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Vogt, Alfred E. van & Mayne Hull - Planets for Sale - Tempo - 4094073   € 3,00 Essef - 1970 - pocket - 184 p. - A power crazed scientist (is there any other sort in classic sci-fi? ) seizes control of the Space Patrol, and the security of an entire planetary system is at risk, unless our hero, Artur Blord, can stop him. (VG) |
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Vogt, Alfred E. van & Mayne Hull - The Winged Man - Sphere - 4119288 € 2,50 Essef - 1977 - reprint - pocket - 159 p. - From the bridge of the submarine Sea Serpent, Lt. William Kenlon saw a huge creature flying overhead with a wingspan unlike that of any bird the young naval officer had ever seen. Almost instantly it disappeared, and Kenlon thought the strange bird had been only an apparition. Suddenly it reappeared... (VG) |
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Vogt, Alfred E. van & Mayne Hull - The Winged Man - Berkley - 4114355 € 2,00 Essef - 1967 - pocket - 159 p. - From the bridge of the submarine Sea Serpent, Lt. William Kenlon saw a huge creature flying overhead with a wingspan unlike that of any bird the young naval officer had ever seen. Almost instantly it disappeared, and Kenlon thought the strange bird had been only an apparition. Suddenly it reappeared... (G+, name, text on first page) |
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Volsky, Paula - Grand Ellipse - Bantam - 9147838 € 7,75 Fantasy - 1995 - paperback - 357 blz - Volsky shines in what is unequivocally her best work to date, presenting a wondrous journey across a world torn by war, a world so enraptured by its technological advances that it now frowns upon magic as ancient superstition. Yet a new magical discovery - Sentient Fire, which obeys the will of its creator - could well prove the only weapon against the expansion of a greedy Imperium. (VG-, name stamp inside) |
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Volsky, Paula - Sorcerer's Lady 1: The Sorcerer's Lady - Ace - 121554 € 3,75 Fantasy - 1986 - pocket - 264 p. - "The Sorcerer's Lady" takes us to the suspiciously Venetian world of Lanthi Ume, where decadance and intrigue are the daily fare. Ms. Volsky beautifully mingles her usual blend of high society, politics, terror and fantasy together in this first book of her only trilogy thus far. The interest of "The Sorcerer's Lady" is compounded by Ms. Volsky's decision to place the main characters in a marriage at the outset - rather than the standard romance which leads *to* that happy state. For those who loved the richness of Illusion, (and want one more reference to the elusive Strell) this is the book for you. (F) |
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Volsky, Paula - Sorcerer's Lady 2: The Sorcerer's Heir - Ace - 121552 € 3,75 Fantasy - 1988 - pocket - 279 p. - Continuing the story primarily through the eyes of Lady Verran fal Ghrizni, we are suffocated in the world of the utterly alien Vardruls upon whom the Duke of Lanthi Ume makes war bordering on genocide. Ms. Volsky is to be commended for her ability to create a race that is its own civilisation and not just humans with pointed ears - but the Vardruls are so convincingly foreign (an effect heightened by the narrator's horrified point of view) that reading about their civilisation for an entire novel is rather difficult. (VG) |
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Volsky, Paula - The Luck of Relian Kru - Ace - 121553 € 3,75 Fantasy - 1987 - pocket - 294 p. - The Luck of Relian Kru. So far this morning Relian Kru has broken three goblets, torn his best doublet, and been insulted by a snake. And those are the disasters he knows about! What he doesn't know is that he been condemned to death for dressing badly, and that the kindly sorcerer who invited him to dinner actually has in mind something a bit more permanent than a mere meal- like eternal slavery... (VG) |
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Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse 5 - Panther - 4154511 € 3,00 Essef - 1973 - pocket - 143 p. - Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Gemans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore. (VG) |
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Vornholt, John - Star Trek : The Next Generation # 39: Rogue Saucer - Pocket Books - 4143729 € 5,00 Essef - 1996 - pocket - 271 p. - Captain Picard and the "USS Enterprise" crew test a new technology that aims to allow a Starship's saucer-section to survive a crash-landing and return to space. But Maquis agents steal the "Enterprise" hull-section during the test and Picard must fight to rescue the "Enterprise" from rebel agents. (F) |
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