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Saberhagen, Fred - After the Fact - Baen - 4032451   € 3,00 Essef - pocket - 1988 - 285 p. - Promised financial security, Jerry Flint hires on with the mysterious Pilgrim Foundation. Next morning Jerry awakes in 19th century Illinois. His irrevocable assignment: Save President Lincoln from assassination. With only his wits, an unusual natural gift, and Pilgrim's mysterious pocket watch, Jerry must succeed or remain trapped in a time loop. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 02: Brother Berserker - Orbit - 093594 € 3,00 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 167 p. - On the planet Sirgol the death machines have a unique and sublte mode of attack. Now, the time and place of the next attack has been pinpointed - the Berserkers will try to eliminate Vincent Vincento, an early genius whose loss will cost mankind a hundred years of progress in the physical sciences. Derron Odegard, one of the elite corps of Time Operatives, has the toughest assignment in Sirgol's history - protect Vincento at any cost. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 03: Berserker's Planet - Daw - 4076041 € 3,00 Essef - 1975 - pocket - 173 p. - Saberhagen's Berserker series is a space opera in which robotic self-replicating machines intend to destroy all organic life. These berserkers, a doomsday weapon left over from an interstellar war 50,000 years ago, are killer spaceships furnished with machine intelligence, operating from asteroid-sized berserker bases where they are capable of building more Berserkers and auxiliary machines... (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 03: Berserker's Planet - Ace - 4147514 € 2,00 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 233 p. - Saberhagen's Berserker series is a space opera in which robotic self-replicating machines intend to destroy all organic life. These berserkers, a doomsday weapon left over from an interstellar war 50,000 years ago, are killer spaceships furnished with machine intelligence, operating from asteroid-sized berserker bases where they are capable of building more Berserkers and auxiliary machines... (G, cover puncture) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 03: Berserker's Planet - Gollancz - 4155058 € 2,25 Essef - 1989 - pocket - 233 p. - Saberhagen's Berserker series is a space opera in which robotic self-replicating machines intend to destroy all organic life. These berserkers, a doomsday weapon left over from an interstellar war 50,000 years ago, are killer spaceships furnished with machine intelligence, operating from asteroid-sized berserker bases where they are capable of building more Berserkers and auxiliary machines... (G+, wear on spine) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 11 : Berserker Lies - TOR - 4156850 € 3,50 Essef - 1991 - pocket - 224 p. - Our wars were behind us. Mankind was moving out from the planet of its birth. New worlds were settled and with the wealth of the galaxy at hand, poverty was eliminated. Then out of a clear summer sky came the first berserker attack. (VG-, name inside) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Book of the Gods 3: The Arms of Hercules - TOR - 8156781 € 6,50 Fantasy - 2000 - first edition - paperback - 352 p. - Against the greatest monsters that classical literature and Saberhagen's vivid imagination could create, Hercules' struggles come vividly to life in his fight to the death, against Death itself. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Dancing Bears - TOR - 4153498 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1997 - pocket - 378 p. - On the brink of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, an American hunter is chased across Russia by a nobleman with the preternatural ability to turn into a bear - a metaphor of Russia's own transformation. Reprint. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Empire of the East 1: The Broken Lands - Universal - 4083956 € 2,25 Essef - 1973 - reprint - pocket - 190 p. - A unique adventure in a world on the brink of ultimate change, a world in which magic rules -and science struggles to live again. A masterful blend of high technology and high sorcery combined to create a classic epic of science fantasy, where demons, djinns and wizards exist side by side with the remnants of the machine age. (VG-, name on first page) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Empire of the East 3: Changeling Earth - Tandem - 4083744 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1974 - pocket - 187 p. - A unique adventure in a world on the brink of ultimate change, a world in which magic rules -and science struggles to live again. A masterful blend of high technology and high sorcery combined to create a classic epic of science fantasy, where demons, djinns and wizards exist side by side with the remnants of the machine age. (VG-, name on first page) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Lost Swords 4: Farslayer's Story - TOR - 102705 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1990 - pocket - 252 p. - Before the time of man, the gods forged Twelve Swords of Power. This is the story of Farslayer, the sword that can kill from across an entire world. The game is fierce. The prize is the sword. And the players are Black Pearl, a mermaid, and Cosmos, her lover; Prince Zoltan and Prince Mark; the evil wizard Wood; and an enigmatic woman who arrives astride a griffin. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Love Conquers All - Ace - 093585 € 2,75 Essef - 1979 - first Ace printing - pocket - 284 p. - The ultimate tyranny will come when love conquers all. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Love Conquers All - Ace - 4109171 € 2,50 Essef - 1979 - first Ace printing - pocket - 284 p. - The ultimate tyranny will come when love conquers all. (VG-, initials on first page) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Love Conquers All - Baen - 116006 € 2,50 Essef - 1985 - first printing - pocket - 275 p. - The ultimate tyranny will come when love conquers all. (VG-, mild browning) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Mask of the Sun 1: The Mask of the Sun - TOR - 4032416 € 2,75 Essef - 1987 - pocket - 234 p. - It's an ancient Aztec mask, worth a fortune in gold, but it holds more power than the human mind can comprehend. Tom Gabrieli has dredged it from the sea and vanished. Mike Gabrieli deared to wear it and his life will never be the same... (VG-) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Mask of the Sun 1: The Mask of the Sun - Ace - 4074786 € 2,50 Essef - 1979 - first Ace printing - 309 p. - It's an ancient Aztec mask, worth a fortune in gold, but it holds more power than the human mind can comprehend. Tom Gabrieli has dredged it from the sea and vanished. Mike Gabrieli deared to wear it and his life will never be the same... (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Mask of the Sun 1: The Mask of the Sun - TOR - 4109097 € 2,75 Essef - 1987 - pocket - 234 p. - It's an ancient Aztec mask, worth a fortune in gold, but it holds more power than the human mind can comprehend. Tom Gabrieli has dredged it from the sea and vanished. Mike Gabrieli deared to wear it and his life will never be the same... (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Mask of the Sun 2: A Century of Progress - TOR - 4115847 € 2,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 315 p. - Alternate history. For centuries two meg-powers from the future have been waging war for control of timelines of history. Alan Norlund, a WWII airman vet, is promised a life saving cure for his granddaughter, if he will undertake a mission fifty years back in time to the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Hitler with his 'angels' from the opposing power would like to take over our timeline and 1933 Chicago may be just the place to start. (VG-) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Octagon - Ace - 4122023 € 1,75 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 272 p. - Players scattered across the continent are engaged in a game. Each player has certain attributes, including skill, strength, courage, cunning, and daring. Each has his kingdom. Each can ally with or attack any of the others... (G+, some wear on backstrip, browning) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Pilgrim - Baen - 109100 € 3,50 Essef - 1997 - first printing - pocket - 526 p. - Who is Pilgrim? Tom Scheffler and Jerry Flint are going to find out the hard way, because the mysterious Pilgrim is going to have them fighting for their lives centuries, millennia before they were born. Pilgrim is the rogue time traveler trying to change the course of history for his own ends. And even if the two hapless adventurers survive Pilgrim's deadly game, they have no assurance that they will ever see their own timeline again. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Pyramids - Baen - 108229 € 3,50 Essef - 1987 - first printing - pocket - 311 p. - Tom Scheffer knew that his great-uncle, Montgomery Chapel, had made his fortune by selling ancient Egyptian artefacts that were finer than those in any museum. Scheffer also knew that - fifty years later - Chapel was still afraid of some man, some entity, known only as pilgrim... (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Pyramids - Baen - 4075826 € 3,00 Essef - 1987 - first printing - pocket - 311 p. - Tom Scheffer knew that his great-uncle, Montgomery Chapel, had made his fortune by selling ancient Egyptian artefacts that were finer than those in any museum. Scheffer also knew that - fifty years later - Chapel was still afraid of some man, some entity, known only as pilgrim... (G, round spine) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - The First Swords [Omnibus] - TOR - 9156778 € 10,00 Fantasy - 1990s? - paperback - 605 p. - Omnibus comprising the Book of Swords Vol. 1, 2 and 3. The Swords were forged on a lifeless, wind-scoured mountaintop, with fire drawn from the earth's belly, and metal that fell from the sky. They were tempered with human sweat and human blood by the hand of the god Vulcan, Master Smith. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - The Golden People - Baen - 115856 € 2,00 Essef - 1984 - pocket - 270 p. - The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Emiliano Nowell was a world-class genetic engineer. He was also a wealthy & idealistic man with the time & money necessary to follow his dreams. In secret laboratories far from Earth he used his powers to create 100 genetically perfect children. An enlightened cadre Nowell hoped would lead humanity out of that maze of war, famine, forture & death called History... (VG-, browning inside) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - The Veils of Azlaroc - Ace - 4076589 € 3,25 Essef - 1978 - first Ace printing - pocket - 216 p. - This short novel brings a life a most unique world and imaginatively brings together a number of characters from a multitude of different generations as a result of a mysterious physical phenomenon that annually can capture visitors to the planet and makes them prisoners in time. While not terribly dense or detailed, it reads easily and wraps the reader up in a special universe with intriguing interactions between characters, especially between generations. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - The Veils of Azlaroc - Ace - 4147640 € 2,00 Essef - 1978 - 1st Ace printing - pocket - 216 p. - This short novel brings a life a most unique world and imaginatively brings together a number of characters from a multitude of different generations as a result of a mysterious physical phenomenon that annually can capture visitors to the planet and makes them prisoners in time. While not terribly dense or detailed, it reads easily and wraps the reader up in a special universe with intriguing interactions between characters, especially between generations. (G, saw blade mark) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - The Water of Thought - TOR - 4113375 € 2,75 Essef - 1985 - 2nd printing - pocket - 251 p. - illustrated by Janet Aulisio - Planeteer Boris Brazil visiting backwater colony planet with intelligent natives whose rituals center around a liquid with unpredictable effects on the earth-descended. After another planeteer drinks the Water of Thought and goes berserk, Boris follows him into the wilderness, and ultimately learns what the water is and how it works on the native species. (VG-, some browning inside) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - The White Bull - Baen - 4104195 € 3,50 Essef - 1988 - first printing - pocket - 323 p. - The White Bull shows someone from a starfaring civilization operating in a Bronze Age civilization that classifies him as a god. The White Bull is working for the betterment of humanity, but is quickly established as having somewhat disturbing means of achieving his goals - with the added benefit to the story of establishing his non-human perspective. (VG) |
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Sagan, Nick - Idlewild - Bantam - 4073107 € 4,50 Essef - pocket - 2004 - 375 p. - It is the late 21st century and a deadly virus has seeped into humankind's genetic make-up. In only a few generations this plague will have wiped us off the face of the planet, but we're not going down without a fight. Teams of scientists, geneticists and programmers race to find a cure, but time is not on our side. Our only hope lis in one last, desperate gamble... (F) |
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Salsitz, R. A. V. - Dragons Trilogy 2: Where Dragons Rule - Signet - 123637 € 3,25 Fantasy - 1986 - 1st printing - pocket - 253 p. - For the Princess Sharlin the awakening of the dragons brings a promise of hope: only with the powers of the pregnant Dragon Queen Turiana can Sharlin return home and lead her people to victory over the evil sorceress. But first Sharlin and her battle-companion, the commoner Dar, must fight the terrible witchking Valorek. And with Turiana's help they will succeed if they can accomplish the impossible: go back in time to save a people whose defeat is already etched in stone. But they must also race against time. For Turiana is almost ready to spawn her eggs.. almost ready to die. (VG) |
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Salvatore, R. A. - Saga of the First King 1: The Highwayman - CDS Books - 9125775 € 12,50 Fantasy - 2004 - HC with dust jacket - 372 p. - list price: $ 26.95 - The Highwayman takes place centuries before the Demon Wars ravaged the realm. The land of Corona is still wild frontier: roaming bands of bloodthirsty red cap dwarves plague the roadways, egotistical princes fight amongst each other for political supremacy, and two very different religions - the brutal polytheistic Samhaism and the magical, gem-empowered Church of the Blessed Abelle - struggle for dominance amongst the masses. (F) |
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Sambrot, William - Island of Fear and other Science Fiction Stories - Pocket Books - 4093548 € 3,00 Essef - 1963 - 1st printing - pocket - 166 p. - 14 chilling SF stories. (VG) |
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Sanders, Lawrence - The Tomorrow File - Berkley - 093544 € 3,75 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 551 p. - In the not-so-distant future, planning takes the place of spontaneity when it comes to sex, turning the bedroom into a chamber of terror. In this society, the worst crime of all is to fall in love. This is a social fiction novel with a theme as we know from the books of Huxley and Orwell. (VG) |
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Sanders, Lawrence - The Tomorrow File - Berkley - 9114675 € 5,00 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 551 p. - In the not-so-distant future, planning takes the place of spontaneity when it comes to sex, turning the bedroom into a chamber of terror. In this society, the worst crime of all is to fall in love. This is a social fiction novel with a theme as we know from the books of Huxley and Orwell. (VG-, mild waterstain on edge) |
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Saperstein, David - Cocoon Trilogy 1: Cocoon - Granada - 4147612 € 4,00 Essef - 1985 - pocket - 247 p. - The first book in the Cocoon Trilogy series. Fifteen years before the start of the Earth's third Christian millennium, after a five-thousand-year absence, Antarean space travelers have returned to Earth. After the destruction by the impact of an asteroid, a few islands were all that remained of the continent above the waters of the Atlantic Ocean... (VG-) |
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Saperstein, David - Cocoon Trilogy 2 : Metamorphosis - H. B. Jove - 4153511 € 3,50 Essef - 1988 - pocket - 276 p. - In the astonishing sequel to Cocoon, five years have passed since they left Earth with the Antareans. Ben and Mary Green, Joe and Alma Finley and all the others are now heading back home. And some of them have a special purpose - the most miraculous... (VG) |
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Sapir, Richard B. - The Far Arena - Pan - 4153506 € 3,25 Essef - 1980 - pocket - 427 p. - The dead body of a man of nineteen centuries old, buried in the Arctic ice, is brought back to life... (VG-) |
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Sarabande, William - The First Americans 03: Forbidden Land - Bantam - 4121949 € 5,50 Fantasy - 1989 - pocket - 434 p. - The third novel in The First Americans series: a breathtaking saga of adventure at the dawn of history. In this untamed prehistoric time, the great hunter Torka has led a group of survivors across a frozen sea. Now he is their proud headman, a leader who defies the old ways... (VG+) |
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Sarabande, William - The First Americans 03: Forbidden Land - Bantam - 8126790 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1989 - pocket - 434 p. - The third novel in The First Americans series: a breathtaking saga of adventure at the dawn of history. In this untamed prehistoric time, the great hunter Torka has led a group of survivors across a frozen sea. Now he is their proud headman, a leader who defies the old ways... (VG) |
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Sarabande, William - The First Americans 04: Walkers of the Wind - Bantam - 9121948 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1990 - pocket - 420 p. - The 4th novel in the First Americans Series. Torka must continue his struggle to lead his family and tribe into the future and out of trouble, threatened from within by the handsome twins and their love of a sensuous girl. (VG) |
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Sarabande, William - The First Americans 08: Shadow of the Watching Star - Bantam - 4082947 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1995 - pocket - 495 p. - The eighth novel in The First Americans series: a breathtaking saga of adventure at the dawn of history. (VG-) |
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Sarabande, William - The First Americans 09: Face of the Rising Sun - Bantam - 9121730 € 4,25 Fantasy - 1996 - pocket - 486 p. - The ninth novel in The First Americans series: a breathtaking saga of adventure at the dawn of history. The spirit of the first men and women to walk this continent springs to life in this sweeping, magnificent new novel in the bestselling series by William Sarabande. This tale dramatizes one man's quest of vengeance. Rejecting his prophesied destiny as a peacemaker, he embraces a harsher purpose - meting out justice to those who killed his grandfather. (VG) |
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Sargent, Pamela - Watchstar 1: Watchstar - Pocket Books - 4104675 € 2,25 Essef - 1980 - first Pocket Books printing - pocket - 238 p. - Alone in the desert, Daiya is faced with dilemma that will determine her fate. If she can successfully resolve it she will join the Net of her village, but if she fails, her life will be spent will the feared Merged Ones. Confused and torn between worlds near and far, Daiya harbors a secret of her people, and must find a way to move beyond her discoveries to a safe place where she can survive. (G+, name / stamp on first page) |
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Sarrantonio, Al - Five Worlds 2: Journey - ROC - 4136945 € 4,00 Essef - 1997 - 1st printing - pocket - 282 p. - The Five Worlds are teetering on the brink of oblivion in the second riveting adventure of the Five Worlds Saga, as the High Leader of Mars and his band of plasma soldiers are prepared to invade a moon of Jupiter, which could result in the deaths of millions. Meanwhile, the exiled King of Earth struggles to escape from his icy prison on Pluto and reclaim his throne. (F) |
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Saunders, Jake & Waldrop, Howard - The Texas-Israeli War: 1999 - Del Rey - 4121964 € 3,25 Essef - 1978 - 2nd printing - pocket - 209 p. - On August 12, 1992, England's tiny nuclear arsenal fell on Ireland, on South Africa, and finally on China. Instantly the planet went up in flames. In the first half year of what was to be called the War of '92, half the Earth's population perished. The United States was reduced to a vast underpeopled land - and, to make matters worse, Texas had seceded and taken her precious oil reserves. But Israel, virtually untouched in a world ravaged by war, was painfully overpopulated. (VG) |
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Savage, Blake - Rip Foster Rides the Grey Planet (without dust jacket) - Golden Press, Sydney - 9136252 € 7,75 Essef - JUVENILE - 1952 - hardcover - illustrated by E. Deane Cate - seems an Australian edition of the UK book - 183 p. - Freshly graduated and commissioned Planeteer (the space-going equivalent of a Marine) Lt. Richard Ingalls Peter ("Rip") Foster, already contending with inter-service rivalry with the Space Force (equivalent to Navy) crewmen with whom he serves, is tasked with retrieving an asteroid made of pure thorium from the asteroid belt and bringing it to Earth for use as fissionable material. In this he is opposed by agents of the "Consolidation of Peoples Governments", who also seek control and use of the asteroid. (G, without dust jacket) |
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Savage, Felicity - Garden of Salt 1: Humility Garden - ROC - 4151286 € 4,25 Essef - 1995 - pocket - 352 p. - Young Humility Garden discovers that her fate is inextricably intertwined with that of the land of Salt - a place of secretive ghostiers, ruling gods, eternal love, divine beauty, and ruthless politics. Original. (VG+) |
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Savage, Felicity - Garden of Salt 2: Delta City - ROC - 4151285 € 4,25 Essef - 1996 - pocket - 383 p. - Organizing a revolt against the ruthless god Pati, Humility Garden, the deposed Divinarch of Salt, leads the survivors of the old order into the ultimate challenge between the gods and the human race. Original. (VG+) |
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Savage, Richard - When the Moon Died - Digit - 093603 € 2,50 Essef - 1960's - pocket - 192 p. - One of the most starling novels of all time. (VG) |
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Savarin, Julian J. - Lemmus I: Waiters on the Dance - Corgi - 4081351 € 2,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 253 p. - The first novel in a time odyssey. An essef epic that is as imaginative as DUNE, as thought-provoking as 2001, and as convincing as 'Chariots of the Gods'? (VG-, name on titlepage) |
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Savarin, Julian J. - Lemmus II: Beyond the Outer Mirr - Corgi - 121953 € 3,00 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 253 p. - The second novel in a time odyssey. An essef epic that is as imaginative as DUNE, as thought-provoking as 2001, and as convincing as 'Chariots of the Gods'? (VG) |
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Savarin, Julian J. - Lemmus II: Beyond the Outer Mirr - Corgi - 4110150 € 2,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 253 p. - The second novel in a time odyssey. An essef epic that is as imaginative as DUNE, as thought-provoking as 2001, and as convincing as 'Chariots of the Gods'? (VG-, name on titlepage) |
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Savarin, Julian J. - Lemmus II: Beyond the Outer Mirr - Corgi - 4109170 € 2,75 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 253 p. - The second novel in a time odyssey. An essef epic that is as imaginative as DUNE, as thought-provoking as 2001, and as convincing as 'Chariots of the Gods'? (G, fold in back cover) |
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Savarin, Julian J. - Lemmus III: The Archives of Haven - Corgi - 4104677 € 2,50 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 205 p. - The third novel in a time odyssey. An essef epic that is as imaginative as DUNE, as thought-provoking as 2001, and as convincing as 'Chariots of the Gods'? (VG-, name on titlepage) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Calculating God - TOR - 8156410 € 7,50 Essef - 2009 - Trade paperback - 338 p. - When aliens land in Toronto, they present astounding evidence that their planet and Earth have experienced the same cataclysmic events - evidence that they claim proves the existence of God. (VG-, black dot on edge, faint waterstain on tip) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Flashforward - TOR - 4151287 € 4,50 Essef - 2009 - 2nd mass market printing - pocket - 319 p. - In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes awry, throwing the consciousness of the entire human race ahead by 20 years. As the implications hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future. (F) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Frameshift - TOR - 8150466 € 6,75 Essef - 2005 - First Trade Paperback Edition - paperback - 347 p. - Working on the Human Genome Project, Pierre Tardivel is is a driven man, aware that may be dying. While trying to get medical insurance he discovers that his insurer is secretly taking genetic samples of policy holders - many of whom then... (VG-, black dot on bottom edge) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Golden Fleece - TOR - 8127342 € 7,00 Essef - 1990 - First Edition - paperback - 252 p. - Searching for the truth behind the death of his ex-wife, Aaron Rossman uncovers a terrible secret aboard the close confines of a colonization spaceship on a voyage to Eta Cephei IV, a distant earth-like world. (VG-, black dot on bottom edge) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Illegal Alien - Ace - 4127552 € 4,50 Essef - 1999 - pocket - 304 p. - When a disabled spaceship enters the Earth's atmosphere, seven members of the Tosok race are welcomed by the world with open arms. But when a human scientist is found murdered, all evidence points to one of the Tosoks. For the first time, an alien must be put on trial before humans in a court of law--and there's far more at stake than accounting for one human life. (VG) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Mindscan - TOR - 4126580 € 4,50 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 370 p. - Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds love, something that eluded him when he was encased in flesh: he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering all the joys of life now that she's no longer constrained by a worn-out body either. But suddenly Karen's son sues her, claiming that by uploading into an immortal body, she has done him out of his inheritance. Even worse, the original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, has taken hostages there, demanding the return of his rights of personhood. In the courtroom and on the lunar surface, the future of uploaded humanity hangs in the balance. (VG) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Neanderthal Parallax 1: Hominids - TOR - 9156407 € 6,00 Essef - 2003 - thick pocket - 444 p. - Hominids examines two unique species of people. We are one of those species; the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they became the dominant intelligence. The Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but with radically different history, society and philosophy... (VG) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Neanderthal Parallax 2: Humans - TOR - 4156409 € 5,00 Essef - 2003 - pocket - 334 p. - Robert J. Sawyer, the award-winning and bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in Humans, the second book of The Neanderthal Parallax, his trilogy about our world and parallel one in which it was the Homo sapiens who died out and the Neanderthals who became the dominant intelligent species. This powerful idea allows Sawyer to examine some of the deeply rooted assumptions of contemporary human civilization dramatically, by confronting us with another civilization, just as morally valid,.. (F) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Quintaglio Ascension 1: Far-Seer - TOR - 4150475 € 7,25 Essef - 2004 - paperback - 316 p. - In a world where the age of dinosaurs never ended, the young saurian Afsan becomes apprentice to the court astrologer, when he discovers something about the Face of God that will test his faith and may save his world from disaster. (VG-, black dot on bottom edge) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Quintaglio Ascension 2: Fossil Hunter - NEL - 4142098 € 4,50 Essef - 1995 - pocket - 290 p. - The second book in this SF trilogy, following THE QUINTAGLIO ASCENSION and continuing the adventures of Toroca as he continues his search for the rare metals needed to take his species to the stars. (VG) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Quintaglio Ascension 2: Fossil Hunter - TOR - 8150472 € 7,25 Essef - 2005 - paperback - 299 p. - Fossil Hunter is hard SF in the tradition of Larry Niven about a world inhabited by the Quintaglios, a dinosaurian species that has evolved a human level of intelligence and culture. Toroca, a Quintaglio geologist, is under attack for his... (VG-, black dot on bottom edge) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Quintaglio Ascension 3: Foreigner - TOR - 4150474 € 7,25 Essef - 2005 - paperback - 318 p. - In a dinosaur-ruled world, saurian scientist Afsan the Far-Seer struggles to overcome his new blindness with the help of a doctor who treats the mind as well as the body, while Afsan's mate, Novato, dreams of journeying to the stars. (VG-, black dot on bottom edge) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Rollback - TOR - 4100705 € 4,75 Essef - 2008 - pocket - 320 p. - Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now eighty-seven, may hold the key to deciphering this one too, if she lives long enough. A wealthy industrialist offers to pay for Sarah to have a rollback a hugely expensive experimental rejuvenation procedure. She accepts on condition that Don, her husband of sixty years, gets a rollback too. The process works for Don, making him physically twenty-five again. But in a tragic twist, the rollback fails for Sarah... (VG) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - Triggers - Ace - 4142342 € 4,50 Essef - 2013 - pocket - 336 p. - On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin's bullet strikes President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to the hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac arrest. He has a near-death experience-but the memories that flash through Jerrison's mind are not his memories... (VG) |
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Sawyer, Robert J. - WWW 1: Wake - Gollancz - 8132188 € 6,00 Essef - 2010 - paperback - 360 p. - Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math - and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes... (VG+) |
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Saxon, Peter - The Disorientated Man - Mayflower - 4146370 € 22,75 Horror - 1966 - pocket - 126 p. - Collectible paperback. Chilling... Horrific. The story of a terror more than human, less than savage animal... more deadly than death itself. (VG) |
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Scalzi, John - Agent to the Stars - TOR - 8156417 € 8,00 Essef - 2008 - Trade paperback - 365 p. - From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner, John Scalzi, a gleeful mash-up of science fiction and Hollywood satire The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just... (VG+) |
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Scalzi, John - Fuzzies : Fuzzy Sapiens 7 : Fuzzy Nation - TOR - 4156419 € 5,50 Essef - 2012 - pocket - 355 p. - The seventh book in the Fuzzy Sapiens series, continued from the original series by H Beam Piper. Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, that's not up for discussion... (VG+) |
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Scalzi, John - Old Man's War 1: Old Man's War - TOR - 4156413 € 4,50 Essef - 2007 - pocket - 318 p. - This astonoshingly proficient novel reads like an original work of the late grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein. (VG) |
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Scalzi, John - Old Man's War 2: The Ghost Brigades - TOR - 4156412 € 5,50 Essef - 2007 - pocket - 374 p. - The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and... (F) |
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Scalzi, John - Old Man's War 3: The Last Colony - TOR - 4156411 € 5,00 Essef - 2008 - pocket - 324 p. - Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game... (VG+) |
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Scalzi, John - Old Man's War 4: Zoe's Tale - TOR - 9156414 € 6,00 Essef - 2009 - pocket - 406 p. - How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match... (VG) |
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Scalzi, John - Old Man's War 5: The Human Division - TOR - 4156415 € 6,00 Essef - 2014 - pocket - 493 p. - Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race. The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For... (VG+) |
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Scalzi, John - Old Man's War 6: The End of All Things - TOR - 4156416 € 6,00 Essef - 2016 - pocket - 388 p. - Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things, the direct sequel to 2013's The Human Division Humans expanded into space... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien... (VG) |
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Scalzi, John - Redshirts - TOR - 4156418 € 8,00 Essef - 2013 - Trade paperback - 317 p. - Redshirts by John Scalzi is the winner of the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with... (F) |
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Scalzi, John - The Android's Dream - TOR - 4156420 € 6,50 Essef - 2007 - pocket - 396 p. - A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior alien race. A lone man races against time and a host of enemies to find the one object that can save our planet and our people from alien enslavement... (VG+) |
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Scarborough, Elizabeth A. - Bronwyn's Bane - Bantam - 121339 € 4,75 Fantasy - 1983 - pocket - 286 p. - Sleeping Beauty had it easy. Her curse only made her take a nap when she turned 16. As if it wasn't bad enough already that because of her frost giant heritage from her father the king's side of the family she was 6 feet tall when she was only 12 years old, poor Princess Bronwyn (the Bold) of Argonia was cursed at birth to tell nothing but lies. With her father away at war and her mother heavily pregnant, Bronwyn is even more in the way than usual, so she gets packed off to Wormroost, her aunt's place in the glaciers, and en route she meets her musician/magician cousin Carole, a not-so-brave gypsy lad, and a princess-turned-swan... (VG) |
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Scarborough, Elizabeth A. - The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas - Bantam - 111668 € 2,50 Fantasy - 1986 - pocket - 247 p. - Determined to become an author of western penny dreadful novels like her idol, Ned Buntline, a young San Francisco newspaper editor christens herself Valentine Lovelace (after a floozie acquaintance of her father's) and heads east for the Wild West ...and ends up the guest of a ruthless comanchero, a sort of wild west warlord, after the Comanches are distracted by a... dragon? (G+, spotted inside) |
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Scarborough, Elizabeth A. - The Goldcamp Vampire - Bantam - 4111767 € 2,00 Fantasy - 1987 - pocket - 247 p. - Pelagia Harper, aka Valentine Lovelace, published her memoirs of her time in Draco Texas and became an established writer - at least in her own mind. But when her father dies and her stepmother steals her royalties, she finds herself destitute. Also haunted. The ghost of her papa keeps popping up everywhere. When her father's old flame, Sasha Devine, offers her a way out of her poverty, Pelagia jumps on it before she knows what's involved. (G, inside cover browning, cover fold) |
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Scheer, K. H & Ernsting, Walter - Peacelord of the Universe - Ace - 4149083 € 3,25 Essef - 1972 - Perry Rhodan 12 - pocket - 126 p. - Continues the English translations of this fine German Space Opera. (VG-, name inside) |
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Scheer, K. H. & Mahr, Kurt - The Vega Sector - Ace - 4149080 € 3,25 Essef - 1970 - Perry Rhodan 5 - pocket - 189 p. - Continues the English translations of this fine German Space Opera. (VG-, name inside) |
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Scheer, K. H - 0007: Fortress of the Six Moons - Ace - 4149082 € 3,25 Essef - 1971 - Perry Rhodan 7 - pocket - 123 p. - Continues the English translations of this fine German Space Opera. (VG-, name inside) |
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Scheer, K. H - Realm of the Tri-Planets - Ace - 4149088 € 3,25 Essef - 1973 - Perry Rhodan 31 - pocket - 159 p. - Continues the English translations of this fine German Space Opera. (VG-, name inside) |
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Schmidt, Dennis - Kensho 1: Way-Farer - Ace - 4093601 € 2,50 Essef - 1978 - first Ace printing - pocket - 277 p. - Seven generations would pass before a descendant of the scattered remnant of the original colonists would be ready to face the power of the Mushin. But first he would have to learn to wield the weapon that is no weapon - and that only where there is no Will, is there a Way... His name is Jerome. This is his story. He is the Way-Farer. |
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Schmitz, James H. - Hub Universe 1: A Tale of Two Clocks - Wildside Press - 8154755 € 6,00 Essef - n.d. - paperback - 206 p. - A future adventure by the author of the classic 'The Witches of Karres'. Original title: 'A Tale of Two Clocks'. A story of the distant future, in which human ambition and greed and the chance discovery of an eerie, robotlike race bring an interstellar civilization to the verge of descruction. (VG) |
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Schmitz, James H. - The Lion Game - Hamlyn - 4156878 € 2,00 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 137 p. - 'What's the Lion Game?' asked Telzey of her captors. 'You're engaged in it now,' was their answer. It was a game of mental chess played on the intricate closed transit circuits of an entire world by a race of giant mentalists who acknowledged no allegiance to the civilized planets. Talzey was a human and, as such, a test piece either a pawn to be sacrificed or a wild queen who could make her own decisions, she was never sure which... (G, printing ink stain on few pages, yet still perfectly readable) |
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Schuster, Hal & Rathbone, Wendy - Trek: The Unauthorized A-Z - Harper Prism - 9122714 € 5,25 Essef - 1995 - first Harper printing - pocket - 573 p. - Your complete warp-speed guide to every voyage. Covers the first three series and six moves. (VG) |
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Scortia, Thomas N. & Robinson, Frank M. - The Nightmare Factor - Bantam - 094466 € 3,25 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 337 p. - 100 % fatal! A deadly new virus that can destroy the world. Only one man has a clue to the stunning, shocking, totally unexpected disaster that could start today... (VG) |
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Scortia, Thomas N. & Robinson, Frank M. - The Prometheus Crisis - Pan - 9094468 € 5,00 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 318 p. - In northern California, Project Prometheus, a five-billion-dollar nuclear power station - the largest in the world - has reached the final critical stages of thermal equilibrium. But deep within the reactor's central core, the factor of human error sparks that one chance in 300,000,000 that no one can reverse... (VG) |
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Scortia, Thomas N. & Robinson, Frank M. - The Prometheus Crisis - Bantam - 121325 € 3,50 Essef - 1976 - pocket - 418 p. - In northern California, Project Prometheus, a five-billion-dollar nuclear power station - the largest in the world - has reached the final critical stages of thermal equilibrium. But deep within the reactor's central core, the factor of human error sparks that one chance in 300,000,000 that no one can reverse... (VG) |
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Scortia, Thomas N. & Robinson, Frank M. - The Prometheus Crisis - Pan - 4142765 € 2,50 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 318 p. - In northern California, Project Prometheus, a five-billion-dollar nuclear power station - the largest in the world - has reached the final critical stages of thermal equilibrium. But deep within the reactor's central core, the factor of human error sparks that one chance in 300,000,000 that no one can reverse... (VG-, weak spine) |
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Scortia, Thomas N. & Robinson, Frank M. - The Prometheus Crisis (without dust jacket) - Doubleday - 9070915 € 5,00 Essef - 1975 - HC - 275 p. - In northern California, Project Prometheus, a five-billion-dollar nuclear power station - the largest in the world - has reached the final critical stages of thermal equilibrium. But deep within the reactor's central core, the factor of human error sparks that one chance in 300,000,000 that no one can reverse... (G, a copy without dust jacket, mild foxing on edge) |
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Scortia, Thomas N. - Artery of Fire - Popular Library - 094480 € 3,00 Essef - 1972 - pocket - 238 p. - Past and future meet in a terrifying present... (VG) |
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Scott, Melissa - Mighty Good Road - Baen - 076567 € 3,50 Essef - 1990 - first printing - pocket - 306 p. - What does a big corporation do when a job is too dirty and dangerous for its own employees? Why hire a freelancer, of course. That's how salvage operators Gwynne Heikki and her sidekick Sten Djuro find themselves commissioned to make their way to the surface of an undeveloped planet where they are to find and return a lost cargo... (VG) |
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Scott, Michael - De Dannan 3: Firelord - Wolfhound - 4142147 € 4,50 Essef - 1997 - paperback - 144 p. - The Da Danann Isles are dying. Balor's magic has weakened the very fabric of the ancient isles. Volcanoes and earthquakes threaten to rip them apart. An ancient dark magic has been stirred up. Shining ghostly figures and bloodsucking vampires attack during the darkest night hours turning anyone they touch into soul-less zombies... (VG) |
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Scott, Michael - The Alchemyst {The Secrets of the Immortal Nicolas Flamel} - Corgi - 114748 € 6,00 Fantasy - YOUNG ADULT - 2008 - 1st printing - pocket - 375 p. - He holds the secret that can end the world... The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. (VG) |
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