Science Fiction
MOSTLY HARMLESS.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1992]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Adams. Introduction by James Gunn. The fifth book in the Hitch Hiker series. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-3.
TIME MACHINES.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-two stories by Jack Finney, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Larry Niven, Robert Sawyer, Connie Willis, Rudyard Kipling and others.
THE BRIGHTFOUNT DIARIES.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, [1955]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book.
DRACULA UNBOUND.
[New York]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Time travelers connect with Bram Stoker to fight Dracula from a future where the human race is enslaved.
EARTHWORKS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. "An overpopulated world drifts towards nuclear Armageddon as the only 'solution' to its problems." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 115.
HOTHOUSE.
London: Faber and Faber, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Aldiss on the title page. Issued earlier in the U.S. in a shorter version as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962). Novelization of five Hothouse stories that won the 1962 Hugo award for best short fiction published in 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-3. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 34.
NON-STOP.
London: Faber and Faber, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First edition, first printing. Signed by Aldiss on the title page. The author's first sf novel. Issued later with textual differences in the U.S. as STARSHIP (1959). "... a brilliant treatment of the generation starship and also the theme of conceptual breakthrough in a kind of spacegoing ruined-Earth society; it has become a classic of the field and in 2008 was awarded a retrospective British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel of 1958." - John Clute / David Pringle, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-4. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #25. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 160.
A ROMANCE OF THE EQUATOR.
[Birmingham: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1979]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Limited to 550 numbered copies. Signed by Aldiss on the limitation page. Booklet issued for Novacon 10 at which Aldiss was guest of honor. Prints the short story.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [1994]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. trade edition. The last volume in the author's "Squire Quartet." "Roy Burnell likes his job; he travels the globe for World Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, an agency that researches, registers, and attempts to protect fine architecture from the dangers of wars that have broken out in Europe and Asia. While inspecting a cathedral in Budapest, Burnell encounters another danger of the 21st century: memory pirates. Ten years of his architectural knowledge and sexual experiences have been stolen from him, packaged, and offered up for sale on the e-mnemonicvision black market; Burnell is left confused and bereft. In search of his career and his stolen memories, Burnell travels east, into the heart of ethnic warfare and human depravity. On his journeys he encounters a faithless priest concealing a priceless icon, a brutal conqueror, ruthless profiteers and apathetic prostitutes, and, perhaps most frightening of all, his ex-wife. He braves sandstorms, scorpions, cholera, terrorists, and government bureaucracy, trying to make sense of his own life and the lives of others. Intelligent, funny, and hopeful in spite of itself, Aldiss's (A Tupolev Too Far, 1994) latest fantasy serves as a powerful warning about the perils of the future and a rueful assessment of humanity's likely response." - Kirkus Review 1 June, 1994.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1994]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Aldiss. Introduction by James Gunn. "Roy Burnell likes his job; he travels the globe for World Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, an agency that researches, registers, and attempts to protect fine architecture from the dangers of wars that have broken out in Europe and Asia. While inspecting a cathedral in Budapest, Burnell encounters another danger of the 21st century: memory pirates. Ten years of his architectural knowledge and sexual experiences have been stolen from him, packaged, and offered up for sale on the e-mnemonicvision black market..." - Kirkus Review, 1 June, 1994. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series.
SPACE, TIME AND NATHANIEL.
London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF book, a collection of fourteen short stories. Includes "The Shubshub Race," a satire set partly on Upotia, a destination planet for wealthy individuals. "Fourteen lyrical stories, comprising its author's first collection. Notable entries are 'Outside' (1955), 'Psyclops' (1956) and 'The Failed Men' (1957)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 338. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 264.
SPACE, TIME AND NATHANIEL.
London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF book, a collection of fourteen short stories. Includes "The Shubshub Race," a satire set partly on Upotia, a destination planet for wealthy individuals. "Fourteen lyrical stories, comprising its author's first collection. Notable entries are 'Outside' (1955), 'Psyclops' (1956) and 'The Failed Men' (1957)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 338. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 264.
NEBULA AWARD STORIES TWO.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eleven stories by Richard McKenna, Bob Shaw, R. A. Lafferty, Jack Vance, Frederik Pohl, Philip K. Dick, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.
HOTHOUSE...
London: Faber and Faber, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Issued earlier in the U.S. in a shorter version as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962). Novelization of five Hothouse stories that won the 1962 Hugo award for best short fiction published in 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-3. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 34.
FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND.
[Lakewood, CO]: Centipede Press, [2016]. Octavo, artwork by Thomas Walker, cloth. New edition. This copy has no limitation page, it was sent out as a review copy (no review slip present). New introduction by Michael Swanwick.
HELLICONIA WINTER.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The final volume in the trilogy. A "massive attempt at world-creation: the evocation of an alien planet where 'winter' lasts many centuries. An epic narrative, impressively detailed. John W. Campbell award winner, 1983..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 170. "Though science fiction often has this scope, it has never had this grandeur." - The Times Literary Supplement. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-11.
AN ISLAND CALLED MOREAU.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
THE SALIVA TREE: AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS
London: Faber and Faber, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection.
THE RETURN.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2000]. Octavo, frontispiece by Vincent Di Fate, full leather, a.e.g. Limited edition. One of an unknown number of copies signed by Aldrin and Barnes. A near future science fiction/political thriller, a murder on a space shuttle and a nuclear war in Asia.
THE X FILES: GROUND ZERO.
New York: HarperPrism, 1995. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
EARTHMAN'S BURDEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition, first binding of light blue boards with spine panel lettered in dark blue. Collects six Hoka stories including "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound," a Sherlockian pastiche.
EARTHMAN'S BURDEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, second binding of gray cloth with spine panel lettered in red. Signed on the title page by both Dickson and Anderson. Collects six Hoka stories including "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound," a Sherlockian pastiche. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-9.
BRAIN WAVE.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1955]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-5.
THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN.
Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1973. Octavo, boards. First edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. First printing with no code on page 181. Jacket painting by Richard Corben.
THE ENEMY STARS.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. "...this is Anderson at his tragic-heroic best, blending meticulous astrophysics with brooding romanticism." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-6. Nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959.