Fantastic Literature

CONAN Volume 1 - The Barry-Windsor Smith Archives - SIGNED

Howard Robert E, Thomas Roy · 2010

£179.95 (€215.70 | $237.74 | ¥37,952)

Dark Horse Comics 1st edition, later printing. SIGNED, dedication copy. In 1970, Barry Windsor-Smith burst onto the comic-book scene with his dynamic portrayal of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, altering the course of the blue-eyed Cimmerian forever. fine hardcover c...

VOICE OF THE FIRE

Moore Alan · 2009

£9.95 (€11.93 | $13.15 | ¥2,098)

Top Sgelf 1st printing. Master storyteller Alan Moore delivers twelve interconnected stories of lust, madness, and ectasy, all set in central England and spanning over six thousand years, very good b-format paperback, French flaps

MAGIC WORDS - The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore

Parkin Lance, Moore Alan · 2013

£27.95 (€33.50 | $36.93 | ¥5,895)

Aurum 1st edition. "In Magic Words Lance Parkin has crafted a biography that is insightful, scrupulously fair-minded and often very funny, a considerable achievement given its unrelentingly grim, unreasonable and annoying subject. fine hardcover copy, pictorial boards as issued

DEEP FUTURE

Baxter Stephen · 2002

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,044)

Gollancz 1st printing. DEEP FUTURE takes you on dazzling ride to the limits of time and space. Along the way Stephen Baxter looks at our place in the universe, considers the possibility that we are in fact alone, very good paperback, light spine crease.

SPACE

Baxter Stephen · 2001

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Voyager 1st printing. The Japanese are in space, the US has turned inward - flights into space have become dreams of old men and women, dreams of an age of sublimated warfare which have left behind only images of charmingly antique rocket craft. fine paperback

ORIGIN

Baxter Stephen · 2002

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Voyager 1st printing. There's no reason why humanity should be unique; logically there should be alien races, some long enough established to have made their mark on the galaxy; where are they? fine paperback

STAR WOLF

White Ted · 1971

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Lancer 1st printing. Makstarn was ugly, an outcast in the midst of the beautiful people of his tribe. Where they were tall and slender, he was short and squat. very good paperback,

BURYING THE SHADOW

Constantine Storm · 1992

£3.95 (€4.73 | $5.22 | ¥833)

Headline 1st printing. In idyllic Taparak, young Rayojinni trains and awaits her initiation into the ranks of the soulscapers--the practitioners who heal the mental and spiritual ills of the people. very good paperback, Steve wallace cover

BLAKELY'S ARK

MacMillan Ian · 1981

£17.95 (€21.52 | $23.71 | ¥3,786)

Berkely 1st printing. THE CEPH... ...an encephalitis plague, a parasitic virus that has killed millions. The infected become febrile and insane near fine paperback, Tom Hallman cover

FIGURES OF EARTH

Cabell James Branch · 1979

£12.95 (€15.52 | $17.11 | ¥2,731)

Ballantine 2nd printing. The story of Manuel the swineherd, who rises to power by playing on others' expectations -- his motto Mundus Vult Decipi, meaning "the world wishes to be deceived." very good+, slight shelf wear, Howard Koslow cover

TO WARM THE EARTH

Belden David · 1988

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Signet 1st printing. The rule of men led to atomic war. Nuclear winter ice wiped Earth clean of cities. For centuries now, the rule of women has labored to restore balance. near fine paperback

NO ENEMY BUT TIME

Bishop Michael · 1983

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Sphere 1st printing. Joshua is a time traveller. Not the kind who needs a cumbersome machine but a dreamfaere who crosses in his mind the boundaries dividing the world from its primeval past. very good paperback, light spine crease. Nebula Award for Best Novel (1982), Brit...

THE NEXUS

McQuay Mike · 1989

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Bantam 1st printing. When Denny Stiller, a cynical reporter, breaks the story of Amy Kyle, a young autistic girl in Las Vegas who can literally work miracles, the world scrambles to either exploit the gifted girl or destroy her. very good paperback, Bob Hickson cover, light sh...

GUENEVERE - THE KINGHT OF THE SACRED LAKE

Miles Rosalind · 2000

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Pocket Books 1st printing. Last in a line of proud queens elected to rule the fertile lands of the West, true owner of the legendary Round Table, guardian of the Great Goddess herself . . . a woman whose story has never been told--until now. near fine paperback,

GUENEVERE - THE QUEEN OF THE SUMMER COUNTRY

Miles Rosalind · 2000

£5.95 (€7.13 | $7.86 | ¥1,255)

Pocket Books 1st printing. This is the first part of a trilogy chronicling the life of Queen Guenevere. Beginning with the young King Arthur preparing for the war which will unite Britain very good paperback, light spine crease

THE FIR SWORD

Martine-Barnes Adrienne · 1989

£5.95 (€7.13 | $7.86 | ¥1,255)

Headline 1st printing. Eleanor had fallen asleep in the twentieth-century Wilshire - and had awoken 800 years in the past, on a a Candlemas morning in medieval England. near fine paperback, Danny Flynn cover

THE PLAYMASTERS

Martin Rod & Dalmas John · 1987

£7.95 (€9.53 | $10.50 | ¥1,677)

Baen 1st printing. The aliens came to Earth not for conquest, but simply to create a way and watch it played out by humans. But they are prohibited from using any technology not developed on the planet very good paperback, Stephen Hickman cover

THE STONE CANAL

Macleod Ken · 2004

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Orbit new printing. Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death's only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, and only the Abolitionists object. near fine paperback, Lee Gibbons cover. Prometheus Award for Best Novel (1998)

POWERS THAT BE

McCaffrey Anne & Scarborough Elizabeth Ann · 1994

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,044)

Corgi 1st printing. It was a world of ice and snow - a planet that just supported life and that had been terraformed from frozen uninhabitable rock.The people of Petaybee were hardy, self-reliant, friendly - and also very secretive near fine paperback,Peter Elson cover

RAJAN

Lukeman Tim · 1982

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.82 | ¥1,888)

Ace 1st printing. He left his father's farm with an ancient sword and the tattered remains of his honor -- and before the moon had travelled a full cycle he had traded both to a mysterious silk-clad sorcerer in return for a promise of protection. near fine paperback,