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SILENCE IS DEADLY
by Biggle, Jr., Lloyd
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild color fade and a few rub marks to the spine panel. (21691)
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild color fade and a few rub marks to the spine panel. (21691). Octavo, boards. A Jan Darzek novel. "This further chapter in the adventures of Jan Darzek and the Galactic Synthesis Council (see The Darkening Universe, 1975) also resurrects an idea treated by Biggle as a short story twenty years ago. The scene is the planet of Kamm, populated by a pre-industrial human civilization with two oddities: the natives are all stone-deaf, and they maintain a singularly cruel religion designed to propitiate a mythical ""Winged Beast"" of dreadful powers. There is indeed a Darwinian relationship between these two facts and the inexplicable rumors of the Kammians' possessing a death-ray weapon. If you don't immediately discern it, it's because Biggle has done a nice job of suspenseful camouflage; he also has a lot of fun setting up his silent planet from the point of view (or ear) of troubleshooter Darzek. Not really memorable, but ingenious and pleasant." - Kirkus Reviews, 18 November, 1977.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21691
- Title
- SILENCE IS DEADLY
- Author
- Biggle, Jr., Lloyd
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild color fade and a few rub marks to the spine panel. (21691)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- SF
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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