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Classic Reprints, Jun-Aug
Mike Ashley
Ben Bova
Glen Cook
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Anne McCaffrey
Michael Moorcock
Tim Powers
Terry Pratchett
Thomsen & Greenberg
Scott Westerfeld


Classic Reprints, May
Robert A. Heinlein
Michael Moorcock
Peter Watts

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2008 Books Directories



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This page lists selected newly published SFFH books seen by Locus Online (independently from the listings compiled by Locus Magazine).

Review copies received will be listed (though reprints and reissues are on other pages), but not galleys or advance reading copies. Selections, some based only on bookstore sightings, are at the discretion of Locus Online.

* = 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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Classic Reprints : August - October 2008
posted 25 October 2008

Banks, Iain M. : Use of Weapons
(Orbit 978-0-316-03057-1, $12.99, 486pp, trade paperback, July 2008)
(First edition: UK: Orbit, September 1990)

Far future SF novel, Banks' third 'Culture' novel following Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games
• It concerns a female agent of the Culture pursuing a male special agent with a violent past.
• The author's website has this description and an extract.
• Amazon's page has 64 reader reviews averaging 4.5, including a 5-star review from Locus reviewer Rich Horton.

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Brackett, Leigh : The Ginger Star
(Paizo/Planet Stories 978-1-60125-084-1, $12.99, 198pp, mass market paperback, June 2008, cover art Andrew Hou)
(First edition: Ballantine, May 1974)

SF adventure featuring Brackett's hero Eric John Stark on the planet Skaith.
• In this book, Stark's father has been kidnapped by the Lords Protector.
• Introduction is by Ben Bova.
• The publisher's site has this description, with product reviews by readers.

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* Dick, Philip K. : Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s
(Library of America 978-1-59853-025-4, $40, 1128pp, hardcover, July 2008)

Omnibus of five novels, a follow-up volume from the Library of America to 2007's Four Novels of the 1960s. Jonathan Lethem selected and contents and wrote the notes for both volumes.
• This volume contains Martian Time-Slip (1964), Dr. Bloodmoney (1965, a Nebula Award finalist), Now Wait for Last Year (1966), Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974, Hugo and Nebula finalist and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner), and A Scanner Darkly (1977, British SF Association Award winner).
• Also included is a detailed chronology of PKD's life, notes on the original texts of the books, and reference notes to passages from the texts.
• The publisher's website has this description.

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Ford, Jeffrey : The Beyond
(Golden Gryphon Press 1-930846-55-x, $14.95, 218pp, trade paperback, October 2008, cover painting John Picacio)
(First edition: HarperCollins/Eos, January 2001)

Fantasy novel, third in the Well-Built City Trilogy after The Physiognomy and Memoranda (both listed below).
• In this book Cley ventures into a wilderness seeking forgiveness for the girl that he disfigured.
• Golden Gryphon's site has this description.
• Amazon has reviews by Cynthia Ward and Publishers Weekly.

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Ford, Jeffrey : Memoranda
(Golden Gryphon Press 1-930846-54-1, $14.95, 200pp, trade paperback, October 2008, cover painting John Picacio)
(First edition: Avon Eos, October 1999)

Fantasy novel, sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning The Physiognomy (see listing below).
• In this book the physiognomist, now a healer, faces a sleeping sickness unleashed by the ruler of the destroyed Well-Built City.
• Golden Gryphon's site has this description.
• Amazon has reviews by Cynthia Ward and Publishers Weekly.

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Ford, Jeffrey : The Physiognomy
(Golden Gryphon Press 1-930846-53-3, $14.95, 10+193pp, trade paperback, October 2008, jacket painting John Picacio)
(First edition: Avon, September 1997)

Fantasy/SF novel about a master of physiognomy, the science or art of judging a person by his physical features, who is sent out of the Well-Built City to pursue a thief.
• This edition has a new introduction by the author.
• This book and its two sequels, now known as The Well-Built City Trilogy, are reprinted here by Golden Gryphon Press with a triptych of covers by John Picacio. Golden Gryphons site has this description.
• Amazon has a review of the first edition by Cynthia Ward.
• The book won the 1998 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

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Hamilton, Peter F. : The Reality Dysfunction
(Orbit 978-0-316-02180-7, $16.99, 1094pp, trade paperback, October 2008)
(First edition: UK: Macmillan UK, January 1996)

Space opera novel set in the 27th century, in which an alien entity threatens the golden age of humanity's interstellar civilization.
• The book has its own Wikipedia page, with publication history and an extensive summary.
• It's the first of a trilogy, followed by The Neutronium Alchemist (first published 1998) and The Naked God (2000), which will be reprinted in December '08 and February '09 respectively.
• Hamilton's website has this brief description.
• Amazon's "look inside" feature includes an excerpt.

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Niven, Larry, & Jerry Pournelle : Inferno
(Orb 978-0-765-31676-9, $12.95, 237pp, trade paperback, September 2008, cover art Stephan Martiniere)
(First edition: Pocket, May 1976)

Fantasy novel about a science fiction writer who dies and goes to hell, where he tries following Dante's description in order to meet Satan himself.
• The publisher's site has this description with an excerpt.
• The authors have a sequel, Escape from Hell, due from Tor in February 2009.
• This was Niven and Pournelle's follow-up to their popular hard SF novel The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and like it was a Nebula Award finalist.

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Westerfeld, Scott : The Killing of Worlds
(Tor 978-0-765-32052-0, $14.95, 336pp, trade paperback, October 2008, cover art Stephan Martiniere)
(First edition: Tor, October 2003)

SF novel, a far future space opera, second book of two, following The Risen Empire. It's set in an interstellar empire in which an elite of "risen" are granted a form of life after death.
• Tor's website has this description and an excerpt.
• Westerfeld's site has this page about the two books, explaining why the original manuscript was published in two parts.
• Amazon's "look inside" function includes an excerpt.
• Gary K. Wolfe's review in Locus Magazine, October 2003, called it "a superior space adventure yarn filled with romance, betrayal, and terrific ordnance, but which is, in the most respectable sense of the term, entirely normal."

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* Williamson, Jack : Gateway to Paradise: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Six
(Haffner Press 978-1-893887-27-5, $40, 18+571pp, hardcover, August 2008, jacket design Stephen Haffner)

Collection of 10 stories first published in 1940 and 1941; latest volume in the ongoing series devoted to collecting the short fiction of SFWA Grand Master Jack Williamson, who died in 2006.
• Stories include original versions of "The Reign of Wizardry", "Darker Than You Think" (later expanded into book form), and "Gateway to Paradise".
• There's a foreword by Frederik Pohl, an afterword by Jack Williamson, and an appendix of short articles and author profiles from the same era as the stories.
• The Haffner Press site a complete description with table of contents, and an image of the full color endpapers.

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