Simon Clark

Secrets of the Dead

Severn House 2014 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine, evidence of label removal on front free end paper and copyright page and page edges marked - probable Ex. Library book in laminated boards - as issued and Near Fine Dust Jacket. .
¶ ''John Tolworth is delighted when he is hired to help investigate a collection of mummified bodies found in the notorious Gold Tomb in Egypt. Not only is he intrigued by the work, but the collection is stored in an ancient castle in Devon, where John spent his childhood. But when John and his family arrive at Baverstock Castle, John starts to remember things.. ''"

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Book number: 116797

Arthur C. Clarke

2010 Odyssey Two

Granada 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing (Second State with Author's name spelled correctly). Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket with the price removed .
¶ ''Out among the moons of Jupiter, the empty spaceship Discovery and the enigmatic alien monolith still float in the silent depths of space... To them comes the Leonov... on a mission of investigation and recovery... ''"

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Book number: 34167

Arthur C. Clarke

2010 Odyssey Two

Granada 1982 First Edition in the UK First Printing. Bruised at base of spine and page edges a little marked and foxed - Good book in lightly creased Dust Jacket with a small internal damp stain at the lower edge of the front panel The very scarce first state - withdrawn because the author's name was misspe.
¶ ''Out among the moons of Jupiter, the empty spaceship Discovery and the enigmatic alien monolith still float in the silent depths of space... To them comes the Leonov... on a mission of investigation and recovery... ''"

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Book number: 79563

Arthur C. Clarke

The Ghost From The Grand Banks

Bantam 1990 First Edition in the US First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine else Fine book in Dust Jacket with the lamination loosening around the cover's embossed letters and a surface scratch on the front panel. .
¶ ''In the decade before the centennial of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, two of the world's most powerful corporations... race to find a way to raise - and then preserve - the doomed luxurious ocean liner... the biggest worldwide story of the century... ''"

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Book number: 78991

Arthur C. Clarke

The Hammer Of God

Gollancz 1993 First Edition First Printing. Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, around 25mm of one page edges creased and a little rubbed else Fine book in like Dust Jacket, with a short tear and some associated creasing at the lower edge of the rear panel .
¶ ''It is the twenty-second century. The moon is colonised and on Mars the pioneers live in domes... an amateur astronomer is the first to spot a previously uncharted asteroid... heading into the solar system... they give it a name filled with foreboding. Kali: the Hindu goddess of destruction...''"

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Book number: 115533

Arthur C. Clarke

The Light of Other Days (With Stephen Baxter)

Tor 2000 First Edition First Printing. Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket. .
¶ ''... tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses quantum physics to enable people everywhere to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. This new technology amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy, forever... ''"

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Book number: 115658

Arthur C. Clarke

The Light of Other Days (With Stephen Baxter)

Voyager 2000 First Edition in the UK First Printing. Lower spine corners slightly rubbed else Fine Uncorrected Proof. With Review card from HarperCollins.
¶ ''... Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communication revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light... Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space... ''"

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Book number: 41920

Arthur C. Clarke

Prelude To Space

Sidgwick & Jackson 1953 First Edition in the UK & First Hardback, Thus and First Printing (Bound in Red Cloth). Slightly bumped and worn at top and base of spine and page edges and end papers lightly browned - Good to Very Good Book .
¶ ''... the story behind the launching of the first rocket-ship to the moon... ''"

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Book number: 116335

Arthur C. Clarke

Rama II (With Gentry Lee)

Gollancz 1989 First Edition First Printing. Slightly bumped at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like, slightly rubbed, Dust Jacket with a little erosion at the top of the front fold. .
¶ ''... set in 2200, four years after a second approaching spacecraft has been detected, Earth is ready to mount an expedition which may answer some of the questions posed by Rama... ''"

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Book number: 109278

Arthur C. Clarke

The Trigger (With Michael Kube-McDowell)

Voyager 1999 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges lightly browned else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''... Jeffrey Horton of Terabyte Laboratories is the brilliant, driven and idealistic scientist responsible for the discovery of the Trigger... his prototype, when fired up for the first time, triggered all nearby explosive material. In that moment, an end to the power of the gun became feasible. In future, a firearm - or a bomb - could be made powerless to harm the innocent... ''"

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Book number: 113159

Jo Clayton

Drum Warning

Tor 1996 First Edition First Printing. Slightly bumped at top and bruised at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''Iomard and Glandair, two worlds which exist in separate universes, are connected by magical forces beyond the control of even the strongest sorcerer. As they move closer together, conditions on both worlds become increasingly chaotic. The Drums of Chaos rumble in the background... '' Book One of The Drums of Chaos"

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Book number: 52179

Douglas Clegg

The Vampiricon The Queen Of Wolves

Ace 2007 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''Aleric has lived many lives: the bastard son of a witch mother; Falconer, who could speak to the birds... the vampyre who became a Priest of the Blood and a messiah to his kind. Now, he must become something even greater - and more terrible... '' Third in the trilogy"

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Book number: 106902

Hal Clement (Harry Clement Stubbs)

Cycle Of Fire

Gollancz 1964 First Edition in the UK First Printing. Slightly bumped at top and base of spine, label glue residue on front free end paper and page edges lightly browned - Very Good to Near Fine book in slightly browned and worn Dust Jacket, with a tear at the top of the front flap and a small erosion at the.
¶ ''... Imagine a planet that has two suns; a red dwarf and a blue giant. And because their orbits are eccentric, the environment of the planet is subject to fantastic changes... And yet on this planet there is life... '' Scarce"

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Book number: 115659

Dave Clements

Cassandra 9, 11 & Dreamscape (Editor, with Jeanette Clements & Bernard Smith)

Cassandra Workshop 1985-6. Very Good to Near Fine A5 centre-stapled booklets .
¶ Fiction in Cassandra by Simon Ings, Steve Bowkett, Michael Cobley, Dave Clements and others, How To Guides by Bob Shaw, Liz Sourbut, Ian Watson and Interview with Malcolm Edwards in Dreamscape"

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Book number: 114384

John Clute

Appleseed

Orbit 2001 First Edition First Printing. Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges browned and a little marked else Fine book in like Dust Jacket .
¶ ''It is the dawn of the fourth millennium, and for trader Nathanael Freer it is business as usual. Tile Dance, his ship, is in the safe hands of an Al with two minds and a krewe of helpers. And his latest commission... is routine enough... But.. A galaxy-wide data plague is infecting the spiral arm of local stars all the way from Old Earth... ''"

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Book number: 116761