Classic works recently back in print include novels by Michael Bishop, Gordon R. Dickson, David Karp, and Anna Kavan, omnibus/bundles by Joe Haldeman and Frank Herbert, and stories in collections by Philip K. Dick and Robert Silverberg.

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Bishop, Michael : Transfigurations
(Fairwood Press/Kudzu Planet Productions 978-1933846705, $17.99, 282pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 7 Nov 2017

(First edition: Berkley Putnam, October 1979)

SF novel, an expansion of the author’s 1973 Hugo and Nebula nominated novella “Death and Designation Among the Asadi”, about an anthropological investigation into a homonid-like race on the planet Bosk’veld.
• Fairwood’s site has this description with blurbs from Theodore Sturgeon, Pat Cadigan, and others.

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+ Dick, Philip K. : Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 978-1328995063, $20, 224pp, hardcover, December 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Nov 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781328995094

Collection of 10 stories that serve as the basis for the TV series scheduled to begin in January 2018.
• Titles include “Autofac,” “The Father-Thing,” and “Foster You’re Dead.”
• Each story is introduced by the scriptwriter who adapted it for TV; scriptwriters include Ronald D. Moore, David Farr, and Travis Beacham.
• The UK edition was published earlier this year by Gollancz.
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s site has this description with a Google Preview.

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Dickson, Gordon R. : None But Man
(Baen 978-1-4814-8285-1, $16, 288pp, trade paperback, November 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 7 Nov 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-618-9

(First edition: Baen, 1989)

Collection of the title novel, first published in 1969, and a prequel story, “Hilifter,” from Analog, February 1963.
• Baen’s site has this description with the table of contents.

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* Haldeman, Joe : The Forever War Series
(The Budayeen Cycle 9781504048576, $19.99, 537pp, ebook, December 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Dec 2017

Ebook bundle of two novels, The Forever War (1974, Hugo and Nebula winner) and Forever Free (1999), and the novella “A Separate War” (1999).
• Open Road’s site has this description.

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* Herbert, Frank : The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg
(Tor 978-1250164544, $9.99, 512pp, mass market paperback, December 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 5 Dec 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781250190369

Omnibus of two novels, first published in 1977 and 1966 respectively.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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Karp, David : One
(Valancourt Books 978-1943910847, $16.99, 238pp, trade paperback, November 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 26 Sep 2017

(First edition: Vanguard, 1953)

Dystopian SF novel about a citizen of a future totalitarian society who is targeted for his value in his own individuality.
• Valencourt’s site has this description, with quotes from contemporary reviews comparing it to Orwell and Huxley, and this line from The New York Times: “Compared to it, most of the Utopian writing of this century . . . is mere science fiction.”

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Kavan, Anna : Ice
(Penguin Classics 978-0143131991, $16, 208pp, trade paperback, November 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 14 Nov 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780525503774

(First edition: UK: Peter Owen, 1967)

50th anniversary edition, with an introduction by Jonatham Lethem, of an SF novel about the search for a mysterious woman in an icy apocalyptic future.
• Penguin Random House’s site has this description with an excerpt and praise from J.G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, Brian Aldiss (who famously highly admired this book), and others.

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* Silverberg, Robert : First-Person Singularities
(Three Rooms Press 978-1-941110-63-8, $19.95, 19+418pp, trade paperback, October 2017)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Oct 2017
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-941110-64-5

Collection of 18 stories, all written in first-person.
• John Scalzi provides an introduction.
• Titles include “Passengers,” “Ishmael in Love,” “Our Lady of the Sauropods,” “The Science Fiction Hall of Fame,” and “The Secret Sharer.”
• Silverberg provides a Foreword, and new introductions to the stories.
• The publisher’s site has this description and order page, with quotes from reviews and the table of contents.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Silverberg’s creative story premises are matched by a remarkable ability to make his characters sympathetic, whether human or not. This fine retrospective collection is worth any SF reader’s time.”

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