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Hawksbill Station: Available Copies

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Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65

This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.25

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.25

Hawksbill Station is a penal colony in the Cambrian Period created by an authoritarian United States government, using time travel to exile rebels and political dissidents into the past. The colony houses only male exiles, who are sent there as a "humane" alternative to execution. The machine only works one way, leaving prisoners marooned in the past. The prisoners, all middle-aged or elderly, are surprised by the arrival of a much younger prisoner. it is revealed that he is a police officer of a new government that overthrew the authoritarian government but was unrelated to the dissident movements of the exiles. The new government discovered the existence of Hawksbill Station and a way to travel from past to future, making it possible to retrieve prisoners from the colony. The newcomer has been sent to evaluate the prisoners and to recommend whether they are appropriate for retrieval. With return now possible, the leader of the exiles realizes that he is a time traveler of a different sort. The struggle against the authoritarian government, his life's work, is over. His closest friends in the movement, as well as his most bitter enemies, are dead. He is tempted to visit the newcomer's future, but Hawksbill Station is now the only existence he knows. Mass market paperback. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with some age darkening, with no markings, notes, or highlighting. Covers show minor shelf wear; lower front corner shows a crease. Previous owners' names written on inside front cover and front endpaper, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square. Corners not bumped. An excellent reading copy.

Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 0.1

Shelf and spine wear -- reader's copy.

Nice Varley/Silverberg Tor double.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.24

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.24

Hawksbill Station is a penal colony in the Cambrian Period created by an authoritarian United States government, using time travel to exile rebels and political dissidents into the past. The colony houses only male exiles, who are sent there as a "humane" alternative to execution. The machine only works one way, leaving prisoners marooned in the past. The prisoners, all middle-aged or elderly, are surprised by the arrival of a much younger prisoner. it is revealed that he is a police officer of a new government that overthrew the authoritarian government but was unrelated to the dissident movements of the exiles. The new government discovered the existence of Hawksbill Station and a way to travel from past to future, making it possible to retrieve prisoners from the colony. The newcomer has been sent to evaluate the prisoners and to recommend whether they are appropriate for retrieval. With return now possible, the leader of the exiles realizes that he is a time traveler of a different sort. The struggle against the authoritarian government, his life's work, is over. His closest friends in the movement, as well as his most bitter enemies, are dead. He is tempted to visit the newcomer's future, but Hawksbill Station is now the only existence he knows. Mass market paperback. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. Covers show only minor shelf wear; lower front corner shows a crease. Ex-library. Binding is tight and square. Corners not bumped. An excellent reading copy.

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Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

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Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65

Good condition. Good dust jacket. Book Club edition. (science fiction, American science fiction, English science fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

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Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3

Book club edition. Minor general wear. 1968 Hard Cover. 156 pp. A rigid Earth government sentenced all its dissidents to a station billions of years in the past and with the way technology is, they can only move time in one direction, that being back. So they're all stuck there. The leader of the camp, Barrett, isn't the first one there but has been there the longest but recently was crippled, making him doubt his continued usefulness.

"Book Club Edition" on its jacket's front flap, "Copyright © 1968" on its copyright page, and 1st printing code "48J" (November 1968) on page 155. This book is in very good condition, marred only by a 1" wide scrape across the middle of the bottom edge of its covers, plus a bump on the bottom of its spine, and a trace of lean. Its binding is sound, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn. Pages are unmarked and unworn. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is whole and also in very good condition, marred only by a thin 2" scrape and some light soiling on its back, plus some light wear on the base of its spine. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.

Collectible, priced accordingly. Standard used reading condition or better.