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The History of Sci-Fi from War of the Worlds to 2001. First edition, first printing.

Classic Science Fiction from one of the masters of the genre. Pictorial hardback library bound, with protective poly dust jacket. 250pp + 1 page of 'Epilogue', ostensibly (but not really) written in 2021. Unusual artwork on front cover.Used, good. Ex-library book with markings. Library card still in situ on ffep. Internally clean. Binding good.

Classic Sci Fi, beautifully presented - would make an ideal gift. For those who know anything of the most outstanding British authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the name of Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) needs little introduction, for he wrote on many subjects. He is principally remembered as one of the 'Fathers of Science Fiction' and this six volume Leonaur collection focuses upon his writing in that genre—from the strange to the fantastical and scientifically prophetic—with which he will forever be associated. These wonderful and dramatic stories have been gathered together in these attractive, good value volumes in chronological order of original publication.In 'The Time Machine' (1895) an inventor-traveller visits several future destinations including a future populated by the gentle Eloi and brutish Morlocks. 'The Wonderful Visit' (1895) features an angel with dazzling plumage who visits Victorian England. In 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' (1896) a shipwrecked man finds… Read More

Very rare edition of this classic Sci Fi novel by the Master.
Dust jacket design has blue and black text on a white background. Boards are bright green leatherette with no text.

The Snowflake is perhaps the most ingenious, convincing and magical vehicle yet dreamt of for time-space travel. The events which lead to its appearance in the 1960s, touching down on the rough heather of a Scottish moor, involve the lives of three people - Punch and Simon, scientist and engineer, and Paula, who combines the attractions of Cleopatra with the drive of a Beaverbrook. She it is who organises a research group on a large scale centred round Punch's discovery of a new atomic fuel, "based on fusion, not fission." Operation Snowball, as it is prophetically named, results in the launching of the SS.1, an artificial satellite, wonderful enough, but of the earth earthy compared with the mysterious visitant, the Snowflake itself, which ranges as far out in time as 2065 and casts back the glacial light of an infinitely refracted future upon these three lives and on that of Paula's unborn child.Those who know how close Dr Grey Walter's work on brain physiology has brought him to the very stuff of… Read More

Classic Sci-Fi. Until recent years, The Hunt for the Meteor was the only one of Jules Verne's posthumous works to be translated and published in Britain; it appeared, however, under a title which revealed its secret prematurely. Its chief interest is that it shows that towards the end of his life Verne was still keeping abreast with contemporary developments in science, notably the theory of the electrical nature of matter - and here there is even an inkling of the theory of 'continuous creation', recently put forward by Professor Fred Hoyle. (Notes on his application of this theory are given in the Appendix). [from this publication's Introduction, 1965] CONDITION: Used, fair. Ex-library book with usual markings. Dust jacket is library-bound. Light wear. Age tanning. Binding good.

Classic 1950s science fiction paperback with bright artwork on front cover. 128pp. Rare collectible item. Ads on insides of front and back covers. 1951 First edition, first printing. Used, acceptable. Covers and spine very worn but still present and attached. Slight stain to inside front cover. Ownership signature on ffep. Dusting and wear to edges. Back cover starting to detach. Internally, relatively clean and readable.

Original uncut classic science fiction

Classic Sci Fi

This novel must surely rank with the best that is being produced by American writers today. It is an ingenious and absorbing novel based on the proposition that America lost the War of Independence, that the renegade George Washington has been quietly and decently shot, and that the greatest colony in the British Empire is to be connected physically to the Home Country by the Trans-Atlantic Tunnel Project. The project begins as the brain-child of Sir Isambard Brassey-Brunel; but with some irony, it passes to the control of Captain Augustine Washington, a descendant of the traitor George. The story is beautifully told, and the engineering construction given in fascinating detail. The trains that will use the tunnel can travel at 200 miles per hour, and will supersede the clumsy coal-fired aircraft that are used to cross the Atlantic at speed. This is the kind of book that many people will want to read more than once.

Who is that, walking around in John English's mind?

A story of telepathy and ESP wherein Paul Breen discovers that he has special powers. As a loyal American he lends his powers to the U.S. government but soon finds out that the government is not to be trusted.(Goodreads)

Strange goings on in a Cornish village..........classic Sci Fi by one of the masters in the genre.
Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering, in gold dust jacket.
Used, very good. Dust jacket in good condition and not price clipped. Boards/spine very good. Light age-related tanning to internal pages and very light foxing to edges. No inscriptions. Binding very good.