Science Fiction
TRANSFIGURATIONS.
[New York]: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel expanded from the novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi," a Nebula Award finalist. "About a daughter's quest to find her anthropologist father in the forbidding ritualistic culture of the natives of an alien planet. A highly literate narrative which makes good use of its imaginary anthropology." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 386. "One of the more impressive SF novels using perspectives and themes drawn from anthropology to aid depiction of an enigmatic alien culture." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-127.
IN THE UPPER ROOM AND OTHER LIKELY STORIES.
New York: Tor, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second collection of short fiction. Collects sixteen stories.
PIRATES OF THE UNIVERSE.
New York: Tor, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Satiric SF novel taking place in the 21st century in which the protagonist, before he can assume residency in the Utopian theme park "Pirates of the Universe," he must first go into space as a Space Ranger to capture a 1200 km long vacuum jellyfish, whose skin has replaced gold and oil as hard currency. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-130. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN ...
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "...the first volume of what may be called the Digging Leviathan world, is set in a modern Los Angeles, beneath which is a giant Underground sea (it may be the first Los Angeles novel to feature one, though it is certainly not the last), and some of whose inhabitants hope to penetrate the centre of the Hollow Earth, which serves as the primary venue for Zeuglodon (2012), where the entire inner reality may be the Invention of a man asleep, who may be a Secret Master, or who may not." - SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-133. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-33. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 86.
THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN.
[Bath]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Blaylock, Tim Powers (after word), K.W. Jeter (after word) and Ferret (illustrator). Barron (ed.): Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-56, Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-33, Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #86.
THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN.
New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, [1984]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. "...the first volume of what may be called the Digging Leviathan world, is set in a modern Los Angeles, beneath which is a giant Underground sea (it may be the first Los Angeles novel to feature one, though it is certainly not the last), and some of whose inhabitants hope to penetrate the centre of the Hollow Earth, which serves as the primary venue for Zeuglodon (2012), where the entire inner reality may be the Invention of a man asleep, who may be a Secret Master, or who may not." - SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-133. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-33. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 86.
HOMUNCULUS ...
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Limited to 1010 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered copies signed by Blaylock, introducer Keith Roberts, and artist Ferret. This issue adds "A Postscript to Homunculus" by William Hastings (a Blaylock pen name) and "A Note on Mr. Hastings' Postscript" by Blaylock, pages 245-257. Winner of the 1986 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-134. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-39. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-35.
HOMUNCULUS.
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "A tangle of mildly sinister misadventures in Victorian London, with shades of Dickens, Sax Rohmer and Rider Haggard." - Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-35. Philip K Dick award winner, 1986. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-57.
LAND OF DREAMS.
New York: Arbor House, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
LORD KELVIN'S MACHINE ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, illustrations by J. K. Potter, cloth. First edition. 4015 copies printed. Sequel to HOMUNCULUS (1986), a steampunk novel set in a Dickensian nineteenth-century London. "Blaylock returns to the Victorian setting of his award-winning novel HOMUNCULUS in this tale of obsessive grief, time travel, mad scientists and gentlemanly adventure." - Publisher's Weekly. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-134.
LORD KELVIN'S MACHINE.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Sequel to HOMUNCULUS (1986). "Blaylock returns to the Victorian setting of his award-winning novel Homunculus in this tale of obsessive grief, time travel, mad scientists and gentlemanly adventure." - Publisher's Weekly. Steampunk.
LORD KELVIN'S MACHINE.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Sequel to HOMUNCULUS (1986). "Blaylock returns to the Victorian setting of his award-winning novel Homunculus in this tale of obsessive grief, time travel, mad scientists and gentlemanly adventure." - Publisher's Weekly. Steampunk.
THE MAGIC SPECTACLES.
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan, 1991. Octavo, boards. First edition. Trade issue.
FRONTIERS IN SPACE: SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES...
New York: Bantam Books, [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books 1328. A best of the best, selections from THE BEST SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES 1951, 1952, 1953. Collects fourteen stories.
IMAGINATION UNLIMITED.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corp. [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Berkley Books G233. Collects seven of the thirteen stories that appeared in the hardcover edition. Fiction by Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Julian May, L. Sprague De Camp, Peter Phillips, John Berryman, and Frank Robinson.
NEBULA AWARD STORIES FIVE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects six stories by Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, Samuel R. Delany and Theodore Sturgeon, and two articles by Darko Suvin and Alexei Panshin. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.
THE DUPLICATED MAN.
New York: Avalon Books, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-44.
THE ISSUE AT HAND: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE SCIENCE FICTION by William Atheling, Jr. [pseudonym].
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc., [1974]. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Entertaining essays on American pulp SF 1952-1963. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-13.
MORE ISSUES AT HAND: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE SCIENCE FICTION by William Atheling, Jr. [pseudonym].
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc., [1974]. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Entertaining essays on American SF here focused on the SF novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-14.
AND ALL THE STARS A STAGE.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, boards. First edition.
BLACK EASTER/THE DAY AFTER JUDGMENT.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. Chronologically BLACK EASTER and THE DAY AFTER JUDGMENT comprise the second part of the "After Such Knowledge" trilogy. Preceded by DOCTOR MIRABALIS and followed by A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. Introduction by David Hartwell. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-38. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 83. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 41. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 122-28. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 233-37. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 52-3. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-42.
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE ...
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1958]. Octavo, original green wrappers printed in black. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first British edition. Proof has "First published in mcmlviii" instead of "First published in mcmlix" on copyright page. A novel expanded from a 1953 novella of the same title. "A Jesuit priest visits the 'unfallen' planet Lithia, where he solves a biological riddle and wrestles with his conscience. A thoughtful and entertaining work, with a range of intellectual reference unusual for the American SF of its day -- one of the masterpieces of 1950s SF, and Blish's best book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 59. "A rich, ambiguous, deep-cutting probe into the most ultimate of concerns." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-136. The final part of the "After Such Knowledge" trilogy. Winner of the 1959 Hugo award for best novel. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 26. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 303-07.
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.
London: Faber And Faber Limited, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. 1959 Hugo award winner (for best novel, 1958). A novel of a culture which develops on another planet without religion. "A rich, ambiguous, deep-cutting probe into the most ultimate of concerns." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-21. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 26. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 303-07.
CITIES IN FLIGHT.
[Woodstock, NY]: The Overlook Press, [1999]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Re-issue.
DOCTOR MIRABILIS.
London: Faber and Faber:, [1964]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Volume one (chronologically) of the After Such Knowledge trilogy. "... an excellent historical novel on the life of Roger Bacon." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-42. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 569-73.