Award winning author, David Gerrold has been writingstories, novels, trilogies, articles, essays, columns, television scripts, andthe occasional limerick for more than half a century. He has been a Guest ofHonor at multiple events, he has won the Hugo, the Nebula, the Stoker, theHeinlein and many other awards for his amazing career. He created Land of theLost for Sid and Marty Krofft and wrote "The Trouble With Tribbles"for Star Trek, The Original Series.
We are downsizing the collections and selling off extracopies of books. Here is the most complete set of Trade Paperback novels andstory collections, by David Gerrold.
HELLA is the acclaimed novel of colonists on a new worldwhere everything is bigger – especially the dinosaurs. Told from the point ofview of 13-year old Kyle, who is somewhere on the spectrum, but has amicroprocessor augment which gives him unique abilities. When a colony shipfrom Earth arrives, Kyle meets HARLIE, a unique intelligence engine. (HARLIE has shown up in other works by DavidGerrold, most recently in JUMPING OFF THE PLANET, BOUNCING OFF THE MOON, andLEAPING TO THE STARS). A sequel is currently in the works.
GUACAMOLE is anLGBTQ+ collection of stories featuring non-binary protagonists, firstpublished to celebrate Pride Month. Here are eleven unique stories, heartbreakingand heartwarming, including the remarkable tale of a war-shattered gay VietnamVet searching for peace. Not to be missed. (The dust jacket has a slight tearat the back, but the book is in new condition.)
JACOB is David Gerrold's thoughtful examination of thevampire mythos. A vampire needs a daykeeper, someone to bring in the mail andtake out the trash, but more important, someone who also aspires to become oneof the “nightsiders.” Told as a series of stories by a young writer approached bya mysterious pale man, this will send quiet chills up your spine.
G IS FOR GERROLD, this collection of stories was preparedespecially for the 2022 World Science Fiction Convention. While it duplicatessome of the stories that have been printed in some of the other collections, includingthe Hugo and Nebula award winning novelette, THE MARTIAN CHILD and anadditional story of the Martian child, PICKLED MONGOOSE, it also includes severalstories not available anywhere else.
WORLDS OF WONDER, “How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy.”This book is regarded as one of the better books for those who want to be moreeffective in their writing. David Gerrold says, “It's everything I learned fromthe good writers,” and he acknowledges the lessons learned from many of thebest writers in the genre. Written in short, easy-to-understand chapters, it'sa good survey of the challenges of genre fiction.
ENTANGLEMENTS AND TERRORS is another collection of stories, publishedas a special edition for the 2015 World Science Fiction Convention whereGerrold was a Guest of Honor. This collection includes seven of Gerrold's beststories, plus a special preview of chapters from the fifth book of THE WARAGAINST THE CHTORR.
A PROMISE OF STARS, eight grest stories of humanity'sexpansion throughout the solar system. Stating here on Earth and reaching allthe way out to the Oort cloud. Includes the novella version of theaward-winning JUMPING OFF THE PLANET and GANNY KNITS A SPACESHIP, a whole newway to build ships in space, plus six other adventures in outer space.
ALTERNATE GERROLDS. During his long and illustrious careeras an editor Mike Resnick started a series of paperback anthologies aboutalternate realities, alternate presidents, alternate dinosaurs, alternate moviestars, alternate everything. The first author he asked to participate in any ofthose books was always David Gerrold, who ended up with stories in all but oneof those anthologies. Here are the sixteen stories that David Gerrold wrote forMike Resnick's anthologies, including one of the best of all, THE KENNEDYENTERPRISE, about an alternate Star Trek—and THE FEATHERED MASTODON whereGerrold finally gets a well-deserved revenge on Mike Resnick.
THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICITON, TRIBUTEISSUE. In 2016, F&SF published a special tribute issue to David Gerrold,featuring two essays about the man and two new stories, THE DUNSMUIR HORROR andTHE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF MISTER COSTELLO. (A sequel to Theodore Sturgeon'stale about Mister Costello.)
THE VOYAGE OF THE STAR WOLF. This novel explores some of theharder challenges of an interstellar war. Jon Korie is the Executive Officer ofa destroyer-class liberty ship caught up in the much larger battle that plungesEarth and its allied planets against a race of super-human warriors. Korie hasto deal with military strategy and shipboard tensions while his own family mightbe on a targeted world.
SEVEN STORIES THAT SHOULD BE MOVIES. Here's a remarkablecollection of ten stories, not seven, that could be made into some very bigmovies. BUBBLE AND SQUEAK tells the story of two young men whose marriage plansare interrupted by an enormous tsumani heading for Los Angeles. (There's ashelf of hardened lava on the big island of Hawaii. If it ever collapses, 6000cubic meters of hardened lava slide into the ocean, sending 300-foot tidalwaves at the entire Pacific rim. Time to move inland.) You won't want to miss THELAST CASE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES or THE GREAT PAN AMERICAN AIRSHIP MURDER MYSTERY.
thirteen fourteen fifteen O'clock is a novel in threesections, detailing the harrowing journey of a gay Vietnam veteran dealing withsevere PTSD as he works his way slowly and bitterly toward peace andcompletion. Told as a violent scream of consciousness, this is one of DavidGerrold's most ambitious books, and one that is well worth the effort. You willnever look at life the same.
HOME ON DERANGE is David Gerrold's collection of very short,very silly stories. You can read these while sitting on the toilet. Some ofthese are laugh-out-loud, others are shake-your-head. And a couple are justwonderful. Published especially for the 2021 World Science Fiction Convention,it is the first time many of these stories have ever been gathered between twocovers.
LITTLE HORRORS. DavidGerrold doesn't write many horror stories. (“There are few things that canscare me anymore. I survived the sixties.”) But this collection shows him athis best. Includes the Stoker-Award winning story, NIGHT TRAIN TO PARIS.
THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF, the classic novel of timetravel. Daniel Eakins inherits a timebelt that lets him visit any time, anyplace, past or future – and in the process, he not only rewrites world history,he rewrites his own life, until he might not know who he is anymore, and then hehas to untangle himself. This book was a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee and hasremained in print for over half a century. It is not only regarded as aclassic, but also the last word in time travel stories.
PRAXIS. David Gerrold's most recent short novel. The humanrace has discovered how to open portals to other words. Some of them areshirtsleeve worlds, but how do you settle a new world? First you have to trainyour colonists to think of themselves as a community. PRAXIS is about the illusionof escape and the commitments necessary to succeed. This book details the necessarytraining, the sequel (coming soon) tells of the colonists' arrival at PRAXIS.
THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES, “The Making Of A Star Trek Episode.”There have been a lot of books written and published about the creation of GeneRoddenberry's ground-breaking science fiction series. This is one of the fewbehind-the-scenes books written by someone who was actually there, actually learningabout television production. 23-year old David Gerrold sold his first script toStar Trek and the rest is history. Paramount Pictures says that this episode isthe most popular episode of the most popular TV series in television history.Over a billion people have seen it. This book includes the outline and theshooting script, and one of the best stories ever told about the effect of atelevision episode.
THE WORLD OF STAR TREK is the companion volume to THETROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES. There was just too much story to tell, so David Gerrold wrotea second book detailing the production of the entire series. This book containsinterviews with most of the cast and crew, and has many behind-the-scenesstories. STAR TREK fans have cherished this enthusiastic love-letter to theirfavorite series for half a century. Again, this is one of the few books about STARTREK that was written by someone who was actually there.
THE MARTIAN CHILD is David Gerrold's best book, an expansionof his Hugo and Nebula award-winning tale of his son's adoption. In 1992,Gerrold adopted a little boy who might have been a Martian in disguise. Here isthe story of how both Gerrold and his son took on the challenges of being human.This story was later adapted into a movie starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet.
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