(#145194) RENAISSANCE. Raymond F. Jones.

RENAISSANCE. New York: Gnome Press Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second book and first SF novel, a "long, complicated parallel-worlds adventure with an exciting narrative –- future war, super science and echoes of nuclear holocaust -– and a number of lively variations on favorite SF themes, told with some of the intricacy of his contemporary at ASTOUNDING, A. E. van Vogt." - John Clute and Peter Nicholls, SFE (online). Both future worlds are authoritarian dystopias, one controlled by an elite of computer scientists. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 231. A fine copy in a very good or somewhat better dust jacket with light wear at spine ends and corner tips. (#145194).

Price: $100.00

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