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be honest, we have absolutely no clue what this one is.
All we know is that it's written in Japanese, roughly
4 x 6 x 1.25 inches, cost 650 Yen
when new, and contains 448 pages chock-full of black-and-white
photos of what would appear to be every stuntman who has ever
performed in a rubber suit in front of a Japanese television
or movie camera. Some of them we believe we recognize — Ultraman,
Jet Jaguar, and a few of the lesser lights from the Godzilla
pantheon — but the others? Your guess is better than ours.
The one other thing we know for certain is that somewhere out there, there is a sushi cinema fan who is just dying to get his or her hands on this book and overjoyed to find it for a mere $9.95 USD, tax and domestic shipping included. Could this person be you? Click the link to add it to your cart. |
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Rebel Moon is a sort of "libertarian revolution on the moon"
novel co-written by WorldNetDaily columnist and notorious blogger
Vox Day
and award-winning sci-fi writer Bruce Bethke. We have acquired what we believe
to be the last remaining stock of NEW copies, SIGNED by both authors.
If you love Vox Day and want a signed copy to use as the centerpiece of your Vox Shrine, here it is. If you hate Vox Day and want to buy a copy just to burn it, we're okay with that, too. In any case we're selling them for just $7.50 USD apiece, domestic shipping included, and when these are gone there are no more. SOLD OUT |
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We don't normally handle visual media, but this one was just too good
to pass up. For your entertainment pleasure we present one used VHS copy of the
original Star Wars! No Director's Cut! No Jabba the Hutt!
The original movie poster cover art, which makes it look as if
Mark Hamill has bulging pecs and Carrie Fisher is a leggy babe!
No CGI creatures cluttering up Mos Eisley, and most importantly,
in the cantina scene, Han shoots first, the way God Himself intended!
This is a movie you will never see on DVD, because Lucas has declared that only the "enhanced" Special Edition will be released from here on out. So if the later movies have made you forget just how much fun the original was, or if you need a refresher course in how to make a brilliantly effective movie with a modest budget, some little-known actors, and a few trips to the plumbing aisle at Home Depot, click the link to put it in your shopping cart. |
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A pound and a half of Star Wars spinoffs: Tim Zahn's epic novels,
Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command,
which together comprise "The Thrawn Trilogy." These are big, fat, 450+ page
mass-market paperbacks, and apparently well-loved books with creased
spines and slightly scuffed covers, but the books are otherwise in very good shape
and it seems a shame to break up the set so we're offering them as a package deal.
Shipped media rate as they weigh too much to go first class. |
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"Before the legends... Before the triumphs... A young man's quest begins!"
In short, another pound and a half of well-loved and slightly scuffed Star Wars spinoffs, in this case, A. C. Crispin's slightly thinner books, The Paradise Snare, The Hutt Gambit, and Rebel Dawn, which taken together comprise "The Young Han Solo Trilogy." If you've ever wondered how Han ended up flying a junk freighter with a wookie in the co-pilot's chair, the answer is in here... somewhere. Shipped media rate as they weigh too much to go first-class. |
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Before anyone gets too snide about Star Wars and Star Trek novels, it's
worth pointing out that even Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke wrote movie
novelizations, and even Gene Roddenberry's
original Star Trek TV series was beaten in the
ratings wars by Irwin Allen, producer of such mind-stretching programs
as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, and of course,
Land of the Giants.
Ergo, here we have an outstanding artifact of Science Fiction's "Brass" age: a First (and probably only) printing of a 156-page novella written by authentic Golden Age great Murray Leinster, credited as being based on the series created by Irwin Allen, but quite possibly based on one of Leinster's own screenplays as he was a prolific scriptwriter who worked under a variety of pseudonyms. The book is not exactly museum quality; in 1968 the concept of using acid-free paper in a 60-cent paperback was not even a dream, so the pages have turned a nice, crispy tan the color and texture of perfectly toasted Wonder Bread. Also, as you can see from the larger scans of the front and back covers, sometime in the intervening years a young lady named "Susie" chose to decorate the covers (but luckily, not the interior) with pencil. Still, as a kitschy relic of what life was like before the market ascendance of Star Wars and Star Trek, this one is hard to beat. |
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