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FOUNDATION.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953. Octavo, Hardcover. First British edition. First book in the Foundation series.
THE GODS THEMSELVES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "In the twenty-second century, Earth and men of a para-universe establish an ideal energy exchange. Through Earthmen's electron pump and the para-men's position pump, the energy needs of both worlds are satisfied without energy loss to either. A few probing skeptics, men and para-men, learn that in time the exchange will explode our Sun, but both scientific establishments ignore their alarm. The 'fathers' of the energy pumps, puffed with pride and selfishness, will not allow their reputation, doctrine, and achievement to be jeopardized ... The blind egotism and leaden conscience of his [Asimov's] scientific establishments offer no promise that a world ruled by scientists rather than politicians would be more free of it." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 130. THE GODS THEMSELVES ... which was only the second genuine singleton of his career and which won both Hugo and Nebula awards, proved to be his finest single creation, a complex tale involving potentially catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes and -- rarely for him -- intriguing alien beings (they are considerably more interesting than the humans in the cast)." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). Written with a verve and economy that are missing from Asimov's later novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-48. Winner of the 1972 Nebula award and 1973 Hugo award for best novel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 909-14.
THE GODS THEMSELVES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "In the twenty-second century, Earth and men of a para-universe establish an ideal energy exchange. Through Earthmen's electron pump and the para-men's position pump, the energy needs of both worlds are satisfied without energy loss to either. A few probing skeptics, men and para-men, learn that in time the exchange will explode our Sun, but both scientific establishments ignore their alarm. The 'fathers' of the energy pumps, puffed with pride and selfishness, will not allow their reputation, doctrine, and achievement to be jeopardized ... The blind egotism and leaden conscience of his [Asimov's] scientific establishments offer no promise that a world ruled by scientists rather than politicians would be more free of it." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 130. THE GODS THEMSELVES ... which was only the second genuine singleton of his career and which won both Hugo and Nebula awards, proved to be his finest single creation, a complex tale involving potentially catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes and -- rarely for him -- intriguing alien beings (they are considerably more interesting than the humans in the cast)." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). Written with a verve and economy that are missing from Asimov's later novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-48. Winner of the 1972 Nebula award and 1973 Hugo award for best novel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 909-14.
THE GODS THEMSELVES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Asimov on the front free end paper. "In the twenty-second century, Earth and men of a para-universe establish an ideal energy exchange. Through Earthmen's electron pump and the para-men's position pump, the energy needs of both worlds are satisfied without energy loss to either. A few probing skeptics, men and para-men, learn that in time the exchange will explode our Sun, but both scientific establishments ignore their alarm. The 'fathers' of the energy pumps, puffed with pride and selfishness, will not allow their reputation, doctrine, and achievement to be jeopardized ... The blind egotism and leaden conscience of his [Asimov's] scientific establishments offer no promise that a world ruled by scientists rather than politicians would be more free of it." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 130. THE GODS THEMSELVES ... which was only the second genuine singleton of his career and which won both Hugo and Nebula awards, proved to be his finest single creation, a complex tale involving potentially catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes and -- rarely for him -- intriguing alien beings (they are considerably more interesting than the humans in the cast)." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). Written with a verve and economy that are missing from Asimov's later novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-48. Winner of the 1972 Nebula award and 1973 Hugo award for best novel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 909-14.
THE GODS THEMSELVES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "In the twenty-second century, Earth and men of a para-universe establish an ideal energy exchange. Through Earthmen's electron pump and the para-men's position pump, the energy needs of both worlds are satisfied without energy loss to either. A few probing skeptics, men and para-men, learn that in time the exchange will explode our Sun, but both scientific establishments ignore their alarm. The 'fathers' of the energy pumps, puffed with pride and selfishness, will not allow their reputation, doctrine, and achievement to be jeopardized ... The blind egotism and leaden conscience of his [Asimov's] scientific establishments offer no promise that a world ruled by scientists rather than politicians would be more free of it." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 130. THE GODS THEMSELVES ... which was only the second genuine singleton of his career and which won both Hugo and Nebula awards, proved to be his finest single creation, a complex tale involving potentially catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes and -- rarely for him -- intriguing alien beings (they are considerably more interesting than the humans in the cast)." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). Written with a verve and economy that are missing from Asimov's later novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-48. Winner of the 1972 Nebula award and 1973 Hugo award for best novel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 909-14.
GOOD TASTE.
[Topeka, KS: Apocalypse Press, 1976]. Octavo, decorated wrappers, sewn. A chapbook. First edition. Limited to 1012 copies of which this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Asimov.
GOOD TASTE.
[Topeka, KS: Apocalypse Press, 1976]. Octavo, decorated wrappers, sewn. First edition. Limited to 1012 copies of which this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Asimov. A chapbook. Short story.
GOOD TASTE.
[Topeka, KS: Apocalypse Press, 1976]. Octavo, decorated wrappers, sewn. First edition. Limited to 1012 copies of which this is one of 500 numbered copies with a facsimile signature. A short story.
I, ROBOT.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, illustrated by Edd Cartier, cloth. First edition. Influential collection of short fiction about robots with first postulation of the "Three Laws of Robotics," a concept used for plots in numerous tales by other writers in subsequent years. Includes "The Evitable Conflict." in which machines that have made the world of the twenty-first century an economic utopia take control of Mankind's future, moving it "toward an unknown and happy destiny." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 36-7. Loose basis for the recent film of the same title. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-49. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 995-99.
MURDER AT THE ABA: A PUZZLE IN FOUR DAYS AND SIXTY SCENES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Mystery.
THE NAKED SUN.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, jacket illustration by Ruth Ray, cloth. First edition. The second novel featuring detective Elijah Bailey and his robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw by "the writer who virtually invented the science fiction mystery. In his novels THE CAVES OF STEEL (1954) and THE NAKED SUN (1957) and in the stories collected as ASIMOV'S MYSTERIES (1968), he masterfully bridged the gap between the two genres and proved that genuine detective fiction could be set in the future as well as in the present or past." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 29. The human/robot detective team solve another murder, this one committed on Solaris, an Outer World with a robot-run economy, where the twenty thousand Solarians, thinly spread out over the surface of the planet, live in near total isolation from each other, and the presence or touch of another Solarian produces incapacitating physical repugnance. Bailey, from an underground Earth city, must overcome his fear of open spaces to solve the crime. "In its setting, it's a sort of inversion of THE CAVES OF STEEL, and it's equally cleverly plotted." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [249]. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-42. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1476-9.
NIGHTFALL AND OTHER STORIES.
Garden City, NY: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Includes the title story and nineteen others. Asimov provides an introduction to each story. "Nightfall" is one of the classic stories of Science Fiction, "his most famous story and probably the single most famous US sf story of all time." - John Clute and Malcolm Edwards, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-50.
NINE TOMORROWS: TALES OF THE NEAR FUTURE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1959]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. Story collection.
OPUS 200.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof in printed wrappers. The author's 200th book with selections from his second hundred works.
OPUS 300.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-15.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-15.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-15.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, unbound signatures. First edition. Unbound folded and gathered signatures sent as review copy by Doubleday with Doubleday & Company slip stapled to the front stating Uncorrected Proof. The author's first SF novel. Rare. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-15.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Asimov in the year of publication: "For: Dave / Speaker / Regards, in / two installments / Isaac Asimov / 12/3/50." The author's first book and first sf novel. In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland, populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-51. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 237.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF novel (and first book). In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland, populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-51. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 237. In 333.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, cloth. Reprint edition. Limitation of 1500 numbered and signed copies by Asimov, this is one of an undetermined number marked "P.C.". Facsimile reprint of the 1950 first edition of the authors first book on the 40th anniversary of publication. Laid in is the accompanying 4 page booklet with a new foreword by Asimov and an editor's note. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-51. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 237. In 333.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF novel (and first book). In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland, populated by a few million inhabitants who are discriminated against by the rest of the galactic empire which has forgotten that Earth was humanity's original home." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 122. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-51. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 237. In 333.
PUZZLES OF THE BLACK WIDOWERS.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1990. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fifth collection of Black Widower tales which is a 'best of' from the previous volumes and two new stories previously uncollected.
ROBOTS AND EMPIRE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-21.