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Zelazny, Roger - Stersteen - Het Spectrum - 4154856   € 2,50 Essef - 1977 - 1e druk - Prisma pocket nr 1802 - 192 blz - De Stersteen, restant van een verdwenen beschaving ergens in het Heelal, geeft aanleiding tot een spannend en soms kolderiek sf-avonturenverhaal. (VG-) |
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Benford, Gregory - In de Oceaan van de Nacht - Meulenhoff - 4154855 € 3,25 Essef -1978 - pocket - SF129 - 28x110x175 mm - Een serie mysterieuze en opwindende vondsten in het Zonnestelsel die elk een groter raadsel oproepen. (VG-) |
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Bundel - Kleine Science Fiction Omnibus 1 (2e druk) - Bruna - 4154854 € 2,50 Essef - 5 schrijvers - Bruna - 2e druk - 1976 - SF45 - 23x110x175 mm - 230 g - 8 Korte verhalen van: Anderson (Sam Hall), Brown, Del Rey, Simak, Sturgeon. Herdruk van ZB 1306. (VG-, naam voorin) |
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Zelazny, Roger - Heer van het Licht (1e druk) - Het Spectrum - 4154853 € 2,50 Essef - 1972 - 1e druk - Prisma nr. 1537 - 256 blz - Siddharta, Dwinger der Demonen, bindt als Bodhisattva de strijd aan tegen de post-aardse tirannie. Briljante Science Fiction. (VG-, rug wat verkleurd) |
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Bundel - Ganymedes 8 - Bruna - 4154852 € 3,50 Essef - 1984 - pocket - 19 schrijvers - nr 2150 - 284 blz - Met de vijf prijswinnaars van de King Kong Award: Cuijpers, Tais Teng, Harland, Kuipers en Hellinga. Overige bijdragen van de hand van: o.a. Bertin, Gijsen en van Loggem. (VG-, enige verkleuring boekblok) |
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Vinge, Vernor - Rainbows End - TOR - 4154851 € 3,75 Essef - 2007 - pocket - 381 p. - In a near-future western civilization that is threatened by corruptive practices within its technologically advanced information networks, a recovered Alzheimer's victim and his family are caught up in a dangerous maelstrom beyond their worst imaginings. (G+, light waterstain in rear) |
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Anthology - Alpha 3 - Ballantine - 4154850 € 2,75 Essef - 1972 - first printing - pocket - edited by Robert Silverberg - 277 p. - with: Silverberg, Vance (The Gift of Gab), Dick. Lafferty, Aldiss, Pohl, de Camp, C. Smith, Farmer, Disch and Clarke. (VG-) |
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More, Sir Thomas - Utopia - Penguin - 4154849 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1976 - reissued - pocket - 154 p. - In this book More envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked and all goods were community owned. First published in Latin in 1516. (VG-, name inside) |
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Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse 5 - Panther - 4154848 € 3,00 Essef - 1970 - first Panther edition - pocket - 143 p. - Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Gemans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore. (VG-) |
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Vonnegut, Kurt - Galapagos - Grafton - 4154847 € 3,50 Essef - 1987 - pocket - 269 p. - The human survivors of the "nature cruise of the century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. (VG) |
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Wyndham, John - The Day of the Triffids - Penguin - 4154846 € 2,50 Essef - 1979 - pocket - reprint - 272 p. - When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For he finds a population rendered helpless by the blindness that followed the spectacular display of bright green lights that filled the night sky; a population at the mercy of the Triffids... (VG-) |
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Haldeman, Joe - Old Twentieth - Ace - 4154845 € 4,50 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 285 p. - The passengers aboard the starship Ad Astra spend most of their time on the thousand-year journey to Beta Hydrii within the virtual reality of twentieth-century Earth. There, they can experience nostalgia for the hardship of a life they've since evolved beyond... (VG+) |
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Haldeman, Joe W. - A Separate War & Other Stories - Ace - 4154844 € 4,25 Essef - 2007 - pocket - 295 p. - Here are fifteen stories-never before collected- spanning 36 years of Joe Haldeman's award-winning writing...tales that tread upon familiar Haldeman territory, as well as explore the outer reaches of his phenomenal imagination. From the first short... (VG) |
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Haldeman, Joe W. - The Accidental Time Machine - Ace - 8154843 € 4,50 Essef - 2008 - pocket - 275 p. - Working as a lowly research assistant at MIT, grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is working on a project to measure quantum forces related to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, when his calibrator is transformed into a time machine... (VG+) |
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Haldeman, Joe - Camouflage - Ace - 4154842 € 4,50 Essef - 2005 - pocket - 289 p. - An unidentified artifact, found seven miles below the surface of the sea, stumps the scientists examining it. But it calls out to the two immortal creatures who have wandered the Earth for centuries. Two creatures who have never crossed paths-until now... (VG+) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Helliconia Winter - Triad/Panther - 4154841 € 4,50 Essef - 1986 - 4th printing - pocket - 390 p. - Part 3 of the epic Helliconia trilogy, the enthralling masterwork of one of the last century's greatest masters of imaginative fiction. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the people of the bleak Northern continent of Sibornal. Behind the battle with which the novel opens lies an act of unparalleled treachery. But the plague is coming on the wings of winter and the Oligarch's will is set against it - and against the phagors, humanity's ancient enemies, who carry the plague with them. (VG+) |
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Asimov, Isaac - Foundation Series 4: Foundation's Edge - Granada - 4154840 € 6,00 Essef - 1983 - reprint - pocket - 432 p. - It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence - half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon. The Second Foundation has once more successfully concealed its existence so that the laws of psychohistory can operate to usher in a new Empire ruled by the mental sciences. (VG+) |
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Card, Orson Scott & Johnston, Aaron - Invasive Procedures - TOR - 4154839 € 6,25 Essef - 2008 - pocket - 400 p. - George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane - he has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but to “improve” people - make them stronger, make them able to heal more... (F) |
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Heinlein, Robert A. - Glory Road - Avon - 4154838 € 2,25 Essef - 1960's - pocket - 288 p. - Interstellar adventure. E.C. "Scar" Gordon, a Vietnam veteran, answers an ad promising adventure and meets a mysterious beauty who transports him to another world. (G+, writings on cover) |
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Wyndham, John - Het Anti-G - Fontein - 4154837 € 3,00 Essef - 1977 - paperback - 174 blz - Wat zou er gebeuren, wanneer er een middel werd gevonden om het leven vele jaren te verlengen? (VG-) |
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Vance, Jack - Durdane (4e druk) - Meulenhoff - 9154836 € 5,00 Essef - 1992 - 4e druk - SF100 - paperback - *M 25 jaar editie - 483 blz. - De wereld Durdane wordt beschreven in drie romans, gebundeld in een boek: De Anome, De Roguskhoi en De Asutra. De Jongen Mur is voorbestemd om te worden ingewijd in de sekte der Chilieten. Hij ontsnapt aan zijn lot en beleeft vreemde avonturen in een wereld in de magistrale traditie van Jack Vance. TIP (G+, boekblok verkleurd) |
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Vance, Jack - De Kronieken van Cadwal 2: De Oude Aarde (4e druk) - Meulenhoff - 9154835 € 5,50 Essef - 1999 - 4e druk - SF 297 - paperback - *Mpact uitgave - 484 blz - 29x124x200 mm - Een natuurreservaat op wereldschaal is in groot gevaar als 'de Lievers' - aanhangers van de LVV-partij - de reservaat status van Cadwal willen opheffen. (VG-) |
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Paolini, Christopher - Het Erfgoed 3: Brisingr (zonder stofomslag) - Mynx - 9154834 € 4,00 Fantasy - 2008 - 3e druk - gebonden met omslag - 576 blz - Na de kolossale veldslag tegen het Keizerrijk op de Brandende Vlakten, konden Eragon en zijn draak Saphire maar ternauwernood levend ontsnappen. Er staan hen echter nog heel wat beproevingen te wachten. Zo heeft hij een eed gezworen om zijn neef Roran te helpen diens geliefde Katrina uit de klauwen van Koning Galbatorix te redden. Kan deze eens eenvoudige boerenjongen de rebellen verenigen en de koning verslaan? (G, zonder stofomslag) |
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Carey, Jacqueline - Kushiel's Legacy : Imriel Trilogy 2 : Kushiel's Justice - Grand Central Publishing - 9154833 € 8,50 Fantasy - 2008 - thick pocket - 880 p. - From Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of Kushiel's Scion, comes the second adventure in the Imriel trilogy. Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are history's most reviled traitors, while his adoptive parents, Phèdre and Joscelin,... (VG-) |
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James, M. R. - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - Penguin - 4154832 € 4,00 Horror - 1959 - pocket nr. 91 - reprinted - 153 p. - The first collection of James's classic ghostly tales. Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook,"... (VG-) |
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Alighieri, Dante - The Divine Comedy I: Hell - Penguin - 4154831 € 5,75 Fantasy - 1954 - pocket - reprinted - Penguin Classics L6 - translated by Dorothy L. Sayers. - 346 p. - Dante's Hell (completed in 1321): The immortal drama of a journey through Hell. (VG, initials inside) |
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Harrison, Harry - The Stainless Steel Rat 01: The Stainless Steel Rat - Sphere - 4154830 € 3,25 Essef - 1974 - reprint - pocket - 158 p. - The story of an interstellar crook who uses all the resources of science and invention to ais him in crime. His name is Jimmy diGriz, also known as 'Slippery Jim'. (VG-, corner cut from first page) |
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Brown, Fredric - The Mind Thing - Hamlyn - 4154829 € 3,00 Essef - 1979 - pocket - 207 p. - He was incapable of love or mercy or hate. And he certainly never felt the lack. He was almost pure thought. He was just doing what he had to do: looking for the right body to play host to him. Once he found it and moved in, he would execute one of the most incredible plans ever conceived. He would be hailed as a hero on his own planet and Earth would never know what hit it! (VG-, corner cut from first page) |
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Adams, Richard - The Plague Dogs - Penguin - 4154828 € 2,00 Fantasy - 1978 - reprint - pocket edition - 461 p. - A lyrical, engrossing tale, by the author of 'Watership Down', Richard Adams creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the horrors of an animal research center who escape into the isolation - and terror - of the wilderness. (G, faded spine, mild foxing) |
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Le Guin, Ursula K. - Changing Planes - Gollancz - 4154827 € 5,00 Essef - 2005 - pocket - 214 p. - "A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels," from a narrator with "the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist." - USA Today. Hailed by Neil Gaiman as "a master of the craft" and Margaret Atwood as "a quintessentially American writer," Ursula K. Le Guin is at her entertaining, thought-provoking best in this collection of ingeniously linked stories... (VG) |
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Carter, Lin - Thongor 1: The Wizard of Lemuria - Star - 4154826 € 2,25 Fantasy - 1979 - reprinting - pocket - 157 p. - The famous first adventure of the mightiest warrior-hero since Conan. The ancient dragon kings have deemed that the hour is right to regain their dominance over Earth and only Thongor and his companions, aided by the science and magic of the wizard Sharajsha, stand between mankind and the night of doom. (G+, inside covers spotted) |
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Niven, Larry - Ringworld 4: Ringworld's Children - Orbit - 4154825 € 6,25 Essef - 2005 - reprinted - pocket - 355 p. - Book 4 in the Ringworld series. (VG+) |
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Niven, Larry - Scatterbrain - TOR - 4154824 € 3,00 Essef - 2004 - pocket - 327 p. - Scatterbrain is an everything-including-the-kitchen-sink collection of writings from award-winning science fiction master Larry Niven. Perhaps best known for his novel Ringworld and Three Books of Known Space, Niven is a highly versatile writer with... (G, damaged inside rear cover) |
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Niven, Larry & Pournelle, Jerry - Golden Road 2: Burning Tower - Pocket Books - 9154823 € 4,75 Fantasy - 2006 - pocket - 655 p. - Return to the vivid and unusual world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's 'The Burning City'. In this book it is revealed that fires are not the only danger the residents of Tep's Town are facing... (VG-) |
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Golding, William - Lord of the Flies - Penguin - 4154822 € 5,50 Essef - 1960 - 1st Penguin edition - pocket 1471 - 192 p. - collectible paperback - Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. A great novel. English language, Dutch high school edition. Capturing generations of readers since its publication in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is a cult favorite among students and literary critics. An adventure tale in its purest form, this thrilling account of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island exposes the duality of human nature itself - the dark, eternal divide between order and chaos, intellect and instinct, structure and savagery. (G+, initials inside, some wear on round spine) |
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Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World - Penguin - 4154821 € 7,00 Essef - 1958 - reprinted - pocket 1052 - 201 p. - collectible paperback - Human beings, graded from intellectuals to manual workers, hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries, learn by conditioning to accept their social destiny. The story develops around an unorthodox AlphaPlus, who visits a New Mexican Reservation and brings a savage back to London. (VG-, name inside) |
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Hobb, Robin - The Tawny Man 3: Fool's Fate - Voyager - 9154820 € 8,50 Fantasy - 2003 - pocket - 805 p. - The triumphant conclusion to three thrilling fantasy series, from the author of the bestselling Farseer and Liveship traders trilogies. The only hopes for an end to war and insurrection in the Six Duchies rests in the hands of the small party that are embarked on a desperate quest to the frozen island of Aslevjal... (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Baxter, Stephen - A Time Odyssey 1: Time's Eye - Del Rey - 4154819 € 4,50 Essef - 2005 - pocket - 364 p. - 1885, the North West Frontier. Rudyard Kipling is witness to a British army action to repress a local uprising. And to a terrifying intervention by a squadron of tanks from 2137. Before the full impact of this extraordinary event has even begun to sink in Kipling, his friends and the tanks are, themselves flung back to the 4th century and the midst of Alexander the Great's army. Mankind's time odyssey has begun... (VG) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Baxter, Stephen - A Time Odyssey 2: Sunstorm - Del Rey - 4154818 € 4,50 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 356 p. - Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth's history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance? (VG) |
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Card, Orson Scott - The Tales of Alvin Maker 6: The Crystal City - TOR - 4154817 € 5,00 Fantasy - 2004 - pocket - 340 p. - The sixth volume in the Alvin Maker series, which is considered the most important in American Fantasy since Stephen Donaldson's original 'Thomas Covenant' Trilogy. (VG+) |
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Card, Orson Scott - Shadow Saga 4: Shadow of the Giant - TOR - 4154816 € 5,00 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 371 p. - An Ender novel. Orson Scott Card's acclaimed new series following the events of his classic, award-winning Ender saga continues. Bean has narrowly averted total disaster and managed to thwart the plans of Achilles. But Achilles is far from defeated and his final goal - total domination of the Earth - is still well within his grasp. (VG+) |
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Clarke, Arthur C. & Pohl, Frederik - The Last Theorem - Harper Voyager - 4154815 € 4,50 Essef - 2009 - pocket - 423 p. - Two of science fiction's most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittingly grand farewell from the late, great visionary author of 2001: A Space Odyssey... (VG) |
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Saki - Selected from Beasts and Super-Beasts and other stories - London Panther - 4154814 € 3,25 Literary Fiction / Horror - 1965 - pocket - 222 p. - Selected and introduced by J. W. Lambert. As the title suggests the majority of these ten tales are taken primarily from his original collection Beasts and Super-Beasts, published in 1914, just before he volunteered for... (VG-, initials inside) |
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White, Terrence H. - The Once and Future King - Berkley - 9154813 € 5,00 Fantasy - 1966 - 29th printing - thick pocket - 639 p. - The World's greatest Fantasy classic? Arthurian wizardry. (VG) |
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Hobb, Robin - Soldier Son 1: Shaman's Crossing - Harper Collins - 9154812 € 8,00 Fantasy - 2006 - pocket - 632 p. - When the two-hundred year war between the kingdoms of Vania and Landsing ended the Landsingers were left in triumphant possession of Vania's rich coal and coast territories. When young King Troven assumed the throne of Vania thirty years later, he was determined to restore her greatness, not through waging another assault upon their traditional enemies, but by looking in the opposite direction and colonising the wild plains and steppes to their east... (F) |
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Herbert, Frank - Dune Series 1 : Dune - Ace - 4154811 € 6,00 Essef - 1990 - pocket - 25th anniversary edition - 533 p. - The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a... (VG) |
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Herbert, Frank - Dune Series 1 + 2 : Dune + Dune Messiah [in slipcase] - NEL - 4154810 € 59,75 Essef - 1975 - 2 pockets in slipcase - collector's item - 507 + 221 p. - Dune series 1 and 2 in a cardboard slipcase.(VG-, slipcase is VG, books have general wear + corner cut from first page) |
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Herbert, Frank; Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J. - The Road to Dune - Hodder - 4154809 € 6,75 Essef - 2005 - pocket - 380 p. - The companion to the bestselling series. Including never-before-published chapters from Dune and Dune Messiah, original stories, and a new short novel by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. (VG) |
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Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J. - Dune Series 7: Hunters of Dune - Hodder & Stoughton - 9154808 € 7,50 Essef - 2006 - pocket - 625 p. - At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune - Frank Herbert's final novel - a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy... (VG+) |
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Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J. - Heroes of Dune 1 : Paul of Dune - Hodder - 9154807 € 8,00 Essef - 2008 - thick pocket - 648 p. - Frank Herbert's Dune ended with Paul Muad'Dib in control of the planet Dune. Herbert's next Dune book, Dune Messiah, picked up the story several years later after Paul's armies had conquered the galaxy. But what happened between Dune and Dune Messiah? How did Paul create his empire and become the Messiah? (VG) |
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Various Authors - Isaac Asimov's Robot City : Robots and Aliens (6 books) - Ace - 9154806 € 12,50 Essef - 1989/90 - 6 pre-owned pockets - 6 x approx 175 p. - Isaac Asimov's Robot City : Robots and Aliens series. This set of six books is a complete series and here offered as a set, because they all have the same previous owner and the same type of flaws or defects. (A/G/VG-, all books have name, sticker and or stamps inside) - Attention: book 6 has front cover edge damage (A). The other books are G or VG-. |
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Twain, Mark - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Penguin - 4154805 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1980/81 - pocket - reprinted - 410 p. - The story, first published in 1889, of a Connecticut workman who finds himself transported back to medieval England. With an introduction by Justin Kaplan. (VG) |
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McCaffrey, Anne - Pegasus 1: To Ride Pegasus - Del Rey - 4154804 € 2,50 Essef - 1983 - 9th printing - pocket - 243 p. - The telepathic Talents which they shared set them apart. They met with suspicion, then outright hostility from the un-Talented. Disaster loomed large when freaks, "wild" Talents, brought dissension to the group and threatened to destroy it. By the author of "The Ship Who Sang" and "Damia". (G+, some wear on spine) |
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Farmer, Philip J. - Keepers of the Secrets - Severn House - 4154803 € 19,00 Fantasy - 1985 - HC with dust jacket - 152 p. - a.k.a. The Mad Goblin (1970). A book in the Doc Caliban and Lord Grandrith series. (VG+) |
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Loborik, Jason a.o. - Doctor Who : The Visual Dictionary - Penguin Random House - 8154802 € 7,25 Essef Reference Book - 2015 - hardcover - illustrated - 176 p. - Aliens, gadgets, weapons, technology, companions and monsters - learn everything you need to know about the amazing adventures of the travelling Time Lord in Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary. (F) |
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McCaffrey, Anne & Stirling, S. M. - Brainship 4: The City Who Fought - Baen - 4154798 € 4,00 Essef - 1994 - pocket - 436 p. - The Ship who sang is not alone! Simeon was bored, not with being a shellperson, but with running the mining and processing station that made up his "body". So when the arrival of an out-of-control refugee ship interrupted his latest wargame (Simeon's hobby) the excitement was welcome. (VG-, light cover corner fold) |
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Anthology - The Shape of Sex to Come - Pan - 4154797 € 3,25 Essef - 1978 - pocket - Edited by Douglas Hill - 175 p. - A 1978 anthology from Pan, including stories by Robert Silverberg, Thomas M. Disch, A.K. Jorgensson, Anne McCaffrey, Brian Aldiss, Hilary Bailey, John Sladek and Michael Moorcock. (VG-, corner cut from first page) |
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Feist, Raymond E. - Riftwar Saga 3: Silverthorn - Grafton - 9154796 € 4,50 Fantasy - 1985 - 432 p - pocket - For nearly a year peace reigned in the enchanted kingdom of Rillanon. But new challenges awaited Arutha the Prince of Krondor when Jimmy the Hand - youngest thief in the Guild of Mockers - came upon a sinister Nighthawk poised to assassinate him. What evil power raises the dead and makes corpses do battle with the living at the behest of the Guild of Death? And what magic can defeat it? The new King of Midkemia is threatened - and a life-or-death quest must be undertaken for an antidote to a poison that fells a beautiful Princess on her wedding day... (VG-, slightly faded spine) |
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Modesitt Jr., L. E. - The Eternity Artifact - TOR - 9154795 € 5,00 Essef - 2006 - thick pocket - 464 p. - 5,000 years in the future, humankind has spread across thousands of worlds, and more than a dozen different governments exist in an uneasy truce. But human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence. This... (VG) |
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Traviss, Karen - Wess'har 3 : The World Before - Eos - 4154794 € 5,00 Essef - 2008 - pocket - 391 p. - The Eqbas have come, bringing justice, change, hope to some... and death to many. Seeking to punish the human gethes who caused the near destruction of an ocean-dwelling race in the distant Cavanagh’s Star system, the Eqbas have finally landed on... (VG) |
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Aldiss, Brian W. - Helliconia Spring - Triad/Panther - 9154793 € 4,50 Essef - 1983 - pocket - 555 p - This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy - a monumental sage which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons. Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of this gigantic novel... (VG) |
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Carey, Jacqueline - The Sundering 1: Banewreaker - TOR - 9154792 € 5,00 Fantasy - 2005 - pocket - 502 p. - Following the triumphant success of her Kushiel series (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar), Jacqueline Carey now turns her hand to another startling fable, an epic tale of gods waging war in their bid to control an entire universe and the mortals they use as chess pieces in a most deadly game... (VG) |
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Canavan, Trudy - The Black Magician Trilogy 3: The High Lord - Eos - 9154791 € 5,00 Fantasy - 2004 - 9th printing - pocket - 531 p. - Sonea has learned much since she was but a penniless urchin possessing an awesome untapped ability. She has earned the grudging respect of her fellow novices and a place in the Magicians' Guild. But there is much she wishes she had never learned - what she witnessed, for example, in the underground chamber of the mysterious High Lord Akkarin... (VG) |
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Kerr, Katharine - Deverry: The Westlands 1: A Time of Exile - Harper Collins - 9154790 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1996 - reprinting - pocket - 476 p. - A novel of the Westlands. In the fifth novel of the "Deverry" series, the kingdom of Deverry is left behind and strange lands to the west, beyond the elven territories are explored. The story delves back into elven history to the fall of the cities and the Great Burning. From the author of "Polar City Blues". (VG-) |
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Shute, Nevil - On the Beach - Bantam - 4154789 € 3,50 Essef - 1970 - 9th Bantam printing - pocket - 278 p. - The most important novel of the atomic age! If you read only one book a year, this should be the one... (VG) |
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Barjavel, Rene - The Ice People - Pyramid - 4154788 € 3,50 Essef - 1973 - pocket V2913 - 250 p. - Frozen bodies of a male and female, from a superior civilization that existed 900,000 years ago, are discovered by scientists. (VG-) |
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McCaffrey, Anne & Nye, Jody Lynn - Brainship 5: The Ship Who Won - Baen - 4154787 € 4,00 Essef - 1995 - 1st printing - pocket - 330 p. - Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shell person. Like others before her, she decided to "become" a spaceship. With her "brawn" Keff, they search for intelligent beings. When they arrive on the planet Ozran, nothing is as it seems. (VG-) |
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Frank, Pat - Alas Babylon - Bantam - 4154786 € 3,25 Essef - 1970 - 27th printing - pocket - 279 p. - About the day our world ended by an explosion of an A-bomb. Forever they called it 'The Day'... (VG-, spine chip) |
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Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World - Perennial - 4154785 € 3,00 Essef - 1969 - first Perennial Library edition - pocket - 177 p. - Human beings, graded from intellectuals to manual workers, hatched from incubators and brought up in communal nurseries, learn by conditioning to accept their social destiny. The story develops around an unorthodox AlphaPlus, who visits a New Mexican Reservation and brings a savage back to London. This Fantasy of the Future is one of Aldous Huxley's best known books. It's impact on the modern world has been considerable! (VG-, light cover corner fold) |
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Turtledove, Harry - Counting Up, Counting Down - Del Rey - 9154784 € 5,00 Essef - 2005 - thick pocket - 412 p. - From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledove's literary skill and unbridled imagination. (VG) |
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Anthology - Aliens - Orbit - 4154783 € 2,25 Essef - 1977 - pocket - 156 p. - Three novellas by Murray Leinster, Clifford D. Simak and Arthur C. Clarke. (VG-, tiny saw blade mark) |
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McCaffrey, Anne - Nerilka's Story and the Coelura - Corgi - 4154782 € 3,00 Fantasy - 1993 - pocket - 192 p. - Nerilka's story: Ashamed of her father's refusal to help the others of Fort Hold, Nerilka helps Lord Alessan prepare a serum to combat a dreaded plague. (VG) |
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Sturgeon, Theodore - Venus Plus X - Pyramid - 4154781 € 2,50 Essef - 1969 - pocket - 160 p. - Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on 61 North 34th Street and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Here, violence is a vague and improbable notion. Technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation, pollution, even time and space. But there is a change Charlie finds even more shocking: gender is a thing of the past. Venus Plus X is Theodore Sturgeon's brilliant evocation of a civilization for whom tensions between male and female and the human preoccupation with sex no longer exist... (VG) |
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Anthology - The 3rd Pan Book of Horror Stories - Pan - 4154780 € 3,00 Horror - 1976 - 13th printing - pocket - selected by Herbert van Thal - 268 p. - Anthology with 21 authors / stories. (VG-, corner cut from first page) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Proxima 1 : Proxima - ROC - 9154779 € 5,25 Essef - 2015 - pocket - 504 p. - Fresh from his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth sequence Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challanges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel PROXIMA. In PROXIMA we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the... (VG) |
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Baxter, Stephen - Proxima 2 : Ultima - ROC - 9154778 € 5,25 Essef - 2016 - pocket - 517 p. - Fresh from his latest collaboration with Terry Pratchett on the Long Earth sequence Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challanges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel PROXIMA. In PROXIMA we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the... (VG) |
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Heinlein, Robert A. - For Us, the Living - Pocket Books - 4154777 € 5,00 Essef - 2004 - pocket - 329 p. - From Grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939 and never before published, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name. July 12, 1939 Perry Nelson... (G+, cover edge damage) |
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Anderson, Kevin J. - The Saga of Seven Suns 1: Hidden Empire - Orbit - 9154776 € 5,00 Essef - 2007 - thick pocket - 637 p. - Hidden Empire begins a dazzling space opera fit to stand with the classics of the genre, combining the politics of Frank Herbert's Dune, the scope of Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy, and the pageantry and romance of Star Wars; In the far future, humanity began to search the stars, sending out vast spaceships that would take generations to reach their goals... (VG) |
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Anderson, Kevin J. - The Saga of Seven Suns 3: Horizon Storms - Orbit - 9154775 € 5,00 Essef - 2007 - thick pocket - 626 p. - Return to the galaxy-wide canvas of THE SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS in the second of the acclaimed series It has been five years since humanity's heady expansion among the stars came to an abrupt, and violent, halt. The emergence of the Hydrogues, an immensely powerful alien race dwelling within gas-giant planets, has placed the scattered colonies of the Terran Hanseatic League in jeopardy... (VG) |
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Anderson, Kevin J. - The Saga of Seven Suns 6: Metal Swarm - Orbit - 9154774 € 4,50 Essef - 2008 - thick pocket - 639 p. - In the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships... (VG-, creasing to the backstrip) |
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Anderson, Kevin J. - The Saga of Seven Suns 6: Metal Swarm - Pocket Books - 9154773 € 5,50 Essef - 2008 - thick pocket - 684 p. - In the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships... (VG) |
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Scalzi, John - Interdependency 1 : The Collapsing Empire - TOR - 4154771 € 6,00 Essef - 2018 - paperback - 372 p. - The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War. Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible - until... (VG) |
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Scalzi, John - Interdependency 2 : The Consuming Fire - TOR - 4154770 € 6,00 Essef - 2019 - paperback - 360 p. - The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi is the dazzling follow-up to TheCollapsing Empire, the second in the Interdependency series – a space opera in a universe on the brink of destruction. The Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the... (VG) |
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Scalzi, John - Interdependency 3 : The Last Emperox - TOR - 4154769 € 6,00 Essef - 2021 - paperback - 356 p. - The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar... (VG) |
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Anderson, Kevin J. - The Saga of Seven Suns 7: The Ashes of Worlds - Simon & Schuster - 9154772 € 9,50 Essef - 2008 - 3rd printing - thick paperback - 734 p. - The allied factions of humanity, along with the waning Ildiran Empire, the powerful water elementals and sentient trees, have defeated the near-invincible race of the hydrogues, driving them back into the depths of gas-giant planets. But... (VG) |
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Lefanu, J. Sheridan - In a Glass Darkly - Wordsworth - 4154768 € 6,00 Horror - 1995 - paperback - 302 p. - This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical'... (VG) |
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Tolkien, J.R.R. - Farmer Giles of Ham + The Adventures of Tom Bombadil - Unwin - 4154767 € 4,00 Fantasy - 1975 - paperback - 144 p. - If you are looking for a short, humble, fantasy story then Farmer Giles of Ham is your man. This is about a Farmer who becomes a hero after "defeating" a giant. Soon after, word of Farmer Giles of Ham's courage spreads and his life will never be the... (G+ weak spine) |
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Pratchett, Terry & Gaiman, Neil - Good Omens - Corgi - 8154766 € 9,50 Fantasy - 2019 - reissue - paperback - 405 p. - According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter -the world's only "totally reliable" guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea. Which means that Armageddon will happen on... (VG) |
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Tolkien, J. R. R - Tree and Leaf - Unwin - 4154765 € 5,50 Fantasy - 1970 - paperback - 92 p. - Contains: 'On Fairy Stories' and 'Leaf by Niggle'. Reprinted and issued together they reveal the diversity of J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination and the breadth of his talent as a creator of fantastic fiction. (VG-) |
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Asimov, Isaac - I, Robot - Harper Voyager - 4154764 € 5,00 Essef - 2018 - 18th printing - paperback - 244 p. - In this collection, one of the great classics of science fiction, Asimov set out the principles of robot behavior that we know as the Three Laws of Robotics. Here are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world, all told with Asimov's trademark dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction. (VG) |
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Anthology - The 1973 Annual World's Best SF - BCA - 8154763 € 7,50 Essef - 1973 - pocket - 253 p. - Donald A. Wollheim selected 10 stories, with: Anderson, Simak, Pohl, Coney, Tiptree, Bass, McFarlane, Tilley, V. Vinge, MacLennon. (VG) |
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Gibson, William & Sterling, Bruce - The Difference Engine - Victor Gollancz - 4154762 € 3,00 Essef - 1992 - pocket - 429 p. - The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time - in the High Victorian age. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic engines, is in full swing. Great Britain, with the benefit of this new technology, prepares to better the world. (VG) |
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Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon - Victor Gollancz - 4154761 € 5,00 Essef - 2003 - 5th impression - SF Masterworks - paperback - 216 p. - Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary. (VG) |
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Lindgren, Astrid - The Brothers Lionheart - Oxford University Press - 4154760 € 4,50 Fantasy - JUVENILE - 2009 - 18th printing - paperback - illustrated - 188 p. - Jonathan had told his little brother Rusky about a wonderful country called Nangiyala. But when Rusky eventually followed Jonathan there, it was only to find a terrible change had taken place. The people of Wild Rose Valley had fallen under the... (F) |
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Shute, Nevil - On the Beach (intermediate level 4 readers) - Penguin - 4154759 € 3,00 Essef - 1999 - 7th printing - paperback - retold by G. C. Thornley - 118 p. - The most important novel of the atomic age! If you read only one book a year, this should be the one... This is an edited/abriged edition for level 4 readers, using a vocabulary of 1700 words. (VG) |
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Whale, David - Radko's War 1 : Radko's War - Octosquid - 8154758 € 6,75 Essef - 2017 - paperback - 292 p. - Commander Finn Radko and the crew of the HMCS Vimy Ridge, lone survivors of the greatest massacre in human history, begin a perilous journey through the mysterious attacking armada in the desperate hope of preventing another catastrophe. Undermanned... (VG+) |
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Vivas, Caro - Chronicles of Forgotten Worlds : Voyage to the Magic Kingdom of Mankind 1 : The Mystical Kingdom - Amazon Distribution - 8154757 € 4,00 Fantasy - 2015 - paperback - 295 p. - What would you do if you discovered that your memories had been stolen, deleted entirely from your soul by a diabolical power, and with them all your personal history was gone? After the great battle known as War of the Worlds, a group of noble... (G+, partly curly / not completely flat, moisture?) |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. - The Silmarillion - Allen & Unwin - 9154756 € 13,00 Fantasy - 1977 - 4th impression - HC with dust jacket - king size multicolor map folded in the back - 365 p. - The central stock of J. R. R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work that he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him. (VG) |
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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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Neuvel, Sylvain - Themis Files 2 : Waking Gods - Penguin - 4154754 € 5,00 Essef - 2018 - paperback - 324 p. - As a child Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery - a huge metallic hand, buried deep in the earth. She has since focused her scientific career on uncovering everything she can about the hand and the other gigantic body parts found scattered... (VG+) |
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