Science Fiction
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Brin. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel.
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel.
THE UPLIFT WAR.
[New York: Bantam Books, 1987.]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first paperback edition. Sequel to STARTIDE RISING (1983). Winner of the 1988 Hugo award for best novel. This proof precedes the Phantasia Press editions. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-163.
A VOICE FROM MARS: ADVENTURE & ROMANCE.
London: Arthur H. Stockwell, n.d., [1923]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-176, original bevel-edged blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind. First edition. "Mostly adventure but includes a eutopia on Mars." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 171-2. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 41. Bleiler (1978), p. 31. Reginald 01950.
THE FALL OF THE SKY LORDS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1991. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Brosnan. Third book of a trilogy, preceded by THE SKY LORDS (1988) and WAR OF THE SKY LORDS (1989).
THE SKY LORDS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Brosnan. "After the 'Gene Wars' have wrecked the Earth, the piratical Sky Lords rule the roost from their airships. But they come up against a feminist heroine." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 331. Slow moving at first, it "develops into a lively adventure story backed with the authority of a well-extrapolated future scenario." - Simon Ounsley, Interzone. First book of a trilogy, followed by THE WAR OF THE SKY LORDS (1989) and THE FALL OF THE SKY LORDS (1991). First book of a trilogy, followed by THE WAR OF THE SKY LORDS (1989) and THE FALL OF THE SKY LORDS (1991).
WAR OF THE SKY LORDS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1989. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Brosnan. Second book of a trilogy, preceded by THE SKY LORDS (1988).
ANGELS AND SPACESHIPS.
NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects seventeen stories, eight of which were published in ASTOUNDING and UNKNOWN between 1941 and 1949. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-66. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 284.
SCIENCE FICTION CARNIVAL.
New York: Bantam Books, [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Collects thirteen stories by Richard Matheson, William Tenn, Fredric Brown, Eric Frank Russell, Mack Reynolds, Henry Kuttner, Nelson Bond, and others.
AND THE GODS LAUGHED: A COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY ...
West Bloomfield, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the sixty-eight stories from HONEYMOON IN HELL (1958) and NIGHTMARES AND GEEZENSTACKS (1961), also includes "The Star-Mouse" and "Mitkey Rides Again" (first book publication), plus three collaborations with Mack Reynolds, "Six-legged Svengali," "The Switcheroo" and "The Gamblers," first printed here in book form. Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-169. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 285 and 286.
AND THE GODS LAUGHED: A COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY ...
West Bloomfield, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 475 numbered copies with inserted limitation leaf signed by Brown and Reynolds (from the projected but not generally released subscriber's issue of Science-Fiction Carnival published by Shasta in 1953). In addition to the sixty-eight stories from HONEYMOON IN HELL (1958) and NIGHTMARES AND GEEZENSTACKS (1961), this collection includes "The Star-Mouse" and "Mitkey Rides Again" (first book publication), plus three collaborations with Mack Reynolds, "Six-legged Svengali," "The Switcheroo" and "The Gamblers," first printed here in book form. Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-169. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 285 and 286.
THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second SF novel. A novel about the campaign to secure funding from Congress for the stalled American space program, money to send a manned spacecraft to Jupiter in 2001. "A powerful, poignant plea for spaceflight and a study of a man obsessed by it."- Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-68. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1217-20.
THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second SF novel. A novel about the campaign to secure funding from Congress for the stalled American space program, money to send a manned spacecraft to Jupiter in 2001. "A powerful, poignant plea for spaceflight and a study of a man obsessed by it."- Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-68. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1217-20.
PARADOX LOST: AND TWELVE OTHER GREAT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
NY: Random House, [1973]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects thirteen stories, most previously published in magazines (1943-1963). Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 287.
ROGUE IN SPACE.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. Science fiction novel about a sentient planetoid.
SPACE ON MY HANDS.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of an unknown number of subscriber copies, signed by Brown on the front free end paper. The author's second SF book and first collection of SF short stories. Includes "Daymare," his classic SF detective story. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-169.
SPACE ON MY HANDS.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second SF book and first collection of SF short stories. Includes "Daymare," his classic SF detective story. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-169.
WHAT MAD UNIVERSE.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1949. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first science fiction novel. "An sf-magazine editor falls into a parallel universe where bug-eyed monsters really exist. Comic romp which nicely satirizes many of the sf cliches of its day." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 416. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-35.
WHAT MAD UNIVERSE.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1986]. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by James Gunn. Issued as part of the Easton Press "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series.
WHAT MAD UNIVERSE.
London, New York: T. V. Boardman and Company, Limited, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First British edition. Author's first science fiction novel. "An sf-magazine editor falls into a parallel universe where bug-eyed monsters really exist. Comic romp which nicely satirizes many of the sf cliches of its day." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 416. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-170. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2451-54. In 333.
THE BRINK.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first hardcover book and fourth SF novel.
FOREIGN CONSTELLATIONS: THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF JOHN BRUNNER.
New York: Everest House Publishers, [1980]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects eight stories.
THE LONG RESULT.
London: Faber and Faber, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Tale of the far future, set on Earth, about a clash of extraterrestrial cultures. "A detective/political thriller set on a near-Utopian future Earth on the cusp of being outstripped by a more rapidly developing colony world, posits that racial prejudice, now eliminated from human culture, will resurge as irrational hatred (by a few) of even benign Aliens." - John Clute, SFE (online).
NO FUTURE IN IT: AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd, 1962. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover edition). The author's first collection of short fiction. Collects eleven stories. "Brunner's superb early corpus of short fiction, perhaps his greater forte." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-71. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-172.
THE SHEEP LOOK UP.
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1972]. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Signed by Brunner on the title page. 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.