Dick, Philip K. : Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 978-0547572253, $13.95, 256pp, trade paperback, July 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 Jul 2012

(First edition: Doubleday, February 1974)

SF novel about a popular talk-show host who wakes up one day and discovers that no one knows who he is.
• Wikipedia has a lengthy summary.
• The book was a Hugo and Nebula nominee and won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975.
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• This is the latest in Mariner’s series of new editions of this author’s books, along with the next item.

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Dick, Philip K. : Gather Yourselves Together
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 978-0547572628, $13.95, 384pp, trade paperback, July 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 Jul 2012

(First edition: WCS Books, July 1994)

Early non-SF novel by PKD, first published posthumously in 1994, about three Americans stranded in Communist China.
• The Wikipedia entry has the background and a brief summary.
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* Gaspar, Enrique : The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey
(Wesleyan University Press 978-0-8195-7293-6, $24.95, 240pp, trade paperback, July 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 2 Jul 2012

SF novel first published in Spanish in 1887, and purported to be the first story about time travel via a machine, predating H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.
• Wikipedia describes it in the entry for Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau.
• This edition is translated by Yolanda Molina-Gavilán and Andrea L. Bell.
• The publisher’s site has this description with the table of contents.
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Hand, Elizabeth : Glimmering
(Underland Press 978-0982663929, $14.95, 400pp, trade paperback, July 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Jun 2012

(First edition: Harperprism, March 1997)

SF novel first published in 1997 and set in 1999 as climate change heralds The Last Days, perhaps, and concerning a publisher dying of AIDS in his decaying New York mansion.
• The author provides notes about revisions made to this edition. Kim Stanley Robinson provides an introduction.
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• Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review in 1997: “Decidedly not for the squeamish, Hand’s powerful vision of these days of wrath is not so much a protracted self-pitying whimper as a Nietzschean insistence on salvation through creative evolution….”

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Heinlein, Robert A. : Assignment in Eternity
(Baen 978-1-4516-3785-4, $13, 256pp, trade paperback, July 2012, cover by Bob Eggleton)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Jul 2012

Collection of four stories, first published from 1941 to 1949: “Gulf”, “Elsewhen”, “Lost Legacy”, and “Jerry Was a Man”.
• This edition has an afterword by David Drake.
• Baen’s site has a description with links to several excerpts.
• The Wikipedia entry for the book briefly describes the stories and how they relate to Heinlein’s later works.

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* Silverberg, Robert, ed. : Tales from Super-Science Fiction
(Haffner Press 978-1-893887-48-0, $32, 27+393pp, hardcover, June 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 21 Jun 2012

Anthology of 14 stories first published in the magazine Super-Science Fiction, which published 18 issues from December 1955 to October 1959.
• Authors include James E. Gunn, Jack Vance, Robert Bloch, Tom Todwin, Daniel F. Galouye, and the editor. The book also includes original illustratoins by Ed Emshwiller, Frank Kelly Freas, and other, while the dust jacket and endpapers reproduce all 18 color covers.
• Haffner’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “These stories, illustrated with artwork by pulp luminaries like Frank Kelly Freas and Ed Emshwiller, reveal the promise of many now-famous authors at the start of their careers.”

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