Category Archives: science fiction

Home from the Shore by Gordon R. Dickson

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Title: Home from the Shore
Series: Sea People
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author(s): Gordon R. Dickson
Cover Artist: James R. Odbert
Interior Artist(s): James R. Odbert
Language: English
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: May 1978
ISBN-10: none
ISBN-13: none
Catalog Number: 13540-X (on spine)
Notes: Pristine condition! It’s like it was sitting in a box buried by other things which protected it for almost 40 years (at which point I bought it)

Splinter of the Mind’s Eye by Alan Dean Foster

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Title: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
Series: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, Star Wars universe
Number in Series: 2 (two), n/a
Author(s): Alan Dean Foster
Cover Artist: Ralph McQuarrie
Language: English
Original Publisher: Del Rey
Originally Published: February 1978
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: August 1978
ISBN-10: 0345260627
ISBN-13: 9780345260628

Gordon R. Dickson’s SF Best – edited by James R. Frenkel

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Title: Gordon R. Dickson’s SF Best
Author(s): Gordon R. Dickson, James R. Frenkel, Spider Robinson
Editor(s): James R. Frenkel
Cover Artist: George Tsui
Interior Artist(s): Rick Bryant
Language: English
Publisher: Dell Books
Published: February 1978
ISBN-10: 0441131812
ISBN-13: 9780441131816
Catalog Number: Dell 13181
Contents:
   “Introduction: The Quiet Giant” by Spider Robinson
   “Foreword” by James R. Frenkel
   “Hilifter” (None But Man)
   “Brother Charlie”
   “Act of Creation” (Childe Cycle)
   “Idiot Solvant”
   “Call Him Lord”
   “Tiger Green”
   “Of the People”
   “Dolphin’s Way”
   “In the Bone”
   “Gordon R. Dickson Bibliography”

The Magic Goes Away by Larry Niven

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"The Magic Goes Away" by Larry Niven.

“The Magic Goes Away” by Larry Niven.


Title: The Magic Goes Away
Series: The Magic Goes Away
Number in Series: 3 (three)
Author(s): Larry Niven
Cover Artist: Boris Vallejo
Interior Artist(s): Esteban Maroto
Language: English
Original Publisher: Ace Books
Originally Published: 1978
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: December 1979
ISBN-10: 0441515460
ISBN-13: 9780441515462
Catalog Number: 51546-0
Notes: Fourth printing.

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle

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"A Swiftly Tilting Planet" by Madeleine L'Engle.

“A Swiftly Tilting Planet” by Madeleine L’Engle.


Title: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Series: Time Quintet
Number in Series: 3 (three)
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Cover Artist: Rowena Morrill
Language: English
Original Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Originally Published: 1978
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Published: November 1980
ISBN-10: 0440901588
ISBN-13: 9780440901587
Catalog Number: 90158

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" - Blu-ray cover.

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” – Blu-ray cover.


Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Producer(s): Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
Music: John Williams
Studio: Columbia Pictures, EMI Films
Released: November 1977
Language: English

The Best of Leigh Brackett – edited by Edmond Hamilton

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"The Best of Leigh Brackett" edited by Edmond Hamilton.

“The Best of Leigh Brackett” edited by Edmond Hamilton.


Title: The Best of Leigh Brackett
Series: The Asteroid Belt, Eric John Stark, Mercury, Venus
Number in Series: n/a, n/a, n/a, n/a
Author(s): Leigh Brackett, Margaret Howes
Editor(s): Edmond Hamilton
Cover Artist: Jack Woolhiser
Interior Artist: Margaret Howes
Language: English
Publisher: Nelson Doubleday / Science Fiction Book Club
Published: July 1977
ISBN-10: none
ISBN-13: none
Catalog Number: 2128 (SFBC)
Notes: All works by Leigh Brackett except as noted.
Contents:
   “Story-teller of Many Worlds” by Edmond Hamilton
   “The Jewel of Bas”
   “The Vanishing Venusians” (Venus)
   “The Veil of Astellar” (The Asteroid Belt)
   “The Moon That Vanished” (Venus)
   “Enchantress of Venus” (Eric John Stark series)
   “The Woman from Altair”
   “The Last Days of Shandakor”
   “Shannach—The Last” (Mercury)
   “The Tweener”
   “The Queer Ones”
   “Afterword”
   “Mars” by Margaret Howes