Classic Reprints, May
* Benford, Gregory : SF Gateway Omnibus: Artifact, Cosm, Eater
(UK: Gollancz 978-0575118119, £20, 864pp, trade paperback, April 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 22 May 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781473202030
Omnibus of three stand-alone hard SF novels: Artifact (1985), Cosm (1998), and Eater (2000).
• Eater placed 2nd in the SF Novel category of the Locus Poll for that year, after Le Guin’s The Telling.
• Orion’s site has this description.
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Blish, James : A Case of Conscience
(UK: Gollancz 978-1473205437, £8.99, 208pp, trade paperback, May 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 15 May 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780575103986
(First edition: Ballantine, April 1958)
SF novel about a priest, part of a human expedition to the planet Lithia, who struggles to understand the native aliens, who have no conception of sin or God.
• This edition, the latest in the publisher’s SF Mastereworks series, has a new introduction by Ken MacLeod.
• The book won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1959.
• Orion’s site has this description.
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Cook, Glen : Sung in Blood
(Skyhorse/Night Shade Books 978-1597805056, $14.99, 176pp, trade paperback, May 2014, cover illustration Bob Eggleton)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 May 2014
(First edition: NESFA Press, 1990)
Stand-alone fantasy novel about a young man who searches for the murderer of his father.
• It was first published by NESFA Press in 1990, in a limited edition to honor Cook as Guest of Honor at Boskone 27, then in hardcover by Night Shade in 2006.
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Dick, Philip K. : Gather Yourselves Together
(UK: Orion/Gollancz 978-0575132542, £9.99, 384pp, trade paperback, May 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 8 May 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780575132689
(First edition: WCS Books, July 1994)
Associational, non-SF novel, a very early novel by PKD, unpublished in his lifetime, written circa 1949-1952, about three Americans left behind in China by their employer, as the communists approach.
• Orion’s site has this description.
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* Norton, Andre : Secret of the Stars
(Baen 978-1-47673-674-7, $14, 240pp, trade paperback, May 2014, cover art Adam Burn)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 May 2014
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-282-2
Omnibus of two SF novels, Secret of the Lost Race (1959) and Star Hunter (1961).
• Baen’s site has this description (click the ‘back’ link from this page) with links to several excerpts.
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Sakurazaka, Hiroshi : Edge of Tomorrow
(Vizmedia/Haikasoru 978-1421560878, $7.99, 256pp, mass market paperback, May 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 29 Apr 2014
(First edition: Haikasoru, July 2009)
SF novel first published in Japanese in 2004 and then in English in 2009 under the title All You Need Is Kill,
about a soldier sent to battle invading aliens, who finds himself killed in battle and resurrected, again and again.
• It’s the basis for the forthcoming film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
• Haikasoru’s site has this description with an excerpt.
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Silverberg, Robert, ed. : Science Fiction: 101: Exploring the Craft of Science Fiction
(Roc 978-0451466761, $16, 512pp, trade paperback, May 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 May 2014
(First edition: Warner Books, October 1987)
Reprint anthology, first published as Robert Silverberg’s Worlds of Wonder in 1987 and as Science Fiction 101: Where to Start by ibooks in 2001, of classic stories with accompanying essays by Silverberg exploring the writing craft and mechanics of good storytelling.
• This edition retains the 2001 introduction by Greg Bear.
• Authors include Damon Knight, Alfred Bester, James Blish, Jack Vance, Philip K. Dick, and Frederik Pohl.
• Penguin’s site has this description.
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* Vonnegut, Kurt, edited by Sidney Offit : Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1976-1985
(Library of America 978-1-59853-304-0, $35, 878pp, hardcover, May 2014)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 1 May 2014
Omnibus of four novels — Slapstick (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), and Galápagos (1985).
• Of these the first and fourth have science-fictional, post-apocalypse settings.
• This is the third Library of America volume of Vonnegut’s works, following Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 and Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962.
• The publisher’s site has this description with the table of contents.
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