Remembering Stan Lee (1922-2018), the man who helped bring us some of our favorite superheroes. In 1968, Stan Lee, Jim Steranko, Joe Sinnott, and Tom Palmer produced three special issues of Captain America. This 1984 Special Edition of Captain America took those stories and published them in full color on...
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SciFIdaho
Interesting finds from our Vicki Mitchell Science Fiction Collection.
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Happy Halloween
University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives wishes all a very Happy Halloween! We’re featuring V.E. Mitchell’s book The Bad Tempered Ghost based on the popular television series Are You Afraid of the Dark featured on Nickelodeon. To make things spooktacular for readers, the cover glows in the dark!...
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Pirated Books
The Lord of the Rings (pirated)
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Octavia E. Butler
Isaac Asimov
Happy Birthday to the late great Isaac Asimov, born January 2nd, 1920. We have many works created by or related to him in our new science fiction collection, including a large assortment of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. In 1977 he lent his name to the magazine and wrote material...
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Leonard Nimoy’s Poems
Mr. Nimoy was a man of many talents, and one of them happened to be poetry! Check out these books of poems by him that are part of our Science Fiction Collection.
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Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three book cover
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Dwellers of the Deep
Dwellers of the Deep book cover
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More Cats in Space!
Special Collections and Archives continues to work on cleaning and processing our sci-fi collection and have officially moved from books to wonderful periodicals like Asimov’s Science Fiction!
Happy Halloween!
Bernhardt J. Hurwood, Ghosts,Ghouls, and Other Horrors,New York, N.Y: Scholastic Book Corporation, 1971.
Sci Fi Skeletons
The Man Who Fell to Earth
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Cats in Space!
A Judgement of Dragons
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things are getting pretty spooky
Things are getting pretty spooky around Special Collections as we continue our work on processing a large science fiction and fantasy collection! H.P. Lovecraft, The Lurking Fear and other stories. (New York, NY: Ballantine Books.1973.) H.P. Lovecraft, The Shuttered Room and other tales of horror. (New York, NY: Ballantine Books....
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The Universe Against Her (a.k.a. that Monday feeling)
The Universe Against Her
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The Platypus of Doom - and Other Nihilists
The Platypus of Doom: and Other Nihilists book cover
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The Flying Eyes
J. Hunter Holly, "The Flying Eyes"
Bride of the Rat God
Bride of the Rat God
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Live Long and Stay Healthy
Star Trek Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual
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Before Game of Thrones there was Fevre Dream
Fevre Dream front cover
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Victoria (Vicki) E. Mitchell Science Fiction Collection
#scifidaho Introducing our newest large collection! This summer, Special Collections received a large personal collection of science fiction materials owned by University of Idaho alumna and long-time Moscow, ID resident Victoria (Vicki) E. Mitchell. Mitchell (along with her soon-to-be husband Jon Gustafson) was a member of the Palouse Empire Science...
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