Science Fiction Awards (All SF, Fantasy, Horror).
DINNER AT DEVIANT'S PALACE.
London: Chatto & Windus, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First British and first trade hardcover edition. "A hard-boiled version of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in a post-holocaust California, with a bizarre alien presiding over an exotic hell. A fast-moving adventure with the author's usual gothic touches; a key example of the new post-holocaust romanticism." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-872. Winner of the 1985 John W. Campbell Award and 1986 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel. 1985 Nebula nominee. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 431.
THE DRAGON MASTERS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing. 348 copies printed. Signed by Vance on the title page. Text offset from that of the 1962 Ace edition. New introduction by Norman Spinrad. Winner of the 1963 Hugo award for best novella. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1161. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 600-04. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A11i.
THE LAST CASTLE.
San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1980. Large octavo, illustrated by Alicia Austin, original purple cloth front and spine stamped in silver. First hardcover edition. When first published this won the 1966 Nebula Award for Best Novella and also the 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (both presented in 1967). Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A30d.
THE LAST CASTLE.
San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1980. Large octavo, illustrated by Alicia Austin, original purple cloth front and spine stamped in silver. First hardcover edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance and illustrator Alicia Austin. Winner of the 1966 Nebula Award for Best Novella and also the 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (both presented in 1967). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1165. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1144-50. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A30d.
LYONESSE: MADOUC.
Novato, CA/Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 600 numbered copies signed by Vance. The third and last volume in the Lyonesse series. Winner of the 1990 World Fantasy Award for best novel. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-257.
THE SNOW QUEEN.
New York: The Dial Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. 1981 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1189.
THE SNOW QUEEN.
New York: The Dial Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Vinge on the title page. 1981 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1189.
THE SNOW QUEEN.
New York: The Dial Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "On a world of long, slow seasons, the winter queen tries to perpetuate her rule into the summer by means of cloning and other off-world technologies. A large and elaborate planetary romance ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 333. "A colorful amalgam of SF and heroic fantasy borrowing the structure of Hans Christian Andersen's famous story, set on a barbarian world exploited by technologically superior outworlders, against the background of a fallen galactic empire. The convoluted plot makes heavy use of ideas drawn from Robert Graves's classic THE WHITE GODDESS (1948). - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1189. Winner of the 1981 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1189.
THE JONAH KIT.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The author's second book. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1978. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1213.
WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG.
New York, Evanston... Harper & Row, Publishers, [1976]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Winner of 1977 Hugo award. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-497. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2469-73.
DOOMSDAY BOOK.
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the author. 1993 Nebula award winner for best novel. 1993 Co-winner of the Hugo Award.
DOOMSDAY BOOK.
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the Willis on the title page. 1993 Nebula award winner for best novel. 1993 Co-winner of the Hugo Award. "It's one of the best time travel stories ever written." - Barron, Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1265.
FIRE WATCH.
[New York: Bluejay Books, Inc., 1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's first book. Title story is a Hugo and Nebula winner, the story "A Letter From the Clearys." is a Nebula winner. "...title story...shows off the author's main strength: her ability to import a warmth and intimacy into classic SF themes" - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-502.
SPIN.
New York: Tor, [2005]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the 2006 Hugo award for best novel. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #82.
THE DREAM MASTER.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing (370 copies). Text offset from that of the 1966 Ace Books edition. New introduction by Ormond Seavey. An expansion of the novella "He Who Shapes." The novella won the Nebula award. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-515.
THE DREAM MASTER.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing (370 copies). Signed and dated by Zelazny on the title page. Text offset from that of the 1966 Ace Books edition. New introduction by Ormond Seavey. An expansion of the novella "He Who Shapes." The novella won the Nebula award. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-515.
THE DREAM MASTER.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. hardcover edition, first printing (370 copies). Text offset from that of the 1966 Ace Books edition. New introduction by Ormond Seavey. An expansion of the novella "He Who Shapes." The novella won the Nebula award. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-515.
THE DREAM MASTER.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. First published in the U.S. as a paperback original. An expansion of the novella "He Who Shapes." The novella won the Nebula award. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-515.
LORD OF LIGHT.
London: Faber and Faber, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First British edition. Pre-publication complimentary slip laid in forwarding book from the publisher with the publication date noted (12 Feb. 1968). Hugo award winner 1968, Nebula nominee, 1967. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-517.
LORD OF LIGHT.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Hugo award winner 1968, Nebula nominee, 1967. "...his most sustained single tale, richly conceived and plotted, exhilarating throughout its considerable length. Some of the crew of a human colony ship, which has deposited its settlers on a livable world, have made use of advanced Technology (including Identity Transfer) to ensconce themselves in the role of gods, selecting their role models from the Hindu pantheon, including a fatally attractive She figure. But where Hinduism flourishes, the Buddha – in the shape of the protagonist Sam – must follow; and his liberation of the humans of the planet, who are mortal descendants of the original settlers, takes on aspects of both Prometheus and Coyote the Trickster. At points, Sam may seem just another of Zelazny's stable of slangy, raunchy, over-loved immortals; but the end effect of the book is liberating, wise, lucid." - Clute (ed.), SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-517. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 162. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1251-56.
LORD OF LIGHT.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Author's signature laid in. Hugo award winner 1968, Nebula nominee, 1967. "...his most sustained single tale, richly conceived and plotted, exhilarating throughout its considerable length. Some of the crew of a human colony ship, which has deposited its settlers on a livable world, have made use of advanced Technology (including Identity Transfer) to ensconce themselves in the role of gods, selecting their role models from the Hindu pantheon, including a fatally attractive She figure. But where Hinduism flourishes, the Buddha – in the shape of the protagonist Sam – must follow; and his liberation of the humans of the planet, who are mortal descendants of the original settlers, takes on aspects of both Prometheus and Coyote the Trickster. At points, Sam may seem just another of Zelazny's stable of slangy, raunchy, over-loved immortals; but the end effect of the book is liberating, wise, lucid." - Clute (ed.), SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1310. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 162. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1251-56.
LORD OF LIGHT.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Hugo award winner 1968, Nebula nominee, 1967. "...his most sustained single tale, richly conceived and plotted, exhilarating throughout its considerable length. Some of the crew of a human colony ship, which has deposited its settlers on a livable world, have made use of advanced Technology (including Identity Transfer) to ensconce themselves in the role of gods, selecting their role models from the Hindu pantheon, including a fatally attractive She figure. But where Hinduism flourishes, the Buddha – in the shape of the protagonist Sam – must follow; and his liberation of the humans of the planet, who are mortal descendants of the original settlers, takes on aspects of both Prometheus and Coyote the Trickster. At points, Sam may seem just another of Zelazny's stable of slangy, raunchy, over-loved immortals; but the end effect of the book is liberating, wise, lucid." - Clute (ed.), SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1310. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 162. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1251-56.
THIS IMMORTAL.
New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1975. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. hardcover edition. Hugo award winner in 1966 in its shorter magazine version "...And Call Me Conrad." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-518. This edition is offset from the 1973 Ace paperback edition.
THIS IMMORTAL.
New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1975. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. hardcover edition. Hugo award winner in 1966 in its shorter magazine version "...And Call Me Conrad." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-518. This edition is offset from the 1973 Ace paperback edition.
THIS IMMORTAL.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, illustrations by Vincent DiFate, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Robert Silverberg. 1966 Hugo Award Winner. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1311.