Classics in Reprint, February 2017
Gibson, William : Count Zero
(UK: Gollancz 978-1473217409, £8.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, February 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Thu 23 Feb 2017
(First edition: UK: Gollancz, February 1986)
Second following, following Neuromancer (1984), in Gibson’s acclaimed cyberpunk trilogy, that ended with Mona Lisa Overdrive.
• The three novels, and collection Burning Chrome, are reissued in matching covers. Neuromancer was reissued in December; the other three books this month.
• Orion’s site has this description.
• Neuromancer won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards; Count Zero was a finalist for both.
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Jeter, K. W. : Infernal Devices
(Angry Robot 978-0857666857, $9.99, 304pp, mass market paperback, February 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 7 Feb 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780857666864
• UK edition: 9780857666840 (Thu 2 Feb 2017)
• George Dower #1
(First edition: St. Martin’s, April 1987)
Fantasy novel, a proto-steampunk novel, about a Victorian watchmaker who agrees to repair a mysterious device for the Brown Leather Man. It was followed by Fiendish Schemes (2013), with third volume Grim Expectations forthcoming in June.
• This is the book’s 30th anniversary edition.
• This edition has Jeter’s 2011 introduction.
• Angry Robot’s site has a description with a preview function.
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Nowlan, Philip Francis : Armageddon 2419 A.D. and The Airlords of Han
(Dover 978-0486795409, $9.95, 160pp, mass market paperback, February 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 15 Feb 2017
New edition of two stories from Amazing Stories later combined and published in 1962 as Armageddon 2419 AD, about Anthony “Buck” Rogers who travels by suspended animation to an oppressive 25th century.
• Dover’s site has this description and order page.
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Swanwick, Michael : In the Drift
(Dover 978-0486809410, $12.95, 208pp, mass market paperback, February 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Wed 15 Feb 2017
(First edition: Ace Special, February 1985)
New edition of Swanwick’s first novel (originally published as part of the second Ace Specials series), in the Dover’s series of “Doomsday Classics”. It’s an alternate future history about a disaster zone a century after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.
• Dover’s site has this description with a Google previews.
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