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In a vastly changed world, thirteen centuries from now, Sumner Kagan searches the earth to find the godmind, a malefic being with reality-shaping powers
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A. A. Attanasio was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1951. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 1975, and an MA in Linguistics from New York University in 1976. His first novel, Radix, was shortlisted for the prestigious Nebula Award.
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Radix
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William Morrow & Co, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 1981
ISBN 10: 0688001351
ISBN 13: 9780688001353
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Hardcover
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Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Discoloration to boards and foxing (browning) to page edges. Book is tight and square. Browning to jacket as well. Seller Inventory # 047605
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Radix
Published by
William Morrow & Co., Inc., New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0688001351
ISBN 13: 9780688001353
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Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Fred Marcellino (illustrator). First Edition. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1981. First Edition, and so stated and numbered. One of 1,000 copies. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino, book design by Michael Mauceri. Octavo, 467 pp. Ex-library, with standard markings for that, else in remarkable, sharp, bright handsome condition. Library traces include rubber stamp at page edges, pocket which has been adhered to rear fep, label on jacket spine. Book is other Very Good plus or a bit better. Jacket is price clipped, is otherwise near fine, and quite bright. Certainly the best known - and hardest to acquire as a first edition - of the titles produced by New Jersey-born science fiction writer A. A. Attanasio (Alfred Angelo Attanasio], Radix was the first novel in his Radix Tetrad. An imaginative pre-apocalyptic tale occurring 1300 years in the future and written in an eclectic style of much appeal at the time, Radix won a nomination for the Best Novel Nebula Award in 1981. A hard-to-find piece of sci-fi history, nicely preserved. L104. Seller Inventory # 001087
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RADIX
Published by
William Morrow and Company, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0688001351
ISBN 13: 9780688001353
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First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
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Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The scarce hardbound issue; reportedly only 1000 copies so bound. The author's first book and the first book of the Radix Tetrad sequence that "works as a complex meditation on metamorphosis elaborated within a space opera frame, so that densely ambitious moments of poetic aspiration alternate with episodes out of the rag-and-bone shop of pulp magazine fiction; this early use of space opera as frame or arena for baroque exfoliations of story immediately prefigures the similarly exorbitant work of Iain M. Banks and Dan Simmons . After losing her radiation shield, which guards her against the full nakedness of the universe, Earth begins to mutate savagely, a transformation articulated clearly in RADIX itself through the story of a mutant superman, who undergoes the same transcendental jumpstart that jolts his planet through terrors and dimensions. - John Clute, SFE (online). 1981 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-55. Lower corner tips lightly bruised, a nearly fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#89054). Seller Inventory # 89054
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Radix ***SIGNED ARC***
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William Morrow and Company, New York, 1981
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ISBN 13: 9780688001353
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Seller: Shade of the Cottonwood, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
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Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine unread softcover Uncorrected Advance Bound Proof signed by author on title page. Free of typical spine/coverwrap creases from reading. Incudes Galley Information one-sheet, which is curled at point where it extended above book. Shelfwear includes crease near top edge from a past paperclip, a few spots of rust at same within textblock, bumped lower outside corner, rubbed edges, and another area midway across top textblock where it appears something (similar to a paperclip) had been inserted and distorted the textblock. Light soiling on coverwrap. Has been stored in a bag. signed by author or artist. Seller Inventory # 3468
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Radix
Published by
William Morrow & Company, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0688001351
ISBN 13: 9780688001353
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First Edition
Seller: Shade of the Cottonwood, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
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Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine unread first edition/first printing hardback. Contains full numberline. Free of owner's marks with very tight binding. Review slip laid in. Shelfwear consists of light bumps and soiling outside textblock. Dust jacket near fine and in protective archival sleeve. Seller Inventory # 3428
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Radix
Seller: Abyssbooks, Crestone, CO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A near fine copy of the stated "First Edition"/first printing with full number line in near fine jacket with price intact and minute wear to upper edge. Mylar protected and nearly as nice as it gets. Seller Inventory # 40
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RADIX
Published by
William Morrow and Company, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0688001351
ISBN 13: 9780688001353
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Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The scarce hardbound issue; reportedly only 1000 copies so bound. The author's first book and the first book of the Radix Tetrad sequence that "works as a complex meditation on metamorphosis elaborated within a space opera frame, so that densely ambitious moments of poetic aspiration alternate with episodes out of the rag-and-bone shop of pulp magazine fiction; this early use of space opera as frame or arena for baroque exfoliations of story immediately prefigures the similarly exorbitant work of Iain M. Banks and Dan Simmons . After losing her radiation shield, which guards her against the full nakedness of the universe, Earth begins to mutate savagely, a transformation articulated clearly in RADIX itself through the story of a mutant superman, who undergoes the same transcendental jumpstart that jolts his planet through terrors and dimensions. - John Clute, SFE (online). 1981 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-55. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. (#126306). Seller Inventory # 126306
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Radix
Published by
William Morrow & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1981
ISBN 10: 0688001351
ISBN 13: 9780688001353
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Stuart W. Wells III, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing. Author's first book. Nebula award nominee. Dustjacket art by Fred Marcellino. As new, never read. Review slip laid in. Seller Inventory # 010978
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RADIX
Published by
William Morrow and Company, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0688001351
ISBN 13: 9780688001353
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Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The scarce hardbound issue; reportedly only 1000 copies so bound. The author's first book and the first book of the Radix Tetrad sequence that "works as a complex meditation on metamorphosis elaborated within a space opera frame, so that densely ambitious moments of poetic aspiration alternate with episodes out of the rag-and-bone shop of pulp magazine fiction; this early use of space opera as frame or arena for baroque exfoliations of story immediately prefigures the similarly exorbitant work of Iain M. Banks and Dan Simmons . After losing her radiation shield, which guards her against the full nakedness of the universe, Earth begins to mutate savagely, a transformation articulated clearly in RADIX itself through the story of a mutant superman, who undergoes the same transcendental jumpstart that jolts his planet through terrors and dimensions. - John Clute, SFE (online). 1981 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-55. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#86765). Seller Inventory # 86765
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Radix
Published by
William Morrow & Co., Inc., New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0688001351
ISBN 13: 9780688001353
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Fred Marcellino (illustrator). First Edition. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1981. First Edition and first printing, and so stated and numbered. One of an estimated 1,000 copies. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino, book design by Michael Mauceri. Octavo, 467 pp. Fine/Fine, flawless, never read. Certainly the best known - and hardest to acquire as a first edition - of the titles produced by New Jersey-born science fiction writer A. A. Attanasio (Alfred Angelo Attanasio], Radix was the first novel in his Radix Tetrad. An imaginative pre-apocalyptic tale occurring 1300 years in the future and written in an eclectic style of much appeal at the time, Radix won a nomination for the Best Novel Nebula Award in 1981. A hard-to-find piece of sci-fi history, beautifully preserved. L-100. Seller Inventory # 001309
Quantity: 1 available