Add this copy of Total Eclipse to cart. $11.79, good condition, Sold by The Yard Sale Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Narrowsburg, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Doubleday.
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Good. Good; Collectible 1974 Book Club edition with that expressive dust jacket still in tact. Very nice overall with slight corners bumped a bit, a little spot on the page edge and the former owner's name written on the inside cover page with the date Aug 74'. Overall very presentable.
Add this copy of Total Eclipse to cart. $12.95, very good condition, Sold by King Crab Books LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saint Paul, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by DAW.
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Foss, Chris. 206 p. 3rd printing paperback from DAW (UW1398). VERY GOOD, some wear, store stamp inside, and black mark on spine. Chris Foss cover, Jack Gaughan frontis.
Add this copy of Total Eclipse--Bargain Book to cart. $13.39, very good condition, Sold by Basement Seller 101 rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cincinnati, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Add this copy of Total Eclipse to cart. $14.95, very good condition, Sold by King Crab Books LLC rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saint Paul, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by DAW.
Add this copy of Total Eclipse to cart. $16.99, good condition, Sold by UHR Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hollis Center, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Daw Books, Inc..
Add this copy of Total Eclipse to cart. $17.30, very good condition, Sold by zabooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lenore, ID, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by DAW.
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Very Good. Spine is straight, binding is tight, pages are unmarked, slight wear.; 6x4x1; 206 pages; Spine is straight, binding is tight, pages are unmarked, slight wear.
Add this copy of Total Eclipse to cart. $19.00, good condition, Sold by The Book House - Saint Louis rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from St. Louis, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Doubleday & Company.
Add this copy of Total Eclipse to cart. $31.00, like new condition, Sold by JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BURLINGTON, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by DOUBLEDAY & CO, INC..
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F/VG+ D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF CORNER AND SPINE-END WEAR WITH A COUPLE SHORT TEARS ON THE FRONT PANEL, SOME LIGHT RUBBING OF THE FRONT SPINE EDGE, AND SPINE PANEL LIGHTLY FADED. A VERY NICE COPY.
Add this copy of Total Eclipse to cart. $32.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First British edition. Near fine with small scratch on spine in a very good dustwrapper, spine head chipped, nick mid-spine.
Total Eclipse by John Brunner is another golden oldie from my science fiction collection. I reread it recently and was surprised how well this planetary mystery withstood the test of time.
It's 2028 and the starship Stellaris lands on Sigma Draconis III. On board are Ian Macauley, a palaeolinguist, and other scientists who are exchanging places with some of those already on the planet. Eight years previous a team landed and discovered the relics of an advanced civilization that had been extinct for one hundred thousand years. Since then successive teams have studied the remains hoping to find out what caused the alien society to die after being in existence only three thousand years.
Meanwhile on Earth, people are not happy about the money being spent on Starflight. And there are rumors that the team on Draconis is looking for weapons of destruction so they can come back and rule the world. This new landing party includes General Jose Maria Ordonez-Vico, the commander in chief of the Bolivian Military Intelligence Service. His goal is to find a reason to order the abandonment of the Draco base. The situation at home is precarious. When the Stellaris leaves this time there's no guarantee that it will come back again, even if the general allows the investigation to proceed. The threat of being stranded on Draconis permanently hangs over the team. But no one is ready to give up and declare the mystery unsolvable. Was it a fatal virus, a war or mutation? Everyone is pinning their hopes on Ian to find the answer.
Alien archaeology is a fascinating premise and this hard sci-fi novel holds up in spite of the fact there's little action. Even the paranoid general doesn't provide much conflict. Most of the investigation is relayed through the characters thoughts and dialogue. It was the insurmountable mystery and Ian's attempt to recreate an alien persona that kept me engrossed through two readings. Brunner draws some heavy handed parallels between the Draconians and humanity and the stunning climax will leave you thinking.
Gail Pruszkowski reviews for "Romantic Times BOOKreviews" magazine and her work has been published in the "Cup of Comfort" Anthologies. http://mysite.verizon.net/bookworm.gp/ http://write-juncture.blogspot.com/
