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Ares Express: Available Copies

Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.96

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.96

Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.96

paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Acceptable reading copy with obvious signs of use, wear, and/or cosmetic issues. Item is complete and remains readable despite notable condition issues.

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The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

2010. Paperback. Pap. Minor shelf-wear. Very Good.

Amherst: Pyr (Prometheus Books):, 2010. Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine, 389 pp. Cover artwork by: Stephan Martiniere "Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's highly-praised DESOLATION ROAD, ARES EXPRESS is set upon a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that are the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends. Driven away from the locomotive that has always been her home by the thought of a boring marriage and an all-consuming wanderlust, she consults her dead twin, Little Pretty One, about her future. But that future will take in religious cults, artificial intelligences that are as gods - and the gods themselves." Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine,

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First printing. Faint crease on front corner, pages lightly toned. 2009 Trade Paperback. 388 pp. Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's Desolation Road, this novel is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, Ares Express is a wild and woolly magic-realist SF novel, featuring lots of bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas and trains as big as city blocks.

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332 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

vg++ 1st printing Earthlight 2002 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

First trade paperback ed. Near fine condition, very slight over all wear. Signed by author on title page.

Wear/small scuffs to edges of cover. Slight peeling at corners of cover & creases to spine. Faint scratches to cover. Slight storage bend. Tanning to edge of text block. Text in very good condition.

Italian language. 7.40x5.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Signed by McDonald. Pages toning lightly and some bumping to the extremeties. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 0.97

Octavo. First printing. This story is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. The story has many bizarre philosophies, strange, mind-stretching ideas and trains as big as a city block. A fine copy bound in black cloth spine lettering silver, in a fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.

Hardcover first edition is fine in fine jacket. Inscribed by McDonald to title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 332 pages; Signed by Author

SIGNED by Ian McDonald on the Title page. Signature only A First edition, First printing. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.

In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

SF novel. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. First printing with ''1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'' on copyright page. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).