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DAD'S NUKE.
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., [1985]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Not too far in the future, every American's home is, if not their castle, certainly their fortress. Outside the enclaves of decent, God-fearing folk the country is overrun by all kinds of untrustworthy ethnic minorities; and even inside the enclave walls, a strong defense is the only way to assure security" - publisher's description. A satire on the arms race. The author's first novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-625. Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [85]. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
THE MOON GODDESS AND THE SON.
[New York]: Baen Books, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A think-tank of the rich and famous (and quite a few SF fans) studies Russian history and devises a military strategy for the twenty-first century. There is a wealth of ideas and the characters are surprisingly human." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 244.
STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1984]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. First book of a diptych of novels titled "Visible and Invisible Persons Distributed in Space." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-318. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 421.
THE MAN WHO MELTED.
[New York]: A Bluejay International Edition, [1984]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Civilization falls apart as madness and extreme forms of religion grip people's minds. The most ambitious work so far by a doggedly avant-garde SF writer." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 225. 1984 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-297. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
THE JOURNAL OF NICHOLAS THE AMERICAN.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. THE JOURNAL OF NICHOLAS THE AMERICAN (1986) "depicts with alarming exactitude the anguish of paranormal empathy, which drives the young man who inherits the gift almost to insanity." - John Clute, SFE (online). The author's second book and first novel. 1986 Nebula nominee. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD.
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1989. Octavo, boards. First edition. Limited to 1010 copies of which this is one of 700 trade copies.
UP THE WALLS OF THE WORLD.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1978]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel. 1979 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1136.
MIRRORSHADES: THE CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY.
New York: Arbor House, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twelve stories by William Gibson, Tom Maddox, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, Marc Laidlaw, James Patrick Kelly, Greg Bear, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Paul Di Filippo, and Bruce Sterling (two stories, one a collaboration with William Gibson, the other a collaboration with Lewis Shiner). "... the first influential anthology of the movement" (Peter Nicholls) with a preface by Sterling that resembles a manifesto. Cyberpunk (a term said to have been coined by editor Gardner Dozois) was the most vigorous movement in the American SFof the 1980s; an attempt to combine New Wave literary virtues with punk-rock energy and a respect for high technology -- in other words, hard SF done with style and a supposedly streetwise sensibility. At its best, as in the work of William Gibson and Sterling himself, it's brilliantly effective. Contributors to this banner-waving tome also include Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, Lewis Shiner and John Shirley." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 241. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1363.
MEMOIRS OF A SPACE TRAVELER: FURTHER REMINISCENCES OF IJON TICHY ... Translated by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek.
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1982]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A continuation of THE STAR DIARIES (1976). Several of Ijon Tichy's adventures involve machines: a galactic society of "Phools" governed by a dictatorial machine, and a new civilization of electrified human beings evolved from washing machines. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-331.
SENSUOUS SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE WEIRD AND SPICY PULPS.
[Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects seven stories from TERROR TALES, SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES, MARVEL TALES and other pulps by Wayne Robbins, Richard Tooker, Lew Merrill and others.
THERE ARE DOORS.
New York: Tor, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A fantasy involving alternate worlds and the doorways between them. "Another masterful, delightful fantasy from the accomplished Wolfe ..." - Kirkus Review, 15 November, 1988.
FIELDS OF SLEEP ...
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1980. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 1200 copies signed by artist Thomas Canty. Fantasy novel, first published in 1923, in which people of Chaldean ancestry are discovered in Southeast Asia. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2265. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 777. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 219. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 200. Reginald 14696.
SISTER EMILY'S LIGHTSHIP.
New York: Tor, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A collection of twenty-eight stories, many with a fairy-tale quality, including three new stories first published here and two recent Nebula Award winners, "Lost Girls" and the title story, Includes an afterword by Yolen incorporating autobiographical comments on each story. "... her most substantial collection of adult fiction to date ..." - Gary K. Wolfe, Richard Bleiler, ed., Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror (2003), pp. 1008-1009. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
HUYSMAN'S PETS.
[New York]: Bluejay Books Inc., [1986]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-599.
THE CALCUTTA CHROMOSOME: A NOVEL OF FEVERS, DELIRIUM & DISCOVERY.
New York: Avon Books, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. The author's fourth novel, published earlier the same year in New Delhi by Ravi Dayal Publisher. Winner of the 1997 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-435.
SHADOWS IN THE SUN.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1985]. Octavo, boards. Later edition. A reissue of this classic novel, first published in book form by Ballantine Books in 1954. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-833. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1898-1901.
THE ANUBIS GATES ...
Shingletown, California: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. This edition adds an introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Winner of the 1983 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-871. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-302. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-207. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 88. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 84.
THE GATE TO WOMEN'S COUNTRY.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1988]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "After the nuclear war, women rebuilt society with themselves in control of all government, commerce, agriculture, and art. The men live in garrisons outside the city walls, devoting themselves to games, parades, military training, and occasional, strictly controlled, small-scale wars. When they come of age, boys are given the choice of leaving the city to join the men or remaining as servants. One young woman takes exception to this system and runs away with her male lover. Although Tepper has occasionally been criticized for the stridency of her message, THE GATE TO WOMEN'S COUNTRY is in reality a subtle and sophisticated novel." - Michael Levy. An "imaginative and moving novel." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 152-153. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1127. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
LOVECRAFT'S PROVIDENCE & ADJACENT PARTS ...
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1986. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-94 [95] [96: blank], cloth. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Four logs, accompanied by maps and photographic illustrations, detailing tours of Providence and adjacent regions locating sites and structures Lovecraft utilized in his fiction or mentioned in his correspondence.
NIGHTCHILD.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second novel. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-19. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-15.
THE SHORES OF ANOTHER SEA ...
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1984]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. "Scientists studying baboons in Africa come into contact with aliens who are studying them. A pleasant tale which effectively utilizes its author's experience of anthropology and of Africa." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 326. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-579.
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. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-442.
THE SIEGE OF 318: THIRTEEN MYSTICAL STORIES.
Webster Springs, West Virginia: Back Fork Books, Inc., [1978]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A number of these stories take place in Glory, Grubb's imaginary town in West Virginia. Several of the fantastic tales "are quasi-allegorical, including the title story, in which a toy soldier collection magically crystalizes prowar and antiwar sentiments between a young boy and his father, and "The Blue Spectacles," in which the eyeglasses of a benevolent doctor convey a vision of humanity's basic goodness to the hellfire preacher who inherits them." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-154. "In addition to the stories described by Barron, the most notable stories first published in this collection include 'Bitter Almonds,' a somber tale of a small-town sheriff investigating a murder committed via a hollow tooth and cyanide; 'The Burlap Bag,' a macabre Christmas fantasy about two five-year-old twins playing with the corpse of their stillborn half-brother because there are no toys in their house; and 'The Baby-Sitter,' a dark thriller of a teenage girl confronted during the night by two five-year-old brothers fighting over their father’s M-16, one of the most remarkable pieces of fiction to grow out of the social and political turmoil of the Vietnam War." - Boyd White.
THE COLLECTOR OF HEARTS: NEW TALES OF THE GROTESQUE.
[New York]: A William Abrahams Book / Dutton, [1998]. Octavo, two-part boards. First edition. A collection of twenty-seven stories. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-290.
HAUNTED: TALES OF THE GROTESQUE.
New York: A William Abrahams Book / Dutton, [1994]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A collection of sixteen stories with afterword by Oates. "A superb collection in which a writer from the literary mainstream unabashedly embraces the modern horror tradition." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-290. "With such stories as those found in HAUNTED, the terrain is squarely once again the human mind, albeit perhaps with cosmic implications: if we are haunted as humans, it may because we are adrift in a universe that offers us scant comfort. In any case, this remarkable collection corroborates what by now everyone must well know: that in her disturbing explorations of the darkness of the human heart -- surely the blackest well of mystery one could imagine -- Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most brilliant writers of our time." - Donald R. Burleson, Necrofile: The Review of Horror Literature #14 (1994), p. 10.