Classic Reprints, January
* Drake, David : Voyage Across the Stars
(Baen 978-1451637717, $12, 688pp, trade paperback, January 2012, cover art Sam Kennedy)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Jan 2012
Omnibus of two novels in the author’s “Hammer’s Slammers” universe: Cross the Stars (Tor, 1984) and The Voyage (Tor, 1994), the first book about Captain John Slade, the second about his nephew Ned Slade.
• Baen’s site has this description with links to several excerpts.
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Heinlein, Robert A. : Sixth Column
(Baen 978-1451637700, $13, 192pp, trade paperback, January 2012, cover art Bob Eggleton)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Jan 2012
Early novel first serialized in 1941 and published in book form in 1949, about PanAsian invaders of the United States and an isolated group of scientists who fight the invaders by creating a fake religion they refer to as a ‘sixth column’.
• Baen’s site has this description with links to excerpts.
• Wikipedia has this summary, noting that many perceive the book as racist, as reflected in the mixed reader reviews on the Amazon page.
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* Pellerin, Georges, translated by Brian Stableford : The World in 2000 Years
(Black Coat Press 978-1-61227-058-6, $20.95, 252pp, trade paperback, January 2012, cover by Jean-Pierre Normand)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 30 Nov 2011
French SF novel first published in 1878, here “adapted by” Brian Stableford, with notes and an introduction.
• The novel speculates about a society where economic policy is designed to prevent excessive accumulation of wealth.
• The publisher’s site has this description and order page.
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Roberts, Keith : Pavane
(Old Earth Books 978-1882968398, $17, 242pp, trade paperback, December 2011)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 13 Dec 2011
Alternate history novel consisting of six linked stories with a coda, set in an England defeated by the Spanish Armada and now controlled by the Roman Catholic Church.
• Old Earth Books’ site has this description with blurbs from Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and others.
• Wikipedia has this description noting its classic status and including a list of individual stories.
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* Rosny Aîné, J.-H., George Slusser & Danièle Chatelain, trans23 : Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind
(Wesleyan University Press 978-0819569455, $35, 216pp, hardcover, January 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 10 Jan 2012
Collection of three novellas by the Belgium writer who lived from 1856 to 1940.
• Wesleyan’s site has this description with a link to the table of contents.
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Sawyer, Robert J. : Illegal Alien
(Ace 978-1937007218, $7.99, 352pp, mass market paperback, January 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Dec 2011
(First edition: Ace, December 1997)
SF novel about alien visitors to Earth who are welcomed until one of them apparently murders one of the scientists who made first contact.
• Sawyer’s site has this page for the book, with links to excerpts, reviews, a reader group guide, etc.
• Ace’s site also has a description and excerpt.
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* Silverberg, Robert : The Planet Killers
(Paizo/Planet Stories 978-1601253361, $15.99, 400pp, trade paperback, January 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Oct 2011
Omnibus, subtitled “Three Novels of the Spaceways”, of three very early Silverberg novels: The Planet Killers (1950), The Plot Against Earth (1959), and One of Our Asteroids is Missing (1964).
• The book has a new introduction by the author.
• Paizo’s site has this description with reader comments.
• Amazon and Barnes & Noble display a different cover than that on the publisher’s site, shown here. Though Amazon now indicates a publication date of October 18, 2011, it has not been available from Amazon until this month. B&N indicates a Jan 10, 2012, publication date.
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