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Cherryh, C. J. - Arafel 2: The Tree of Swords and Jewels - Daw - 4110742   € 3,00 Fantasy - 1983 - first printing - pocket - 254 p. - They said that Ciaran Cuilean was fey-that he had the touch of the Sidhe on him, and on his lands. And it was true. Elvish blood ran in his veins, and he had been to that other world-that parallel and magical land of Eald, where Arafel, the Lady of Trees, held dominion. (VG) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - Arafel 2: The Tree of Swords and Jewels - Daw - 4144204 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1983 - 5th printing - pocket - 254 p. - They said that Ciaran Cuilean was fey-that he had the touch of the Sidhe on him, and on his lands. And it was true. Elvish blood ran in his veins, and he had been to that other world-that parallel and magical land of Eald, where Arafel, the Lady of Trees, held dominion. (VG) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - Compact Space 1: The Pride of Chanur - Daw - 4108801 € 3,50 Essef - 1982 - first printing - pocket - 224 p. - When Tully, a fugitive from a spaceship captured by the arrogant, insect-like Kif, takes refuge on the Pride of Chanur, a merchant vessel belonging to a clan of the lion-like Hani, Hilfy, its captain, gives him shelter, in spite of all the dangers she and her crew will face. (VG) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - Finisterre 2: Cloud's Rider - NEL - 4144150 € 4,00 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 373 p. - On a distant planet where humans are telepathically attacked by the natives, young Danny Fisher and his nighthorse Cloud lead a group of survivors to shelter in the snowbound mountains, where they discover a new menace. |
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Cherryh, C. J. - Gene Wars 1: Hammerfall - Eos - 8150135 € 7,75 Essef - 2001 - HC with dust jacket - 390 p. - Marak, a prince and warrior, is ordered by the dictator to find the elusive silver tower, and when he accomplishes this task, the beings within the tower give him a new mission - lead his people to safety before the hammer of the dictator's dreaded enemies falls. (VG-) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - Heroes in Hell 10: Legions of Hell - Baen - 4104603 € 4,00 Essef - 1987 - 1st Baen printing - pocket - 407 p. - What book could be more fascinating than one about a Hell in which Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Machiavelli, Napoleon, Ramses and Hatshepsut can interact freely in the midst of high-tech warfare and seething political intrigues? And then Brutus shows up... somehow lacking a few vital memories of his life, mainly a bloody March 15th... Politics and war, history and essef, this book has all of it... (VG) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - Morgaine Series 2: Well of Shiuan - Daw - 4142814 € 3,25 Fantasy - 1978 - 7th printing - pocket - 253 p. - A magnificent Fantasy epic. The world of Shiuan was doomed. Rising waters and shattering earthquakes had sealed its fate. The only escape routes were the Gates. And just as this knowledge dawned on the desperate tribes and cities there appeared the woman Morgaine - whose mission was to seal Shiuan's Gates. (VG) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - The Faded Sun 2: Shon'jir - Nelson Doubleday - 8150136 € 6,50 Essef - 1978 - HC with dust jacket - 243 p. - Sten Duncan had saved the lives of the last warrior and the last priestess-queen of mankind's enemies, the mri. He had come to understand their ways and to value their code of honor. When they planned their escape and he was ordered to trap them, Sten fled into space with them instead. Far across the cosmos was their forgotten homeworld. He could help them find it--and maybe there find the secret that had eluded the military masters of Terra. (VG-, bit spotted on top edge) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - The Hanan Rebellion 1: Brothers of Earth - Orbit - 080724 € 2,50 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 254 p. - A space battle had destroyed his ship, with over 80 people, and the enemy ship, with a hundred more. His survival capsule has landed on a strange planet. Stranded for life, Kurt Morgan had to adapt, or face extinction. (VG-, name on first page) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - Tristen 2: Fortress of Eagles - Harper - 9113551 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1999 - thick pocket - 478 p. - The wizard Mauryl Gestaurien cast his greatest spell to create Tristen. Armed with a book of spells he can't read and a magic sword bearing the words "Truth" on one side and "Illusion" on the other, Tristen rides into battle for Cefwyn against the Shadow spawned by Hasufin, Mauryl's greatest enemy. (VG-, weak spine) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - Visible Light - Daw - 4081691 € 4,50 Essef - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 348 p. - A collection of 6 stories. Her short novel ''Companions'' is unnecessarily elongated, but tells an interesting story of an explorer who may be facing a new life form that mysteriously fails to register on mechanical sensors. The best entry, ''A Thief in Korianth,'' is an early, much superior version of the author's 1985 novel Angel with the Sword. This will be of greatest interest to fans of Cherryh's novels. (VG) |
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Cherryh, C. J. - Wave without a Shore - Gollancz - 4075453 € 2,75 Essef - 1988 - pocket - 247 p. - Freedom was an isolated planet, off the spaceways track and rarely visited by commercial spacers. It wasn't that Freedom was inhospitable as planets go. The problem was that outsiders - tourists and traders - claimed the streets were crowded with mysterious characters in blue robes and with members of an alien species. (G+, minor damage on spine) |
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Chester, Deborah - Alien Chronicles 1: The Golden One - Ace - 4130710 € 4,75 Essef - 1998 - pocket - 344 p. - Here is an epic set in a far distant universe-a saga of faraway planets and of races strange and more fantastic than any ever seen on our world. Yet their struggles are universal: for justice, for freedom, for peace. Lucasfilm's Alien Chroniclesis a sweeping adventure that will transport you to another time, and to another place, where a legend is about to be born... (F) |
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Chester, William L. - Kioga Series 2: Kioga of the Wilderness - Daw - 4110126 € 2,75 Essef - 1976 - 1st printing - 303 p. - Far on the northernmost perimeter of the world, an unmapped wilderness which is the lost homeland of the American Indians serves as the background for the coming of age of an abandoned white boy known as the Snow Hawk. (VG) |
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Chester, William L. - Kioga Series 3: One Against a Wilderness - Daw - 4093974 € 2,25 Essef - 1977 - 1st printing - 172 p. - The third book in the Kioga series. (VG) |
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Chester, William L. - Kioga Series 4: Kioga of the Unknown Land - Daw - 4094123 € 2,25 Essef - 1978 - 1st printing - pocket - 222 p. - The fourth book in the Kioga series. (VG) |
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Chichester, Imogen - Mr. Teago and the Magic Slippers - Puffin - 4146876 € 2,25 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 1987 - pocket - illustrated - 120 p. (VG) |
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Christian, Catherine - The Pendragon (without dust jacket) - Knopf - 9111439 € 7,50 Fantasy - 1979 - HC - first America edition - 461 p. - a.k.a. 'The Sword and the Flame'. Arthurian fantasy. (G, without dust jacket) |
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Churchward, John - What Beck'ning Ghost? - NEL - 4105615 € 1,75 Horror / Paranormal - 1977 - pocket - 199 p. - A rattling good excursion into the supernatural. (G, saw blade mark) |
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Claire, Keith - The Otherwise Girl - Fontana - 4154749 € 3,00 Fantasy / Fiction - 1977 - pocket - 128 p. - Chloe, the daughter of a reclusive artist, died tragically and cannot "pass" to the other side until her earthly feelings have been resolved. (VG) |
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Clancy, Tom & Greenberg, Martin - Tom Clancy's Powerplays 02: Ruthless.com - Penguin - 9126736 € 5,00 Essef - 1998 - pocket - 353 p. - Tom Clancy's Power Plays series, launched with last year's Politika, is one of the guilty-pleasure reads for Clancy addicts and all who crave action, technothrills, and the magnificent Clancy touch. Created by Tom Clancy and Martin H. Greenberg, the Power Plays series has made a fetish of fast-paced narrative and larger-than-life heroes. You can't get much larger-than-life than Clancy's Power Plays hero Roger Gordian, a strong but tender giant of a man whose warfare usually involves business and the executive halls of corporate piracy - and his belief in playing fair-and-square, and keeping America number one... (VG) |
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Clancy, Tom & Pieczenik, Steve - Tom Clancy's Net Force 7: Shadow of Honour - Headline - 4144317 € 2,50 Essef / Thriller - 1999 - pocket - 216 p. - Andy Moore lost his father when he was just a small child. His father, a highly decorated Marine captain, died fighting in the South African War in 2014. A decade later, one of the kids at Andy's school claims that Andy's father wasn't a hero at all, that he released an illegal biological weapon that killed 5,000 civilians. The kid has evidence that seems to prove it but what nobody knows is that he hacked highly sensitive information from the South African government archives and doctored it to make Andy's dad look bad... (VG) |
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Clancy, Tom - Tom Clancy's Net Force 1: Tom Clancy's Net Force - Berkley - 4126735 € 4,50 Essef / Thriller - 1999 - pocket - 372 p. - In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them, control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: Net Force. (F) |
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Clare, Cassandra - The Mortal Instruments 1: City of Bones - Walker Books - 9134663 € 6,00 Fantasy - 2007 - 19th printing - paperback - 442 p. - When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood - to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?.. (VG) |
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Clare, Cassandra - The Mortal Instruments 2: City of Ashes - Walker Books - 9156976 € 8,50 Fantasy - 2008 - 20th printing - paperback - 411 p. - Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go - especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace... (VG) |
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Clare, Cassandra - The Mortal Instruments 2: City of Ashes - Walker Books - 9134662 € 5,75 Fantasy - 2008 - 16th printing - paperback - 411 p. - Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go - especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace... (G+, front cover edge chip) |
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Claremont, Chris - High Frontier (without dust jacket) - Guild America - 9116198 € 6,50 Essef - 1991 - hardcover - 534 p. - Omnibus with the books "FirstFlight" and "Grounded!". The timeframe in which this story takes place is never explicitly spelled out, though most of the clues suggest sometime circa 2050. The backstory for "High Frontier" involves the unexpected invention, well ahead of its time, of a practical means of faster-than-light travel, which has in turn led to radical upheavals in the space program... (G, without dust jacket) |
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Clark, Douglas W. - Alchemy Unlimited - Avon - 4147775 € 4,25 Fantasy - 1990 - first printing - pocket - 310 p. - While the medieval town of Pomme de Terre suffers from a plague of demons and a baron determined to keep his subjects in ignorance, a pair of unlikely heroes - an aquatic alchemist and his disgruntled apprentice - trek across the land to discover the source of demonic infestation and bring enlightenment to their land. Clark's first novel is a tongue-in-cheek fantasy that explores the lighter side of the Middle Ages and uncovers the ''true'' origins of indoor plumbing. (VG) |
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Clark, Douglas W. - Alchemy Unlimited - Avon - 4083380 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1990 - first printing - pocket - 310 p. - While the medieval town of Pomme de Terre suffers from a plague of demons and a baron determined to keep his subjects in ignorance, a pair of unlikely heroes - an aquatic alchemist and his disgruntled apprentice - trek across the land to discover the source of demonic infestation and bring enlightenment to their land. Clark's first novel is a tongue-in-cheek fantasy that explores the lighter side of the Middle Ages and uncovers the ''true'' origins of indoor plumbing. (VG-) |
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Clark, Douglas W. - Rehearsal for a Renaissance - Avon - 4147774 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1992 - pocket - 339 p. - Traveling to Venice with the hopes of bringing some of the Englightenment back to his backward town of Pomme de Terre, Corwyn stumbles upon a... (F) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Baxter, Stephen - A Time Odyssey 1: Time's Eye - Del Rey - 4155728 € 4,50 Essef - 2005 - pocket - 364 p. - 1885, the North West Frontier. Rudyard Kipling is witness to a British army action to repress a local uprising. And to a terrifying intervention by a squadron of tanks from 2137. Before the full impact of this extraordinary event has even begun to sink in Kipling, his friends and the tanks are, themselves flung back to the 4th century and the midst of Alexander the Great's army. Mankind's time odyssey has begun... (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Baxter, Stephen - A Time Odyssey 2: Sunstorm - Gollancz - 4155724 € 4,50 Essef - 2005 - pocket - 332 p. - Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth's history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance? (VG+) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Baxter, Stephen - A Time Odyssey 2: Sunstorm - Del Rey - 4154818 € 4,50 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 356 p. - Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth's history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance? (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Baxter, Stephen - The Light of Other Days - Harper Voyager - 9156804 € 7,00 Essef - 2001 - pocket - 472 p. - 'Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?' With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light. Realtime television coverage is here: earthquakes and wars, murders and disasters can be watched, exactly as they occur, anywhere on the planet. Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space... (F) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Baxter, Stephen - The Light of Other Days - Harper Voyager - 9153889 € 5,25 Essef - 2001 - pocket - 472 p. - 'Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?' With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light. Realtime television coverage is here: earthquakes and wars, murders and disasters can be watched, exactly as they occur, anywhere on the planet. Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space... (VG-, name inside) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Kube-McDowell, Michael - The Trigger - Ballantine - 9112732 € 5,25 Essef - 2000 - thick pocket - 550 p. - A chilling day-after-tomorrow thriller. Jeffrey Horton of Terabyte Laboratories is the brilliant, driven and idealistic scientist responsible for the discovery of the Trigger. It was an accidental discovery. When Horton fired up his prototype analogue of a laser it triggered all nearby explosive material. In that moment, an end to the power of the gun became feasible. In future, a firearm - or a bomb - could be made powerless to harm the innocent. The Trigger might even mean an end to war... (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Kube-McDowell, Michael - The Trigger - Bantam - 4155720 € 5,25 Essef - 2000 - pocket - 626 p. - A chilling day-after-tomorrow thriller. Jeffrey Horton of Terabyte Laboratories is the brilliant, driven and idealistic scientist responsible for the discovery of the Trigger. It was an accidental discovery. When Horton fired up his prototype analogue of a laser it triggered all nearby explosive material. In that moment, an end to the power of the gun became feasible. In future, a firearm - or a bomb - could be made powerless to harm the innocent. The Trigger might even mean an end to war... (VG+) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Lee, Gentry - Cradle - Warner - 4155727 € 4,50 Essef - 1989 - pocket - 408 p. - Something powerful waits to awaken... This far-reaching, spine-tingling adventure stretches from the dawn of time to the distant future, from the edges of the universe to the vast depths of the sea. At the bottom of the ocean, an alien creature is dormant. But the time has come for it to awaken. And as it stirs, its power will be unleashed on the planet - and trigger the dawn of human extinction. (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Lee, Gentry - Cradle - Orbit - 8120763 € 4,50 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 373 p. - Something powerful waits to awaken... This far-reaching, spine-tingling adventure stretches from the dawn of time to the distant future, from the edges of the universe to the vast depths of the sea. At the bottom of the ocean, an alien creature is dormant. But the time has come for it to awaken. And as it stirs, its power will be unleashed on the planet - and trigger the dawn of human extinction. (VG-) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Lee, Gentry - Cradle - Warner Books - 9150139 € 12,50 Essef - 1988 - first printing - HC with dust jacket - 293 p. - Something powerful waits to awaken... This far-reaching, spine-tingling adventure stretches from the dawn of time to the distant future, from the edges of the universe to the vast depths of the sea. At the bottom of the ocean, an alien... (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Lee, Gentry - Rama Series 2: Rama II - Orbit - 9120997 € 5,00 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 495 p. - The astonishing sequel to 'Rendezvous with Rama'. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. They are armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational - and perhaps even deadly. (VG-) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Lee, Gentry - Rama Series 2: Rama II - Orbit - 9070609 € 4,25 Essef - 1991 - pocket - 495 p. - The astonishing sequel to 'Rendezvous with Rama'. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. They are armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational - and perhaps even deadly. (VG-, spotted) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Mcquay, Mike - Richter 10 - Bantam - 9092679 € 4,25 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 406 p. - A fusion of Clarke's vision with Mcquay's crackling style. Thirty years after the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake killed his family, Lewis Crane has become the world's top seismologist, determined to protect people from his parent's fate. But in a world controlled by Chinese corporations and split by racist and religious strife, many don't want him to succeed. (VG-, date inside) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Pohl, Frederik - The Last Theorem - Harper Voyager - 8150137 € 13,50 Essef - 2008 - HC with dust jacket - 299 p. - Two of science fiction's most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittingly grand farewell from the late, great visionary author of 2001: A Space Odyssey... (F) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Pohl, Frederik - The Last Theorem - Harper Voyager - 4154815 € 4,50 Essef - 2009 - pocket - 423 p. - Two of science fiction's most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittingly grand farewell from the late, great visionary author of 2001: A Space Odyssey... (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. + Robinson, Kim Stanley - Meeting with Medusa + Green Mars - TOR - 4155732 € 5,00 Essef - 1988 - pocket - TOR Double - nr. 1 - 67 + 113 p. - This two-in-one package features a story of a space disaster victim's meeting with the actual Medusa and an evocation of mountain climbing on Mars. The 'Clarke' is a Nebula Award winner. The 'Robinson' is not the full length novel. (VG+) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Dolphin Island - Dragon - 4150963 € 3,26 Essef - 1968 - pocket - 126 p. - Late one night (in the world of the future), a giant cargo hovership makes an emergency landing somewhere in the middle of the United States, and an enterprising citizen named Johnny Clinton stows away on it. In the space of only a few hours the craft crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The sole survivor is Johnny, whose life is saved by the "People of the Sea" - dolphins. A school of these fantastic creatures guides him to an island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef... (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Earthlight - Ballantine - 4072467 € 4,00 Essef - 1955 - first printing - pocket - 155 p. - A classic Science Fiction celebration. The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Outer space inhabitants have formed a new political entity, the Federation, and between the Federation and Earth a growing rivalry has developed. Earthlicht is the story of this emerging conflict. (VG-, minor spine damage) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Expedition to Earth - Ballantine - 4118683 € 5,50 Essef - 1953 - first printing - pocket - Catalogue Warren $ 6.00 (VG) - 165 p. - collectible paperback - A collection of Arthur C. Clarke's short stories. |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Expedition to Earth - Sidgwick & Jackson / NEL - 4155136 € 3,00 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 174 p. - A collection of Arthur C. Clarke's short stories. (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Imperial Earth - Ballantine - 4155142 € 3,00 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 305 p. - The year is 2276. On the world of Titan, an outer planet of Saturn, Duncan Mackenzie and many other colonists are about to leave their homeland for bicentennial celebrations on Earth. But for Duncan, the journey is also a delicate mission for himself, his family and the future of Titan. (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Islands in the Sky - Signet - 4090553 € 4,00 Essef - 1960 - first printing - pocket - 127 p. - The story of 'Island in the Sky' centers around a young man, who, after brilliantly winning a space-related competition, requests a vacation on a space station as his prize. It is written with Arthur C. Clark's obvious knowledge of science, but moves at a page turning rate througout the entire narrative. The short novel gives a realistic possiblilty of work and play in future space, hightened with constant excitment and action. Charater development is very good, as are the not-overdone (but still awsome) visual descriptions. (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Prelude to Space - Lancer - 4143823 € 4,00 Essef - 1970 - pocket - 173 p. - Prelude to Space is Arthur C. Clarke's first published science fiction novel. Written in 1947 in 20 days, it was not until 1951 that it first appeared in magazine format from Galaxy Publishing. Sidgwick & Jackson published it in novel form for the British readership in 1953, followed the next year by a US hardcover edition from Gnome Press. This is one of many reprints. (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Prelude to Space - Ballantine - 4146101 € 2,25 Essef - 1980 - 5th printing - pocket - 179 p. - Prelude to Space is Arthur C. Clarke's first published science fiction novel. Written in 1947 in 20 days, it was not until 1951 that it first appeared in magazine format from Galaxy Publishing. Sidgwick & Jackson published it in novel form for the British readership in 1953, followed the next year by a US hardcover edition from Gnome Press and this paperback from Ballantine Books. This particulkar copy was found in a bookstall in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (G+, mild tropical ageing, storestamp) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Prelude to Space - Ballantine - 4155140 € 3,00 Essef - 1976 - 4th printing - pocket - 179 p. - Prelude to Space is Arthur C. Clarke's first published science fiction novel. Written in 1947 in 20 days, it was not until 1951 that it first appeared in magazine format from Galaxy Publishing. Sidgwick & Jackson published it in novel form for the British readership in 1953, followed the next year by a US hardcover edition from Gnome Press and this paperback from Ballantine Books. (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Rama Series 1: Rendezvous with Rama - Ballantine / Del Rey - 4156897 € 4,00 Essef - 1979 - 10th printing - pocket - 276 p. - In 2130, a new celestial body is discovered heading toward the Sun. Earthlings name this object "Rama" - a vast cylinder, about 31 miles long and 12 miles across, with a mass of at least ten trillion tons. The spaceship Endeavor, directed by Commander Bill Norton, lands on Rama and has three weeks to explore its hollow interior. Inside the vessel they discover a completely self-contained world - a world that has been cruising through space for perhaps more than a million years. (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Rama Series 1: Rendezvous with Rama - Pan - 4155141 € 3,00 Essef - 1974 - 2nd printing - pocket - 252 p. - In 2130, a new celestial body is discovered heading toward the Sun. Earthlings name this object "Rama" - a vast cylinder, about 31 miles long and 12 miles across, with a mass of at least ten trillion tons. The spaceship Endeavor, directed by Commander Bill Norton, lands on Rama and has three weeks to explore its hollow interior. Inside the vessel they discover a completely self-contained world - a world that has been cruising through space for perhaps more than a million years. (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Reach for Tomorrow - Del Rey - 4155129 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - 15th printing - pocket - 166 p. - 12 stories. From the grandmaster of science fiction, a dozen memorable tales filled with wonder and imagination. (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage, faded spine) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Sands of Mars - Pocket Books - 4094830 € 9,00 Essef - 1954 - pocket size - #989 - cover by Robert Schulz - 217 p. - collectible paperback - When a celebrated science fiction writer takes to space on his first trip to Mars, he stumbles upon Mars' most carefully hidden secrets and threatens the future of the entire planet! (VG-, rear cover not perfect) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Space Odyssey 2: 2010 Odyssey Two - BCA London - 8155121 € 10,00 Essef - 1982 - HC with dust jacket - CN4838 - 216 p. - 2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame has grown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, for example: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL to kill the crew? Now all those questions and many more have been answered, in this stunning sequel to the international bestseller. (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Space Odyssey 3: 2061 Odyssey Three - BCA / Guild - 8155122 € 12,00 Essef - 1988 - reprinted - HC with dust jacket - 302 p. - A truly masterful elaboration on one man's epic vision of the universe. (VG-, some browning) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Space Odyssey 4: 3001 The Final Odyssey - Del Rey - 4156816 € 5,00 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 274 p. - The fourth book in the most famous series of Arthur C. Clarke. Now approaching the millennium, the light of Lucifer is extinguished and for the second time in four million years, the Monolith awakes. The limitless power of an alien technology has decided what part humanity must play in the evolution of the galaxy. (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Tales from Planet Earth - Legend - 4155725 € 5,50 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 313 p. - 16 short stories. The fiction of Arthur C. Clarke has spanned the universe. He has carried us across the unimaginable distances to alien times and places. Yet he has not lost sight of his home. Many of his greatest stories are set or have there roots right here on Planet Earth. In this book, Clarke's best stories about about our home planet are gathered together. For Arthur C. Clarke, more than any science fiction writer, "home" is the entire Earth, through all space and time. In this book, he shows us around his home to share his wonder. He invites us to share his vision and his dream. (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Tales from the White Hart - NEL - 4155137 € 3,00 Essef - 1980 - reprint - pocket - 156 p. - 15 stories. A compendium of science fiction stories that combine elements of comedy and horror, including "Silence Please," "Critical Mass," and "What Goes Up". (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Tales of Ten Worlds - Signet - 4142988 € 4,00 Essef - 1973 - 10th printing - pocket - 206 p. - 15 short SF stories that will delight any earthbound explorer of the stars. (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Tales of Ten Worlds - Signet - 4155130 € 3,00 Essef - 1973 - 10th printing - pocket - 206 p. - 15 short SF stories that will delight any earthbound explorer of the stars. (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage, slightly faded spine) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - Tales of Ten Worlds - Signet - 4155132 € 3,00 Essef - 1973 - 6th printing - pocket - 206 p. - 15 short SF stories that will delight any earthbound explorer of the stars. (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1971 - Sphere - 4083755 € 3,50 Essef - 1975 - reprint - pocket - 336 p. - 18 stories and a bibliography. (VG-, name inside) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - The Fountains of Paradise - Pan - 4156844 € 3,50 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 234 p. - In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind of space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean. (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - The Ghost from the Grand Banks - Bantam - 4094576 € 5,50 Essef - 1991 - pocket - 274 p. - A story of the year 2012. A hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic, two of the world's most powerful corporations race to find a way to raise and preserve the doomed luxury liner. The quest to uncover the secrets of the wreck and reclaim her becomes an obsession... and for some, a fatal one. (F) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - The Hammer of God - Bantam - 4155721 € 5,00 Essef - 1994 - pocket - 240 p. - In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky and sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization. While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a sign from God, the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately search for a way to avoid the inevitable. On board the starship Goliath Captain Robert Singh and his crew must race against time to redirect the meteor form its deadly collision course... (VG-, date inside) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - The Sands of Mars + Prelude to Space - NEL - 9135488 € 4,50 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 207 + 176 p. - The Sands of Mars: When a celebrated science fiction writer takes to space on his first trip to Mars, he stumbles upon Mars' most carefully hidden secrets and threatens the future of the entire planet! Prelude to Space is Arthur C. Clarke's first published science fiction novel. Written in 1947 in 20 days, it was not until 1951 that it first appeared in magazine format from Galaxy Publishing. Sidgwick & Jackson published it in novel form for the British readership in 1953. (VG-, name inside) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. - The Songs of Distant Earth - Grafton - 4155139 € 2,75 Essef - 1986 - pocket - 228 p. - When Earth's sun went nova, the Magellan barely escaped in time, with it's precious cargo of one million sleepers and gene banks of plants and animals. Five hundred years into the voyage they stopped for repairs on the idyllic planet of Thalassa... (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage, tape on spine and corners) |
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Clarke, J. Brian - The Expediter - Daw - 4127384 € 3,50 Essef - 1990 - first printing - pocket - 253 p. - For humans first contact was the fulfillment of a dream. To the alien Phuili it betryed all the laws of the universe! (F) |
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Clarke, Susanna - Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - TOR - 9155719 € 8,50 Fantasy - 2006 - 1st TOR edition - thick pocket - 1006 p. - A masterpiece of the genre that rivals Tolkien. English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost... (VG-) |
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Clark, Jan - Rieka Degahv 1: Prodigy - ROC - 9136827 € 4,00 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 447 p. - Rieka, one of the few humans serving in the mighty Commonwealth Fleet, is held responsible for destroying an enemy ship in deep space, thus shattering a fragile truth. Now charged with high treason and convinced that someone set her up, she embarks on a desperate search for the truth. But this search will take her straight into a high-stakes conflict where more is at stake than merely her life! (M) |
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Clayton, Jo - Diadem 09: Quester's Endgame - Daw - 123228 € 3,50 Essef - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 372 p. - Across the years through endless star systems, Aleytys had searched for her mother Shareem and for her long-denied heritage - the chance to claim her rightfull place as a member of the nearly immortal super-race, the Vrya. Now, at last, Aleytys was about to rendevous with Shareem for a journey to the secret homeworld of her people... (VG) |
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Clayton, Jo - Shadith's Quest 1 : Shadowplay - Daw - 4123259 € 4,00 Essef - 1990 - first printing - pocket - 396 p. - When she stumbled on a kidnapping in progress, Shadith - captive for centuries in the alien artifact known as the Diadem, now once again living in a human form - finds herself the prisoner of Ginbiryol Seyirshi, a being who has instigated devasting wars on world after world purely to film and sell Limited Editions of the resulting violence, destruction and death. (VG) |
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Clayton, Jo - Shadith's Quest 3: Shadowkill - Daw - 4153915 € 2,50 Essef - 1991 - first printing - pocket - 362 p. - A 'helpless' pawn held by one of the most powerful organizations in the known starways, would Shadith's potential rescuers prove deadlier than her Captors? (G, minor edge damages on rear cover, name inside) |
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Clayton, Jo - Shadowsong 1: Fire in the Sky - Daw - 4145486 € 3,50 Essef - 1995 - first printing - pocket - 352 p. - Emerging from her centuries-long imprisonment inside an alien artifact, Shadith learns that she has developed an empathic musical skill, and is called upon to delegate a mission with a musically communicating alien race. (VG) |
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Clayton, Jo - Skeen 1: Skeen's Leap - Daw - 123252 € 3,50 Essef - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 320 p. - Space pilot, trader, collector, thief. Skeen had found a treasure-trove planet from which there was no escape! (VG) |
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Clayton, Jo - Skeen 3: Skeen's Search - Daw - 123251 € 3,50 Essef - 1987 - first printing - pocket - 299 p. - With a universe to search, could Skeen find the last remnants of a once-powerful race in time to save their future? (VG) |
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Clayton, Jo - Soul Drinker 1: Drinker of Souls - Daw - 123254 € 3,50 Essef - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 335 p. - She was Brann, the Drinker of Souls, from whom all but the very brave and the very foolish fled in fear. Bonded to twin demonic shape-shifters, she roved the land in search of rich life source to feed her demons' need. But Brann too had a need that couldn't be denied, a quest to free her family from the evil king who'd enslaved them... (VG) |
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Clayton, Jo - Soul Drinker 2: Blue Magic - Daw - 123257 € 3,75 Essef - 1988 - first printing - pocket - 333 p. - Bound by an ancient promise, Brann must challenge the powers of an evil sorcerer and the magic of the gods. (VG) |
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Clayton, Jo - Soul Drinker 3: A Gathering of Stones - Daw - 123240 € 3,75 Essef - 1989 - first printing - pocket - 368 p. - When Magic Calls, not even Brann, the Drinker of Souls, can resist. And now the Chained God has drawn upon every spell at his command in a life-and-death struggle to break free of the energy-draining trap which holds him before he is driven into total dissolution. To win release from his invisible prison, the Chained God must obtain six talismans of power, and he will use Brann and the demon children, the sorcerer Maksim, and all their former allies - as well as deadly predators from another dimension - as pawns in a desperate campaign to breach the strongholds of gods, shamans, wizards, and priests, and steal the magical orbs that are the vital focal points for a magical spell more powerful than any Brann's world has ever experienced. (VG) |
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Clemens, James - The Banned and The Banished 1: Wit'ch Fire - Del Rey - 107142 € 5,50 Fantasy - 1999 - pocket - 428 p. - Inheriting the powers of three noble mages of long ago, a young woman forges an alliance among the outcasts of the crumbling empire of Alasea to save it from the Dark Lord and his evil minions. (VG) |
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Clemens, James - The Banned and the Banished 2: Wit'ch Storm - Del Rey - 9147919 € 6,00 Fantasy - 2000 - pocket - 517 p. - A young girl struggles to master her gift of magic as she searches for the mystical book that will allow her to put an end to the evil Dark Lord. (VG) |
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Clemens, James - The Banned and the Banished 4: Wit'ch Gate - Orbit - 9147535 € 5,50 Fantasy - 2005 - thick pocket - 530 p. - After being defeated in battle by Elena and her rebel army of humans, trolls, elves, shapeshifters, and dragons, the vengeful Dark Lord and his evil minions unleash the Weirgates, powerful black walls of extraordinary energy, on the victors. (F) |
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Clemens, James - The Banned and the Banished 4: Wit'ch Gate - Del Rey - 9149625 € 5,50 Fantasy - 2002 - thick pocket - 530 p. - After being defeated in battle by Elena and her rebel army of humans, trolls, elves, shapeshifters, and dragons, the vengeful Dark Lord and his evil minions unleash the Weirgates, powerful black walls of extraordinary energy, on the victors. (VG) |
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Clemens, James - The Banned and the Banished 4: Wit'ch Gate - Del Rey - 9132006 € 4,50 Fantasy - 2002 - thick pocket - 530 p. - After being defeated in battle by Elena and her rebel army of humans, trolls, elves, shapeshifters, and dragons, the vengeful Dark Lord and his evil minions unleash the Weirgates, powerful black walls of extraordinary energy, on the victors. (G, wrinkles) |
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Clemens, James - The Banned and the Banished 5: Wit'ch Star - Del Rey - 9147709 € 12,00 Fantasy - 2002 - first edition - HC with dust jacket - 526 p. - Five centuries after the destruction of the Mages of Alasea, a young girl, Elena, inherits the wild powers the Mages had so carefully concealed from their pitiless enemy. But though the Mages are long dead their ancient foe is not - and Elena must continue their battle with her hard-won outlaw army and her own mastery of the blood magick. (VG+) |
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Clement-Davies, David - The Telling Pool - Amulet - 8147706 € 9,00 Fantasy - 2007 - paperback - 382 p. - Relying on true courage and true love, as well as some surprising connections to the Arthurian legends, a young Welsh teenager named Rhodri embarks... (F) |
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Clement, Hal - Cycle of Fire - Ballantine - 4155741 € 3,75 Essef - 1981 - 6th printing - pocket - 185 p. - Each was a stranger to the other, but which was the alien? (VG) |
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Clement, Hal - Cycle of Fire - Ballantine - 4109956 € 3,50 Essef - 1957 - 1st printing - pocket - 185 p. - Each was a stranger to the other, but which was the alien? (VG-) |
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Clement, Hal - Cycle of Fire - Ballantine - 4155079 € 3,00 Essef - 1981 - 6th printing - pocket - 185 p. - Each was a stranger to the other, but which was the alien? (VG-, previous owner signature on titlepage, faded spine) |
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Clement, Hal - Fossil - Isaac's Universe - Daw - 4117754 € 4,25 Essef - 1993 - first printing - pocket - 288 p. - The blockbuster new novel by science fiction great Hal Clement, set in an alien-run universe created by Isaac Asimov himself. This is the story of six vastly different starfaring races coexisting under a precarious truce - an interstellar community to which the human race has recently been added. (VG-) |
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Clement, Hal - Iceworld - Ballentine / Del Rey - 4155742 € 3,25 Essef - 1981 - 2nd printing - pocket - 203 p. - Find the deadly planet. Source of the most dangerous drug in the Universe! (VG-) |
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Clement, Hal - Mesklinite Series 1: Mission of Gravity - Penguin - 4109954 € 4,00 Essef - 1963 - pocket - 200 p. - A great account on alien life on another planet. The story is set on a highly oblate planet named Mesklin, which has surface gravity that varies between 700 g at the poles and 3 g at the equator. The story is told from the points of view of one of the local intelligent life forms and a human explorer. The locals are centipede-like, in order to withstand the enormous gravity, and terrified of even small heights (because in 700 g even a tiny fall is fatal). (VG) |
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Clement, Hal - Mesklinite Series 1: Mission of Gravity - NEL - 4148634 € 2,75 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 192 p. - A great account on alien life on another planet. The story is set on a highly oblate planet named Mesklin, which has surface gravity that varies between 700 g at the poles and 3 g at the equator. The story is told from the points of view of one of the local intelligent life forms and a human explorer. The locals are centipede-like, in order to withstand the enormous gravity, and terrified of even small heights (because in 700 g even a tiny fall is fatal). (VG-, name inside) |
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Clement, Hal - Mesklinite Series 2: Close to Critical - Ballantine - 4063979 € 3,00 Essef - 1964 - first printing - pocket - 190 p. - Shrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere, Tenebra was a hostile planet.. a place of crushing gravity, 370-degree temperatures, a constantly shifting crust and giant drifting raindrops. Uncompromising - yet there was life, intelligent life on Tenebra. For more than twenty years, Earth scientists had studied the natives from an orbiting laboratory.. and had even found a way to train and educate a few of them. (VG) |
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