1367. Moorcock, Michael: The Golden Barge

Published by Savoy, 1979

Paperback 1st thus, pages browned otherwise very good. This is the story of a quest of Jephraim Tallow, a four-foot, wide-mouthed, red-haired, grinning travesty of the human race. He follows the Golden Barge down river and along the way meets revolutionaries and do-gooders, aliens and angels, lovers and lost children. But he keeps returning to the river.

1368. Moorcock, Michael: The Knight of the Swords

Published by Allison & Busby, London. 1977

1st edition hardback in very good condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not clipped. The first of three volumes concerning the quests and adventures of Corum Jhaelen Irsei of the Vadhagh Folk, which is also called the Prince in the Scarlet Robe.

430. Moorcock, Michael (Editor): New Worlds 4

Published by Sphere books, 1972

Paperback in very good condition, no previous owner names or inscriptions, pages clean, rubbing to extremities.The science fiction quarterly, includes stories by Keith Roberts, Thomas Disch, John Sladek and many more.This issue is dedicated to Hawkwind

889. Moorcock, Michael: Jerusalem Commands

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1992

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage as he crashes towards an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century.

890. Moorcock, Michael: Mother London

Published by Secker & Warberg, 1988

1st edition UK hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. Three hospital outpatients all find that they hear voices - the voices of London's past. As they explore the city of their present day, they also explore its recent past and its forgotten people. Through the lives of those on the fringe of society, we learn what it is like - and what it has always been like - to live in the great, sprawling, polyphonic, multicoloured capital.

2200. Moorcock, Michael: The Fortress of the Pearl

Published by Gollancz, London. 1989

1st edition hardback. The book is very good in a very good price clipped dust wrapper. The jacket has, at some point, been taped to the book and there is some evidence of tape residue inside the boards, both front and rear, but only light. Lost in the immensities of the Sighing Desert, Quarzhasaat is a city of elaborate intrigue, ruled over by a council of seven known whimsically as the Six and One Other. When Elric, albino Prince of Melnibone, arrives there he is weak and close to death, and is easily forced into agreeing to a mysterious quest: to find the Pearl at the Heart of the World, which will convey much power to its owner, but which lies concealed in the hidden Fortress of the Pearl. It is a quest which has defeated many before him, but Elric, armed with his soul-eating sword Stormbringer, is no ordinary adventurer.

Published by Paper Tiger, London. 1987

UK hardback, 1st edition, in very good condition. The dust wrapper is clipped and has small closed tears at the top of the spine and at the top front corner but no loss, slightly rubbed edges otherwise very good. There are no previous owner names or other marks. Illustrated though out by Rodney Matthews. Elric, the albino warrior king, is transported through time and space to the bizarre world at the End of Time. A world of massive cities where the residents absorb power from the rest of the universe to reshape matter and create illusions.

1369. Moore, Christopher: Practical Demonkeeping

Published by Heinemann, 1992

1st edition hardback very good in a very good dust wrapper. In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and 'roads' scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor façade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy travelling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.

274. Morrison, Grant: Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

Published by Titan Books, London. 1989

Stated 1st British edition, hardback in very fine condition. Both book and dust wrapper appear to be unmarked. A Batman graphic novel illustrated by Dave McKean. Arkham Asylum was one of the two books actor Heath Ledger mentioned as inspiration for his portrayal of the Joker in the 2008 Batman film The Dark Knight, the other was The Killing Joke.

2082. Naylor, Doug: Last Human

Published by Viking, London, 1995

1st edition hardback in very good condition. There are no previous owner names or marks but bumped at the boards bottom edges. The jacket is also very good, slightly rubbed at the edges and chipped at the tips but not price clipped. Lister gazed out of the porthole and catalogue the series of disasters that had led him to this point in space and time: the bad decisions, the poor career choices, the unreliable friendships that had led him here - on a prison ship bound for the most inhospitable penal colony in the outer cosmos... and all he'd ever wanted was to be a soft metal guitar icon. This is the beginning of the third and eagerly awaited Red Dwarf novel where Lister starts out by searching for his Doppelganger and ends up having the future of the human race on his shoulders.

2083. Naylor, Grant: Better Than Life

Published by Viking, London, 1990

1st edition hardback in very good condition. There is a previous owners name sticker at the front end paper and the edges are a little grubby otherwise very good. The jacket is also very good, slightly rubbed at the edges and chipped at the tips. Based on the TV series, this book is a sequel to "Red Dwarf". The characters of Rimmer, Cat and Kryten are trapped in a computer game which can transport players directly to the world of imagination, a world where each player can enjoy fabulous success. The only catch is that the game kills. It is written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor who were head writers of "Spitting Image" for three years. They also wrote Radio Four's award-winning series "Son of Cliche" and "Red Dwarf".

2053. Newton, Mark Charan: Nights of Villjamur

Published by Tor, London. 2009

1st edition UK hardback in near fine condition. The book is fine having no previous owner names or marks, the unclipped dust wrapper has a little dint and hole at the front hinge and some light surface marks. Legends of the Red Sun: Book One. An ice age strikes a chain of islands, and thousands come to seek sanctuary at the gates of Villjamur. It's a city of ancient spires and bridges, a place where banshees wail and cultists use forgotten technology. And beyond the now besieged walls, the dead have been seen walking across the tundra. When the Emperor commits suicide, his heir, Rika, is brought home to lead the Jamur Empire. But the corrupt Chancellor has his own designs on the throne. Meanwhile, a senior investigator in the city inquisition must solve the savage murder of a city politician, and a charming rogue manipulates his way into the imperial residence with a hidden agenda. Then one crime leads to another and a plot is uncovered that could mean genocide for thousands of citizens. It seems that, in this land under a red sun, the long winter is bringing more than just snow . . . 'A dark epic which shows its debt to Gormenghast'.

1370. Niven, Larry and Jerry Pournelle: The Burning City

Published by Orbit, London. 2000

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks only a slight browning of the page edges. The dust wrapper is not clipped and retains the original £17.99 price at the front flap. There was fire on Earth before the fire god came. There has always been fire. What Prokeet, the fire god, gave to mankind was madness ... They burned the city when Whandall Placehold was two. And then again when he was seven. Prokeet possessed one of the lordkin, the lust for fire took hold and the burning began. Whandall was himself one of the lordkin, but his insatiable curiosity about the hostile natural world and about the different peoples who surrounded him, allied to his intelligence and courage, marked him out for something more than burning down his own city. And when he felt Prokeet enter him, it was just the start of an epic journey that would turn him into a legend.

2069. Nova, Craig: Wetware

Published by Shaye Areheart, New York, 2002

Stated 1st edition, US hardback, both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine/as new condition. In 2026 in an unnamed city that is darkly familiar and vividly possible, Hal Briggs is a biotech engineer. His specialty: encoding biology into digital form, in other words manufacturing life. In the bowels of Galapagos Wetware, in a room filled with blue-tinted snow, Hal Briggs watches as his latest creation-he has named her Kay-blows him a kiss, while Jack, the male next to her, mouths, "Don't worry."What could possibly go wrong?

1550. Novik, Naomi: Temeraire: Throne of Jade

Published by Voyager, 2006

1st edition hardback in fine condition. Complete in a very good, unclipped dust wrapper. History takes flight in this deliciously addictive novel, which captures the Napoleonic period perfectly and skilfully layers history with imagination by adding a Dragon Air Force to the battle for England. Temeraire is a Celestial dragon, the most highly-prized of all draconic breeds; famed for their intelligence, agility and most of all for the Divine Wind - their terrible roar capable of shattering the heavy timbers of war ships and devastating woodland. Captured by the British, Temeraire was meant to be the companion of the Emperor Napoleon and not captained by a mere officer in the British Air Corps. The Chinese have demanded his return and the British government cannot afford to provoke the Asian super-power into allying with the French - even if it costs them the most powerful weapon in their arsenal, and forces Laurence and Temeraire apart.

1371. O'Neil, Dennis: Batman: Knightfall

Published by Bantam Press, 1994

Hardback 1st edition. Near fine book in a very good price-clipped d/w. The front board bottom corner has a very small chip otherwise fine; there are no previous owner names or marks. There are a couple of small areas of loss to the jacket edges. It's the summer of 1993 and Gotham City is reeling from the shock that Batman has been crippled by his fiercest foe ever - Bane, a villain of superhuman strength, cunning and evil. With Bruce Wayne confined to a wheelchair, who will protect Gotham City now?

137. O'Neil, Dennis: Batman: Knightfall

Published by Bantam Press, London. 1994

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The front board is slightly bumped at the bottom corner. There is a faint water stain at the front bottom edge of the dust wrapper otherwise very good. There are no previous owner names or marks and the jacket is not price clipped. It's the summer of 1993 and Gotham City is reeling from the shock that Batman has been crippled by his fiercest foe ever - Bane, a villain of superhuman strength, cunning and evil. With Bruce Wayne confined to a wheelchair, who will protect Gotham City now?

1372.Pennington, Bruce: Eschatus: Future Prophecies from Nostradamus' Ancient Writings

Published by Paper Tiger, 1976

1st edition paperback, large format, in fine condition. A visual translation of the 16th century prophecies of Nostradamus in which the author emphasizes their similarities with the apocalyptic warnings of the Old Testament. The cryptic predictions are reproduced alongside each painting in the original French and in literal translation.

2078. Perry, S. D.: Aliens: The Labyrinth

Published by Orion/Millennium, London, 1996

Hardback, 1st edition. Both the book and the unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. There are some light surface marks to the jacket but the book is unaffected, no previous owner names or marks present. On the space station Inominata the infamous Dr Paul Church has built a maze of tunnels, in which he is trying to meld human and alien as one being. Dr Tony Crespi's ambition is to work with Church, but once he finds his way through the labyrinth, he encounters a chamber of horrors, with no way out.

391. Pohl, Frederik: Jem: The Making of Utopia

Published by Gollancz, London, 1979

1st UK edition hardback in very good + condition.The book has a previous owner name on the front end paper. The dust wrapper again in very good + condition has a 2cm closed tear to bottom spine edge and has not been clipped. Jem is a powerful and disturbing novel, with marvellous descriptions of alien life and an all too believable view of our likely future.

259. Pohl, Frederik: Mining the Oort

Published by HarperCollins, London. 1993.

1st edition UK hardback in fine condition. Pages only very slightly yellowed at the edges. The dust wrapper is not price clipped retaining the original £15.99 price at the front flap. There are no previous owner names or marks. From a New York Times bestselling sf master comes a dazzling new blend of hard science and high adventure storytelling. When young Martian colonist Dekker DeWoe arrives on Earth for final training as an Oort prospector, he discovers a shocking plot to crash a comet on Tokyo.

1305. Pohl, Frederik (editor): The Expert Dreamers: 15 Science Fiction Stories by Scientists

Published by Gollancz, 1963

1st edition hardback in fine condition. Dusty top edge and slightly soiled unclipped jacket. Scarce in this condition.

2054. Pratchett, Terry: The First Discworld Novels: The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic

Published by Book Club Associates, London, 2005

Book club edition hardback in near fine condition. The dust wrapper is also near fine. Together in one volume, here are the first two Discworld novels, featuring Rincewind the wizard and his Luggage, Twoflower an innocent tourist and Cohen the Barbarian, the world's oldest and greatest hero. And not to mention Death, who's not so bad once you get to know him.

2223. Pratchett, Terry: Mort

Published by Gollancz, London. 1992

Fifth impression hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is price clipped but otherwise fine. Book 4 in the Discworld series and a scarce hardback. Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received an offer he can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse and being dead isn't compulsory. It's the dream job until he discovers that it can be a killer on his love life...

255. Pratchett, Terry: The Carpet People

Published by Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross. 1971.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. Unmarked book and unclipped dust wrapper in the original Duraseal cover. A fine example of the authors first book which was also illustrated by him. A very scarce and collectable item and a must have for the serious Pratchett collector.

230. Pratchett, Terry: Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

Published by Corgi, London. 2001.

1st thus. Paperback 1st in this Corgi edition, originally published in 1999 by Doubleday. Condition is fine/as new. A useful and improving almanack of information including astonishing recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Most of the recipes have been tried out on people who are still alive.

1374. Pratchett, Terry: Making Money

Published by Doubleday, London. 2007

1st edition hardback in fine/as new condition. Un-marked, un-clipped and probably un-read. It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lots of people want him dead… Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is . . . Making Money!

1375. Pratchett, Terry: The Last Continent

Published by Doubleday, London. 1998

Hardback edition, reprint in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. It's the Discworld's last continent and it's going to die in a few days, except… Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober. A man in a hat whose luggage follows him on little legs. Yes, it's Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left. Still…no worries, eh?

1376. Pratchett, Terry: Wings

Published by Doubleday, 1990

Hardback 1st edition. Fine in a fine unclipped Josh Kirby illustrated d/w. The third book of the nomes. When Masklin and his tribe from the Outside first ventured into the world of Arnold Bros (est 1905) they heroically saved the nomes under the floorboards from certain death. But Masklin also made a discovery that was to change his life--Thing, the little black box he carried as a talisman, could speak and was ,in fact, awfully clever. So Masklin has no reason to doubt that Thing is telling the Truth when it speaks of a Ship which will take the nomes Home to their place in the Stars, and begins to seek a way of returning the nome race to its rightful place in the Universe. And if that means stealing Concorde, then so be it.

1377. Pratchett, Terry: Diggers

Published by Doubleday, 1990

Hardback 1st edition. Rub marked d/w is still very good and unclipped. Book has a roughly crossed-out previous owner name otherwise very good. Kirby illustrated jacket. The second book of the nomes. A Bright New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of tiny nomes when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry. Or is it? Soon strange things begin to happen. Like the tops of puddles growing hard and cold, and the water coming down from the sky in frozen bits, then humans appear and they really mess everything up. The quarry is to be re-opened, and the nomes must fight to defend their new home. But how long will they be able to keep the humans at bay - even with the help of the monster Jekub?

2232. Pratchett, Terry: Hogfather

Published by Gollancz, London. 1996

1st edition hardback. The price clipped dust wrapper has only very slight wear at the tips otherwise both the book and its jacket are fine. It's the night before Hogswatch, the Discworld festival, and the Hogfather has been kidnapped. There's only possible stand-in who can be everywhere at once and negotiate the thinnest chimney. He's just got to remember to leave his scythe behind. That's right. "Ho, ho, ho, everyone".

1378. Pratchett, Terry: Jingo

Published by Gollancz, London. 1997

Hardback, 3rd impression. The book leans very slightly otherwise fine. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. There are no previous owner names or marks. Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid and at least one very camp follower. As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him...and that's just the people on his side. The enemy might be even worse.

1379. Pratchett, Terry: Small Gods

Published by Gollancz, London. 1992

Collectable 1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not clipped and retains the original £14.99 net price to the front flap. Clean rust coloured boards with gilt titles at the spine. Small Gods has the rare distinction of being one of only a couple of Discworld books which stand on their own (as well as on the backs of four elephants which may, or may not, stand on the back of a giant turtle which may, or may not, move through space). It is also considered by many to be one of the best novels in the Discworld series.

1380. Pratchett, Terry: The Light Fantastic: The Graphic Novel

Published by Corgi, 1992

Paperback 1st edition. Very near fine. Adapted by Scott Rockwell and illustrated by Steven Ross & Joe Bennet. Almost as elusive as the earlier first hardcover edition - not quite as expensive though!

253. Pratchett, Terry: Men at Arms

Published by Gollancz, London. 1993.

Hardback, 3rd impression of the 1st edition in near fine condition. The dust wrapper is price clipped and only very slightly faded at the top of the spine otherwise clean, tight and very tidy. A Discworld novel.

2382. Pratchett, Terry: Men at Arms

Published by Gollancz, London. 1993

1st edition UK hardback in very good condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped but is a little rubbed and wrinkled at the edges with a couple of small tears but no loss. "Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City watch needs MEN!"But what it's "got" includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... most of the time)and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all the help they can get. Because there's evil inthe air and murder afoot and something very nasty in the streets.It'd help if it could all be sorted out by noon, because that's when Captain Vimes is officially retiring, handing in his badge and getting married. And since this is Ankh-Morpork, noon promises to be not just high, but stinking.

2224. Pratchett, Terry: Only You Can Save Mankind

Published by Doubleday, London. 1992.

1st edition hardback in fine condition apart from slight browning of the page edges. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is fine and unclipped. A computer-game-inspired adventure by the author of the "Discworld" novels. 12-year-old Johnny Maxwell sets off on a wild seesaw from reality to the computer game, in a romp involving space warfare, starships and aliens, and a range of characters including the Screewee Captain and Wobbler Johnson.

2234. Pratchett, Terry: Johnny and the Dead

Published by Doubleday, London. 1993

1st edition hardback. The un-clipped dust wrapper has been stuck to the boards with a clear protective covering. There are stamps to both front and rear endpapers and also one at the title page with some ink reference numbers otherwise both the book and its jacket are very good. This is an ex Royal Air Force library book but in almost unread condition. Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down . . . especially since its Halloween tomorrow. Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were . . . well . . . alive. Particularly if they break a few rules . . .

2403. Pratchett, Terry: Johnny and the Bomb

Published by Doubleday, London, 1996

UK hardback, 1st edition reprint in very good condition. The page edges are slightly tanned. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is also very good but is price clipped.Book 3 in the Johnny Maxwell series. Everyone thinks that Mrs Tachyon is just the local bag lady, a bit smelly and a bit mad. But Mrs Tachyon is somehow at the centre of an amazing time travel facility. Johnny and his friends find themselves transported back 50 years, where no-one's ever heard of a biro, let alone a Big Mac.

1381. Pratchett, Terry: The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy

Published by Doubleday, London. 1999

1st thus, hardback in near fine condition. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The book leans slightly otherwise fine. The jacket is not clipped and retains the original £12.99 price at the front flap. Omnibus of three books. Only You Can Save Mankind (1992) It's hard, trying to Save Mankind from the Galactic Hordes. It's even harder trying to save the Galactic Hordes from Mankind. But it's only a game, isn't it. Isn't It? Johnny and the Dead (1993) Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can see the dead, and they are nothing like he expected. When the council wants to move them out so the cemetary can be sold, they don't take it lying down - they are learning "life" can be a lot more fun when you break a few rules. Johnny and the Bomb (1996) There was a flash of light, the air flickered.and the world changed. It's May 21, 1941, thought Johnny. It's war. This is a time-stoppingly funny, richly entertaining adventure from the master of fantastical and irreverent wit.

1382. Pratchett, Terry: Guards! Guards!

Published by Gollancz, London. 1997

Hardback, 1st thus. Later edition in fine/as new condition. Unclipped dust wrapper shows no price. There are no previous owner names or marks. This is where the dragons went. They lie...not dead, not asleep, but...dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key... Guards! Guards! is the eighth Discworld novel - and after this, dragons will never be the same again!

1383. Pratchett, Terry: Carpe Jugulum

Published by Doubleday, London. 1998

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. There are no previous owner names or marks. Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to Lancre for a simple ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches. There's Young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything. Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg ... and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. And the vampires are intelligent. They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.

2350. Pratchett, Terry: Carpe Jugulum

Published by Doubleday, London. 1998

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. There are no previous owner names or marks. Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to Lancre for a simple ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches. There's Young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything. Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg ... and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. And the vampires are intelligent. They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe. Carpe Jugulum is Terry Pratchett's twenty-third Discworld novel - but the first to star vampires.

1384. Pratchett, Terry: Wintersmith

Published by Doubleday, London. 2006

1st edition hardback in very good condition. There is some light wear to the dust wrapper otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The jacket is not price clipped. 'Crivens!' Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made just one little mistake . . . And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs and showers her with snowflakes, which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit . . . cool. And if Tiffany doesn't work out how to deal with him, there will never be another springtime . . . Crackling with energy and humour, Wintersmith is the third tale in a sequence about Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men - the Nac Mac Feegles who are determined to help Tiffany, whether she wants it or not.

2417. Pratchett, Terry: Wintersmith

Published by Doubleday, London, 2006

1st edition UK hardback in very good condition but has been slightly bumped at the front bottom corner. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is very good and not price clipped.A story of Discworld. When the Spirit of Winter takes a fancy to Tiffany Aching, he wants her to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever. It will take the young witch's skill and cunning, as well as help from the legendary Granny Weatherwax and the irrepressible Wee Free Men, to survive until Spring. Because if Tiffany doesn't make it to Spring- -Spring won't come.

170. Pratchett, Terry: Wyrd Sisters

Published by Gollancz, London. 1996.

1st thus. Hardback in fine/as new condition. No previous owner names or marks and the jacket is not price clipped. The first edition was published in 1988.

196. Pratchett, Terry: Wyrd Sisters

Published by BCA by arrangement with Victor Gollancz Ltd, London. 2002.

Unseen Library Edition, hardback in near fine condition. The front board has had a slight knock at the bottom corner otherwise fine. Exclusive Quarter-bound in cloth and leather, with gold blocking A gold-embossed full-colour image, specially commissioned for these books from the renowned Pratchett illustrator Paul Kidby. Full-colour Discworld map illustrated endpapers. This is the sixth of 18 books in the Unseen Library Collection of Discworld novels and is becoming very difficult to obtain. These editions were not available for sale in shops and were only available through a few book clubs. Scarce.

210. Pratchett, Terry: Lords and Ladies

Published by BCA in association with Victor Gollancz, London. 1994.

Hardback reprint of the 1992 BCA first edition. Both book and dust wrapper are in near fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. Josh Kirby illustrated jacket. Book 14 in the Discworld series. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere -- even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewsey Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning...Everything ought to be going like a dream.But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have got drunk on afairy mound and the elves have come back, bringing all those things traditionally associated with the magical, glittering realm of Faerie: cruelty, kidnapping, malice and evil, evil murder.[*]Granny Weatherwax and her tiny argumentative coven have really got their work cut out this time... With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris Dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.[*] But with tons of style.

211. Pratchett, Terry: Moving Pictures

Published by Gollancz, London. 1990.

1st edition/4th impression December 1990. Hardback book in fine condition and the dust wrapper is clipped but otherwise fine. The tenth book in the Discworld series. Cameras roll - which means the imps inside have to paint really fast - in the fantastic Discworld when the alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen.But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood hill?As the alien clich's of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out. . .

1385. Pratchett, Terry: Sourcery

Published by Published by BCA by arrangement with Victor Gollancz Ltd, London. 2002

Unseen Library Edition, 1st thus, hardback in very good condition. There are some slight soiling marks and a bit of wear at the front board fore-edge. The rear board has had a slight knock at the bottom corner otherwise very good and internally very clean. There is a couple of small chips to the gilt bands at the lower spine. Exclusive Quarter-bound in cloth and leather, with gold blocking a gold-embossed full-colour image, specially commissioned for these books from the renowned Pratchett illustrator Paul Kidby. Full-colour Discworld map illustrated endpapers. This is the fifth of 18 books in the Unseen Library Collection of Discworld novels and is becoming very difficult to obtain. These editions were not available for sale in shops and were only available through a few book clubs. Scarce.

254. Pratchett, Terry: Feet of Clay

Published by Gollancz, London. 1996.

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. There is a slight lean to the book and the dust wrapper is a little sunned at the spine otherwise fine. Unclipped jacket and no previous owner names or inscriptions. A Discworld novel.

2233. Pratchett, Terry: The Truth

Published by Doubleday, London. 2000

Hardback edition, third impression. The un-clipped dust wrapper shows a little wear and has damp stains to both top and bottom edges, mostly only visible on the reverse, otherwise both the book and its jacket are very good. William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at "The Truth". Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition... The Truth is Terry Pratchett's 25th Discworld novel.

2220. Pratchett, Terry: Night Watch

Published by Doubleday, London. 2002

1st edition hardback. The page edges are slightly browned otherwise the book is fine in condition. The dust wrapper too is fine and unclipped. Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future... A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution. Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-boiled Egg!

2254. Pratchett, Terry: Snuff

Published by Doubleday, London. 2011

1st edition hardback. A fine book in a fine dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is not clipped there are no previous owner names or marks. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all...

2267. Pratchett, Terry: The Fifth Elephant

Published by Doubleday, London. 1999

1st edition hardback. The dust wrapper has a couple of small tears at the top edge otherwise very good and not clipped. The book leans slightly otherwise very good. There are no previous owner names or marks. Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the myserious, fat-rich country of Uberwald. Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up.

2309. Pratchett, Terry: Going Postal

Published by Doubleday, London, 2004

1st edition hardback in very good condition. Lightly rubbed dust wrapper top edge with some minor surface marks otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names and the jacket is not clipped. Moist von Lipwig is a con artist... ... and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too...

2310. Pratchett, Terry: Maskerade

Published by Gollancz, London, 1995

1st edition hardback in very good condition. Price clipped dust wrapper slightly rubbed at the top edge with some minor surface marks and a small tear to the bottom rear hinge (1 cm) otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for an "innocent" night at the opera. Naturally there's going to be trouble, but at the same time there'll be a good evening's entertainment with murders that you can really hum to.

2328. Pratchett, Terry: Death Trilogy: A Discworld Omnibus

Published by Gollancz, London, 2000

4th impression, hardback, the number string reads 00 5 4. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. The dust wrapper is only very slightly rubbed. There are no previous owner names. This volume contains "Mort", "Reaper Man" and "Soul Music", all starring Death, the Discworld's most endearing character, his steed Binky, his granddaughter Susan, the Death of Rats and all the various denizens of the Discworld.

Published by Gollancz, London,

1991 1st edition hardback. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. There are no previous owner names. From the "Discworld" fantasy series. Death is missing. Dead Rights activist Reg Shoe suddenly has more work than he'd ever dreamed of, and newly-deceased wizard Windle Poons wakes up in his coffin to find that he has come back as a corpse.

Published by Doubleday, London. 2008.

1st edition hardback. There is a very slight knock at the front bottom corner otherwise fine/as new in condition. 1st print and an unclipped dust wrapper. Publishers gold 25 years of Discworld commemorative sticker to the front cover. Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly, some of these things are now beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, fairytales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got there. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings that on Earth are creatures of the imagination, like vampires, trolls, witches and, possibly, gods are real, alive and in some cases kicking on the Disc. In The Folklore of Discworld, Terry Pratchett teams up with leading British folklorist Jacqueline Simpson to give an irreverent yet illuminating look at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and affectionately libelled in the uniquely imaginative universe of Discworld.

Published by Gollancz, London, 2001

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. The top front corner has had a slight knock otherwise fine. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. A short but perfectly formed complete Discworld novel, fully illustrated in lavish colour throughout, The Last Hero is an essential part of any Discworld collection. It stars the legendary Cohen the Barbarian, a legend in his own lifetime. Cohen can remember when a hero didn't have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation, and when people didn't tell you off for killing dragons. But he can't always remember, these days, where he put his teeth . . . So now, with his ancient sword and his new walking stick and his old friends -- and they're very old friends -- Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. He's going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That'll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.

Published by Gollancz, London, 2001

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. A short but perfectly formed complete Discworld novel, fully illustrated in lavish colour throughout, The Last Hero is an essential part of any Discworld collection. It stars the legendary Cohen the Barbarian, a legend in his own lifetime. Cohen can remember when a hero didn't have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation, and when people didn't tell you off for killing dragons. But he can't always remember, these days, where he put his teeth . . . So now, with his ancient sword and his new walking stick and his old friends -- and they're very old friends -- Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. He's going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That'll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.

Published by Gollancz, London, 2004

1st UK hardback edition. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in very good condition. There is some wear and rubbing of the wrapper's top and bottom edges and a small tear at the top of the spine otherwise fine. There are no previous owner names. In THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett takes us on a guided tour of the Discworld, courtesy of his favourite Discworld artist, Paul Kidby. Following on from THE LAST HERO, THE ART OF DISCWORLD is a lavish, large format, sumptuously illustrated look at all things Discworldian. Terry Pratchett provides the written descriptions while Paul Kidby illustrates the world that has made Pratchett one of the best-selling authors of all time. Here you will find favourites old and new: the City Watch, including Vimes, Carrot and Angua, the three witches - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick - and the denizens of the Unseen University Library, not forgetting the Librarian, of course: they're all here in sumptuous colour, together with the places: Ankh-Morpork, Lancre, Uberwald and more . . . No Discworld fan will want to be without this beautiful gift book.

Published by Gollancz, London. 1994

1st edition hardback. A fine book in a fine dust wrapper. There are no previous owner names or marks. An A-Z guide to the characters, places, flora and fauna of the fatally confusing planet, Discworld. For safety's sake, you need one. And it's here with sketches and maps stuff.

1386. Rankin, Robert: Apocalypso

Published by Doubleday, London. 1998

1st edition hardback in near fine condition. Pages slightly browned. The dust wrapper has some surface marks and light wear at the edges but is not price clipped. There are no previous owner names or marks. The Ministry of Serendipity at Mornington Crescent runs everything. And that is everything. When the Ministry learns of a spacecraft that crashed four thousand years ago into the Pacific Ocean it sends an elite team of paranormal investigators to recover it. A mad alien thaws out, there is hell and horror all around and thousands flee in terror. Porrig has inherited a planet, or it might be a bookshop, or it might be a gateway into another world. And Porrig is worried, because he has learned a terrible secret. But if he told people, would they listen? No. But perhaps they should, because a mad alien has thawed out, there is hell and horror all around and thousands are fleeing in terror. And there is every likelihood of there being a bloody big explosion at the end. Will Porrig manage to do anything about it at all?

1387. Rankin, Robert: The Greatest Show off Earth

Published by Doubleday, 1994

1st edition hardback book and unclipped dust wrapper in fine condition. Raymond's had a rough couple of days. Snatched from his allotment by a flying starfish from Uranus and sold as a delicacy in a Venusian food market, it seems like his luck has changed when he is rescued by the travelling circus. But then this isn't an ordinary circus.

1388. Rankin, Robert: Nostradamus Ate My Hamster

Published by Doubleday, London. 1996

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is not price clipped but shows no price. There are no previous owner names or marks. DO HOLOGRAMS DREAM OF ELECTRIC CINEMA? He wanted Hollywood. He got Brentford. He wanted Spielberg. He got Fudgepacker. He got who? Fudgepacker. Ernest Fudgepacker. Directed all those weird B-movies back in the Fifties. Whatever happened to him? He retired. Opened Fudgepacker's Emporium, a prop house catering to the more bizarre needs of the film industry. Amazing place. There you could hire anything from shrunken heads to a pickled homunculus. Trouble is, they just don't make that kind of movie any more. Ernie's going bust. In fact, if he can't come up with some big bucks pretty damn quick, he's going to lose the business. It will take a miracle to save him now. Young Master Robert believes in miracles. He has a dream. He wants to star in movies alongside The Greats. The Golden Greats. The dead Golden Greats. He's a boy boffin with computers and he's invented this system that could put the stars of yesteryear right back up there on the screen. Next to him. He's written a script and he's got piles of money (his dad owns the brewery), but Hollywood isn't keen. And Mr Spielberg didn't ring back. The lad needs a director and Ernie needs the dosh, and Ernie only lives up the road. Could this be the perfect partnership? Well, it could be...but then this is Brentford and when you make movies in this neck of the woods, you can be sure of a BIG surprise. And when Brentford takes on Hollywood, then Hollywood had better pack up and head for the hills.

1389. Rankin, Robert: Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls

Published by Doubleday, London. 1999

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. It has always been John Omally's secret ambition to become a rock star. In his youth he mastered air guitar and wardrobe-mirror posing, but he lacked that certain something. Talent. But at last an opportunity has arisen for John to get into 'The Industry'. A band called Gandhi's Hairdryer are looking for a manager, so all John has to do is persuade them that he is the new Brian Epstein. It should be a piece of cake. But - and there's always a but - there is something rather odd about this band. Something other-worldly. It might be the lead singer, whose voice has the power to heal. Might she be an angel, perhaps? Or could she be the Devil in disguise? Because, after all, the Devil does have all the best tunes. And this is Brentford.

375. Rankin, Robert: The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse

Published by Gollancz, London. 2002.

2nd impression in fine condition. Only very slightly rubbed at the dust wrapper edges. The jacket is not clipped and there are no previous owner names or marks. Publishers price sticker still attached to front. Once upon a time Jack set out to find his fortune in the big city. But the big city is Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town, and it has grown considerably since the good old days and isn't all that jolly any more. And there is a serial killer loose on the streets. The old, rich nursery rhyme characters are being slaughtered one by one and the Toy City police are getting nowhere in their investigations. Meanwhile, Private Eye Bill Winkie has gone missing, leaving behind his sidekick Eddie Bear to take care of things. Eddie may be a battered teddy with an identity crisis, but someone's got to stop the killer. When he teams up with Jack, the two are ready for the challenge. Not to mention the heavy drinking, bad behaviour, car chases, gratuitous sex and violence, toy fetishism and all-round grossness along the way. It's going to be an epic adventure!

1390. Rankin, Robert: They Came and Ate Us: Armageddon II: The B-Movie

Published by Bloomsbury, London. 1991

Scarce 1st edition hardback. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. There is a bold signature to the title page but doesn't appear to be the authors. Otherwise the book and jacket are fine. QUIVER AT! Horrible demonic stuff oozing out of computer screens! SHOCK HORROR! Elvis Presley pulling his face off! GASP AT! A talking brussels sprout! SEE! Cannibals on the rampage! HEAR! Fido the Dog do Frankie Howerd impressions! SEE! Rex Mundi, Rambo Bloodaxe, Deathblade Eric, Hugo Rune and a cast of millions caught up in Events beyond Their Control! THRILL TO! All the loose ends from Armageddon the Musical magically tied up! WATCH! A comic genius doing the business! SEE?

1391. Rankin, Robert: The Garden of Unearthly Delights

Published by Doubleday, London. 1995

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. There are no previous owner names or other marks. YOU ARE NOW LEAVING THE AGE OF AQUARIUS PLEASE LOWER YOUR SEAT WHEN RISING FROM YOUR HEAD.It was something to do with the cycles of history. The way great civilizations rise and fall. Golden ages and dark ages. Things of that nature. Few people noticed at first. The changes. They were subtle to begin with. Like when the Leader of the Opposition challenged the PM to step outside and settle things man to man. And the PM agreed. Or the way the baked ham rose up against Dave while he was standing in the check-out queue at Budgens. Small things. But they just kept getting bigger. And by the time everyone realized that something very strange was going on, it was all too late. The Earth had left behind the age of science and reason and moved once more into a time of myth. A time of legend and heroes. Of romance and wizardry and wonder. It was a time to take the mother of all giant leaps and enter - The Garden of Unearthly Delights.

2387. Rankin, Robert: The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived

Published by Doubleday, London. 1995

1st edition UK hardback in very good condition. There are no previous owner names. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. Norman's definitely dead. His dad fell out of the sky and flattened him. And as Norman didn't want any regular full-time employment before he died, he certainly doesn't want any now. Especially not here at The Universal Reincarnation Company. There are far too many filing cabinets and far too much paperwork. Not that it's the company's fault. The blame really lies with God. If He hadn't decided to close down Hell, then Heaven wouldn't have got too overcrowded and there would have been no need to build the extension. And until the extension is finished, the U.R.C. will just have to keep on recycling all those souls in the big queue. If your taste is for a tender romance, taut with passion and desire, love and betrayal, then this raging stonker of a novel, bursting out of its leather pants with sex, scandal, murder, mystery, suspense, drama, action, adventure and Mad Car Disease, probably won't be for you. Sorry.

Published by Doubleday, London. 1993

Hardback, 1st UK edition in very good condition. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also very good, not clipped or faded. His name was Hugo Artemis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune, and he was never bored. Hailed as the 'guru's guru', Rune penned more than eight million words of genius including his greatest work, The Book of Ultimate Truths. But vital chapters of The Book were suppressed, chapters which could have changed the whole course of human history. Now, seventeen-year-old Cornelius Murphy, together with his best friend Tuppe, sets out on an epic quest. Their mission - recover the missing chapters. Re-publish The Book of Ultimate Truths. And save the world.

1392. Reichert, Mickey Zucker: The Last of the Renshai

Published by Millennium, 1993

1st edition hardback, both book and dust wrapper in very good condition.. The Last of the Renshai is the first volume of a sword-and-sorcery saga that is enormous in conception, and full of complex and arresting fantasy detail. The adventure arises from the trials of a lone warrior, a champion driven to avenge the genocide of his race. The magic lies with the immortal realms: this is a world controlled by four wizards whose strife not only presages the conflicts and wars of humans; it also threatens consequences and destruction on a world- wide scale. And the last Renshai is doomed to take on all - he will be the key for humans, wizards and gods alike.

1393. Reichert, Mickey Zucker: The Children of Wrath

Published by Millennium, 1998

Hardback 1st edition. Both book and unclipped dustwrapper in fine condition. The Renshai Chronicles: Part Two. Tae and his closest friends are charged with breaking the Dark Elves' curse of sterility on the humans of Midguard, with finding the lost shards of the sapphire, the mythical Pica that might hold the key to the elvish magic. In order to do this he must ensure that Rascal - like him brought up on the streets, still suspicious of all in authority, unpredictable and amoral - plays her part in finding the Pica and does not jeopardise the future of their world. In Valhalla, Colbey Calistinsson, the immortal Renshai, watches and waits. While the humans of Midguard fight their battles, he must ensure that the gods themselves and Odin in particular, do not shatter the Balance of the Worlds.

1637. Reynolds, Alastair: Zima Blue: and Other Stories

Published by Gollancz, London. 2009

1st edition UK hardback in near fine condition. The book leans slightly and there is a small scratch mark to the rear panel of the unclipped dust wrapper which is only very slightly rubbed at the edges. An anthology of short stories showcasing the superb writing and fertile imagination of Reynolds. A companion volume to Galactic North, this collection contains 14 stories and novellas, ranging from a near-future, character-based exploration of love and quantum reality set in Cardiff, to far-future space operas packed with seat-of-the-pants action and cutting-edge ideas. He's noted for big novels that combine storylines strung out across aeons with mind-blowing cosmological theory, and he's just as successful at presenting these concepts in the more constraining form of the short story.

2052. Reynolds, Alastair: Century Rain

Published by Gollancz, London. 2004

1st edition UK hardback in very good condition. The book has been bumped at the front bottom corner, but not too badly and the unclipped dust wrapper is a little rubbed at the edges and has some surface marks, again nothing nasty. Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise in invaluable. Using a backdoor into an unstable alien transit system, Auger's faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely? Century Rain is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate history. Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance, Century Rain is something altogether stranger.

Published by Gollancz, London. 2001

Hardback, UK 1st edition in very good condition. Page edges slightly tanned. The dust wrapper is a little rubbed along the top and bottom edges otherwise also very good and not clipped. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. Return to the Universe of Revelation Space. Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young postmortal. Tanner's pursuit of Reivich takes him across light-years of space to Chasm City, the domed human settlement on the otherwise inhospitable planet of Yellowstone. But Chasm City is not what it was. The one-time high-tech utopia has become a Gothic nightmare: a nanotechnological virus has corrupted the city's inhabitants as thoroughly as it has the buildings and machines. Before the chase is done, Tanner will have to confront truths which reach back centuries, towards deep space and an atrocity history barely remembers.

1394. Roberts, Adam: Salt

Published by Gollancz, 2000

Hardback 1st edition. Very good+ book and d/w. Jacket is only slightly rubbed at the edges. Two narrators tell the story of the simmering tensions between their two communities as they travel out to a new planet, colonise it, then destroy themselves when the tensions turn into outright war. Adam Roberts is a new writer completely in command of the SF genre. This is a novel that is at once entertaining and philosophical. The attitudes and prejudices of its characters are subtlety drawn and ring completely true despite the alien circumstances they find themselves in. The grasp of science and its impact on people is instinctive. But above all it is the epic and colourful world building that marks SALT out - the planet Salt rivals Dune in its desolation and is a suitably biblical setting for a novel that is powered by the corrupting influence of imperfectly remembered religions on distant societies. From the early scenes set on a colony ship towed by a massive ice meteorite, to the description of a planet covered in sodium chloride, to the chilling narrative of a world sliding into its first war, this is a novel from a writer who shouts star quality.

1395. Roberts, Adam: Polystom

Published by Gollancz, London. 2003

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and apart from some slight surface marks the jacket too is fine in condition. Adam Roberts' fourth novel is his most ambitious yet. In a feat of extraordinary world building he creates a universe where a breathable atmosphere extends out between the planets, where aristocrats cruise interstellar space in biplanes and skywhals make mysterious distant orbits. Then, with bravura plotting, he undermines our own notions of reality and leaves the reader unsure which universe to believe in. Gaining a reputation as one of the UK's leading SF stylists and masters of the high-concept, Roberts, shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke award with his debut novel SALT, confirms his extraordinary potential with POLYSTOM.

129. Robinson, Kim Stanley: Red Mars

Published by HarperCollins, London. 1992.

1st edition hardback in fine/unread condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not clipped and apart from a small scratch to the rear panel it is as new. Mars - the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind's dreams of space conquest. From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists - hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert - Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dreams: before he even sets foot on the red planet, factions are forming, tensions are rising and violence is brewing… for civilization can be very uncivilized. A scarce book in excellent condition.

1396. Russell, Eric Frank: Next of Kin

Published by Gollancz, London. 2001

Paperback, 1st thus. Gollancz SF Collector's Edition in fine condition. Unclipped in wraps. Originally published in 1959. 81, 82 new hostile worlds discovered: 83 and then another five propulsors blew their linings simultaneously and Scout-Officer John Leeming knew he would have to make a crash landing. Soon he was a prisoner of the Zangastans and filled with a determination to get back to Earth just as soon as possible. It took the failure of an orthodox escape attempt to make him realise that his alien life-form captors knew precious little of human nature. So unprompted corroboration from another Terran prisoner held by the Lathians, Zangasta's senior allies, that said Lathians had the Willies was good enough proof that Leeming's Eustace could be pretty dangerous.

1399. Siegel, Jan: Witch's Honour

Published by Voyager, 2002

Hardback 1st edition. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in near fine condition. Witch's Honour concludes the lyrical, richly atmospheric and enthralling tale begun in Prospero's Children and continued in The Dragon-Charmer. Spellbinding in its depiction of places both familiar and strange, of characters both magical and sinister, it is classic English fantasy at its finest.

377. Silverberg, Robert: Hot Sky at Midnight

Published by Harper Collins, London. 1994.

1st edition hardback. Near fine in condition. The dustwrapper is only slightly rubbed at the edges. There are no previous owner names.Silverberg's best-selling sf novels have netted four Hugo and five Nebula awards. In this apocalyptic morality tale, humankind fights extinction after damaging the environment beyond repair.

1400. Silverberg, Robert: Valentine Pontifex

Published by Gollancz, 1984

Hardback 1st UK edition. Very good+book in a like, price-clipped d/w which is only slightly rubbed at the edges. Book three of the Majipoor trilogy in a very nice Jim Burns illustrated wraparound jacket. 'Valentine looked downward. Everything was black, a pool of night rising from the floor. That blackness seemed to be beckoning to him. Come, a quiet voice was saying, here is your path, here is your destiny: night, darkness, doom. Yield. Yield, Lord Valentine, Coronal that was, Pontifex that will never be. Yield . . .' Valentine is now established as Coronal of Majipoor, about to undertake the grand processional, but filled with inexplicable despond, still shadowed by the dark cloud that had passed across his soul in Labyrinth. His foreboding proves to be not without foundation as soon he faces a planetary crisis - the shapeshifting Metamorphs are sabotaging the crops upon which Majipoor's billions depend - and a conflict, about how the suddenly turbulent planet should be ruled, with his protégé and heir-apparent, Hissune. Only after this crisis has been overcome and the conflict with Hissune resolved can Valentine fulfil his proper destiny and succeed to the title of Pontifex.

1401. Silverberg, Robert: The Time-Hoppers

Published by Millington, 1978

Hardback, later printing. Date stamp & price sticker to front endpaper otherwise fine book & unclipped dust wrapper. Robert Silverberg confronts the paradoxes of time travel in a brilliant novel of the 25th century, when the only escape from suffocation in a totally controlled environment is to hop backward through time. Since time hopping rearranges the past on which the structure of current existence is based, it must be stopped - but not too quickly. For the history of the 1970's includes the arrival of hoppers who have not yet left the 2490's - and whose departure thus must not be stopped!

105. Silverberg, Robert: Next Stop The Stars

Published by Dobson Books, London. 1979.

1st edition hardback. An ex-library book with the usual associated faults. Generally very good in condition and quite a scarce hardback.

1402. Simmons, Dan: The Hollow Man

Published by Headline, London. 1992

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is not clipped and there are no previous owner names or marks. However the jacket flaps have been pasted down inside the boards. Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge. But Gail is dying, her mindebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run--from his mind, from his past, from himself--hoping to find peace in isolation. Instead he witnesses an act of brutality that propels him on a treacherous trek across adark and dangerous America. From a fantasy theme park to the lair of a killer to a sterile hospital room in St. Louis, he follows a voice that is calling him to witness the stunning mystery at the heart of mortality.

191. Sladek, John: Tik-Tok

Published by Gollancz, London. 1983.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper has been clipped but it is otherwise as new. A very collectable example of a scarce title. Black comedy ensues when a domestic robot fries his "Asimov circuit" and discovers he enjoys murder.

1328. Sprague De Camp, L.: Sprague De Camp's New Anthology

Published by Panther, 1953

1st edition hardback. Both book and dust wrapper very good. A very good copy of this scarce collection. Includes Calories, The Colourful Character, Juice, Proposal, The Saxon Pretender and The Space Clause. ...

1403. Stern, Roger: The Death and Life of Superman

Published by Bantam, 1993

1st edition hardback in very good condition in a very good dust wrapper. In all the excitement and fanfare surrounding the revelations of Superman's death - and life - many questions remained unanswered. This novel tells the story of the events leading up to his death and the extraordinary occurrences that followed.

1404. Suckling, Nigel: The Cloth Merchants Apprentice

Published by Big-O, 1979

1st edition paperback in very good condition. From a dull but comfortable life as a trader, Rufus' fate leads him far from home and across timeless and barren lands to the city of the Brown Gods. His meetings with Aznavor, man of secrets and ambitions; the blind woman whose eyes pierce the mists of the future and his encounters with the strange beats and ancient mystical symbols begin to reveal a destiny beyond any of his imaginings. In the tradition of the great English pastoralist, Nigel Suckling has created a story to captivate the imagination of readers of all ages; enhancing his writing with a series of delicate black and white illustrations.

1405. Swanwick, Michael: Griffin's Egg

Published by Legend, 1991

Paperback 1st edition. Trade paperback novella, fine in a fine unclipped d/w. Illustrated by Peter Gudynas from the author of vacuum flowers. Two people fall in love and a community fights for its life against a backdrop of thermonuclear war and a hi-tech repressive government.

1406. Thomas, Roy and John Buscema (illustrator): Conan of the Isles

Published by Marvel Enterprises, 1988

1st edition paperback in very good condition. A Marvel graphic novel.