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The Void Captain's Tale: Available Copies
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Seller: BooksRun (Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fair
Book Price: $8.06
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $8.06
The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.
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Void Captains Tale by Spinrad, Norman
Hardcover
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Publisher: (1983)
Seller: Better World Books: West (Reno, NV, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $11.45
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TOTAL Cost: $11.45
Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Seller: Greenworld Books (arlington, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $11.99
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TOTAL Cost: $11.99
Fast Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.
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The Void Captain's Tale by Spinrad, Norman
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671434830
Publisher: Timescape Books, New York (1983)
Seller: Orielis' Books (CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $7.95
Shipping: $5.25
TOTAL Cost: $13.20
Ex-library with usual markings, spine slanted, some edge wear, stain on lower edge of back board. Jacket is in protective wraps, glued to pastedowns, some soiling, minor edge wear. "A tale from the second star-faring age where Void Pilots are always female because the function is linked to the psychesomic function of platform orgasm and requires a voluntary addictive personality, non-orgasmic in normal sexual contact. In the normal course of things, the Void Captain and the Void Pilot never meet, but Genro meets his Void Pilot, and discovers the source of her strength and strange resolve: in the instants of the Jump she has caught a glimpse of a transcendental consciousness, and her ultimate desire is to achieve it as a permanent state-which she can accomplish only with Genro's cooperation in a Blind Jump-from which they may never return!"; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Seller: Once Upon A Time Books (Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $9.51
Shipping: $3.95
TOTAL Cost: $13.46
This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .
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The Void Captain's Tale /// The Pictures in the listing are of the book that is for sale by Norman Spinrad
Paperback
ISBN: 9780671498993
Publisher: Pocket Books, New York (1984)
Seller: biblioboy (North Providence, RI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $8.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $15.00
New York: Pocket Books. Pocket Books, Ny , 1984 First Timescape Paperback edition 250 page Mass Market Paperback . A unread Near fine copy with light wear as shown . See Photos Sr 2/10 First Mass Market Paperback, First Printing.
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The Void Captain's Tale by Spinrad, Norman
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Timescape (1983)
Seller: Uncle Hugo's SF/Uncle Edgar's Mystery (Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $12.00
Shipping: $8.00
TOTAL Cost: $20.00
There is wear around the edges of the book and jacket including some light edge tears.
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The Void Captain's Tale by Spinrad, Norman
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780671434830
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books, New York (1982)
Seller: All-Ways Fiction (DAYTON, NV, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $16.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $22.00
Book is in Very Good + condition. Boards have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Fore edges have a small amount of wear. Tiny sticker scar to the front free end page. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Tiny bit of shelf wear/rub. Tiniest bit of wear along the edges. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar wrapper. Thanks and Enjoy. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.
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Seller: Grand Eagle Retail (Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.) New Book
Book Price: $22.59
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $22.59
Paperback. In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the Void Pilot. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be a Pilot also entails physical wasting and a shortened life.But Pilots live only for the timeless moments of Transition, when their ships cross the emptiness of space in an instant. Now Void Pilot Dominique Alia Wu has begun to catch a glimpse of something more, something transcendent in that eternal moment . . . and she needs the cooperation of her Captain to achieve it permanently. Even at risk to the survival of the Ship.Norman Spinrad has been one of SF's most adventurous writers since the 1960s, an internationally praised peer of such writers as Harlan Ellison, Michael Moorcock, and Samuel R. Delany. His stories of the Second Starfaring Age, The Void Captain's Tale and the later novel Child of Fortune, form a single epic praised by the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as "an eroticized vision of the Galaxy . . . an elated Wanderjahr among the sparkling worlds." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Seller: Wonder Book (Frederick, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $23.79
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $23.79
Signed Copy . Signed by author on D. Douglas Fratz's custom book label on title page. Press release laid in. From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (science fiction)
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Void Captains Tale by Norman. Spinrad
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: TIMESCAPE BOOKS ()
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage (Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $24.00
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $24.00
This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. Dust jacket condition is Good. This copy is the Book Club Edition of the published work. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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