Ansible Books Received, 2001
This is a log of books received, some of which I
review for SFX magazine, in Cloud Chamber, or
elsewhere. The latest listing is here.
Send books for listing to: David Langford, 94 London Road, Reading, RG1
5AU, England.
December 2001
- [31 Dec]
David
Brin, Kiln People -- sf. Tor pre-proof copy (bound MS). Scheduled
January 2002. ISBN 0765303558 • AbeBooks
- [31 Dec]
Stephen
Dedman, Shadows Bite -- "magic/noir vampire thriller".
Tor proof copy. Scheduled December 2001. ISBN 0312873697 • AbeBooks
- [31 Dec]
Richard
Matheson, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet -- horror collection. Tor proof
copy. Scheduled January 2002. ISBN 0312878273 • AbeBooks
- [31 Dec]
L. Neil
Smith, The American Zone -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled December
2001. ISBN 0312873697 • AbeBooks
- [31 Dec]
James
White, Alien Emergencies -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled April
2002. Volumes 4 to 6 of the Sector General sequence, being Ambulance
Ship (including the story "Spacebird" omitted from previous US
editions), Sector General, and Star Healer, with a new introduction
by David Langford, yay yay. ISBN 0312877706 • AbeBooks
- [17 Dec]
Ray
Bradbury, From the Dust Returned -- Earthlight fantasy hardback. ISBN 0743207599 • AbeBooks
- [17 Dec]
David
Farland, Wizardborn -- Earthlight fantasy paperback. "Book
Three of the Runelords." ISBN 0671029509 • AbeBooks
- [17 Dec]
Robert
Holdstock, Celtika -- Earthlight fantasy paperback. "Book One
of The Merlin Codex." ISBN 0671028820 • AbeBooks
- [13 Dec]
Alastair
Reynolds, Chasm City -- Gollancz sf trade paperback. ISBN 0575073659 • AbeBooks
- [7 Dec]
Avram
Davidson, ed. Grania Davis and Henry Wessells, The Other Nineteenth Century.
Tor proof copy. Scheduled December 2001. New collection of 23 mostly unfamiliar
stories, complementing The Avram Davidson Treasury and Everybody
Has Somebody in Heaven. ISBN 0312848749 • AbeBooks
- [7 Dec]
Andre
Norton, The Gates to Witch World -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled
December 2001. Omnibus of first three Witch World novels from 1963-5: Witch
World, Web of the Witch World and Year of the Unicorn. ISBN 0765300508 • AbeBooks
- [7 Dec]
Mitchell
Smith, Snowfall -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled February 2002. ISBN 0312878966 • AbeBooks
- [6 Dec]
Lloyd
Alexander, Westmark -- Firebird fantasy pb. Reissue of 1981 novel.
Firebird is "a new fantasy and science fiction imprint of Penguin Putnam
Inc. specifically designed to appeal to both teenage and adult readers. ISBN 0141310685 • AbeBooks
- [6 Dec]
David
Clement-Davies, Fire Bringer -- Firebird fantasy pb. ISBN 0142300608 • AbeBooks
- [6 Dec]
Nancy
Farmer, The Ear, the Eye and the Arm -- Firebird sf pb. ISBN 0141311096 • AbeBooks
- [6 Dec]
Nancy
Springer, I Am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot -- Firebird fantasy
pb. ISBN 0698118413 • AbeBooks
November 2001
- [29 Nov]
Greg
Egan, Schild's Ladder -- Gollancz sf. Proof copy received.
Scheduled February 2002. More wildly ambitious sf of ideas. ISBN 0575071230 • AbeBooks
- [29 Nov]
Harry
Turtledove, American Empire: Blood and Iron -- NEL sf paperback.
New series following on from his "The Great War" alternate-history
World War I sequence. ISBN 0340715510 • AbeBooks
- [29 Nov]
Harry
Turtledove, Colonization 3: Aftershocks -- NEL sf paperback. Third
in alternate-history sequence following from the "Worldwar"
tetralogy, the one where aliens invade during WWII. ISBN 0340769106 • AbeBooks
- [26 Nov]
Douglas
E. Winter, The Dark Fantastic -- Clive Barker: The Authorized Biography
-- HarperCollins hardback. ISBN 0002550415 • AbeBooks
- [23 Nov]
Terry
Goodkind, The Pillars of Creation -- Gollancz fantasy hardback. ISBN 0575071613 • AbeBooks
- [23 Nov]
K.W.
Jeter, Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon -- Gollancz sf paperback. Yet
another spinoff. ISBN 1857988671 • AbeBooks
- [23 Nov]
Fritz
Leiber, The Second Book of Lankhmar -- Gollancz Fantasy
Masterworks #24, trade paperback. Comprises The Swords of Lankhmar,
Swords and Ice Magic and The Knight and Knave of Swords,
completing the packaging of the seven Fafhrd & Gray Mouser books in two
Masterworks volumes. ISBN 0575073586 • AbeBooks
- [23 Nov]
H.G.
Wells, The Invisible Man -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #47, trade
paperback. A "Note on the Text" conveys that this is the Everyman
edition and that useful and instructive Notes will appear at the back of the
book -- in fact omitted. ISBN 185798949X • AbeBooks
- [21 Nov]
Mike
Ashley, Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood
-- Constable hardback. Biography of author best remembered for supernatural
tales like "The Wendigo" and the John Silence
occult-detective series. ISBN 1841194174 • AbeBooks
- [13 Nov]
Neal
Asher, The Skinner -- Macmillan sf. Proof copy received, scheduled
March 2002. ISBN 0333903641 • AbeBooks
- [13 Nov]
Philip
K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said -- Gollancz SF
Masterworks #46, trade paperback. ISBN 1857983416 • AbeBooks
- [13 Nov]
Richard
Morgan, Altered Carbon -- Gollancz sf. Proof copy received.
Scheduled February 2002 in hardback and
trade
paperback. ISBN 0575073217 • AbeBooks
- [9 Nov]
Ron
Miller and Frederick C. Durant III, The Art of Chesley Bonestell
-- Paper Tiger hardback, large-format sf art book. Extremely impressive -- 256
pages and over 300 pictures. Also from
Amazon.com. ISBN 1855858843 • AbeBooks
- [9 Nov]
Donald
Kingsbury, Psychohistorical Crisis -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled
November 2001. A fictional "response to Asimov's Foundation trilogy"
that ignores all the dreadful add-on clutter of connections with the robot
series. ISBN 0312861028 • AbeBooks
- [8 Nov]
Tom
Arden, Empress of the Endless Dream -- Gollancz fantasy hardback. "Fifth
Book of the Orokon." ISBN 0575063742 • AbeBooks
- [8 Nov]
Tom
Arden, Sisterhood of the Blue Storm -- Gollancz fantasy paperback.
"Fourth Book of the Orokon." ISBN 1857983300 • AbeBooks
- [8 Nov]
Elizabeth
Haydon, Prophecy -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. Sequel to Rhapsody
below. ISBN 1857989910 • AbeBooks
- [8 Nov]
Elizabeth
Haydon, Rhapsody -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. ISBN 0575072792 • AbeBooks
- [8 Nov]
Valerie
Leith, The Riddled Night -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. "Everien:
Book Two." ISBN 1857983246 • AbeBooks
- [8 Nov]
Valerie
Leith, The Way of the Rose -- Gollancz fantasy paperback,
C-format. "Everien: Book Three." ISBN 1857985494 • AbeBooks
- [8 Nov]
Fletcher
Pratt, The Well of the Unicorn -- Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks
#23, trade paperback. ISBN 0575072679 • AbeBooks
- [8 Nov]
Brian
Sibley, The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide --
HarperCollins, large format paperback. Many photos/stills. ISBN 0007119089 • AbeBooks
- [7 Nov]
Juliet
Marillier, Child of the Prophecy -- fantasy. Tor proof copy.
Scheduled March 2002. "Book Three of the Sevenwaters Trilogy." ISBN 0312848811 • AbeBooks
- [5 Nov]
Steven
Erikson, Memories of Ice -- Bantam fantasy paperback, C-format. "Malazan
Book of the Fallen 3." ISBN 0593046242 • AbeBooks
- [5 Nov]
Simon
R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine -- Gollancz fantasy paperback,
C-format. ISBN 0575072466 • AbeBooks
- [1 Nov]
Ian
Stewart, Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So -- Macmillan
hardback. Distant sequel to Edwin A. Abbot's 1884 Flatland, using
fiction and whimsy as sugar-coating for a tour of assorted spaces found/used in
maths and physics. ISBN 0333783123 • AbeBooks
October 2001
- [23 Oct]
Alfred
Bester, The Stars My Destination -- Gollancz sf hardback. SF
Masterworks hardbacks VI. ISBN 0575072636 • AbeBooks
- [23 Oct]
Arthur
C. Clarke, Childhood's End -- Gollancz sf hardback. SF Masterworks
hardbacks IV. ISBN 0575073373 • AbeBooks
- [23 Oct]
Philip
K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle -- Gollancz sf hardback. SF
Masterworks hardbacks III. ISBN 0575073357 • AbeBooks
- [23 Oct]
Joe
Haldeman, The Forever War -- Gollancz sf hardback. SF Masterworks
hardbacks IX. ISBN 0575073187 • AbeBooks
- [23 Oct]
Robert
A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -- Gollancz sf hardback.
SF Masterworks hardbacks VII. It is to be noted that hardback SF Masterworks
include titles such as this which Gollancz were apparently unable to use in
trade paperback. More below! ISBN 0575073365 • AbeBooks
- [23 Oct]
Frank
Herbert, Dune -- Gollancz sf hardback. SF Masterworks hardbacks I. ISBN 0575073349 • AbeBooks
- [23 Oct]
Larry
Niven, Ringworld -- Gollancz sf hardback. SF Masterworks hardbacks
VIII. ISBN 057507339X • AbeBooks
- [23 Oct]
Walter
M. Miller Jr, A Canticle for Leibowitz -- Gollancz sf hardback. SF
Masterworks hardbacks V. ISBN 0575072202 • AbeBooks
- [23 Oct]
Frank
Herbert, Dune -- Gollancz sf hardback. SF Masterworks hardbacks I.
It is to be noted that hardback SF Masterworks include titles such as this
which Gollancz were apparently unable to use in trade paperback. ISBN 0575073349 • AbeBooks
- [23 Oct]
John
Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids -- Gollancz sf hardback. SF
Masterworks hardbacks X. ISBN 0575073381 • AbeBooks
- [22 Oct]
John
Barnes, The Merchants of Souls -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled
November 2001. Follows on from A Million Open Doors and Earth Made
of Glass. ISBN 0312890761 • AbeBooks
- [22 Oct]
Dorianna
Durgin, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict -- Heritage -- sf.
Tor proof copy. Scheduled November 2001. TV spinoff. ISBN 076530208X • AbeBooks
- [22 Oct]
Ken
MacLeod, Dark Light -- Orbit sf hardback. Second in "Engines
of Light" sequence. Also
Tor proof
copy, scheduled January 2002. ISBN 1841490695 • AbeBooks
- [22 Oct]
Vernor
Vinge, The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge -- sf. Tor proof copy.
Scheduled November 2001. Excludes "True Names" -- see next item. ISBN 0312873735 • AbeBooks
- [22 Oct]
Vernor
Vinge and others, ed James Frenkel, True Names and the Opening of the
Cyberspace Frontier -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled December 2001. "True
Names" plus articles and commentary on its prophetic aspects by various
others. ISBN 0312862075 • AbeBooks
- [19 Oct]
Ursula
Le Guin, The Telling -- Gollancz sf hardback. New novel in the "Hainish"
sf cycle. ISBN 0575072571 • AbeBooks
- [17 Oct]
Stephen
Jones & David Sutton (ed), Dark Terrors 5 -- Gollancz trade
paperback. Horror anthology. ISBN 185798322X • AbeBooks
- [16 Oct]
Jan
Siegel, The Dragon-Charmer -- Voyager fantasy paperback. Sequel to
Prospero's Children. ISBN 000651281X • AbeBooks
- [12 Oct]
Arthur
C. Clarke, The Collected Stories -- Gollancz sf trade paperback. ISBN 1857983238 • AbeBooks
- [12 Oct]
Simon
R. Green, Shadows Fall -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. ISBN 0575057114 • AbeBooks
- [12 Oct]
Harry
Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus -- Gollancz sf
paperback. ISBN 1857987241 • AbeBooks
- [11 Oct]
Michael
Moorcock, Gloriana, or, The Unfulfill'd Queen -- Gollancz Fantasy
Masterworks #22, trade paperback. ISBN 0575072849 • AbeBooks
- [11 Oct]
John
Sladek, The Complete Roderick -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #45,
trade paperback. The first one-volume edition of the long novel previously
published in the UK as Roderick and Roderick at Random. (Its US
history is more complicated and messy.) ISBN 1857983408 • AbeBooks
- [10 Oct]
Brom,
Offerings: The Art of Brom -- Paper Tiger hardback, large-format
sf art book. ISBN 1855859181 • AbeBooks
- [10 Oct]
Boris
Vallejo and Julie Bell, Sketchbook -- Paper Tiger hardback,
large-format sf art book. ISBN 1855859297 • AbeBooks
- [8 Oct]
Robert
Rankin, The Fandom of the Operator -- Doubleday sf/fantasy
hardback. ISBN 0385602561 • AbeBooks
- [8 Oct]
Robert
Rankin, Web Site Story -- Corgi sf/fantasy paperback. More
silliness, previously reviewed in hardback. ISBN 0552147435 • AbeBooks
- [5 Oct]
Graham
Joyce, Smoking Poppy -- Gollancz hardback. Hard to tell from the
description whether this has fantasy or supernatural elements. "Here in
the jungles of Thailand The Beach meets Heart of Darkness." ISBN 0575072296 • AbeBooks
- [3 Oct]
Ed Gorman,
ed., The Blue and the Gray Undercover -- anthology of US Civil War
spy stories. Tor proof copy. Scheduled October 2001. ISBN 0312874871 • AbeBooks
- [3 Oct]
Ed Gorman
and Martin H. Greenberg, ed., The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories
-- "best of the year 2000" anthology. Tor proof copy. Scheduled
October 2001. ISBN 0765301016 • AbeBooks
September 2001
- [28 Sep]
Mark
Chadbourn, Always Forever -- Gollancz fantasy hardback. "Book
Three of the Age of Misrule." ISBN 0575066822 • AbeBooks
- [28 Sep]
Mark
Chadbourn, Darkest Hour -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. "Book
Two of the Age of Misrule." ISBN 1857987667 • AbeBooks
- [27 Sep]
Graham
Edwards, Stone & Sun -- Voyager fantasy paperback. "Book
Three of the Stone Trilogy." ISBN 000651183X • AbeBooks
- [26 Sep]
Terry
Pratchett and Paul Kidby, The Last Hero -- Gollancz coffee-table
book with 40,000-word Pratchett story illustrated throughout by Kidby
paintings. ISBN 057506885X • AbeBooks
- [20 Sep]
Steve
Aylett, Toxicology -- Gollancz hardback. 26 short stories, some
with the "Beerlight" setting of Aylett's novels. ISBN 0575071095 • AbeBooks
- [20 Sep]
Marcus
Herniman, The Treason of Dortrean -- Earthlight fantasy paperback.
"Book Two of The Arrandin Trilogy." ISBN 0743415132 • AbeBooks
- [17 Sep]
Terry
Pratchett and Stephen Briggs, illustrated by Paul Kidby, Discworld
Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002 -- Gollancz hardback. As usual,
a straightforward diary prefaced by some drollery (21pp) about the Guild in
question, plus a related fragment (e.g. unlikely crimes or bits of alleged
cant) in the slot for Discworld's extra day each week. ISBN 0575071044 • AbeBooks
- [15 Sep]
Kate
Jacoby, Rebel's Cage -- Gollancz fantasy C-format paperback. "Fourth
Book of Elita." ISBN 0575068876 • AbeBooks
- [13 Sep]
Simon
Clark, The Night of the Triffids -- NEL sf paperback. Reviewed
earlier in hardback ISBN 0340766018 • AbeBooks
- [13 Sep]
Wil
McCarthy, The Collapsium -- Gollancz sf paperback. Reviewed
earlier in large format edition. ISBN 1857983262 • AbeBooks
- [13 Sep]
Stan
Nicholls, Warriors of the Tempest -- Gollancz fantasy paperback.
Reviewed earlier in large format edition. ISBN 1857985621 • AbeBooks
- [12 Sep]
E.R.
Eddison, Mistress of Mistresses -- Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks
#21, trade paperback. ISBN 0575072849 • AbeBooks
- [12 Sep]
Stephen
King & Peter Straub, Black House -- HarperCollins hardback.
Serial-killer suspense novel. ISBN 0007100426 • AbeBooks
- [10 Sep]
Terry
Brooks, The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, Book Two: Antrax --
Earthlight fantasy hardback. ISBN 0743209532 • AbeBooks
- [10 Sep]
Richard
Calder, Impakto -- Earthlight sf paperback. ISBN 0743408950 • AbeBooks
- [10 Sep]
Stephen R.
Donaldson, The Man Who Fought Alone -- thriller. Forge proof copy.
Scheduled November 2001. Another Mick Axbrewder novel, following on from The
Man Who Killed His Brother and The Man Who Risked His Partner
(though these aren't mentioned in the other-books-by list). ISBN 0765302020 • AbeBooks
- [10 Sep]
Jo Walton,
The King's Name -- fantasy. Tor proof copy. Scheduled November
2001. "Continuing the epic begun in The King's Peace." ISBN 031287653X • AbeBooks
August 2001
- [28 Aug]
J.R.R.
Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings -- fantasy trade paperback.Movie
tie-in edition: "Now An Epic Motion Picture Trilogy From New Line Cinema,"
etc. ISBN 0007123817 • AbeBooks
- [23 Aug]
Charles de
Lint, The Onion Girl -- fantasy. Tor proof copy. Scheduled October
2001. Another "Newford" urban fantasy. ISBN 0312873972 • AbeBooks
- [22 Aug]
Gwyneth
Jones, Bold As Love: A Near Future Fantasy -- Gollancz hardback.
Proof received earlier; finished copy now in. Also
trade
paperback. ISBN 0575070307 • AbeBooks
- [18 Aug]
Brian
Herbert & Jevin J. Anderson, Prelude to Dune: House Corrino --
Hodder & Stoughton sf hardback. Finished copy now received. Third of the
rightly dreaded Dune prequels. ISBN 0340751797 • AbeBooks
- [18 Aug]
The
Harvard Lampoon (Henry N. Beard & Douglas C. Kenny), Bored of the
Rings -- Gollancz fantasy hardback, small format. First hardback
edition of broad Tolkien parody, first published 1969. ISBN 0575073624 • AbeBooks
- [17 Aug]
David
A. Hardy, Hardyware -- Paper Tiger hardback, large-format sf art
book. ISBN 1855859173 • AbeBooks
- [15 Aug]
William
Gibson, Neuromancer -- sf trade paperback. Voyager Classics #11. ISBN 0007119585 • AbeBooks
- [15 Aug]
Kim
Stanley Robinson, Green Mars -- sf trade paperback. Voyager
Classics #12. ISBN 0007119593 • AbeBooks
- [14 Aug]
Ian
Stewart and Jack Cohen, Wheelers -- Earthlight C-format sf
paperback. ISBN 0743207432 • AbeBooks
- [14 Aug]
Freda
Warrington, The Obsidian Tower -- Earthlight fantasy paperback. "Book
Three of the Jewelfire Trilogy." ISBN 0743416074 • AbeBooks
- [11 Aug]
Terry
Goodkind, Debt of Bones -- Gollancz fantasy hardback. Apparently a
standalone novel, though "set in the world of THE SWORD OF TRUTH",
and quite slim at 119pp. ISBN 0575072563 • AbeBooks
- [10 Aug]
David
Zindell, The Lightstone -- Voyager fantasy hardback. "Book
One of the Ea Cycle." 840 pages! With three pages of maps! And sixteen of
appendices! ISBN 0002247569 • AbeBooks
- [7 Aug]
James
Lovegrove, The Foreigners -- Gollancz sf paperback. Reviewed
earlier in hardback. ISBN 1857987918 • AbeBooks
- [5 Aug]
Paul
Brandon, Swim the Moon -- fantasy. Tor proof copy. Scheduled
September 2001. ISBN 0312877943 • AbeBooks
- [7 Aug]
Douglas
Coupland, All Families Are Psychotic -- Flamingo trade paperback.
Mainstream novel about, apparently, a female NASA astronaut's mother and
dysfunctional family. ISBN 0007117515 • AbeBooks
- [5 Aug]
Steven
Erikson, Deadhouse Gates -- Bantam paperback fantasy. "A Tale
of the Malazan Book of the Fallen." ISBN 0553813110 • AbeBooks
- [5 Aug]
Jack
Finney, Time and Again -- Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks #20, trade
paperback. ISBN 0575073608 • AbeBooks
- [5 Aug]
Ursula
Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #44, trade
paperback. ISBN 1857989511 • AbeBooks
- [5 Aug]
Paul
McAuley, Whole Wide World -- Voyager sf/detective hardback.
Received earlier in proof. ISBN 0002259036 • AbeBooks
- [5 Aug]
Sean
McMullen, Eyes of the Calculor -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled
September 2001. ISBN 0312877366 • AbeBooks
- [5 Aug]
Timothy
Zahn, Angelmas -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled September 2001. ISBN 0312878281 • AbeBooks
- [1 Aug]
Peter
F. Hamilton, Fallen Dragon -- Macmillan sf hardback. Proof copy
received, scheduled 12 October. Standalone novel, the author having vowed to
give up Huge Trilogies after the colossal exertions of "Night's Dawn". ISBN 0333900650 • AbeBooks
- [1 Aug]
[J.R.R.
Tolkien], Tolkien Calendar 2002 -- HarperCollins. With a painting
for each month by Ted Nasmith. ISBN 0007111894 • AbeBooks
- [1 Aug]
[J.R.R.
Tolkien], Tolkien Diary 2002 -- HarperCollins hardback. With a
painting for each month by Ted Nasmith, the same ones as in the calendar. ISBN 000711186X • AbeBooks
July 2001
- [27 Jul]
Peter
F. Hamilton, Fallen Dragon -- Macmillan sf hardback. Proof copy
received, scheduled 12 October. Standalone novel, the author having vowed to
give up Huge Trilogies after the colossal exertions of "Night's Dawn". ISBN 0333900650 • AbeBooks
- [27 Jul]
Brian
Herbert & Jevin J. Anderson, Prelude to Dune: House Corrino --
Hodder & Stoughton sf hardback. Proof copy received, scheduled 4 October.
Third of the rightly dreaded Dune prequels. ISBN 0340751797 • AbeBooks
- [25 Jul]
Roger
MacBride Allen, The Depths of Time -- Bantam Spectra sf paperback. ISBN 0553574973 • AbeBooks
- [25 Jul]
Poul
Anderson, Mother of Kings -- Viking-era fantasy. Tor proof copy.
Scheduled September 2001. ISBN 0312874480 • AbeBooks
- [25 Jul]
Ben Bova,
The Precipice -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled October 2001. "Book
1 of the Asteroid Wars." ISBN 0312848765 • AbeBooks
- [25 Jul]
Sherwood
Smith, Augur's Teacher -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled August
2001. Fourth "Earth: Final Conflict" spinoff novel. ISBN 0312877994 • AbeBooks
- [18 Jul]
Ray
Anthony, Empress -- Ace (UK) sf paperback. ISBN 0952628716 • AbeBooks
- [18 Jul]
Stephen
Baxter, Manifold 2: Space -- Voyager sf paperback. ISBN 000651183X • AbeBooks
- [18 Jul]
Ben
Bova, The Precipice -- NEL sf paperback. "The Asteroid Wars:
1." ISBN 0340769610 • AbeBooks
- [18 Jul]
Sara
Douglass, Enchanter -- fantasy. Tor proof copy. Scheduled October
2001. "Book Two of The Wayfarer Redemption." ISBN 0312875827 • AbeBooks
- [18 Jul]
George
R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords Part Two: Blood and Gold -- Voyager
fantasy paperback. Second half of book three of "A Song of Ice and Fire",
the first having appeared in the UK as A Storm of Swords Part One: Steel
and Snow. ISBN 0007119550 • AbeBooks
- [10 Jul]
John
Diamond, Snake Oil and other preoccupations -- Virgin trade
paperback. Unfinished "uncomplimentary look at the world of complementary
medicine" by the UK journalist who died of cancer in March 2001, plus a
selection of his funny and/or harrowing newspaper columns. ISBN 0099428334 • AbeBooks
- [9 Jul]
Oliver
Postgate, Seeing Things -- Pan trade paperback. Autobiography by
the creator of Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, The
Clangers, Bagpuss and other classic of UK children's TV. With
CD-ROM of video clips, pics, music, etc etc. ISBN 0330390007 • AbeBooks
- [9 Jul]
Adam
Roberts, Salt -- Gollancz sf paperback. Author's first novel, a
Clarke Award nominee. ISBN 185798787X • AbeBooks
- [5 Jul]
Michael
Cobley, Shadowkings -- Earthlight C-format fantasy paperback. "Book
One of the Shadowkings Trilogy." ISBN 0743207173 • AbeBooks
- [4 Jul]
James
Barclay, Nightchild -- Gollancz C-format fantasy paperback. "Chronicles
of the Raven", book 3. ISBN 0575072156 • AbeBooks
- [4 Jul]
James
Barclay, Noonshade -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. "Chronicles
of the Raven", book 2. ISBN 1857987861 • AbeBooks
- [3 Jul]
Quentin
Blake, Words and Pictures -- Jonathan Cape hardback. Legendary
illustrator and UK "Children's Laureate" on his own work, with many
examples. ISBN 0224032666 • AbeBooks
- [3 Jul]
Philip
E. High, Butterfly Planet -- Cosmos sf trade paperback. For
collectors of UK hack sf, the "difficult" High novel from 1971
reissued at last. Also at
Amazon.com. ISBN 158715322X • AbeBooks
- [2 Jul]
Stephen
Baxter, Manifold 3: Origin -- Gollancz sf hardback. ISBN 000225770X • AbeBooks
- [2 Jul]
Raymond
E. Feist & William Forstchen, Honoured Enemy -- Gollancz
fantasy hardback. "Legends of the Riftwar" series. ISBN 0002247186 • AbeBooks
June 2001
- [30 Jun]
Charles
de Lint, Forests of the Heart -- Gollancz fantasy hardback. ISBN 0575070307 • AbeBooks
- [30 Jun]
S.M.
Stirling, T2: Infiltrator -- Gollancz sf trade paperback. Terminator
2 movie spinoff: "Based on the world created in the motion picture ..."
The PR sheet adds, "Rumours are rife that this book is very close to the
storyline of the new Terminator film." Ho hum. ISBN 0575071559 • AbeBooks
- [29 Jun]
Philip
K. Dick, Valis -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #43, trade paperback. ISBN 1857983394 • AbeBooks
- [29 Jun]
Robert
Silverberg, The Stochastic Man -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf
reissue, trade paperback. ISBN 057505123X • AbeBooks
- [28 Jun]
Diana
Wynne Jones, Year of the Griffin -- Gollancz fantasy paperback.
Sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm. ISBN 1857987888 • AbeBooks
- [28 Jun]
Patricia
McKillip, The Riddle-Master's Game -- Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks
#19, trade paperback. Omnibus of "Riddle-Master" trilogy: Riddle-Master
of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind. ISBN 1857983270 • AbeBooks
- [25 Jun]
Adrian
Berry, The Giant Leap: Mankind Heads for the Stars -- nonfiction
hardback. Tor proof copy. Scheduled July 2001. ISBN 0312877854 • AbeBooks
- [23 Jun]
Megan
Lindholm, Wolf's Brother -- Voyager fantasy paperback. It's now
official: an author "who also writes as Robin Hobb." ISBN 0007114346 • AbeBooks
- [22 Jun]
Spider
Robinson, The Free Lunch -- sf hardback. Tor proof copy. Scheduled
August 2001. ISBN 0312865244 • AbeBooks
- [22 Jun]
Harry
Turtledove, Colonization 3: Aftershocks -- Hodder & Stoughton
sf hardback. Third in alternate-history sequence following from the "Worldwar"
tetralogy, the one where aliens invade during WWII. Not to be confused with his
"Darkness" alternate-WWII fantasy series. ISBN 0340769092 • AbeBooks
- [22 Jun]
Harry
Turtledove, The Great War: Breakthroughs -- NEL sf paperback.
Third in alternate-history World War I series, not to be confused with the
above. ISBN 0340715502 • AbeBooks
- [21 Jun]
David G.
Hartwell, ed., Year's Best SF 6 -- HarperCollins/Eos sf paperback
anthology. Contains the superbly wonderful short-story Hugo finalist "Different
Kinds of Darkness" by D. Langford! ISBN 0061020559 • AbeBooks
- [19 Jun]
Gwyneth
Jones, Bold As Love: A Near Future Fantasy -- Gollancz hardback.
Proof copy; scheduled August 2001. Also
trade
paperback. ISBN 0575070307 • AbeBooks
- [18 Jun]
David
and Leigh Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus -- Voyager fantasy
paperback. ISBN 0006514839 • AbeBooks
- [18 Jun]
Jane
Welch, Dawn of a Dark Age -- Voyager fantasy paperback. "Volume
One of the Book of Man," it says here. ISBN 0007112491 • AbeBooks
- [16 Jun]
Paul
Brandon, Swim the Moon -- fantasy hardback. Tor proof copy.
Scheduled September 2001. ISBN 0312877943 • AbeBooks
- [16 Jun]
Paul
Levinson, Borrowed Tides -- Tor sf hardback. ISBN 0312848692 • AbeBooks
- [14 Jun]
Kelley
Armstrong, Bitten -- Little, Brown trade paperback. Werewolf novel
being given upmarket promotion (i.e. doesn't look like fantasy or horror). ISBN 0316855391 • AbeBooks
- [14 Jun]
Anne
McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Acorna's World -- Corgi
sf paperback. Fourth in "Acorna" series: "Continuing the
enthralling adventures of the Unicorn Girl." (Ick.) ISBN 0552147494 • AbeBooks
- [13 Jun]
Lindsey
Davis, A Body in the Bath House -- Century hardback. 13th "Falco"
historical detective novel. ISBN 071268039X • AbeBooks
- [9 Jun]
Paul
Cornell, Something More -- Gollancz hardback sf. ISBN 0575072024 • AbeBooks
- [8 Jun]
Paul
McAuley, Whole Wide World -- Voyager sf/detective hardback. Proof
copy received; scheduled September 2001. ISBN 0002259036 • AbeBooks
- [8 Jun]
Adam
Roberts, On -- Gollancz hardback sf. Author of Salt
demonstrates in this second novel that his talent for very short titles wasn't
just a flash in the pan. ISBN 0575071761 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun]
Storm
Constantine, Crown of Silence -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. "Second
volume in the Chronicles of Magravandias." ISBN 1857987853 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun]
Storm
Constantine, The Way of Light -- Gollancz fantasy paperback,
C-format. "Third volume in the Chronicles of Magravandias." ISBN 0575603194 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun]
Simon
R. Green, Beyond the Blue Moon -- Gollancz fantasy paperback.
Another in the "Hawk and Fisher" or "Haven" series. ISBN 1857987659 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun]
Kate
Jacoby, Black Eagle Rising -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. "Third
Book of Elita." ISBN 1857987500 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun]
Mercedes
Lackey, Brightly Burning -- Gollancz fantasy paperback, C-format. "Returns
to ... the magical world of Valdemar." ISBN 0575072008 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun]
Fritz
Leiber, The First Book of Lankhmar -- Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks
#18, trade paperback. Omnibus of four "Fafhrd and Gray Mouser" books:
Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death, Swords in the
Mist and Swords Against Wizardry. ISBN 1857983270 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun]
Roger
Levy, Reckless Sleep -- Gollancz sf paperback. ISBN 1857988906 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun]
Ward
Moore, Bring the Jubilee -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #42, trade
paperback. ISBN 1857987640 • AbeBooks
- [7 Jun]
Eric
Frank Russell, Next of Kin -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue,
trade paperback. Comic novel also known in shorter form as The Space
Willies (half of an Ace Double) or, still shorter, the novelette "Plus
X". ISBN 0575072407 • AbeBooks
- [6 Jun]
Anselm
Audley, Hersey -- Earthlight C-format fantasy paperback. "Book
One of the Aquasilva Trilogy." ISBN 0743209508 • AbeBooks
- [2 Jun]
Garry
Kilworth, Gaslight Geezers: A Welkin Weasels Adventure -- Corgi
paperback. Animal fantasy in "semi-Victorian world". ISBN 0552547042 • AbeBooks
- [early Jun]
Eoin
Colfer, Artemis Fowl -- Viking hardback. Hugely hyped instant
bestseller clawing a little desperately for the Harry Potter bandwagon. ISBN 0670899623 • AbeBooks
May 2001
- [22 May]
Simon
Clark, The Night of the Triffids -- Hodder & Stoughton sf
hardback. Authorized 50th-anniversary sequel to John Wyndham's The Day of
the Triffids (1951). ISBN 034076600X • AbeBooks
- [19 May]
Trevor
Baxendale, Coldheart -- BBC sf paperback. Dr Who tie-in, "another
in the series of original adventures for the Eighth Doctor." ISBN 0563555955 • AbeBooks
- [17 May]
Arthur
C. Clarke, The Space Trilogy -- Gollancz sf B-format paperback.
Three unrelated books, Islands in the Sky, Earthlight and The
Sands of Mars. ISBN 1857987802 • AbeBooks
- [17 May]
Kim
Wilkins, The Resurrectionists -- Orion horror paperback. ISBN 1857987934 • AbeBooks
- [16 May]
Paul
Kearney, The Second Empire -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. "The
Monarchies of God: Book Four." ISBN 1857987519 • AbeBooks
- [16 May]
Katharine
Kerr and Kate Daniel, Polar City Nightmare -- Gollancz sf
paperback. ISBN 1857987837 • AbeBooks
- [15 May]
James
Blish, The Seedling Stars -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue,
trade pb. Collected "pantropy" stories about adapting humanity to odd
environments, including the classic "Surface Tension". ISBN 0575072393 • AbeBooks
- [15 May]
Michael
Moorcock, Elric -- Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks #17, trade
paperback. Omnibus of The Stealer of Souls (the first Elric shorts) and
Stormbringer (the first Elric novel, 1977 revision). ISBN 1857987438 • AbeBooks
- [15 May]
Frederik
Pohl, JEM -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #41, trade paperback. ISBN 1857987896 • AbeBooks
- [15 May]
Terry
Pratchett, The Rincewind Trilogy -- Gollancz fantasy hardback.
Discworld omnibus comprising, actually, the third, fourth and fifth novels of
Rincewind the inept wizard: Sourcery, Eric and Interesting
Times. This is presumably because Colin Smythe Ltd retains omnibus rights
to the first two:
The
Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, another hardback omnibus
volume. ISBN 0575072369 • AbeBooks
- [11 May]
Michael
Flynn, In the Country of the Blind -- sf hardback. Tor proof copy.
Scheduled August 2001. "Rewritten version of Flynn's first novel published
as a paperback original with the same title in 1990." ISBN 0312874448 • AbeBooks
- [11 May]
Susan
Shwartz, Second Chances -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled August
2001. ISBN 0312873425 • AbeBooks
- [early May]
Jonathan
Carroll, The Wooden Sea -- Gollancz hardback. ISBN 0575070609 • AbeBooks
- [early May]
Robert
E. Howard, The Conan Chronicles 2: The Hour of the Dragon --
Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks #16, trade paperback. ISBN 1857987470 • AbeBooks
- [early May]
Terry
McGarry, Illumination -- fantasy. Tor proof copy. Scheduled August
2001. ISBN 0312873891 • AbeBooks
- [early May]
Alastair
Reynolds, Chasm City -- Gollancz sf hardback. Also
C-format
paperback. ISBN 0575068779 • AbeBooks
- [early May]
Robert
Charles Wilson, The Chronoliths -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled
July 2001. ISBN 0312873840 • AbeBooks
April 2001
- [late Apr]
Jasper
Fforde, The Eyre Affair -- NEL paperback. Not labelled sf, but
heavy on surrealism, time travel, etc. ISBN 0340841842 • AbeBooks
- [late Apr]
Pete
Johnson, The Frighteners -- Corgi Yearling trade paperback. Mild
horror for children. ISBN 0440864372 • AbeBooks
- [late Apr]
J.R.R.
Tolkien ed. Christopher Tolkien, The History of Middle-Earth: Part II
-- HarperCollins hardback. Luxury (£99.99) omnibus volume of previously
published early drafts, comprising The Return of the Shadow, The
Treason of Isengard, The War of the Ring and Sauron Defeated.
Continues from The History of
Middle-Earth: Part I. ISBN 0440864372 • AbeBooks
- [26 Apr]
Alastair
Reynolds, Revelation Space -- Gollancz sf paperback. ISBN 1857987489 • AbeBooks
- [20 Apr]
Steven
Brust, Issola -- fantasy in "Vlad Taltos" series. Tor
proof copy. Scheduled July 2001. ISBN 0312859279 • AbeBooks
- [20 Apr]
Muriel
Gray, The Ancient -- HarperCollins C-format paperback. Horror. ISBN 0002253143 • AbeBooks
- [19 Apr]
Stephen
Baxter, Icebones -- Gollancz sf C-format paperback. "Mammoth
Book Three." ISBN 0575072148 • AbeBooks
- [12 Apr]
Peter
Crowther (ed.), Futures -- Gollancz sf hardback. Novellas by
Stephen Baxter, Peter F. Hamilton, Paul McAuley and Ian McDonald. ISBN 0575070234 • AbeBooks
- [13 Apr]
Harry
Turtledove, Into the Darkness -- Earthlight fantasy paperback.
Opens vast "alternative World War II in fantasyland" sequence. ISBN 0671022822 • AbeBooks
- [11 Apr]
John
Marco, The Saints of the Sword -- Gollancz fantasy paperback,
C-format. "Book Three of Tyrants and Kings." ISBN 0575071605 • AbeBooks
- [10 Apr]
Terry
Bisson, The Pickup Artist -- sf satire. Tor proof copy. Scheduled
April 2001. ISBN 0312874030 • AbeBooks
- [6 Apr]
Greg
Bear, Blood Music -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #40, trade paperback. ISBN 1857987624 • AbeBooks
- [6 Apr]
Eric
Brown, New York Nights -- Gollancz sf paperback. ISBN 1857987829 • AbeBooks
- [6 Apr]
Eugene
Byrne, Things Unborn -- Earthlight sf paperback. ISBN 0743409116 • AbeBooks
- [6 Apr]
John
Marco, The Grand Design -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. "Book
Two of Tyrants and Kings." ISBN 1857987810 • AbeBooks
- [6 Apr]
Kim
Newman, Dracula Cha Cha Cha -- Earthlight fantasy paperback.
Another of his alternate-vampire-history sequences, following Anno Dracula
and The Bloody Red Baron. ISBN 0671022091 • AbeBooks
- [6 Apr]
Micky
Zucker Reichert, Flightless Falcon -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. ISBN 1857987845 • AbeBooks
- [6 Apr]
Bruce
Sterling, A Good Old-Fashioned Future -- Gollancz sf paperback.
Story collection. ISBN 1857987101 • AbeBooks
- [2 Apr]
Robert
Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue,
trade pb. ISBN 0575072377 • AbeBooks
- [2 Apr]
Phillip
Man, The Eye of the Queen -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue,
trade pb. ISBN 0575072385 • AbeBooks
March 2001
- [31 Mar]
Mike
Ashley, ed, The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy -- Robinson
trade pb. Contains reprint of Langford story "Not Ours To See", a
particularly futile exploit of Dagon Smythe, Psychic Detective. ISBN 1841190802 • AbeBooks
- [30 Mar]
Eric
Van Lustbader, The Ring of Five Dragons -- Voyager science-fantasy
hardback. "Volume One of the Pearl Saga" ISBN 0002247291 • AbeBooks
- [30 Mar]
Margaret
Weis & Tracy Hickman, Well of Darkness -- Voyager fantasy
paperback. "Book One of the Sovereign Stone Trilogy", an incantation
which all on its own brings new gloom to the world. ISBN 0006486142 • AbeBooks
- [28 Mar]
Terry
Pratchett, Thief of Time -- Doubleday fantasy hardback. The 26th
Discworld novel. ISBN 0385601883 • AbeBooks
- [22 Mar]
Andre
Norton and Ann Chamberlin, The Merlin of the Oak Wood -- fantasy.
Tor proof copy. Scheduled June 2001. "Book Two of the Joan of Arc
Tapestries", god help us. ISBN 0312872844 • AbeBooks
- [17 Mar]
Holly
Lisle, Courage of Falcons -- Gollancz C-format pb fantasy. "The
Secret Texts Book 3." ISBN 0575070862 • AbeBooks
- [17 Mar]
H.N.
Turteltaub (Harry Turtledove), Over the Wine-Dark Sea --
nautical/historical ("Rhodes, 310 BC ..."). Forge proof copy.
Scheduled July 2001. ISBN 0312876602 • AbeBooks
- [16 Mar]
Sherry
S. Tepper, The Fresco -- Gollancz hardback sf. ISBN 0575071915 • AbeBooks
- [15 Mar]
Jacqueline
Carey, Kushiel's Dart -- fantasy. Forge proof copy. Scheduled June
2001. ISBN 0312872380 • AbeBooks
- [15 Mar]
Andre
Norton and Sasha Miller, Knight or Knave: The Book of the Oak --
fantasy. Tor proof copy. Scheduled June 2001. "Second book in the cycle of
Oak, Yew, Ash and Rowan." ISBN 0312873379 • AbeBooks
- [12 Mar]
J.G.
Ballard, The Terminal Beach -- Phoenix trade pb, reissued story
collection. (see
Amazon.co.uk). ISBN 0575401311 • AbeBooks
- [12 Mar]
J.G.
Ballard, The Voices of Time -- Phoenix trade pb, reissued story
collection. (see
Amazon.co.uk). ISBN 0575401303 • AbeBooks
- [10 Mar]
Elizabeth
Haydon, Prophecy -- Gollancz hardback fantasy. Sequel to Rhapsody
(much admired by Thog). ISBN 0575072083 • AbeBooks
- [8 Mar]
Paul
McAuley, The Secret of Life -- sf. Tor proof copy. Scheduled June
2001. UK edition already published (see
Amazon.co.uk). ISBN 076530080X • AbeBooks
- [6 Mar]
Robert
Rankin, Web Site Story -- Doubleday hardback. More demented
humorous fantasy. ISBN 0385600585 • AbeBooks
- [2 Mar]
Alice
Borchardt, The Wolf King -- Voyager C-format paperback. Historical
werewolf story, successor to The Silver Wolf and Night of the Wolf. ISBN 0002247178 • AbeBooks
- [2 Mar]
H.G.
Wells, The First Men in the Moon -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #38,
trade paperback. ISBN 1857987462 • AbeBooks
- [2 Mar]
Kim
Wilkins, The Resurrectionists -- Gothic horror/romance, page
proofs. Scheduled as Orion paperback, 8 March. ISBN 1857987934 • AbeBooks
- [1 Mar]
Arthur
C. Clarke, The City and the Stars -- Gollancz SF Masterworks #39,
trade paperback. ISBN 1857987632 • AbeBooks
- [1 Mar]
Lord
Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter -- Gollancz Fantasy
Masterworks #15, trade paperback. ISBN 185798790X • AbeBooks
- [1 Mar]
Adam
Nichols, The Curer -- Gollancz fantasy paperback. "The
Whiteblade Saga: Book Three. ISBN 1857985311 • AbeBooks
- [1 Mar]
Sherry
S. Tepper, Singer from the Sea -- Gollancz sf paperback. "The
Whiteblade Saga: Book Three. ISBN 1857987497 • AbeBooks
February 2001
- [23 Feb]
Juliet
Marillier, Son of the Shadows -- fantasy. "Book 2 of the
Sevenwaters Trilogy." Tor proof copy. Scheduled May 2001. UK edition
published Dec 2000 (below). ISBN 0312848803 • AbeBooks
- [22 Feb]
David
Farland, Wizardborn -- Earthlight C-format paperback fantasy. "Book
3 of the Runelords". ISBN 0684860619 • AbeBooks
- [22 Feb]
Andre
Norton & Rosemary Edghill, Leopard in Exile --
alternate-historical fantasy, "Carolus Rex: Book II". Tor proof copy.
Scheduled April 2001. ISBN 0312864280 • AbeBooks
- [20 Feb]
Sara
Douglass, The Nameless Day -- Voyager C-format fantasy paperback. "Book
One of The Crucible." ISBN 0007108443 • AbeBooks
- [20 Feb]
Terry
Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen -- Gollancz C-format paperback
fantasy. "The new Sword of Truth novel." ISBN 0575071982 • AbeBooks
- [20 Feb]
Stephen
Lawhead, The Mystic Rose -- Voyager fantasy hardback. "The
Celtic Crusades: Book III." ISBN 0002246678 • AbeBooks
- [15 Feb]
Brian
Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Prelude to Dune: House Harkonnen --
NEL sf paperback. Book II of a stupefyingly unnecessary spinoff series. ISBN 0340751789 • AbeBooks
- [9 Feb]
Robin
Hobb, Ship of Destiny -- Voyager fantasy paperback. "Book
Three of The Liveship Traders." ISBN 0006498876 • AbeBooks
- [9 Feb]
J.R.R.
Tolkien, The Hobbit -- HarperCollins hardback. "Children's
Edition" (I've never read the adult one with, presumably, all the dirty
bits), "Keith Barker Millennium Book Award Winner", and Langford
Sheer Volume Award Winner for the book of which I've received more new,
special, luxury or just plain different editions than any other. ISBN 000711544X • AbeBooks
January 2001
- [27 Jan]
John
Clute, Appleseed -- Orbit sf, proof copy. Scheduled for April
2001. ISBN 1857237587 • AbeBooks
- [27 Jan]
Ian
McDonald, Ares Express -- Simon & Schuster sf, page proofs.
Scheduled for May 2001. Returns to the setting of Desolation Road, also
to be reissued. ISBN 0684861518 • AbeBooks
- [26 Jan]
Mary
Gentle, Ash: A Secret History -- Gollancz trade paperback. ISBN 1857987446 • AbeBooks
- [26 Jan]
Sheri
S. Tepper, Beauty -- Gollancz (was Millennium) Fantasy Masterworks
#14, trade paperback. ISBN 1857987225 • AbeBooks
- [23 Jan]
Ben
Bova, Jupiter -- NEL sf paperback. ISBN 0340767650 • AbeBooks
- [23 Jan]
Juliet
Marillier, Daughter of the Forest -- Voyager fantasy paperback. "Book
1 of the Sevenwaters Trilogy." ISBN 0006483984 • AbeBooks
- [23 Jan]
Robert
Silverberg, The King of Dreams -- Voyager science-fantasy
paperback, C-format. The umpteenth Majipoor novel. ISBN 0002247453 • AbeBooks
- [23 Jan]
J.R.R.
Tolkien, Tree and Leaf / The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
-- Voyager paperback, B-format. Also includes the poem "Mythopoeia". ISBN 0007105045 • AbeBooks
- [20 Jan]
William
Tenn, Of Men and Monsters -- Gollancz yellowjacket sf reissue,
trade pb. Uses the typography of the original 1968 Ballantine edition, except
that the epigraph from Jonathan Swift has been reset with six words
accidentally omitted, so that the first two section titles ("Priests For
Their Learning", "Soldiers For Their Valour") no longer seem to
reference the quotation. Tut. ISBN 0575072342 • AbeBooks
- [15 Jan]
Anne
McCaffrey, The Skies of Pern -- Bantam hardback sf. Latest in
endless Dragons of Pern series. ISBN 0593043308 • AbeBooks
- [13 Jan]
Stephen
Baxter, Deep Future -- Gollancz hardback, futurological nonfiction
essays. ISBN 0575071958 • AbeBooks
- [18 Dec]
Juliet
Marillier, Son of the Shadows -- Voyager fantasy paperback,
C-format. "Book 2 of the Sevenwaters Trilogy." ISBN 0002247372 • AbeBooks
- [8 Jan]
Gene
Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun 2: Sword and Citadel -- Millennium
Fantasy Masterworks #12, trade paperback. Writing in The Paper Snarl
about illustrating this reissue, Jim Burns gave the impression that he hadn't
realized that it was being packaged two books at a time; sure enough, the
present omnibus of volumes 3 and 4 has a cover scene from volume 2.... ISBN 1857987004 • AbeBooks