Total, $450 pesos, entrega ocurre.

Physics of the Impossible, by Michio Kaku, $50

Guesstimation, by Lawrence Weinstein and John Adam, $50

New Theories of Everything by John D. Barrow, $50

How to Live on Mars, by Robert Zubrin, $50

The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal, by Lynne Kelly

Death From The Skies!, by Phil Plait, $50

Bad Astronomy, by Phil Plait, $50

Impossible? by Julian Havil, $50

How Round is Your Circle? by John Bryant and Chris Sangwin, $50

The Origin of the Species, by Charles Darwin, $50

Complete Tales & Poems, by Edgar Allan Poe, $100

Lot: Five Novels by H. G. Wells. $100

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain, $50

The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin, $50

The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov, $60

Failure is Not an Option, by Gene Kranz, $50

Lost Moon (Apollo 13), by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger, $50

I divided a lot so I could send Flatland on this one for $20 extra.

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Lot: Casino Royale and Licence to Kill, by Ian Fleming and John Gardner

Casino Royale is Bond’s first appearance. “M,” head of the British Secret Service, hands Commander Bond what appears on the surface to be a posh assignment: thwarting an enemy Russian spy, Le Chiffre, in his attempt to win an exorbitant 50 million francs – KGB funds which he had lost through an ill-advised investment in a chain of brothels. Agent 007 lives an intensely hard lifestyle, and he’s known to be the best gambler in the Service. He’s therefore assigned to break Le Chiffre’s bank at the baccarat tables of the Casino Royale, in the French Riviera.

John Gardner’s screenplay approach to writing novels pays off. This is his first novel based on the screenplay of a Bond film and he seems to have found his niche even though some of these events are a retelling from Ian Fleming’s novel “Live and Let Die” with the same character being mangled again! However, this novel is based on Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson’s story for Timothy Dalton’s James Bond in Licence to Kill. It remarkably makes for an interesting read from an otherwise unsatisfactory film adding detail to scenes and venturing inside the head of the main character exploring his feelings and motivations. For John Gardner this is pretty inspiring stuff.

Omnibus: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, by Anne Rice

Interview with the Vampire, opens with the seductive purr of F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) stating, “I was a 25-year-old man when I became a vampire, and the year was 1791.” And so our ultimate antihero, Louis, begins the elaborate retelling of his long, tortured life as a vampire. Winding through the ages, from New Orleans to Paris, we follow Louis and his undying mentor, Lestat, as they feed on humans, whet their carnal appetites, and uncover an underworld of vampire brethren.

The Vampire Lestat, brings us up to date, with Lestat waking from his earthen slumber to join the ranks of rock superstardom before sitting down to share the tale of his own haunting initiation into the vampire world. Michael York (Cabaret) puts his wonderfully fluid, cosmopolitan voice to good use, adding a dash of sly humor to this fast-paced, satisfying blend of sex and blood and rock and roll.

The Queen of the Damned, takes us back, all the way back to ancient Egypt, exposing the origins of the vampire way. Narrating in eerily serene and gracious tones, Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides) leads us gently down this bloody path of immortal desires. David Purdham gives the voice of Lestat a wistful quality, tinged with an evil relish that exposes the master vampire’s sanguine tastes.

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Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land is a best-selling 1961 Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by Martians on the planet Mars, after his return to Earth in early adulthood. The novel explores his interaction with—and the eventual transformation of—Earth culture. The novel’s title refers to the Biblical Book of Exodus. According to Heinlein in Grumbles from the Grave, the novel’s working title was The Heretic. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as “The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written.”

When Heinlein first wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, his editors at Putnam required him to drastically cut its original 220,000-word length, and to remove some scenes that might have been considered too shocking at the time. The resulting edited version was, according to Heinlein, 160,067 words. (He joked about sending in the last 67 to the publisher on a postcard.) In 1962, this version received the Hugo Award for the Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year. After Heinlein’s death in 1988, his wife Virginia arranged to have the original uncut version of the manuscript published in 1991 by Ace/Putnam. Critics disagree over whether Heinlein’s preferred original manuscript is in fact better than the heavily-edited version originally published. There is similar contention over the two versions of Heinlein’s Podkayne of Mars.

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Wizard by Trade, by Jim Butcher

In Summer Khight, no sooner Harry escaped the Red Court vampires–where he’s managed to spark a was between vampires and wizards– when into his shabby office walks none other than Mab, luscious Faerie Queen of Winter. Her assignment? Find the killer of her crony, the Summer Knight, and clear her as a suspect.

In Death Masks, Harry is still stuck in Red Court crosshairs and finds himself challenged by Count Ortega to a duel guaranteeing the war’s end–right on the dais of Chicago’s most-watched talk-show! What a shame Harry’s magic blows up the studio’s equipment, allowing him to escape. But not before another guest –Vatican antiquities expert Father Vincent– hires him to find a stolen Church artifact… and a lethal trophy in the hands of evil: the Shroud of Turin.

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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, by Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway

In the first significant engagement between American troops and the Viet Cong, 450 U.S. soldiers found themselves surrounded and outnumbered by their enemy. This book tells the story of how they battled between October 23 and November 26, 1965. Its prose is gritty, not artful, delivering a powerful punch of here-and-now descriptions that could only have been written by people actually on the scene. In fact, they were: Harold Moore commanded the men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, who did most of the fighting, and Joseph Galloway was the only reporter present throughout the battle’s 34 harrowing days. We Were Soldiers Once… combines their memories with more than 100 in-depth interviews with survivors on both sides. The Battle of Ia Drang also highlights a technological advance that would play an enormous role in the rest of the war: this was perhaps the first place where helicopter-based, air-mobile operations demonstrated their combat potential. At bottom, however, this is a tale of heroes and heroism, some acts writ large, others probably forgotten but for this telling. It was a bestseller when first published, and remains one of the better books available on combat during the Vietnam War.

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The Clone Wars, by Karen Traviss

Across the galaxy, the Clone Wars are raging. The Separatists, led by Count Dooku, the onetime Jedi and now secret Sith Lord, continue to press forward, and more and more worlds are either falling, or seceding and joining the cause. Under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, the Republic heroically battles on, championed by its huge army of cloned soldiers and their Jedi generals.

Anakin Skywalker, believed by some to be the prophesied “Chosen One” destined to bring balance to the Force, is now a Jedi Knight under the tutelage of his Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Death is a constant possibility–and his chances of survival aren’t improved by the unexpected arrival of an apprentice: Ahsoka, a brash, inexperienced fourteen-year-old Padawan apprenticed to Anakin. But there’s no time for Anakin to question his latest orders: He and Obi-Wan have been assigned a new mission, and failure is not an option.

Jabba the Hutt’s precious infant son has been kidnapped, and when the frantic parent applies to the Jedi for help, it falls to Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, and their clone troops to track down the evidence and retrieve the missing Huttlet. And more is at stake: For a grateful Jabba just might allow the Republic access to the Hutt-controlled space lanes that the Grand Army desperately needs in order to beat the Separatists into submission.

But the Republic is not the only power that craves access to those space lanes. Count Dooku, determined to win the prize for the Separatists, has set a trap for the Jedi. When they find the Huttlet, they will also find Dooku’s master assassin, Asajj Ventress, and countless legions of battle droids waiting to spring a trap.

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Death Star, by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry

Action sf (and Star Wars) veterans join forces to tell the story of the first Death Star from the point of view of its imperial builders. We see Grand Moff Tarkin, when he’s not making love to Admiral Dalaa, sweating blood to assemble the materials and manpower necessary for the empire’s superweapon. We see a seasoned gunnery officer slightly daunted by the power of the weapon he controls and eventually horrified by the results of its first full-power test on Alderaan. We see a firm friendship emerging between a civilian cantina bouncer and a martial-arts adept who probably is Force sensitive. We see a young architect imprisoned for her political dissidence arguing about the exhaust port that provided the fatal weakness of the Death Star against the Alliance attack. A fighter pilot defends the imperial construction site and ends up piloting a getaway ship for likeminded fellows for whom the empire has finally gone over the line. And Darth Vader kibitzes, believing his study of the Force outweighs any number of Death Stars in potential value. Dedicated SW readers, on the other hand, won’t kibitz much, if at all, but revel in this splendid job of jacking up the tip of George Lucas’ universe and shoving a well-wrought iceberg under it

Foundation's Triumph, by David Brin

Having followed the adventures of the galactic Foundation founder, Hari Seldon, in previous volumes, Asimov aficionados here find Seldon retired, aged, infirm and on the brink of death. Then a chance encounter with a low-level bureaucrat stimulates Seldon into creaky action against chaos, a mental disease afflicting all humanity. Seldon travels fitfully through an upside-down universe 20,000 years into mankinds future, when humans have become impotent, amnesiac creator-gods. Their creations, Asimovs positronic robots led by the enigmatic R. Daneel Olivaw, really control the universe.

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