Orbit macdonald (139 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Mark Harrison; (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Mark Harrison; (illustratore).

paperback. Condizione: very good paperback copy. reprint.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Originally published in Great Britain in 1968 by Faber and Faber."First Orbit edition published in 1976 by Futura Publications Limited," This as-new mass-market paperback then Reprinted 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990. 174 pp. Reduced from $14.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condizione: like_new. Book is in like new condition with minimal signs of wear. Pages are clean and free from notes or highlighting. Dust cover is intact. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service. Mark Harrison; (illustratore). …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine and a faint crease on the upper right of the front cover; no interior markings. Cover art by Mark Harrison. Mark Harrison; (illustratore). Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; store stamped. Cover art by Mick Posen. Size: 8vo. Mick Posen; (illustratore). Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings but a bit of darkening around the edges of the text block. Cover art by Mick Posen. Size: 8vo. Mick Posen; (illustratore). Book.

Condizione: Fair. : Wolfhelm es la tercera entrega de la serie Dragonrealm, escrita por Richard A. Knaak. En esta novela de fantasía, el lector se sumerge en un mundo donde los dragones y los humanos luchan por el poder y la supervivencia. La trama sigue a Cabe Bedlam y su esposa Gwen mientras protegen a las crías del Emperador Dragón, enfrentándose a desafíos y peligros en un reino en ruinas. El Grifo emprende un viaje para derrotar al dios de las tinieblas, el Devastador, en una búsqueda llena de peligros y magia. EAN: 9780747406679 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Fantasía|Ciencia Ficción Título: Wolfhelm Autor: Richard A. Knaak Editorial: Orbit / Macdonald & Co Idioma: en Páginas: 256 Formato: tapa blanda Año de publicación: 1991.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 390 pages, a very good plus hardback in a very good plus dust-jacket [0356187837]. NOT FROM A LIBRARY and completely clean from any former owner markings. First Edition / Fourth Print (first published in UK same year).

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. PLANET OF THE DAMNED Paperback Novel - 1980 - Condition : Very Good. Cover crease on back cover.

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Fair: Heavier signs of wear. 1978 Edition. © 1978: 1st in the 'Ireta: Dinosaur Planet' series of books. 2nd printing of 1978 edition:- Synopsis: A planet of giant Saurians. They had died out on Earth 70 million years ago. Yet here, on a newly-discovered planet in a far corner of the galaxy, the creatures of the Mesozoic Era ruled. The expedition was stranded, struggling for survival in a world of giant swamp creatures and deadly predators. And faced, soon, with a menace from within its own ranks:- (original cost £1.25). Cover Art: Tim White (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1982 Edition. © 1978: 1st in the 'Warlock' series of books. 2nd printing of 1982 edition:- Synopsis: Once there was magic in the world. But hordes of selfish, short-sighted magicians have used up the mana which moved the world and even the most powerful spells are becoming futile. Soon all the creatures of spirit, the unicorns and centaurs, will have disappeared, and unless Orolandes with half a sword succeeds in his quest for the lost power, those stupid swords will win after all:- Review(s): "Larry Niven writes the best and most consistent fantasies since Lewis Carroll. And 'The Magic Goes Away' is his best fantasy yet" - Jerry Pournelle:- (original cost £1.95). Cover Art: Peter Jones (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1982 Edition. © 1982: 8th in the 'Stainless Steel Rat' series of books. 9th printing of 1982 edition:- Synopsis: Rat in paradise. You can't keep a good rat down, not one as slippery as Jim diGriz alias the Stainless Steel Rat. And you can't keep his nose out of trouble either. Jim and the lethal, luscious Angelina owe themselves a honeymoon and Paraiso-Aqui looks like the place. Settled long ago by voyagers from the southern continent of Earth (or Dirt as it was also known) Paraiso is warm and easy. But all is not well in paradise. The serpentine tyrant General Julio Zapilote is about to sail back into office in another rigged election, and the chance to scupper him is just too good for Jim to miss. Corruption, bribery, graft and chicanery - for the Rat it's just like coming home:- Review(s): "Harry Harrison, the Monty Python of the spaceways" - Daily Telegraph / "The Rat can hold his head high amongst the most elevated superhero company - Bulldog Drummond, James Bond and Flash Gordon included" - Times Literary Supplement:- (original cost £2.99). Cover Art: Peter Elson (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1982 Edition. © 1981: 1st in the 'Worlds' series of books. 1st printing of 1982 edition:- Synopsis: From the author of 'The Forever War' and 'Mindbridge' comes a visionary novel of a very believable and frightening future that may be closer than we think:- Review(s): "A future you can accept without question, full of the casual reality which makes for high drama when the pieces start to come apart. As they do in a way you cannot doubt might happen in just this way" - Frank Herbert:- (original cost £1.75). Cover Art: Peter Jones (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1985 Edition. © 1983: 1st in the 'Integral Trees' series of books. 1st printing of 1985 edition. Originally serialised in 4 parts in Analog Science Fiction / Science Fact - October, November, December 1983 & January 1984:- Synopsis: For five centuries they had survived, descendants of the mutinous crew of the starship Discipline. The Earth, the State, even the Discipline were legend at best. The Smoke Ring was all they knew: an immense gaseous envelope formed around a neutron star and inhabited by free-fall life-forms, most of which were edible and all of which could fly. This was their Universe. But slowly, they began the long climb from barbarism: and somewhere, beyond the Smoke Ring, the Discipline and its cyborg 'adviser' neared the end of its 500-year wait:- Review(s): "The best work yet by one of the best in our business, 'The Integral Trees' is the most imaginative work I've seen in the last five years" - Jerry Pournelle / "Niven is a master of the odd surrounding and the strange alien. For pure escape science fiction, fast and furious, 'The Integral Trees' is practically ideal" - Locus:- (original cost £1.95). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore). …

Paperback: 7" x 4½". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1986 Edition. © 1984: A stand-alone novel by Jane Yolen. 1st printing of 1986 paperback edition:- Synopsis: Henderson's IV: a world with tragedy in its past, an uncertain future, and a sombre present; a culture in which mourning is an art form, and truly gifted grievers are revered - and encouraged, in ways often bizarre and frequently murderous, to perfect their craft. On such a world the true tragedy is love, for it is love which makes dying difficult, and grief painful. For a hundred years Mankind has been studying Henderson's IV. And then Aaron Spenser, Anthropologist First Class, fell in love, against all custom. And change came, and with it, danger, not only to the natives, but to the star worlds themselves:- Review(s): "A lovely compelling fantasy - I haven't read anything as original as this for a long time. She belongs on the same shelf with Ursula LeGuin and Patricia McKillip" - Marion Zimmer Bradley / "A remarkable exploration of sexuality, culture, and minds unlike our own. Fascinating reading" - Sheri S Tepper / "A haunting tale" - Patricia McKillip / "A strong and moving story. She writes wondrous well" - Roger Zelazny:- (original cost £2.50). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1982 Edition. © 1981: A stand-alone novel by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. 1st printing of 1982 edition:- Synopsis: In 'Oath Of Fealty', Niven & Pournelle write with dazzling imagination of an extraordinary society - a self-contained, self-governing community of a quarter of a million people that towers above the slums of Los Angeles: Todos Santos. And it is this 'modern castle' that forms the setting and inspiration for a stirring adventure story of the future:- Review(s); "Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have combined once again to produce an exciting, realistic and adventurous speculation in the spirit of their bestselling novels 'Lucifer's Hammer' and 'The Mote In God's Eye':- (original cost £1.95). Cover Art: Peter Jones (illustratore). …

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1984 Edition. © 1979: 2nd in the 'Xanth' series of books. 3rd printing of 1984 edition:- Synopsis: As the ruler of a country steeped in enchantment, King Trent was naturally curious about the source of its magic. Bink, the only one of his subjects immune to supernatural harm, was ordered to undertake a quest to discover the wellspring of Xanth's uniqueness. From the start, Bink and his companions, Chester the centaur and Crombie, the soldier transformed into a griffin, were harried by an unseen enemy. Even the power of Good Magician Humphrey scarcely saved their lives. Then when Humphrey and Crombie turned against him, all seemed lost for Bink. But his ingenuity and luck prevailed, he reached his goal, and the King's orders were carried out. But Bink's next act was totally unexpected - he set out utterly to destroy the Magic of Xanth!:- (original cost £2.95). Cover Art: Doug Beekman (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1984 Edition. © 1984: 2nd in the 'Ireta: Dinosaur Planet' series of books. 1st printing of 1984 edition:- Synopsis: To escape extermination by their heavyworld colleagues, Kai, Varian and their companions sought refuge in the suspended animation of cryogenic sleep. Now time has elapsed - how much is hard to tell, but at least two generations - and the survivors emerge from their hibernation. Ireta, the Dinosaur Planet, is much changed. The heavyworlders have regressed to primitive barbarity. Much necessary life-support equipment has malfunctioned or disappeared. The very face of Ireta has altered. But help is at hand - a rescue ship is on its way. Even as hope begins to spring, however, new problems arise. What are the motives of the mysterious Theks? Why are the intelligent Giffs - pterodactyls locked in an evolutionary blind alley - acting so strangely? Above all, what possibly could be the cause of the mindless hostility of the heavy worlders? The Survivors - for them there was more at stake than simple survival:- (original cost £1.95). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1982 Edition. © 1980: A part of the 'Known Space' series of books. 1st printing of 1982 edition:- Synopsis:Only the most beautiful woman on Luna could have sent a near fatal laser beam into the chest of the Fourth Speaker for the Asteroids. And with the evidence stacked against her she may be destined for the organ bank where criminals wait to 'repay society' with their bodies. Investigator Gil Hamilton will need to move fast to save her from becoming a nicely arranged stack of spare parts:- (original cost £1.25). Cover Art: Peter Jones (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1975 Edition. © 1974: A collection of 10 short stories by Larry Niven. 3rd printing of 1975 edition:- Contents: Rammer / The Alibi Machine / The Last Days Of The Permanent Floating Riot Club / A Kind Of Murder / All The Bridges Rusting / There Is A Tide / Bigger Than Worlds / $16,940.00 / The Hole Man / The Fourth Profession:- Synopsis: Corbett's mind had not died. He merely slept for two hundred years inside a coffin of liquid nitrogen, waiting for medical science to find him a cure. He waited in vain. They found a new body instead. It came from a criminal whose crime was so terrible that the State had wiped out his personality. But there was a price to pay. In exchange for his new life, Corbett must become a Rammer - captain of a star ship to eternity. 'A Hole In Space': a new collection of short stories by Larry Niven, author of Hugo and Nebula award-winning 'Ringworld' and master builder of fantastic worlds and experiences:- (original cost £2.25). Cover Art: Peter Jones (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1987 Edition. © 1987: 6th in the 'Spellsinger' series of books. 1st printing of 1987 edition:- Synopsis: There's no place like home. It was a pretty good life for a spellsinger from LA. He'd battled demons, fought deadly Plated Folk, even met a socialist dragon and survived. Now Jon-Tom was quite happy to settle into domestic bliss with the fiery Talea, study magic, and practise spellsinging on his duar. But the magic instrument is broken when Jon-Tom protects the wizard Clothahump from thieves and he must set out across the Glittergeist Sea to find the one person who can fix it. With the irrepressible Mudge the Otter as a travelling companion, only the unexpected can happen. But cannibal muskrats, ogres, and a fierce pirate king parrot seem ordinary indeed when Jon-Tom finds a way back to Earth - and he must choose which world is home:- (original cost £2.95). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore). …

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1986 Edition. © 1985: 5th in the 'Spellsinger' series of books. 1st printing of 1986 edition:- Synopsis: Challenge! Jonathan Meriweather, trapped in the strange world where animals walk and talk, and where he, as the Spellsinger, possesses unearthly powers, has faced any number of perils since Clothahump the wizard called him from his own world to help in the war against the evil of the Greendowns. Now Jonathan, with Clothahump and Mudge the Otter, faces the greatest challenge of all, for the mysterious Perambulator is threatening the very fabric of the universe - unless Jonathan and his company can stop him:- (original cost £2.50). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore). …

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1985 Edition. © 1984: 4th in the 'Spellsinger' series of books. 1st printing of 1985 edition:- Synopsis: A power in the land. The call came from the far South of the strange world where Jon Meriweather was stranded - where animals walked and talked, and where magic really did work. It came to Clothahump the magician, a cry for help from a beleaguered city, held in thrall by a darkly powerful magician. Reluctantly Jon and a rebellious Mudge set out - only to discover that the evil they face stems from Jon's own world. And if Jon is to conquer it, he must risk never, ever returning home:- (original cost £2.50). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1988 Edition. © 1988: 2nd in the 'Watchers' series of books. 1st printing od 1988 edition:- Synopsis: With Beast-vision and death-wish weapons, Azazel the Beast send his armies out against the forces of his sister, the Goddess Tiy. Sam Joyce, once a London social worker, is now Samjoyce the Fool; he is destined to play a crucial role in this battle of the Gods. Alone, he must go and face the Beast. With only the help of an emerald ring and a strange, blue-eyed lyre player, he must fight and conquer the evil one. Meanwhile, Sam's daughter, Chrissa, is in medieval France, being prepared to aid her father in his fight. But her gift of foretelling has come to the interest of those who would burn her as a heretic. The fate of Sam, Chrissa and humanity itself is in the balance as the story builds to a mind-wrenching climax. Will mankind survive and grow, or perish forever:- (original cost £3.50). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore).…