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Agent of Chaos

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Belmont Tower Books

1st edition Arrow 1980 paperback, vg++ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

A World Between

Arrow

Greenhouse Summer

The world of the future faces an out of control ecosystem in the form of overpopulation, pollution, and other environmental disasters, forcing Earth's government to convene for an emergency meeting. 15,000 first printing.

Tor Books

In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the Void Pilot. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be a Pilot also entails physical wasting and a shortened life. But Pilots live only for the timeless moments of Transition, when their ships cross the emptiness of space in an instant. Now Void Pilot Dominique Alia Wu has begun to catch a glimpse of something more, something transcendent in that eternal moment . . . and she needs the cooperation of her Captain to achieve it permanently. Even at risk to the survival of the Ship. Norman Spinrad has been one of SF’s most adventurous writers since the 1960s, an internationally praised peer of such writers as Harlan Ellison, Michael Moorcock, and Samuel R. Delany. His stories of the Second Starfaring Age, The Void Captain’s Tale and the later novel Child of Fortune, form a single epic praised by the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as “an eroticized vision of the Galaxy . . . an elated Wanderjahr among the sparkling worlds.”

The Void Captain's Tale

Orb Books

The year is 1531. In a small hut on the slopes of the volcano Popocateptl, scholar and poet Alvaro de Sevilla reflects on his extraordinary life. For Alvaro was one of the small army of conquistadors who, some years earlier, set out to conquer an empire. Hernando Cortes was proclaimed a reincarnation of the god Quetzacoatl shortly after his arrival in the New World, and he took advantage and forced his way to the capital city. There he met Montezuma, the Aztec Emperor, who at first welcomed the conquistadors to his city, showering them with gold. But it was an encounter between two civilizations that could only end in chaos, death, and destruction.

Mexica

Genre Fiction

Little, Brown Book Group

Mexica: A Novel

United States

Lover and hero, Jack Barron, the sold-out media god of the Bug Jack Barron Show, has one last chance to hit it big when he meets Benedict Howards, the power-mad man with the secret to immortality.

Bug Jack Barron

Macdonald Co.

"One of the greatest collections of science fiction short stories ever" —Goodreads.com  Contents  Carcinoma Angels The Age of Invention Outward Bound A Child of Mind The Equalizer The Last of the Romany Technicality The Rules of the Road Dead End A Night in Elf Hill Deathwatch The Ersatz Ego Neutral Ground Once More, With Feeling It's a Bird! It's a Plane! Subjectivity The Entropic Gang Bang Caper The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde  Norman Spinrad is the award-winning author of dozens of books, and three-time past President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.

Growth of Railways (Environmental Studies)

Macdonald Science Fiction

The Druid King

Vercingetorix, the great Gallic warrior, was both a man of history and a man of myth. Druid King of Gaul, King of One Hundred Battles, he was among Julius Caesar’s greatest opponents; his eventual defeat at Caesar’s hands was said to prove Caesar’s unstoppable power. Yet Vercingetorix has remained, to this day, a French national hero. And now he is the heart and soul of this enthralling and evocative historical novel. Witness to his father’s harrowing death, Vercingetorix spends years deep in the forest living with the druids. Although they raise him as one of their own, his father’s honor and the looming shadow of Rome force him to become a warrior. After an ill-fated alliance with Caesar, he gathers the tribes of Gaul against law and custom into a single army, ragtag but determined to face down the might of the Romans. This dramatic and momentous life, played against a brilliantly created background of the disparate worlds of Gallic and Roman soldiers, is riveting. The final battle that pits Vercingetorix’s will against Caesar’s own rounds out a novel that richly traces the arc of a hero’s life and the origin of a legend.

Fantasy

KNOPF

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