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CD/Spoken Word:
9781441785084 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 20, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [This is the MP3CD Audiobook format in vinyl case.
9781441785060 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 20, 2011), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786118298 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2000), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case.
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9781439133743 | Reprint edition (Baen Books, June 29, 2010), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The struggle for independence on two colony worlds—Mars in the not-so-distant future, and a distant world circling another star in the far future, both threatened by powerful forces and faceless bureaucrats.
9781416591610 | Baen Books, May 5, 2009, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The struggle for independence on two colony worlds-Mars in the not-so-distant future, and a distant world circling another star in the far future, both threatened by powerful forces and faceless bureaucrats.
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After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the Nine Layers of Hell led by Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical tortures. As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin--recast for the present day.
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9780765316769 | Reprint edition (Orb Books, September 2, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell.
Miscellaneous:
9781429933452 | 1 edition (Orb Books, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99
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Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and confined. Partnering with the legendary poet and suicide, Sylvia Plath, Carpenter is a modern-day Christ who intends to harrow hell and free the damned. But now that he's returned to this Dantesque Inferno, can he ever again leave?
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9780765316325 | 1 edition (Tor Books, February 17, 2009), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured.
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9780765355409 | Reprint edition (Tor Science Fiction, March 30, 2010), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured.
Miscellaneous:
9781429982085 | 1 edition (Tor Books, April 1, 2010), cover price $7.99
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CD/Spoken Word:
9781433259081 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Science-fiction writer Allen Carpentier has died and landed at the gates of hell.
9781433259050 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2008), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Science-fiction writer Allen Carpentier has died and landed at the gates of hell.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781433259043 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2008), cover price $44.95
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9781416555636 | Baen Books, August 5, 2008, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Earth was stagnating from a lack of resources, from corrupt governments that stayed in power by keeping their people in ignorance and poverty, and by the established power structures that stifled the creative technologies that could solve the planet’s problems.
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9781439132937 | Reprint edition (Baen Books, August 25, 2009), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Earth was stagnating from a lack of resources, from corrupt governments that stayed in power by keeping their people in ignorance and poverty, and by the established power structures that stifled the creative technologies that could solve the planet’s problems.
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9788498003802 | 1 edition (LA Factoria De Ideas, June 10, 2008), cover price $34.95
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9780671226954 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1981, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The consortium executives of a four-square-mile, self-contained community inside the city of Los Angeles exercise full power when a prank sabotage raid reveals their secret defense system
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9781416555162 | Reprint edition (Baen Books, December 26, 2007), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The consortium executives of Todos Santos, a four-square-mile, self-contained community above the devastated, near-future city of Los Angeles, a blighted urban enviroment wracked by violence, pollution, and poverty, exercise their full power when a prank sabotage raid reveals their top-secret defense system.
9780671828028 | Pocket Books, August 15, 1982, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: The consortium executives of a four-square-mile, self-contained community inside the city of Los Angeles exercise full power when a prank sabotage raid reveals their secret defense system
9780671532277 | Reissue edition (Pocket Books, July 1, 1982), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The consortium executives of a four-square-mile, self-contained community inside the city of Los Angeles exercise full power when a prank sabotage raid reveals their secret defense system
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9780671036607 | Atria Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A young man named Whandell Placehold comes of age as he fights to free his people from the clutches of a merciless and evil god
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9781416575085 | Atria Books, August 24, 2007, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Set in the world of Larry Niven's popular The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports readers to an enchanted ancient city bearing a provocative resemblance to our own modern society.
9780671036614 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, June 1, 2001), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A young man named Whandell Placehold comes of age as he fights to free his people from the clutches of the merciless fire god, Yagen-Atep.
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Burning Tower, the daughter of Wandhall Feathersnake, and her young lover, Younglord Sandry, embark on a perilous quest to uncover the source of the giant, ferocious birds terrorizing Tep's Town, following the trail to a mysterious land ruled by magic and inhabited by the Huitizalatecs, a people who are controlling the birds for their own dark purpose. Reprint.
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9780743416917 | Pocket Books, February 1, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Burning Tower, the daughter of Wandhall Feathersnake, and her young lover, Younglord Sandry, embark on a perilous quest to uncover the source of the giant, ferocious birds terrorizing Tep's Town.
Paperback:
9780743416924 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, September 26, 2006), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Burning Tower, the daughter of Wandhall Feathersnake, and her young lover, Younglord Sandry, embark on a perilous quest to uncover the source of the giant, ferocious birds terrorizing Tep's Town, following the trail to a mysterious land ruled by magic and inhabited by the Huitizalatecs, a people who are controlling the birds for their own dark purpose.
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9788498002881 | Italian edition edition (LA Factoria De Ideas, June 30, 2006), cover price $41.95
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9780743488259 | Reprint edition (Baen Books, April 27, 2004), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: While one Kzin commander tries to stop the war between the powerful felinoid warriors from the planet Kzin and the weak leaf-eating monkey-boys from Earth, Carroll Locklear, stranded on a world with prehistoric Kzinti, must race against time to discover a way to survive, in a volume containing the two novels The Children's Hour and Cathouse.
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9780195167757 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 3, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Defines the essential vocabulary of computers and the Internet, with more than one thousand entries, each with a sample sentence and supplementary notes, that cover everything from operating systems and software applications.
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9780743435826 | Baen Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Forced to land on the frozen world of Earth when a missile destroys their ship, Alex and Gordon soon find themselves on the run from the authorities, which leads them to the last pro-tech group left on Earth--a group determined to send them back into space in twenty extremely complicated stages.
Paperback:
9780743471817 | Reprint edition (Baen Books, January 1, 2004), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Forced to land on the frozen world of Earth when a missile destroys their ship, Alex and Gordon soon find themselves on the run from the authorities, which leads them to the last pro-tech group left on Earth--a group determined to send them back into space in twenty extremely complicated stages.
9780671720520 | Baen Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Two Space Hab astronauts are shot down over the North Dakota glacier by the new totalitarian government given carte blanche to control the greenhouse effect
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9780765345318 | Starscape, July 13, 2003, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Daring at last to ask the benevolent voice in his head some difficult questions, young Kip learns that his parents had implanted a chip in his brain that connects him to a powerful computer, that they had been subsequently killed, and that his own life is also in danger.
9780765345318 | Starscape, July 13, 2003, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Daring at last to ask the benevolent voice in his head some difficult questions, young Kip learns that his parents had implanted a chip in his brain that connects him to a powerful computer, that they had been subsequently killed, and that his own life is also in danger.
Reinforced:
9780606285162 | Demco Media, January 1, 2003, cover price $14.55 | About this edition: Kip has a secret.
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9780743435772 | Baen Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: While one Kzin commander tries to stop the war between the powerful felinoid warriors from the planet Kzin and the weak leaf-eating monkey-boys from Earth, Carroll Locklear, stranded on a world with prehistoric Kzinti, must race against time to discover a way to survive.
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9780743435567 | Baen Books, August 27, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Tired of the tyrannical rule of Earth, the colonists on the planet Sparta have revolted and hire John Christian Falkenberg and his mercenary legion to train them how to fight, but Grand Senator Bronson, one of Earth's most powerful rulers, will do anything to stop Falkenberg and crush Spartan independence.
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9781573928946 | Prometheus Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $27.98 | About this edition: Offers background and documentation on the supposed crash of a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947, and the alleged government cover-up.
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9780312861834 | Tor Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Daring at last to ask the benevolent voice in his head some difficult questions, young Kip learns that his parents had implanted a chip in his brain that connects him to a powerful computer, that they had been subsequently killed, and that his own life is also in danger
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9780812538939 | Reissue edition (Tor Books, August 1, 1999), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Daring at last to ask the benevolent voice in his head some difficult questions, young Kip learns that his parents had implanted a chip in his brain that connects him to a powerful computer, that they had been subsequently killed, and that his own life is also in danger
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9780312861742 | Tor Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Kicked out of school after a misfired practical joke, Rick Luban takes a job mining asteroids and is surprised by the industry's fierce competition and dangers, which include sabotage and murder
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9780812538908 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Kicked out of school after a misfired practical joke, Rick Luban takes a job mining asteroids and is surprised by the industry's fierce competion and dangers, which include sabotage and murder
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9780671877415 | Baen Books, September 1, 1996, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Finding himself on the distant world of Tran, which is populated by humans from all Earth times, former mercenary Rick Galloway, now known as Lord Rick, must unite the warring nations of the planet to survive the time of the Demon Star
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9780671877095 | Baen Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Reluctantly volunteering for a dangerous mission, Captain Rick Galloway and his men are cut off in hostile territory when the CIA pulls out their support, an event that is further complicated when an alien spaceship arrives.
9780441382910 | Reissue edition (Ace Books, February 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier.
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9781566861014 | Brady, February 1, 1995, cover price $26.95
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Basing their projections on technological, scientific, environmental, and biomedical forecasts, four leading science fiction authors--Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield--offer unique, vastly different views of the future. Reprint.
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9780688131739 | William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield share stories and essays that speculate on what the world will be like fifty years from now and discuss the sociological and technological implications of their expectations
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9780380718863 | Avon Books, February 1, 1995, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Based on technological and scientific forecasts, four science fiction authors--Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield--offer their views of the future
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9780671876166 | Baen Books, August 1, 1994, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Escaping near destruction of their battle-demon species, the genetically engineered Saurons seek refuge on Haven, a dumping ground for the criminals of the Codominium, whose population has been shaped by centuries of violence
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