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AUTOGRAPHED FIRST EDITIONS by Joe Haldeman ƒ ƒ ƒ
ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED
St. Martins 1977 $35*
Gorilla-shaped
bismuth junkies who stack their dead ancestors like cordwood in the living
room; gentle souls who can kill with a touch or a thought.
A
throwback fiefdom on a planet where huge poisonous bats rule the night sky,
where serpents the size of semi-trailers slither through the rotting jungle --
where men fight duels with swords in the shadows of starships.
A
world whose sun is a dying ember, where a sarcastic mansized beetle that's a
Talmudic scholar, and swears like a longshoreman, claims to be immortal -- and
claims that he can move planets with his mind. Bad people want to know how.
All
in a life's work for Otto McGavin:
Prime Operator for the TBII, undercover guardian of the rights of aliens
and humans under the Confederación.
Thief, spy, murderer -- who by technological voodoo can take on the
appearance and personality of any enemy, for months at a time. And talk fast or fight when the magic
runs out.
BUYING TIME William
Morrow, Inc. 1989 (First trade
hardcover) $35 *
Dallas Barr is a wealthy playboy in
a world where wealth can buy eternal youth -- but the terms are steep and
non-negotiable: all of your money
every ten years, and don't walk through the door with less than a million
pounds. Dallas is one of the
oldest people on Earth, one of the original Stileman Immortals.
You
have to have a knack for making money fast, or accept your three score and
ten.
Dallas has that knack, but also a
propensity for asking the wrong questions and an unwillingness to be pushed
around. Immortals start dying
under suspicious circumstances, and it becomes obvious that Dallas is at the
top of the list. He goes
underground to try to solve the mystery before his time runs out. The killers follow him.
THE HEMINGWAY HOAX
William Morrow, Inc. 1990 $35
A
con artist talks a Hemingway scholar, John Baird, into attempting the forgery
of Hemingway's lost novel of the 1920's.
John finds out that it's not nice to mess with literary destiny, as he's
stalked through various alternate presents and pasts by a literary critic with
a license to kill.
The
shortened version of this novel won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Science
Fiction Novella of the Year.
THE LONG HABIT OF LIVING New
English Library. British First Edition 1989 (published in the USA as BUYING
TIME ) $25*
MINDBRIDGE St. Martins 1976 $35 *
Jacque LeFavre is a Tamer -- one of an elite group of explorers
who are teleported for days or weeks to unknown worlds, to set up bases for the
colonists who follow. Not one
Tamer in four lives long enough to retire. But if you're good enough for the job, you probably don't
want any other job.
In the course of interstellar
exploration, humans run into the L'vrai -- a race of angelic beauty but with a
callous disregard for life. They
are colonizing this corner of the universe and see humans as easily disposed-of
pests.
Lefavre's assignment: use a dangerous psychic creature to
establish a telepathic link with a L'vrai leader, and find a way out of the
interstellar war that threatens the extinction of humankind. The adventure unfolds alongside a
conflict between Lefavre and Carol Wachal, who as part of an experiment have
sex while connected telepathically -- which is a disaster -- and then slowly
fall in love.
TOOL OF THE TRADE
William Morrow, Inc. 1987 $30 *
Nick
Foley is a middle-aged college professor in Boston who is also a deep-cover
Soviet agent and very privately insane.
He has invented a device that makes people literally his slaves, as long
as they are in earshot -- if he asks you to jump off a bridge, smiling, you
will do it -- and his hobby is using this machine to improve the quality of
life in Boston by asking muggers and junkies and pimps to politely throw
themselves in front of large moving vehicles. He is crazy, and admits it to himself in an oblique
way, but he's not crazy enough to give such a powerful device to the KGB.
The
KGB finds out about it, and so does the CIA, and the game is afoot. After a convoluted chase scene that
involves police and agents from Maine to Key West, and about 80 gallons of Type
O spattered hither and yon, Foley winds up in Leningrad at the President's
elbow, in disguise, substituting as his interpreter in a turn-of-the-century
arms negotiation. Fluent in both
Russian and English, anything he says will be obeyed.
How
crazy is he?
WAR YEAR
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
1972 $75
(Joe's first novel)
"George Lucas once told me this was his favorite novel about
Vietnam. It's a simple story taken
from my own combat diary -- I fought in the Central Highlands in 1968 -- with
things rearranged and exaggerated for dramatic impact. I wanted John Farmer to be an
'everyman' soldier -- everything
that normally happens to an unwilling combat soldier happens to him."
WORLDS
New English Library, British
paperback reprint, 1992
(autographed but NOT a first
edition) $7.50
Worlds, the first volume of of the Worlds
Trilogy, tells the story of Marianne O'Hara's tumultuous coming of age in an
Earth that is tottering on the brink of its final war. Marianne was born inside New New York,
an orbiting city that is politically independent of Earth but strongly linked
emotionally and economically.
Marianne travels to New York City with the intention of pursuing a
doctorate in "American Studies," but gets a lot more than she
bargained for, as the Third Revolution comes up to speed, and the center does
not hold.
WORLDS APART Viking
1983 $35 *
Worlds Apart tells the story of two tenuously linked worlds: the high-tech satellite community of
New New York and an Earth that is literally maddened by the aftereffects of a brutal
war. A mutated biological warfare
agent is loose all over the world.
It killed almost all of the adults. Now, it kills the children when they reach their late teens.
It's
a futuristic world where everything has broken down, and children can't fix
it. They're reverting to a Lord of
the Flies kind of savagery. In
Florida and parts of Georgia there's a perverted kind of Christianity called
Mansonism, where the children worship Christ and Charlie. Death is the only state of grace and
murder is a sacrament.
The
story up in orbit is less grim, as Marianne O'Hara works on various projects,
first to help the Earth recover (involving disastrous rescue attempts in Africa
and New York) and then serving as a junior administrator in a project to build
a huge starship, one that will carry ten thousand people on a century-long
voyage, where their grandchildren will colonize an Earthlike planet circling
Epsilon Aurigae.
WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME
William Morrow 1992 $35 *
Worlds Enough and Time deals with Marianne as a middle-aged woman and elder,
participating in the voyage to Epsilon, working essentially as a city manager
for this very odd city: ten
thousand people inhabiting an area about the size of a shopping mall, knowing
they will never go outside; knowing that their lives depend on complicated life
support and propulsion systems -- and if something goes wrong, there's no way
to send out for spare parts.
Stir-craziness is the order of the day.
Technology
intervenes, for good and ill.
Marianne arrives on the planet still fairly young, and when they meet
the aliens who already live there, she's presented with a challenge larger than
any human has ever faced.
The anthologies COSMIC
LAUGHTER (Holt, 1974; very few copies) and NEBULA
AWARDS 17 (Holt, 1983) are also available for $25 each.
1968
William Morrow, 1995 $25*
First US edition
Spider is an ordinary US soldier
with a taste for science fiction.
Beverly is the girl he leaves behind when he is sent to Vietnam. Together, the stories of these two
young people make a painfully vivid testament to one of this century's most
troubled periods. For Spider's
problems are not over when he returns home. Badly traumatized by his combat experiences, he is woefully
mistreated by the psychomedical establishment before being put back into a
community in which all the customary safety nets -- family, social after-care
and so on -- either are nonexistent or prove heartbreakingly inadequate. And Beverly has, somehow, to come to
terms with the demands of the sexual revolution of the time...
1968
Hodder & Stoughton, 1994 $35
True first edition, British first
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Recently acquired:
NONE SO BLIND, short story collection, Avon,
1996, hardcover first edition: $25
Contains several award-winning
stories.
FOREVER FREE, novel, 1999, Ace Books, hardcover
first edition. Sequel to THE FOREVER WAR.
$25
THE COMING, novel, 2000, Ace Books, hardcover
first edition. $25.
GUARDIAN novel, 2002, Ace Books, hardcover
first edition. $25.
CAMOUFLAGE novel, 2004, Ace Books, hardcover
first edition $50.
OLD TWENTIETH novel, 2005, Ace Books, hardcover
first edition $30.
WAR STORIES, collection, 2005, Nightshade Books,
hardcover first edition $30
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ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED* ____ ____
A SEPARATE WAR ____
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BUYING TIME* ____ ____
CAMOUFLAGE ____ ____
THE COMING ____ ____
COSMIC LAUGHTER (ed.) ____ ____
FOREVER FREE ____ ____
THE HEMINGWAY HOAX ____ ____
GUARDIAN ____ ____
THE LONG HABIT OF LIVING* ____ ____
MINDBRIDGE* ____ ____
NEBULA AWARDS 17 (ed.) ____ ____
OLD TWENTIETH
TOOL OF THE TRADE* ____ ____
WAR STORIES ____ _____
WAR YEAR ____ ____
WORLDS ____ ____
WORLDS APART* ____ ____
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NONE SO BLIND ____ ____
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