Zettel, Sarah

Playing God

ISBN: 0446523224
New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc., 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Sarah Zettel. "Biodiverse Inc. executive Dr. Lynn Nussbaumer has just been handed the project of her career and the challenge of a lifetime: to save an entire planet. After millennia of constant war on All-Cradle, one of the Great Families of the Dedelphi launched a viral weapon that mutated into a universal plague. Desperate, an unprecedented Confederation of Dedelphi leaders asked for the Earth's help. The only solution: Evacuate more than a billion Dedelphi to vast orbital enclaves for decades, while Bioverse's environmental engineers cleanse and rebuild All-Cradle's entire ecosphere." (from front flap) The third novel by Sarah Zettel (b. 1966), the acclaimed, award-winning American science fiction writer (& proud graduate of the University of Michigan here in Ann Arbor). Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with $22 price & "1198" printed on front flap, first edition, "First Printing: November 1998" as stated on copyright page & as indicated by number sequence thereon. On the title page, Zettel has hand-written her signature in black ink. An essential Zettel collectible in its rarest original form & enriched with the author's signature; an excitingly written science fiction classic-in-the-making with a compelling eco-feminist twist. Book in very fine condition with only mild fading to margins/edges of front, back purple cover boards (black spine & gilt letters, graphics thereon completely bright & intact); a bit of wear & a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same; mild browning to edges of text block. Interior very fine with only some thin vertical blisters at blank white rear pastedown; mild browning mostly to blank margins/edges of page leaves. Dust jacket fine with just a touch of rubbing, scratching & browning to front, back covers, spine & flaps; some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same incl. very short, closed tear with miniscule loss of surface paper at upper right corner of front cover; one small, semicircular area of spot-staining at blank blue mid-right area of back cover. Very Fine / Fine. [Item #5433]

Price: $30.00