Browsing Subjects  :  41 Books

• Anthology  :  The Year's Best Science Fiction # 18   St. Martin's Press, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Stories from Peter F. Hamilton, Ursula K. LeGuin, Alistair Reynolds, Tanarive Due, etc. F/F. $5.00.

• Christine Aziz  :  The Olive Readers   Macmillan, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. In the future there is no past, no history, no nationality, no tradition. A system of companies governs the world. But in the olive-producing region of Olea, the Readers are smuggling and storing books in a secret library. Winner of the UK Richard and Judy How To Get Published Award. F/F. $45.00.

• Iain M. Banks  :  Inversions   Orbit, London, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. In a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill who has become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkable, a woman. Dr. Vosill has more enemies than she realizes, but then she also has more remedies at hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess. F/F. $40.00.

• Iain M. Banks  :  Look to Windward   Orbit, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Eight hundred years after the Twin Novae battle ended with two suns exploding, light from the first explosion is about to reach the Masaq'Orbital. Masaq's 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent, will be able to reflect, if only for a moment, on their Culture's complicity in the terrible event. F/F. $35.00.

• Iain M. Banks  :  The Algabraist   Orbit, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy in the year 4034. The seer Fassin Taak is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. The latest space opera from Banks. F/F. $40.00.

• Iain M. Banks  :  The Player of Games   Macmillan, London, 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Gurgeh, one of the Culture's greatest game players, is challenged to a complex game modeled on the rules of existence. The winner becomes the Emperor of Azad, a civilization of immense wealth and appalling cruelty. F/F. $100.00.

• John Boyne  :  The Thief of Time   Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Author's First Novel. top front edge is badly crimped. In fine dust jacket. NF/NF. $50.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Blood Child   Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Short stories by the winner of Science Fiction's highest awards. F/F. $10.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Parable of the Sower   Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. Set in California in 2025 where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an eighteen-year-old black woman, sets off on foot. F/F. $20.00.

• Octavia Butler  :  Parable of the Talents   Seven Stories Press, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Continuing the travels of Lauren Olamina, told in the voice of her daughter, Asha, from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the US Presidency, this tells the story of a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder. F/F. $20.00.

• Alan Campbell  :  Scar Night   Tor, London, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Volume One of The Deepgate Codex. Urban fantasy set in the city of Deepgate which hangs by chains over an abyss. AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL. F/F. $45.00.

• Suzy McKee Charnas  :  The Conqueror's Child   Tor Books, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Book Four of The Holdfast Chronicles, the extraordinary dystopian series which imagines an evolving woman-only culture. F/F. $10.00.

• Suzy McKee Charnas  :  The Furies   Tor Books, New York, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Sequel to MOTHERLINES and WALK TO THE END OF THE WORLD, Charnas's extraordinary dystopian series which imagines an evolving woman-only culture. F/F. $10.00.

• Susanna Clarke  :  Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell   Bloomsbury, London, 2004. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. This is the first UK edition and is signed by both the author and the illustrator, Portia Rosenberg. White dustjacket with black end papers. F/F. $100.00.

• Cecilia Dart-Thornton  :  The Ill-Made Mute   Macmillan, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Book One of the Bitterbynde Trilogy. Well received in the UK. Author's first novel. F/F. $20.00.

• Peter Delacorte  :  Time on My Hands   Scribner, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. A writer travels back in time to Hollywood in the 1930s where he tries to knock Ronald Reagan off his path to the presidency. F/F. $10.00.

• Jasper Fforde  :  Lost in a Good Book   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Second Thursday Next mystery. F/F. $45.00.

• Neil Gaiman  :  American Gods   William Morrow, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Extraordinary storytelling. BRAM STOKER AWARD. HUGO AWARD. NEBULA AWARD. F/F. $45.00.

• Neil Gaiman  :  Anansi Boys   Review Books, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Weird and wonderful writing from Gaiman. F/F. $45.00.

• Peter F. Hamilton  :  Fallen Dragon   Macmillan, London, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. The story of Lawrence Newton whose job it is to fly starships for a giant corporation. F/F. $20.00.

• Peter F. Hamilton  :  The Confederation Handbook   Macmillan, London, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Accompanies three of Hamilton's works: Night's Dawn Trilogy and A Second Chance at Eden. F/F. $10.00.

• Julie Hearn  :  Follow Me Down   Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fantasy novel involving time travel. Publisher's postcard laid in containing quote from Philip Pullman. Small print run. F/F. $20.00.

• Stuart Hill  :  The Cry of the Icemark   Chicken House, Somerset, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Author's First Novel. First in a fantasy series. . F/F. $20.00.

• Philip Kerr  :  The Second Angel   Henry Holt, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First US Edition. SIGNED. Dark, dystopian thriller. F/F. $20.00.

• Stephen King  :  Everything's Eventual   Scribner, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. Fourteen short stories including the first edition in hard copy of King's story RIDING THE BULLET. F/F. $10.00.

• Stephen King  :  The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla   Donald Grant, 2003. Hardcover. First Trade Edition. King continues the adventures of Roland the Gunslinger and his ka-tet. F/F. $40.00.

• Stephen King  :  The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah   Donald Grant, 2004. Hardcover. First Trade Edition. Penultimate volume of King's speculative saga. F/F. $40.00.

• Stephen King  :  The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower   Donald Grant, 2004. Hardcover. First Trade Edition. The journey concludes. F/F. $40.00.

• Stephen King  :  The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon   Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. This precedes the US Edition. F/F. $10.00.

• Jonathan Lethem  :  Amnesia Moon   Harcourt Brace, New York, 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Fine in fine dust jacket. F/F. $35.00.

• Jonathan Lethem  :  As She Climbed Across the Table   Doubleday, New York, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Particle physicist Alice Coombs falls in love with a black hole. F/F. $45.00.

• Sophia McDougall  :  Romanitas   Orion, London, 2005. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. A slave waits to be crucified, a gang of fugitives hides out in the Pyrenees, while on giant screens in every city, the world watches the funeral of the imperial family's most glamorous couple. This is the Roman Empire. Now. F/F. $60.00.

• China Mieville  :  Iron Council   Macmillan, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Mieville continues his story of New Crobuzon, city of clockwork engine and sbterranean punishment factory. F/F. $45.00.

• Richard Morgan  :  Market Forces   Victor Gollancz, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Shorn Associates are in the business of Conflict Investment. They keep watch on the wars of liberation and sell arms and intelligence to the probable winners. Their cut is a piece of the action when the war is won. F/F. $45.00.

• Christopher Priest  :  The Extremes   St. Martin's Press, New York, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. A gunman goes on a killing spree in Texas. On that same June day a gunman goes on a killing spree in a small town on the south coast of England. F/F. $20.00.

• Kim Stanley Robinson  :  The Years of Rice and Salt   HarperCollins, London, 2002. Hardcover. First UK Edition. SIGNED. A plague destroys Europe and the world becomes a different place. F/F. $40.00.

• J.K. Rowling  :  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows   Bloomsbury, London, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. Deluxe Edition. Shrinkwrapped. Fine. Fine. $85.00.

• Dan Simmons  :  A Winter Haunting   Wm. Morrow, New York, 2002. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Dale Stewart, college professor, returns to his boyhood home to confront a recurring nightmare that has plagued him since youth. But he is not alone at his isolated farmhouse. . F/F. $35.00.

• Steph Swainston  :  The Year of Our War   Victor Gollancz, London, 2004. Hardcover. First Edition. SIGNED. Literary fantasy which tells the story of Jant, a member The Circle, a cadre of fifty immortals who serve the Emperor. The Emperor is seeking to protect mankind from gian insects which have plagued the land for centuries. Author's First Novel. F/F. $45.00.

• Connie Willis  :  Passage   Bantam, New York, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. Dr. Joanna Lander, researcher, volunteers to test a new drug which manufactures the near-death experience. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. F/F. $30.00.

• Connie Willis  :  To Say Nothing of the Dog   Bantam, New York, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. Willis again visits the unpredictable world of time travel. Review copy with publisher's materials laid in. Hugo Award Winner. F/F. $100.00.