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AND ALL THE STARS A STAGE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, boards. First edition.
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.
DENVER IS MISSING.
New York: Walker and Company, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Ecological disaster novel when a group of scientists release a pocket of nitrogen gas into the atmosphere, high altitude cities such as Denver suffer dire consequences. Chaos ensues.
PLANET RUN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
ARMED CAMPS.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. The author's first SF novel, in the style of "New Wave" fiction. A dystopian future, "...warfare is the one constant thing in the world; and although it seems that only champions fight and die, great numbers of people are killed each year. And instead of trying to end it, the top brass make sure it will go on - forever..." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.), pp. 770-771. Anatomy of Wonder (204) II-891.
PARADOX LOST: AND TWELVE OTHER GREAT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
NY: Random House, [1973]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects thirteen stories, most previously published in magazines (1943-1963). Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 287.
THE SEASON TO BE WARY.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects three novellas of suspense. Two of the stories were adapted for the pilot episode of the television program Night Gallery.
A POCKETFUL OF STARS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects nineteen stories by Kate Wilhelm, Gordon R. Dickson, Harlan Ellision, Fritz Leiber, Gene Wolfe, James Sallis, Joanna Russ and other. According to front flap Knight compiled the anthology from the archives of the Milford Writer's Workshop.
A FOR ANYTHING.
New York: Walker and Company, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The complete text of THE PEOPLE MAKER (1959). "Problems with a matter-duplication device." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [1]. "Rigid, stratified, slave society as a result of a machine that can reproduce anything." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 279. "An uneasy adventure developed from the premise of a brilliant short story." - Brian Stableford.
THE FALL OF NEW YORK.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Set in a dystopian near future. "This is the post-revolutionary diary of twelve-year-old Alan Erdman, one of the horde of feral Cub Scouts and pistol-packing Lolitas who inhabit New York after the President and all sensible adults have fled to foreign shores. The Pentagon-Mafia provisional government sends out occasional tank patrols and the student radicals who started it all are holed up waiting for their own escape break while the kids (media-crazed or plain atavistic or both, it's never clear) play commando with Army surplus and safari gear looted from Abercrombie's." - Kirkus review 29 March, 1971.
CART & CWIDDER.
New York: Atheneum, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The first book in the Dalemark series. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-196. Barron (ed) Fantasy Literature 4B-81. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 564.
DROWNED AMMET.
New York: Atheneum, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The second book in the Dalemark series preceded by CART AND CWIDDER. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-196. Barron (ed) Fantasy Literature 4B-81. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 565.
DYING INSIDE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "David Selig's extraordinary telepathic powers have made him an outcast. He is unable to come to terms with his declining talents and is terrified of losing them. A powerful and moving study that explores from a unique perspective the psychological, moral and social implications of psychic powers, a major concern in contemporary dark fantasy, especially in works such as Kings's THE DEAD ZONE and Matheson's A STIR OF ECHOES. Regarded by many as Silverberg's finest work." - Stefan Dizemianowicz in Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-334. Nominated for both the Hugo award and Nebula award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1017. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-271. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 671-75.
THE BOOK OF SKULLS.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1972]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "A student finds an ancient manuscript in the rare books room at the university library, which seems to promise immortality if he and three friends can track down the Brotherhood of the Skull. They travel to Arizona on their quest, only to find that what awaits is not immortality but terror and death. Very much a product of the late-1960s and early-1970s fascination with the occult and hallucinogenic transcendent experience, this novel still packs a considerable punch." - Michael M. Levy in Barron (ed), Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1406. 1972 Nebula nominee.
NIGHTWINGS.
New York: Walker and Company, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The novella version was a 1968 Nebula and 1969 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1021. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1526-30.
HARVEST HOME.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...is the best of the 'fertility cult' novels by a wide margin." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-305. Basis for a television production "The Dark Secret of Harvest Home." Barron (ed), Fantasy & Horror (1999) 6-375. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 690-94. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-210. Winter list, p. 271.
THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1968]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First U.S. edition. Set in a dystopian future where aliens have conquered the Earth. They travel in in three legged vehicles reminiscent of the Martian war machines in H.G. Well's WAR OF THE WORLDS. The aliens control humans by inserting communication devices in their heads. The final book of a trilogy preceded by THE WHITE MOUNTAINS (1967) and THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD (1967). And later a fourth book, a prequel, WHEN THE TRIPODS CAME (1988) was published. Basis for a BBC series "The Tripods." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-244.