The Paw of God.
GORDON (Rex). pseudonym of Stanley Bennett Hough.
Publication Date: 1967
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Soft cover
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Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United Kingdom
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First UK edition, and first hardback. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth, spine and cover lettered in gilt, dust jacket. London, Library 33. Originally published in the US earlier in the same year as an Ace paperback under the title 'Utopia Minus X'. A near fine copy, extremities lightly rubbed. . Seller Inventory # 248280
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Title: The Paw of God.
Publication Date: 1967
Binding: Soft cover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition
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UTOPIA MINUS X [later issued in the UK as: THE PAW OF GOD]
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Ace Books Inc [1966], New York, 1966
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First Edition
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Ace Books Inc [1966]. Very Good. 1966. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. First edition. Ace F-416 with 40 cents cover price. "Two centuries to perfection---one day to disaster!" 190 pages. VG copy [spine and some cover creasing, bottom edge of the rear cover nicked, cheap paper tanning]. . Seller Inventory # 35108
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THE PAW OF GOD
Published by
Anthony Gibbs Library 33 Limited, London, 1967
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
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Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. "Two centuries in the future the 'Perfect World' -- Earth made utopia by the Great Computer, which has solved all political, moral, economic, and physical problems. It is a benevolent, automated, civilized world of happy people who have little to do but enjoy their gently hedonistic lives" (Berger). Malcontents like Carlin Glenmore, who find the "Perfect World" imperfect are given an "X" rating by the computer and face two choices: to be "Changed" into happy beings, but not quite their former selves, or martyrdom, exile to a planet in the Alpha Centauri system. "The novel closes with the 'X' martyrs gliding through space to fulfill man's cosmic destiny, leaving the 'Perfect World' to play out its illusions until the arrival of the inevitable and unending sleep" (Berger). Published earlier in the U.S. as UTOPIA MINUS X (1966). Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 72-5; 77. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 220. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 154. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 299. Top edge of pages just a bit foxed, a fine copy in very good dust jacket with rubbing at edges, light wear at spine ends, and tiny closed tears at top and bottom edge of front spine fold. A very scarce edition of this novel. (#146413). Seller Inventory # 146413
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