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Saberhagen, Fred + Rackham, John - The Water of Thought + We, The Venusians - Ace - 4093463   € 4,00 Essef - 1965 - pocket - Ace Double - nr. M-127 - 117+138 p. - The Water of Thought: Old-fashioned space adventure features "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... (VG, some browning inside, but almost as new) |
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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 01: Berserker - Penguin - 4076040 € 2,50 Essef - 1970 - reprint - pocket - 224 p. - Saberhagen has given SF one of its most powerful images of future war in his Berserker series. Created for a long-forgotten conflict, the berserkers are implacable, inimical killing machines that have been programmed to rebuild and redesign themselves. Their computer cunning and mechanical evolution present ever-greater challenges to humanity's scattered colonies. (VG-, store stamp inside) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 02: Brother Assassin - Ace - 108323 € 3,25 Essef - 1983 - 5th printing - pocket - 233 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 02: Brother Assassin - Ballantine - 4151282 € 3,00 Essef - 1969 - first printing - pocket - 222 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 02: Brother Assassin - Ballantine - 4148616 € 2,50 Essef - 1969 - first printing - pocket - 222 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-, name inside) |
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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 02: Brother Berserker - Gollancz - 4154356 € 3,00 Essef - 1989 - pocket - 233 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 - Gollancz - 4070942 € 3,25 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... (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 - 4108736 € 2,50 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... (VG-, name on first page) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 03: Berserker's Planet - Ace - 113469 € 2,75 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... (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 04: Berserker Man - Victor Gollancz - 4153654 € 3,25 Essef - 1988 - first VGSF edition - pocket - 219 p. - The Beserkers, killer machines bent on eradicating all life in the universe, make a vengeful comeback, and the fate of mankind is left in the hands of a child who is half man and half machine. (VG-) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 05: The Ultimate Enemy - Ace - 4148346 € 2,50 Essef - 1979 - first printing - pocket - 242 p. - The third collection of Saberhagen's Berserker stories, with the Greek mythology pastiche 'Starsong' being the standout, and overall they are of good quality. (VG-, cover puncture, name inside) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 07: The Berserker Throne - TOR - 4127599 € 4,00 Essef - 1986 - first TOR printing - pocket - 319 p. - Another episode in the Berserker wars of the far distant future when powerful machines continue trying to eradicate all life and the living battle back. Space opera, political intrigue, touches of technology. The main character, a royal, political prisoner must engineer his release from a space station prison in order to fight off the plans of the Berserkers and their human allies. Written by a master of the genre. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 08: Berserker Blue Death - TOR - 4153499 € 3,00 Essef - 1987 - pocket - 282 p. - Berserker: Blue Death can be compartmentalized as a science fiction equivalent to Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is protrayed by Nils Domingo, an enigmatic man who has lost a family instead of a leg to what he thinks is the ultimate enemy. Ishmael, Queequeg and the others are more than adequately picked up in the form of Spence Benkovic, Branwen Galway, etc. as members of Domingo's crew who have their own reasons for being there, but are struggling with their captain's reasons as well... (VG-, wear on edges / creases on backstrip) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 11 : Berserker Lies - TOR - 4153500 € 3,25 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-, creasing to the backstrip, mild wear) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 11: Berserker Kill - TOR - 9121862 € 4,25 Essef - 1995 - pocket - 445 p. - In the cold reaches of space, the Berserkers - killer machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all living things - attack a floating laboratory, dumping stored human zygotes for a future colonization project - a billion potential lives - into an interstellar dust cloud. Three centuries later, humans pursuing Berserkers uncover what this deed has wrought. (VG-, mild edge foxing) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 13: Shiva in Steel - TOR - 4153725 € 3,25 Essef - 1999 - pocket - 318 p. - In a sector of the Galaxy one Beserker computer has suddenly developed a tactical strategy unlike anything the human opposition has seen before. A decision is made to destroy the destroyer, but can either side face the possibility that something unexpected and eerily familiar lies within the steel? (VG-, leeslijntjes op rug, verder in goede staat) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Berserker 16 : Berserker's Star - TOR - 4154336 € 3,75 Essef - 2004 - pocket - 386 p. - Fred Saberhagen continues his Berserker Series®, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot Harry Silver's name is know throughout the galaxy. While he has defeated his... (VG-, name inside) |
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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 - Earth Descended - Baen - 4032381 € 3,00 Essef - 1981 - First edition - pocket - 283 p. - Collection with 12 stories. It all began on planet Earth, sometime in the middle Pleistocene. Some ground-running ape stood erect, gazed at the stars... and wondered. Since that distant time we humans have ranged far indeed. (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 1: The Broken Lands - Ace - 4151281 € 2,75 Essef - 1968 - pocket - 191 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 inside) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Empire of the East 1: The Broken Lands - Ace - 4153719 € 3,25 Essef - 1968 - pocket - 191 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-) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Empire of the East 2: The Black Mountains - Ace - 4151284 € 3,00 Essef - 1971 - pocket - 159 p. - Sequel to The Broken Lands. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Empire of the East 3: Ardneh's Sword - TOR - 4152197 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1974 - pocket - 187 p. - a.k.a. Changeling Earth. 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-) |
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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 1: Woundhealer's Story - TOR - 4122027 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1988 - pocket - 281 p. - Returning to the milieu of his Swords trilogy, Saberhagen offers a new scenario. The gods have withdrawn from the human world and the 12 Swords of Power they had forged are now scattered, lost and hidden. The weapons are still coveted, though, by men like Baron Amintor, who has lost one kingdom and now sees them as the means to another... (VG-, faded spine) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Lost Swords 2: Sightblinder's Story - TOR - 4108232 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1987 - pocket - 248 p. - The present story limits itself to a single locale, the island castle of the wizard Honan-Fu, where Prince Mark is imprisoned in ice alongside the wizard by the usurper called the Ancient One. Mark's friends find themselves the temporary allies of Honan-Fu's traitorous daughter, Ninazu, and of the magician emperor, currently incognito with a traveling show... (F) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Lost Swords 3: Stonecutter's Story - TOR - 4108709 € 3,75 Fantasy - 1989 - pocket - 247 p. - Young Kasimir was the custodian of Stonecutter, the sword which could hew mountains or diamonds with equal ease. But now, Stonecutter has been stolen, and Kasimir must recover it before it causes irrevocable damage. (VG+) |
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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 - Lost Swords 5: Coinspinner's Story - TOR - 4104219 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1990 - pocket - 244 p. - A host of strange characters: Prince Nurat of Culm, the evil macrowizard Wood, Prince Adrian, and Trilby, become involved in a desperate struggle to possess a sword of chance known as Coinspinner. Coinspinner brings untold good fortune to its owner, but changes owners at its own whim. (VG-, slightly faded spine) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Lost Swords 6: Mindsword's Story - TOR - 4102697 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1991 - pocket - 250 p. - The Mindsword, bringing others' mindless devotion to him who wields it - has been lost for years, since the Dar King's defeat and the death of the gods. When it comes into the hands of Prince Murat, Prince Mark must do battle for his beloved wife, the kingdom, and perhaps for the soul of the world... (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Lost Swords 7: Wayfinder's Story - TOR - 4104218 € 3,50 Fantasy - 1993 - pocket - 251 p. - Long ago, the gods forged the Twelve Swords of Power and threw them on the gameboard of life for men to scramble over. But they forged too well, for the Swords could kill the gods themselves. Now, with the gods gone and the Swords scattered, a simple grower of grapes discovers Wayfinder, the Sword of Wisdom. (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 - 122022 € 3,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 315 p. - Alternative 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 - Mask of the Sun 2: A Century of Progress - TOR - 115847 € 2,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 315 p. - Alternative 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 - Merlin's Bones - TOR - 4127601 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1996 - pocket - 350 p. - In the past, a young traveling player named Amby discovers the recently laid bones of the sorcerer, Merlin, while in the near future, Dr. Elaine Brusen is attacked by the enemies of the legendary King Arthur for control of a new technology. (VG+) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Merlin's Bones (without dust jacket) - TOR - 113175 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1995 - Hardcover - 350 p. - In the past, a young traveling player named Amby discovers the recently laid bones of the sorcerer, Merlin, while in the near future, Dr. Elaine Brusen is attacked by the enemies of the legendary King Arthur for control of a new technology. (G, without dust jacket) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Octagon - Ace - 4032405 € 2,50 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... (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 - Specimens - Ace - 122019 € 3,50 Essef - 1981 - pocket - 214 p. - A novel of alien possession. This is a must read for any sci-fi buff... (F) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - Specimens - TOR - 4153733 € 2,75 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 224 p. - Dan Post and his small children are building a 19th-century farmhouse in an affluent Chicago suburb. It was a real bargain--for its last owner was a violently insane suicide. This doesn't bother the children, but Dan begins to suffer nightmares of... (VG-, some wear on backstrip) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - The Books of the Gods : Part 1 - SFBC - 9113052 € 13,50 Fantasy - 2000 - first SFBC Fantasy printing - HC with dust jacket - 1011 p. - Contains volume 1, 2 and 3: 'The Face of Apollo', 'Ariadne's Web' and 'The Arms of Hercules'. (VG) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - The Books of the Gods : Part 2 - SFBC - 9113051 € 12,50 Fantasy - 2002 - first SFBC Fantasy printing - HC with dust jacket - 534 p. - Contains volume 4 and 5: 'God of the Golden Fleece' and 'Gods of Fire and Thunder'. (F) |
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Saberhagen, Fred - The Golden People - Baen - 4108739 € 2,50 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) |
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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 - 4074765 € 2,75 Essef - 1981 - pocket - illustrated by Janet Aulisio - 251 p. - 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) |
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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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Safier, David - Apocalypse Next Tuesday - Hesperus Press - 4154364 € 4,00 Essef - 2014 - pocket - 269 p. - The course of true love never runs smoothly, especially when the Apocalypse gets in the way - a hilarious rom-com, Bridget Jones meets Life of Brian When 30-something Marie jilts her boring boyfriend at the altar she wonders if life can get any... (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 - 114675 € 3,50 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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Sanderson, Brandon - Mistborn 1: Mistborn - TOR - 9132183 € 5,75 Fantasy - 2007 - pocket - 657 p. - For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity,” reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier “snapped” and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark... (VG-) |
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Sanderson, Brandon - Mistborn 2: The Well of Ascension - TOR - 9132182 € 6,75 Fantasy - 2008 - thick pocket - 796 p. - The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler - the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years - has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protegé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves... (VG+) |
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Sanderson, Brandon - Rithmatist 1: The Rithmatist - TOR - 9136744 € 8,50 Young Adult Fantasy - 2013 - HC with dust jacket - illustrated - 378 p. - More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Chosen by the Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. Rithmatists are humanity's only defense against the Wild Chalklings - merciless creatures that leave mangled corpses in their wake. Having nearly overrun the territory of Nebrask, the Wild Chalklings now threaten all of the American Isles... (F) |
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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 - Cloned Lives - Fawcett - 074654 € 3,00 Essef - 1976 - first printing - pocket - 336 p. - The famous astrophysicist Paul Swenson creates five perfect clones in his own image. The Swenson clones are the target of criticism, hostility and abuse from a frightened public that does not understand their strange existence. However, they must survive, for Paul Swenson has cloned them in order to accomplish an important task... (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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Saunders, George - The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil - Riverhead Books - 4154327 € 4,75 Essef - 2005 - pocket - 130 p. - In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a time, citizens waiting to enter the country fall under the rule of the power-hungry and tyrannical Phil, setting off a chain of injustice and mass... (F) |
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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. - End of an Era - Ace - 4142092 € 3,75 Essef - 1994 - pocket - 222 p. - Archaeologist Brandon Thackeray and his rival, Miles "Klicks" Jordan, use his time-ship to travel back to the age of the dinosaurs and discovers the truth about their extinction and uncover a truth beyond the scope of any scientific theory involving some mysterious blue creatures from Mars. (VG) |
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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 - Questar - 4142086 € 3,50 Essef - 1990 - 1st printing - pocket - 197 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) |
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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. - Identity Theft - Red Deer Press, Canada - 8142090 € 7,50 Essef - 2008 - paperback - 284 p. - This new collection by the man Anne McCaffrey calls "an absolutely marvelous writer" includes Hugo Award nominee "Shed Skin," Nebula Award nominee "Identity Theft," and Aurora Award winner "Ineluctable." In these pages, you'll discover the dark secret of the only priest on Mars, revisit H.G. Wells's Morlocks, and learn what really happens when aliens beam us the Encyclopedia Galactica... (VG) |
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