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fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Julian May [Edition] Voyager 1999 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and corners, and lower edge of rear board slightly bumped and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... Helly and his oddly assorted band of companions attempt to capture a crucial witness to the Galapharma conspiracy... Alistair Drummond, will stop at nothing in his quest for power, and Helly is marked for death... Meanwhile, the Haluk follow their own appalling agenda, using human science to mutate their bodies... and infiltrate human society... '' [Title] | Orion Arm An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Julian May [Edition] Voyager 1998 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... So one minute there I was, subbing around Brillig Reef watching the piscoids finning through the underwater forests, making enough of a living to afford a little rotgut Danaen whiskey now and again; the next thing I know, some giant sea-toad has eaten my house and I'm caught up in a galactic conspiracy!... '' [Title] | Perseus Spur An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Julian May [Edition] Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower front corner and page edges a little browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. With Review slip [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... an adrenaline-fuelled adventure full of high-speed thrills, intrigue and sharp-edged humour, which delivers an entertaining and exciting finale to the Rampart Worlds trilogy.'' [Title] | Sagittarius Whorl An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ardath Mayhar [Edition] Doubleday 1984 First Edition First Printing (Code O14 on P.183) [Condition] Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a scrape/crease along part of the spine panel [Price] £10.00 [Details] ''Ila Fazieh has committed the ultimate crime. She has refused mental conditioning, preferring to risk exile and even death rather than submit to the programmed paralysis that passes for life on an Earth governed by the severe edicts of the Instrumentality. The sentence is exile to... Planet 1KXT 23 - Vlahil... '' [Title] | Exile On Vlahil | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ardath Mayhar [Edition] Sidgwick & Jackson 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Lower front corner slightly bumped else Fine book in partly browned Dust Jacket With Publisher's Review Slip [Price] £7.50 [Details] Clute - ''In the Kyrannon books, folk of transparent decency must resist a tyrant whose disruptive influence threatens to sour the harmony between human beings and nature.'' Her first novel. [Title] | How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ardath Mayhar [Edition] Doubleday 1979 First Edition First Printing (Code J35 on P.180) [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a little foxing on the inside (no show-through) [Price] £4.00 [Details] Clute - ''In the Kyrannon books, folk of transparent decency must resist a tyrant whose disruptive influence threatens to sour the harmony between human beings and nature.'' Her first novel. [Title] | How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ardath Mayhar [Edition] Doubleday 1980 First Edition First Printing (Code K20 on P.187) [Condition] Bruised at top and at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket with a little foxing on the inside (no show-through) [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''Teleport yourself into the land that holds the Three Secrets as you wander through the corridors of the Tower of Truth. Shar-Nuhn is the land of pilgrimage, a mystically bizarre world... filled with forgotten races, beautiful aliens, evil wizards, mysterious and terrible curses, and two courageous heroes... '' Same world as How the Gods Wove... [Title] | The Seekers of Shar-Nuhn | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ardath Mayhar [Edition] Doubleday 1982 First Edition First Printing (Code M12 on P.187) [Condition] Bruised at top and at base of spine and review slip tipped in to front free end paper else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a tear at the base of the rear fold [Price] £10.00 [Details] ''... Karas Lantir, once the prince of his father's mighty and happy kingdom, dreams of deposing the frightfully evil warlock who stole control... With the aid of only a few loyal men - and the power of his fiancee... Karas embarks on a perilous journey into the warlock's seemingly impregnable fortress... [Title] | Warlock's Gift | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] L. H. Maynard [Edition] Sarob Press 2004 First Edition First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and lower corners slightly bumped else Fine book [Price] £10.00 [Details] Introduction by William P. Simmons. Fourteen tales of terror...''... rare glimpses into experiences neither wholly fantasy nor reality, fable or fiction... '' Limited to 150 unsigned trade copies. [Title] | Falling Into Heaven | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Angus McAllister [Edition] Dog and Bone 1990 First Edition First Printing (Paper) [Condition] Edges & corners & two page corner tips creased, & top rear corner tip slightly bumped else Fine book [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... a psychological thriller with supernatural overtones set in Edinburgh... Edward Middleton, a respectable lawyer, finds himself strangely involved in a series of murders. Horrified, he at first tries to explain, then to prevent their headlong progress... '' [Title] | The Canongate Strangler | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Paul J. McAuley [Edition] Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Fine Uncorrected Proof. Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''For fifteen years, the version of America that calls itself the Real has used its Turing gate - alternate reality - technology to infiltrate alternate Americas, rebuilding those wrecked by nuclear war... establishing a Pan-American Alliance... Adam Stone... uncovers a startling secret about the operation of the Turing gates... '' [Title] | Cowboy Angels | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Paul J. McAuley [Edition] Simon & Schuster 2005 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''When Alfie Flowers chances on a strange piece of graffiti daubed on the window of a north London restaurant, the violence of his reaction takes him by surprise. The thorny circle of dashes and zigzags reaches right inside his brain and triggers a flashback to a terrifying childhood accident... '' [Title] | Mind's Eye | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Paul J. McAuley [Edition] Gollancz 1989 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly faded Dust Jacket, with a short tear at the base of the rear fold and a little associated creasing Signed by the Author on the title page. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... Elysium had boundless oceans, clean skies, lush forests and fertile plains. Its primitive aborigines seemed harmless... Yet all was not well... Citizens... benefited from the new technologies brought by every ship... but feared... the expansion plans of the new settlers... When the revolution against the city's tyranny finally came, not everyone caught up in the struggle was human...'' [Title] | Secret Harmonies | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Paul J. McAuley [Edition] Gollancz 1991 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''In the title story, a boy living in the shadow of Cadbury Castle finds a desperate hope for occupied, war-torn Britain in the legends of an ancient time. 'Karl and the ogre' paints a terrifying picture of a world where fairy tales and fantasy have become reality. 'The Airs of Earth' is a powerful story of the Golden - immensely wealthy near-immortals... '' [Title] | The King Of The Hill and Other Stories | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Paul J. McAuley [Edition] Voyager 2001 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and centre of the lower edge of the rear board and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''A Chinese expedition finds microbial life deep under Mar's polar cap and secretly brings it back to Earth. Chinese biotech companies want to exploit the extraordinary potential of this tough, ancient life, but industrial espionage leads to the escape of a genetically altered version, the Chi, into the Pacific Ocean. Able to adapt and change at high speed... '' Shortlisted for the Arthur Clarke Award 2002 [Title] | The Secret Of Life | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Paul J. McAuley [Edition] Simon & Schuster 2004 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously [Condition] Bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... Nicholas Hyde is a volunteer working with a humanitarian charity in the chaos of the new Africa, a continent torn apart by civil war, plague, and rogue biotechnology. While investigating a fresh massacre... Nick's team is ambushed. Small, ape-like creatures - pale, fierce and preternaturally strong... '' [Title] | White Devils | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Paul J. McAuley [Edition] HarperCollins 2001 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Lower rear corner lightly creased and lamination starting to peel there, one page corner tip creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''LONDON, IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE INFOWAR Then: terrorists bombed the City, brought down the Internet and equalised the nation's bank accounts at zero. Now: surveillance cameras on every street-corner. Censors patrolling the borders of the internet. A young woman murdered before the gaze of eager voyeurs... '' [Title] | Whole Wide World | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Paul J. McAuley [Edition] HarperCollins 2001 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''LONDON, IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE INFOWAR Then: terrorists bombed the City, brought down the Internet and equalised the nation's bank accounts at zero. Now: surveillance cameras on every street-corner. Censors patrolling the borders of the internet. A young woman murdered before the gaze of eager voyeurs... '' [Title] | Whole Wide World | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 2003 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Top page edges lightly marked else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket Illustrated by Tom Kidd [Price] £5.00 [Details] Four Short Stories - the last original to this collection - The Smallest Dragonboy; The Girl Who Heard Dragons; The Runner of Pern and Ever the Twain [Title] | A Gift of Dragons | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] HarperPrism 1997 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browning else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... She was just a little girl. With a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones... Acorna's rough-and-ready 'uncles'... took their foundling... all the way to the bandit planet... where no questions are asked, and a girl might grow up free.'' First of the trilogy. [Title] | Acorna The Unicorn Girl | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] HarperPrism 1998 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at the top and bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... Acorna has become a young woman, with all of youth's dreams and sorrows. She still has the tiny, translucent horn in the center of her forehead... 'funny' feet and hands, her beautiful silver hair, as well as her miraculous ability to purify air and water, make plants grow and heal human sickness... '' Second in the series [Title] | Acorna's Quest | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Eos 2003 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have started to reclaim their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal alien Kkleevi. But the expedition has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari people... '' Sixth in the series [Title] | Acorna's Rebels | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Eos 2000 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top & base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor, Acorna is free once more, travelling through space in the company of her good friend, Ship's Commander Captain Jonas Becker, his gargantuan feline 'first mate' Roadkill, and Aari, a proud Linyaari survivor of torture... '' [Title] | Acorna's World | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 1991 First Edition in the US First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... when the people of Pern.. excavated the ancient remains of the planet's original settlement, they uncovered the colonists voice-activated artificial intelligence system... And the computer had incredible news... There was a chance... that they could... annihilate Thread once and for all!!'' [Title] | All The Weyrs Of Pern | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Doubleday 1996 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''Galwyn hates working for his cruel uncle on board ship until some very special passengers - Lord Artos and his companions - set sail, bound for foreign lands in search of the finest black horses known to man... for his army to be able to drive the invading Saxons out of Britain once and for all... '' Her first historical novel for young adults. [Title] | Black Horses for the King | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam Press 2006 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... Yana and Sean are now the parents of twins... their destiny is deeply entwined with the sentient planet that is their home. For Ronan and Murel are more than human... each can transform into a seal and converse telepathically with the planet's creatures... Meanwhile Petaybee is changing...'' [Title] | Changelings Book One of The Twins of Petaybee | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 2006 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and slight spine lean else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... now Petaybee is changing in mysterious, unprecedented ways, and the return of off-world scientists threatens the amazing planet and its equally amazing inhabitants... '' [Title] | Changelings Book One of The Twins of Petaybee | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Orbit 1993 First UK & Trade Hardback Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket with a little wear at the tips of the front fold. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... the historic Decision at Doona... was to last for a quarter of a century. Now that contract has run out and is up for renewal. Everything that Human and Hrruban has worked for - particularly the delicate alliance itself - is in peril and could be destroyed utterly...'' [Title] | Crisis On Doona | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Ace/Putnam 1992 First Edition in the US First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... Unquestionably the most brilliant of the Gwyn-Raven children, Damia is also the most tempestuous... enormous telepathic powers... an incoming alien armada of such strength... Damia and Afra must find a way to save their planet.'' [Title] | Damia | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 1993 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine, spine leaned and top page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... Together Man and Mrdini worked to create prosperous worlds and guard against the terrible threat of the annihilating Hivers. And now, in the depths of Space, Mrdini scouts had crossed the path of three Hiver ships... bearing the queens and workers... It was the four elder children of Damia... who were to play their part... '' [Title] | Damia's Children | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam Press 2008 First Edition First Printing - Issued Simultaneously [Condition] Slightly bumped at base of spine, slight spine lean and faint damp-marking at lower edge of front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... the selkie twins, Ronan and Murel, leave Petaybee on a mission to help rescue their friend Marmie, who has been falsely arrested... they have to try to evade the clutches of their old adversary Dr Mabu... Meanwhile, the powerful and avaricious Company is making another attempt to take over the world of Petaybee... '' [Title] | Deluge Book Three of The Twins of Petaybee | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Atheneum 1979 First Edition Sixth Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine, spine leaned and page edges differentially browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a touch of wear at the front fold tips, a little internal staining and a 9mm tear at the top edge of the front panel [Price] £3.00 [Details] ''Piemur was glad for once of his boy soprano because it meant he, of all the singers at Harperhall of Pern, had been chosen for the leading role... then the unexpected happened... Piemur's voice began to change... he was sent to the drumheights as a messenger-drum apprentice... '' [Title] | Dragondrums | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 1988 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and top corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £3.00 [Details] ''... Then some of the colonists noticed that the small, dragonlike lizards that inhabited their new world were joining the fight against Thread, breathing fire on it and teleporting to safety. If only, they thought, the dragonets were big enough for a human to ride and intelligent enough to work as a team with a rider... '' [Title] | Dragonsdawn | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Sidgwick & Jackson 1976 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at base of spine, spine leant, light fading to approx. 1'' inside top edge of rear board, one light spine strain and page edges lightly age-darkened - Very Good book in like Dust Jacket, with the spine panel lettering and part of the rear panel lightly faded. [Price] £40.00 [Details] ''With the death of Petiron, the old Harper of Half-Circkle Sea Hold, Menolly lost a friend and an ally. Menolly's voice was true, her fingers clever on string, stick or pipe, but she was only a girl and girls couldn't be harpers... '' [Title] | Dragonsong | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Ace/Putnam 1998 First Edition - Issued Simultaneously [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and lower corners else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a couple of short scratches on the rear panel. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... Kris Bjornson and her fellow slaves were dumped on an uninhabited planet by their Catteni masters... the colonists have learned to survive... Should they settle in here... their duty is to escape, to get back to Earth... '' [Title] | Freedom's Challenge | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 1997 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly age-darkened else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''They had called the planet Botany, after the old penal colony on Earth. For... they were... prisoners and dissidents... whom the hated Catteni had banished to an empty planet... Who had created the giant grain sheds - the mammoth machinery that tilled the great fields... the 'Farmers'... were greater than anything the universe had ever seen.'' [Title] | Freedom's Choice | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 1994 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... The four children of Damia... were Primes amongst the Talents, and all their skills were desperately needed, for the Hiver's terrible Sphere ships were still thrusting through space, unfathomable, impenetrable and carrying death in their labyrinthine depths... '' Fourth in the series. [Title] | Lyon's Pride | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 2006 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at base of spine, slight spine lean and faint damp-marking at lower edge of spine and front board else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... Now that Petaybee is forming a new equatorial island, the planet has agreed to harbor a group of new refugees... But the mission to collect the immigrants becomes a rescue operation... '' [Title] | Maelstrom Book Two of The Twins of Petaybee | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 1990 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''As Director... telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for the psychically gifted Talents... Feisty and streetwise, twelve-year-old Tirla used her extraordinary gift for languages... Young Peter, paralysed in a freak accident... were discovered to have some very unusual... abilities... '' [Title] | Pegasus In Flight | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 1994 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed and Personalised by Anne McCaffrey on the Title Page [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''The miraculous and mysterious world of Petaybee was to be investigated. No-one... could believe that the planet was a living, breathing, sentient entity, that every plant and animal was in symbiotic communication with the spirit of the Petaybean world... '' [Title] | Power Lines | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 1993 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... Strange things were happening on Petaybee, it seemed. Unauthorised genetically engineered species had been spotted. Geologic survey teams sent to locate newly discovered mineral deposits were either coming up empty - or disappearing altogether. And the locals weren't talking... '' [Title] | Powers That Be | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 1996 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top of spine and page edges lightly browned and marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''For over two hundred years there had been peace on Pern - but now the signs were ominous. Violent winter storms and erupting volcanoes heralded the second Pass of Thread, when the red planet would rain down its horrifying harvest and destroy every living organism on the face of Pern... '' [Title] | Red Star Rising | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 1993 First Edition Second Printing [Condition] Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... the first-ever Pern short-story collection!... Let the queen of dragons... take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history... '' The Survey: P.E.R.N., The Dolphins' Bell, The Ford of Red Hanrahan, The Second Weyr and Rescue Run [Title] | The Chronicles Of Pern First Fall | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 1994 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... the dragonriders... were on the verge of ridding their planet of Thread forever. But T'lion... was not old enough... relegated to conveying people from place to place - until he and Readis... made contact with the legendary 'shipfish'... [Title] | The Dolphins Of Pern | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 1998 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the front fold. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''MasterSinger Merelan and Harper Petiron were a brilliant and devoted couple... When after a long and difficult birth, Robinton was born to them, it should have been the culmination of a unique partnership... But Petiron... had no time for his son... and... the Harper Hall took over, training the greatest talent Pern had ever seen... '' [Title] | The Masterharper Of Pern | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 1998 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the top of the folds. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... Robinton is a prodigy from birth. as a child, he is already composing music that the apprentice and journeyman harpers play with delight, and... has discovered another gift: he has the ability to speak with the dragons... But not everyone appreciates his talents... '' [Title] | The Masterharper Of Pern | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Del Rey 1989 First Edition Second Printing [Condition] Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread... some, like Jayge's trader clan... simply preferred the freedom of the roads to the security of the Holds... Then, from the ranks of the criminals and the disaffected, rose a band of renegades... '' [Title] | The Renegades Of Pern | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 1990 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''They were the misfits, the outcasts, the murderers without Hold or Crafthall. Some were resentful, some sought vengeance, but it was not until Thella, Lady Holder of Telgar, began to weld them together into a terrifying and brilliant clan that they became the Renegades Of Pern... '' [Title] | The Renegades Of Pern | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Ace/Putnam 1990 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''The colonies on Altair were frontier settlements... It was no surprise after torrential rains... that the small Rowan Mining camp was totally destroyed... What was surprising was the psychic wail of agony that went up... belonged to a three-year-old child... and she grew into a beautiful, magical-looking woman... the most important Talent on the planet... '' [Title] | The Rowan | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Ace/Putnam 1990 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. Signed and with a 'warm' inscription by the Author [Price] £20.00 [Details] ''The colonies on Altair were frontier settlements... It was no surprise after torrential rains... that the small Rowan Mining camp was totally destroyed... What was surprising was the psychic wail of agony that went up... belonged to a three-year-old child... and she grew into a beautiful, magical-looking woman... the most important Talent on the planet... '' [Title] | The Rowan | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Rapp & Whiting 1971 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges marked and slightly bumped else Fine book in slightly browned and edge-worn Dust Jacket with a number of short tears Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £200.00 [Details] ''Helva was a shell person - a human brain encapsulated in a metal body, part of the structure of a spaceship. Brainships combine human will, emotions and intelligence with all the latest in computer technology; so Helva could calculate like a computer and knew all of Shakespeare, world history, had studied art... and she could sing!... '' [Title] | The Ship Who Sang | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Baen 1994 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and lower corners else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... Carialle decided she would strap on a spaceship. Her brawn is a guy named Keff. Their mission: to search the galaxy for intelligent beings... '' [Title] | The Ship Who Won | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 2001 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top of spine and page edges browning else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''A new age is dawning on Pern, for since the dragons have changed the orbit or the Red Star, the horrors of Threadfall will soon be a thing of the past... But... further dangers are beginning to emerge... the Abominators plot together to destroy all learning... a large cometary fragment is hurtling towards Pern and cannot be deflected... '' Scarce. [Title] | The Skies Of Pern | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 1999 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and lightly rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''Much had been done to limit and destroy the powers of the terrible Hivers, who had torn through space annihilating every living thing that stood in their way. But still the Alliance - of human and furry Mrdini - had to discover the whereabouts of every last Hiver world and stop the Queens from further colonisation... '' [Title] | The Tower And The Hive | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Anne McCaffrey [Edition] Andre Deutsch 1981 First Combined Edition & Thus First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £60.00 [Details] The Ship Who Sang specially revised for this edition. [Title] | The Worlds Of Anne McCaffrey | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Todd McCaffrey [Edition] Bantam 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in Fine Dust Jacket [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''A deadly plague has begun to wipe out the dragons and fire-lizards, leaving mankind no defence against the deadly Thread... '' Introduction by Anne [Title] | Dragonsblood | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Robert R. McCammon [Edition] Pocket Books 1992 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine, felt-pen remainder mark on lower page edges and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''Flooded by memories, poisoned by the dealy fallout of Agent Orange, and desperate for work, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of blind fear and fury... Now Dan is on the run, heading south... a journey of relentless suspense and impassioned discovery... '' [Title] | Gone South | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Robert R. McCammon [Edition] Heinemann 1983 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with price removed [Price] £15.00 [Details] ''''Billy... and Wayne... faced each other for the first time at a tent revival meeting in Alabama. The inexplicable energy that passed between them frightened the young men. Each began dreaming the same dream: an eagle made of smoke locked in combat with a snake made of fire. And seeing things: a bestial shape with glowing red eyes... The Shape Changer... '' [Title] | Mystery Walk | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Tom McCarthy [Edition] Cape 2010 Fifth Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who... surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him... a compelling, sophisticated and sublimely imaginative book uncovering the hidden codes and dark rhythms that sustain life.'' [Title] | C | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Wil McCarthy [Edition] Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Covers slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... a hard-science, page-turning suspense novel of one man's battle to save his life, career, and country in a 21st-century America. It is a Heinleinesque examination of how nanotechnology offers both the possibility of unparalleled freedom and the danger of inescapable totalitarianism... '' [Title] | Murder In The Solid State | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Wil McCarthy [Edition] Gollancz 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few top page corner tips bruised else Fine book in lightly bumped Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''In the eighth decade of the Queendom of Sol three things form the backbone of Civilization. WELLSTONE: programmable matter of almost magical properties. COLLAPSIUM: a deadly crystal composed of miniature black holes indispensable for the transmission of matter and information... RIVALRY: a bitter competition between Her Majesty's two most brilliant scientists... '' [Title] | The Collapsium | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Lyn McConchie (Also as Elizabeth Underwood) [Edition] Tor 2010 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a couple of page top edges slightly bumped else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the base of the front fold. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''Acolytes of a dark god have crossed the gulf between worlds to abduct an innocent tariling not even a year old, dooming it to become a sacrifice in a ceremony that will unleash an army of supernatural creatures upon an unsuspecting kingdom. Yoros and Karryl know that this is no mere animal... With their warrior niece Ashara, they follow its trail... '' [Title] | The Questing Road | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Jack McDevitt [Edition] Ace 2007 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''By 2255 the age of starflight is over... Then a young physicist named Jon Silvestri comes forward, insisting that an abandoned prototype for a much more efficient star drive is workable... The Cauldron - the very core of the galaxy - is now only three months away... '' A Priscilla Hutchins novel. [Title] | Cauldron | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Jack McDevitt [Edition] Ace 2004 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a little wear at the top of the front fold. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''The luxury space yacht Polaris carried an elite group of the wealthy and curious thousands of light years from earth to witness a spectacular stellar phenomenon. It never returned... Sixty years later... Prominent antiques dealer Alex Benedict manages to secure some artefacts... '' [Title] | Polaris | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Jack McDevitt [Edition] Ace 2005 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £10.00 [Details] ''Near the end of the twenty-seventh century... two ships set out from Earth... the Bremerhaven... the Seeker... On a distant planet, the voyagers established a colony they named Margolia. Then they and the colony disappeared from recorded history... Thousands of years later... '' [Title] | Seeker | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ian McDonald [Edition] Gollancz 2007 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Small bump to top edge of front panel, a few small blisters in the rear panel film laminate and first few page corners lightly creased else Fine Uncorrected Proof. Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £10.00 [Details] ''Sao Paulo, 2032 A city with a neon heart... of countless millions... of breathtaking wealth and life-stealing poverty... Your every move is tracked by constant surveillance, the ebb and flow of your wealth, of your life. A city where a thief could step out of the favelas and find himself trapped in the bewildering, lethal world of illegal quantum computing... '' [Title] | Brasyl | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ian McDonald [Edition] Gollancz 1995 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''Gaby McAslan's heart is set on a career in network journalism, but when the brightside of Iapetus starts diminishing, and Hyperion disappears completely... a meteor drags her.. to Kenya...Where... the striking African landscape has given way to something... indescribably alien... a kaleidoscopic voyage through an alien landscape, right here on Earth...'' [Title] | Chaga | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ian McDonald [Edition] Drunken Dragon 1990 First Edition in Hardback First Printing & Thus [Condition] Bruised at base of spine and front corners else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... It all began thirty years ago with a greenperson... But by the time it all finished, Desolation Road had experienced every conceivable abnormality on offer, from Adam Black's Wonderful Travelling Chautauqua and Educational 'Stravaganza to the Amazing Scorn, Mutant Master of Scintillating Sarcasm and Rapid Repartee... '' [Title] | Desolation Road | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Sandra McDonald [Edition] Tor 2007 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear at the tips of the folds [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is a hero. She has the medals and scars to prove it... and she's bored... she takes a berth on the next ship out... a mistake... Jodenny's handed a division full of misfits, incompetents, and criminals... Jodenny comes face-to-face with something powerful... love.'' [Title] | The Outback Stars | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Sandra McDonald [Edition] Tor 2008 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly faded at top, and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''Chief Terry Myell and Lieutenant Commander Jodenny Scott... have been assigned to duty on... Fortune, away from the huge ships that carry colonists from the wreckage of... Earth. But there's another way... to travel...Wondinja Spheres... alien artifacts that link places and times... Now... shut down... '' [Title] | The Stars Down Under | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Sophia McDougall [Edition] Orion 2005 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. Signed by the Author on the Title Page [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... A single state holds absolute sway from the Eastern border of India across the Atlantic: magnetic railways span the globe... Slaves are constructing a giant bridge over the Persian Gulf... The sixteen-year-old heir to the throne is about to learn a secret that threatens the security of the greatest power on earth... This is the Roman Empire. Now.'' First of the trilogy [Title] | Romanitas | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ian McEwan [Edition] Cape 2007 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come... a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.'' [Title] | On Chesil Beach | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Fiona McIntosh [Edition] HarperVoyager 2010 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. With Publisher's Promotional Sheet [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... As the empire threatens to tear itself to pieces, former enemies must now work on the same side and friends become the hunted to protect the imperial line. At all costs royal blood must prevail... even when it pitches Valisar against Valisar.'' [Title] | King's Wrath Valisar: Book Three | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Vonda N. McIntyre [Edition] Houghton-Mifflin 1979 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in slightly creased Dust Jacket a little worn at the base of the spine [Price] £10.00 [Details] Eleven stories including the Nebula Award winning 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand' - Fireflood; Spectra; Wings; The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn; The End's Beginning; Screwtop; Only at Night; Recourse, Inc.; The Genius Freaks and Aztecs. [Title] | Fireflood And Other Stories | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Vonda N. McIntyre [Edition] Gollancz 1980 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like, unpriced, Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] Eleven stories including the Nebula Award winning 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand' - Fireflood; Spectra; Wings; The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn; The End's Beginning; Screwtop; Only at Night; Recourse, Inc.; The Genius Freaks and Aztecs. [Title] | Fireflood And Other Stories | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Vonda N. McIntyre [Edition] Severn House 1987 First Edition in Hardback First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges a little marked else Fine book in slightly scratched and rubbed Dust Jacket. [Price] £15.00 [Details] ''At last, Admiral James T. Kirk and the crew of the late Starship Enterprise begin the long voyage home. But the trip is interrupted by the appearance of a mysterious, all-powerful intruder... Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew must journey back through time... only there can they save the future... '' Scarce [Title] | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Vonda N. McIntyre [Edition] Bantam 1994 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner and page edges a little browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''With the New Alliance firmly established, Princess Leia Organa has taken a strong leading role in government... As Luke Skywalker and Han Solo... follow rumours of a lost enclave of Jedi Knights, Leia's and Han's children are kidnapped... Leia and Chewbacca follow a trail of clues... '' [Title] | The Crystal Star | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Vonda N. McIntyre [Edition] Gollancz 1976 First Edition in the UK First Printing & Thus [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and lower rear corner and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''The time is the distant future... Mischa, a young thief whose capabilities are enhanced by hereditary mutation, is trying to escape with her drug-addicted brother from the dominance of her uncle. So when a starship arrives... '' [Title] | The Exile Waiting | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Dennis L. McKiernan [Edition] Roc 1997 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and on top page edges, slight spine lean, else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''A fell and ancient sorcery has engulfed the kingdoms... bringing them headlong into battle with forces of great evil... Hordes of Foul Folk have been seen wandering the countryside, burning and plundering as they go, and rumours of war spread like wildfire while elves and men gather in armed bands... so begins the Hel's Crucible Duology... '' [Title] | Into The Forge Hel's Crucible Book 1 | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Dennis L. McKiernan [Edition] Roc 2000 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] '' ... The progeny of an Elf and a shape-changing Baeran, Bair is cursed with a destiny that places him in mortal danger, for according to prophecy, Bair is the Hope of the World... '' [Title] | Silver Wolf, Black Falcon | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Robin McKinley [Edition] Putnam 2007 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with a touch of wear to the top of the rear fold [Price] £10.00 [Details] ''... Jake lives with his scientist father at the Makepiece Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies in Smokehill National Park... home to about two hundred of the few remaining Draco australiensis, which is extinct in the wild... they are up to eighty feet long and breathe fire. On Jakes first overnight solo in the park, he meets a dragon... '' [Title] | Dragonhaven | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Robin McKinley [Edition] Julia MacRae 1983 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly age-darkened else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket. [Price] £10.00 [Details] ''When Harry Crewe's father dies she travels east to Istan, the last outpost of the Homelander empire where her elder brother is stationed... and looks across the desert to the dark mountains of Damar... where Harry's destiny lies... bound up with... Strange powers and magic - a long treasured sword to be carried into a legendary battle... '' Scarce. [Title] | The Blue Sword | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Ronald A. McQueen [Edition] Hale 1981 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Small '(B)' in biro on front end paper else Fine book in slightly worn Dust Jacket. [Price] £3.50 [Details] ''Mardoc was the ultimate weapon, a weapon built at the height of an intergalactic war; but a weapon which was never used because of its fearful potential. Nobody really knew what Mardoc was, but they knew that once unleashed, it represented a force which would be impossible to control. And someone had released Mardoc...'' [Title] | Mardoc | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] John Meaney (Also as Thomas Blackthorne) [Edition] Gollancz 2007 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and a few page fore-edges slightly bumped and with a few tiny tears else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''Tristopolis. Death's City. Countless dead lie in the catacombs beneath the streets. The remains of thousands of Tristopolis' former citizens, stacked neatly inside the necroFlux generators which draw psychic energy from their bones to power the city... haunted by wraiths, has people who make a living from crime... '' [Title] | Bone Song | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] R. M. Meluch [Edition] DAW 2005 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... a fast-paced, action-packed military science fiction series that seriously wreaks havoc with space, time, and our concepts of reality... the forces of Earth and the Palatine have recently united in an uneasy and extremely fragile alliance against the Hive, the alien life-form that is swarming across the galaxy, literally devouring everything it encounters... '' [Title] | The Myriad Tour of the Merrimack #1 | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] R. M. Meluch [Edition] DAW 2007 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''...The pride of the U. S. space fleet.. But when the alien life-form known as the Hive... begins wreaking destruction across the galaxy... what they learn... is that there is no safe place in near or deep space when it comes to the Hive... '' Book 3 in the series [Title] | The Sagittarius Command A Novel of the Merrimack | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] R. M. Meluch [Edition] DAW 2006 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and top page edges a little browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... the Merrimack has located a Roman convoy that they believe is key to the success of their mission... this cunning enemy has a secret plan of attack... even as the two sides struggle... an alien life-form is bearing down on them... '' [Title] | Wolf Star Tour of the Merrimack #2 | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] James Melville [Edition] Secker & Warburg 1980 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, unpriced, Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... Problems... for Superitendent Otani... David Murrow was murdered... his death has certain marks of a gangland killing. How could a foreigner, a respected and conspicuous figure in the expatriate community, have become involved with the highly professional - and jealously exclusive - local criminals... '' His second Otani novel. [Title] | The Chrysanthemum Chain | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Brian Merriman [Edition] Brian & O'Keefe 1976 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges a little age-darkened and marked else Fine book in rubbed and slightly creased Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... Michael Griffin, a young American philologist... researches in 'zophonolgy', the study of animal communication, lead him to the language of babies, animals, fairies and dolphins... strewn with thorny metaphysical encounters with the questions of language, identity and communication.'' Scarce. [Title] | The Man Who Talked Babytalk | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Karen Michalson [Edition] Tor 2001 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and against the side of the spine panel else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... a dark, atmospheric fantasy world where the realm of the supernatural lies in the north while warring kingdoms and a complex religion devoted to gods and goddesses of good and evil dominate the south. Young Llewelyn is an unhappy child.. solaced by an ailing local hedge witch, who lies to him... '' [Title] | Enemy Glory | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Sarah Micklem [Edition] Voyager 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at base of spine and light pressure mark on cover else Fine Uncorrected Proof. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''''Firethorn remembers little of her past; her parents a vague and teasing memory, but service in the Dame's household provides a... tolerable existence... her comfortable world is turned upside down when her old mistress dies... she is forced to run away... she emerges... blessed, or cursed, with uncanny abilities.'' [Title] | Firethorn | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Sarah Micklem [Edition] Voyager 2005 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at base of spine and a couple of page edges slightly damp-wrinkled else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''''Firethorn remembers little of her past; her parents a vague and teasing memory, but service in the Dame's household provides a... tolerable existence... her comfortable world is turned upside down when her old mistress dies... she is forced to run away... she emerges... blessed, or cursed, with uncanny abilities.'' [Title] | Firethorn | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Haydn Middleton [Edition] Macmillan 1989 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Top page edges lightly browned and page edges lightly marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the spine panel background lightly faded [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''... David Nennius - a gigantic 40-year-old electrician - believes he must die a ritual death... a single catastrophic incident lies at the heart of Nennius' problem... He has built a myth around it: a fusion of fact and fantasy centred on Albion... the dark underside of the island of Britain... in order to save him... she must enter his myth... '' [Title] | The Lie of the Land | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] China Mieville [Edition] Macmillan 2004 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in slightly rubbed Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart... In the midst of this turmoil, a mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in strange places... search for a lost hope, an undying legend... the time of the Iron Council.'' [Title] | Iron Council | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] China Mieville [Edition] Self-Published 2013 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Fine perfect-bound booklet [Price] £7.50 [Details] Contains: Thanks; The 9th Technique & 7 Microstories. Issued at the 2013 World Fantasy Convention, which China was unable to attend... [Title] | The Apology Chapbook | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] China Mieville [Edition] Macmillan 2009 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Slightly bumped at top of spine and lower front corner and base of spine bruised and one page corner creased else Fine book in like Dust Jacket lightly rubbed at the tips of the folds [Price] £15.00 [Details] ''When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu... But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined... '' [Title] | The City & The City | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Victor Milan [Edition] Severn House 1986 First Edition in the UK First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £7.50 [Details] ''... Dr Elisabeth O'Neill and her employer, Yoshimitsu...had spent long years searching to create an artificial intelligence. When Tokugawa came into being... the most awesome computer that had ever been created... the culmination of all their dreams... forgetting that dreams can all too easily turn to nightmares... '' [Title] | The Cybernetic Samurai | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Frank Miller [Edition] Titan 1986 Sixth Printing (Paper) [Condition] Light cover crease, small bump - Near Fine copy Illustrated by Lynn Varley [Price] £7.50 [Details] Introduction by Alan Moore; The Dark Knight Returns; The Dark Knight Triumphant; Hunt The Dark Knight; The Dark Knight Falls [Title] | Batman The Dark Knight Returns | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Rand Miller [Edition] Bantam 1995 First Edition in the UK First Printing - Issued Without Dust Jacket [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned and slightly marked else Fine book in laminated boards (as issued) [Price] £4.00 [Details] ''... the story of Atrus, son of Gehn, the last of the race of D'Ni - the masters of The Art, the craft of linking to other worlds through the descriptive art of writing... a tale of son against father... truth versus evil... love and redemption... '' The book version of the popular CD-Rom [Title] | Myst The Book Of Atrus | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
fc04c4a4_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Books_For_Sale___August_2015_Title | [Author] Walter M. Miller [Edition] Orbit 1997 First Edition First Printing [Condition] Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. [Price] £5.00 [Details] ''In the midst of a post-nuclear dark age, the Catholic Church, riven by internal strife, is still involved in a bitter power struggle with the temporal leaders of the devastated USA... the Church embarks on the ultimate Crusade... '' [Title] | Saint Leibowitz And The Wild Horse Woman | [] | Books For Sale - August 2015 | Title | http://www.porcupine.demon.co.uk/list5.htm | 3/1438042988250.59_20150728002308-00314-ip-10-236-191-2_656953341_0.json |
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