From: db0s+@andrew.cmu.edu (David M. Bartlett)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.marketplace,cmu.misc.market
Subject: SF, Fantasy, Mystery Books for Sale, Part 1
Date: 5 Sep 92 14:51:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Repair, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The following books are for sale.  If interested in some or all, send me
email, and we'll figure out postage.  All books are paperback and
SF/Fantasy unless otherwise noted.

Richard Avery            Deathworms of Kratos                         
$2.00        
                         Rings of Tantalus                             $2.00
                         War Games of Zelos                            $2.00
                         Venom of Argos                                $2.00
          (All four books are part of a series called the
          "Expendables", concerning a team of people who
          explore new worlds and set them up for coloniz-
          ation.  The crew-members are considered "Expend-
          able" because they've all committed crimes on
          Earth against a United Earth government, but are
          otherwise qualified for the positions.  Although
          a small core of crew members survive all four of
          the missions, survival is not a given; and each
          world poses problems and mysteries to solve. Plenty
          of action, good problems/mysteries, though a bit lurid        
                 
          and sexist in places.

The Avengers             #1 The Floating Game  (by John Garforth)        $2.00
                         #2 The Laugh was on Lazarus (by John Garforth)  $2.00
                         #3 The Passing of Gloria Munday (J. Garforth)   $2.00
                         #4 Heil Harris  (by John Garforth)              $2.00
                         #6 The Drowned Queen (by Keith Laumer)          $2.00
                         #7 The Gold Bomb (by Keith Laumer)              $2.00
                         #8 Magnetic Man (by Norman Daniels)             $2.00
                         #9 Moon Express (by Norman Daniels)            
$2.00                
            Novels based on the characters in the Avengers TV series of 
            the late 1960's (John Steed and Emma Peel); all original stories,
            all catching the fast-paced, off-beat/weird quality of the series
            fairly well (I like the Keith Laumer's best, but "true" Avengers'
            Fan's I know like the others).  All written in the late 60's-early
            70's.

Leigh Brackett           People of the Talisman/Secret of Sinharat       $2.00
                            (Ace Double #441-75781-095)
                         The Ginger Star (Eric John Stark #1)            $2.00
                         The Hounds of Skaith (EJS #2)                   $2.00
                         The Reavers of Skaith (EJS #3)                  $2.00
                         The Best of Leigh Bracket                       $2.00
            Leigh Brackett began writing for SF/Fantasy/Horror magazines
            in the 1930's--"The Best of" features lots of her weird SF
            stories about adventures on Mars (canals, desearts and decadent    
            civilizations) and Venus (jungles, dinosaurs, and decadent 
            civilizations), and the first book features two short novels
            from that period concerning Eric John Stark, a kind of space-
            faring Conan, although much brighter.  The "Ginger Star" books
            were written in the 1970/1980's, and emphasis all of Bracketts
            good points:  action, adventure, atmosphere, and the ability
            to create weird, complex civilizations, and Eric John Stark.

John Le Carre  (Mystery) A Murder of Quality/Call for the Dead         $3.00
            Hardback edition of the two murder mysteries solved by
            George Smiley, the master spy of Le Carre's more famous
            "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" & "Smiley's People".

Eric Efflinger      When Gravity Fails (cyberpunk)                     $2.00
   
Philip J. Farmer    GREATHEART SILVER                                  $2.00

Tony Goldstone,ed.  The Pulps                                          $6.00
            Big "coffee table" book with numerous examples of every kind of
            pulp fiction short story of the 1930's: adventure, horror
            sports, westerns, SF, etc.  Complete stories by Lovecraft, R.E. 
            Howard, and other big name authors of the period are all featured,
            printed in the same fonts with original artwork,
            some narrative to introduce the sections and stories, and reprints
            of classic pulp covers in full color

Harry Harrison      Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers                $2.00
            Space Opera meets Tom Swift meets 60's radicalism while
            all three drop acid and watch bad SF movies.  VERY Strange,
            and very funny if you ever loved/hated any of the three.

William HJortsberg  Falling Angel (basis of the movie "Angel Heart"    $3.00
                       and MUCH better than that movie--Hard boiled
                       detective meets the supernatural.  Hardback)

William Hope
    Hodgson           The Night Land, Part II                          $2.00

Robert E. Howard      Wolfshead                                        $3.00
                      (Short story collection, adventure & horror stories)

Neil Jones            The Sunless World                     ACE 6-63   $1.00
 
Richard A. Lupoff     Edgar Rice Burroughs:  Master of                 $2.00
                        Adventure (Biography)
                      Circumpolar (Hardback)                           $3.00
                        (A round the world air-race between Amelia Airhart,
                         Howard Hughes, the Red Baron, and others all taking
                         place in an alternate world where World War I turned
                         out differently and the Earth is hollow and inhabited)

John D. MacDonald (mystery)   The Long Lavender Look                   $1.00
                              Tan and Sandy Silence                    $1.00

Michael Moorcock      War Hound & The World's Pain                     $2.00

Philip & Phylis
        Morrison      The Ring of Truth                                $8.00
                Book derived from the PBS Series of the same name,
                Hardback, hardly touched since its initial reading.

Robert Parker (Mystery)    Taming the Sea Horse     (Hardback)         $3.00
                           The Crimson Joy          (Hardback)         $3.00

Sax Rohmer            The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu                      $2.00
                      The Return of Fu Manchu                          $2.00
                      The Hand of Fu Manchu                            $2.00
                      The Daughter of Fu Manchu                        $2.00
                      The Mask of Fu Manchu                            $2.00
                      The Bride of Fu Manchu                           $2.00
                      The Trail of Fu Manchu                           $2.00
                      The Drums of Fu Manchu                           $2.00
                      The Island of Fu Manchu                          $2.00
                      The Shadow of Fu Manchu                          $2.00
                      Emperor Fu Manchu                                $2.00
                      Re-enter Fu Manchu                               $2.00
            The original super-villian!  The books span the first half of
            the 20th century, all dealing with the struggles of Nayland
            Smith versus Fu Manchu, a master criminal always bent on world
            conquest.  A mixture of adventure, SF, horror, and mystery,
            they are fun reads, though Rohmer's racial stereotyping in the
            early books can be trying to the modern mind.

Stephen Tall               The Stardust Voyages                        $2.00
                           The Ramsgate Paradox                        $2.00
            Collections of short stories about the explorations of the
            Starship Stardust.  the initial stories pre-date Star Trek,
            but the overall concept is the same, though the Stardust's 
            approach to exploration and discovery is a little less structured
            than StarFleet's.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbo   Hotel Transylvania (St. Germaine,                $3.00
                        Vampire series--Anne Rice-ian, but 
                        for people with weak stomachs)
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