LORD DUNSANY "Pleasures of a Futuroscope" carton of 40 1ST ED LTD hardcover/publishers overstock/mint unread Start Price USD 200.00 Current Price USD 200.00 Time Left 18 days 5 hours 1 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 30, 2008 End Time Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Location New York, NY See more about 'LORD DUNSANY "Pleasures of a Futuroscope" carton of 40' Description     OOPS! We printed too many of these, but our loss is your gain.  Unopened cartons, with 40 copies per carton.   Mint, unread condition, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. The Pleasures of a Futuroscope By Lord DunsanyEdited by S. T. Joshi200 pages Hardcover: ·                                 ISBN 0972164480, October 2003 ·                                  Hippocampus Press ·                                 $32.95 retail price, now just $5.00 each ·                                 Unopened carton of 40 units     Lord Dunsany, Irish master of fantasy, was the author of more than a dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, poems, and essays, and dozens of plays. He was one of H. P. Lovecraft's primary literary inspirations. And yet, Dunsany's last major work, The Pleasures of a Futuroscope, remained unpublished until this edition. In this powerful and moving novel, written in 1955, a futuroscope--a device that allows a viewer to see into the near or distant future--reveals an awful fate for humanity: a nuclear holocaust has destroyed nearly all human life on the planet. The great city of London is now merely an immense crater, filled in with water from the Thames. The pitiful remnants of humanity have been reduced to a Stone Age existence. The narrator, obsessively looking through the futuroscope, focuses upon the plight of a single family in their struggles to survive and fend off the many enemies, both animal and human, that surround them. When one of their number is kidnapped by a band of gypsies, we can only wonder at her fate in this brave new world of the distant future. H. P. Lovecraft was long dead when this novel was written, but he might have appreciated its grim outlook for humanity. Gripping, horrifying, touching, and fascinating, The Pleasures of a Futuroscope shows that Lord Dunsany had retained his literary powers undiminished to the end of his life.   Place a Bid!