Classic Reprints, March 2016
Kurtz, Katherine : Camber of Culdi
(Open Road B01AYTUPYM, $7.99, 314pp, ebk, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Mar 2016
• Legends of Camber of Culdi #1
(First edition: Ballantine, July 1976)
Fantasy novel, first of a trilogy and first by internal chronology of the many-volume “Chronicles of the Deryni”, set in a parallel world based on medieval Wales.
• Open Road’s site has this description as well as pages for other volumes in the series also just released in ebook editions.
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Moorcock, Michael : A Cure for Cancer
(Titan 978-1783291793, $9.95, 240pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 1 Mar 2016
• The Cornelius Quartet #2
(First edition: UK: Allison & Busby, 1971)
Contemporary SF novel about a hip 1960s superhero, Jerry Cornelius; second of a four book sequence following The Final Programme.
• Titan’s site has this order page.
• Subsequent volumes will appear from Titan in future months: The English Assassin in April; The Condition of Muzak in May.
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Priest, Christopher : The Space Machine
(Valancourt Books 978-1943910267, $17.99, 334pp, trade paperback, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 8 Mar 2016
(First edition: UK: Faber and Faber, 1976)
SF novel, the author’s fourth, that pastiches the works of H.G. Wells, in particular The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds.
• Valancourt’s site has this description.
• The novel won a Ditmar Award in 1977 for International SF.
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Simak, Clifford D. : Grotto of the Dancing Deer
(Open Road B014QI1NKM, $7.99, 298pp, ebk, March 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 1 Mar 2016
• SF Encyclopedia: Clifford D. Simak
Collection of 10 stories, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winning title story.
• This is the fourth volume of “The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak”; the first three were published last October, though only the first was issued in a physical edition. This fourth volume and two more, No Life of Their Own and New Folks’ Home, were released as ebooks this month.
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* Tiptree, Jr. , James : Two Great Novels: Up the Walls of the World & Brightness Falls from the Air
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-1473203105, £12.99, 704pp, trade paperback, February 2016)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 25 Feb 2016
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781473203112
Omnibus of Tiptree’s only two novels, first published in 1978 and 1985 respectively.
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