First volume in the Legends Of The Raven fantasy trilogy, followed by SHADOWHEART (2003) and DEMONSTORM (2004).''The Raven travel to a new continent in search of mages to help the ruined college of Julatsa rebuild . . . and find themselves in the midst of ancient curse - a curse that has unleashed a plague that threatens to wipe out the elven race. Barclay excels with another tale that pitches The Raven against the clock and unseen foes. Full of desperate fights and secret betrayals the story also fills in more of Balaia's history and delves deeper into the ancient emnities between the college... View More...
Second volume in the Legends Of The Raven fantasy trilogy, sequel to ELFSORROW (2002) and followed by DEMONSTORM (2004)..
''The Raven is tested to the point of destruction when a savage war is unleashed across his world and the magical colleges of Balaia tear the land apart in their struggle for supremacy. Can The Raven even survive, let alone triumph?'' View More...
Fantasy novella. Cover art by Edward Miller. LIMITED EDITION: 800 numbered copies printed in total of which this is one of 300 copies issued with a dustjacket and signed by both the author and Stephen Baxter (the other 500 were unsigned in pictorial boards without dustjacket). This is no 5.''the status quo is being upset so much it feels distinctly queasy. You see, in the land of Goedterre, good always triumphs over evil. Or that's how it should be. But something is wrong. Across the land, invincible heroes are meeting their dooms at the hands of opponents who have clearly practiced before... View More...
First published as paperback originals, this humble Sphere book club edition (hardcover) preceded the 1985 separate hardcover Weidenfeld editions. View More...
Contains the script for his 1982 play CRAZYFACE, plus an introduction by Barker himself, afterword by Phil & Sarah Stokes, and other material. Cover art by Barker. 184 pages. View More...
Contains the script for his 1982 play FRANKENSTEIN IN LOVE, plus an introduction by Barker himself, afterword by Phil & Sarah Stokes, b/w stills from the production itself, and other material. Cover art by Barker. 154 pages. Laid in is a colour postcard by Barker, inscribed by Phil Stokes/''two more for your shelves! Hope all's well''. View More...
Contains the script for his 1979 play NIGHTLIVES, plus an introduction by Barker himself, afterword by Phil & Sarah Stokes, some b/w stills from the original production and other material. Cover art by Barker. 128 pages. View More...
444 pages, edited by Phil Stokes and Sarah Stokes: first published by EarthlingPublications in 2011, this new edition is greatly revised and updated. New introduction by Phil and Sarah Stokes. LIMITED EDITION: 500 numbered copies signed by Clive Barker. This is no 284. View More...
352 pages: over 250 full-page colour illustrations by Barker, plus essays and commentary etc. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CLIVE BARKER WITH A FULL-PAGE DOODLE OF A HEAD PROFILE. View More...
SF novel, one of two written by the author for Robert Hale. Robert Hale produced books primarily for the library market (still flourishing in the 1970s) and so most titles are very uncommon. The only edition of this title, and rare.''UK telecommunications engineer and author whose first two novels were sf published by Robert Hale: A MATTER OF EVOLUTIONn (1975), in which a mutant race on Earth imports female humanoids for research, and A Question of Reality (1981). Robert Hale was a UK publishing firm which from 1936 - 1984, though mainly in the 1970s, published more than 450 sf novels, in ... View More...
Four horror stofries: 152 pages. LIMITED EDITION: ''This Special Edition of Dark Orchis has been produced for Christmas 1991 and is limited to 26 individually signed and lettered copies. This is copy H. John Barker''. John was a customer of mine way, way back, and also for a while a bookseller (horror): he gave me his mailing list when he gave it all up 25 years ago or more. No idea where he is now. View More...
Both issues (all published) of the fanzine published by Robert H. Barlow 1937-1938. 100 copies of issue 1 were printed (stated within), not sure how many for no 2. Contains material by H. P. Lovecraft, C. L. Moore, Henry S. Whitehead and Clark Ashton Smitth, among others. Both are rare. View More...
''UK writer whose two sf novels combine horror tropes and medicine; the particular focus in EMBRYO (1990) is made clear by its title, while The Betz Cell (1991) applies Near Future medical science to communicating with the dead'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition). View More...
SF novel.''(1909-1969) US pulp author, known also for his works outside the sf field, who was intermittently active in sf until about 1946, beginning with ''Lord of the Lightning'' for Wonder Stories in December 1931. His Gerry Carlyle series of Space Opera tales - in which Miss Carlyle and a sidekick hunt down various aliens, carefully designated as non-sentient, for the London Interplanetary Zoo-? was worked up into INTERPLANETARY HUNTER (stories June 1937 - Winter 1946 Thrilling Wonder; fixup 1956), which combines five of the original stories, omitting ''The Dual World'' (June 1938 Thrillin... View More...
SF novel. Third volume in the Century Next Door series, following Orbital Resonance (1991), Kaleidoscope Century (1995) and followed by The Sky So Big and Black (2002).''a simultaneous series, The Century Next Door, comprises four loosely connected tales - Orbital Resonance (1991), Kaleidoscope Century (1995) CANDLE (2000) and The Sky So Big and Black (2002) created a recomplicated pattern of Future History through intersections of Time-Travel wipings and rewipings of narrative strands, and the threatening universal ascendance of the Meme One True, which is a kind of combination of hegemonic ... View More...
SF novel. 1995 Hugo award finalist for best novel.''in MOTHER OF STORMS (1994), which is his most impressive early novel, he creates a powerful and complex portrait of a Near Future world wracked by the eponymous self-fuelling storm and on the verge of numerous cusps, ethical and practical. Through virtual reality, sex has become extraordinarily present in everyone's consciousness, and genetic engineering helps point the way to the stars. Meanwhile the storm continues, in a narrative which makes profitable use of both the bestseller disaster mode and of Cyberpunk'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of... View More...
SF novel. Fourth volume in the Century Next Door series, following Orbital Resonance (1991), Kaleidoscope Century (1995) and Candle (2000).''a simultaneous series, The Century Next Door, comprises four loosely connected tales - Orbital Resonance (1991), Kaleidoscope Century (1995) Candle (2000) and THE SKY SO BIG AND BLACK (2002) created a recomplicated pattern of Future History through intersections of Time-Travel wipings and rewipings of narrative strands, and the threatening universal ascendance of the Meme One True, which is a kind of combination of hegemonic software and Hive Mind. These... View More...
Weird conspiracy novel, sequel to THE SOMNAMBULIST (2007).''a young man discovers a manuscript and so begins a bizarre tale that brings together his grandfather, every conspiracy theory you've ever heard about the royal family and the true story about where the power of Number 10 really lies. Readers of The Somnambulist may well recoginise the characters kept within a chalk circle in a cellar beneath Downing Street. With a gallery of vividly grotesque characters, a gleefully satiric take on modern life and a playful and highly literate style, this is an amazingly readable literary fantasy. In ... View More...
Short fantasy novel.''there were twenty magical children born that year. Nineteen, if you count the one that died. The Minister ordered that the nineteen children be shipped to the Tower to be worked and drained to nothing, and that the dead child be thrown on the rubbish heap, and never spoken of again. But the dead baby had other plans. When the half-drunk junk man witnesses the half-decayed corpse becoming a living, breathing, healthy baby, he knows at once that he must protect the child from the clutches of the Minister. Enlisting the help of the formidable egg woman and the sagacious cons... View More...
SF novel. SF novel, one of 24 that Geoffrey John Barrett wrote for the Robert Hale sf series, both under his own name but also writing as ''Edward Leighton'', ''Dennis Summers'' and ''James Wallace''. Robert Hale produced books primarily for the library market (still flourishing in the 1970s) and so most titles are very uncommon. The only edition of this title.''(1928-1999) UK author who also published thrillers as ''Cole Rickard'' and westerns as ''Bill Wade''; his sf novels, written for Robert Hale Limited both under his own name and as ''Edward Leighton'', ''Dennis Summers'' and ''James ... View More...
SF novel, one of 24 that Geoffrey John Barrett wrote for the Robert Hale sf series, both under his own name but also writing as ''Edward Leighton'', ''Dennis Summers'' and ''James Wallace''. Robert Hale produced books primarily for the library market (still flourishing in the 1970s) and so most titles are very uncommon. The only edition of this title.''(1928-1999) UK author who also published thrillers as ''Cole Rickard'' and westerns as ''Bill Wade''; his sf novels, written for Robert Hale Limited both under his own name and as ''Edward Leighton'', ''Dennis Summers'' and ''James Wallace'', ... View More...
SF novel, one of 24 that Geoffrey John Barrett wrote for the Robert Hale sf series, both under his own name but also writing as ''Edward Leighton'', ''Dennis Summers'' and ''James Wallace''. .Robert Hale produced books primarily for the library market (still flourishing in the 1970s) and so most titles are very uncommon. The only edition of this title.''(1928-1999) UK author who also published thrillers as ''Cole Rickard'' and westerns as ''Bill Wade''; his sf novels, written for Robert Hale Limited both under his own name and as ''Edward Leighton'', ''Dennis Summers'' and ''James Wallace'',... View More...
Collects two stories, ''Hard Times'' and ''Rhido Wars''. LIMITED EDITION: 302 copies printed (of which 250 were paperbound) of which this is one of 52 lettered hardcover copies signed by the author. This is letter ''WW''. View More...
All three voilumes in the Neustrian Cycle.fantasy series, first published in 1927, 1928 and 1948 respectively. Part of the Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series. The first and third volumes each have a new four page introduction by series editor Douglas Menville. BOTH THE SECOND AND THIRD VOLUMES ARE SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO UK EDITOR MIKE ASHLEY BY EDITOR DOUGLAS MENVILLE, THE THIRD VOLUME ADDITIONALLY DATED BY HIM IN YEAR OF PUBLICATION.''UK editor and writer (1895-1968) whose Neustria Cycle - Gerfalcon (1927), Jjoris Of The Rock (1928) and Shy Leopardess (1948) - depicts events in ... View More...
246 pages: collects nine weird/fantasy stories (two original to this collection) with a three page introduction by Michael Shea. ''First Edition'' stated on copyright page. View More...
Satirical sf novel (though packaged as mainstream) set in a future world of globalisation and marketing hype.''Australian writer whose first novel, Syrup (1999) as by Maxx Barry, edged toward the fantastic in its spoof treatment of the modern corporate world; his second, JENNIFER GOVERNMENT (2003), gains in the force of its attack through full immersion in a near future environment in which governments have become enfeebled, and international corporations rule the roost. Echoes of The Space Merchants (1953) by C M Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl are openly acknowledged in the text, whose savagerie... View More...
SF novel. First published as a Ballantine paperback original in 1974. Sequel to HALF PAST HUMAN (1971). 1974 Nebula nominee for best novel.''he is almost exclusively associated with the series that comprises his only book publications, Half Past Human (1971) and THE GODWHALE (1974), Through a network of intricately interlinked stories, the first novel depicts a densely overcrowded Earth where problems of overpopulation have been dealt with by settling four-toed evolved human stock called Nebishes in vast underground silos under the control of a computer net. Outside these hives, unevolved h... View More...
Published November 1990. Glossy 40 page film magazine devoted to the actress Barbara Steele, b/w (and some colour) photos/stills throughout. Part of the Horror Pictures Collection published/edited by Gerard Noel. The short introduction by Lucas Balbo is in both English and French, but the rest of the text (simply one or two line captions below each photo) is in French. Very uncommon film booklet. View More...
Published December 1989. Glossy 30 page film magazine devoted to Mario Bava, b/w (& a little colour) photos/stills throughout. Part of the Horror Pictures Collection published/edited by Gerard Noel. All French text (one page introduction by Jean-Claude Michel and one or two line captions below each photo). View More...
''..more down to Earth, the Disaster Diptych comprising Flood (2008) and ARK (2009) depicts first a great disaster in which Earth is effectively flooded, and the subsequent escape of part of humanity via Generation Starship; the sequence is extended in three novellas assembled, with other material, in Universes (coll 2013)'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition). View More...
Short sf story published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group on the occasion of Novacon 23, October 1993 to commemorate the author's appearance as Guest Of Honour. LIMITED EDITION: 400 (unsigned) numbered copies, given to attendees at the Convention. THIS COPY ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. View More...
Doctor Who novel.''The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. It?s a bad place to grow up. The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it?s just gremlins, just bad luck. But the equipment failures and thefts of resources have been increasing, and there have been stories among the children of mysterious creatures glimpsed aboard the Wheel. Many of the younger workers refuse to go down the warren-like mines anymore. And then sixteen-year-old Phee Laws, surfing Saturn?s rings, saves an enigmatic blue box fr... View More...
Second in the trilogy, following MAMMOTH (1999) and followed by ICEBONES (2001). THIS COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
''Continuing the epic story that spans millions of years. In pre-history it was the mammoths who ruled the world, roaming freely across vast tracts of summer tundra, threatened by nothing. Until a new predator arrived on the scene; man. The new danger calls for new heroes, heroes whose deeds will go down in mammoth legend and inspire the heroes of the future. The sequel to Mammoth charts the genesis of the epic battle between mankind and mammoth.'' View More...
SF novel, the fourth book in the ''Xeelee'' sequence INSCRIBED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''To Maureen, Enjoy! Steve, 3. 9. 94''. View More...
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