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Science & Math

John, Boyd

James J. O'Connor

Mathematics

McGraw=Hill

<p>Pan Books, 1972. British mass market paperback edition of this 1969 novel. Researchers from Earth investigate a potentially intelligent, sexually voracious species of plants native to a newly discovered extrasolar planet. Quite dated.</p>

The Pollinators of Eden

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Pan Books

1st edition 1st printing paperback, vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Rakehells Of Heaven

Pan.

Berkley/Putnam, 1975. Hardcover with dustjacket, FIRST EDITION. Imaginative space opera from the author of "The Last Starship from Earth" (1968).

Barnard's Planet

Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons

The novel is set in a dystopian society in the very near future. Although it is not obvious at first, this is also an alternate history story. The central character is Haldane IV, a mathematician, in a caste-based society. He forms a forbidden relationship with Helix, a poet. He also becomes interested in investigating Fairweather, a famous mathematician who lived shortly before his time, and his son Fairweather II, whom he discovers led a rebellion, which was defeated. Eventually he is given a show trial and deported to another planet, where he meets Fairweather II. In this world, Jesus Christ became a revolutionary agitator and was never subjected to crucifixion. He assembled an army to overthrow the Roman Empire, and established a theocracy that has lasted until the twentieth century. He was killed by a crossbow while entering Rome, so the crossbow becomes a religious symbol similar to the cross in our time-line.

Last Starship from Earth

Victor Gollancz, Limited

John Boyd is back to delight readers of his superb first novel, The Last Starship from Earth. Robert A. Heinlein wrote of it: "This is the best anti-Utopia, the strongest satire on trends in our present culture, I have seen since '1984' appeared. I enjoyed its humor, its half-buried allusions. The puns, the almost-not-quite-quotations, the thinly-veiled references to our 'real' world -- all of these delighted me. It belongs up at the top, along with 'Brave New World' and '1984'."Dr. Freda Caron, blond and beautiful, had waited in vain for her fiance to disembark from Project Abie's recently returned starship. But Paul had unaccountably requested an extended tour of duty on "The Planet of Flowers" and, in his stead, he had sent an assistant, Hal Polino,with a verbal message and an exquisitely iridescent yellow tulip that not only had a plastic memory—but could talk! Freda soon realized she must unlock the secrets of the flower planet, and its strange hold on Paul, through Hal. Hal's lack of methodology and unscientific irreverence constantly confuse Freda, and they battle one another, the ultra-rational world-of-tomorrow they inhabit, and, ultimately, the strange, sentient, unearthly flower planet Freda journeys to explore. The climax of this shocking and oddly beautiful novel is bizarre and delightful.Another admirer of John Boyd's debut novel was Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote: "A fascinating novel that kept me amused and interested to the end. The future society it describes is one of the most convincing I've ever encountered.”

Victor Gollancz

The Rakehells of Heaven

Weybright and Talley

Horizons Of The Heart (As The World Turns:Soaps & Serials, Vol. 4)

Pioneer Communications

Awakening

Forge

Forged By Fire

Dwight Robertson

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