Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far
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New York: Columbia Publications Inc. Soft cover. Future Science Fiction soft cover magazine #30 in good condition, no markings, also contains "New Arcadia" by L. Sprague de Cam… Más…
New York: Columbia Publications Inc. Soft cover. Future Science Fiction soft cover magazine #30 in good condition, no markings, also contains "New Arcadia" by L. Sprague de Camp, "The Day of the Boomer Dukes" by Frederik Pohl and Venus Trap (illustrated on front cover by Emsh) by Robert Silverberg, other illustrations by Freas and Orban . Good. 1956., Columbia Publications Inc, 1956, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight unread copy. This copy has just a hint of page edge soil else fine. The 10.95 priced jacket has some rubbing wear, edge wear, a tear at the top of the front fold. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY.., Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981, Very Good. First edition 1st printing Crown Publishers 1982, good cover, good glossy dust jacket price intact, tight binding, name inside, clean text Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or priority., Prometheus Books, 1984-11-01. Hardcover. Good., Prometheus Books, 1984-11-01, New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1972. Previous Dealer Markings (Including Upper Right Corner of Front Cover Cut Off); Moderate Creasing on Front Cover; Light Creasing on Rear Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. CONTENTS: It's Such a Beautiful Day - Isaac Asimov; The Strawberry Window - Ray Bradbury; The Deep Range - Arthur C. Clarke; Alien - Lester del Rey; Foster, You're Dead - Philip K. Dick; Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo? - Gerald Kersh; Dance of the Dead - Richard Matheson; Any More at Home Like You? - Chad Oliver; The Devil on Salvation Bluff - Jack Vance; Guinevere for Everybody - Jack Williamson. SYNOPSIS: For hundreds of thousands of readers, Star Science Fiction Stories has come to mean the very best in stimulating and imaginative fiction. This book shows why. ISAAC ASIMOV depicts an electronic world where Nature is forgotten--until one day, quite by accident, a little boy strays outdoors...and the old, wild ways surge in. RAY BRADBURY tells of a family on Mars in a story that reaches into the past and the future to touch the deepest racial instincts behind the drive toward space. GERALD KERSH asks for information concerning an army corporal who bears on his body the scars of a hundred wars--and in his blood the secret of immortality. RICHARD MATHESON explores the feverish lives of tomorrow's adolescents--when sex and speed mix at 130 m.p.h., and the big thrill sensation is the strange Dance of Death. And other outstanding authors--Arthur C. Clarke, Lester del Rey, Chad Oliver among them--meet here in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 to bring you the sometimes shocking, sometimes amusing--always unexpected--experience of tomorrow.. First Edition 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. Illus. by John Berkey. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Ballantine Books, Inc., 1972, Good. Used book in good condition. Has wear to the cover and pages. Contains some markings such as highlighting and writing. 100% guaranteed. 082718, Prometheus Books, 1984-09. Paperback. Good., Prometheus Books, 1984-09, New York: Doubleday Science Fiction, 1982. (viii) 311 pp. Blue boards lettered in lavender foil on the spine; headband. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with a short tear on the upper right of the front panel; price clipped; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Window by Bob Lemen; The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin; Wives by Lisa Tuttle; The Alien Mind by Philip K. Dick; Spidersong by Susan C. Petrey; Out There Where the Big Ships Go by Richard Cowper; The Curse of the Mhondoro Nkabeleby Eric Nordern; The Autopsy by Michael Shea; A Day at the Fair by Neal Barrett Jr; The Most Illuminatingly Doleful and Instructively Affecting Demise of Flo Late of Upper Blooton by Russell Griffin; The Pusher by John Varley; and The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch; along with the following non-fiction: Science: The Word I Invented by Isaac Asimov; From Competition 22: Anecdotes in the Style of a SF Writer; Books: The Secret Language of Science Fiction by Algis Budrys; From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles; Films and TV: Lost Rewards by Baird Searles; From Competition 24: Author/Title Misprints; From Competition 25: Short Poems about SF Animals; and From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo., Doubleday Science Fiction, 1982, Great front cover illustration on this vintage paperback copy of "I, ROBOT" by Isaac Asimov. 1964; Signet Books; New York. "The Day of the Mechanical Men - Prophetic Glimpses of a Strange and Threatening Tomorrow." "Here is a whole panorama of strange and thrilling tales about Earth in the years ahead when robots reach such an advanced stage that they threaten to rise up and control the world."I, ROBOTHere are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the worldall told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark. The three laws of Robotics:1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant futurea future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.Condition:Light soiling to the covers and spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages are in great condition with no writing or tears found; pages 16-19 and page 43 each have some small, light stains, otherwise clean; the 1st page of the book has some very light foxing and a name written in pen at the top edge (see photo). The book has a light musty odor., Signet, 1964, New York: A Fawcett Crest Book Published by Ballantine Books - Random House, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Lightly Scuffed; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A NOVEL BY THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR. A DAZZLING NOVEL OF ESPIONAGE AND ESCAPADES WITH A WALLOPING FUTURE SHOCK... BOOK NUMBER: 5907. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this novel have appeared in somewhat different format in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. JACKET DESIGN BY: Ann Silver. SYNOPSIS: Fred Pohl, multiple winner of science-fiction's top awards, presents a breathtaking romp through the energy-poor world of the 2020s--a gripping chase-intrigue novel with a highly unlikely stand-in for James Bond. One day, the Reverend Hornswell Hake had nothing worse to contend with than the customary power shortages and his routine pastoral chores, such as counselling the vivacious Alys Brant--and her husbands and wife. At nearly forty, his life was placid, almost humdrum. The very next day, Horny Hake was first enlisted as an unwilling agent of the Team--secret successor to the long-discredited CIA--and then courted by an anti-Team underground group. In practically no time at all, Horny and Alys were touring Europe on a mission about which he knew zip, except that it was a new move in the Cool War, the worldwide campaign of sabotage that had replaced actual combat. For the team and its opponents, though, the Cool War could be as perilous as any hot one, as Horny Hake discovered when he came up against: *Leota, lovely leader of the underground cabal, dedicated to destroying the Team; *Yosper, the Bible-thumping, foul-mouthed nonogenarian killer; *The Reddi twins, professional terrorists who turned up in the oddest places at the worst times and always managed to make Horny's life miserable; *And Pegleg, master of such lethal toys as the Bulgarian Brolly and the Peruvian Pen. Picaresque and fast-moving, The Cool War is also a deeply ironic, often hilarious, yet thought-provoking look at where we could be, some forty years from now.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Murray Tinkleman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., A Fawcett Crest Book Published by Ballantine Books - Random House, Inc., New York: A ROC Book an imprint of New American Library - Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Light Impressions to Rear Board; Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Light Impressions to Rear Panel; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: LE5134. JACKET DESIGN BY: Judith Murello. CONTENTS: Introduction: A Half-Century of Creativity - William F. Nolan; Ray: An Appreciation - Isaac Asimov; The Troll - Ray Bradbury; The Awakening - Cameron Nolan; The Wind From Midnight - Ed Gorman; May 2000: The Tombstones - James Kisner; One Life, In An Hourglass - Charles L. Grant; Two O'Clock Session - Richard Matheson; A Lake of Summer - Chad Oliver; The Obsession - William Relling Jr.; Something in the Earth - Charles Beaumont; The Muse - Norman Corwin; The Late Arrivals - Roberta Lannes; Hiding - Richard Christina Matheson; Salome - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; The Inheritance - Bruce Francis; The Man With the Power Tie - Christopher Beaumont; Centigrade 233 - Gregory Benford; Filling Out Fannie - John Maclay; Land of the Second Chance - J. N. Williamson; The November Game - F. Paul Wilson; The Other Mars - Robert Sheckley; Feed the Baby of Love - Orson Scott Card; The Dandelion Chronicles - William F. Nolan; Afterword: Fifty Years, Fifty Friends - Ray Bradbury. SYNOPSIS: It was a magical year, the year that Ray Bradbury's first story was published in Super Science Stories. Since that momentous day, he has created a constant stream of novels, short stories, stage works, and television shows. For generations of writers, he has been the catalyst that gave their own careers direction, and for readers the world around his stories have terrified, tantalized, and captivated, even as they opened the way to dreams of different futures and alternate pasts. Now in recognition of all that Ray Bradbury has given us, his literary comrades and heirs have banded together to craft this tribute to his genius, twenty-two original tales, including one by Ray himself, as well as a tribute to Ray by Isaac Asimov. So enter Ray Bradbury territory as you wander through locales and meet characters, some familiar and some new, inspired by such vintage Bradbury as The October Country, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dark Carnival, and, of course, The Martian Chronicles. RAY BRADBURY, The Troll-He was a nice folksy town legend. But when a man of science confronts a legend in the real world, he has only himself to blame for the results... ORSON SCOTT CARD, Feed the Baby of Love-when a burnt-out rock 'n' roll singer arrives in a dead-end town, she's drawn into a strange game and things begin to unravel... RICHARD MATHESON, Two O'Clock Session-He had taken therapy into a whole new dimension, but only time would tell whether his patients would be better off for being "cured". GREGORY BENFORD, Centigrade 233-It was a different time, a different society, but even here books could still be made to stand for something... F. PAUL WILSON, The November Game-He'd never denied that he killed his own daughter, but then he'd never guessed how his punishment would fit his crime.... First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Tom Canty. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., A ROC Book an imprint of New American Library - Penguin Books USA Inc., 1991, Prometheus Books. Hardcover. 0879753935 *LIKE NEW* Ships Same Day or Next! . Fine., Prometheus Books, Prometheus Books. Hardcover. 0879753935 *BRAND NEW* Ships Same Day or Next! . New., Prometheus Books, Doubleday. Hardcover. 0385272057 Please allow 4 - 14 business days for Standard shipping, within the US. Thank you for supporting our small, family-owned business! . Fair., Doubleday<
