SF novel. Together with an uncorrected book proof (as new).
''in the 21st century an AIDS-like virus has made it impossible for women to conceive male children. Although sperm banks have enough supplies to last for centuries, the strains on society are enormous''. View More...
''in the 21st century an AIDS-like virus has made it impossible for women to conceive male children. Although sperm banks have enough supplies to last for centuries, the strains on society are enormous''. View More...
SF novel of an imperfect near-future ''utopia'' with illustrations by Keith Roberts. 1026 copies printed of which this is one of 750 unsigned trade copies. View More...
''is a Near-future cautionary tale in a traditional vein: a scientist threatens to end human civilization unless peace is declared; almost inadvertently, Ragnarok does indeed occur (Matt Bishop & John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition). View More...
Fantasy novel. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.''in her more recent novels - BURYING THE SHADOW (1992), Sign for the Sacred (1993), Calenture (1994) and Stalking Tender Prey (1995) - have moved her work towards Dark Fantasy. Her writing is distinguished by a fine attention to psychological character detail, charting progression and regression through complex inner as well as outer landscapes. A fascination with sexual power, with sexual ambivalence, with redemption and transcendence, pervades her writing. Angel legends provide resonance for social order in both BURYING THE SHADOW and Stalk... View More...
SF novel. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.''her novels) are all fundamentally concerned with sex and gender (especially androgyny), approached through the realities and potentials of both the male and female experience, a technique very considerably sophisticated in CALENTURE (1994), whose immortal protagonist traces -- in his imagination, and ultimately in truth -- two characters he has in a sense created as they trek through a world of cities whose wild divergences offer considerable scope for loose but invigorating satire. Her writing continues to be vigorous, erotic, highly visual, aes... View More...
32 page booklet. LIMITED EDITION: 300 numbered copies signed by the author. This is no 297. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY TWO OF THE ILLUSTRATORS, ANNE SUDWORTH AND STEVE JEFFERY. View More...
Sequel to SEA DRAGON HEIR (1999) and second volume in the Chronicles of Magravandias fantasy trilogy, followed by THE WAY OF LIGHT(2001). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''Kaster Leckery, estranged from his brother-in-law, the Dragon Lord Valraven Palindrake, and increasingly bitter about the Magravandian princes who constantly plot to take the throne of the empire, finally tips over the edge. Determined to kill himself, instead he comes across a dying old man - and Kaster is no longer himself; the old man has passed his own destiny into the embittered Caradorean. Now Kaster is Taropat, a Breeland mage... View More...
Occult/magic: ''Dehara are androgynous deities who have been created for this system in the tradition of Chaos Magic. Using the inspiration of her fantasy novels, the WRAETHTHU books, author and long standing magical practitioner and teacher Storm Constantine brings you Grimoire Dehara''. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. View More...
SF novel. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.''Constantine's novels, which are not really set within an sf framework, give equal weight to the underlying assumptions of science and modern pagan magick. They are all fundamentally concerned with sex and gender (especially androgyny), approached through the realities and potentials of both the male and female experience. . Her writing continued to be vigorous, erotic, highly visual, aesthetically informed by a late punk/Goth sensibility, occasionally somewhat crudely executed, and linguistically shaped by an unusual fusion of intensely contempor... View More...
All three volumes in the Chronicles of Magravandias fantasy trilogy. Cover art for all three volumes by Anne Sudworth THE FIRST VOLUME IS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR: THE SECOND VOLUME IS WARMLY INSCRIBED AND DATED (1/7/2000) BY THE AUTHOR AND THE THIRD VOLUME IS BRIEFLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. .ADDITIONALLY ALL THREE VOLUMES ARE SIGNED (the second volume inscribed by her) BY THE COVER ARTIST ANNE SUDWORTH. View More...
Fantasy novel. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.''...her more recent novels - Burying the Shadow (1992), SIGN FOR THE SACRED (1993), Calenture (1994) and Stalking Tender Prey (1995) - have moved her work towards Dark Fantasy. Her writing is distinguished by a fine attention to psychological character detail, charting progression and regression through complex inner as well as outer landscapes. A fascination with sexual power, with sexual ambivalence, with redemption and transcendence, pervades her writing. Religion as Mystery and source of action is explored in SIGN FOR THE SACRED. Her re-i... View More...
Fantasy novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''...her more recent novels - Burying the Shadow (1992), SIGN FOR THE SACRED (1993), Calenture (1994) and Stalking Tender Prey (1995) - have moved her work towards Dark Fantasy. Her writing is distinguished by a fine attention to psychological character detail, charting progression and regression through complex inner as well as outer landscapes. A fascination with sexual power, with sexual ambivalence, with redemption and transcendence, pervades her writing. Religion as Mystery and source of action is explored in SIGN FOR THE SACRED. Her re-inventions of v... View More...
Fantasy novel.''...her more recent novels - Burying the Shadow (1992), SIGN FOR THE SACRED (1993), Calenture (1994) and Stalking Tender Prey (1995) - have moved her work towards Dark Fantasy. Her writing is distinguished by a fine attention to psychological character detail, charting progression and regression through complex inner as well as outer landscapes. A fascination with sexual power, with sexual ambivalence, with redemption and transcendence, pervades her writing. Religion as Mystery and source of action is explored in SIGN FOR THE SACRED. Her re-inventions of vampires and angels lie ... View More...
Second volume in the Wraeththu sf/fantasy trilogy. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (to me, actually)..''many of her novels lie in the borderland between fantasy and sf. The Wraeththu trilogy: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (1987), The Bewitchments of Love and Hate (1988) and The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire (1989), explores sexuality, violence and the nature of gender in a post-holocaust-world. Her writing is distinguished by a fine attention to psychological character detail, charting progression and regression through complex inner as well as outer landscapes. A fascination with ... View More...
Second volume in the Wraeththu sf/fantasy trilogy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''many of her novels lie in the borderland between fantasy and sf. The Wraeththu trilogy: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (1987), The Bewitchments of Love and Hate (1988) and The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire (1989), explores sexuality, violence and the nature of gender in a post-holocaust-world. Her writing is distinguished by a fine attention to psychological character detail, charting progression and regression through complex inner as well as outer landscapes. A fascination with sexual power, with sexual ambival... View More...
All three volumes in The Book of Wraeththu sf/fantasy trilogy. EACH VOLUME SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Note: the first two volumes were published by Macdonald: London: when they decided not to issue the third, Roger Peyton of Andromeda Books in Birmingham chose to publish it himself as part of his Drunken Dragon imprint, and very cleverly designed it to fit in with the earlier two volumes in the series''many of her novels lie in the borderland between fantasy and sf. The Wraeththu trilogy: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (1987), The Bewitchments of Love and Hate (1988) and The F... View More...
Both volumes in the Corinna Trogarden two-book series. EACH VOLUME SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Neither volume was issued in hardcover.
''The Monstrous Regiment (1989), one of two Corinna Trogarden tales, is set on a colony world where Feminism has gone disastrously wrong and the psychotic ruler - the Dominatrix - plans to confine all men to compounds and milk them for semen to produce children. The sequel, Aleph (1991), is less inflamed'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 4th Edition). View More...
Collects eighteen fantasy stories and a poem, four of the stories being published for the first time: introduction by Michael Moorcock. LIMITED EDITION: 1000 numbered copies signed by Storm Constantine. This is no 181. View More...
The First Book Of the Wraeththu Histories'.''Her most successful work was perhaps the Wraeththu trilogy which began her career: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (1987; rev 2003), The Bewitchments of Love and Hate (1988; rev 2003) and The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire (1989; rev 2003) A second series, the Wraeththu Histories, comprising THE WRAITHS OF WILL AND PLEASURE (2003; rev 2018), The Shades Of Time And Memory (2004; rev 2018) and The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence (2005; rev 2018), offers a more complex and sophisticated interpretation of the themes and events of the previous trilo... View More...
The First Book Of the Wraeththu Histories'. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.''Her most successful work was perhaps the Wraeththu trilogy which began her career: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit (1987; rev 2003), The Bewitchments of Love and Hate (1988; rev 2003) and The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire (1989; rev 2003) A second series, the Wraeththu Histories, comprising THE WRAITHS OF WILL AND PLEASURE (2003; rev 2018), The Shades Of Time And Memory (2004; rev 2018) and The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence (2005; rev 2018), offers a more complex and sophisticated interpretation of the th... View More...
Contemporary fantasy/sf novel set in the music business. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
''Dex has made it. A wildly innovative rock star with a conscience and screw-you persona, his fans adore him. Jay - a music journalist. taken by surprise. fall in love. Dex disappears. weeks turn into months. Jay hears rumours that Dex has been spotted, and she finds herself drawn inexorably back into the dark heart of his world''. View More...
64 page booklet: collects three stories, one (''Such a Nice Girl''), original to this collection, the other two from obscure publications. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. View More...
Short sf story published by The Birmingham Science Fiction Group on the occasion of Novacon 22, November 1992 to commemorate her appearance as Guest Of Honour. 350 numbered copies printed. This copy signed by the author and Steve Jeffery, who supplied some of the interior artwork. This is no 228. View More...
320 pages: ''a unique work on the history and magic of the Egyptian feline goddesses, Bast and Sekmet, from the ancient land of majestic splendour and long-held secrets''. BRIEFLY SIGNEd AND INSCRIBED BY STORM CONSTANTINE. View More...
Occult/magic: ''Dehara are androgynous deities who have been created for this system in the tradition of Chaos Magic. Using the inspiration of her fantasy novels, the WRAETHTHU books, author and long standing magical practitioner and teacher Storm Constantine brings you Grimoire Dehara''. LIMITED EDITION: 50 numbered hardcover copies signed by Storm Constantine. This is no 16. View More...
Occult/magic: ''Dehara are androgynous deities who have been created for this system in the tradition of Chaos Magic. Using the inspiration of her fantasy novels, the WRAETHTHU books, author and long standing magical practitioner and teacher Storm Constantine brings you Grimoire Dehara''. LIMITED EDITION: 50 numbered hardcover copies signed by Storm Constantine. This is no 14. View More...
Second book of the White Bird of Kinship trilogy, preceded by THE ROAD TO CORLAY (1978), and followed by A TAPESTRY OF TIME (1982). Preceded by (and the whole series based around) an earlier short story ''The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'' (which was also the title of Pink Floyd's first album, incidentally).''he remains best known for his Corlay trilogy - The Road To Corlay (1978), A DREAM OF KINSHIP (1981) and A Tapestry of Time (1982) - in which what might be called the pathos of expectancy typical of his best work is finally resolved, for the essential parts of the sequence take place in an... View More...
Third in the White Bird of Kinship sf trilogy, following THE ROAD TO CORLAY (1978) and A DREAM OF KINSHIP (1981). Preceded by (and the whole series based around) an earlier short story ''The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'' (which was also the tirtle of Pink Floyd's first album, incidentally).''he remains best known for his Corlay trilogy -- The Road To Corlay (1978), A Dream of Kinship (1981) and A TAPESTRY OF TIME (1982) -- in which what might be called the pathos of expectancy typical of his best work is finally resolved, for the essential parts of the sequence take place in an England 1000 y... View More...
First in the White Bird of Kinship trilogy, followed by A DREAM OF KINSHIP (1981) and A TAPESTRY OF TIME (1982). Preceded by (and the whole series based around) an earlier short story ''The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'' (which was also the title of Pink Floyd's first album, incidentally). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.''he remains best known for his Corlay trilogy - THE ROAD TO CORLAY (1978), A Dream of Kinship (1981) and A Tapestry of Time (1982) - in which what might be called the pathos of expectancy typical of his best work is finally resolved, for the essential parts of the sequence take place in... View More...
First in the White Bird of Kinship trilogy, followed by A DREAM OF KINSHIP (1981) and A TAPESTRY OF TIME (1982). Preceded by (and the whole series based around) an earlier short story ''The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'' (which was also the title of Pink Floyd's first album, incidentally).''he remains best known for his Corlay trilogy - THE ROAD TO CORLAY (1978), A Dream of Kinship (1981) and A Tapestry of Time (1982) - in which what might be called the pathos of expectancy typical of his best work is finally resolved, for the essential parts of the sequence take place in an England 1000 years ... View More...
Short fairy tale: illustrated by Richard Salvucci. LIMITED EDITION: 200 copies printed of which this is one of 99 numbered copies comprising the ''Ordinary Edition,'' signed on tipped in plate by Cowper. View More...
Short fairy tale: illustrated by Richard Salvucci. LIMITED EDITION: 200 copies printed of which this is one of 75 numbered copies comprising the ''Slipcased Edition,'' signed on tipped in plate by both Cowper and illustrator. Together with a separate booklet comprising the short story THE YOUNG STUDEN (only available with the slipcased edition). Both booklets are no 53. View More...
Short fairy tale, illustrated by Alicia Austin. LIMITED EDITION: 200 copies printed of which this is one of 75 numbered copies comprising the ''slipcased edition,'' signed on tipped in plate by Cowper and artist Alicia Austin. This issue accompanied by a small booklet, limited to 75 numbered copies, printing Cowper's short story, THE MISSING HEART (only available with this slipcased edition). Both booklets are no 51. View More...