Watson David F Editor (6 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 1st printing, Apr. 1981. Cover art by Steve Hickman. Paperback original. Includes "Travellers" (novella) by David Drake; "Shall We Take a Little Walk?" (novelet) by Gergory Benford; "Tears for Emily" (novelet) by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.; "A Letter from God" by Ian Watson; "Dear Editor" by James Randi; "The Final Days" by David Langford; "A Death in Realtime" by Richard Sean McEnroe; "Dreams Come True" by Eric Vinicoff. Speculative fact: "Humans as Machines" by Robert Silverberg; "Minds, Machines, and Evolution" by James F. Hogan; "On Books" by Norman Spinrad; "Take Me to Your Teacher" by Elizabeth Anne Hull; "On Predicting the Future" by Frederik Pohl; "Nuclear Survival" by Dean Ing; "Understanding Ein" (Einstein) by James Gunn. Illustrated by Rick Sternbach, Broeck Steadman, Janet Aulisio, and Stephen Fabian. Creasing; tanning; minor soiling aqnd surface wear. Rick Sternbach; Broeck Steadman; Janet Aulisio; Steven Fabian (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 162 pp. Digest format. Light rubbing on the corners. Coca Cola can and skull cover art by David Hardy. This issue contains: Friend's Best Man by Jonathan Carroll (author's third story); The Order of the Peacock Angel - a novelette by Cooper McLaughlin; The Temporary King - a novelette by Paul J. McAuley; and short stories: The Greening of Mrs Edmiston by Robin Scott Wilson; Salvage Rites by Ian Watson; The Million Dollar Wound by Dean Whitlock; Addrict by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis; What Bleak Land by Robert F. Young; and The Man Who Wrote Shakespeare by E. Bertrand Loring; along with Science: Opposite by Isaac Asimov; cartoons by Baloo - Rex May, S. Harris and Henry Martin; and the usual features. Size: 12mo. David Hardy; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 50 pages. Illustrated. Esme Whittaker "Montaigne And Pepys" / Mary Butts "'Ghosts And Ghoulies' Uses of the Supernatural in English Fiction" / H T Kirby "Delineavit Et Sculpsit A note on the signatures of artists and engravers" / David Arkell "Newcastle - Literature and the Cities II" / Cecil G Hutchinson "T.F. Powys" / Charlotte Haldane "The French Novel Of Today V - The Untranslatable Word" / Collin Brooks "Everyman's Guide To Revolution - Trotsky's Vade-Mecum" / Watson Lyle interviews Erik Chisholm (Modern Composers VII) / Edmund Nicholls "A Royal Scholar" (SL#273).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 350 pages. 8.90x0.90x5.90 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 336 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine; see scans and description. Chicago: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. The scarce January,1950 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, that being Volume VI, Number 1. The famous and historic Doomsday Clock - shown on each cover since 1947, two years after the publication's inception - here shows the time to be three minutes of midnight as of mid-1950. That's about as close as it ever got, and one can see from the article titles (see scan of contents) that these always-good-citizen scientists - the first group to publish against Nuclear weapons in a scholarly manner - were extremely skittish in early '50. Quarto, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 32 pp. (pages1 through 32 for the annual volume, pages then being numbered after that fashion of the time). Near Fine, with no salient flaws at all. Orange cover - using a golden-age-of-sci-fi style of font in the case of this particular issue - is vivid, and very modest age-toning to interior pages is less than would ordinarily be expected. See all scans. Solidly bound and bright. A stout example. Established in 1945 by biophysicist Eugene Rabinowitch and physicist Hyman Goldsmith in response to a correctly-perceived demand for nuclear information at the time by the general public, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is without doubt the most historically significant non-technical publication on the subject of "'global security and public policy issues related to the dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, climate change,[2] and emerging technologies and diseases". Hence, over the years, BAS has become a geopolitical instrument, rather than a nuclear watchdog alone.This early in the bulletin's history, full-size illustrations were rare; here, only the ads on the inside covers are full page. But where else would you see an ad declaring 'The Fume Hood of the Future.is Yours Today'? That's in case you have you have issues handling your radioactive isotopes. See scan of that ad. Feature articles in this vintage1950 issue: The City of Washington and an Atomic Bomb Attack; Conquest of the United States by Germany; AEC Reactor Program; The Perils of Being Important; Role of the National Laboratories; International Control of Atomic Energy; Atomic Armistice; more. See scan of contents. Contributors include Sir Robert Watson-Watt; Hans J. Morgenthau; Samuel K. Allison; Henry D. Smyth; Leo Szilard; David F. Cavers; Cuthbert Daniel and John L. Balderston; Francis W. Carpenter; the editors and others. Very, very scarce piece of activist history at the beginning of a tense era. The original monthly softcover issue, and in superior condition. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course - not a bag. LPR34.…