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0553296779 hinge crease on front and back covers, light edge wear; In the tradition of Blade Runner and stories like Philip K. Dick's ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,'' acclaimed science-fiction author Norman Spinrad explores the depths of what it means to be human; more accurately, he delves into the nature of the soul in our increasingly computerized technological age. Featuring a poignant new Afterword by Spinrad, this reprinting of one of Spinrad's most cherished works is more timely than ever before. Can human consciousness exist within the framework of an electronic ''brain'' and still maintain its humanity? In DEUS X, a dying priest's consciousness is uploaded into the most advanced computer of the day - and what ensues is a thought-provoking, entertaining and overly intriguing clash between the various characters surrounding the experiment, a female Pope and a computer guru who'd rather be sailing and smoking pot, for example.

0843904542 slight edge wear, small bit of page yellowing, a crisp, clean copy; Bert Fraden had ben a rogue space traveler. All his life he had been in control, shaped situations, conditions, and people to his own will. Though he had been kicked out of cities and exiled from asteroid belts, he remained the same. Now, once again in search of a planet to conquer, he stumbled into Sangre... a planet ruled for centuries by cruel and corrupt leaders...

0553258931 spine creasing, some edge wear; The blue ocean-world of Pacifica was a monument to freedom and equality - until the off-worlders came. Two rival powers began a media war for the hearts and minds of Pacifica's citizens - the Femocrats, a party of female seperatists, and the Transcendental Scientists, an institute of technofascists dedicated to male supremacy.

0553297953 some spine creasing, sticker residue on front cover; Benedict Howards, swimming sharklike in currents of death-madness-power, richer than sin and in complete control of a fabulous secret - immortality. Sara Westerfeld, doing the Berkeley Bolshevik thang, idealistic, beautiful, troubled. And Jack Barron, lover, hero, sell-out media god of the Bug Jack Barron show - the guy with one last chance to become a real-life candystore unafraid crusader.

0553298690 spine creasing, some edge wear; In the near future, the debt-laden U.S. owns a technology that renders it ''the world's best-defended Third World country.'' The only real outer-space planning is in Common Europe, so young American ''space cadet'' Jerry Reed goes to work in Paris. He falls in love with and marries Soviet career bureaucrat Sonya Gagarin and the story jumps ahead 20 years, blending world events with a focus on their family. Sonya's star has risen with the Euro-Russians' while Jerry has been stymied by pervasive anti-Americanism. Daughter Franja has her father's space fever and enrolls in a Russian space school; son Bob, fiercely curious about an earlier, admired America before it was run by xenophobic ''Gringos,'' enters Berkeley. Ten years later the U.S. is a pariah, Euro-Russia the pet of the civilized world and the Reeds scattered--politics forced Jerry and Sonya's divorce, Franja speaks only to her mother and Bob is trapped in ''Festung Amerika.'' -- Publisher's Weekly

1902002180 Benedict Howards, swimming sharklike in currents of death-madness-power, richer than sin and in complete control of a fabulous secret - immortality. Sara Westerfeld, doing the Berkeley Bolshevik thang, idealistic, beautiful, troubled. And Jack Barron, lover, hero, sell-out media god of the Bug Jack Barron show - the guy with one last chance to become a real-life candystore unafraid crusader.

Col. Ciencia Ficción Nº 6. Sellos de librería. Incordie a Jack Barron: Este es el titulo de la más famosa emisión de TV de todos los tiempos en los Estados Unidos. Cada miércoles, el audaz rostro de Jack Barron aparece en las pantallas de cien millones de hogares (cifras del último sondeo Brackett): "¿Le incordia a usted algo?... Entonces, ¡Incordie a Jack Barron!" Porque Jack Barron no teme a nadie: ni a los Poderes Públicos, ni a la Administración, ni al propio Presidente... ni siquiera a Benedict Howards, su gran Complejo Hibernador de las Rocosas y su Proyecto de Ley de Utilidad de la Hibernación a punto de ser aprobado por el Senado. Y cuando ambos gigantes se enfrentan, el resultado no puede ser otro que el inicio de la más cruel y despiadada lucha por el poder: poder del dinero, poder de los medios de comunicación de masas, poder político... ¡poder de la Inmortalidad y sus fabulosas perspectivas para quien la posea!.

Col. Ciencia Ficción Nº 6. Incordie a Jack Barron: Este es el titulo de la más famosa emisión de TV de todos los tiempos en los Estados Unidos. Cada miércoles, el audaz rostro de Jack Barron aparece en las pantallas de cien millones de hogares (cifras del último sondeo Brackett): "¿Le incordia a usted algo?... Entonces, ¡Incordie a Jack Barron!" Porque Jack Barron no teme a nadie: ni a los Poderes Públicos, ni a la Administración, ni al propio Presidente... ni siquiera a Benedict Howards, su gran Complejo Hibernador de las Rocosas y su Proyecto de Ley de Utilidad de la Hibernación a punto de ser aprobado por el Senado. Y cuando ambos gigantes se enfrentan, el resultado no puede ser otro que el inicio de la más cruel y despiadada lucha por el poder: poder del dinero, poder de los medios de comunicación de masas, poder político... ¡poder de la Inmortalidad y sus fabulosas perspectivas para quien la posea! Leve desgaste en tapas