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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 SFFH 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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New in June
Disch, Thomas M. The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
(Touchstone 0-684-85978-5, $13, 256pp, tpb, July 2000)
Reprint (Free Press May 1998). Trade paperback edition of Disch's Hugo-winning, somewhat cranky take on the state of modern SF. (Thu 22 Jun 2000)
* Gifford, James Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader's Companion
(Nitrosyncretic Press 0-9679874-0-7, $24, 21+281pp, tpb, May 2000)
Comprehensive guide to Heinlein's works, with tables, timelines, an official opus list, etc.; and for each story and book, comments about changes between versions, connections to other Heinlein works, curiosities and anomalies, etc. See also comments in July issue New and Notable Books. Available from the publisher. (Mon 19 Jun 2000)
* Glossbrenner, Alfred and Emily About the Author
(Harcourt Harvest/Cader Books 0-15-601302-9, $16, 10+309pp, tpb, June 2000)
A reader's guide to popular and classic authors: 2 pages on each of 125 authors, with biographical info, 'good to know' background facts, relevant websites, which book to read first, etc. Genre authors included are Asimov, Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, Crichton, William Gibson, Thomas Harris, Heinlein, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, C.S. Lewis, Ayn Rand, J.K. Rowling (!), Tolkien, Vonnegut; as well as Atwood, Auel, Burroughs, Byatt, Caleb Carr, Mary Higgins Clark, Pynchon, etc. Also up-to-date lists of book awards, 100-best lists, etc.; genre awards included are SFWA Grand Masters, Hugo novel winners, World Fantasy novel winners, and Mythopoeic novel winners. (Fri 23 Jun 2000)
* Park, Robert Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
(Oxford 0-19-513515-6, $25, 230pp, hc, May 2000)
Controversial-before-publication book about junk science, pseudoscience, and fraudulent science. There's a review in this Sunday's New York Times Book Review. Reader reviews on Amazon are mixed; several respond to the author's criticism of manned space exploration. (Fri 2 Jun 2000)
* Schwartz, Julius, with Brian M. Thomsen Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics
(HarperEntertainment 0-380-81051-4, $14, 21+197pp, tpb, July 2000)
Autobiography by the fan writer, literary agent, and comic book editor. Afterword by Harlan Ellison. (Fri 16 Jun 2000)
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