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Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.
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If Lions Could Speak and Other Stories by Park, Paul
Seller: Textbooks_Source (Columbia, MO, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $9.43
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $13.42
Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Seller: Goodwill of Silicon Valley (SAN JOSE, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $11.35
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $15.34
Supports Goodwill of Silicon Valley job training programs. The cover and pages are in Good condition! Any other included accessories are also in Good condition showing use. Use can include some highlighting and writing, page and cover creases as well as other types visible wear.
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Seller: GF Books, Inc. (Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $18.71
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $18.71
Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.78
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Seller: Book Deals (Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $18.72
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $18.72
Like New condition. Great condition, but not exactly fully crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. 0.78
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Seller: Space Age Books LLC (Conroe, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $40.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $47.00
SIGNED (with no personalization or inscription) by author Paul Park in 2009 on its title page. This is a print-on-demand hardcover with dust jacket. Its boards are covered in blue cloth. The book is in near fine condition, marred only by some spine lean. Covers are unworn and unmarked. Pages are unworn and -- other than the author's signature -- unmarked. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in fine condition: whole, bright, unworn and unmarked. 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.
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH (Einbeck, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $30.67
Shipping: $32.07
TOTAL Cost: $62.74
nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - If Lions Could Speak is the first collection from Paul Park, acclaimed author of The Starbridge Chronicles, Coelestis, and The Gospel of Corax. Subtle, stylish, at once forthrightly simple and ingeniously complex, the pieces gathered here are compelling and penetrating explorations of cultural difference and psychological crisis, regret and reconciliation. It is a marvelous literary labyrinth, a realm of memory palaces, eerie doppelgangers, terrifying theocracies, implosive revelations. Here time travel, sordid and ludicrous, becomes emblematic of how all lives are led; here, disease is an index to how the past is rewritten; here, the Other, extravagantly alien or simply alienated, can collapse into the Self with the suddenness of a lethal gunshot. Sometimes sardonically hilarious, sometimes gravely humane, always fiercely shocking, these stories constitute one of the finest bodies of short fiction by any contemporary SF writer. 'Paul Park's short stories are subtle, blunt, funny, distressing, strange, true--all these qualities, often all at once--they are like those dreams or nightmares that seem to plumb right to the meaning of things. In other words, beautiful fiction.' --Kim Stanley Robinson. 'Genre writing is both a liberation and a confinement. If those who don't read science fiction could discover Paul Park, they would find a writer as complex, as skillful, as ambitious and as many-faceted as any they will find under any rubric. I hope this collection will help them discover him. The rest of us can simply open and enjoy.' --John Crowley. 'Paul Park does not remind us of James Sallis or Marcel Proust; the mark of genius is that it never makes us recall anyone else, not even earlier selves.' --Gene Wolfe.
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Seller: moluna (Greven, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $23.91
Shipping: $53.33
TOTAL Cost: $77.24
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