Classics in Reprint: May – July 2017
Lee, Tanith : Night’s Sorceries
(DAW 978-0756411015, $7.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, May 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 May 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698404496
• Flat Earth #-
(First edition: DAW, April 1987)
Fantasy novel, fifth and final book in the “Flat Earth” series of interconnected stories following Night’s Master (1978), Death’s Master (1979), Delusion’s Master (1981), and Delirium’s Mistress (1986).
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with a preview.
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Moore, Ward : Bring the Jubilee
(Open Road B06XWRST2B, $11.99, 204pp, ebook, June 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 Jun 2017
(First edition: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953)
Alternate history novel in which the South wins the American Civil War; from 1953, this novel famously precedes Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, Harry Turtledove’s The Guns of the South, and many similar books.
• Open Media’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
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North, Eric : The Ant Men
(Dover 978-0486814469, $11.95, 224pp, trade paperback, May 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 17 May 2017
SF novel, first published in 1955 by John C. Winston, about an expedition to Australia that discovers giant intelligent ants.
• Dover’s site has this description with a Google preview.
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Russell, Eric Frank : The Mindwarpers
(Dover 978-0486814476, $9.95, 160pp, mass market paperback, June 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 21 Jun 2017
SF novel, first published as a magazine story in 1956, then as With a Strange Device in 1964 in the UK, and then with this title in 1965 in the US from Lancer Books, the edition reprinted here by Dover.
• It’s about workers at a Cold War weapons factory and a plot to implant false memories.
• Dover’s site has this description with a Google preview.
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* Simak, Clifford D. : The Thing in the Stone and Other Stories
(Open Road B0713WNPTZ, $7.99, 287pp, ebook, July 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 4 Jul 2017
• SF Encyclopedia: Clifford D. Simak
Collection of 10 stories, including the Hugo and Nebula nominated title story from 1970, and Hugo nominated “Construction Shack” from 1973.
• This is the 12th volume in Open Road’s “complete short fiction” of Simak that began in 2015. It has an introduction and story notes by David W. Wixon.
• Others also just published are volume 10, The Shipshape Miracle and Other Stories, and volume 11, Dusty Zebra and Other Stories.
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* St. Clair, Margaret : The Hole in the Moon and Other Tales
(Dover 978-0486805627, $14.95, 256pp, trade paperback, July 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 19 Jul 2017
Collection of 17 stories by an author who also published, beginning in the 1950s, as Idris Seabright; edited and with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell.
• Dover’s site does not yet have a page for this book.
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