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THE WHOLE MAN.
New York: Walker & Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. "World largely controlled by an international team of telepathists attached to the World Heath Organization." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 161. This novel, a 1965 Hugo nominee, was first published as a paperback original in 1964 by Ballantine Books and in Britain in 1965 as TELEPATHIST. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-176.
THE LIGHT THAT NEVER WAS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
MISSION TO THE HEART STARS.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Three Earthmen are on a diplomatic mission to the Heart Stars, rulers of a planetary federation. Published simultaneously with the British edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-15.
TWILIGHT OF THE CITY: A NOVEL OF THE NEAR FUTURE.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., [1977]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Revised expanded edition of THE CITY DWELLERS (1970). "...a substantial Near-Future look at the death of an unnamed city closely resembling New York and of the crisis-ridden America surrounding it." - SFE Online.
NONE BUT MAN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. New colonies in space are threatened by aliens preparing for war, will the old world sacrifice them for peace?
WELCOME TO MARS.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition.
FOUR CAME BACK...
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., [1968]. Octavo. First edition. Near future thriller which takes place on a space station in which a mysterious virus affects the crew.
TURNING ON: THIRTEEN STORIES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Thirteen stories published in the SF magazines between 1951 and 1965, including "The Big Pat Boom, "Auto-da-fe" and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-236. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 963.
MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eighteen stories from Cyrano de Bergerac, Shelley and Poe to writers of the thirties; Stapledon, Wylie and Weinbaum.
SEEKERS OF TOMORROW: MASTERS OF MODERN SCIENCE FICTION.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Companion volume to EXPLORERS OF THE INFINITE, the articles in this volume focuses on the emerging writers of the late '30s and early '40s. E. E. Smith, J.W. Campbell, Asimov, Van Vogt, Heinlein, Sturgeon, Clakre, etc. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-191.
MODERN MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories with emphasis on golden-age SF by Isaac Asimov, Clifford D. Simak, Robert A. Heinlein, John W. Campbell, John Wyndham, Henry Kuttner, Arthur C. Clarke, and others. Includes fiction by many of the writers profiled in Moskowitz's critical study, SEEKERS OF TOMORROW (1966). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-450.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HAND.
New York: Walker and Company, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A science fiction mystery novel, sequel to THE TRANSVECTION MACHINE.
THE GREEN GENE.
New York: Pantheon Books A Division of Random House, [1973]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. "As a result of some genetic shift, white people begin to give birth to dark-skinned babies, and this leads to racial strife in a nasty near future Britain. A well meaning and highly competent SF novel..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 162. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-273.
ABYSS: TWO NOVELLAS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects "The Plastic Abyss" and "Stranger in the House." See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-600.
AND ALL THE STARS A STAGE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, boards. First edition.
HIERO'S JOURNEY.
Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, [1973]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Lanier's second and most important novel, a quest tale set in a post-atomic-war wilderness in which the hero searches for a "mythical computer which might reconstruct things." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 690-691. "Boisterous picaresque adventure fiction, comparable to Piers Anthony's Xanth fantasy novels as well as SF post-holocaust romances like Zelazny's DAMNATION ALLEY."-Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-631. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-249.
HERE ABIDE MONSTERS.
New York: Atheneum, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Two people are transported to Avalon of Arthurian legend.
DRAGON MAGIC.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1972]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Series of interconnected stories featuring four boys of different international backgrounds who via a spell encounter different dragons of legend.
EXILES OF THE STARS.
New York: The Viking Press, [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. In the publisher's trade binding. Sequel to MOON OF THREE RINGS.
ANDROID AT ARMS.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
DREAD COMPANION.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1970]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
VICTORY ON JANUS.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Sequel to JUDGMENT ON JANUS (1963).
MOON OF THREE RINGS.
New York: The Viking Press, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. SF novel, first of the "Moon Singer" series.
QUEST CROSSTIME.
New York: The Viking Press, 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. In the publisher's trade binding. Sequel to THE CROSSROADS OF TIME (1956). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-817.
RETIEF: AMBASSADOR TO SPACE: SEVEN INCIDENTS OF THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE TERRESTRIENNE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A story collection with seven adventures of Retief, galactic diplomat. The fifth Retief book.