Chrome by Nader George (14 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st Paperback. An average condition pocketbook that has been read but not shredded, spine is good, one crease to back cover. ; 383 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Book has dried water staining to lower corner of spine & textblock & Cover. No odor. Light spine crease. Interior clean. Solid reading copy.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. This is a hardcover First Edition. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Stains on rear endpaper; interior pages with text foxed, but absent any extraneous marks. Dust jacket flaps clipped, the panels adhered to the boards by the enlightened librarians. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.5.

paperback. Condition: Good. First Jove edition, July 1979. Good condition. Text looks free of highlighting and underlining. Stamp on the top of the text block. Reading creases on the spine. Wear to the exterior.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Like New. The book is in like new condition with only the slightest wear from handling.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing of pocketbook edition. Binding tight; pages clean; a bit of shelfwear to edges and corners. Originally published by Putnam in 1978, as the first gay-themed sci-fi novel from a major publisher. A fascinating work, the only published novel by Nader, a longtime actor previousliy best known as the lead in the 1956 classic 'Robot Monster.' An uncommon title in any edition. 383 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. McMacken (front cover) (illustrator). Spine creased. Binding solid, pages age toning but crisp and clean, no markings found, dropped book left 3 pages with tiny nicks at edge and a few bumped/tipped page corners, fly page clipped at corner. Covers a bit age toned but bright and shiny with light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with small rubs at edges. Ships within 24-48 hours via media mail.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. A nice, tight, square, unmarked copy in a price clipped dust jacket with very light wear at the spine ends.

mass market paperback. Condition: NEAR FINE. 1st thus. Tight, bright, clean and square. As new except for small corner crease on front cover, faintest roll to spine, and faintest age tanning. 383 pages. 4x 7x 0.75" "In a future of multi-sex, there is only one taboo! To love a robot!" Chrome and Vortex are in Love. One of them is a robot. it is a terrifying but beautiful world, two centuries ahead. Earth is ruled by a glittering electronic tyranny. And it is death to love a robot. But in the desert hideaway where Chrome- the elite Cadet with paranormal powers- and the magnificent warrior King Vortex meet, a forbidden bond is forming, a bond between man and robot with neither knowing which one is human and which machine. a bond that will explode in intergalactic violence and hurtle the Earth to the brink of the abyss. This is gay science fiction featuring a male/male romance and oral sex scenes. It also deals with eugenics and population control.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in a price clipped but otherwise Fine jacket. 1st Printing.

Condition: new.

First printing. Signed first edition of the first science fiction novel marketed to a gay male audience by a major publishing house. CHROME narrates the far-future romantic awakening of Chrome, space cadet, server of sandwiches, and personal massage therapist to the imperious and magnificent Abd H'Lokk-Mond H'Zum (Vortex for short), from their first meeting at an elite desert spa to their several joyful reunions. URANIAN WORLDS, the classic reference guide to LGBTQ science fiction, acknowledges that "the entire novel sparkles with homoerotic tension rare in science fiction" but judges Nader's political awareness "limited" (Garber & Paleo). The latter is true, but beside the point: CHROME joins the campy verve of '50s space opera to the increasing sexual freedom of '70s science fiction, in a setting deliberately removed from contemporary struggles and pressures, with a passionate love story. This was Nader's only published novel, written after his retirement from a long acting career in film and television which included a close friendship with Rock Hudson and a starring role in 1953's ROBOT MONSTER. Scarce. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket by Ron Woletsky. 369, [1] pages. Signed by Nader on front free endpaper. Light edgewear and scuffing to jacket, bookstore's "Autographed" sticker on front jacket panel. Minor foxing to fore-edge. Near fine in very good plus jacket.

first edition. fine book, fine price clipped jacket, like new,