Science Fiction Awards (All SF, Fantasy, Horror).
THE BIG TIME.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Signed inscription by Leiber on the front free end paper. Winner of the 1958 Hugo award for best novel. First published in book form as a paperback original in 1961.
THE WANDERER.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. The Wanderer, a planet-sized starship, makes a sudden appearance near Earth's moon. It causes flooding, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on Earth, and millions of the planet's inhabitants die. After breaking up the Moon for fuel and a battle with the Stranger, a much larger police planet, the Wanderer disappears into hyperspace, its quest unresolved, its ultimate fate unknown. "Long, talky and enduring -- possibly Leiber's best SF work." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 408. Winner of the 1965 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-259. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #45.
THE WANDERER.
Walker and Company, Dennis Dobson, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. The Wanderer, a planet-sized starship, makes a sudden appearance near Earth's moon. It causes flooding, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on Earth, and millions of the planet's inhabitants die. After breaking up the Moon for fuel and a battle with the Stranger, a much larger police planet, the Wanderer disappears into hyperspace, its quest unresolved, its ultimate fate unknown. "Long, talky and enduring -- possibly Leiber's best SF work." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 408. Winner of the 1965 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-654. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 156. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 45. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2396-2401.
THE DARK FOREST ... Translated by Joel Martinsen.
New York: Tor, [2015]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition and first edition in English. The second book of the Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy. The novel was first published in China in 2008.
DRAGONFLIGHT.
New York: Walker and Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. First book in the "Pern" series. Combines the novellas "Weyr Search", Hugo winner (1968) and "Dragonrider", Nebula award winner 1968. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-289. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-179.
DRAGONFLIGHT.
New York: Walker and Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. First book in the "Pern" series. Combines the novellas "Weyr Search," Hugo winner (1968) and "Dragonrider," Nebula award winner 1968. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-289. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-179.
DRAGONFLIGHT.
New York: Walker and Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Inscribed and signed by McCaffrey on the title page. First book in the "Pern" series. Combines the novellas "Weyr Search," Hugo winner (1968) and "Dragonrider," Nebula award winner 1968. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-289. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-179.
DARK FORCES: NEW STORIES OF SUSPENSE AND THE SUPERNATURAL.
London: Macdonald, 1980. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Original anthology collecting short novel, "The Mist," by Stephen King (Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1040-43) and twenty-two short stories by Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Robert Aickman, Gene Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Gorey, Theodore Sturgeon, and others. "A landmark volume..." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-346. Winner of the 1981 World Fantasy award for best anthology.
DREAMSNAKE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "The moving tale of a young healer trying to create humanity in a savage post-holocaust world. Stresses the power of love and compassion. Strong feminist themes, excellent characterization." - Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 252. "An expansion of the Nebula-winning short story 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand' (1973). A healer called Snake wanders a future Earth in search of an alien beastie which will assist her in the task of bringing succor to the sick and dying." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 109. "A convincing mixture of stoicism and sentimentality, rather highly strung." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-749. Winner of the 1978 Nebula and 1979 Hugo awards for best novel.
THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD.
New York: Atheneum, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Winner of the 1975 World Fantasy Award. "...a deceptively simple novel, stylistically lyrical, often surprising, and wonderfully consistent. Presented as a fairy tale, thought with great and involving emotion, it shows absolute power, the bitterness of revenge, great love and the search for a heart's desire." - Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 398-399. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-257. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 54. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 566-70. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 136-7.
THE CITY & THE CITY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Co-winner of the 2010 Hugo award for best novel (tied with Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WINDUP GIRL). It has also won the British Science Fiction Association's award (2010) for best novel, the Arthur C. Clarke award (2010) and the World Fantasy award (2010). A science fiction / noir mystery novel.
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ ...
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. 1961 Hugo award winner. "600 years after an atomic deluge the Age of Simplification reigns supreme, but a development to new civilization follows." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 160. "Named by many as best SF novel of the modern period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-287. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-125 and (2004) II-766. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 30. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 288-93.
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1975. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1960 Lippincott edition. New introduction by Norman Spinrad. 1961 Hugo award winner. "600 years after an atomic deluge the Age of Simplification reigns supreme, but a development to new civilization follows." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 160. "Named by many as best SF novel of the modern period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-287. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-125 and (2004) II-766. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 30. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 288-93.
CONDITIONALLY HUMAN.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Collects three short novels including the Hugo winner "The Darfsteller." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-126.
CITY OF TRUTH ...
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. Satiric dystopian novella. "In the city of Veritas, every person is brutally conditioned to be not just unable to tell lies but obliged always to tell the whole truth, no matter how stark or droll..." - Kirkus review, 15 March, 1992. Nebula Award winner for best novella, 1993. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
CITY OF TRUTH ...
London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Satiric dystopian novella. "In the city of Veritas, every person is brutally conditioned to be not just unable to tell lies but obliged always to tell the whole truth, no matter how stark or droll..." - Kirkus review, 15 March, 1992. Nebula Award winner for best novella, 1993. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
TOWING JEHOVAH.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. World Fantasy Award for best novel, 1995, Nebula nominee 1995.
THE FALLING WOMAN.
[New York]: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 1987 Nebula award winner. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-192. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #7.
THE FALLING WOMAN.
[New York]: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 1987 Nebula award winner. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-192. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #7.
RINGWORLD.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1977]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Niven on the title page. "An exploration team consisting of an exotic mix of humans and aliens investigates a huge artifact occupying a planetary orbit around a sun." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-807. Hugo Award winner, 1971; Nebula Award winner, 1970.
A MIRROR FOR OBSERVERS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of 1955 International Fantasy Award. "Martians in underground cities for thousands of years have manipulated Earth's historical development." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-141. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, #16.
A MIRROR FOR OBSERVERS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of 1955 International Fantasy Award. "Martians in underground cities for thousands of years have manipulated Earth's historical development." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-141. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, #16.
A MIRROR FOR OBSERVERS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of 1955 International Fantasy Award. "Martians in underground cities for thousands of years have manipulated Earth's historical development." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-141. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, #16.
RITE OF PASSAGE.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. The author's first book. Winner of the 1968 Nebula award for best novel. 1969 Hugo nominee. "...a complex and expertly told novel, making adroit use of the basic right-of-passage structure that underlies almost all tales set in generational starships..." - Clute and Nichols: the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction pp. 906-907. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-844. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1805-08.
RITE OF PASSAGE.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed inscription by Panshin. The author's first book. Winner of the 1968 Nebula award for best novel. 1969 Hugo nominee. "...a complex and expertly told novel, making adroit use of the basic right-of-passage structure that underlies almost all tales set in generational starships..."- Clute and Nichols: the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction pp. 906-907. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-844. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1805-08.