victor gollancz vgsf (86 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mark Harrison (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. Mass market paperback, 220 pages; unread condition.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Mass market paperback, 346 pages; some light creasing, otherwise gently used, very clean and unmarked.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Printing. Mass market paperback, 203 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition. See also our other Watson titles (buy two or more and save on postage!).

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. First Thus. Mass market paperback, 245 pages; two price stickers, store stamped inside front cover, but unread condition. See also our listing for Holdstock's Mythago Wood (buy two or more and save on postage!).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. A book in the Berserker series. Referenced in Barron; Anatomy of Wonder 4, 4-378. A fine and bright, unread as new copy. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Printing. Mass market paperback, 184 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition. See also our listings for Shaw's The Ragged Astronauts, Orbitsville, and Orbitsville Departure (buy two or more and save on postage!).

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Paperback Original. Mass market paperback, 248 pages; very clean and unmarked unread condition.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. Mass market paperback, 286 pages; just a hint of a partial spine crease, but probably from store browser as book otherwise appears in unread condition, essentially as new. See also our listings for Compton's Chronocules, and for Ascendancies (buy two or more and save on postage!).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Slight creasing covers, part front cover darkened.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Trade paper original first edition, with "First published in Great Britain 1991" and no other printings on its copyright page. This lovely copy appears unread, and is in near fine condition, marred only by some traces of wear on cover edges, plus a small label on its back from a US book distributor. TWO authors -- Ian McDonald and Charles Stross -- have signed this book (with no personalization) on their story title page. McDonald also wrote "LOVE -- MUNGO", as an inscription from his cat "Mungo", which is pictured on the page. This book's binding is tight and square, with no reading creases in its spine or hinges. Other than the author signatures, its covers and pages are unmarked. As with all Space Age Book purchases, I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First VGSF edition. A fine, as new unread copy. Book.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Cover art by Mike Posen. Mass market paperback. Printed in Great Britain. Slight shelfwear, remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 191pp. SB-84.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Scuffing and creases on the spine.

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Steve Crisp (illustrator). 1991 Edition. © 1988: A stand-alone novel by Frederik Pohl. 1st printing of 1991 edition:- Synopsis: Knollwood Stennis (opera singer turned accountant) knew that the vast empire called Narabedla Ltd was set up to support scientific research and cultural events. He knew that Narabedla Ltd was huge. What he didn't know was that it owned a piece of just about every fast-growing company in the market. A big piece. Ford, ITT - any of the companies of Big Oil - Narabedla was right up there and could probably buy and sell some of them. When Nolly does stumble on these startling facts, an alarm bell starts to ring in the back of his nimble brain. But then two fellow performers signed to Narabedla disappear in suspicious circumstances. Some sort of investigation seems in order. Nolly expects to find there's more than charitable works going on in Narabedla. What he doesn't expect is to be kidnapped and find himself dumped on the second moon of the seventh planet of the star Aldebaran:- Review(s): "The most consistently able writer science fiction has yet produced" - Kingsley Amis / "The shrewdest thinker on the future that I have ever met" - Isaac Asimov:- (original cost £4.50).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Jim Burns (illustrator). 1987 Edition. © 1969: A stand-alone novel by Robert Silverberg. 1st printing of 1987 edition:- Synopsis: He had died on a scavenger Earth - where the living drew power from the souls of the dead. Once Paul Kaufmann had been the world's richest and most powerful man. Now he was the prize in a ruthless game of violence, sex and treachery played by those determined to succeed him. For Paul Kaufmann was dead. His soul was stored in the Scheffing Institute, waiting to be awarded to the person judged strong enough to use it. But who knew what such a fearsome mind contained - and who could imagine the results if an error of judgement were made?:- Review(s): "Where Silverberg goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow" - Isaac Asimov / "Always funny, clever and very stylish" - Observer:- (original cost £2.95).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Paul Wright (illustrator). 1994 Edition. © 1993: A stand-alone novel by Paul Kearney. 1st printing of 1994 edition:- Synopsis: The Horseman is waiting. For Michael Fay life on his grandparents' remote Irish farm is idyllic: haymaking, fishing in the river, exploring his own little kingdom. Then a fall on a riverbank reveals the existence of another world all around him, a different kingdom where wolves and bears still roam the dense forests, sword-bearing warriors do battle with beasts out of legend and the Devil travels the land searching for lost souls. Drawn into this enchanted forest by Cat, a mysterious, wild and alluring girl, Michael finds himself on a dangerous and desperate journey - from which he may never escape, however far he runs:- Review(s): "A powerful fantasy of a terrifying world that lies just on the edge of our own":- (original cost £4.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Adrian Chesterman (illustrator). 1995 Edition. © 1994: 2nd in the 'A Land Fit For Heroes' series of books. 1st printing of 1995 edition:- Synopsis: Britannia, 1993. In a world where the Roman Legionaries never left Britain a man can walk from the walls of York - or Eburacum - to the Southern seas without leaving the shade of the greenwood, inhabited by wildcats, wolves and bears, as well as descendants of the folk who built Stonehenge. Solar-powered air cars journey along straight roads that connect the Roman settlements - and link them to the cities of a global empire. When a jealous feud forced three young people into the forest, they discovered an older Britain, where the rules of rational Rome no longer applied. But now their sanctuary has been besieged and they are once more on the run. Their destination this time is Stand Alone Stan, a community built around an ancient standing stone high on the Yorkshire Moors. And it is here that their paths must, at last, diverge, and we begin to suspect the very different destinies that await them:- Review(s): "A superb novel of an alternate world filled with magic, wonder and a haunting sense of place" / "Strange but quite beautiful. Mann has given this book a mythic quality that augers well for the rest of the series" - New Statesman:- (original cost £5.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrator). 1988 Edition. © 1981: A stand-alone novel by C J Cherryh. 1st printing of 1988 edition:- Synopsis: Apprentice: "What is reality?" Master "Whatever the strongest say it is". On the planet Freedom, the citizens decide what constitutes reality. And they are selective. They don't count foreign visitors, undesirables, non-humans; so if they don't see you, you don't exist. This way of perceiving rules unopposed until Freedom finds itself under attack - by those outside its reality - and Herrin Law, Freedom's most brilliant mind, is finally made to see:- Review(s): "The most versatile talent of the 70s and 80s" - New York Times / "C J Cherryh just keeps getting better and better" - Marion Zimmer Bradley/ "A consistently thoughtful and entertaining writer" - Publishers Weekly:- (original cost £2.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Michael W Kaluta & Steve Fastner (illustrator). 1992 Edition. © 1991: 4th in the 'Bill, The Galactic Hero' series of books. 1st printing of 1992 edition. Dealer's stamp to inside front page:- Synopsis: Bill - the perfect Spaceship Trooper: big, brawny and brainwashed. Bill - the perfect hero: ready to go anywhere, do anything to save his own neck, which is probably the only part of his body that is still his own. Bill - back in the Army hospital for yet another transplant and looking forward to a spot of R and R (which every Trooper translates as Rutting and Rotgut), and some respite from his troublesome adventures. Bill doesn't have a hope. The nurses are steel robots, and he seems to have acquired a goats foot - not for luck - at least, not the good kind. And the goat's foot seems to have acquired a goat-lady - of the exceedingly demanding kind. She knows all about tasteless pleasure, and she aims to teach Bill everything he never wanted to know:- Review(s):- "A hangover cure for the jaded" - The Guardian:- (original cost £3.99).

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: Michael W Kaluta & Steve Fastner (illustrator). 1992 Edition. © 1991: 5th in the 'Bill, The Galactic Hero' series of books. 1st printing of 1992 edition:- Synopsis: Bill - the perfect Starship Trooper: big, brawny, and brainwashed. Possessor of two right arms (impressive when it comes to saluting) and a foot that is threatening to turn into something more suited to being an umbrella stand than anything that could be squeezed into a size 11 sneaker. Bill - a perfect recruit for the good ship Bounty, bound for the Chinger war and carrying a cargo of as nice a company of homicidal misfits and maniacs as you could wish to meet outside of a penitentiary asylum (which is where they've just come from). Bill, The Galactic Hero - he's back, he's bad and about to meet the most hideous alien lifeform of his entire career. He'd do anything to save his skin without rocking the boat - but mutiny? On the Bounty?:- Review(s):- A hangover cure for the jaded" - The Guardian:- (original cost £3.99).

Soft cover. Condition: Good: Moderate signs of wear. Cover Art: John Harris (illustrator). 1989 Edition. © 1988: 2nd in the 'Thistledown' series of books. 1st printing of 1989 edition:- Synopsis: First there was 'Eon'. Now, beyond 'Eon', almost beyond imagination, there is 'Eternity':- Review(s): "If 'Eon' was magnificent, which it was, then this sequel outshines it. Exciting thinking and innovative writing. I doubt if there is anyone at the moment writing much better fiction of any kind" - South Wales Argus / "The thought of going beyond the barrier-breaking 'Eon' is pretty mind-boggling. Bear does it though. It could hardly be more ambitious" - City Limits:- (original cost £5.99).