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9780755111473 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: THE CRETAN TEAT A profound story about history, blame, corruption, obsession, sex, the novelist and growing old disgracefully - The Cretan Teat is a wry and comic novel that interweaves its own fiction with an inner fiction about the discovery of a Byzantine painting of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus and a fake ikon that becomes an instrument of Nemesis.
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9781846770647 | Leonaur Ltd, June 30, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: THE CRETAN TEAT A profound story about history, blame, corruption, obsession, sex, the novelist and growing old disgracefully - The Cretan Teat is a wry and comic novel that interweaves its own fiction with an inner fiction about the discovery of a Byzantine painting of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary suckling the infant Jesus and a fake ikon that becomes an instrument of Nemesis.
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9781892391261 | Tachyon Pubns, August 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This special collection of short stories from Grand Master Brian Aldiss is being issued to coincide with his 80th birthday.
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9781585676835 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, July 26, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the distant future of galactic empires, the people of the Greene-tribe are shocked when they discover that they are not the center of a world of their own making, in a new edition of the classic science fiction novel, first published in 1958.
9780881844924 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, May 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: In the distant future of galactic empires, people of the Greene-tribe are shocked when they discover that they are not the center of a world of their own making
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9780689115417 | Atheneum, March 1, 1985, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The concluding volume of the author's Helliconia trilogy finds the planet Helliconia moving away from its sun, its climate growing harsher, its government becoming more severe, and one man questing to return his planet to the light
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9780743445160 | Reprint edition (Ibooks, November 1, 2002), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The concluding volume of the author's Helliconia trilogy finds the planet Helliconia moving away from its sun, its climate growing harsher, its government becoming more severe, and, as a deadly plague, greed, and betrayal ravages the land, one man strives to return his planet to the light.
9780020160922 | Reprint edition (Collier Books, April 1, 1993), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: This is the final volume of the Helliconia Trilogy -- a monumental saga that goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers.
9780441326297 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, May 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A planet orbiting binary suns, Helliconia has a Great Year spanning three millennia of Earth time: cultures are born in spring, flourish in summer, then die with the onset of the generations-long winter.
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9788445071717 | Minotauro Ediciones Avd, November 1, 2002, cover price $8.95
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9780689113888 | Atheneum, November 1, 1983, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: On the beleaguered planet of Helliconia, the king of Borlien determines to divorce his queen and marry a child princess of Oldorando, while his numerous enemies surround him and plot his destruction
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9780743445108 | Reprint edition (Ibooks, August 1, 2002), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: On the beleaguered planet of Helliconia, the king of Borlien determines to divorce his queen and marry a child princess of Oldorando, while his numerous enemies surround him and plot his destruction, in the second volume of the epic science fiction series.
9780020160915 | Reissue edition (Collier Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: On the beleaguered planet of Helliconia, the king of Borlien determines to divorce his queen and marry a child princess of Oldorando, while his numerous enemies surround him and plot his destruction
9780020160915 | Reissue edition (Collier Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: On the beleaguered planet of Helliconia, the king of Borlien determines to divorce his queen and marry a child princess of Oldorando, while his numerous enemies surround him and plot his destruction
9780441326327 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, November 1, 1988), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: The second volume of the trilogy spanning several generations on a planet with centuries-long seasons.
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9781900564779 | Enitharmon Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: England's Daily Telegraph sponsors an annual contest for this unique genre, a sort of prose haiku.
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9780755113392 | House of Stratus Ltd, February 1, 2002, cover price $8.95
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9780743444729 | Reprint edition (Ibooks, February 1, 2002), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In Helliconia, a world orbiting binary suns far from Earth, a young man named Yuli builds the city of Oldorando, a city that now faces the threat of the phagors, a beast species rivaling humankind.
9780020160908 | Collier Books, August 1, 1992, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In Helliconia, a world far from Earth, a young man named Yuli builds the city of Oldorando, a city that now faces the threat of the phagors, a beast species rivaling mankind
9780425061862 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, November 1, 1983), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: In Helliconia, a world far from Earth, a young man named Yuli builds the city of Oldorando, a city that now faces the threat of the phagors, a beast species rivaling mankind
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9780061091865 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2002, cover price $5.01
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9780755113415 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95
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9780689118395 | Atheneum, November 1, 1986, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Begins at the birth of science fiction, with Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' and studies the development of the genre to its present position in contemporary literature
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9780755100682 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95
9780380704613 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, March 1, 1988), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Begins at the birth of science fiction, with Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' and studies the development of the genre to its present position in contemporary literature
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Linked in theme by the ever-present threat of war and violent culture clashes, these short stories embrace both the future and the ancient past
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9780755100842 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95
9780441757046 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, November 1, 1988), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Linked in theme by the ever-present threat of war and violent culture clashes, these short stories embrace both the future and the ancient past
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9780755100811 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95
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9780755100590 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95
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9780755100545 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In a small provincial city, Peter lives with his long-suffering Aunt Anne and his eccentric Uncle Leo, and works in a bookshop called Brightfount’s, which he describes as a ‘shabby outpost of literacy’.
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9780755100538 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: He roamed through the dim reaches of the remote past and like a phantom, the Dark Woman haunted him at every turn.
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9780755100712, titled "Malacia Tapestry" | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In the timeless city of Malacia, a place swathed in magic and on the brink of war, lives a young man named Perian de Chirolo – a free-spirit, a fearless lover – who embarks on a harrowing odyssey with dramatic consequences for himself and all Malacians.
9780061000638 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, July 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: As festering violence threatens to explode in the opulent and magical city of Malachia, Renaissance man Perian de Chirolo finds himself at the center of the maelstrom
9780425080795 | Reissue edition (Berkley Pub Group, September 1, 1985), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: In the timeless city of Malacia, a place swathed in magic and on the brink of war, lives a young man named Perian de Chirolo – a free-spirit, a fearless lover – who embarks on a harrowing odyssey with dramatic consequences for himself and all Malacians.
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9780755100774 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: In this fascinating account of the life of a writer, Brian Aldiss reveals with wit and candour his adventures with publishers, booksellers, agents, fellow authors and readers.
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9780755100552 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Fourteen delightfully fresh and poetic short stories make up the earliest collection of Britain's premier science fiction writer.
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9780755100637 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger generation coming to replace them; instead nature is rushing back to obliterate the disaster they have brought on theselves.
9780451146618 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, January 1, 1987), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland.
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Joe Bodenland, inventor of a crude time travel device, and Bram Stoker embark on a harrowing trek through time to eradicate the Fleet Ones, a powerfully evil band of time travelers headed by Dracula himself
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9780060165932 | Harpercollins, February 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Joe Bodenland, inventor of a crude time travel device, and Bram Stoker embark on a harrowing trek through time to eradicate the Fleet Ones, a powerfully evil band of time travelers headed by Dracula himself
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9780755100781 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95
9780061099465 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1992), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Joe Bodenland, inventor of a crude time travel device, and Bram Stoker embark on a harrowing trek through time to eradicate the Fleet Ones, a powerfully evil band of time travelers headed by Dracula himself
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9780060100551 | Harpercollins, January 1, 1980, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A truly bureaucratic world, a machinedominated twenty-second-century civilization, and mankind's need for gods are among the subjects dealt with in a collection of stories exploring the drives, foibles, and failures of humanity
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9780755100804 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In this superb collection Brian Aldiss chooses the most fantastically original vantage points to observe the inspirations and triumphs, the shortcomings and disappointments of the human race.
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9780755100866 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95
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9780755100828 | House of Stratus Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This collection of SF stories represents thirty years of Brian Aldiss’ prolific writing life.
9780020302254 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, October 1, 1990), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: This collection of SF stories represents thirty years of Brian Aldiss’ prolific writing life.
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