This is novel about wars in the world, fought like sporting events, that is set in Scotland in the 23rd century. This is the first British edition. The images of the dust jacket differ between the British and American editions. The book was designed and illustrated by Alasdair Gray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is novel about wars in the world, fought like sporting events, that is set in Scotland in the 23rd century. This is the first American edition. The images of the dust jacket differ between the British and American editions. The book was designed and illustrated by Alasdair Gray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Web Site: Lamore's novel, written mostly in a working class suburb of Paris, and the product of 6 years of intense and wildly eclectic research ranging from African geo-politics to ornithology (Lamore's father is an expert on rare birds) has been compared to Anthony Burgess's Clockwork Orange, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Dante's Purgatory. Aside from a short excerpt published in FRANK's recent issue of Expat Writing, the work has been kept from public view. AKA by Jean Lamore is one of the most innovative and thought-provoking novels to emerge so far in the 21st century. Set in Paris, New York, and diverse parts of Africa, AKA is a rambunctious romp through almost everything we know about both life and language. Both upsetting and amusing at once in the best sense of both words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Sixth Edition, revised with introduction by Banesh Hoffmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

First published in 1884, there have been more than 24 English editions of Flatland published. Abbott's text has been described as "prophetic in its scientific revelations of multi-dimensionality." Andrew Hoyem is the printer of this edition which unfolds to gigantic proportions. Images were dye-cut fom one side of the sleeve page as a reinterpretation of Abbott's drawings from his 1st edition. Background colors to the images and lines were applied by hand. Ray Bradbury has provided an introduction to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

First published in 1884, there have been more than 24 English editions of Flatland published. Abbott's text has been described as "prophetic in its scientific revelations of multi-dimensionality." Andrew Hoyem is the printer of this edition which unfolds to gigantic proportions. Images were dye-cut fom one side of the sleeve page as a reinterpretation of Abbott's drawings from his 1st edition. Background colors to the images and lines were applied by hand. Ray Bradbury has provided an introduction to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue publishes the first part of Alfred Bester's novel "The Stars My Destination." It is stored near the Bester books. This issue was previously held by Peter Mayer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 -- 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books. Together with Jules Verne, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction." Wells was an outspoken socialist and sympathetic to pacifist views, although he supported the First World War once it was under way, and his later works became increasingly political and didactic. His middle-period novels (1900--1920) were less science-fictional; they covered lower-middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the "New Woman" and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica).Adolf Hoffmeister provided 18 collages to illustrate this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book consists of four novels by Moorcock; "The Black Corridor" is the only one designed with a highly experimental layout. It incorporates concrete poetic sensibility. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a short story about the sex life of a creature from outer space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Aaron Lazansky is Spaze Crafte. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bizarre, imaginative stories by Topor are analogous to the themematic material of his drawings. The duplicate copy is signed by Peter Owens, the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This novel is set in the year 2000 when anarchy pervades the earth. The story deals with a long term space voyage by the protagonist and his family and the conditions they encounter in their effort to escape conditions on earth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is Bester's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The core of this work is an annotated reader's guide to approximately 2500 stories and novels by 880 writers "recommended as an introduction to the author in question, and to provide a quick appraisal of each book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.