GENESIS is an Open Road deal April 4-9, priced at 1.99 for US buyers. The Boat of a Million Years (1989) intricately chronicles the lives of a cadre of immortals whose lives intersect, over centuries, with our own mayfly spans eventually, the immortals become impatient with us. Poul Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during. Tau Zero (1970) is a brilliant essay on the life and death of the entire universe, thinly coated with story. The High Crusade (1960) transports a medieval knight and his liegemen to another planet, where they establish a boisterous feudalism. In Anderson's first significant tale, Brain Wave (1954), our local solar system passes (after thousands of years of imprisonment) out of a galactic cloud which had been muffling brain activity as soon as we escape, we begin to be as bright as we need to be in order to glory in the universe. And finally, his four or five best novels defiantly refused to resemble one another. Occasionally, he descended to a somewhat stilted poetic manner, which consorted uneasily with the hard scientific thought that underlaid almost all his work. He expounded these views in two or three long series of connected novels, and many readers felt he played with a stacked deck in making his arguments win out. Artificial intelligence has been developed to a point where human intelligence can be uploaded into a computer. A book may have more than one first edition in.His political views – the kind of surly but compassionate libertarianism that may be unique to mid-century America – decreasingly matched the temper of our increasingly interconnected times. First Edition In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. Shelf Wear Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. Price Clipped When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's. Edges The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a. Brodart Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. Jacket Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the.

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