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BAXTER**, STEPHEN: : TITAN

LONDON.VOYAGER/imprint HarperCollinsPublishers,1997.

ISBN 0002254247.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped+protected fron day of issue/ purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,part wrap-around (front+ spine),colour pictorial artwork by Chris Moore,illustrated dw/dj with white,grey and light blue letters to front,blue, white,yellow+orange letters to spine,rear panel with orange and blue+white critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread, apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped fluorescent,metallic blue gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj, 1st edn,3-581pp [paginated] includes a prologue,Books 1-6,an epilogue and an afterword' plus [unpaginated] half- title+title pages,a dedication, acknowledgements,individual prologue, Books,and epilogue separator pages and 2pp blanks at rear. To sail among the rings of Saturn. . .to touch the ground of a new world. . .and to do it now. . . NASA's Cassini probe will reach Saturn in 2004: TITAN is the amazing story of a visionary's response to Cassini's discovery of life on Saturn's moon. Award-winning author Stephen Baxter single-handedly rescues the US manned space programme from near extinction, taking astronauts to the other planets in this extraordinary and gripping novel. 'TITAN' is the epic saga of one woman's will to succeed and the triumph of a dream over bureaucracy and fear.Paula Benacerraf,grandmother and astronaut,is appointed to oversee the dismantling of the Shuttle fleet after another Challenger-type disaster.Instead,she listens to the oddball JPL scientist Rosenberg,who is determined to explore the ammonia-based life Cassini discovers on Titan. NASA's rusting Saturn rockets,mothballed Apollo spacecraft and remaining Shuttles are fitted with as much new technology as NASA can be persuaded to afford - and in the face of violent opposition from the military,frail humans are hurled to the edge of the Solar System.To the edge, also,of sanity. From the acknowledged heir to the visionary legacy of Clarke and Wells,his most ambitious novel yet,a compellingly believable story of our conquest of space as it could still happen. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always.

UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.
Not SIGNED.