Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Infinite Arena Seven Science Fiction Stories About Sports by Terry Carr The Infinite Arena: Seven Science Fiction Stories About Sports by Terry Carr. A touch melodramatic, but conveys the sinking feeling of lost childhood treasures and relationships quite well. Alexander, Holmes. "Five-Inning Wonder." Saturday Evening Post 219.8 (24 August 1946): 24-25, 54, 57. A pitcher returns from the war with an injured hand; his career is on the line – can he come through in the clutch? Alexander, Skye. "Life, Death, Love, and Baseball." In Undertow: Crime Stories by New England Writers (Level Best Books, 2003). Repr. Pachter. In the strike summer of 1981, a gardener starts an affair with a photographer client that she first meets at a Red Sox game. Develops an intriguing, unsettling plot but then wraps up rather too quickly. Alexie, Sherman. "The Warriors." In One Stick Song (Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 2000): 42-54. Memories of a Spokane Indian basketball star who hates baseball. The memories are of friendship, playground pecking orders, lust, and Strat-O-Matic. A prose piece that forms the center of a poetry collection. Algren, Nelson. "I Guess You Fellows Just Don't Want Me." The Last Carousel (1973). Repr. Bowering. An urban tall tale about a character named Ipso Facto, who, in one ballgame, almost steals a run by stealing the baseball. Amaral, Richard E. "Babe Herman in Cooperstown." Aethlon 29.1 (Fall 2011 / Winter 2012): 121-133. Magical-realist encounter with famed Dodger. Anderson, Poul, and Gordon R. Dickson. "Joy in Mudville." Fantasy and Science Fiction , 1955. Repr. Terry Carr, ed. The Infinite Arena: Seven Science Fiction Stories About Sports . Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1977. In the future, baseball is played on thousands of planets that try to emulate the culture of Earth. This one would figure to have some satire of American imperialism buried somewhere in its dreadful prose and stick-figure characters, but maybe it doesn't . . . Anderton, Seven. "The Big Win." Ten Story Sports 6.3 (October 1952): 11-33. Reclusive owner plucks fan from cheap seats and names him manager of a hapless big-league club; club responds to manager's exhortations and goes on a tear. Pleasant little story (despite lower-tier pulp conventions that allow mild profanity and the suggestion of premarital sex). The unseen owner turns out to be a little old lady delighted to make fan Joe Frost's dream come true and to justify his girlfriend Addie Miller's faith in him. Apple, Max. "Understanding Alvarado." American Review 22 (1975). In The Oranging of America and Other Stories (New York: Grossman, 1976), repr. New York: Penguin, 1981. 81-94. Repr. Wilber.Whether Achilles "Archie" Alvarado, Cuban baseball hero and revolutionary, will return to the United States to collect his big-league pension comes down to a single at-bat taken by a retired American slugger against pitcher Fidel Castro. Energetic, good-humored short story. For more fictional views of Castro on the mound, see Shepard, Wendel. Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations. Reviews of Vintage Science Fiction (1950s to mid-1980s) Book Review: The Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6 , ed. Michael Moorcock (1970) (stories by J. G. Ballard, Hilary Bailey, Carol Emshwiller, M. John Harrison, et al.) Paul Lehr’s cover for the 1971 edition. 3.75/5 (collated rating: Good) Welcome to a postmodern museum of disordered landscapes. J. G. Ballard paints a cratered England as a new Vietnam. Langdon Jones reduces the operation of the world to a series of sculptural machines. Hilary Bailey weaves a dystopic England changed beyond recognition in mere years. M. John Harrison’s characters interact with cardboard cutouts on an imaginary set. And Michael Moorcock’s Jerry Cornelius flits between India and Pakistan’s present and past. While there are a few duds, the cream of New Worlds will tantalize all fans of New Wave science fiction. Brief Summary + Analysis. Mal Dean’s illustration of J. G. Ballard’s “The Killing Ground” in New Worlds (March 1969) “The Killing Ground” (1969), J. G. Ballard, 5/5 (Very Good): “The meadows around the enclave formed the landscape of a drowned moon” (9). Ballard’s short fictions pull me into their orbits like old rusted screws and lost metal objects from under the floorboards to Melquíades’ magnet. “The Killing Ground,” perfectly illustrated in New Worlds (March 1969) by Mal Dean’s block print art, postulates a near future U.K. occupied by a technologically advanced America. Like the French holed up at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954), a group of Americans are surrounded by British revolutionaries revolting against the English puppet government in London. Major Pearson interacts with three nameless American prisoners, a wounded African American soldier, a young soldier with a bag filled with books, and their captain who tries to clean the Kennedy Memorial near where the prisoners are held. The historical parallels postulate an America on the rampage with Vietnam-esque conflicts breaking out across the world. Pearson seems to believe that a New Order will emerge, an awakening, a moment of change: “It’s achieved everything” (13). The brutality perpetrated by Tulloch brings everything down to earth. Beautiful. Stark. Intense. Charles Platt’s illustration of Harvey Jacob’s “Gravity” in New Worlds (August 1969) “Gravity” (1969), Harvey Jacobs, 4/5 (Good): Charles Platt’s illustrations for Jacob’s “Gravity” pair the heroic figure of the astronaut with the symbol of mundane daily existence, a visit to the supermarket. Jacob’s crass and hilarious tale tells of the adventures of the earthbound Bogardus Blik, who works a computer for the space program and romps with a heroic astronaut’s wife. While popping aphrodisiacs (“clams on the half-shell and navel oranges”) and watching the launch of his program’s rocket, Bogardus mythologizes himself. His earthy quest to bed the wives of heroes is but another sad manifestation of phallic posturings of the American space program. I find all of this humorous as Harvey Jacobs, according to Michael Moorcock, was involved in the promotion of the Moon Landing (which happened a few months after his story was published). Charles Platt’s illustration of Harvey Jacob’s “Gravity” in New Worlds (August 1969) Stories that subvert the cult of the astronaut—from Barry N. Malzberg’s nihilistic black comedies to C. M. Kornbluth’s “The Rocket of 1955” (1939), a dark flash fiction piece about swindlers preying on the dream of exploration—appeal to my overwhelming need to poke holes in grand narratives, to admit that humans are humans, and that history is no heroic wax museum cavalcade of what now should be. And Harvey Jacobs’ raunchy and lighthearted take on the “personal” side of the Space Race is a nice foil to the sad intumbated wheezes of Malzberg’s astronauts propping up show columns while sinking into Venusian mud or whispering “‘I’m demoralized” to a welfare officer. While Malzberg adheres to a relentless ideology of the dehumanization of modern man, Jacob flings rotten fruit with a giggle and a smile. “The Eye of the Lens” (1968), Langdon Jones, 4/5 (collated rating: Good*): Preliminary Note: This anthology combines all three parts of the “The Eye of the Lens” triptych. I’ve reviewed them previously here. I’ve reproduced my original review of each section of the triptych with slight edits below. “The Hall of Machines” (1968) , short story, 5/5 (Masterpiece): Part I of the “The Eye of the Lens” triptych. An observer researches the endless hall of machines, various earthly and human processes made mechanical, and speculates about the nature of the hall and presents “a picture that is far from complete, but which is remarkable in its specific detail” (38). The entire hall and its machines is in motion, the Earth transformed mechanically, the world’s denizens move between and among the machines… Aquinas’ prime mover has set it all in motion, and it ratchets, wiggles, switches, twitches, manipulates, and cycles before the observer. There are clear references to Borges’ story “The Library of Babel” (1941), notable the discussion of the nature of dimensions of the hall (is it infinite?), but Jones moves in other original directions. The story is possessed by an almost meditative examination in excessive and obsessive detail of the workings of the machines, each reflecting in some way the process it embodies. For example, the “Machines of Movement” in the “Interlocking Machine Room,” “on entering the room I found it to be full of giant metal crabs” (41) where “all the legs of these machines are connected by free-moving joints to the legs of the other units, and a movement of one causes an adjustment to the position of the other. The whole room is in motion, and the machines twitch each other with an action that appears almost lascivious in nature” (42). The Earth as a vast series of interconnected systems that trigger other systems, ad infinitum. One Machine of Death is “very large, sprawling, and complicated” and “appears to be completely functionless”—the researcher speculates that it “was constructed to be entirely symbolic in nature” (45), perhaps meant to end lives that no longer exist to end. And another Machine of Death takes the form of a wall of metal, a single waste pipe exudes a stream of blood… The Earth as Machine. Beautiful, haunting, I will remember this story for a long time. “The Coming of the Sun” (1968) , short story, 4/5 (Good): Part II of the “The Eye of the Lens” triptych. Structured as a series of paragraph poems or individual scenes, that relate thematically to each other and are organized in sequence. A cellar fire and interrupts a series of events (a discussion in a lounge) or, separate fiery metaphors interrupt distinct events and situations. A man observes a clock burn, other scenes are inspired by the music of Messiaen, the section titles ring poetic, “Dead Book Images Spin in My Mind Like Snow” (71), “Catatonic Sun, Fill My Valleys” (72)… What is the meaning of this descent into fiery imagery, the interruption of the mechanisms that hummed in previous triptych panel’s “The Hall of Machines”? The Sun, the “eye that sees through reality,” the eye of God, rips our conceptions to shreds… This tone story, a hallucinatory stream of violent/shocking images, will not appeal to all. In a way, these are the specific types of events that the machines in Part I metaphorically represent. “The Eye of the Lens” (1968) , novelette, 3.25/5 (Vaguely Good): Part III of the “The Eye of the Lens” triptych. The least satisfying and powerful part of the triptych takes the form of a film, the eye/sun/God of part II “films” the sequence of metaphoric scenes involving “A girl. A florist. A holy man” (1975). Jones even includes descriptions of the soundtrack, the extras, etc. The feel of the film evokes Godard and various other proponents of the French New Wave. The story culminates as the girl confronts Jesus on the cross and proclaims him a sham, “So I judge your Father, and Find him guilty” (89). As the lens viewing the film (creating the film) is God or some other omniscient power, various human cycles are observed— the girl questions her existence, descends into unhappiness, and finally, the world around her is reborn. The triptych/the trinity is complete. “A Man Must Die” (1966), John Clute, 3.5/5 (Good): The majority of us know Clute best as a SF critic rather than author. Clute published three short stories in New Worlds (seven short stories and one novel forms his entire published SF fiction output). “A Man Must Die” is a captivating first story! Picasso Perkins III lives in a designed and highly artificial environment. Pseudo-humans called Oxen, more shadows of humans than human, guide him through a series of “lessons” that prepare him to take on the mantel of his illustrious ancestors on board the Starship Lunge gone amok (at some point in the past the ancestors appear to have turned on each other). The Oxen play roles but only can reveal so much about the nature of their existence. And soon, the artificial environment of his youth comes crashing down…. an a far more macabre future awaits. I’ll have to track down Clute’s the other two New Worlds short fictions. “In Reason’s Ear” (1965), Hilary Bailey, 3/5 (Average): In the near future (1970), John Wetherall returns to England after five years in Africa to find it transformed. The police are absent from the streets as youth mobs roam to and fro. His cab driver strangely suggests that the police should not be contacted after an armed robbery. John muses that his length of time in the disease ridden disquiet of French West Africa might have unnaturally formed his expectations of what he would encounter on his return. While the interior of the Untied Kingdom Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Mission feels the same, the words and actions of his colleagues suggests a growing tide of unemployment, racism, and youth violence…. Mr. Obutu proclaims that “Britain is no place for a coloured man” and decides to return to Lagos (99). And John’s salary is worth “about a tenth of what it was five years ago” due to government budget cuts (102). Adding to the general unease is the government’s interest in John’s traveling partner Pardoe, who apparently had been the third man on the moon who crash landed in Africa. The effects of space travel have transformed Pardoe who fears the impact humanity will have on the reaches of space. This is an odd story that, despite its passages of exposition on the state of the world, doesn’t answer the most pressing questions its lays out. As with Bailey’s Earth passages in The Black Corridor (1969), she effectively writes unease and societal disorder. That said, I did not find it entirely successful. “The Ersatz Wine” (1967), Christopher Priest, 3.5/5 (Good): Priest’s early short story suggests just enough to be a mysterious invocation as fragments of reality (scenes and experiences flash like neon lights) and archetypal characters (voices—“Actor,” “Bingo-caller,” “Pop Star,” “the Artist,” etc.) whir past in an urban landscape. The end, and its enigmatic lines—“They took him back to the hospital, trying to think of some way of keeping his batteries charged. ‘My life,’ said the Actor, ‘is a constant lie” (133)–open up an array of interpretations. Is he a newly mechanized man experiencing fragments of “life”? Programmed experiences? Priest’s reoccupation with the intersection of observable phenomenon and the nature of “reality” feels embryonic but present. If you’re new to Priest I’d start with the stories in An Infinite Summer (1979) and The Inverted World (1972). “Lib” (1968), Carol Emshwiller, 3/5 (Average): I struggled with this one. An oblique story about a woman named Lib, “in molded rubber shoes with air holes in them” (134) (did Emshwiller foretell the existence of Crocs? hah), who struggles to find love and meaning in her life. While elevated by the stylistically taught yet distant prose, “Jack is fed up. Good-bye Jack. Wave to him. Out he goes. Old black sweater off into the twilight and that’s all there is of Jack” (134), I found the meaning somewhat elusive—relationships as a crutch towards “self-realization”? I could not detect any clear fantastical/science fictional elements. I greatly preferred Emshwiller’s “Animal” (1968) in Orbit 4 . Myrdahl’s art from New Worlds (November 1968) illustrating M. John Harrison’s “Baa Baa Blocksheep” “Baa Baa Blocksheep” (1968), M. John Harrison, 4.5/5 (Very Good): Harrison’s fourth published SF story was published in a New Worlds issue (November 1968) devoted to “All New Writers.” I enjoyed this enigmatic early Harrison story! It contains the same oppressive melancholy as his better known works. “Arm scuttled the streets like a bubonic rat–furtive by nature, flaunting in the exigencies of pain” (140). And so begins this experiment in form and content. Arm, disturbed by stark visions of “the city […] attempting to crush him” a s if he were within a pile of “bleached conical skullheaps of Alexander” (140), attempts to get an avant-garde manuscript about the meanderings of a man named Gynt published. The scenes in Arm’s manuscript, illustrated by Myrdahl for the original New Worlds (November 1968) issue, involve Gynt observing and wandering through “ Scene 10, which resembled a tumbled set of wooden building-blocks, ladders, and flights of hollow wooden steps” (141). Block, another urban denizen withering away on scraps, joins up with Arm and enters the employ of Holloway Pauce. Holloway Pauce (the same name comes up in Harrison’s The Committed Men ), runs an experiment on ewes. Pauce employs Arm and Block to kill the sheep (I think) and leads them to greater acts of violence. Arm’s story within the story feels like a manifestation of the actual story. A urban manifestation, as “physically real” as cardboard cutouts on a set, plays out an oppressive emptiness in which our characters attempt to interact and parse out. There’s a primal feel of entropic forces at play (the figure of Pauce), although their aims are indistinctive. Recommended for fans of M. John Harrison! Myrdahl’s art from New Worlds (November 1968) illustrating M. John Harrison’s “Baa Baa Blocksheep” “The Luger is a 9mm Automatic Handgun with a Parabellum Action” (1969), Jerrold Mundis, 3/5 (Average): Imagine Ahab from Moby Dick was a talking dog and Ishmael was the dog’s owner (I’m not exactly sure if the narrator in this short story is a direct correlate character or a hybrid). This bizarre scenario unfolds in Mundis’ strange series of normal daily dog and owner activities laced with deep philosophical meanderings with predictable climatic violence (I mean, if you’ve read Moby Dick you know what happens at the end). While I suppose one could break down the references and unfurl the philosophical underpinnings (the dog/Ahab as a manifestation of primal atavism etc.), I wasn’t interested enough to give the allusions more than a passing glance. “The Delhi Division” (1968), Michael Moorcock, 4/5 (Good): Moorcock’s story is in the shared world of Jerry Cornelius. My voyage through the Jerry Cornelius universe is in its exploratory phases. Cornelius, an anarchist manifestation of Moorcock’s Eternal Champion archetype, wanders through the confusing landscape (the story appears to shift between multiple moments in history) of post-colonial India and Pakistan (newspaper fragments from the present are interspersed throughout). Cornelius reminisces about his dead son and his own “sexual fantasies of grandiose and sado-masochistic nature” (169) replete with the Orientalist trappings of a past India (“cowed slaves”, “lavishly dressed rajahs”, etc.) I found the interplay between perspectives into India and Pakistan (and their conflicts) fascinating. Is Cornelius, who shifts between times, an agent of disorder in the various time frames? Inventive and metafictional—recommended for Michael Moorcock fans! Reviews of other anthologies in the Best SF Stories from New Worlds series: The Infinite Arena. 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THE INFINITE ARENA. Carr, terry (editor) Published by nelson (1977) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. fine book in a fine dust jacket bookclub, nelson, 1977. Hardcover. hardcover. THE INFINITE ARENA. Carr, Terry (ed). Published by Thomas Nelson. Nd. Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. Book Club Ed. .HC. Anth. VG-F wi/very-light roll at btm in lightly crnr worn DW. Seven SF stories about sports. Thomas Nelson. Nd. THE INFINITE ARENA: Bullard Reflects; Run to Starlight; The Great Kladnar Race; Mr Meek Plays Polo; Sunjammer; The Body Builders; Joy in Mudville. Carr, Terry. Published by Nelson. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. . Good dust jacket. Book Club edition with gutter code H25 [June 1977]. From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (Science Fiction). Nelson. Condition: Very Good. THE INFINITE ARENA Bullard Reflects; Run to Starlight; The Great Kladnar Race; Mr Meek Plays Polo; Sunjammer; The Body Builders; Joy in Mudville. Carr, Terry. Published by Nelson (1977) Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. 8.10 X 5.70 X 0.70 inches. Nelson, 1977. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. INFINITE ARENA -- BARGAIN BOOK. CARR, TERRY [ED.] Published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Thomas Nelson Publishers. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The Infinite Arena. Carr, Terry, ed. Published by Thomas Nelson, Nashville (1977) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Collection of seven SF short stories about sports, including George R.R. Martin's 'Run to Starlight.' Small internal snag on back of jacket, barely noticeable within new clear Brodart sleeve. Size: Octavo. Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 1977. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Very Good (small fault). BCE. The Infinite Arena: Seven Science Fiction Stories about Sports. Carr, Terry (edited by) [Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Malcolm Jameson, Keith Laumer, Robert Silverberg, Randall Garrett, Clifford D. Simak, Arthur C. Clarke, George R. R. Martin] [Dust Wrapper drawing by Frank Kalan] Published by Thomas Nelson inc Publishers [c.1977], New York (1977) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. New York: Thomas Nelson inc Publishers [c.1977]. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Book Club edition [with code H25 on page 188]. Collects 7 stories. 189 pages. Price marked on the top edge else Near Fine copy in VG+/Near Fine Dust Wrapper.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pages . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Thomas Nelson inc Publishers [c.1977], New York, 1977. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). The Infinite arena: Seven science fiction stories about sports. Published by T. Nelson (1977) Used - Hardcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. Stamped on inside & page edges. (science fiction). T. Nelson, 1977. Condition: Good. THE INFINITE ARENA. Carr terry (editor) Published by Thomas Nelson BC edition (1977) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. very good hardcover copy in a very good dustwrapper 1st BC edition. Seven Science Fiction Stories About Sports. Thomas Nelson BC edition, 1977. Hardback. The Infinite Arena. Terry Carr (ed.) Published by Thomas Nelson Inc (1977) Used - Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. Quantity available: 1. A near fine copy, in a near fine unclipped dust jacket, of the book club edition. The dark green binding is clean and unworn, with strong yellow lettering to the spine. Everything is sound and tight, with square unbumped corners. The contents are clean and bright with no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind, other than the letters 'WHS' neatly stamped to the front pastedown. The attractive dust jacket is unclipped (no flap price), and shows almost no edgewear. It is now protected in a removable mylar cover. From the blurb: "Will there be sports in man's future? Editor Terry Carr has collected the views of seven science-fiction veterans on this subject and presents them here in an anthology about the ways in which men may compete in centuries to come". Thomas Nelson Inc, 1977. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. THE INFINITE ARENA. Carr, Terry (editor) (Malcolm Jameson; George R. R. Martin; Randall Garrett; Robert Silverberg; Clifford D. Simak; Arthur C. Clarke; Keith Laumer; Gordon R. Dickson; Poul Anderson) Published by Thomas Nelson - Good Luck Books, New York (1977) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. 189 pp. Teal boards lettered in yellow on the spine. Book Club Code H25. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Frank Kalan. Sports stories, science fiction-style, this anthology contains: Bullard Reflects by Malcolm Jameson; Run to Starlight by George R. R. Martin; The Great Kladnar Race by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg; Mr Meek Plays Polo by Clifford D. Simak; Sunjammer by Arthur C. Clarke; The Body Builders by Keith Laumer; and Joy in Mudville by Gordon R. Dickson and Poul Anderson. Size: 8vo. Thomas Nelson - Good Luck Books, New York, 1977. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frank Kalan; (illustrator). Book Club Edition. INFINITE ARENA, THE. Carr, Terry (editor) Published by Nelson (1977) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Seven short sci-fi stories about sports, with one about baseball. 189pp. Nelson, 1977. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. First Edition. THE INFINITE ARENA: Seven Science Fiction Stories about Sports. George R. R. Martin, signed )Carr, Terry, editor. (Anderson, Poul; Dickson, Gordon R.; Jameson, Malcolm; Laumer, Keith; Silverberg, Robert; Garrett, Randall; Simak, Clifford D.; Clarke, Arthur C) Published by New York: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1977. dj (1977) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. SIGNED hardcover - Book club edition. SIGNED by George R. R. Martin at his story "Run to Starlight" Also included in this anthology are "Bullard Reflects" by Malcolm Jameson; "The Great Kladnar Race" by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg; "Mr Meek Plays Polo" by Clifford D. Simak; "Sunjammer" by Arthur C. Clarke; "The Body Builders" by Keith Laumer, and "Joy in Mudville" by Gordon R. Dickson and Poul Anderson. 189 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. New York: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1977. dj, 1977. Lot of 10 Book Club Editions: Universe (3,4,5,7), Best SF of the Year #8, An Exaltation of Stars, The Infinite Arena, Creatures From Beyond, Fellowhsip of the Stars, Fantasy Annual IV. Terry Carr. Published by New York. Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Quantity available: 1. Lot of 10 Book Club Editions edited by Terry Carr. These books have white pages, tight straight bindings and clean interiors, unless noted. Most appear unread. 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Reviews of Vintage Science Fiction (1950s to mid-1980s) Updates: Recent Science Fiction Purchases No. CCLVII (Two themed anthologies on space habitats and sports, Irene Schram, Ralph A. Sperry) As always which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? 1. Habitats , ed. Susan Shwartz (1984) Robert Andre’s cover for the 1st edition. From the back cover: “HABITATS. Where people live determines their cultures and ambitions. What then of times to come: the fabulous days of star flight, the furious days of interplanetary competition, the horrendous days of world disaster, or the weirdly wonderful days of epic changes undreamed of? In this astonishingly original anthology eleven brilliant science fiction writers have created eleven scenes of high adventure in future human habitations. Here is Stan Schmidt with an eternally downhill ski resort. Here’s Ian Watson with a new Alexander the Great in the Arizona desert. Here’s a starship of the Faithful bowing to a long lost Mecca. Here’s a cosmic tree nourished by a comet. Here’s marvels galore. Come, move in, you’ll have a fantastic time!” Contents: Stanley Schmidt’s “The Folks Who Live on the Hill, Tanith Lee’s “A Day in the Skin (or, The Century We Were Out of Them,” Ian Watson’s “We Remember Babylon.” Dean R. Lambe’s “In a Cavern,” Russell M. Griffin’s “Government Work,” Graham Diamond’s “Outcasts,” Rachel Pollack’s “Tree House,” Jeffrey A. Carver’s “Life-Tides,” Scott Russell Sanders’ “Quarantine,” Shariann Lewitt’s “Ramadhan,” J. P. Body’s “Earthflight.” Initial Thoughts : This original anthology as a brilliant thematic core — how future living environments influence a society and how people live. I’m excited to explore this one. Especially Tanith Lee’s short story as one of her novels ranks among my best reads of the year…. Electric Forest (1979). As read Rachel Pollack’s Alqua Dreams (1987) recently, I’m also intrigued by her earlier short fictions–and this one takes place in a Dyson tree! 2. Status Quotient: The Carrier , Ralph A. Sperry (1981) Uncredited cover for the 1st edition. From the back cover: “IMMORTAL… AND ALONE. On the entire planet of Ath, there is only one building left, and inside it is the last human being, Ancil, the only man to escape the horror which destroyed the human colonists who come to Ath thousands of years ago. Ancil is a regenerative. He can never die, but will live to see everything change with time. Ancil is utterly, utterly alone except for the haunting legacy of the imitators, man-like creatures whose planet this once was before the humans came and annihilated them. Suddenly, a strange and beautiful cat arrives at Ancil’s home, the first living creature he has seen for many years. But the cat is just the first of the extraordinary phenomena about to enter Ancil’s life—and before his story’s over, you will wonder where the mind ends and reality begins….” Initial Thoughts : I periodically search the entire catalogs of the major SF presses to see if I missed any lesser known authors, etc. And Ralph A. Sperry’s sole novel popped up. A new one for my Immortality in Science fiction list! 3. Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down , Irene Schram (1972) (MY REVIEW) Lawrence Ratzkin’s cover for the 1st edition. From the inside flap: “‘Out whole class of students was on the grass, in the park, for a picnic: it was April and time for a picnic after a long winter full of weeks and months of rain, boring rain.” From this innocent opening Irene Schram builds a terrifying fable about a concentration camp for children. Like William Golding’s Lord of the Flies , with which it will undoubtedly be compared, Ashes, Ashes, We All fall Down , creates an extreme situation—half nightmare, half histroy—to reveal the anxieties and terrors of children growing up today. The children are fifth-graders in a typical city; they are forced by a storm of pollution to take shelter in a park building, where they are captured, then transported and imprisoned by robot-like guards. Their struggle to survive in their new environment—which has many parallels to the world they are growing up in—is told mainly through the children’s eyes and imaginations. Ashes, Ashes is a spellbinding fantasy that is based on the real lesson city children must absorb daily form their immediate surroundings (drugs, welfare hotels, pollution, random terror, abandonment) and from the menacing world beyond it, where geography is blight and hunger, and arithmetic is body count. This is a novel about how children perceive, struggle against, and adjust to the nightmare of our history.” Initial Thoughts : Sounds like a incredibly disturbing nightmare of holocaust. Not sure what to expect with this one–it’s seldom read and the author wrote nothing else to the best of my knowledge. The composition notebook cover is a nice touch. 4. The Infinite Arena , ed. Terry Carr (1977) Frank Kalan’s cover for the 1st edition. From the inside flap: “Will there be sports in man’s future? Science fiction says, “Well, yes and no.” Yes, there will be sports—of a sort. No, they won’t necessarily be the same sports we know today. Editor Terry Carr has collected the views of seven science-fiction veterans on this subject and present them here in an anthology about the ways in which men may compete in centuries to come. In “Joy in Mudville,” the bear-face natives of Toka defend their baseball championship of the interbeing League. In “Bullard Reflects,” the Dazzle Dart champions turn their athlectic gifts against the crew of murderous invaders. In “Body Builders,” a fighter exchanges his own heavyweight frame for the body of a jockey, and is promptly challenged to fight. In “The Great Kladnar Race,” bored earthmen try to get a morning line from among the low-slung, six-legged kladnars of Gorik VII. In “Mr. Meek Plays Polo,” a visitor to Saturn finds his game of space polo being masterminded by a group of educated bugs. In “Sunjammer,” space vehicles are powered only by their vast, mile-high plastic sails which are propelled by the sun. In “Run to Starlight,” earthling footballers are faced with a team of squat, super-powerful Brish-diri. Sports fans or not, readers will enjoy this engaging compendium, fantastic athletes, frantic coaches, and all.” Contents: Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson’s “Joy in Mudville” (1955), Malcolm Jameson’s “Bullard Reflects” (1941), Keith Laumer’s “The Body Builders” (1966), Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg’s “The Great Kladnar Race” (1956), Clifford D. Simak’s “Mr. Meek Plays Polo” (1944), Arthur C. Clarke’s “Sunjammer” (variant title “The Wind from the Sun” (1964), George R. R. Martin’s “Run to Starlight” (1974). Initial Thoughts : I recently put together an extensive resource on Sports in Science Fiction. I was inspired to track down a few more from my own list! I’ve read Clarke’s story of solar sail ships in the past. Arthur C Clarke, Signed. The Frontiers of knowledge (The Frank Nelson Doubleday lectures) Hindle, Brooke (foreword); Bellow, Saul; Bell, Daniel; O'Gorman, Edmundo; Medawar, Sir Peter; Clarke, Arthur C. Published by Doubleday. Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. SIGNED BY DOUBLEDAY! NY: Doubleday 1975. Limited edition #206/500. Hardcover 8vo 399 pgs. Signed on limitation pg by a Doubleday, presumed Nelson but hard to read first name. Very good in a very good slipcase. Light stain to front cover and spine. Contents clean and binding sound. Slipcase has light edgewear. Inquire if you need further information. Doubleday. Condition: Very Good. The Light of Other Days: *Signed* Clarke, Arthur C.; Baxter, Stephen. Published by Tor Books, New York (2000) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good + Quantity available: 1. SIGNED by STEPHEN BAXTER on the Title page. Signature only Book is in Very Good + condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a small amount of reading wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Tiny bit of edge wear, tiny bit of crinkle. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar wrapper. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well boxed, All-Ways fast service. Thanks. Tor Books, New York, 2000. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Signed by Author. Book Club. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. A Life To Remember. William Macquitty ( Inscribed Copy ) ( Foreword By Arthur C. Clarke ) Published by Quartet Books, U.K. (1991) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Not Ex-Library Copy.Hardcover Edition With Dustjacket.Good Copy.Binding Is Solid.Text Unmarked.Not Ex-Library Copy.Corners Slightly Bumped. Stated First U.K. Edition, First Printing.Inscribed By Author On Half Title Page. Quartet Books, U.K., 1991. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s). Worlds to Come : Nine Science-Fiction Adventures. Knight, Damon (editor); Clarke, Arthur C.; Bradbury, Ray; Asimov, Isaac; Heinlei. Published by Fawcett Publications (1967) Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. Signed Copy First edition copy. . From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. First edition. Signed by contributing author Algis Budrys on page 91. Stamped on inside. (Vintage paperbacks, Science fiction, fantasy, short story collection). Fawcett Publications, 1967. Condition: Good. THE CASE FOR MARS. The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must. [SIGNED] Zubrin, Robert; Wagner, RichardZubrin, Robert with Richard Wagner; Foreward By Arthur C. Clarke. Published by Free Press, NY (1996) Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Quantity available: 1. Second printing. Inscribed by Zubrin: "To -- Let's make this happen! Robert Zubrin 6/14/97.". Free Press, NY, 1996. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Signed. SF: 4 AUTHORS' CHOICE. Johnson, George Clayton (signed), Harrison, Harry, editor. Thomas M. Disch; Jack Vance; Roger Zelazny; Frank M. Robinson; ; Brian W. Aldiss; John Brunner; Arthur C. Clarke; Gordon R. Dickson; Carol Emshwiller; James Gunn; Robert Sheckley; Clifford D. Simak, contributors. Published by New York: Putnam, (1974.) dj (1974) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. SIGNED hardcover - Book club edition. An anthology containing stories selected by the authors themselves, each with a personal introduction by the author. SIGNED by George Clayton Johnson (in red, with a box around his signature) at his story 'All of Us Are Dying' Also includes Old Hundredth by Brian W. Aldiss; Et in Arcadia Ego by Thomas M. Disch; Ullward's Retreat by Jack Vance; The Forgotten Enemy by Arthur C. Clarke; The Fire and the Sword by Frank M. Robinson; Fair by John Brunner; Warrior by Gordon R. Dickson; But Soft What Light by Carol Emshwiller; The Misogynist by James Gunn; Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley; The Autumn Land by Clifford D. Simak; A Sense of Beauty by Robert Taylor; and The Last Flight of Dr Ain by James Tiptree Jr. and The Man Who Loved the Faioli by Roger Zelazny. Dust jacket art by Paul Lehr. Introduction by Harrison. x, 271 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. New York: Putnam, (1974.) dj, 1974. Beyond the Fall of Night: SIGNED. Clarke, Arthur C.; Benford, Gregory. Published by Putnam Pub Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. (1990) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Very Nice - Signed by Gregory Benford on the Title page. Author's Signature only. First edition, First printing, with the corresponding number line. Book is in Very Good condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a small amount of reading wear and foxing. 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 wrapper. Thanks and Enjoy. Putnam Pub Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1990. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Book. More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. The Ultimate Alien: New and Cutting-Edge Stories by Some of the World's Leading Authors: *Signed* Clarke, Arthur C; Silverberg, Robert; Gilden, Mel. Published by Dell Publishing, New York (1995) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good + Quantity available: 1. SIGNED by Mel Gilden on his story. Signature only First edition, First printing. Book is in Very Good + condition. Boards are clean, tiny bit of wear along the spine and edges. Page edges have a small amount of reading wear. Interior is clean and legible. NOT remaindered. Thanks and Enjoy. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Dell Publishing, New York, 1995. Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Christopher H. Bing (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by Contributors. SF: 4 AUTHORS' CHOICE. Anthology, signed] Harrison, Harry, editor. Thomas M. Disch; Jack Vance; Roger Zelazny; Frank M. Robinson; ; Brian W. Aldiss; John Brunner; Arthur C. Clarke; Gordon R. Dickson; Carol Emshwiller; James Gunn; Robert Sheckley; Clifford D. Simak, George Clayton Johnson, contributors. Published by New York: Putnam, (1974.) dj (1974) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. SIGNED hardcover - Book club edition. An anthology containing stories selected by the authors themselves, each with a personal introduction by the author. SIGNED by Harry Harrison on the title page. Includes All of Us Are Dying by George Clayton Johnson; Old Hundredth by Brian W. Aldiss; Et in Arcadia Ego by Thomas M. Disch; Ullward's Retreat by Jack Vance; The Forgotten Enemy by Arthur C. Clarke; The Fire and the Sword by Frank M. Robinson; Fair by John Brunner; Warrior by Gordon R. Dickson; But Soft What Light by Carol Emshwiller; The Misogynist by James Gunn; Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley; The Autumn Land by Clifford D. Simak; A Sense of Beauty by Robert Taylor; and The Last Flight of Dr Ain by James Tiptree Jr. and The Man Who Loved the Faioli by Roger Zelazny. Dust jacket art by Paul Lehr. Introduction by Harrison. x, 271 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket. New York: Putnam, (1974.) dj, 1974. THE ARTS AND BEYOND: VISIONS OF MAN'S AESTHETIC FUTURE. Monteleone, Thomas F. (edted / introduction by) [Gordon R. Dickson, J. J. Russ, Roger Zelazny, Ronald Cain, Grant Carrington, Arthur C. Clarke, Charles L. Grant, George Alec Effinger, Thomas F. Monteleone, William Rotsler, C. M. Kornbluth, Harlan Ellison] Published by Doubleday & Company Inc, Garden City (1977) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. Quantity available: 1. Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385126824 . First edition. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. 205 pages collecting 12 stories plus an introduction, illustrated by Celeste Barbera, Marian Donach, Nathaniel Harrison, Damian Henriques, Robert Huntoon, William McMahon, David Montiel, and Evelyn C. Rysdyk. VG copy [lightly bumped, top edge foxing] in worn and torn Dust Wrapper with a 1" chip to the bottom edge of the rear panel.; Signed by Author . Doubleday & Company Inc, Garden City, 1977. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Beyond the Fall of Night. Clarke, Arthur C.; Benford, Gregory. Published by Ace / Putnam New York (1990) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. 1st Printing Hardcover SIGNED by Benford on title page, near fine in vg jacket; overall scuffing to jacket else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; first printing with full number line. Ace / Putnam New York, 1990. Green Mars / A Meeting with Medusa. Kim Stanley Robinson, Arthur C. Clarke. Published by Tor (1988) Quantity available: 1. Signed by Kim Stanley Robinson. 1st printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition. A Tor double. Tor, 1988. THE INFINITE ARENA: Seven Science Fiction Stories about Sports. George R. R. Martin, signed )Carr, Terry, editor. (Anderson, Poul; Dickson, Gordon R.; Jameson, Malcolm; Laumer, Keith; Silverberg, Robert; Garrett, Randall; Simak, Clifford D.; Clarke, Arthur C) Published by New York: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1977. dj (1977) Used - Hardcover. Quantity available: 1. SIGNED hardcover - Book club edition. SIGNED by George R. R. Martin at his story "Run to Starlight" Also included in this anthology are "Bullard Reflects" by Malcolm Jameson; "The Great Kladnar Race" by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg; "Mr Meek Plays Polo" by Clifford D. Simak; "Sunjammer" by Arthur C. Clarke; "The Body Builders" by Keith Laumer, and "Joy in Mudville" by Gordon R. Dickson and Poul Anderson. 189 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. New York: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1977. dj, 1977. Rama II. Clarke, Arthur C.;Gentry, Lee. Published by Bantam Books (1989) Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. BH2 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Gentry Lee to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. The sequel to Rendezvous with Rama. Brimming with the technical brilliance that is the signature of all Arthur C. Clarke works, Rama II is a magnificent adventure that dazzles witth the wonders of Raman mystery while it thrills with the tension of the tale it unfolds. 9.5"x6.5", 420 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Bantam Books, 1989. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The NPR Interviews 1994. Clarke, Arthur C. - LeCarre, John - Paz, Ocatvio - Siegel, Robert (ed.) Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston (1994) Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Quantity available: 1. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. First publication of these radio interviews. A superb copy. Signed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1994. Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Famous Fantastic Mysteries: 30 Great Tales of Fantasy and Horror from the Classic Pulp Magazines Famous Fantastic Mysteries & Fantastic Novels. Bram Stoker; Arthur C. Clarke; Ray Bradbury. Published by Grammercy, U.S.A. (1991) Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Quantity available: 1. This is a fine hardcover first edition, first printing copy in a fine, mylar protected DJ, black spine. The Publisher's printed promotional sheet Signed by the three editors is laid in. . A lovely copy, photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Grammercy, U.S.A., 1991. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Author. World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 (Fred Saberhagen signed) Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (editors); Arthur C. Clarke, Fritz Leiber, James H. Schmitz, Ron Goulart et al. Published by Ace (1966) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. First edition/printing paperback original (PBO) Ace H-15 in Very Good condition with a pen mark on rear cover and a small numeral in magic marker on first page, otherwise tight and collectible. Signed by Fred Saberhagen at his story on pg. 227!. Ace, 1966. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). Cradle. Clarke, Arthur C.; Lee, Gentry. Published by V. Gollancz (1988) Used - Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. Quantity available: 1. Signed and Dated by Lee on Title page. Straight, secure spine. Clean interiors. Square page corners. Light chipping to dust jacket corners. Small closed tear to spine. V. Gollancz, 1988. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. David Scutt (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). More buying choices from other sellers on AbeBooks. Sri Lanka [Inscribed by the Photographer] Tidball, Tom (Photographs); Clarke, Arthur C. (Foreword) Published by Ruby Studio Inc. (2003) Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Quantity available: 1. Inscribed! A Fine, oblong (8.25 x 11.75 inches),hardcover photography book in a VG dj. Inscribed on the title page as follows: ___ & ____ / Love & Blessings / For all your days together / Tom Tidball / 2003. Remaining contents (144 pp. of gorgeous color photography), appear clean and securely bound. Illustrated boards (which feature the image of a peacock on the front) appears fine. The dj, which has matching cover art, has some shelf wear but is free of tears, heavy creases, etc. NOT an ex-library copy! **Extra charges may be be requested to cover postage costs on expedited and/or international orders because of the size and weight of this book. Ruby Studio Inc., 2003. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Signed by Author. Cuentos del planeta Tierra. Arthur C. Clarke. Published by Ediciones B, Barcelona (1991) Seller: Llibrenet, Sant Feliu del Raco, BARC, Spain Contact seller. Used - Softcover Condition: Como Nuevo. Quantity available: 1. Ediciones B, Barcelona, 1991. Encuadernaci�n de tapa blanda. Condition: Como Nuevo. Dust Jacket Condition: Como Nuevo. Ciencia Ficci�n (illustrator). 1� Edici�n. Sello del anterior propietario. Cradle: A Novel. Clarke, Arthur C.; Lee, Gentry. Published by Warner Books, New York (1988) Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine. Quantity available: 1. Book is signed by Gentry Lee. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Warner Books, New York, 1988. A Hardbound. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine in Mylar Cover. First Edition First Printing. Signed by Author. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped. STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES #3. ANTHOLOGY Pohl, Fred Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Lester Del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Richard Matheson, Chad Oliver, Jack Vance, Jack Williamson, Gerald Kersh. Published by Ballantine (1953) Quantity available: 1. STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES #3, Ballantine, 1954, first edition, some light wear to the spine, else a bright vg copy in wraps. An original anthology with stories by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Lester Del Rey, Philip K. Dick, Richard Matheson, Chad Oliver, Jack Vance, Jack Williamson and Gerald Kersh. SIGNED by editor Fred Pohl. Ballantine, 1953. First Edition. THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS. CLARKE, ARTHUR C. Published by HARPER COLLINS, LONDON (2000) Used - Hardcover Condition: NEAR FINE. Quantity available: 1. LONDON: HARPER COLLINS, 2000. 1ST EDITION. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. Voyager / HarperCollins, London, 2000. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Steve Stone & Bob Walker (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall. First UK edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY STEPHEN BAXTER, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, slight yellowing to page block, includes Waterstones 'Signed by the author' band. Not price clipped (�17.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 312pp. 'Empty' space is actually full, full of fluctuating energy fields that become at the Planck level a seething probabilistic froth, laced by wormholes. When the Casimir engine, a machine less than a few hundred atomic diameters wide, stabilizes these wormholes, the most dramatic communications revolution in history is underway. The Earth itself becomes as transparent as glass, Wormcams enable unlimited realtime remote viewing. But the technology is developed and owned by OurWorld, Hiram Patterson's broadcasting, news, sport and entertainment empire. Hiram can be counted on to trivialise and exploit the new technology. Fuming inwardly about decadent technology and excess wealth, journalist Kate Manzoni goes to work for Hiram, investigating crank religions, and dating Hiram's son Bobby. Then a break through in physics allows the instrument to view not only current events but to look into the past. Mylar cover. 1ST PRINTING. HARPER COLLINS, LONDON, 2000. HARDCOVER. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. 1ST EDITION.