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Bacigalupi, Paolo & Buckell, Tobias S. - The Tangled Lands - Saga Press - 8150097   € 14,00 Essef - 2018 - HC with dust jacket - 304 p. - WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST COLLECTION From award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell comes a fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire—unless the people find a way to resist. Khaim, The Blue City, is the last remaining city in a crumbled empire that overly relied upon magic until it became toxic... (F) |
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Bacigalupi, Paolo - Ship Breaker - Atom - 4155078 € 6,00 Essef - 2011 - paperback - 326 p. - In a future world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl. (VG-, as new, but first few pages are contaminated with clouds of toner ink, printing error; all novel pages are clean) |
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Bacigalupi, Paolo - The Windup Girl - Orbit - 9144905 € 12,00 Essef - 2011 - paperback - 505 p. - What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these questions. (VG+) Hugo: Best Novel John W Campbell Memorial Award: Best Novel Nebula Awards: Best Novel |
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Bailey, Gerald E. - The Saga of Thorgrim 2: Sword of Poyana - Berkley - 4148689 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1979 - pocket - 197 p. - Heroic fantasy. Battle at the World's rim... (VG-, name inside) |
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Bailey, Robin W. - Frost 1: Frost - Unwin - 4083283 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1984 - paperback - 209 p. - The first book in the Frost series. Stripped of her magical powers, Frost must rely on her sword and her wits, to deliver the Book of the Last Battle to its rightful owners and earn back her powers. (VG) |
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Bailey, Robin W. - Frost 1: Frost - Pocket Books - 122752 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1983 - first Timescape printing - pocket - 208 p. - The first book in the Frost series. (VG) |
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Bailey, Robin W. - Frost 1: Frost - Unwin - 4105864 € 2,00 Fantasy - 1984 - paperback - 209 p. - The first book in the Frost series. Stripped of her magical powers, Frost must rely on her sword and her wits, to deliver the Book of the Last Battle to its rightful owners and earn back her powers. (VG-, name on first page) |
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Bailey, Robin W. - Philip José Farmer's The Dungeon 4: The Lake of Fire - Bantam - 4104613 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1989 - pocket - 281 p. - Excellent Series! A must read for true fantasyfans! A must have for your collection! Lake of Fire is one of the best in the series. Robin Bailey truly understands the characters and is very adept at showing their strengths, weaknesses and even their sense of humor! An excellent read! (VG) |
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Baker, Alan K. - Blackwood & Harrington Mystery 1: The Martian Ambassador - Snowbooks - 9150141 € 12,50 Essef - 2011 - HC with dust jacket - 416 p. - WELCOME TO LONDON, 1899. It has been six years since the discovery of intelligent life on Mars, and relations between the two worlds are rapidly developing. Three-legged Martian omnibuses stride through the streets and across the landscape, while... (F) |
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Baker, Alan K. - Blackwood & Harrington Mystery 2: The Feaster from the Stars - Snowbooks - 9150143 € 10,50 Essef - 2011 - paperback - 352 p. - Something strange is happening on the London Underground. The ghosts which haunt the platforms and tunnels are being seen much more frequently than usual, and it seems that they are both angry and frightened. Something has appeared on the... (F) |
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Baker, Kage - Company 2: Sky Coyote - Eos - 115894 € 4,00 Essef - 2000 - pocket - 292 p. - In 1699, in the heart of the Mayan jungle, lies Dr. Zeus' rest center for his hardworking immortal cyborgs, one of whom has just been assigned to visit a Native American village and convince its entire population to migrate to the future. (VG) |
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Baker, Scott - Symbiote's Crown - Berkley - 121872 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 214 p. - On Earth he was less than a man. But here he created God! (VG) |
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Baldry, Cherith - The Reliquary Ring - TOR - 9154286 € 5,00 Fantasy - 2004 - thick pocket - 471 p. - In an ancient maritime city, the people are ruled by an elderly duke - and also by the Church. From the mysterious Empire to the north are imported products of amazing technology, including genics - the gentically engineered people coveted by the... (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
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Baldwin, Bill - Canby's Legion - Warner / Aspect - 4126582 € 4,00 Essef - 1995 - pocket - 362 p. - Canby's Legion is a fast-paced thriller about a corrupted future where valor can be lethal. When you fight for traitors, your enemies may be your only friends. (VG+) |
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Baldwin, Bill - Helmsman 7: The Defiance - Warner / Aspect - 4126615 € 4,00 Essef - 1996 - pocket - 361 p. - The Defiance begins as Admiral Wolf Brim leads a combat flight against the Torond, enemies of the Avalon Empire. At Imperial Fleet Base Atalanta, Brim is given a new assignment to secure the space lanes between Hador-Haelic and the Pentad asteroids of Gontor. Having secured the asteroid bases, the EMpire would be able to launch Operation Spark, thus insuring the Empire's only remaining source of travel fuel. (VG+) |
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Ball, Brian N. - Sundog - Corgi - 4033119 € 1,75 Essef - 1966 - pocket - 190 p. - Barred from the stars, but one man dared to venture into the misty worlds of space. A classic space-pilot adventure. (VG) |
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Ball, Brian N. - Time 1: Timepiece - Ballantine - 033113 € 2,00 Essef - 1970 - first American edition - pocket - 153 p. - The first book in the Time series. (VG) |
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Ball, John - The First Team - Bantam - 121109 € 3,00 Essef - 1973 - pocket - 435 p. - A paranoid Soviets-Invade-America thriller, written in pre-Reagan times; America looked like it very well could die, and the country was looking for heroes. They got one in Hewlitt. This book is every bit as good as "The Hunt for Red October" (did Clancy "borrow" the idea from Ball?) and "Cardinal of the Kremlin." (VG) |
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Banks, Iain M. - The Bridge - Abacus - 8143532 € 7,00 Essef - 1994 - paperback - 288 p. - In The Bridge, master storyteller and weaver of worlds, Iain Banks creates a mysterious structure that leads from nowhere to nowhere. Everyone lives on the Bridge, including a man named Orr, devoid of personality or memory, and haunted by dreams of war. (F) |
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Bardugo, Leigh - Grishaverse 4 : Six of Crows - Orion - 9155330 € 10,00 Young Adult Fantasy - 2016 - paperback - 494 p. - See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone - Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams - but he can't pull it off alone. A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction - if they don't kill each other first... (VG) |
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Barker, Cicely Mary - Flower Fairies of the Wayside - Blackie - 4154688 € 2,50 Fantasy / Poetry - n.d. - small pocket - illustrated in full colour - 52 p. - A booklet with 25 fairy poems. Every second page has a beatiful full colour illustration, also by the author. (VG) |
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Barlow, Steve & Skidmore, Steve - Tales of the Dark Forest 2: Whizzard! - Collins - 4136947 € 4,25 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 2002 - paperback - 253 p. - Cities, towns and villages exist like islands in a green sea, while in the Dark Forest itself live hermits, wizards and all manner of creatures. Tym, apprentice to the local wizard, accidentally invents a new potion that causes them to move at incredible speeds - and with interesting side effects! (M) |
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Barnes. Steven - Charisma - TOR - 9142610 € 5,00 Essef - 2003 - pocket - 451 p. - A powerful thriller of redemption, hope, and courage that overcomes all obstacles. It began well - an experiment in techniques to teach high-risk children - poor, minority, children - the life-strategies that will allow them to succeed in life. And not just succeed, but overcome the odds and become wildly successful. They chose as their model a man who had done it all - Alexander Marcus... (VG-) |
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Barnes, John - Daybreak 2: Daybreak Zero - Ace - 9152135 € 9,50 Essef - 2011 - HC with dust jacket - 388 p. - The two tribes that formed after techno viruses destroyed everything electronic or mechanical must unite to prevent the "Daybreakers," responsible for the first technological catastrophe, from striking again in this new tale from the author of... (VG+) |
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Barnes, John - Kaleidoscope Century - Phoenix - 4032641 € 5,00 Essef - 1996 - paperback - 252 p. - Joshua wakes in 2109 at the age of 140, in a strong youthful body and with no memory of the past, to find himself at the center of a vast and deadly conspiracy... (VG) |
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Barnes, John - The Man who pulled down the Sky - NEL - 4032642 € 4,00 Essef - 1988 - paperback - 256 p. - The Orbital Republics may be the dominant power in the solar system but political and social forces are moving them toward a war on the Breakaway Confederation of moons and asteroids that barely maintains its independence. The Confederation sees its one slim chance against the OR's overwhelming military might in a diversionary tactic. It therefore sends several agents, including political historian Saul Pareto, down to the backwater colony that Earth has become... (VG) |
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Barnes, John - Timeline Wars 2: Washington's Dirigible - Harper - 4126541 € 4,50 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 327 p. - Follows the adventures of Mark Strang as he battles Closers - human-like aliens at war with Earth - across multiple timelines where he encounters a colonial America that has dirigibles, steam engines, and submarines. (VG) |
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Barnes, Steven - Aubrey Knight 1: Streetlethal - TOR - 113359 € 3,25 Essef - 1991 - first TOR edition - pocket - 310 p. - Disgusted with his life as enforcer for the Ortegas and their bloody empire of drugs, prostitution, and black market body parts, null-boxer Aubrey Knight realizes that he will have to become a hero if he is to walk away and still survive. (VG) |
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Barnes, Steven - Aubrey Knight 1: Streetlethal - Ace - 4113357 € 2,75 Essef - 1984 - 3rd printing - pocket - 310 p. - Disgusted with his life as enforcer for the Ortegas and their bloody empire of drugs, prostitution, and black market body parts, null-boxer Aubrey Knight realizes that he will have to become a hero if he is to walk away and still survive. (VG-) |
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Barnes, Steven - Aubrey Knight 2: The Gorgon Child - TOR - 4142612 € 3,50 Essef - 1989 - pocket - 342 p. - A virtual superman, a streetfighter trained by the Mob, Knight turns his awesome powers on those who created him. Fighting alongside his beautiful mate, he takes on a corrupt television evangelist who schemes to enslave America. The action-packed, near-future adventure sequel to Streetlethal. (VG) |
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Barnes, Steven - Aubrey Knight 3: Firedance - TOR - 9142613 € 5,00 Essef - 1995 - pocket - 376 p. - The third book in Barnes' series about Aubry Knight, set in a future Los Angeles, which has nearly been destroyed by an earthquake, where bio-engineering has given humanity the ability to create supermen. When an enemy attacks Aubry's child, the streetfighter is drawn inexorably toward New Africa, toward the mysteries of his own past, and into danger. (VG) |
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Barnes, Steven - Blood Brothers - TOR - 4142616 € 4,50 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 405 p. - Austin Tucker was a Green Beret who's life was shattered one Thanksgiving night when strangers invaded his home and killed his entire family. Derek Waites, once an outlaw computer hacker, now designs computer games. Someone has just tried to kidnap his son, while his daughter cried a strange warning and burst into flames. The two men have nothing in common - except that they are brothers in the same cause. (VG) |
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Barnes, Steven - Great Sky Woman 2: Shadow Valley - Del Rey - 8142599 € 12,00 Prehistoric Fantasy - 2009 - HC with dust jacket - 254 p. - In the great tradition of Jean Auel, this novel - the sequel to Great Sky Woman - imagines life in prehistoric Africa. Thirty thousand years ago, in the shadow of Kilimanjaro... Since the beginning of time, the peaceful Ibandi people had been sheltered by their god-mountains, Great Earth and Great Sky. When savage rivals threatened their way of life, their gods told Sky Woman - last of the true Dream Dancers - and her mate Frog Hopping to take the people north in search of new lands... (VG) |
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Barnes, Steven - The Kundalini Equation - TOR - 4142611 € 2,50 Essef - 1986 - first printing - pocket - 347 p. - Barnes gives us characters that are vividly real people, conceived with insight and portrayed with compassion and rare skill. (VG-, cover puncture) |
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Barnwell, William - The Blessing 1: The Blessing Papers - Pocket Books - 122548 € 3,50 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 354 p. - Praised by Andre Norton, among others, as an "excellent combination of science fiction and fantasy," The Blessing Papers concerns a post-apocalyptic future set in a fictitious Ireland (Imram), in which the ability to read and write has almost been lost and strange images and religions reign. (VG) |
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Barnwell, William - The Blessing 2: Imram - Pocket Books - 121459 € 3,00 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 261 p. - Turley Vail, with his disturbing visions, is destined to save the world of Imram, but he doesn't want the responsibility. Beneath the scientific wisdom of the Blessing Papers lies a catastrophic evil only he understands. Vanishing deep into the wilds of the island of Imram, he is captured by the Ennis, a primitive people who torture him with their rituals before accepting him. But his survival brings him terrifying doubts: what exactly is the other sinister force that predicts his every move? And how will he safely unlock the precious secret of the Blessing Papers, the sacred prophecies that can bring salvation or doom to Imram? (VG) |
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Barnwell, William - The Blessing 3: The Sigma Curve - Pocket Books - 122508 € 3,00 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 239 p. - Turley Vail has succeeded in forming an alliance of the northern Circle Villages of Imram. As the new Center, he has renounced the temptations of the Blessing Papers. But the triumph rings hollow as first his lovely wife Jeneen dies, and then his son Thomas grows distant. But when trouble threatens the Circle people, father and son take off together to the south to root out the cause. (VG) |
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Baron, Robert - Storm Rider - Jove - 113396 € 2,50 Essef - 1992 - pocket - 234 p. - An action thriller. At the head of a free biker posse, Stormrider rules the radioactive Plains of future America. (VG-, some foxing) |
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Barron, D. G. - The Zilov Bombs - Pan - 4114245 € 2,25 Essef - 1965 - pocket - 125 p. - A gripping and brilliantly imaginative story of suspense and sabotage in Russian occupied Britain. (VG-, name and writings inside) |
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Barron, T. A. - Adventures of Kate 2: The Ancient One - TOR - 123570 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1994 - pocket - 339 p. - When Kate travels to Blade, Oregon, to spend a quiet vacation with her Aunt Melanie, she has no idea of the adventures that lie ahead. Blade, Oregon is home of the magical Lost Crater, in which a grove of giant readwood trees has remained untouched for thousands of years... (VG) |
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Barr, Tyrone C. - Split Worlds - Digit - 4109546 € 15,50 Essef - 1959 - pocket - 160 p. - Also known as: The Last 14. A powerful story of 5 women and 9 men, the sole survivors of the new world of tomorrow! A Global holocaust novel: "The red flash disappeared as quickly as it had come and became, as that on the right, a mushroom of coloured cloud. Bombing in progress... There were similar happenings in Britain, France, Spain, in the Atlantic itself and between Norway and Sweden". (VG) |
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Barr, Tyrone C. - The Last 14 - Chariot - 4109545 € 5,00 Essef - 1960 - pocket - Catalogue Warren $ 7.50 (VG) - 160 p. - collectible paperback - Also known as: Split Worlds. A powerful story of 5 women and 9 men, the sole survivors of the new world of tomorrow! A Global holocaust novel: "The red flash disappeared as quickly as it had come and became, as that on the right, a mushroom of coloured cloud. Bombing in progress... There were similar happenings in Britain, France, Spain, in the Atlantic itself and between Norway and Sweden". (VG-, browning inside covers) |
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Barry, C. J. - Unearthed - Love Spell Books - 4155342 € 3,50 Essef / Futuristic Romance - 2005 - pocket - 302 blz - A sucessful singer/songwriter is zapped into outer space by a gorgeous alien to sing a mystical song on a strange planet and save his father. (VG) |
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Barzman, Ben - Echo X - Paperback Library - 4076264 € 2,50 Essef - 1962 - first printing - pocket - 252 p. - Twin Earths in conflict. Which would survive? (VG) |
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Barzman, Ben - Echo X - Paperback Library - 4032764 € 1,75 Essef - 1962 - first printing - pocket - 252 p. - Twin Earths in conflict. Which would survive? (G, inside covers spotted) |
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Bashford, John - After Frankenstein - Sitos - 4141736 € 3,00 Essef / Horror / Playwright - 2002 - paperback - Theatre series - 96 p. - Adapted from May Shelley's novel. Inleiding in het Nederlands, Toneeltekst in het Engels. (VG-) |
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Bassett, James C. - Living Real - Harper Collins - 4032711 € 3,50 Essef - 1997 - pocket - 326 p. - Carver Blervaque is already one of the elite, the Web's hottest director of virtual entertainments, when he discovers a new method of programming the interface between computer and human mind. A programming method that allows him to work on both sides of that boundary. When the first program he creates with his new technique debuts as the most popular in the Web, Carver barely has time to revel in his success before his own reality collapses around him... (VG) |
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Baudino, Gael - Book 1 of Water : O Greenest Branch! - ROC - 4147521 € 4,75 Fantasy - 1995 - pocket - 336 p. - A tiny kingdom, frought with internal conflicts and three centuries of drought, embraces the promise of relief by diplomats from the Righteous States of America, and three special people find their lives changed forever. (F) |
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Baudino, Gael - Dragon Sword - Legend - 9121022 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1990 - pocket - 452 p. - She has the dragonsword. The land is called Gryylth... Suzanne Helling could not figure it out. She had been sitting in the office of Salomon Braithwaite, a professor of medieval archeology at UCLA. Then the paperweight on his desk grew into a beckoning dragon. "You are needed", it said to them... (VG) |
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Baudino, Gael - Dragon Sword - Lynx Books - 9083837 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1988 - pocket - 452 p. - She has the dragonsword. The land is called Gryylth... Suzanne Helling could not figure it out. She had been sitting in the office of Salomon Braithwaite, a professor of medieval archeology at UCLA. Then the paperweight on his desk grew into a beckoning dragon. "You are needed", it said to them... (VG-, name on first page) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Destiny's Children 1: Coalescent - Orbit - 9074049 € 6,50 Essef - 2003 - pocket - 536 p. - As the light of the Roman Empire gutters and fails one woman begins a remarkable quest to protect her family. It is a quest that will last 2000 years and threaten everything we know... (F) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Destiny's Children 1: Coalescent - Del Rey - 9142938 € 6,75 Essef - 2004 - pocket - 527 p. - As the light of the Roman Empire gutters and fails one woman begins a remarkable quest to protect her family. It is a quest that will last 2000 years and threaten everything we know... (VG+) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Destiny's Children 1: Coalescent - Orbit - 9156839 € 5,50 Essef - 2003 - pocket - 536 p. - As the light of the Roman Empire gutters and fails one woman begins a remarkable quest to protect her family. It is a quest that will last 2000 years and threaten everything we know... (VG) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Flux - Harper Collins - 4154299 € 4,00 Essef - 1994 - pocket - 366 p. - Baxter is one among the few writers, writing science fiction in which the science is right. His extrapolations are a sheer pleasure to read. This book is about human being who live within the mantle of a star. The biology of these... (VG-, name inside) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Mammoth 1: Silverhair - Millennium - 4075923 € 4,75 Fantasy - 2000 - pocket - 277 p. - Prehistoric Fantasy in a style which is one of a kind. Stephen Baxter breaks genre boundaries and brings his unique imagination, epic scope and elegant style to an anthropomorphic fantasy. Starting with the story of a young female mammoth and the struggle her herd has to survive into the present day on a remote Siberian Island the Mammoth trilogy encompasses thousands of millions of years, the geological and climatic history of earth and a vision of a startling future. All via an astounding evocation of mammoth. Life, biology, intelligence, culture, myth and legend. It is a triumph of imaginative story telling. (F) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Mammoth 1: Silverhair - Harper Prism - 8150159 € 8,75 Fantasy - 1999 - first Harper Prism printing - HC with dust jacket - 212 p. - Prehistoric Fantasy in a style which is one of a kind. Stephen Baxter breaks genre boundaries and brings his unique imagination, epic scope and elegant style to an anthropomorphic fantasy. Starting with the story of a young female mammoth and the struggle her herd has to survive into the present day on a remote Siberian Island the Mammoth trilogy encompasses thousands of millions of years, the geological and climatic history of earth and a vision of a startling future. All via an astounding evocation of mammoth. Life, biology, intelligence, culture, myth and legend. It is a triumph of imaginative story telling. (F) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Manifold Sequence 2: Space - Voyager - 9156954 € 10,00 Essef - 2000 - trade paperback - 455 p. - If they existed, they would be here. This is the Fermi paradox concerning the existence of extraterrestrials. They're not here, so therefore they do not exist. NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant believes this is so, until a Japanese researcher on the Moon discovers evidence which proves the contrary... (VG) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Manifold Sequence 2: Space - Voyager - 9074051 € 4,00 Essef - 2001 - pocket - 455 p. - If they existed, they would be here. This is the Fermi paradox concerning the existence of extraterrestrials. They're not here, so therefore they do not exist. NASA astronaut Reid Malenfant believes this is so, until a Japanese researcher on the Moon discovers evidence which proves the contrary... (VG-) |
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Baxter, Stephen - NASA Trilogy 3: Moonseed - Harper Voyager - 9144903 € 6,00 Essef - 1999 - pocket - 534 p. - Geologist Henry Meacher is given a sample of Moon Bedrock to analyze. The deadly Moon rock accidentally comes into contact with the Earth's core in the form of lava. Soon perhaps the whole world will be infected. (VG) |
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Baxter, Stephen - NASA Trilogy 3: Moonseed - Harper Prism - 9113229 € 10,00 Essef - 2000 - hardcover with dust jacket - 534 p. - Geologist Henry Meacher is given a sample of Moon Bedrock to analyze. The deadly Moon rock accidentally comes into contact with the Earth's core in the form of lava. Soon perhaps the whole world will be infected. (VG) |
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Baxter, Stephen - The Time Ships - Harper Voyager - 9126576 € 4,50 Essef - 2012 - pocket - 520 p. - In this sequel to H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine", the time traveller has abandoned his Eloi friend Weena to the cannibal appetites of the Morlocks, the devolved race of future humans from whom he fled. He promptly embarks on a second journey to the year AD 802,701, pledged to rescue Weena. (VG) |
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Bayley, Barrington J. - Soul of the Robot 2: The Rod of Light - Methuen - 4083286 € 3,25 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 193 p. - Robot evolution has advanced to the point that intelligent robots have liberated themselves from servitude, defending themselves from servitude, defending themselves against the humans who work to exterminate them using super-machines... (VG) |
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Bear, Greg + Zahn, Timothy - Hardfought + Cascade Point - TOR - 4074045 € 4,00 Essef - 1988 - TOR double # 2 - 97+82 p. - Two short novels in one book. (VG) |
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Bear, Greg - Anvil of Stars - Warner - 9156909 € 5,00 Essef - 1993 - pocket - 471 p. - Sequel to 'The Forge of God'. (VG-, some browning) |
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Bear, Greg - Darwin 2: Darwin's Children - Del Rey - 9150162 € 13,50 Essef - 2003 - First edition - HC with dust jacket - 387 p. - In Greg Bear's stunning new thriller, nature is more of a bitch goddess than a kindly mother, and evolution is no longer just a theory - it's an urgent and dangerous fact. In DARWIN'S CHILDREN, human society is about to get a complete makeover. A new kind of humanity is growing up. Some call them the Virus Children. They are special children, equipped with significant natural upgrades that allow them to communicate and socialize in ways we can hardly imagine, or resist. Charming, gentle, persuasive, beautiful... in them can be seen a future that may make all of human history until now seem clumsy and brutal. (VG+) |
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Bear, Greg - Dead Lines - Ballantine - 9142587 € 5,00 Essef - 2005 - pocket - 299 p. - It's three years from today. Dr. Kevin Faraday believes that he has found the pathway to wherever the living go when they die. Dr. Faraday is about to learn what it means to be damned. The nation's biggest communication businesses have been doing research on the limits of data speed. Soon, houses, cars, refrigerators, televisions, wrist watches, eye glasses, earrings, will all talk to information centres and receive news, guidance, entertainment, and upgrades for essential services... (VG) |
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Bear, Greg - Eternity - Victor Gollancz - 9154715 € 8,75 Essef - 1989 - paperback - first VGSF edition - 398 p. - The astonishing sequel to the bestselling 'EON' - Here, from the other side of time, come: 'Thistledown', the asteroid starship of a future that is not quite our future; Gaia, a parallel reality where Alexander the Great's empire has ruled for two thousand years; and 'The Way', an infinite corridor through space-time which traverses and encompasses whole universes. And as the strands of these mysteries are unravelled, so the ordering and the end of mankind - and our entire Universe - come into question. (VG) |
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Bear, Greg - Heads - Legend - 3127356 € 3,50 Essef - 1991 - reprint - pocket - 117 p. - A story of intrigue on the Moon, two hundred years in the future. (F) |
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Bear, Greg - Psychlone - Ace - 4148428 € 3,75 Essef - 1979 - 1st Ace printing - pocket - 311 p. - What force can freeze a lynx solid in seconds, so fast that, once thawed, the cat remains in perfect health? Scientist Larry Fowler would rather run from the cat than believe it existed. However, he cannot stop asking questions--questions that will bring him face to face with the psychlone. (VG-, cover puncture, name inside) |
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Bear, Greg - Queen of Angels 1: Queen of Angels - Legend - 9142920 € 6,25 Essef - 1991 - pocket - 474 p. - WHY? That crime and that question lead a biotransformed policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the Bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind - into the nightmare soul - of the psychopath himself. This is science fiction at its best: a detective story, a story of virtual reality entrapments and the coming to consciousness of an Artificial Intelligence... (F) |
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Bear, Greg - Queen of Angels 1: Queen of Angels - Legend - 9152507 € 5,00 Essef - 1991 - pocket - 474 p. - WHY? That crime and that question lead a biotransformed policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the Bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind - into the nightmare soul - of the psychopath himself. This is science fiction at its best: a detective story, a story of virtual reality entrapments and the coming to consciousness of an Artificial Intelligence... (VG-, minor cover damage) |
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Bear, Greg - Queen of Angels 3: Moving Mars - TOR - 9091776 € 5,50 Essef - 1994 - pocket - 500 p. - Hugo award nominee. A brilliant physicist and the daughter of one of Mars' oldest colonizing families - both involved in the student uprising of 2171 - see the revolution take a dramatic, unexpected turn. (VG) |
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Bear, Greg - Queen of Angels 3: Moving Mars - TOR - 9154067 € 10,50 Essef - 1993 - 1st edition - HC with dust jacket - 448 p. - Hugo award nominee. A brilliant physicist and the daughter of one of Mars' oldest colonizing families - both involved in the student uprising of 2171 - see the revolution take a dramatic, unexpected turn. (VG) |
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Bear, Greg - Queen of Angels 4: Slant - TOR - 8126543 € 5,50 Essef - 1998 - pocket - 505 p. - In the 21st century most of the world's population are Therapied model citizens. But a slow unwinding becoming ever faster in the heads of the Therapied attracts the attention of Mary Choy, policewoman and Martin Burke, therapist; last seen in "Queen of Angels". Together they search for a solution. (VG) |
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Bear, Greg - Queen of Angels 4: Slant (without dust jacket) - TOR - 9113235 € 5,00 Essef - 1997 - hardcover - 395 p. - In the 21st century most of the world's population are Therapied model citizens. But a slow unwinding becoming ever faster in the heads of the Therapied attracts the attention of Mary Choy, policewoman and Martin Burke, therapist; last seen in "Queen of Angels". Together they search for a solution. (G, without dust jacket) |
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Bear, Greg - STARWARS: Rogue Planet - Arrow - 4104709 € 5,00 Essef - 2001 - pocket - 341 p. - Three years after the events of the Phantom Menace, Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Knight Obi Wan Kenobi encounter a mysterious world... (VG) |
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Bear, Greg - The Wind from a Burning Woman - Popular Library - 4112065 € 3,25 Essef - 1990 - first PL edition - pocket - 240 p. - Six Essef stories. (VG-) |
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Bear, Greg - Vitals - Ballantine - 9127929 € 4,50 Essef - 2003 - pocket - 396 p. - Blending fierce, fast plots with vivid characters and mind-bending ideas, Greg Bear has mastered a powerful alchemy of suspense, science, and action in his gripping thrillers. Darwin's Radio was hailed across the country as one of the best books of the year. His newest novel, Vitals, begins with a harrowing descent to a netherworld at the very bottom of the sea-and then explodes to the surface in sheer terror. (VG) |
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Beebee, Chris - The Hub - Macdonald - 075474 € 4,00 Essef - 1987 - HC with dust jacket - 249 p. - An adventure in the 21st century. A successful space colony, the Hub, has been established at L5. Utopia? Hardly - lunatic sects abound, the vast urban tacks are riddled with violent no-go areas... (G+, mild stain on book edge) |
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Bell, Clare - The Jaguar Princess - TOR - 9136072 € 5,00 Essef - 1994 - First paperback publication - pocket - 443 p. - Down, pedants who would remind us that the Aztecs didn't really suffer from internal revolutions led by half-feline slaves! We don't need to be reminded of that to enjoy this historical cum fantasy romance. It's entertainingly written and holds interest with its excellent pacing, solid characterizations, and, most important, its magic. Most of this last is worked by Mixcatl, the main character; feisty and peculiar and talented, she occasionally turns into a jaguar to right ancient wrongs... (VG-) |
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Bell, Hilari - Navohar - ROC - 4154296 € 4,00 Essef - 2000 - pocket - 330 p. - To save the world from an alien invasion, humanity altered their children's genetic code--but now they're paying the price. Earth's younger generations are dying of a new disease. Salvation may lie in outer space, in the DNA of humans who founded... (VG) |
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Bell, Hilari - The Book of Sorahb 1: Flame - Simon & Schuster - 117098 € 6,50 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 2003 - HC with dust jacket - 344 p. - In this first volume of The Book of Sorahb, Bell introduces readers to a world of honor, danger, and magic in a spellbinding tale of self-discovery of three young people who watch as their world is torn apart. (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory & Brin, David - Heart of the Comet - Bantam - 9071188 € 5,00 Essef - 1987 - pocket - 477 p. - An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future. (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory & Brin, David - Heart of the Comet - Bantam - 9143001 € 5,00 Essef - 1987 - pocket - 477 p. - An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future. (VG-, weak spine) |
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Benford, Gregory & Eklund, Gordon - Find the Changeling - Dell - 4153468 € 2,00 Essef - 1980 - first printing - pocket - 249 p. - The Changeling could become anyone or anything - man, woman, child, animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction. Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of Alvea for its next mission - to throw an entire world into eternal chaos and madness. (G+, front cover top edge chip) |
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Benford, Gregory & Eklund, Gordon - If the Stars are Gods - Ace - 4127361 € 4,00 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 215 p. - The complete version of the unforgettable masterpiece, that went from Nebula Award-winner to a timeless classic. Aliens have come to Earth in search of a man who knows the stars, and that man is Bradley Reynolds. They want to know whether the sun loves us. And what Reynolds finds in the end is a transformation so glorious as to be far beyond his capacity to dream - a universe where beings are collected like songs. (F) |
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Benford, Gregory & Eklund, Gordon - If the Stars are Gods - Berkley - 4150861 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - 2nd printing - pocket - 219 p. - The complete version of the unforgettable masterpiece, that went from Nebula Award-winner to a timeless classic. Aliens have come to Earth in search of a man who knows the stars, and that man is Bradley Reynolds. They want to know whether the sun loves us. And what Reynolds finds in the end is a transformation so glorious as to be far beyond his capacity to dream - a universe where beings are collected like songs. (VG-, faded spine) |
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Benford, Gregory & Rotsler, William - Shiva Descending - TOR - 9113364 € 5,00 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 394 p. - A gigantic asteroid the size of a mountain, Shiva is set to hit Earth with the force of a hundred thousand nuclear bombs, poised to destroy all life on Earth and blast the human race into instant extinction. Only a last-ditch space mission has a chance of saving the Earth - or what's left of it after the first asteroid rainshower. (VG-, browning) |
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Benford, Gregory - In Alien Flesh - Gollancz - 4152551 € 3,75 Essef - 1986 - pocket - 280 p. - The award-winning author (If the Stars Are Gods, Timescape has a reputation for bridging the often hostile camps of hard-science SF and the more literary, humanist variety. In this collection of stories from the past decade, however, his contentious... (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - In the Ocean of Night - Dell - 4109554 € 3,50 Essef - 1978 - first Dell printing - pocket - 333 p. - A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of "Timescape." (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - In the Ocean of Night - Bantam - 4126702 € 3,50 Essef - 1988 - 3rd printing - pocket - 321 p. - A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of "Timescape." (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - In the Ocean of Night - Orbit - 076270 € 3,00 Essef - 1978 - pocket - 333 p. - A classic novel of man's future and fate, written by the eminent American physicist and award-winning author of "Timescape." (G, spotted) |
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Benford, Gregory - Jupiter Project 2: Against Infinity - Pocket Books - 121508 € 3,50 Essef - 1984 - pocket - 251 p. - A gripping, masterfully written adventure set against the violent beauty of a planet in the throes of cataclymic transformation, Against Infinity is Gregory Benford's timeless portrait of a young man's comming of age... (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - Martian Race 1: The Martian Race - Warner - 9113191 € 12,50 Essef - 1999 - first WB printing - hardcover with dust jacket - 340 p. - After a failed NASA mission to Mars, the US government abandons all plans for further manned voyages. Billionaire businessman John Axelrod takes up the challenge to complete the first private mission to the planet. Then comes news that a Chinese-European group are launching a rival mission. (F) |
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Benford, Gregory - Tides of Light - Bantam - 9110063 € 5,00 Essef - 1989 - pocket - 407 p. - Continuing the story begun in Great Sky River, Benford creates a stunning novel of the last band of humans fleeing extinction in the Galactic Center. And with one enemy behind them, the humans are dismayed to discover on a remote planet an alien race more awesome than any they have encountered. (VG) |
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Benford, Gregory - Tides of Light - Gollancz - 9129995 € 5,00 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 362 p. - Continuing the story begun in Great Sky River, Benford creates a stunning novel of the last band of humans fleeing extinction in the Galactic Center. And with one enemy behind them, the humans are dismayed to discover on a remote planet an alien race more awesome than any they have encountered. (VG-, name inside) |
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Benjamin, Chloe - The Immortalists - Tinder Press - 8152608 € 8,50 Essef - 2018 - paperback - 417 p. - It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to... (VG-) |
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Benjamin, Curt - Seven Brothers 3: The Gates of Heaven - Daw - 9145108 € 5,00 Fantasy - 2004 - pocket - 516 p. - The magnificent Seven Brothers series continues with The Gates of Heaven...Even as Prince Llesho's hard-won alliances are threatened, he is caught in a race against time and the evil sorcerer Markko, as he struggles to complete his prophecy-fulfilling quest. Will the price of Llesho's quest prove too high to pay? For every step forward must be paid for with the lifeblood of those he holds dear... (VG+) |
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Benjamin, Curt - Seven Brothers, 1: The Prince of Shadow - Daw - 9148004 € 6,75 Fantasy - 2002 - pocket - 511 p. - Sold into slavery by the ruthless invaders who killed his father, Llesho grows up on Pearl Island, trained as a diver, until a vision of his six... (VG) |
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Benjamin, Curt - The Prince of Dreams - Daw - 9147797 € 5,50 Fantasy - 2003 - pocket - 512 p. - Joining forces with two of his long-lost brothers, the trickster god, the Emperor Shou, several gladiators, and a young witch, Llesho continues his... (F) |
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