Classic Reprints, Sept. – Nov. 2018

Classic works in new editions include a Library of America anthology of SF by women edited by Lisa Yaszek, other anthologies by Mike Ashley and by Hank Davis & Christopher Ruocchio, and titles by Poul Anderson, Peter S. Beagle, David R. Bunch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tim Powers, and Robert Silverberg

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Anderson, Poul : Brain Wave
(Open Road 978-1504054553, $12.99, 214pp, trade paperback, September 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Sep 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781504053679

(First edition: Ballantine, June 1954)

SF novel in which passes out of magnetic field that has suppressed human, and animal, intelligence for eons.
• It’s cited by nearly a dozen sources as a classic SF novel.
• Open Road’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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Anderson, Poul : Tau Zero
(Open Road 978-1504054560, $12.99, 230pp, trade paperback, September 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 18 Sep 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781504053709

(First edition: Doubleday, 1970)

SF novel about a relativistic starship unable to stop that experiences increasingly extreme time dilation compared to the surrounding universe.
• Open Road’s site has this description.
• The novel won (scroll down) a Seiun Award, was a Hugo nominee, and has numerous citation as a classic SF novel.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews.

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+ Ashley, Mike, ed. : Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet
(University of Chicago 978-0-226-57508-7, $17, 304pp, trade paperback, October 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 22 Oct 2018

Anthology of 10 vintage SF stories about Mars.
• Authors include H.G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Ray Bradbury, Walter M. Miller, Jr., and J.G. Ballard.
• The first edition from British Library Publishing appeared in April 2018.
• The publisher’s site has this description with the table of contents and a Google preview.
• Paul Di Filippo reviewed the book for Locus Online.

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* Ashley, Mike, ed. : Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures
(British Library 978-0-7123-5275-8, $14.95, 352pp, trade paperback, September 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Sat 1 Sep 2018

Anthology of 11 vintage SF stories about the Moon.
• Authors include Judith Merril, H.G. Wells, John Wyndham, and Arthur C. Clarke.
• The Amazon UK page has a “Look Inside” feature with previews and the table of contents. That edition appeared in April.
• The Amazon.com edition linked above has the same ISBN.

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* Beagle, Peter S. : The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey
(Tachyon 978-1-61696-308-8, $21.95, 170pp, hardcover, November 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Mon 12 Nov 2018

Fantasy novel, a first draft version of Beagle’s famous The Last Unicorn from 1968. This version was published by Subterranean in 2007 and here has a new introduction by Patrick Rothfuss, a new preface by Carrie Vaughn, a new afterword by Beagle, and new interior illustrations by Stephanie Law.
• Tachyon’s site has this description with sample illustrations.

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Bunch, David R. : Moderan
(New York Review of Books 978-1-68137-254-9, $16.95, 352pp, trade paperback, September 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Sep 2018

(First edition: Avon, May 1971)

Collection of linked stories set in a future world of perpetual war where humans gradually replace body parts by steel.
• This edition has eleven previously uncollected Modern stories, and has an introduction by Jeff VanderMeer.
• The publisher’s site has this description with blurbs from James Sallis, Harlan Ellison, and others.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “Jeff VanderMeer’s perceptive introduction, couched in Bunchian idiom, offers valuable insights. This is a steely view of a robot-dominated future.”

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* Davis, Hank, & Christopher Ruocchio, eds. : Space Pioneers
(Baen 978-1-4814-8360-5, $7.99, 512pp, mass market paperback, December 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 27 Nov 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-675-2

Anthology of 19 stories about space exploration.
• Authors include Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, Robert A. Heinlein, Murray Leinster, Theodore Sturgeon, Clifford D. Simak, and Lester del Rey.
• Baen’s site has this description with a link to a page of samples.

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Le Guin, Ursula K. : The Beginning Place
(Tor 978-1250191069, $14.99, 240pp, trade paperback, September 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Sep 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466824461

(First edition: Harper & Row, February 1980)

Fantasy novel about two people who find each other in Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, an idyllic world of eternal twilight.
• Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt.

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Le Guin, Ursula K. : The Eye of the Heron
(Tor 978-1250191076, $14.99, 208pp, trade paperback, September 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 11 Sep 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9781466824478

(First edition: UK: Gollancz, 1982)

Short SF novel, first published as a novella in the 1978 anthology Millennial Women, about farmers and city dwellers on a former prison colony.
• Macmillan’s site has this description.
• Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides previews (of an earlier edition).

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Powers, Tim : Earthquake Weather
(Baen 978-14814-8351-3, $16, 576pp, trade paperback, October 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 2 Oct 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-62579-668-4
• SF Encyclopedia: Tim Powers

(First edition: UK: Legend, July 1997)

Fantasy novel about the death of Scott Crane, Fisher King of the American West. It forms a loose trilogy with Powers’ two previous novels, Last Call and Expiration Date.
• The book won the Locus Award for best fantasy novel of the year.
• Baen’s site has this description with a link to a page of samples.

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* Silverberg, Robert : Time and Time Again: Sixteen Trips in Time
(Three Rooms Press 978-1-941110-72-0, $16, 21+463pp, trade paperback, November 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 Nov 2018
• Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1-941110-73-7

Collection of 16 stories about travel in time.
• Titles include Nebula Award winner “Sailing to Byzantium” as well as “Trips,” “Homefaring,” “What We Learned from This Morning’s Newspaper,” “Breckenridge and the Continuum,” “The Far Side of the Bell-Shaped Curve,” and “Hawksbill Station.”
• Silverberg provides a book introduction and new introductions to the stories.
• The publisher’s site has this description with quotes from reviews.
• The Publishers Weekly review concludes, “…the leaps of imagination are fresh as ever, and both new readers and those familiar with Silverberg’s work will appreciate his ability to spin a gripping yarn.”

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* Yaszek, Lisa, ed. : The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin
(Library Of America 978-1-59853-580-8, $27.95, 475pp, hardcover, October 2018)
• Nominal Publication Date: Tue 9 Oct 2018

Anthology of 25 SF stories by women, first published from 1928 to 1969. Authors include C.L. Moore, Judith Merril, Katherine MacLean, Zenna Henderson, Leigh Brackett, Kit Reed, Kate Wilhelm, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree, Jr., and Ursula K. Le Guin.
• The publishser’s site has this description with the table of contents.
• Publishers Weekly gives it a starred review: “Valuable short biographical sketches of the authors, some household names and others no longer familiar (including some who wrote under masculine pseudonyms), round out this educational, enjoyable, and significant retrospective of science fiction’s foremothers.”
• Gary K. Wolfe’s review in the October issue of Locus Magazine considers the stories in detail, and concludes, “Le Guin is the obvious choice with which to end a pre-1970 anthology of American SF by women, but it also serves as a reminder that the 41 years covered in Yaszek’s enlightening book amount to less than the nearly half-century since ‘Nine Lives’ appeared. With the recent all-woman sweeps of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, it’s worth remembering that many of the less-celebrated women here are among those who made it possible.”

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