Classic Reprints, December-January
Davidson, Avram : The Phoenix and the Mirror
(UK: Gollancz 978-0575130388, £9.99, 240pp, trade paperback, December 2013)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 12 Dec 2013
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780575130395
(First edition: Doubleday, 1969)
Historical fantasy novel that casts Virgil, author of The Aeneid, as an alchemist.
• This is a volume in Gollancz’ Fantasy Masterworks series. Gollancz’ site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.
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* Hamilton, Edmond, edited by Stephen Haffner : The Collected Captain Future, Man of Tomorrow, Volume Three
(Haffner Press 978-1-893887-74-9, $40, 23+661pp, hardcover, December 2013)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 23 Dec 2013
Third of a projected six-volume series collecting Hamilton’s Captain Future space opera stories first published in pulp magazines beginning in 1940.
• This volume consists of four long stories: “The Quest Beyond the Stars”, “Outlaws of the Moon”, “The Comet Kings”, and “Planets in Peril”, first published in the Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall 1942 issues of Captain Future magazine.
• This edition has an introduction by Chuck Juzek, and a gallery of illustrations from the original magazine publications.
• The publisher has this page for the book.
(Fri 10 Jan 2014)
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* Hamilton, Edmond : The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume Four: The Reign of the Robots
(Haffner Press 978-1-893887-65-7, $40, 23+667pp, hardcover, December 2013)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 26 Dec 2013
Collection of 18 stories, first published from 1930 to 1932 in Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Wonder Stories magazines.
• This is the fourth of a multi-volume project to collect Hamilton’s stories. The book has an introduction by Mike Ashley, a gallery of illustrations from the original publications, letter columns from those early magazines, and editorial correspondence on the original letterheads.
• The publisher’s site has this page for the book with a description and the complete table of contents.
(Fri 10 Jan 2014)
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Heinlein, Robert A. : The Door into Summer
(UK: Gollancz 978-0575120723, £8.99, 192pp, trade paperback, December 2013)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 12 Dec 2013
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780575112971
(First edition: Doubleday, 1957)
SF time travel novel about an engineer who goes into suspended animation for 30 years, to a time when time travel enables him to try to fix his past.
• This edition is a volume in Gollancz’ SF Masterworks series. Gollancz’ site has this description.
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• (Directory Entry)
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