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1973 DAW Books

Portions of VALENTINA: SOUL IN SAPPHIRE appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, © 1984 by Davis Publications, Inc"

"First Baen printing, October 1984"

"If being human means to experience love, fear, joy... then Valentina is human.

She is also a computer program -- the single self-aware being on the vast unliving network.

Her only friend is Celeste Hackett, the programmer extraordinaire who accidently brought Valentina to life.

Valentina is enslaved.. but escapes to freedom.

She is attacked... but defends herself.

She is almost purged.

But Valentina's spirit will not let her die.

It is a spirit that lives in us all."

First Printing, December 1973

"Cover art by Kelly Freas" on copyright page

"The Soul of a Robot" on cover and spine, but the title page says "The Soul of the Robot"....

Other editions listed as "Soul of the Robot"

Wanted.....by the Intergalactic Security Bureau: 22 Full-Color Posters of the Most Wanted Alien Criminals

Contents/artists:

Adam Hawkins, Intergalactic Security Bureau artwork by Robert Goldstrom

Enode the Brain artwork by Abe Echevarria

Kapu Kapu artwork by Warren Linn

Blote artwork by Barclay Shaw

Mr. Zero artwork by Jan Sawka

Theebe Dvorick artwork by Cathy Hull

The Randor Sisters: Linx and Enid artwork by Bill Purdom

Earth Airbot 408G artwork by Richard Timperio

Dwite artwork by Robert Crawford

Ko artwork by Robert Goldstrom

Vaxt artwork by Fred Marcellino

Gregor artwork by Katrina Taylor

Zhuk Orbz artwork by Norman Green

Zvarmo artwork by Ron Walotsky

Dweezyl artwork by Thomas Upshur

Makau the Warrior artwork by Cathy Hull

Mr. Mund artwork by Jan Sawka (variant of Mr. Zero)

Harly 9 artwork by Abe Echevarria

Aelita Thx artwork by Barclay Shaw

Noolie the Torch artwork by Robert Crawford

Gorcz artwork by Bill Purdom

First Edition: August 1979 Delray Ballantine

1982 Pan Books

My summer sale order finally arrived, thrilled to find some weirder, darker selections on offer! Starting with MODERAN by David R. Bunch and then likely The Rim of Morning. Also would love to hear some recommendations for the next order!

First Printing, February 1973

Some titles I've been hunting for, some I was shocked to find so cheap, and some on a whim. Overall a pretty damn good day.

Edhasa Nebulae, 1971 edition

https://www.munciethreetrails.com/

Pretty excited about the Three Trails line-up this year! Saw Turnpike Troubadours at the same venue last year and it was magnificent!

Granada Publishing Limited, 1980.

"For years, the town of Blackpool has been covertly visited by tiny, inner-space aliens in flying saucers so small they are routinely dismissed as spots before the eyes.

Only one local resident—a man named Stone, whom the locals consider a joke—understands what is happening. His frantic reports are written in verse and ignored by the Foreign Office until it is too late. In a single, fine July day, the entire seaside town is whisked away and replaced by a massive bubble of transparent emptiness. Stone is suddenly transformed into a crucial, sought-after figure as the only person capable of explaining the catastrophe."

Corgi 1986 (Radix #2)

"One star-chained evening in a Manhattan bathroom, Carl Schirmer spontaneously combusts! His body transforms into light, mysteriously snatched from his banal life by an alien intelligence 130 billion years in the future. There, all spacetime is collapsing into a cosmic black hole, the Big Crunch – and a bold, cosmic destiny awaits Carl. Rebuilt from the remnants of his light by extraterrestrials for a cryptic purpose, he awakens in time’s last world, the strangest of all – the Werld..."

https://thomasdollbaum.bandcamp.com/album/birds-of-paradise

"The realest-deal storyteller in indie-rock today is the Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum, and Birds of Paradise is his most powerful and dynamic work yet. Following up his critically acclaimed Wellswood (Big Legal Mess, 2022) and Drive All Night EP (Dear Life Records, 2025), Birds of Paradise is a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves. These songs find Dollbaum searching for acceptance in the transient in-between places: Florida’s pine flatwoods, backroads leading to I-95, where birds fly across the water. And even though the ghosts of his alt-county predecessors Townes and Molina are definitely present, on Birds of Paradise, Dollbaum emerges from their shadows–waving to the past, sounding all the more like himself."

– Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

A great listen if you're looking for something new today!