborn's prophecy. (VG) |
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Roberson, Jennifer - Cheysuli 7: Flight of the Raven - Daw - 121766 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1990 - first printing - pocket - 372 p. - Aidan, heir to the Lion Throne of Homana and inheritor of a prophecy carried down through generations, is commanded by the Hunter to undertake a quest to claim a series of "god-given" golden links. He soon finds himself challenged by the Cheysuli's most deadly foe, Lochiel, who uses every trick of sorcery to stop Aidan and destroy the prophecy forever. (VG) |
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Roberson, Jennifer - Sword-Dancer 2: Sword-Singer - Daw - 4090335 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1988 - first printing - pocket - 382 p. - Sword-Singer once again unites Del and Tiger - she among the greatest of Northern sword masters, he a Southron warrior of legendary skills - on a new and perilous journey into the North, to the Place of Swords, where Del must submit to trial-by-combat for the slaying of her sword-master. (VG) |
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Roberson, Jennifer - Sword-Dancer 3: Sword-Maker - Daw - 121805 € 5,25 Fantasy - 1989 - first printing - thick pocket - 464 p. - He was a champion of sword magic sworn to track the hounds of hoolies. Yet before Tiger waited perils far deadlier than any hounds - the Dragon's Lair. A magical novel of sword and spell from the author of Sword-Dancer and Sword-Singer. (VG) |
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Roberts, Adam - On - Gollancz - 4154370 € 5,00 Essef - 2003 - pocket - 388 p. - Tighe lives on the wall. It towers above his village and falls away below it. It is vast and unforgiving and it is everything he knows. Life is hard on the wall, little more than a clinging on for dear life - and then one day Tighe falls off the... (VG+) |
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Roberts, Adam - Stone - Gollancz - 124878 € 4,00 Essef - 2009 - paperback - 291 p. - Sprung from a prison in the centre of a star, the universe's last criminal is employed to kill the population of a planet. It is a crime that will tear apart an interstellar utopia. Keeping ahead of detection and preparing the crime, the killer voyages to numerous worlds and hones the instincts required for murder. (VG) |
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Roberts, Colin - Nuclear Subtraction - Digit - 4118809 € 3,75 Essef - 1960's - pocket - R683 - 159 p. - Written at the end of the 1950s in the time of Cold War this short novel charts the progress of a band of survivors, examining character traits and flaws. There is very little science in this work of fiction, and we join them some time after the disaster when they are struggling to exist. It is a simple story, but quite well written and the pair of lead characters are well drawn. (VG) |
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Roberts, Colin - Nuclear Subtraction - Digit - 4149004 € 3,00 Essef - 1960's - pocket - R683 - 159 p. - Written at the end of the 1950s in the time of Cold War this short novel charts the progress of a band of survivors, examining character traits and flaws. There is very little science in this work of fiction, and we join them some time after the disaster when they are struggling to exist. It is a simple story, but quite well written and the pair of lead characters are well drawn. (VG-, name inside) |
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Roberts, John M. - King of the Woods - TOR - 121940 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1986 - pocket - 253 p. - Alternate history. Hring Kristjanson has been cast out of his religion (Christianity) and his nation (Treeland) for the crime of killing his half-brother (which he did, somewhat accidently, when filled with blood-lust during training). The book is something of an epic fictional biography of a man and his actions in North America, starting in 1485 when he is exiled, and ending with his death. (VG) |
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Roberts, Keith - The Grain Kings - Panther - 4148657 € 2,25 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 208 p. - A science fiction novel by the author of "The Inner World" and "The Furies." (VG-, name inside) |
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Roberts, Rachel - Avalon Web of Magic : Spellsinger - Seven Seas - 4135668 € 4,00 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 2008 - paperback - illustrated - 200 p. - Spellsinger is the fifth book in Avalon: Web of Magic, a twelve book fantasy series for middle grade readers. Through their magical journey, the teenage heroines discover who they really are... and run into plenty of good guys, bad guys, and cute guys. Out of print for two years, Seven Seas is pleased to return the Avalon series to print in editions targeted for today's manga-readers, with new manga-style covers and interior illustrations. (VG+) |
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Roberts, Rachel - The Avalon Collection : Quest for Magic, Books 1-3 - CDS Books - 9127957 € 6,00 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 2005 - paperback - 672 p. - Reading level: Ages 9-12. Book1: Song of the Unicorns, Book 2: All's Fairy in Love and War, Book 3: Ghost Wolf. (VG) |
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Robeson, Kenneth - Doc Savage 080: The Stone Man - Bantam - 4125104 € 2,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 119 p. - The Man of Bronze and his fearless friends trail the treacherous Spad Ames to the Arizona Badlands. There they encounter the mysterious men who live through the mists - men who can turn flesh into stone.... (VG-) |
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Robeson, Kenneth - Doc Savage 190: The Forgotten Realm - Bantam - 4151608 € 7,50 Essef - 1993 - 1st printing - pocket - 288 p. - Doc Savage must pursue the X Man, an insane man found wandering the ruins of a crumbling Roman fort and who has escaped from Wyndmoor Asylum, bent on unleashing a cyclone of violence on modern-day New York. Original. (VG+) |
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Robinett, Stephen - The Man Responsible - Ace - 4147027 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - first Ace printing - pocket - 245 p. - A computer fraud which goes several futuristic steps beyond equity funding... Every advance in technology expands human potential: actions... (VG) |
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Robinson, Eleanor - Chrysalis of Death - Pocket Books - 4093569 € 2,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 175 p. - An ancient plague threatens all mankind! (VG) |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley - Antarctica - Harper Collins - 9142119 € 5,00 Essef - 1998 - pocket - 562 p. - In the next century will Antarctica be looted for oil, or will eco-terrorists save our last wilderness? Like the land it protects, the Antarctic Treaty is dissolving. The world's last unstripped asset, Antarctica is in danger of becoming a free-for-all; oil reconnaissance teams intent on mass extraction, adventure travellers trailing waste across the tundra, and multinational interests covertly vying for influence. But a new radical environmentalist group is determined to show humanity that Antarctica cannot be plundered like the rest of the world. Whatever it takes... (G+, light fold) |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley - Capital Code 3: Sixty Days and Counting - Harper - 9109141 € 5,75 Essef - 2007 - pocket - 504 p. - By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next. (F) |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley - Capital Code 3: Sixty Days and Counting - Bantam - 9142098 € 4,00 Essef - 2007 - pocket - 543 p. - By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next. (VG-) |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley - Down and Out in the Year 2000 - Grafton - 4154899 € 6,00 Essef - 1992 - Grafton original - paperback - 351 p. - This collection of eleven novellas and short stories is by the author of "The Gold Coast", "Pacific Edge" and "Red Mars". One of the novellas, "The Blind Geometer" won the Nebula Award. (VG) |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley - Icehenge - Ace - 4154938 € 4,00 Essef - 1984 - pocket - 262 p. - It stands at Pluto's north pole - a mesmerising icehenge. Slabs of ice frozen harder than stone, towering two hundred feet above the crater-pocked surface. The central slab bears an inscription in Sanskrit. A message from an alien race? Or the mark of a human-powered voyage that might have passed this way? There were vague rumours of such a ship, forgotten decades ago. But could the crew have survived? Did the ship exist at all? (VG) |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley - The Memory of Whiteness - TOR - 4151239 € 4,50 Essef - 1986 - pocket - 351 p. - Arthur Holywelkin, a brilliant physicist, devoted the last years of his life to creating a strange, beautiful musical instrument called The Orchestra. Hundreds of years later, in a universe centered around music, Johannes Wright is chosen as the Ninth Master of Holywelkin's Orchestra. Wright must travel the solar system pursued by enemies in the name of a destiny he understands only imperfectly. (VG) |
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Robinson, Kim Stanley - Three Californias 2: The Gold Coast - TOR - 4154939 € 5,00 Essef - 1988 - pocket - 389 p. - 21st century Orange County, CA is full of designer drugs, freeways that glide and soar. It's a mass-culture, video-saturated world for Jim McPherson who is adrift in society. He lives his life through dreams of the past. Dennis, his dad, is an aerospace engineer involved in military research, a fact that Jim ignores - until he becomes a minor urban terrorist out of boredom. Father and son, separate for so long, are finally on a collision course. (VG) |
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Robinson, Spider - Deathkiller 1: Mindkiller - Ace - 4032993 € 2,50 Essef - 1988 - pocket - 246 p. - Interweaves two stories - that of Norman, an English professor and thwarted suicide, and of Joe, a cat burglar who stumbles upon a woman "wire heading," her brain wired into the house current - in a chilling tale of mind control and manipulation. (VG) |
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Robinson, Spider - Deathkiller 1: Mindkiller - Berkley - 4033007 € 2,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 246 p. - Interweaves two stories - that of Norman, an English professor and thwarted suicide, and of Joe, a cat burglar who stumbles upon a woman "wire heading," her brain wired into the house current - in a chilling tale of mind control and manipulation. (VG) |
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Robinson, Spider - Deathkiller 1: Mindkiller - Berkley - 4115069 € 1,75 Essef - 1988 - pocket - 246 p. - Interweaves two stories - that of Norman, an English professor and thwarted suicide, and of Joe, a cat burglar who stumbles upon a woman "wire heading," her brain wired into the house current - in a chilling tale of mind control and manipulation. (VG-, some wear on backstrip) |
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Robinson, Spider - Deathkiller 2: Time Pressure - Ace - 4113076 € 3,50 Essef - 1988 - Ace edition - pocket - 243 p. - Life in Nova Scotia in the early '70s had just about everything your average hippie could hope for: beautiful scenery, tolerant locals, lots of other hippies and lots of drugs. So thinks Sam Meade, a guitar-playing American refugee from the Vietnam War draft, who is well on his way to becoming a hermit in his cabin, ''Heartbreak Hotel.'' But all that changes when Sam discovers a beautiful naked woman asleep in his woods during a blizzard... (VG) |
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Robinson, Spider - Deathkiller 2: Time Pressure - Ace - 4144103 € 2,50 Essef - 1988 - Ace edition - pocket - 243 p. - Life in Nova Scotia in the early '70s had just about everything your average hippie could hope for: beautiful scenery, tolerant locals, lots of other hippies and lots of drugs. So thinks Sam Meade, a guitar-playing American refugee from the Vietnam War draft, who is well on his way to becoming a hermit in his cabin, ''Heartbreak Hotel.'' But all that changes when Sam discovers a beautiful naked woman asleep in his woods during a blizzard... (VG-, cover puncture) |
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Robinson, Spider - Deathkiller 2: Time Pressure - Ace - 4153881 € 2,50 Essef - 1988 - Ace edition - pocket - 243 p. - Life in Nova Scotia in the early '70s had just about everything your average hippie could hope for: beautiful scenery, tolerant locals, lots of other hippies and lots of drugs. So thinks Sam Meade, a guitar-playing American refugee from the Vietnam War draft, who is well on his way to becoming a hermit in his cabin, ''Heartbreak Hotel.'' But all that changes when Sam discovers a beautiful naked woman asleep in his woods during a blizzard... (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
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Robinson, Spider - Lady Slings the Booze - Ace - 4115070 € 4,00 Essef - 1993 - pocket - 257 p. - Mike Callahan's wife is back and business is booming. The word in the universe is that Lady Sally really knows how to give her customers a good time. Attracting unusual characters, her establishment is a remarkable place where a jinxed private detective can change his luck and a telepath is twice the woman she seems. (VG+) |
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Robinson, Spider - Telempath - Orbit - 081366 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 223 p. - The Muskies: spawned in Earth's long childhood of fire and stone, they flourish in the stinking hell Man calls civilisation. They ride the wind: gaseous beings perceptible to Man only now that a monstrous experiment has heightened his sense of smell - and destroyed civilisation in the process. And so a slow, destructive war breaks out between the Muskies and the scattered settlements of human survivors, a war that threatens humanity's very existence. Only the Telempath can stop it, but he's missing one arm - and wanted for the murder of his father. (VG) |
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Robinson, Spider - Telempath - TOR - 113075 € 3,00 Essef - 1983 - first TOR printing - pocket - 313 p. - The Muskies: spawned in Earth's long childhood of fire and stone, they flourish in the stinking hell Man calls civilisation. They ride the wind: gaseous beings perceptible to Man only now that a monstrous experiment has heightened his sense of smell - and destroyed civilisation in the process. And so a slow, destructive war breaks out between the Muskies and the scattered settlements of human survivors, a war that threatens humanity's very existence. Only the Telempath can stop it, but he's missing one arm - and wanted for the murder of his father. (VG) |
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Robinson, Spider - Telempath - Berkley - 123672 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 243 p. - The Muskies: spawned in Earth's long childhood of fire and stone, they flourish in the stinking hell Man calls civilisation. They ride the wind: gaseous beings perceptible to Man only now that a monstrous experiment has heightened his sense of smell - and destroyed civilisation in the process. And so a slow, destructive war breaks out between the Muskies and the scattered settlements of human survivors, a war that threatens humanity's very existence. Only the Telempath can stop it, but he's missing one arm - and wanted for the murder of his father. (VG) |
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Robinson, Spider - Very Bad Deaths - Baen - 8150488 € 8,25 Essef - 2004 - First printing - HC with dust jacket - 271 p. - Aging baby-boomer Russell Walker wants only to retreat from the world and the shattering death of his beloved wife, into the woods of British Columbia. But the real world won't let him become a hermit. Instead, he finds himself thrust into the... (VG+) |
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Robinson, Spider & Jeanne - Stardance 1: Stardance - Dell - 4033059 € 3,25 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 278 p. - The zero-gravity environment of the orbiting Skyfac gives beautiful, sexy Shara Drummond a chance to be a dancer, though it means catering to a perverse millionaire, being forever exiled from Earth, and paying a price to communicate with alien beings. (VG) |
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Robson, Justina - Mappa Mundi - Pan - 9153874 € 6,00 Essef - 2002 - thick pocket - 628 p. - In the near future, when medical nanotechnology has made it possible to map a model of the living human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her work suddenly become crucial to a cutting-edge military project for creating comprehensive... (VG) |
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Rohan, Michael S. - The Winter of the World 2: The Forge in the Forest - Orbit - 4132030 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1987 - pocket - 406 p. - The saga of The Winter of the World continues as young smith Elof vows to protect his beloved city of Kerebryhaine from the advances of ice and darkness. (VG) |
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Rohan, Michael Scott - A Spell of Empire : The Horns of Tartarus - Orbit - 9147933 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1992 - pocket - 462 p. - In an alternate Europe, the power is split between the Nibelung Empire of the north and the Tyrhennian Empire, based in Sicily. Volker, a half-elven... (VG) |
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Rohan, Michael Scott - Spiral 1: Chase the Morning - Orbit - 4147845 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1990 - paperback - 334 p. - During a nostalgic visit to the docksides of his youth, Steve, an unassuming import/export agent, steps into another universe, where buccaneers, demigods, and mythic heroes mingle. (VG-, name inside) |
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Rohan, Michael Scott - The Gates of Noon - Avon - 4147781 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1994 - pocket - 320 p. - Steve Fisher must return to the Spiral, a timeless world that interweaves with contemporary Earth, in order to fight a zombie army (VG-, name inside) |