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ALDISS - Helliconia Spring

Title: Helliconia Spring
Description: New York: Atheneum, 1982. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0689111967. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright, but has some beginning rubbing and one small edge tear / nick. "Besides his own writings, he edited a number of anthologies. For Faber he edited Introducing SF, a collection of stories typifying various themes of science fiction, and Best Fantasy Stories. In 1961, he edited an anthology of reprinted short science fiction for the British paperback publisher Penguin Books under the title Penguin Science Fiction. This was remarkably successful, went into numerous reprints, and was followed up by two further anthologies: More Penguin Science Fiction (1963) and Yet More Penguin Science Fiction (1964). The later anthologies enjoyed the same success as the first, and all three were eventually published together as The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973) , which also went into a number of reprints. In the 1970s, he produced several large collections of classic grand-scale science fiction, under the titles Space Opera (1974) , Space Odysseys (1975) , Galactic Empires (1976) , Evil Earths (1976) , and Perilous Planets (1978). Around this time, he edited a large-format volume Science Fiction Art (1975) , with selections of artwork from the magazines and pulps. " (From Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0689111967 Science Fiction Brian W. Aldiss Helliconia Earthlike Civilization

Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 42840

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