Science Fiction
THE SHEEP LOOK UP.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1972]. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. 1972 Nebula nominee. "The most elaborate alarmist novel about industrial pollution." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-72. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 69. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1913-16.
STAND ON ZANZIBAR.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The Hugo award winner for best novel, 1969. A Nebula nominee for 1968. "...one of the key works of the period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-74. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-74. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2140-45.
STAND ON ZANZIBAR.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1987]. Octavo, frontispiece by Vincent DiFate, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by David Brin. "Mammoth attempt to picture the world as it may well be in the early twenty-first century -- overpopulated, over automated, and torn by riots and muggings. The pop sociologist Chad C. Mulligan comments wryly on it all, and he is the nearest thing to a hero in this densely peopled book. Primarily didactic in intent, it borrows surface bravura from John Dos Passos's social realist USA trilogy (1930-1936)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 343. Winner of the 1969 Hugo award for best novel. 1968 Nebula nominee. Winner of the 1970 British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel and the French Prix Apollo. Collector's notes laid in. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-175. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2140-45.
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 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.
A VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA: WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE RELIGION, POLICY, CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF THAT COUNTRY ...
London: Printed by J. Watson in Black-Fryers, and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1727. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1] 2-167 [168: blank], engraved frontispiece, engraved tailpiece on page 121, later three-quarter green pebbled morocco and marbled boards, titled on spine in gold. First edition. Satire in the manner of Swift's GULLIVER'S TRAVELS in which the narrator finds himself shipwrecked in a land populated by a society of fowls. "A VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA, written by Captain Samuel Brunt and printed at London London in 1727, is one of the most imaginative, thoughtful, and subtly satirical works in the imaginary voyages genre. The author is a slave-trader who at the start of his narrative is captured on Jamaica by runaway slaves under their leader, a certain Captain Thomas. His shipmates having been decapitated, Brunt is taken to the slaves' village in the mountains and treated with kindness and hospitality. When the village is raided by the English and most of its population murdered, Brunt escapes with a friendly slave in a commandeered fishing vessel with the intention of reaching Cuba or Hispaniola. En route the vessel is captured by pirates, but, after further adventures, the pirate sloop breaks up in a storm and Brunt finds himself shipwrecked on an unknown island, Cacklogallinia, populated by a community of talking chickens. Its capital is Ludbitallya, and the island is ruled by the Emperor Hippomina Connuferento. Although at first regarded as a curiosity, Brunt (or Probusomo as he comes to be called) is befriended by the chief minister and rises to the rank of 'castleairiano, or, 'examiner of projects to raise taxes.' Brunt's description of the community is a fairly conventional satire on English life and Walpole's government, but the author enhances this with a parody of the South Sea Bubble, the speculative trading venture that burst in 1721, by involving Brunt in a project to finance a Cacklogallinian expedition to the Moon. Borrowing from Godwin's THE MAN IN THE MOONE, the hero is projected skyward in a palanquin borne by several of the flying chickens. However, rather than finding a trading paradise on the Moon, the Cacklogallinians discover a peaceful world populated by the souls of humans with a disregard for wealth and power, causing Brunt and his chicken entourage to reflect on the folly of their own societies. Anxious to return to his home country, and with the aid of a compass, Brunt descends from the Moon directly into the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, makes his way to Kingston, and there acquires a free passage to England." - Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel B60. "Nearly a hundred years elapsed between Godwin's THE MAN IN THE MOONE and the only other full-length English moon voyage to use the device of 'harnessing of birds' ... On the one hand this is a 'Robinsonade,' on the other an obvious imitation of the fourth book of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS which had been published a year before Brunt's lesser work appeared ... The originality of A VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA does not arise from its science ... It comes from the fact that this is the first moon voyage, the inspiration for which is to be found primarily in economics ... This is a satire upon that great orgy of speculation, the South Sea Bubble ... From this background, so poignantly in the minds of his contemporaries, Captain Samuel Brunt drew the materials for his satire." - Nicolson, Voyages to the Moon, pp. 98-108. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-8 and (1981) 1-28. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 286. Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pp. 259-61. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 30. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 42. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V153. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 159. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 20-1. Bleiler (1978), p. 33. Reginald 02080.
AMONG THE DEAD AND OTHER EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE APOCALYPSE.
New York: Macmillan, 1973. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription by Bryant. Author's first book.
CINNABAR.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., [1976]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Bryant to "Dan" on the title page. Linked stories about "a decadent far future city where aesthetic motives are paramount and ennui reigns supreme" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-178. "Clever and atmospheric work ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 67.
BLOOD AND BURNING.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. This edition prints six of the eleven stories printed in the 1978 Berkley paperback. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-75.
THE FURIOUS FUTURE.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd, 1964. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover edition). Collects nine stories. Issued earlier in the U.S. as BUDRYS' INFERNO (1963). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-76.
HARD LANDING.
[New York]: Warner Books, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Nebula Award nominee. Thirty years after an alien ship crash lands on earth, the four humanoid survivors have blended into American life. But after the death of one in which an autopsy reveals his true nature and the discovery of the original alien ship, an investigation begins.
THE IRON THORN.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover edition). Issued earlier in the U.S. as a paperback original, THE AMSIRS AND THE IRON THORN (1967).
THE UNEXPECTED DIMENSION.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. First published in the U.S. as a paperback. Collects the title story and six others. "A thoughtful collection..." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-39.
THE UNEXPECTED DIMENSION.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover edition). First published in the U.S. as a paperback. Collects the title story and six others. "A thoughtful collection..." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-39. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-182.
WHO?
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing. "An American scientist is badly injured in an explosion, then "repaired" by Soviet doctors and returned to the USA. The problem is that he is now virtually a cyborg and no one can be sure of his identity. A clever cold-war thriller which established this young writer's reputation." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 419. "A strong indictment of the idiocies dignified at that time (and to a great extent still today) as 'security,' but a parable also of estrangement and alienation more generally." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-183. "Perhaps as fine a study of dehumanization and alienation as SF will ever produce." - Gene Wolfe. 1959 Hugo nominee. Filmed in 1973 with Elliott Gould and Trevor Howard, it is faithful to the concept of the novel. Retitled for the video release as Roboman, apparently to cash in on the Robocop craze. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2474-77.
WHO?
New York: Pyramid Books, [1958]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid Books G339. "An American scientist is badly injured in an explosion, then "repaired" by Soviet doctors and returned to the USA. The problem is that he is now virtually a cyborg and no one can be sure of his identity. A clever cold-war thriller which established this young writer's reputation." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 419. "A strong indictment of the idiocies dignified at that time (and to a great extent still today) as 'security,' but a parable also of estrangement and alienation more generally." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-183. "Perhaps as fine a study of dehumanization and alienation as SF will ever produce." - Gene Wolfe. 1959 Hugo nominee. Filmed in 1973 with Elliott Gould and Trevor Howard, it is faithful to the concept of the novel. Retitled for the video release as Roboman, apparently to cash in on the Robocop craze. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2474-77.
BORDERS OF INFINITY.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1989]. Octavo, frontispiece by Ray Miller, full leather, a.e.g. First hardcover edition. One of an unknown number of copies signed by Bujold on a special limitation page. New introduction by James Gunn. A Miles Vorkosigan adventure. A section of this novel comprises "The Mountains of Mourning," winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novella. Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-186.
FALLING FREE.
[New York]: Baen Books, [1988]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Winner of the 1988 Nebula award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-185. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
MEMORY.
New York: Baen Books, 1996. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. A Mildes Vorkosigan novel. A Hugo and Nebula award nominee.
MIRROR DANCE.
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1994]. Octavo, frontispiece by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. First edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Bujold. Winner of the 1995 Hugo award for best novel. Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
BONE DANCE: A FANTASY FOR TECHNOPHILES.
New York: Ace Books, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. In a post nuclear holocaust near future, set in Minneapolis, a scavenger of pre-war audio and video tech is caught between a the remnants of shadowy who worked for the government who could take over the bodies and memories of those around them and a Voodoo practitioner group trying to fix society. This is a cross genre novel of hard science and fantasy. Some label it in the cyber-punk realm. Nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-188. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
SWASTIKA NIGHT.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-287 [288], original blue cloth, spine stamped in dark blue. First edition. Important proto-feminist scientific romance. Burdekin's "best known novel examines a Nazi-dominated Europe 500 years hence through the eyes of the young German protagonist, who begins to understand that something is perhaps awry in a world where women are breeding-animals and Hitler is deified ... a writer of considerable interest. Her work is at times surreptitiously couched, and her message is too often found embedded in romance-fiction plotting, but Burdekin can now be seen as a figure of contemporary interest." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 175. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-21; (1995) 2-26; and (2004) II-278. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p 71. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 57-8. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 213. Bleiler (1978), p. 48. Reginald 03323.
TARZAN: THE LOST ADVENTURE ...
[Milwaukie, OR]: Dark Horse Books, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First publication of Burroughs's unfinished novel revised and completed by Joe R. Lansdale. A presentation copy with signed inscriptions to ERB collector William Ross by Lansdale and author of the preface George T. McWhorter, and signed by four of the artists whose illustrations appear in the book and several others associated with its publication.
TARZAN: THE LOST ADVENTURE ...
[Milwaukie, OR]: Dark Horse Books, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Number 799 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Danton Burroughs. Also a facsimile signature of Edgar Rice Burroughs. First publication of Burroughs's unfinished novel revised and completed by Joe R. Lansdale.
TARZAN AND THE LIGHTNING MAN.
Kansas City, MO, House of Greystoke, 1963. 7 x 10", pp. [1-20] [including covers]. illustrations by Vernell Corriell, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Copy number 216. 600 copies printed. Published as a supplement to The Burroughs Bulletin No. 14 (1963).