Burroughs, Edgar Rice : A Princess of Mars
(Library of America 978-1-59853-165-7, $20, 48+303pp, hardcover, April 2012, jacket illustration Frank E. Schoonover)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 12 Apr 2012

Library of America edition of Burroughs’ first Mars novel, basis for the recent film John Carter.
• The book has a 40-page introduction by Junot Díaz, a chronology of John Carter, and an historical note about the book’s original publication.
• Library of America’s site has this description.
• LoA has also published a similar edition of Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes, with an introduction by Thomas Mallon. Both books feature designs based on the books’ first editions.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview, but it’s a preview of a Del Rey edition of the book, not this edition.

(Wed 4 Apr 2012)
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* Chandler, A. Bertram : Ride the Star Winds
(Baen 978-1451638127, $12, 880pp, trade paperback, April 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 3 Apr 2012

Omnibus of four novels about space merchant John Grimes, fourth volume of six of Baen’s series of Grimes collections following To the Galactic Rim (March 2011), First Command (August 2011), and Galactic Courier (Dec 2011).
• Contents include novels The Anarch Lords (DAW 1981), The Last Amazon (DAW 1984), The Wild Ones (UK: Collins 1984), and Catch the Star Winds (Lancer 1969).
• Baen’s site has this description — “Classic Star Trek meets the high seas” — with 38 links to chapter excerpts.

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Dick, Philip K. : Counter-Clock World
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner 978-0547572192, $13.95, 240pp, trade paperback, April 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 17 Apr 2012

(First edition: Berkley, February 1967)

SF novel in which time begins moving backward.
• This is one of three more new editions of this author’s novels, earlier published by Vintage, from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Mariner imprint, following eleven titles released last Fall and in January.
• Two others released this month are UBIK and UBIK: The Screenplay.

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* Kuttner, Henry, edited by Stephen Haffner : Thunder in the Void
(Haffner Press 978-1-893887-53-4, $40, 20+622pp, hardcover, April 2012, cover art Norman Saunders)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 4 Apr 2012

Collection of 16 space opera tales, first published from 1937 to 1950, with one short tale, “The Interplanetary Limited”, recently discovered and published here for the first time.
• Mike Resnick provides an introduction.
• Haffner’s site has description and order page, with the table of contents.
• Locus Online just posted this review by Paul Di Filippo: “These stories remind me of those hour-long B movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood, films that swept viewers up instantly and carried them to the exciting climax with no time to stop and ponder any gaps in logic or continuity.”

(Thu 12 Apr 2012)
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Scott, Melissa, & Lisa Barnett : Point of Hopes
(Lethe Press 978-1-59021-312-4, $18, 338pp, trade paperback, April 2012, cover art Ben Baldwin)
• Nominal Publication Date: Fri 20 Apr 2012
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(First edition: Tor, December 1995)

Gay romantic fantasy novel set in an alternate Middle Ages, about a night watchman investigating disappearances of children.
• Lethe’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides a preview.
• It was followed by Point of Dreams (2001).
• A new novella in the series, by Scott alone, is due in July: Point of Knives.

(Mon 5 Mar 2012)
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* Shirley, John : A Song Called Youth
(Prime Books 978-1607013303, $24.95, 798pp, trade paperback, April 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 10 Apr 2012

Omnibus of three cyberpunk novels: Eclipse (1985), Eclipse Penumbra (1988), and Eclipse Corona (1990), about rebels fighting a totalitarian regime that has emerged following nuclear strikes in Europe.
• Prime’s site has this description, noting that the books have been revised by the author. The volume has an introduction by Richard Kadrey and biographical notes by Bruce Sterling.
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* Silverberg, Robert : The Chalice of Death
(Paizo/Planet Stories 978-1-60125-377-4, $15.99, 400pp, trade paperback, March 2012)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 28 Feb 2012

Omnibus/collection of two novels and one novelette, first published in the 1950s: “Chalice of Death” (1957, as by Calvin M. Knox, later incorporated into Lest We Forget Thee, Earth, Ace Double, 1958), Starhaven (Avalon, 1958), and “Shadow on the Stars” (originally Stepsons of Terra, Ace 1958).
• Paizo’s site has this description, along with a couple longish reader reviews also posted on Amazon.com.

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