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This page lists selected new nonfiction books -- pertaining directly to science fiction, fantasy, and horror, as well as books of associational interest -- seen published this month, mostly via bookstores sightings (though all books received for review will be listed). For a comprehensive listing of new books pertaining to SF/F/H published each month, see Locus Magazine. Its Books Received listings are accumulated as the online Locus Index.
Key: * = first edition, + = first US edition. Date with publisher info is official publication month; date in parentheses at paragraph end is date seen or received.
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1 - 31 December
* Clute, John The Book of End Times (HarperPrism 0-06-105033-4, $30, 240pp, hc, November 1999) Subtitled ''Grappling with the Millennium'', this is a collage of illustrations, photographs, and quotations about the turn of the millennium. ''Millennium fever is nonsense, but that apocalypse is not'' say Clute's introduction; the book is about the ''hysteria''. It's heavily imbued, of course, with SFnal images and themes. (Tue 7 Dec 1999)
* Gresh, Lois, & Robert Weinberg The Computers of Star Trek (Basic Books 0-465-01298-1, $22, 15+174pp, hc, January 2000) Latest nonfiction book analyzing the technological implications of Star Trek's scripts. Weinberg is twice winner of the World Fantasy Award and one-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. Amazon quotes a review by Walter Koenig. (Tue 7 Dec 1999)
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