Sphere science fiction (54 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: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Paperback. Condizione: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Sphere Science Fiction, 1978. 12mo. Paperback. Book is like new with toning on page ends. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Sphere Science Fiction, 1977. 12mo. Paperback. Book is very good. Covers have some light shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very mild shelfwear. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Tanned pages, some wear to cover edges, one spine crease, slight spine lean, some hinge rubbing, some browning and marks to cover. Peter Elson (illustratore).

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. 1976 Edition. © 1957: A stand-alone novel by Philip José Farmer. 1st printing of 1976 edition:- Synopsis: In peril on an alien planet. Alan Green was not a hero - he liked the quiet life as much as the next man. Not that he was exactly afraid of the fearsome hound, Alzo, or his hot-blooded owner, the Duchess Zuni. After all, one expected violence on this primitive planet and a man could manage to stay alive, provided he was alert twenty-four hours a day. But when he heard of a spaceship about to leave for Earth, Alan persuaded the merchant-captain of a windroller to take him to it. And hence to the peaceful green hills of home. He had reckoned without the vagaries of the windroller, pirates, the 'travelling islands', the rascally captain, and various peculiar local flora and fauna - all of which, it seemed, regarded Alan with unnerving malevolence:- Review(s): "'The Green Odyssey' is a classic novel of extraterrestrial adventure by one of the most exciting authors on the SF scene":- (original cost £0.60). Cover Art: Angus McKie (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1977 Edition. © 1973: 1st in the 'Technic Civilization: Avalon' series of books. 1st printing of 1977 edition. Originally serialized in three parts in Analog Science Fact & Fiction - February, March & April 1973:- Synopsis: Empires at war! Like two giants the old enemies faced each other across the reaches of the galaxy - the Terran Empire and the Ythrian Domain. Terra was a Leviathan, encroaching ever further among the stars, promising peace and prosperity - but at the price of freedom.Ythri was smaller, but an empire in its own right, peopled by birdlike beings with a civilisation and intellect that easily matched Terra's own. And between the adversaries lay Avalon. One single planet, inhabited by human and Ythri alike. Both sides wanted to claim Avalon, by persuasion or by force, for it was a key world that could turn the tide of the war. But Avalon had developed a unique culture, a powerful blend of human and Ythrian thought. And Avalon had ideas of its own:- (original cost £0.85). Cover Art: Melvyn Grant (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1975 Edition. © 1970: 4th in the 'World Of Tiers' series of books. 3rd printing of 1975 edition:- Synopsis: Behind the walls of Terra lay a secret no man could be allowed to learn. But Kickaha - the Earthborn adventurer of the tiered worlds - had to uncover that secret, or watch his home world destroyed. Kickaha was returning to Earth from the World of Tiers, the many-levelled universe of the god-like Lords, that he had entered many years ago as Paul Janus Finnegan. Now he had returned to a world he no longer knew, to find it ruled by Red Orc, a Lord jealous of his personal domain and hostile to intruders. Yet Kickaha had to stay alive in order to defeat the deadly enemy that threatened Earth and the other worlds of tiers - the 'Beller', the malignant creature that was the mind-essence of a rebel Lord:- (original cost £1.75). Cover Art: Melvyn Grant (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7¼" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1968 Edition. © 1966: A collection of 10 short stories by E C Tubb. 1st printing of 1968 paperback edition:- Contents: The Ming Vase / Tell The Truth / The Last Day Of Summer / Fresh Guy / Vigil / Piebald Horse / Sense Of Proportion / Greater Than Infinity / Last Of The Morticians / Worm In The Woodwork:- Synopsis: Ten visions of man's future by a professional with a sharp eye for human weakness mirrored in the world of tomorrow:- (original cost 5'). Cover Art: David Davies (illustratore). …

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1982 Edition. © 1973: 2nd in the 'Amber' series of books. 1st printing of 1982 edition:- Synopsis: Back towards his magic realm strides Corwin, Prince of Amber, as the dark powers of the shadow worlds rise against him. Recently escaped from the dungeon where he was imprisoned after his brother, Eric, usurped the throne, Corwin, Prince of Amber, is determined to use all his super-human powers to regain his stolen birthright. But the road back to Amber is paved with unknown perils and to reach it Corwin must first fight his way through the dreaded forces of the Circle of Evil, and the weird demons conjured up by his own terrible curse:- (original cost £1.50). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1975 Edition. © 1970: 4th in the 'World Of Tiers' series of books. 2nd printing of 1975 edition:- Synopsis: Behind the walls of Terra lay a secret no man could be allowed to learn. But Kickaha - the Earthborn adventurer of the tiered worlds - had to uncover that secret, or watch his home world destroyed. Kickaha was returning to Earth from the World of Tiers, the many-levelled universe of the god-like Lords, that he had entered many years ago as Paul Janus Finnegan. Now he had returned to a world he no longer knew, to find it ruled by Red Orc, a Lord jealous of his personal domain and hostile to intruders. Yet Kickaha had to stay alive in order to defeat the deadly enemy that threatened Earth and the other worlds of tiers - the 'Beller', the malignant creature that was the mind-essence of a rebel Lord:- (original cost £0.85). Cover Art: Melvyn Grant (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1970 Edition. © 1967: A stand-alone novel by Robert Silverberg. 2nd printing of 1970 edition. Based on 5 short stories - Blue Fire / The Warriors Of Light / Where The Changed Ones Go / Lazarus Come Forth / Open The Sky:- Synopsis: On 22nd century Earth, a new religion was gathering power. The Vorsters were the blue-robed worshippers of the atom, symbolised by the Cobalt-60 reactors that glowed blindingly on every altar in their fast-growing churches. The Harmonists were the green-robed heretics, a breakaway faction condemned as icon-adorers, who believed that their creed was truer to the code of Vorst, the Founder. At the beginning of the 22nd century, Earth colonies were established on Mars and Venus. But the ultimate dream - to travel to the stars - was still an impossibility. A few enlightened men believed that the Vorsters and the Harmonists could solve this seemingly insurmountable problem, if they could only forget their differences and work together. But the hatred between the two factions was too deep to be reconciled - until a conflict on Venus between a Vorster priest and his Harmonist opponent resulted in some totally unexpected developments:- (original cost £0.85). Cover Art: Peter Elson (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1970 Edition. © 1967: 3rd in the 'World Of Tiers' series of books. 4th printing of 1970 edition:- Synopsis: It was a world of tiers and layers - The Amerind level, The Garden Of Eden level, the Talanac, the Atlantean - a universe of green skies and fabled beasts. It was the playground-cosmos of the Lord Jadawin, with trans-gravitational gates to the other levels and other worlds. But now those gates were being sabotaged to permit the entry of an invading force of 'Bellers' - human bodies housing the transferred minds of rebel Lords - and their minions, who were seeking two things: total domination of every lord's private cosmos, now that they had achieved immortality, and the life of Kickaha the Trickster, who knew too much:- (original cost £0.85). Cover Art: Melvyn Grant (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1979 Edition. © 1977: 5th in the 'World Of Tiers' series of books. 3rd printing of 1979 edition:- Synopsis: A world of change. The Lavalite World is a world of slow but constant change. The very landscape moves. Here mountains rise from plains or sink into rifts. New oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in. And there is only one escape from this bizarre planet: the one gateway to other universes is in the palace of the Lord Urthona. Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as Kickaha - must reach it if he is to survive. And he must do so despite the Lords Urthona and Red Orc, the hired thug McKay, flesh-eating vegetation on the run, assorted strange beasts of prey, and planetary pseudopods:- Review(s): "Philip José Farmer arouses awe. Philip José Farmer is special" - Roger Zelazny:- (original cost £1.75). Cover Art: Terry Oakes (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1979 Edition. © 1977: 5th in the 'World Of Tiers' series of books. 1st printing of 1979 edition:- Synopsis: A world of change. The Lavalite World is a world of slow but constant change. The very landscape moves. Here mountains rise from plains or sink into rifts. New oceans form as vast hollows collapse and seas rush in. And there is only one escape from this bizarre planet: the one gateway to other universes is in the palace of the Lord Urthona. Paul Janus Finnegan - also known as Kickaha - must reach it if he is to survive. And he must do so despite the Lords Urthona and Red Orc, the hired thug McKay, flesh-eating vegetation on the run, assorted strange beasts of prey, and planetary pseudopods:- Review(s): "Philip José Farmer arouses awe. Philip José Farmer is special" - Roger Zelazny:- (original cost £1.10). Cover Art: Terry Oakes (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1971 Edition. © 1969: A stand-alone novel by Paul Ableman. 1std printing of 1971 paperback edition:- Synopsis: Vilp's hero, Clive Witt, is a novelist in search of a hero for his new novel. He advertises for suitable applicants. From 73 replies he selects three: Professor Guthrie Pidge, a zoologist; Pad Dee Murphy, an Irish-Burmese peasant; and Henry Glebe, the inventor of the renowned earth-borer. But his novel progresses slowly. His three heroes refuse to mix their very disparate elements into a harmonious whole. Eventually, Clive scraps it and harnesses his team of heroes to a new work, an exciting science fiction tale called 'The Silver Spores'. In this, mankind meets - the Vilp! The novel ends with the 5,000 strong Vilp Galactic Council communing in space at an incredibly high telepathic level:- Review(s): "Excellent. Vital, taut, brilliantly imaginative" - Anthony Burgess / "This hilarious book demonstrates once again that Paul Ableman is one of the most versatile novelists writing in English today":- (original cost £0.25 (5')). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1976 Edition. © 1973: A stand-alone novel by Hal Clement. 1st printing of 1976 edition. Originally serialised in 3 parts in Worlds Of If - October, November & December 1967:- Synopsis: Under the Pacific the fate of the 21st Century world was in the balance. The world's energy supply was severely limited, and with growing overpopulation the problem looked grim. In this grave new world the Power Board had become the virtual government of the planet. Power was rationed, it was guarded, its sources secret. So when three of the Power Board's top agents disappeared at sea and there was evidence that something sinister was happening to the energy quota in that area, it was time to hit all the 'alert' buttons there were. Fast - and hard:- (original cost £0.60). Cover Art: David Bergen (illustratore).…

First Edition. Condizione: vg. vg 1st Sphere Science Fiction 1970 edition paperback In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1976 Edition. © 1973: 1st in the 'Talents Of Earth' series of books. 05th printing of 1976 edition. 2 second-hand book-seller's stamps & previous owners name to inside front cover:- Synopsis: Theirs was a very special group. Theirs was the power to change the face of the world. But the telepathic Talents they shared set them apart. They met with suspicion, then outright hostility from the un-Talented. Disaster loomed large when freaks, 'wild' Talents, brought dissension to the group and threatened to destroy it. Having a Talent was like riding a winged horse. And the path of Pegasus unbridled could lead in terrifying directions:- (original cost £1.25). Cover Art: Chris Achilleos (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7¼" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1969 Edition. © 1958: 1st in the 'Trantorian' series of books. 1st printing of 1969 paperback edition:- Synopsis: When Joseph Schwartz walked past the Institute for Nuclear Research in Chicago, he raised one foot in the twentieth century and lowered it in Galactic Era 827. He was still on earth, but at a time when mankind had colonised the Galaxy, and the people of the home planet were outcasts, clinging to the soil of a radio-active world. A revolution of Earth's militarists threatened the Galactic Empire with chaos and strangely Schwartz found himself the only man who could avert the disaster:- (original cost 5'). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7¼" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1969 Edition. © 1965: A collection of 9 short stories by Robert Silverberg. 1st printing of 1969 edition. With an introduction by Isaac Asimov:- Contents: The Old Man / New Men For Mars / Collecting Team / Double Dare / The Overlord's Thumb / Ozymandias / Certainty / Mind For Business / Misfit:- Review(s): "If there is one thing I like to do, it is to beam condescendingly down upon bright young authors who enter my field; that is, science fiction. There is something delightful about unbending from my awesome height as established master in the genre (I am Isaac Asimov, by the way, if you haven't already guessed) to encourage some eager young person who has set his shaky foot upon the path I have myself trod so sure-footedly and so far. I was all set to do this to young Robert Silverberg when he began to publish science fiction stories in the middle 1950s. I prepared my little speech, one that was not too awe-inspiring, of course, but yet with just a touch of necessary dignity, and was set. And then what do you suppose the miserable ungrateful creature went and did? He zoomed upward at rocket velocities! I was just bending down to pat him on the head when he whizzed by and nearly took the skin of my nose. When I leaned back and looked upward, there was Robert Silverberg - a firs-magnitude star in the science fiction heavens. He went from mere fan to big-time writer in exactly zero time". Robert Silverberg introduces himself with 9 first rate original stories. As Isaac Asimov says: "You might as well read them, the rat writes excellent stories":- (original cost 5'). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. VG+ Cover art by Eddie Jones.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Gd. Condition Classic Science Fiction ( SF17A ). Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Gd. Condition Classic Science Fiction ( SF17A ). Book.

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear. 1979 Edition. © 1978: A stand-alone novel by Robert Sheckley. 1st printing of 1979 paperback edition:- Synopsis: Alistair Crompton is the celebrated chief tester of Pstchosmell, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of psychotropic perfumes. He is also a cured schizophrenic, and an unhappy man. The trouble is that Crompton's problem has been solved by very drastic means - the several conflicting parts of his personality are now wandering around the universe in other bodies. He needs them back if he is to escape his tediously predictable existence and achieve his burning ambition: to be a creature of wisdom, sexuality, machismo and FUN. And so Alistair Crompton's journey begins, to the farthest - not o mention weirdest and most hilarious - reaches of the galaxy. In search of his other selves:- Review(s): "It's super-Sheckley - with the future's oddest odyssey" / "Witty and ingenious. As refreshing as a squirt from a soda syphon, a draught of pure Voltaire and tonic" - J G Ballard / "Sheckley in superior gadfly form. Full of elegant inventiveness and a wit that is devastatingly shrewd" - The Times:- (original cost £0.95). Cover Art: Peter Elson (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1974 Edition. © 1971: 2nd in the 'Dragonriders Of Pern' series of books. 1st printing of 1974 edition:- Synopsis: The silver threads of the Red Star fell upon Pern bringing black ruin and destruction. Between the planet and annihilation stood the Dragonriders and their huge mounts - the great fire-breathing dragons of Pern. But even those winged monsters needed help in their struggle - from a tiny fire-lizard that could show the way to defeat a searing threat greater than any Pern had faced before. 'Dragonquest' continues the adventures of the Dragonriders begun in 'Dragonflight':- (original cost £0.40). Cover Art: Eddie Jones (illustratore).…

Paperback: 7¼" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1969 Edition. © 1958: 1st in the 'Trantorian' series of books. 3rd printing of 1969 paperback edition:- Synopsis: When Joseph Schwartz walked past the Institute for Nuclear Research in Chicago, he raised one foot in the twentieth century and lowered it in Galactic Era 827. He was still on earth, but at a time when mankind had colonised the Galaxy, and the people of the home planet were outcasts, clinging to the soil of a radio-active world. A revolution of Earth's militarists threatened the Galactic Empire with chaos and strangely Schwartz found himself the only man who could avert the disaster:- (original cost 5' (£0.25)). Cover Art: Uncredited (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Reprint. 189 pages. No inscriptions. Light tanned pages G/PB Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Peter Elson (illustratore). Book.

Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condizione: Good: Moderate signs of wear. 1st Edition. © 1978: A collection of 13 short stories by Robert Sheckley: 1st edition, 1st printing paperback:- Contents: The Robot Who Looked Like Me / Slaves Of Time / Voices / A Suppliant In Space / Sneak Previews / Zirn Left Unguarded, The Jenghik Palace In Flames, Jon Westerly Dead / Welcome To The Standard Nightmare . The Never-Ending Western Movie / What Is Life? / I See A Man Sitting On A Chair, And The Chair Is Biting His Leg / Is That What People Do / Silversmith Wishes / End City:- Synopsis: In this scintillating showcase of superlatively surreal and satirical Sheckley shenanigans, one of the wildest and most inventive talents in modern science fiction runs riot through a galactic gallery of robots, aliens, human beings, disembodied intelligences and a whole lot more. Chances are your going to be laughing so hard as you read that you'll never work out quite which is which. But who's worried?:- Review(s): The things they say about Sheckley: "His wicked and bizarre humour puts him in a class by himself" - Sunday Times / "Always he crackles with ideas" - Kingsley Amis / "The man with the most way-out sense of humour in SF. He can make the most frightening situation seem hilarious" - Yorkshire Post / "One of science fiction's most distinguished writers. One of the brightest stars in the science fiction galaxy" - Manchester Evening News:- (original cost £0.85). Cover Art: Peter Goodfellow (illustratore).…