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Click to view full description | 1. | Aldiss, Brian BILLION YEAR SPREE - THE TRUE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION
USA Doubleday 1973 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
VG in price-clipped dj, worn at extremities, tape reinforced dj at the head/heel on the inside of the dj. A classic in the field.
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| 2. | Aldiss, Brian BILLION YEAR SPREE - THE TRUE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION
USA Schocken 1974 First Edition First Printing Mass Market Paperback Very Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
edges/cover edges lightly worn, back top corner creased. A classic in the field.
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| 3. | Aldiss, Brian ENEMIES OF THE SYSTEM
Jonathan Cape 1978 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Signed by Author
Futuristic utopian sci-fi novel.
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| 4. | Aldiss, Brian GREYBEARD
USA Signet 1965 First Edition Mass Market Paperback Very Good 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
207pp. prev own signature in ink on inside front cover. Post-atomic destruction novel.
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| 5. | Aldiss, Brian HELLICONIA SPRING
UK Triad/Granada 1983 First Edition Mass Market Paperback Near Fine Minus 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Slightly rubbed/edgeworn
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| 6. | Aldiss, Brian & Ian R. MacLeod (introduction) SANITY AND THE LADY
UK PS Publishing 2005 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Limited to 500 copies signed by Aldiss. "They're the reason why xenophobia was invented." So says Uncle Toby, renegade member of the Laurence family. The comfortable Laurence family lead a fairly traditional life. They have a manservant to look after them. The sea is nearby, as is the psychotherapist. Edgar Laurence is a well-known pianist. His grand-daughter, Laura Broughton, is a famous novelist. Of course, the family has its problems. There's an unmarried mother with a small child. There are mobs at the gates, divorces, illicit love affairs and a suicide - or is that two suicides? But life goes on. Until the night when a meteorite burns out in earth's atmosphere. It releases a number of microscopic beings. Well, if not beings, at least functions. They are a mystery, a challenge to human imagination. However, if you have one entering your brain, you may be able to communicate with it, perhaps to your advantage. Here is what humans have long wanted, a chance to study alien life. They do not like it when they get it. Laura Broughton defends the visitors while the world becomes more and more alarmed. That's what gets her into trouble. And finally, the visitors astonish us all. Once more, Brian Aldiss delivers a gripping story, thronged with characters and love's complexities, salted with philosophical undertones, both comical and chilling. As with his recent novels, Super-State and Affairs at Hampden Ferrers, the international aspect of this very English novel shows through.
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| 7. | Aldiss, Brian & Ian R. MacLeod (introduction) SANITY AND THE LADY
UK PS Publishing 2005 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author(s) and Introducer(s)
Limited to 200 slipcased copies. "They're the reason why xenophobia was invented." So says Uncle Toby, renegade member of the Laurence family. The comfortable Laurence family lead a fairly traditional life. They have a manservant to look after them. The sea is nearby, as is the psychotherapist. Edgar Laurence is a well-known pianist. His grand-daughter, Laura Broughton, is a famous novelist. Of course, the family has its problems. There's an unmarried mother with a small child. There are mobs at the gates, divorces, illicit love affairs and a suicide - or is that two suicides? But life goes on. Until the night when a meteorite burns out in earth's atmosphere. It releases a number of microscopic beings. Well, if not beings, at least functions. They are a mystery, a challenge to human imagination. However, if you have one entering your brain, you may be able to communicate with it, perhaps to your advantage. Here is what humans have long wanted, a chance to study alien life. They do not like it when they get it. Laura Broughton defends the visitors while the world becomes more and more alarmed. That's what gets her into trouble. And finally, the visitors astonish us all. Once more, Brian Aldiss delivers a gripping story, thronged with characters and love's complexities, salted with philosophical undertones, both comical and chilling. As with his recent novels, Super-State and Affairs at Hampden Ferrers, the international aspect of this very English novel shows through.
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| 8. | Carr, Terry (editor) Brian Aldiss, David Keller, Henry Kuttner, Robert Silverberg, Carl Jacobi CREATURES FROM BEYOND
Nelson 1975 First Edition Reprint Book Club Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
9 sci-fi & fantasy stories by listed authors et al.
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| 9. | Postscripts, Ray Bradbury, Adam Roberts, Ed Gorman, Jay Lake, Gene Wolfe, Allen Ashley, Eric Brown, Joyce Carol Oates, Brian Aldiss, Lawrence G. Clark, James Lovegrove, Ramsey Campbell, Mike Ashley, Peter Hamilton, Stephen Gallagher James Blaylock In POSTSCRIPTS 1
UK PS Publishing 2004 First Edition Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
CONTENTS: 'Roads Were Burning' -- Adam Roberts / 'The Visitation' -- Ray Bradbury / 'Riff' -- Ed Gorman / 'The Rose Egg' -- Jay Lake / Interview with James P. Blaylock -- John Berlyne / 'Prize Crew' -- Gene Wolfe / 'The Overwhelm' -- Allen Ashley / 'A Choice of Eternities' -- Eric Brown / 'Stripping' -- Joyce Carol Oates / 'Tarzan of the Alps' by Brian W. Aldiss / 'Original Sin' -- Lawrence Gordon Clark / 'Seventeen Syllables' -- James Lovegrove / 'How Big's Yours?' -- Article by Mike Ashley / 'Direct Line' -- Ramsey Campbell / 'Restraint' -- Stephen Gallagher / 'Footvote' -- Peter Hamilton.
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| 10. | Postscripts, Ray Bradbury, Adam Roberts, Ed Gorman, Jay Lake, Gene Wolfe, Allen Ashley, Eric Brown, Joyce Carol Oates, Brian Aldiss, Lawrence G. Clark, James Lovegrove, Ramsey Campbell, Mike Ashley, Peter Hamilton, Stephen Gallagher James Blaylock In POSTSCRIPTS 1
UK PS Publishing 2004 First Edition Hard Cover Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author(s)
Signed edition limited to 150 copies. CONTENTS: 'Roads Were Burning' -- Adam Roberts / 'The Visitation' -- Ray Bradbury / 'Riff' -- Ed Gorman / 'The Rose Egg' -- Jay Lake / Interview with James P. Blaylock -- John Berlyne / 'Prize Crew' -- Gene Wolfe / 'The Overwhelm' -- Allen Ashley / 'A Choice of Eternities' -- Eric Brown / 'Stripping' -- Joyce Carol Oates / 'Tarzan of the Alps' by Brian W. Aldiss / 'Original Sin' -- Lawrence Gordon Clark / 'Seventeen Syllables' -- James Lovegrove / 'How Big's Yours?' -- Article by Mike Ashley / 'Direct Line' -- Ramsey Campbell / 'Restraint' -- Stephen Gallagher / 'Footvote' -- Peter Hamilton.
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| 11. | Studies in Fantasy Literature, Benjamin Szumskyj (editor) Interviews Tim Powers, Brian Stableford on Louis-Sebastien Mercier, D. Franklin "Frank" Coffman, Jr., Douglas Anderson on Leonard Cline, Michael Moorcock on Brian Aldiss, Mark Hanford STUDIES IN FANTASY LITERATURE 3
USA Seele Brent Publications 2005 First Edition Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
"Leonard Cline's After-Walker: The Poem and an Explication" by Douglas A. Anderson. A bio-critical study of Cline's metaphysical poem, which possesses a strangeness to it that puts it in that gray zone between fantastic and mundane. / "Louis-Sébastien Mercier's News from the Moon" by Brian Stableford. A critical study, accompanied by a reprinting of Mercier's fantastic adventure of a communication from the world of the dead conveyed by means of a beam of concentrated light reflected from the moon's surface. / "A Conversation with Tim Powers" by Benjamin Szumskyj. A World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Mythopoeic, Locus Poll, International Horror Guild, SF Chronicle, and Apollo Award winner, Tim Powers has written eleven novels and several short stories. This is a brand new interview with the legendary fantasy writer. / "Moral Law, Secondary Worlds, and Crossed Planes: Some Thoughts Upon the Nature of Fantasy" by Dr. Frank Coffman. It is interesting that Robert E. Howard's brief, creative life should be lived in part and ended at Cross Plains, Texas. The varied vistas of central Texas offered springboards of inspiration for the writer's backgrounds, but the town name coincidentally suggests an angle of approach and interpretation to the broader genre of all fantastic fiction. This principle could properly be called "The Principle of Juxtaposition" or of "Bold Relief," the notion that Fantasy is important and powerful as a genre in that, when it succeeds, it enables us to see objective and inviolable and unalterable Truth against a background of untruth. / "Review: The Three Perils of Man" by Mark Hanford. Knights and nobles, wizards and kings - published in 1822, The Three Perils of Man by James Hogg may have a claim to be the first true fantasy novel. / "Review: Affairs at Hampden Ferrers: An English Romance" by Michael Moorcock. For almost fifty years Brian Aldiss has astonished us with the variety and quality of his output. Confronting current concerns, Affairs at Hamden Ferrers is like no other fiction he has written, yet is unmistakeably an Aldiss novel.
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| 12. | Studies in Fantasy Literature, Benjamin Szumskyj (editor) Interviews Tim Powers, Brian Stableford on Louis-Sebastien Mercier, D. Franklin "Frank" Coffman, Jr., Douglas Anderson on Leonard Cline, Michael Moorcock on Brian Aldiss, Mark Hanford STUDIES IN FANTASY LITERATURE 3
USA Seele Brent Publications 2005 First Edition Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
40 pp. "Leonard Cline's After-Walker: The Poem and an Explication" by Douglas A. Anderson. A bio-critical study of Cline's metaphysical poem, which possesses a strangeness to it that puts it in that gray zone between fantastic and mundane. / "Louis-Sébastien Mercier's News from the Moon" by Brian Stableford. A critical study, accompanied by a reprinting of Mercier's fantastic adventure of a communication from the world of the dead conveyed by means of a beam of concentrated light reflected from the moon's surface. / "A Conversation with Tim Powers" by Benjamin Szumskyj. A World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Mythopoeic, Locus Poll, International Horror Guild, SF Chronicle, and Apollo Award winner, Tim Powers has written eleven novels and several short stories. This is a brand new interview with the legendary fantasy writer. / "Moral Law, Secondary Worlds, and Crossed Planes: Some Thoughts Upon the Nature of Fantasy" by Dr. Frank Coffman. It is interesting that Robert E. Howard's brief, creative life should be lived in part and ended at Cross Plains, Texas. The varied vistas of central Texas offered springboards of inspiration for the writer's backgrounds, but the town name coincidentally suggests an angle of approach and interpretation to the broader genre of all fantastic fiction. This principle could properly be called "The Principle of Juxtaposition" or of "Bold Relief," the notion that Fantasy is important and powerful as a genre in that, when it succeeds, it enables us to see objective and inviolable and unalterable Truth against a background of untruth. / "Review: The Three Perils of Man" by Mark Hanford. Knights and nobles, wizards and kings - published in 1822, The Three Perils of Man by James Hogg may have a claim to be the first true fantasy novel. / "Review: Affairs at Hampden Ferrers: An English Romance" by Michael Moorcock. For almost fifty years Brian Aldiss has astonished us with the variety and quality of his output. Confronting current concerns, Affairs at Hamden Ferrers is like no other fiction he has written, yet is unmistakeably an Aldiss novel.
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| 13. | Studies in Fantasy Literature, Benjamin Szumskyj (editor) Interviews Tim Powers, Brian Stableford on Louis-Sebastien Mercier, D. Franklin "Frank" Coffman, Jr., Douglas Anderson on Leonard Cline, Michael Moorcock on Brian Aldiss, Mark Hanford STUDIES IN FANTASY LITERATURE 3
USA Seele Brent Publications 2005 First Edition Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
40 pp. "Leonard Cline's After-Walker: The Poem and an Explication" by Douglas A. Anderson. A bio-critical study of Cline's metaphysical poem, which possesses a strangeness to it that puts it in that gray zone between fantastic and mundane. / "Louis-Sébastien Mercier's News from the Moon" by Brian Stableford. A critical study, accompanied by a reprinting of Mercier's fantastic adventure of a communication from the world of the dead conveyed by means of a beam of concentrated light reflected from the moon's surface. / "A Conversation with Tim Powers" by Benjamin Szumskyj. A World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Mythopoeic, Locus Poll, International Horror Guild, SF Chronicle, and Apollo Award winner, Tim Powers has written eleven novels and several short stories. This is a brand new interview with the legendary fantasy writer. / "Moral Law, Secondary Worlds, and Crossed Planes: Some Thoughts Upon the Nature of Fantasy" by Dr. Frank Coffman. It is interesting that Robert E. Howard's brief, creative life should be lived in part and ended at Cross Plains, Texas. The varied vistas of central Texas offered springboards of inspiration for the writer's backgrounds, but the town name coincidentally suggests an angle of approach and interpretation to the broader genre of all fantastic fiction. This principle could properly be called "The Principle of Juxtaposition" or of "Bold Relief," the notion that Fantasy is important and powerful as a genre in that, when it succeeds, it enables us to see objective and inviolable and unalterable Truth against a background of untruth. / "Review: The Three Perils of Man" by Mark Hanford. Knights and nobles, wizards and kings - published in 1822, The Three Perils of Man by James Hogg may have a claim to be the first true fantasy novel. / "Review: Affairs at Hampden Ferrers: An English Romance" by Michael Moorcock. For almost fifty years Brian Aldiss has astonished us with the variety and quality of his output. Confronting current concerns, Affairs at Hamden Ferrers is like no other fiction he has written, yet is unmistakeably an Aldiss novel.
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| 14. | Wormwood, Mark Valentine (editor) Jeff Gardiner on Francis Stevens, Brian Stableford, Douglas Anderson, Muriel Smith, Mark Samuels; (Letters) Douglas Anderson, Brian Aldiss, David Bratman, Rosemary Pardoe, Jonathan Preece on J.R.R. Tolkien, E.R. Eddi WORMWOOD 2 - LITERATURE OF THE FANTASTIC, SUPERNATURAL AND DECADENT
UK Tartarus Press 2004 First Edition Private Press Trade Paperback As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
92 pp. Daylight Ghosts: The Novels and Stories of Oliver Onions by Glen Cavaliero / The Godwin Family by Brian Aldiss / Ithell Colquhoun: The Versatile Surrealist by Eric Ratcliffe / The Man Who Never Was: An Appreciation of Fernando Pessoa by Adam Daly / Love, Life, and the Clemency of Death: A Re-examination of Clark Ashton Smith's 'The Isle of the Torturers' by Scott Connors / Phantasmagoria and Psyche in Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Jyri-Pekka Luoma / Francis Stevens: The Godmother of Modern Fantasy by Jeff Gardiner / The Decadent World-View by Brian Stableford / Late Reviews by Douglas A. Anderson / A Few French Ghosts by Muriel Smith / Letters / Camera Obscura by Mark Samuels
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