Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2822

Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2822

Twenty paperback SF classics dominated by Frank Herbert and Philip José Farmer, with seven Dune volumes spanning Dune Messiah to Chapterhouse and four Farmer titles including the rare pairing of The Gate of Time alongside its revised edition Two Hawks from Earth. James Blish contributes three strong titles including his Hugo Award-winning A Case of Conscience, while Harlan Ellison, Howard L. Myers, Joseph Green, and the Alan Dean Foster Black Hole novelization round out a box that serious collectors of 1960s–80s paperback science fiction will find hard to pass up.

1. The Time of the Eye — Harlan Ellison — An early Ellison short story collection showcasing the raw, ferocious imagination that would make him one of the genre's most celebrated and provocative voices.
2. Space Voyage — D. Ellis — A science fiction adventure in the classic paperback tradition, sending its characters into the perils and possibilities of interstellar space.
3. The Black Hole — Alan Dean Foster — Foster's novelization of the 1979 Disney film, expanding the story of the spaceship Palomino and its crew as they investigate the mystery of a vast, abandoned vessel hovering at the edge of a black hole.
4. The Seedling Stars — James Blish — Blish's visionary fix-up novel exploring "pantropy" — the genetic adaptation of human beings to alien environments rather than terraforming the planets — told across a sweep of deep future history.
5. The Sun Grows Cold — Howard L. Myers — A collection of Myers' witty and inventive science fiction, featuring his recurring spacefaring hero Hap Cavendish in a series of colourful interstellar adventures.
6. The Duplicated Man — James Blish & Robert Lowndes — A Cold War-era SF thriller in which the ability to duplicate a human being becomes a weapon that could reshape the balance of power on Earth, co-written by two of the field's most accomplished mid-century practitioners.
7. Children of Dune — Frank Herbert — The third Dune novel, following the young Atreides twins through the treacherous political and religious landscape of Arrakis in the long shadow of their father Paul Muad'Dib.
8. Behind the Walls of Terra — Philip José Farmer — Book four of Farmer's World of Tiers series, as Kickaha and his allies pursue their enemies through the layered pocket universes constructed by the ancient Lords.
9. The Other Log of Phileas Fogg — Philip José Farmer — Farmer's brilliant conceit: the real story behind Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, revealing that Fogg and his adversaries are alien agents using Victorian Earth as their battleground.
10. A Case of Conscience — James Blish — Blish's Hugo Award-winning novel in which a Jesuit priest on a distant world must confront the theological impossibility of an alien species that lives in apparent moral perfection — without God.
11. The Gate of Time — Philip José Farmer — The original 1966 version of Farmer's alternate-history adventure, in which WWII pilot Roger Two Hawks is transported to an Earth where the Americas were never crossed from Asia; later revised and retitled as Two Hawks from Earth.
12. Gold the Man — Joseph Green — A thoughtful first-contact SF novel following Allan Gold, an official empowered to decide the fate of alien species encountered during humanity's expansion into space — one of the genre's more original treatments of the theme.
13. Two Hawks from Earth — Philip José Farmer — The revised and expanded edition of The Gate of Time, reworked by Farmer for its 1979 Ace reprint; readers curious about Farmer's creative process will find it rewarding to compare the two versions.
14. The Worlds of Frank Herbert — Frank Herbert — A collection of Herbert's early short fiction, demonstrating the range and inventiveness that underpins his longer work and containing some of his most concentrated and incisive storytelling.
15. Heretics of Dune — Frank Herbert — The fifth Dune novel, set fifteen centuries after the death of Leto II, as the Bene Gesserit navigate a transformed galaxy and a new generation of players emerges on Arrakis.
16. Chapter House: Dune — Frank Herbert — The sixth and final Dune novel completed by Herbert himself, in which the Bene Gesserit face an overwhelming new enemy and the saga builds towards its dramatic open conclusion.
17. God Emperor of Dune — Frank Herbert — The fourth Dune novel, set 3,500 years on, in which Leto II — now transformed into a human-sandworm hybrid — rules the known universe and engineers humanity's far future from his throne on Arrakis.
18. The Best of Frank Herbert 1965–1970 — ed. Angus Wells — An anthology drawing on Herbert's most fertile period, collecting the short fiction he produced alongside the original Dune novels.
19. The Eyes of Heisenberg — Frank Herbert — A standalone Herbert novel exploring genetic engineering and the politics of immortality, in which a ruling elite faces an unexpected challenge from the genetically altered population they have created.
20. Dune Messiah — Frank Herbert — The second Dune novel, in which Paul Atreides confronts the full and terrible consequences of his messianic rise, as conspirators from every quarter plot to bring him down.