The Venging
by Greg Bear
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0712650504
- ISBN 13
- 9780712650502
- Seller
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About This Item
First Edition February 1992 publ. by Legend/Random Century. The book and the dust jacket are both Very Good. The dust jacket has only minimal shelf wear and is not price clipped. The spine is intact and the book has no inscriptions. The pages are clean and unmarked. Sent within 24 hours. Ref: BK1293.
Synopsis
Greg Bear is one of the foremost voices in science fiction today, with many successful and award winning novels to his credit. However, this is his first published collection of short stories. It is a significant volume, containing many characters and situations that later evolved into their own novels. "Mandala" features technologically perfect cities that eject their sinful human occupants, a premise that can be found at the root of Bear's later novel, Strength of Stones. In "Hardfought", Bear brilliantlt handles the classic science fiction dilemma of human communication with aliens. Other stories include "The Wind From a Burning Woman" in which a woman holds the world hostage by controlling a giant asteroid; "Scattershot", in which the inhabitants of many universes meet in an undefined limbo space; and "Petra", a story of a world where chaos rules, stone moves and the mind controls reality. Hailed by readers and critics alike, The Venging has been described as "an excellent collection" and Bear praised as "one of the freshest writers to break into the science fiction field in many a year".
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- Bookseller
- jsandersbooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JSB-BK-1293
- Title
- The Venging
- Author
- Greg Bear
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0712650504
- ISBN 13
- 9780712650502
- Publisher
- Legend/Random Century
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- February 13, 1992
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - general; Fiction - First Edition;
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