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GRÁINNE.
[Normansland, Salisbury, Wilts.]: Kerosina Books, 1986. Octavo, boards. First edition. Limited to 1026 copies of which this is one of 750 trade copies. Winner of the 1988 British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel.
KAETI & COMPANY.
[Normansland, Salisbury, Wilts.]: Kerosina Books, 1986. Octavo, boards. First edition. Limited to 1026 copies of which this is one of 800 trade copies. Story cycle with eight of the ten stories first collected here.
KITEWORLD.
New York: Arbor House, 1985. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
LADIES FROM HELL.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects five long stories: "Our Lady of Desperation," "The Shack at Great Cross Halt," "The Ministry of Children," "The Big Fans" and "Missa Privata." Stories in the Orwellian tradition about the struggle for individual freedom in the near future. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-442].
MACHINES AND MEN: SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
London: Hutchinson, [1973]. "First published 1973" on copyright page. First edition. The author's first short story collection, "ten well-told and often emotionally intense sf pieces by a very English writer." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [220]. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-442].
PAVANE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. This edition adds "The White Boat" which is not included in the U.K. edition. "Papal domination of Europe has slowed progress and a dystopian medievalism has lasted into the twentieth century" - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 313-4. "... a striking work of the imagination." - Burgess, Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939, p. 104. With his second book, Roberts came fully into his own as a writer. PAVANE superbly depicts an alternate history in which -- Elizabeth I having been assassinated, the Spanish Armada victorious and no Protestant rise of capitalism in the offing -- a technologically backward England survives under the sway of the Catholic Church Militant. The individual stories are moody, eloquent, elegiac and thoroughly convincing." - John Clute, SFE (online) [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-362. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #58].
PAVANE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. This edition adds "The White Boat" which is not included in the U.K. edition. "Papal domination of Europe has slowed progress and a dystopian medievalism has lasted into the twentieth century" - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 313-4. "... a striking work of the imagination." - Burgess, Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939, p. 104. With his second book, Roberts came fully into his own as a writer. PAVANE superbly depicts an alternate history in which -- Elizabeth I having been assassinated, the Spanish Armada victorious and no Protestant rise of capitalism in the offing -- a technologically backward England survives under the sway of the Catholic Church Militant. The individual stories are moody, eloquent, elegiac and thoroughly convincing." - John Clute, SFE (online) [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-362. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #58].
WINTERWOOD AND OTHER HAUNTINGS.
[Scotforth, Lancs]: Morrigan Publications, 1989. Octavo, boards. First edition. Roberts's first collection of ghost stories, collecting seven stories, including the heretofore unpublished novella "Mrs Cibber."