· The House Under the Street · T. M. Wright · ss Upstate Oct 26 ’86
HeroingDafydd ab Hugh (Baen 0-671-65344-X, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $3.50, 346pp, pb) Heroic fantasy novel featuring a woman warrior. A first novel.
Unicorn & DragonLynn Abbey (Avon 0-380-75061-9, Feb ’87 [Jan ’87], $5.95, 230pp, tp) [Unicorn & Dragon] Historical fantasy novel, with illustrations by Robert Gould. A “Byron Preiss Visual Publication.”
FlatlandEdwin A. Abbott (Penguin 0-14-007615-8, Jan ’87, £2.50, 91pp, tp) [Flatland] Reprint (Seely 1884) fantasy novel about two-dimensional world. In the “Penguin Science Fiction Classics” series.
The Thief of BagdadAchmed Abdullah (Donning/Starblaze 0-89865-523-4, Oct ’87 [Nov ’87], $12.95, 121pp, tp) Reprint (H.K. Fly 1924) fantasy, novelization of the Douglas Fairbanks movies, newly illustrated by P. Craig Russell.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective AgencyDouglas Adams (Simon & Schuster 0-671-62582-9, May ’87, $14.95, 247pp, hc) [Dirk Gently] A “ghost-horror-detective-time travel-romantic comedy epic”, according to the blurb. It ends with a “to be continued” line. Simultaneous with the British edition.
Horseclans #16: Trumpets of WarRobert Adams (NAL/Signet 0-451-14715-4, Feb ’87, $3.50, 223pp, pb) [Horseclans] Sf novel, latest in the post-holocaust series.
Horseclans #17: Madman’s ArmyRobert Adams (NAL/Signet 0-451-14968-8, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $3.50, 222pp, pb) [Horseclans] Latest in the series, a flashback novel.
Of Chiefs and ChampionsRobert Adams (NAL/Signet 0-451-15110-0, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $3.50, 238pp, pb) [Castaways in Time] Sf novel, #4 in the “Castaways in Time” series.
Friends of the Horseclans ed. Robert &Pamela Crippen Adams (NAL/Signet 0-451-14789-8, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $3.50, 284pp, pb) [Horseclans] Shared-world original sf anthology set in Robert Adams’ world of the Horseclans. 12 stories.