Lot 3 Clifford D Simak Del Rey BCE HC Michael Whelan Vintage Sci-Fi 1978-1982

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Lot 3 Clifford D Simak Del Rey BCE HC Michael Whelan Vintage Sci-Fi 1978-1982. The result is science fiction that feels like it was written by a very wise, very kind man who loved humanity but wasn't sure about cities. Clifford D. Simak. Pilgrim's Progress, filtered through Simak's characteristic gentleness and wonder. Lot of 3 Clifford D. Simak Del Rey BCE HC – Michael Whelan – 1978–1982 🏆 SFWA Grand Master • 3× Hugo Award Winner • 1904–1988 Science Fiction / Fantasy / Pastoral SF / Vintage Hardcovers Lot of 3 • Del Rey BCE • Michael Whelan Cover Art • 1978–1982 Lot of 3 Vintage Hardcovers Clifford D. Simak Del Rey Book Club Editions • Cover Art by Michael Whelan • 1978–1982 Clifford D. Simak • SFWA Grand Master 1977 • Hugo, Nebula & International Fantasy Award Winner Cover Art by Michael Whelan — Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction Artist Del Rey / Ballantine • Book Club Hardcover Editions • 1978–1982 • All with Dust Jackets • 3 Volumes 1 Special Deliverance Michael Whelan Cover Del Rey / Ballantine • 1982 • Book Club Edition HC/DJ • 217 Pages Professor Edward Lansing discovers that a term paper his student bought from a vending machine slot leads him — along with a strange cast of companions — into a vast and mysterious other world. An allegorical journey in the tradition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, filtered through Simak's characteristic gentleness and wonder. One of his final novels, and a quiet gem. Cover painting by Michael Whelan. 2 The Fellowship of the Talisman Michael Whelan Cover Del Rey / Ballantine • 1978 • Book Club Edition HC/DJ • 249 Pages In an alternate England where the Dark Ages never ended, Duncan Standish sets out on a quest vital to the future of civilization — to carry an ancient document to distant London. His companions are as improbable as the world: a brawny man-at-arms, a banshee, a hermit, a ghost, a turncoat demon, a goblin, and a warrior woman mounted on a griffin. Pure Simak: an impossible world rendered with pastoral warmth. Cover painting by Michael Whelan. 3 Mastodonia Del Rey / Ballantine • 1978 • Book Club Edition HC/DJ • 212 Pages When Asa Steele and his neighbor discover a way to travel back through time, they don't go to witness history — they go to set up a safari business. Mastodon hunts. Dinosaur photography. Time travel as modest American entrepreneurialism. Quintessential Simak: big ideas wrapped in the quiet rhythms of small-town Wisconsin life, delivered with a wry grin. Cover art by H. R. Van Dongen. About Clifford D. Simak & These Works Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) was one of the most original and beloved voices in 20th-century science fiction — winner of three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and the International Fantasy Award, and named the third SFWA Grand Master in 1977. A journalist his entire working life (eventual news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune), he wrote fiction in his spare time for more than 55 years, producing some of the most quietly devastating and humane SF ever written. Simak's defining quality is his pastoral sensibility: unlike the hard-SF engineers or space-opera adventurers of his era, Simak set his stories in rural Wisconsin, in sleepy small towns, among farmers and dogs and gentle eccentrics — and then introduced robots, aliens, and time travelers into that world and watched what happened. The result is science fiction that feels like it was written by a very wise, very kind man who loved humanity but wasn't sure about cities. Michael Whelan — who painted the covers of both Special Deliverance and The Fellowship of the Talisman — is the most award-winning cover artist in science fiction history, with 15 Hugo Awards for Best Professional Artist. His work defined the visual language of Del Rey's golden era in the late 1970s and 1980s, and books bearing his covers are among the most collectible in genre fiction. "Simak is a true original, a writer whose vision of the universe is wholly his own, and one of the kindest and most humane writers science fiction has ever produced." — Isaac Asimov ✦ About This Lot ✦ 3 Del Rey Book Club Edition Hardcovers • 1978 & 1982 Two Whelan-Covered Simak Classics + Mastodonia • A Perfect Simak Showcase These three volumes represent Simak's mature late period — the quiet, warm, allegorical fiction he was writing in the final decade of his career. None are hard SF; all are infused with the pastoral gentleness and philosophical curiosity that define his best work. Two bear Michael Whelan cover paintings, making them doubly collectible: Whelan's 15 Hugo Award wins for Best Professional Artist make his early Del Rey cover work among the most sought-after in the genre. The Del Rey Book Club Editions from this era are cloth-bound hardcovers produced simultaneously with the mass-market paperback trade editions, featuring identical text and the same iconic cover art — but in a more durable and visually impressive format that holds up far better over decades. Condition — All 3 Volumes VG — Very Good ⚠ Note: All three dust jackets show some minor wear appropriate for vintage books from this era. Bindings are tight on all volumes. Pages are clean and crisp throughout — no writing, underlining, or highlighting in any of the three books. Please see photos for individual jacket condition. ✦ Ideal For Clifford D. Simak fans and collectors seeking handsome hardcover editions of his classic Del Rey-era work. Essential for anyone building a complete Simak collection in the original hardcover format. Also highly recommended for Michael Whelan art collectors — his covers for Fellowship and Special Deliverance are lovely examples of his early Del Rey work. Also a strong buy for collectors of Del Rey's golden era (1977–1985) who are building a shelf of that imprint's finest genre fiction. A beautiful, coherent lot from one of science fiction's most underrated Grand Masters. JT Enterportals Rare, Academic & Scholarly Books 📦 Carefully Packed • Same or Next Business Day Shipping >>Powered by WonderLister App