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Literature & Fiction

JOHN VARLEY

Contemporary

Harper-collins Publishers

Ophiuchi Hotline

Sidg. & J

The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1

GENE WOLFE

JOAN D. VINGE

Michael Bishop

CHRISTOPHER PRIEST

Donald Kingsbury

United States

Del Rey/Ballantine Books

Doubleday, 1977. Hardcover with dustjacket, 1st edition. 22nd in the series of anthologies collecting work having appeared in the magazine. This volume covers the years 1973-1976. Introduction by book's editor Edward L. Ferman, and THESE WORKS: "The Hertford Manuscript" [H. G. Wells' Time Machine Universe] (1976) by Richard Cowper; "A Case of the Stubborns" (1976) by Robert Bloch; "Where We Are and Where We Came From" (1976, essay) by Algis Budrys; "My Boat" [Cthulhu Mythos] (1976) by Joanna Russ; "In the Bowl" [Eight Worlds] (1975) by John Varley; "This Offer Expires" (1976) by Liz Hufford; "The Fantastic Ten" (1977, essay) by Baird Searles; "The Women Men Don't See" (1973) by James Tiptree, Jr.; "The Ghastly Priest Doth Reign" [Southern Appalachia] (1975) by Manly Wade Wellman; "Dress Rehearsal" (1974) by Harvey Jacobs; "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" (1975) by Tom Reamy; "Out of Dickinson by Poe, or The Only Begotten Son of Emily and Edgar" (1976, poem) by Ray Bradbury; "Sanity Clause" (1975) by Edward Wellen; "Thinking About Thinking" [science essay, 1975) by Isaac Asimov; "Mute Inglorious Tam" (1974) by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth; "Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and All" (1973) by Reginald Bretnor. Some results from competitions 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8 (humor).

The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 22nd Series

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Tom Reamy

Joanna Russ

James Tiptree, Jr.

Robert, Bloch

Fantasy

DOUBLEDAY

Tells the stories of a talking bomb, an asteroid vacation land, murder at a settlement where all the inhabitants are identical, a man enjoying his second childhood, a living black hole, and others

The Barbie Murders

BERKLEY

Millennium

Dell mass paperback, 1st edition Aug. 1979, ISBN: 0440173116, 316 pages, cover art by Jim Burns. 12mo (7" x 4.25") Paperback reprint of 1978 The Dial Press/James Wade hardcover first edition. Winner, 1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection; 1980 Prix Apollo. UK edition retitled In the Hall of the Martian Kings. 9 stories, 6 of them belonging to the Eight Worlds universe. Introduction by Algis Budrys. Includes: The Phantom of Kansas [nominated, 1979 Hugo Award; 1979 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Place: 4)]; Air Raid [basis of film and novel, Millennium]; Retrograde Summer [nominated, 1975 Nebula Award; 1975 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Place: 4)]; The Black Hole Passes [1976 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Place: 9)]; In the Hall of the Martian Kings [1976 Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Place: 6); nominated, 1978 Hugo Award, 1978 Ditmar Award]; In the Bowl [1976 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Place: 7); nominated, 1976 Nebula Award]; Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance [1977 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Place: 3); nominated 1977 Hugo Award]; Overdrawn at the Memory Bank [1977 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Place: 10)]; The Persistence of Vision [winner, 1976 Nebula Award, 1979 Locus Poll Award, 1979 Hugo Award].

The Persistence of Vision

Action & Adventure

Dell

A science fiction superhero anthology features Alan Dean Foster's "Earth Spirit," Roger Zelazny's "Hugh Glass," Lawrence Watt-Evans's "Captain Cosmos," Michael A. Stackpole's "Revenant," and John Varley's "Bolshoiman." Reprint.

Superheroes

Ricia Mainhardt

In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about to collide. But in the far distant future, a time travel team is preparing to snatch the passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. And in Washington D.C., an air disaster investigator named Smith is about to get a phone call that will change his life...and end the world as we know it.

Genre Fiction

278 pages of excellent text. Book Club Edition.

The 1980 Annual World's Best SF

LARRY NIVEN

ORSON SCOTT CARD

Random House Value Publishing

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