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Product Description: Books and films have skewered Hollywood's excesses, but none has ever portrayed one man's crazy vision of the future of big action/adventure films as Michael Shea's The Extra does. As over-the-top as Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles, as savagely dark as Robert Altman's The Player, and more violent than Rollerball, this is the story of the ultimate, so-insane-it-could-only-happen-in-Hollywood formula for success, a brave new way to bring the ultimate in excitement to the silver screen...read more

Hardcover:

9780765324351 | Tor Books, February 2, 2010, cover price $22.99

Paperback:

9780765363947 | Tor Books, December 6, 2016, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Books and films have skewered Hollywood's excesses, but none has ever portrayed one man's crazy vision of the future of big action/adventure films as Michael Shea's The Extra does.

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Product Description: Winner of the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award, nine stories of cosmic horror from the heir apparent to Lovecraft’s throne.Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H...read more
By Michael Shea (introduced by)

Paperback:

9781597805148, titled "Occultation: And Other Stories" | Reprint edition (Nightshade Book, July 29, 2014), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Winner of the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award, nine stories of cosmic horror from the heir apparent to Lovecraft’s throne.

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Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by Rodney Gardiner and Tom Taylorson] A fast-paced, cinematically explosive dystopian thriller by the author of The Extra Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy have brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which Los Angeles may be the worst...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781482912500 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 13, 2013), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.
9781482913545 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 13, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.

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Product Description: Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy has brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which L.A. may be the worst. Curtis, Japh, and Jool are film extras, who―with the help of a couple of very gutsy women―survived being anonymous players in a "live-action" film in which getting killed on-screen meant getting killed for real...read more

Hardcover:

9780765324368 | Tor Books, August 13, 2013, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy has brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which L.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781482913538 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 13, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Rodney Gardiner and Tom Taylorson] A fast-paced, cinematically explosive dystopian thriller by the author of The Extra Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy have brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which Los Angeles may be the worst.

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Product Description: In this superb novel, originally published in 1977, Fritz Leiber explores the concept of "paramentals." Leiber makes his definitive statement on alienation within the urban environment and the capacity of concrete, steel, and glass to suck up miseries and spew forth monsters.
By Michael Shea (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9781933618869 | Signed edition (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, March 27, 2012), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: In this superb novel, originally published in 1977, Fritz Leiber explores the concept of "paramentals.

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Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by William Hughes] The Extra is set in a future California where members of a desperate populace sign contracts to participate in reality death films, knowing that less than twenty percent of them will survive...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781441725264 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 2, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.
9781441725233 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 2, 2010), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781441725226 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 2, 2010), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: The Extra is set in a future California where members of a desperate populace sign contracts to participate in reality death films, knowing that less than twenty percent of them will survive.

Paperback:

9781841126883 | Capstone Ltd, April 21, 2006, cover price $21.95

Miscellaneous:

9781841127545 | Capstone, October 2, 2006, cover price $19.95

Product Description: Total Management is based on the precepts of Total Football, a new concept in soccer strategy that has swept European soccer in the past five years. Like Total Football, Total Management stresses teamwork, flexibility and empowerment as the basis for winning business strategy.

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9781844391462 | Spiro Pr, December 30, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Total Management is based on the precepts of Total Football, a new concept in soccer strategy that has swept European soccer in the past five years.

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Hardcover:

9780750932455 | Sutton Pub Ltd, September 1, 2003, cover price $24.95

Hardcover:

9780727857170 | Severn House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $25.99

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Product Description: Britain is on the brink of collapse: law and order has broken down; extremist vigilante gangs loyal to the Commander and the Brother roam the streets; food is scarce; the Government is helpless; no one is safe. Into this bleak and violent world comes Max Gregory, the head of a renowned US think tank, with a brief to analyse Britain's problems and to find solutions...read more

Hardcover:

9780727857859 | Severn House Pub Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Britain is on the brink of collapse: law and order has broken down; extremist vigilante gangs loyal to the Commander and the Brother roam the streets; food is scarce; the Government is helpless; no one is safe.

Hardcover:

9780727857255 | Severn House Pub Ltd, July 1, 2001, cover price $24.99

Hardcover:

9780727856203 | Severn House Pub Ltd, May 1, 2001, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: Michael Shea again uses his inimitable behind-the-scenes knowledge of government and political machinations to give us a gripping new thriller. There is something very wrong with the Prime Minister of Britain. He's fatally ill with a mysterious disease, but the country can't know about it until a cure is found or national safety will be put in severe jeoparday...read more

Hardcover:

9780002254731 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Michael Shea again uses his inimitable behind-the-scenes knowledge of government and political machinations to give us a gripping new thriller.

Paperback:

9780006498773 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Michael Shea again uses his inimitable behind-the-scenes knowledge of government and political machinations to give us a gripping new thriller.

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Hardcover:

9780727854650 | Severn House Pub Ltd, July 1, 2000, cover price $25.00
9780754042495 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2000), cover price $55.01

Paperback:

9780786228065 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $22.95
9780754042501 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2000), cover price $22.01

The prosperous kingdom of Hagia had ransomed the souls of its inhabitants to the Spider God A'Rak in exchange for wealth, but now their bargain must be fulfilled with the deaths of thousands, until two unlikely allies--Lagademe, who specializes in delivering anything to anywhere, and Nifft the Lean, a legendary thief--join forces to stop A'Rak. Original.

Paperback:

9780671319472 | Baen Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The prosperous kingdom of Hagia had ransomed the souls of its inhabitants to the Spider God A'Rak in exchange for wealth, but now their bargain must be fulfilled with the deaths of thousands, until two unlikely allies--Lagademe, who specializes in delivering anything to anywhere, and Nifft the Lean, a legendary thief--join forces to stop A'Rak.

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Master thief Nifft joins the barbarian Barnar HammerHand, the lady Lagademe, a courageous sea captain, and others on what seems at first like a simple act of robbery. Original. (view table of contents)

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9780671578695 | Baen Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Master thief Nifft joins the barbarian Barnar HammerHand, the lady Lagademe, a courageous sea captain, and others on what seems at first like a simple act of robbery.

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Hardcover:

9780727854834 | Severn House Pub Ltd, January 1, 2000, cover price $26.00

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Shipwrecked en route to their new job working in the perilous Costard sap mine, Nifft the Lean and his partner, Barnar Hammer-Hand, join forces with Bunt, who offers them a lucrative reward if they can bring him some of the precious fluid from the mine. Original.

Paperback:

9780671878474 | Baen Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Shipwrecked en route to their new job working in the perilous Costard sap mine, Nifft the Lean and his partner, Barnar Hammer-Hand, join forces with Bunt, who offers them a lucrative reward if they can bring him some of the precious fluid from the mine.

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Product Description: Collection of Science fiction, fantasy and horror stories by author Michael Shea. Published in an edition of 3,528 copies. Author's first hardcover book. Most of the stories originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Hardcover:

9780870541551 | Arkham House Pub, December 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Collection of Science fiction, fantasy and horror stories by author Michael Shea.

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A student of ancient lore, Bramt Hex abandons his ivory tower to seek fame and fortune and discovers that his quest has become a desperate battle for survival as he searches for the secret of immortality in Yana

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9780886770808 | New Amer Library, December 1, 1985, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: A student of ancient lore, Bramt Hex abandons his ivory tower to seek fame and fortune and discovers that his quest has become a desperate battle for survival as he searches for the secret of immortality in Yana

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A gathering evil, as revealed by an indescribable color, haunts a lake in present-day New England

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9780879979546 | Daw Books, September 1, 1984, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: A gathering evil, as revealed by an indescribable color, haunts a lake in present-day New England

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Traces the history of England's involvement with the sea, looks at Viking raids, pirates, the Royal Navy, yachting, and shipbuilding, and discusses the natural heritage of Britain's coast

Hardcover:

9780600368038 | Olympic Marketing Corp, September 1, 1984, cover price $12.98 | About this edition: Traces the history of England's involvement with the sea, looks at Viking raids, pirates, the Royal Navy, yachting, and shipbuilding, and discusses the natural heritage of Britain's coast

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Nifft, a master thief, journeys to the Place of the Raging Dead, a virtual hell, in search of the Wizard's Key

Paperback:

9780879977832 | Daw Books, November 1, 1982, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Nifft, a master thief, journeys to the Place of the Raging Dead, a virtual hell, in search of the Wizard's Key

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