Search Results: Science Fiction from The Book Closet

New York: Atheneum, 1984 Blue boards with green tape binding; gold lettering on spine; remainder mark on bottom edge; dj is not price-clipped ($16.95) and is protected with a Brodart cover; dj pages are yellowed with age; sticker residue on ffep; second printing. "Whereas 'Helliconia Spring' was set within a small compass and covered many generations, its successor takes place in six months and shows us most of the extraordinary planet Helliconia, from the circumpolar regions of Sibornal to the salable glaciers of Hespagorat. This is probably Brian Aldiss's grandest and most sumptuous novel." -- from the dj

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2014 Black boards with sliver foil lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line; Book Two of The Testing. "With her brutal Testing experience forgotten thanks to a government-issued memory wipe, seventeen-year-old Cia Vale is eager to being her studies at the Commonwealth's elite University, as is Tomas, the boy she loves. Their bright futures are threatened by the past, however, when violent nightmares that feel more like memories force Cia to question reality and the true motives lurking behind the friendly faces of her classmates." -- from the dj

Tor Books, 2002 Book Club Edition; Minor Water Damage on One Page

Toronto, Ontario: Doubleday Canada, 1999 Pristine copy of the Canadian printing. Taller of the two printings. No spine creases; bright, crisp cover colors. The final novel in David Wingrove's brilliant epic. "The Great Experiment has failed. The Ten Thousand Year Empire of the Han has lasted less than two centuries and now not a single stack remains of the great city of ice that once covered the habitable earth. Eurpie is Devore's, America is a brutal dictatorship, while the rest of the globe groans beneath the rule of callous warlods." from the back cover. Pictures available upon request.

Riverdale: Baen Books, 1994 Black boards with silver lettering on spine; stated second printing; pages and dj are slightly yellowed; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending the naval academy, and even though his mother is the beautiful Cordelia, the ship captain who has taught the Lords of Darrayar much about the perils of sexism. Even the fact that Miles is third in line to the throne and personally owns a major chunk of his home planet would not tempt any normal person to change places with him." -- from the dj

Ballantine Books, 2001 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear on DJ

New York: Doubleday, 1989 Blue boards with blue tape binding; blue foil lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; not price clipped; some yellowing to edges of dj. "As the sun sets on a lonely Connecticut farmhouse, the shadows come, gliding through windows, sliding up walls, enveloping Sarah Gilmour as she searches frantically for her missing child. Then the shadows, with their dark, inhuman eyes, are everywhere, surrounding her as she sobs silently, realizing with horror that they have taken her daughter, once again. And somehow Sarah knows that now they have come back -- for her." -- from the dj

New York: Spectra, 2007 No spine creases; minor bumping to ends of spine. First trade paperback edition. "M. John Harrison returns with what may be the most eagerly anticipated science fiction novel in years. Set in the world of the award-winning 'Light", here is a story of love, murder, and ing\tergalactic noir on the razor's edge of the imagination." - from the back cover.

Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2010 Book Four of The Entire and The Rose. Red boards with silver lettering on spine; no price listed; dj protected with Brodart cover; number line reads: 14 13 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1" "Finally in control of the Ascendancy, Titus Quinn has styled himself Regent of the Entire. But his command is fragile. he rules an empire with a technoogy beyond human understanding; spies lurk in the ancient Magisterium; and the Tarig overlords are hamstrung but still malevolent. Worse, his daughter, Sen Ni, opposes him for control, beliving the earth and its Rose universe must die to sustain the failing Entire. She is aided by one of the mystical pilots of the River Nigh, the space-time transport system. This namitar, alone among all others, can alter future events. He retires into a crystal chamber in the Nigh to weave reality and pit his enemies against each other." -- from the dj

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006 Black boards with red lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; spine is tight and pages are clean; "In the year 2036, the world's best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest eduction - and developmental drug regimen - available." - from the dj

New York: Bantam, 1989 Black boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is protected with Brodart cover; dj is yellowed with age; sticker residue on ffep from previous owner; full number line (0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1); not price clipped. "Now the Ramans have finally returned, in a sequel with a scope and vision even grander than the original...Decades have passed since Commander Norton and his crew met with the enormous alien ship dubbed 'Rama' and declared it an intelligent robot with no interest in the creatures of our solar system." -- from the dj

New York: Bantam, 1994 Red boards with dark red tap binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is protected with Brodart cover; edges of dj show yellowing; not price clipped; full number line (0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). "On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massive, alien starship carries its passengers to the end of a generations-long odyseey. For the great experiment conceived by Ramans has failed. 'Rama III,' with its carefully designed Earth habitat, as well as environments to house other intelligent species, has become a battleground." -- from the dj

New York: Bantam Books, 1991 Black boards with black binding; silver lettering on spine. Tight, clean spine and pages. DJ has two small tears and minor shelfwear with sticker residue on back. DJ protected with a Brodart cover. "Angus Thermopyle was an ore pirate and a murderer; even the most disreputable asteroid pilots of Delta Sector stayed out of his way. They muttered that everyone who had ever gotten close to Thermopyle had ended up dead - or in the lockup." - from the dj.

New York: Tor, 2000 Black boards with gold embossed lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "In a world beyond time the Palindrake family ruled the rocky kingdom of Caradore, their right ordained by their allegiance to the power of the Sea. But war came to them, and defeat at the hands of the king of Fire." -- from the dj

New York: Del Ray, 1991 Boodk Five of The Malloreon. Black boards with black binding; gold lettering on spine. Minor shelfwear and sticker residue to dj, which is protected with a Brodart cover. The conclusion to The Malloreon -- "a magnificent fantasy of mean, Kings, Sorcerers, and Gods caught up in the seven-thousand-year war between two ancient, opposing Destines battling to determine the fate of all creation."

New York: Tor, 2002 Grey boards with red embossed lettering on spine. DJ in very nice condition with minor shelf wear. A sequel to "Ender's Shadow."

Putnam, 1992 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1993 Cream boards with brown tape binding; dj is not price clipped; full number line

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2013 Black boards with silver foil lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover; full number line. First book in The Testing series. "The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few, who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing -- their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career. Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as a Testing candidate, eager to prove her worthiness as a University student and future leader of the United Commonwealth. But on the eve of her departure, her father's advice hints at a darker side to her upcoming studies: Trust no one." -- from the dj

New York: Ballantine, 2007 Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Frist trade paperback. Some shelf wear to spine; minor crease on back cover. "Forced into exile on a desolate Mars colony, Carl Marsalis is a Thirteen: the result of a failed U.S. goverment experiment to produce the ultimate lethal military fighter. After slipping back to Earth, Marsalis makes a lucrative living as a bounty hunter and hit man - until a polic sting lands him in prison, a fate worse than Mars and much more dangerous. His only chance at freedom is to use his superior skills to help the government bring in a murderous fugitive. But Marsalis's prey is no common criminal. He's another Thirteen, bred to fight to the death. Though the job will draw Marsalis deep into violence, treachery, corruption, and painful confrontation with himself, anything is better than remaining a prisoner. The real question is: Can he remain sane - and alive - long enough to succeed?" - from the back cover. EXCELLENT!