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PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Gardner F. Fox, Raymond F. Jones, Carl Jacobi and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Gardner F. Fox, Raymond F. Jones, Carl Jacobi and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
BROKEN SYMMETRIES.
New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1983]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Preuss will scare you rigid with his convincing picture of mostly well-meaning people and bureaucrats colliding and chain-reacting towards disaster." - David Langford. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-875.
BROKEN SYMMETRIES.
New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1983]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Preuss will scare you rigid with his convincing picture of mostly well-meaning people and bureaucrats colliding and chain-reacting towards disaster." - David Langford. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-875.
HUMAN ERROR.
[New York]: Tor, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A 1986 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-343.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by Chester Martin, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Creature That Time Forgot" by Ray Bradbury.Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1948. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the classic story "Mars Is Heaven" by Ray Bradbury, part of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Also stories by James Blish, William Tenn, A. Betram Chandler and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by A. Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Rocket Summer" by Ray Bradbury. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1948. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Jonah of the Jove Run" by Ray Bradbury. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Asleep in Amageddon" by Ray Bradbury. Fiction by Leigh Brackett, Ray Cummings and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Asleep in Amageddon" by Ray Bradbury. Fiction by Leigh Brackett, Ray Cummings and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
STARDANCE.
New York: The Dial Press / James Wade, [1979]. 5 x 1/4" x 9", printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed by the Robinsons. Part of this novel first appeared as a novella in ANALOG and won the 1977 Nebula and 1978 Hugo awards. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-921.
STARDANCE.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1991]. Octavo, illustrations by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Elizabeth Anne Hull. Part of this novel first appeared as a novella in ANALOG and won the 1977 Nebula and 1978 Hugo awards. Collector's notes laid in. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-921.
TRUE MINDS.
Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Robinson. Collects five stories, five poems and an essay. Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Twelve.
CARLUCCI'S HEART.
New York: Ace Books, [1997]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Cybernoir thriller set in San Francisco of the 21st century. Third volume of a trilogy.
SHIP OF FOOLS.
New York: Ace Books, [2001]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. "A generation ship searching for inhabited planets is drawn by a beacon to a planet where all human residents have died violently; upon leaving, it encounters a mysterious giant ship of alien origin." - ISFDB online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-944.
THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF MANKIND.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1989. Octavo, boards. First edition. A posthumous collection of fourteen stories introduced by Frederik Pohl. "The quality is variable, but the collection is worth having because all of Smith's sf work was linked into one grand future history -- small in terms of the wordage, but vast in its imaginative implications." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 187. The text follows that of the 1979 Ballantine paperback edition.
QUEST OF THE THREE WORLDS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1989. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition.
YOU WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
Evanston: Regency Books, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Regency RB 309. Paperback original. Collects eight stories.
SPACE LORDS ...
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Collects five Instrumentality stories including "The Dead Lady of Clown Town" and "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell." Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-354. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2122-26.
NEXT TIME IS FOR LIFE.
New York: Dell, 1953. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
WEIRDBOOK.
Chambersburg, PA (1-5) and Buffalo, NY (6-9): W. Paul Ganley, 1968-1975. Large octavo, nine issues, pictorial self wrappers, stapled. The first nine issues of the amateur magazine of fiction featuring supernatural and fantastic adventure. Includes material by Robert E. Howard, H. Warner Munn, Joseph Payne Brennan, Tim Powers, Wade Wellman,
DEATH AND THE DEVIL.
New York: Stamford House, [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pony Book 63. Mystery novel.
FREAK SHOW.
Baltimore: Borderlands Press, 1992 [i.e. 1993]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Limited to 750 numbered copies, this copy is not numbered and marked "PC," signed by editor Wilson, artist Phil Parks, and the contributors. Shared world horror anthology centered on a traveling circus. Collects nineteen stories by Rex Miller, Kathryn Ptacek, Dan Simmons, Steven Spruill, Chet Williamson, F. Paul Wilson and others.
AD STATUM PERSPICUUM.
Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Wilson. Collects three stories. Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Thirteen.