DARK IS THE SUN.

UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no publisher's price,so no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,black background with white+orange lettering designed, protected dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled and very lightly aged,fore-edge bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly an unread copy? Book is very,very slightly cocked. Publisher's original,orange cloth boards with black ink blocked letters to spine/backstrip, and immaculate unmarked cream endpapers.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj, 1st edn,7- 400pp [paginated] includes 47 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and dedication.A really exceptional copy.
Fifteen billion years from now,Earth is a bizarre and dying planet,teeming in its last moments with an infinity of life forms - from the descendants of humanity to intelligent, mobile plants and colonies of viruses that sail the skies in the form of ghastly ships.
Its skies darkened by the ashes of burned-out galaxies,its molten core long cooled,the Earth is threatened by the instability of the very fabric of space-time.
But young Deyv of the Turtle Tribe knew nothing of his world's history or its fate,and lived only to track down the wretched Yawtl who had stolen his Soul Egg.Joined by Vana,a girl from another tribe,and the plant-man Sloosh, both victims of the thief,he trailed the Yawtl across a nightmare landscape of monster-haunted jungle and wetland,even taking to the air in the dreadful vessel of the viral tharakorm.
The search for the Soul Eggs led only to deeper peril - first to the lair of Feersh the Blind, the witch who had ordered the thefts; then to the Bright Abomination,the jewelled wasteland that harboured the Shemibob,the ageless being from another star who knew Earth's end was near. . . .
and held the key to the only way for any to escape that end. . . .
Not even in his award-winning 'Riverworld Series' has Philip Jose Farmer created such a strikingly varied cast of characters for an epic adventure as he has in 'Dark is the Sun'.
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