* Brackett, Leigh : Shannach – The Last: Farewell to Mars
(Haffner Press 978-1893887442, $40, 572pp, hardcover, October 2011, cover art Frank Kelly Freas)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 27 Oct 2011

Collection of 17 stories, first published from 1950 to 1974, plus an essay on writing from 1975. The book has an introduction by Anne McCaffrey.
• This is the fourth and final volume in Haffner’s series of Brackett collections, following Martian Quest: The Early Brackett (2003), Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances (2008), and Edmond Hamilton’s (and Brackett’s) Stark and the Star Kings (2005).
• The publisher’s site has this description with the complete list of stories.
• Amazon has one longish reader review.

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* Campbell, Ramsey : The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants
(UK: PS Publishing 978-1-848632-00-4, $19.99, 311pp, hardcover, October 2011)

Fiftieth anniversary edition of early works by Campbell, heavily influenced by H.P. Lovecraft and originally edited and published by August Derleth. This volume includes first drafts, Derleth’s responses, and illustrations by Randy Broecker.
• The PS Publishing page has a synopsis.

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* Halpern, Marty, ed. : Alien Contact
(Night Shade Books 978-1597802819, $15.99, 491pp, trade paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 1 Nov 2011

Anthology of 26 SF stories, first published from 1982 to 2009.
• Authors include Robert Silverberg, George Alec Effinger, Mike Resnick, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Orson Scott Card.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview, and the table of contents.
• Gardner Dozois reviews it briefly in the November issue of Locus Magazine: “all of [the stories are] considerably more varied, subtle, and intelligent than the flood of shoot-’em-up alien invasion movies we got over the last year or so. This is another really solid reprint anthology, and is excellent value for your money.”

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* Kessel, John, & James Patrick Kelly, eds. : Kafkaesque
(Tachyon Publications 978-1-61696-049-0, $15.95, 432pp, trade paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 1 Nov 2011

Anthology of 18 stories “Inspired by Franz Kafka”.
• Tachyon’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• Contributors include J.G. Ballard, Terry Bisson, Jeffrey Ford, Eileen Gunn, Damin Knight, Philip Roth, Carter Scholz, and Tamar Yellin, plus a new translation of Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” by John Kessel.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Impressively thorough in covering all aspects of the theme, this specialized, highly literary anthology is best suited for academic contexts and Kafka completists.”

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* Norton, Andre : Moonsinger’s Quest
(Baen 978-1-4516-3756-4, $12, 432pp, trade paperback, November 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 1 Nov 2011

Omnibus of two novels, Flight in Yiktor (1986) and Dare to Go A-Hunting (1990), the third and fourth in the “Moonsinger” series, set on a world where psychic “Moonsingers” reign.
• This volume follows Baen’s Moonsinger (2006) containing the first two novels, Moon of Three Rings (1966) and Exiles of the Stars (1971).
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several sample chapters.

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