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List created by Michael K. (sagaious) on Feb 3, 2025
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The Book of Van Vogt (DAW Book Collectors, No 4) (aka Lost Fifty Sons) by A. E. van V...
Karel Thole is cover artist
1] • A Statement to Science Fiction Readers • essay by Donald A. Wollheim
[2] • The Book of van Vogt (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Jack Gaughan
7 • The Timed Clock • (1972) • short story by A. E. van... more
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Annual World's Best Science Fiction, 1972 by Donald A. Wollheim
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The Day Star (DAW #6) by Mark S. Geston
Once, at the height of Earth's fabled history, there was a city called Ferrin. Compared to Ferrin, all the cities of Earth that ever were or would be - from imperial Rome to towering New York before to the city called R afterwards - paled into insignificance. But in the long twilight centuries... more
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Tactics of Mistake (Childe Cycle, Bk 4) by Gordon R. Dickson
It's obvious that Cletus Graeme -- limping, mild-mannered scholarly -- doesn't belong on a battling field, but instead at a desk working on his fourth book on battle strategy and tactics. But Bakhalla has more battlefields than libraries, and Graeme sees his small force of Dorsai... more
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At the Seventh Level (Coyote Jones, Bk 3) by Suzette Haden Elgin
Coyote Jones had never heard of Abba until he was assigned there. It was a remotely beautiful world, but one which had been admitted to the society of civilized planets only after had made concessions on its degrading treatment of women. Until then, women were considered as not... more
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A Darkness in My Soul by Dean R. Koontz
The gene-tamperers produced two supermen-one a defiant mentalist, the other a defiant...God?
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The Year's Best Horror 01 (Year's Best Horror) by Unknown Author
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We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick
Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then... more
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Blue Face (Orig. Title *Chapayeca*) (Daw UQ1017) by G. C. Edmondson
No description available.
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Century of the Manikin (Daw UQ1018) by E. C. Tubb
CENTURY OF THE MANIKIN Peaceful, happy, non-violent . . . the perfect society? Or was it? As Chief of Propaganda and Emotional Control, Joseph P. Lincoln had experience in coping with every potential threat to the system. But even he was ill-prepared to deal with the amazing woman from... more
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The Regiments of Night (Daw UQ1019) by Brian N. Ball
Beneath the Earth's shattered crust...does the Black Army still wait? After a thousand years of defeat...is the Black Army still fit? Inside their lost underground stronghold...is the Black Army drilling? Archeologists considered the legend superstition and poked about among the surface ruins.... more
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Ole Doc Methuselah by L. Ron Hubbard
A member of the soldiers of Light, the most elite organization in the universe, Ole Doc Methuselah battles disease, plague, mutation, slavery, and old age with the assistance of his alien servant, Hippocrates. National ad/promo.
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The Return of the Time Machine (Daw UQ1022) by Egon Friedell
No description available.
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The Stardroppers (Daw UQ1023) by John Brunner
Science Fiction. Special Agent Dan Cross was called upon to investigate the "Stardropper problem" - which was that users of this mysterious instrument, which seemed to listen in on the stars, were beginning to disappear!
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Sleepwalker's World by Gordon R. Dickson
Rafe Harald, a cosmonaut, attempts to combat the mysterious power that has put most of the human race into an involuntary sleep.
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The Halcyon Drift (Hooded Swan, Bk 1) by Brian M. Stableford
Grainger had acquired a second mind--he didn't want it and had never asked him for permission. But the disembodied mentalism had invaded his brain during the crack space pilot's castaway months on the edge of the Halcyon Drift.
The Halcyon Drift was a dark nebula within whose electronic... more
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Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, Bk 1) by Alan Burt Akers
On the planet Kregen that circles Antares, the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contend for the world's destiny. One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth. His name is Dray Prescot, and only the Savanti know his role. Dray Prescot... more
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Darkover Landfall (Darkover) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Changeling Earth (aka Ardneh's World) (Empire of the East, Bk 3) by Fred Saberhagen
In the final book of the Empire of the East trilogy, the Emperor decides it is time to rid himself of Ardneh and his followers of the West. Because no one in the East can determine what Ardneh is, he is not a demon, elemental, or man, this goal proves tricky. Meanwhile, still... more
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A Spaceship for the King (aka King David's Spaceship) by Jerry Pournelle
In the time of John Christian Falkenberg, the explosion of humanity into space was followed by a galaxy-wide technological collapse.
Since the Fall, King David's people have regained an early-industrial age technology, but another planet has progressed faster, and it's imperial Navy... more
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Collision Course by Barrington J. Bayley
The ruins were getting younger.They were thought to be the ruins of an invading force of space monsters that men had defeated during the Dark Ages centuries before. But the ruins were visibly getting newer -- rebuilding themselves. The militarists who had reconstructed society after the supposed... more
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The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Wold Newton Universe) by Philip Jose Farmer
A secret alien war has raged on Earth for years and is about to culminate in an epic race. Phileas Fogg's epic global journey is not the product of a daft wager but, in fact, a covert mission to chase down the elusive Captain Nemo, who is none other than Professor Moriarty. About... more
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The Suns of Scorpio (Dray Prescot, Bk 2) by Alan Burt Akers
Slave of the colossus builders or scourge of the Inland Sea? Both roles awaited Dray Prescot on his return to Kregen. Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wanted only to find his beloved, the Princess Delia of the Blue Mountains. But the powers that... more
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The 1973 Annual World's Best SF (aka Wollheim's World's best SF: Series Two) by Dona...
The 1973 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha, continues the tradition of careful and tastefully analyzed selections from the magazines and anthologies of those stories which could truly be rated as "the best". The reader will... more
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Mayenne (Dumarest, Bk 9) by E. C. Tubb
Book of the Dumarest Saga The planet without a star of its own was from another galaxy. It was uninhabited and it was sentient. But it knew nothing of humanity. Would any of the desperate handful of survivors survive the devilish series of plane-wide tests the alien world devised? ------------... more
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Ocean on Top by Hal Clement
Aquatic enigma.
The world's energy was limited...and with overpopuation and a high level of technology, the Power Board had virtually become the real government of the world. Power was rationed, it was guarded, it was sacred.
Thus when three of the Power Board's agents... more
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Bernhard the Conqueror (Bernhard, Bk 2) by Sam J. Lundwall
What's a hundred thousand years more or less to the universe? To ex-private Bernhard breaking rocks on a prison planet, every day felt like eternity. To the myriads of people, robots, and self thinking servo-mechanisms aboard the twenty thousand mile long spaceship Refanut, it seemed like... more
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The Wrong End of Time by John Brunner
The time is the future. The place, an America so isolated by fear that it is cut off from the rest of the world by a massive defense system. Into this armed, barricaded state comes a young Russian scientist bearing a strange and almost unbelievable story: Superior, intelligent life of... more
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The Book of Philip Jose Farmer by Philip Jose Farmer
In addition to the short stories, includes "An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke," "The Obscure Life and Times of Kilgore Trout" and "Notes of Philip Jose Farmer" by Leslie A. Fiedler.
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Warrior of Scorpio by Alan B. Akers
Once again in the grip of the Star Lords of the Constellation Scorpio, Dray Prescot finds himself torn from the battles of the Inner Sea for a mission in the air. For it was now his mission to carry his beloved Delia by airboat to that far kingdom, Vallia, from whence she had come. But the route... more
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The Lord's Pink Ocean by David H. Walker
Catastrophic invasion of the ocean by pink algae -- a vast sea of deadly pink algae which covers almost all the earth when pollution has finally overcome nature. But in an isolated North American valley there are two families living in an oasis of fertile green land... the land around them is... more
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Starmasters' Gambit: Games Players of the Infinite by Gerard Klein
Our Hero is being used to keep in check the Ruler of the far side of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Breaking Point by James Gunn
Short Stories
Breaking Point
A Monster Named Smith
Cinderella Story
Teddy Bear
The Man Who Owned Tomorrow
Green Thumb
The Power and the Glory
The Listeners
James Gunn has the credentials: author of ten books and some seventy-five stories,... more
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Jondelle (Dumarest, Bk 10) by E. C. Tubb
Ourelle was the closest planet to legendary Earth that Earl Dumarest had reached. There the legend of the Original People persisted among the several strange races that populated this world out along a far arm of the Milky Way.
Somehow the boy named Jondelle held the key to further data in... more
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One-eye (UQ1077) by Stuart Gordon
One-eyed was the mutant baby whose incredible mental powers were shaking the newer world to pieces. Two-eyed were the acolytes who saw the chaos coming and sough to release an anti-force. Three-eyed was the one within whose mind hid the third eye of ancient wisdom and who alone could stabilize... more
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The End of the Dream by Philip Wylie
Wylie's final novel, published posthumously, focuses on man's destruction of the world through his unheeding and wilful poisoning of the atmosphere, the land, the seas and rivers, and finally the human race itself.
In The End of the Dream, venerated science-fiction author Philip... more
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Orchid Cage by Herbert W. Franke
On a distant planet, not too different from Earth, there stands a mechanized city with no visible inhabitants.
Obviously of a highly developed civilization, the question is who built it, where are they, and what can humans learn from them?
Two teams of explorers enter into a competition to... more
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Singularity Station by Brian N. Ball
Robotic minds made interstellar travel possible, but human minds still controlled the destination and purpose. Conflict develops....
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Promised Land (Star-Pilot Grainger #3) (Daw UQ1097) by Brian M.Stableford
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Hunters of Gor (Chronicles of Counter-Earth, Bk 8) by John Norman
Tarl Cabot ventures into the wilderness of Gor, pitting his skill against brutal outlaws and sly warriors. Cabot's life on Gor been complicated by three beautiful, very different women: Talena, Tarl's one-time queen; Elizabeth, his fearless comrade; and Verna, chief of the feral panther... more
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The Prince of Scorpio (Dray Prescot, Bk 5) by Alan B. Akers
Dray Prescot had fought long and hard through perilous lands to claim the hand of the heiress of the mighty Vallia. Yet, when finally he set foot in that long-sought empire, it was not as hero or noble... It was as an unknown, a mendicant, and finally as a condemned slave. For the combatant... more
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Can You Feel Anything When I Do This (Daw UQ1106) by Robert Sheckley
Science Fiction/Essays. A very nice vintage collector's item. Number # UQ1106 (99). Original price 95 cents.
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The 1974 Annual World's Best SF (aka Wollheim's World's Best SF: Series Three) by Don...
A collection of short science fiction stories by the best writers of 1974 as edited by Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha.
Contents:
A Suppliant in Space / Robert Sheckley;
Parthen / R. A. Lafferty;
Doomship / Frederik Pohl & Jack... more
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The Fall of Chronopolis by Barrington J. Bayley
There is real time... and there is potential time. By controlling the difference, the Chronotic Empire came into existence and maintained itself over a thousand years of human history. Its Time Fleets, armadas of time-travelling fortresses, patrolled its temporal borders relentlessly,... more
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The Metallic Muse by Lloyd Biggle & Jr.
Lloyd Biggie is not only a writer, but also a musician. In THE METALLIC MUSE he has included seven science fiction stories, written over several years, all of which in some way relate to the arts. Thoroughly entertaining and provocative, many of the stories explore the intricate relationship... more
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By the Light of the Green Star (Green Star) by Lin Carter
No description available.
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The Paradise Game (Star-Pilot Grainger #4) (UQ1121) by Brian M. Stableford
No description available.
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Give Warning To the World (UQ1122) by John Brunner
Are the aliens among us? Are the chariots of the gods returning? If so-are they for us or against us?
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Manhounds of Antares (Prescot of Scorpio: 6) by Alan Burt Akers
Dray Prescott, Earthman on the planet Kregen of Antares...was he to remain a prince of proud Vallia or just one more human victim of the hunters and manhounds of the mysterious Southern Continent?
For that was the enigmatic fate that the Star Lords had suddenly confronted him with. They... more
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To Die in Italbar by Roger Zelazny
TO DIE IN ITALBAR By Roger Zelazny In To Die in Italbar, the galaxy is in chaos, with people falling prey to an unidentifiable disease. Only one man has the ability to help -- a man who can heal or kill with a touch. Known only as "Mr. H," he is being sought after by everyone, but for vastly... more
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The Spell Singers (Darkover) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
No description available. 
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Here Abide Monsters by Andre Norton
Most people have heard of the 'Bermuda Triangle, Andre Norton uses a similar situation to show the possibility of a two-way door that opens both on this world and on another quite unlike our own. Nick Shaw and Linda Durant pass through the door into a world where their nightmares are real... more
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Two-Eyes (Daw UY1135) by Stuart Gordon & Stuart Gordon
No description available. 
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A Touch of Infinity by Howard Fast
Thirteen New Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 1973
(DAW #124)
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Warrior of World's End by Lin Carter
"I see Gondwane as it shall be in the untold ages of dim futurity, near the time when the Earth shall be man’s habitation no more, and the great night shall enfold all, and naught but the cold stars shall reign. The first sign of the end ye shall see in the heavens, for Lo! the moon is falling,... more
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Hard to Be a God by Arkadi Strugatski & Boris Strugatski & Wendayne Ackerman ...
The novel follows Anton, an undercover operative from the future planet Earth, in his mission on an alien planet, that is populated by human beings, whose society has not advanced beyond the Middle Ages. The novel's core idea is that human progress throughout the centuries is often cruel and... more
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A Voyage to Dari (Croyd Spacetime Maneuvres, Book 4) by Ian Wallace
"The policy of Sol Galaxy as that of planetary self-determination is historic hypocrisy. They will smother my Moudjinn, and when they find out about us, out here between the galaxies, they will come out and smother us..!"
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Arena of Antares (Dray Prescot No. 7) by Alan Burt Akers
No description available.
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The Fenris Device (Star-Pilot Grainger #5) (Daw UQ1147) by Brian M. Stableford
No description available.
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Conscience Interplanetary by Joseph Green
WHAT IS AN ALIEN INTELLIGENCE?
Armed with the required five master's degrees, among other outstanding accomplishments, you are a member of the elite Practical Philosopher Corps, a handful of galactic roamers trained to detect intelligent life-forms on the hundreds of newly colonized... more
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Spacehawk, Inc. (Barnum System) by Ron Goulart
In the Barnum system, Malagra was considered to be the most uninviting planet of them all. In fact, among the engineers and androids of Kip Bundy's set, it was known as the pesthole of the universe.
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The Not-World by Thomas Burnett Swann
One would not have expected to find the last hideout of the ancient weird folk of legend and prehistory in an English forest of two centuries ago... and yet in that land which has always been haunted by the lore of little folk there had to be some truth behind such universal belief.
The magic... more
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Marauders of Gor (Gor, Bk 9) by John Norman
Tarl Cabot has struggled to free himself from the control of Gor's powerful Priest-Kings, but to no avail. Now he finds that mission challenged by a threat emanating from the planet's forbidding northern lands. There, a menacing alien force waits for Tarl, who faces an awesome choice:... more
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The Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch by Michael G. Coney
Compelling view of an amoral near-future society focused on consumption and exoticism - a signpost to the future, not a comfortable place to be in this case.
[-this slim novel is an inspiration to those of us who are disillusioned today.]
**Also released as: The Girl with the Symphony in Her... more
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Fliers of Antares (Dray Prescot, Bk 8) by Alan Burt Akers
Dray Prescot, the Earthman who had been brought across interstellar space as the tool of the mysterious Star Lords, confronted his most baffling task while he was a hunted and harried wanderer of the continent of Havilfar. That task was to discover the means by which the aircraft of that... more
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Flow My Tears the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
Stunningly plausible in its portrayal of a neo-fascist America, where everyone informs on everyone else, this Orwellian novel bores deeply into the bedrock of the self--and plants dynamite at its center. "Fifty or a hundred years from now, (Dick's) world will stand alone on its own... more
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Annual World's Best Science Fiction, 1975 (World's Best SF) by Unknown Author
No description available. 
