Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4116

Secondhand Science Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4116

Twenty-one SF paperbacks across forty years: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Green Mars, Hal Clement, Barrington Bayley, Haldeman, Lafferty, two Amtrak Wars, Lawhead’s Empyrion omnibus, Michener’s Space, Donaldson, two Time Police, Raymond F. Jones’s This Island Earth, Maxine McArthur’s Time Future, and an Adam Link Robot from 1965. From pulp to Hugo winners.

1. Cycle of Fire — Hal Clement — A boy stranded on a planet with two suns and an alien who’s dying at the end of its life cycle. Clement’s hard SF at its purest; from the Mission of Gravity author. Fontana, 95c.
2. Gary Gygax’s Cyborg Commando Book 2: Chase into Space — Pamela O’Neill & Kim Mohan — The battle for Earth heats up and lifts off: the D&D creator’s game-tie-in series.
3. The Amtrak Wars Book 3: Iron Master — Patrick Tilley — Steve Brickman among the Iron Masters of Ne-Issan, a samurai culture in post-nuclear America. The third of six; the series Britain’s SF readers of the 1980s loved most.
4. There Is No Darkness — Joe Haldeman & Jack C. Haldeman II — A space cadet’s year at a university on a starship, with a different world each term. Space cadet à la Haldeman, says Locus.
5. Space Chantey — R.A. Lafferty — The Odyssey retold as the odyssey of Space Captain Roadstrum, by the strangest writer in SF. Ace Double, 1968.
6. The Amtrak Wars Book 2: First Family — Patrick Tilley — Brickman returns to the Federation a hero and finds out what the First Family wants him for.
7. Lord Foul’s Bane — Stephen Donaldson — Thomas Covenant, a leper, is pulled into the Land and refuses to believe in it. The First Chronicles, book one.
8. Star Trek Online: The Needs of the Many — Michael A. Martin & Jake Sisko — An original novel based on the MMORPG, told as Jake Sisko’s interviews.
9. The Expendables 4: The Venom of Argus — Richard Avery — Edmund Cooper under a pseudonym: a crew of convicts clearing planets for colonisation. Coronet.
10. This Island Earth — Raymond F. Jones — The SF classic that inspired the world-famous movie: an engineer recruited by aliens for an interstellar war. Sphere.
11. Beneath the Shattered Moons — Michael Bishop — A world where the moons broke and the people stopped feeling. Bishop’s early novel. Sphere.
12. Time Police Volume 2: Trapped! — Warren Norwood — He was the enemy of time: a time cop in a future police state.
13. Empyrion — Stephen Lawhead — The Search for Fierra and The Siege of Dome in one omnibus: a colony world found abandoned and then found again. Lawhead’s only SF.
14. Space — James A. Michener — Four men and the American space programme from 1944 to the Shuttle, in Michener’s usual thousand pages. The new novel by the author of Hawaii and The Covenant, says the cover.
15. Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes — Timothy Zahn — The official movie prequel: John Connor before the film. From the Thrawn author.
16. Collision with Chronos — Barrington Bayley — Time is a wave moving through the universe and two waves are about to collide. His inventiveness is unparalleled, says Vector. Fontana.
17. Time Future — Maxine McArthur — A space station commander, a murder and a hundred-year wait for a ship. Won the George Turner Prize; Australian SF.
18. Green Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson — The second Mars book: the planet turning green, the first hundred ageing, and the revolution that finally works. Hugo Award winner.
19. Time Quest Book III: Nemydia Deep — William Tedford — To transport a doomed civilisation, Chayn Jahr must free a deserted paradise. Leisure Books, 1980s.
20. Time Police Volume 3: Stranded! — Warren Norwood & Mel Odom — He was a fugitive from the future.
21. Adam Link, Robot — Eando Binder — The robot with emotion, 1939, from the pulps: “the robot-with-emotion has rarely been so well-handled,” says Isaac Asimov. Paperback Library, 1965.