In the fourth book in his darkly thrilling world of space adventure, the bestselling author of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant takes readers to new levels of suspense, as he continues the penultimate chapter on the ongoing battle between human and alien . . . and the darkness hidden in us all.
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In the fourth book in his darkly thrilling world of space adventure, the bestselling author of the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant takes readers to new levels of suspense, as he continues the penultimate chapter on the ongoing battle between human and alien . . . and the darkness hidden in us all.
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Add this copy of Chaos and Order: the Gap Into Madness to cart. $19.16, very good condition, Sold by dying earth books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from torrance, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Spectra / Bantam Books.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) 1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square and solid and the pages bear the handling-soiling evidence one would associate with the book once having been read; the boards, however, are solid and unblemished, and the lovely dust jacket is in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. Youll feel as though you've had a meal of aliantha and diamondraught; youll be shouting Giant-songs; you'll be wreathed in wild magic and crying Fire and blood! in spite of yourself, just for fun, once this book is in your hands! NOTE: The front cover has a very minor ripple effect as if at some point it was briefly exposed to some moisture; nothing dramatic.
Add this copy of Chaos and Order: the Gap Into Madness to cart. $31.32, very good condition, Sold by dying earth books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from torrance, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Spectra / Bantam Books.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) 1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and just slightly blemished, and the lovely dust jacket is in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. Youll feel as though you've had a meal of aliantha and diamondraught; youll be shouting Giant-songs; you'll be wreathed in wild magic and crying Fire and blood! in spite of yourself, just for fun, once this book is in your hands! NOTE: Light evidence of foxing to the sides of the lightly age-toned pages. Old owner's sticker to the FFEP.
Add this copy of Chaos and Order: the Gap Into Madness to cart. $33.24, very good condition, Sold by dying earth books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from torrance, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Spectra / Bantam Books.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) 1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the lovely dust jacket is in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. Youll feel as though you've had a meal of aliantha and diamondraught; youll be shouting Giant-songs; you'll be wreathed in wild magic and crying Fire and blood! in spite of yourself, just for fun, once this book is in your hands! NOTE: Light evidence of handling to the sides of the pages. Bit of bump/wear to the upper righthand corner of the front cover.
Add this copy of Chaos and Order: the Gap Into Madness to cart. $35.80, very good condition, Sold by dying earth books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from torrance, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Spectra / Bantam Books.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) 1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the lovely dust jacket is in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. You'll feel as though you've had a meal of aliantha and diamondraught; you'll be shouting Giant-songs; you'll be wreathed in wild magic and crying Fire and blood! in spite of yourself, just for fun, once this book is in your hands! NOTE: Nearly nonexistent traces of handling to the sides of the pages and a distinct stain to the tops along with the faintest beginnings of some foxing.
Add this copy of Lord Foul's Bane to cart. $63.91, very good condition, Sold by dying earth books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from torrance, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Doubleday.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Book Club edition hardcover, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is solid with just a degree of spine tilt; the boards are solid with a bit of wear at the bottom near the spine, There is a little light evidence of handling wear to the tops/bottoms of the pages. The dustjacket is in a protective Brodart cover, and sports just a few jots and rubs of edge wear, amounting to a bit of chipping at the heel and head of the spine. No price clippings, no remainder marks. Youll feel as though youve had a meal of aliantha and diamondraught; youll be shouting Giant-songs; youll be wreathed in wild magic and crying Fire and blood! in spite of yourself, just for fun, once this book is in your hands!
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Book Club edition hardcover, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, The book itself could have been printed yesterday--crazy nice. The only flaw is a little light evidence of handling wear to the tops/bottoms of the pages. The lovely dustjacket is in a protective Brodart cover, and sports just a few jots and rubs of edge wear, amounting to a bit of chipping at the heel of the spine. No price clippings, no remainder marks. Youll feel as though youve had a meal of aliantha and diamondraught; youll be shouting Giant-songs; youll be wreathed in wild magic and crying Fire and blood! in spite of yourself, just for fun, once this book is in your hands! NOTE: This is the edition with the Wyeth cover art.
A little background before an actual review (this is going to be an action packed review!): I've read lots of Stephen R. Donaldson books. All of the Thomas Covenant books (well, the 8th, most recent one, is on my list to read soon), the Mirror of Her Dreams ones, and one or two others. I guess I like his writing style! Long ago I did try to read the Real Story, the first of what I thought was a trilogy. I found it somewhat confusing, you keep on meeting new characters, and the story keeps on changing (I think that was supposed to be the novelty of that book). And so I ended up with three unread books on my shelves, for maybe ten years. Recently I was looking for the next book to read, and I had heard one time that the Gap series, as it perhaps is correctly called, was actually good. So I gave it another try. Sure enough, I did get past the confusion I had the first time around, and raced my way through the first three books. Before finishing the trilogy I found out that really it was a five book series. I went to one book store, as well as checking online with them and other big book sellers. No hope online, but a guy at that store did check into it for me, enough for me to find out that the fourth and fifth books were out of print. Good man that he was, he told me about Alibris.com, and so I ordered the last two books from there. There was (is) a delay on one of the two, but fortunately for me it was the fifth book that was delayed, and so I've being reading the fourth book for the last few weeks (I'm a slow reader!). I'll get around to talking about that any moment now.... In the first three Convent books, Donaldson hit an interesting problem, he had entirely written it from Thomas Convent's point of view, so that you, the reader, were never fully sure if the story was real, or all in Covenant's mind. He (Donaldson) did later write a shorter book to cover some of the story of the Giants, because he wasn't able to write that part of the story in the main book, as it was from the viewpoint of the giants, and that would have ruined his approach of having everything from Covenant's point of view. With the Gap series he takes a completely different approach (not counting the first book), he constantly switches between the viewpoint of the different characters. He even titles the chapter after the name of the character whose viewpoint is being followed. It's an interesting approach, and you end up liking some characters that you wouldn't think should be liked, or disliking some that might, from another character's point of view, be likable. There are still a lot of characters to follow, and jumping between them keeps you on your toes, but then you do get five books worth of time to grow to know them. At their worst, the books keep you reading to find out what happens next, and at their best they are thrilling, you don't want to stop reading. The third book was a roller-coaster ride towards the end, and this fourth book is full of action packed sequences. I do have a few more chapters to read, hopefully the fifth book will arrive before I'm done! Four star rating to allow for some headroom. It's five stars worth of entertainment.
