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News
& What's New - October 2016 |
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More
books from Russia |
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17 Oct
2016
Last
week I received the fourth package with books from Russia, published in
different –former Soviet Union– countries, but all
in Russian. These
books are novels, omnibuses, and anthologies.
Everyone of them already is included in the Bibliography, but now I can
check the data, with the books at hand, more thoroughly.
After I have checked the books from this
shipment I will order more Russian books. Hope to get them all
sometime. That will take several shipments to go.
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French
omnibus: Opar, Intégrale |
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13 Oct
2016
Subterranean
Press published in June 2012 an omnibus, Gods
of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa,
with the three novels in the Opar / Khokarsa series. The first
two
were written by Philip José Farmer and originally released
in
the 1970s. The third however, The Song of Kwasin, was
started by Farmer, finished by Christopher Paul Carey, and for
the first time published in the omnibus.
Now, four years later, there will be a French edition of the omnibus.
Christopher Paul Carey announced it proudly on his Facebook page.
The omnibus, Opar,
Intégrale, will be released on 4 November 2016
by publisher Mnémos.
The price is €35,00. See also Amazon.fr.
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Received:
Fantastic
Universe Super Pack |
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11 Oct
2016
 A few
days ago I wrote about two new anthologies, that were published in
August.
Today I received my copy of the first of these anthologies, Fantastic Universe Super Pack.
This book contains Philip José Farmer's story "They Twinkled Like Jewels".
It comes in a large trade paperback,
25×17,5 cm or 10×7 inches, with 30 stories, for a
price of
$14.99. Not all the stories are good, and not every included author is
very well known, like Frederic Max, John Foster West, and George
Edrich. But there are also several big names in the book, like Philip
K. Dick, Poul Anderson, Harry Harrison, C. L. Moore, H. Beam Piper, and
more.
All the stories were published in the 1950s in the magazine Fantastic Universe.
The anthology is available as ebook (Amazon, B&N) for only
$1.99.
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This
publication doesn't twinkle |
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9 Oct
2016
 It looks
like another rip-off. To produce and sell a story, the novelette They
Twinkled Like
Jewels —that is free of rights— in a
softcover chapbook of
28 pages,
and ask for it a price of a mere $18.95.
It is the highest price of any of the chapbooks with this story.
Why are they, HardPress Publishing, doing this? Who are they doing a
favor, but themselves?
Will anyone buy this chapbook? I'm not!
If you really want this story printed on paper you could better buy the
trade paperback Fantastic
Universe Super Pack, see below, for only $14.99. For that
price you get many, many more stories!
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Strangers
No More |
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9 Oct
2016
 Dover Publications will publish in
February or March 2017 the anthology Strangers No More
('Tales of Alien Life by Science Fiction Masters'). The 'masters' are
Isaac Asimov, Philip José Farmer, Clifford D. Simak, Marion
Zimmer Bradley and more.
Amazon: «These spellbinding sci-fi tales of Martians and
other extraterrestrials first appeared in the leading pulp magazines of
the 1950s: Galaxy,
Amazing
Science Fiction, and Fantastic
Universe. Nine groundbreaking selections include "Youth"
by Isaac Asimov, "Rastignac
the Devil" by Philip José Farmer, and "Year of the
Big Thaw" by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Includes atmospheric original
illustrations.»
Strangers
No More will be published in paperback, price $9.95, 192
pages, ISBN 978-0486795072.
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Fantastic
Universe Super Pack |
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8 Oct
2016
Last month I got
the information from Fred Fischer (USA) that
a new anthology was published in August. I immediately ordered a copy
of the anthology, Fantastic
Universe Super Pack, but till now did not receive my book.
It contains the story "They
Twinkled Like Jewels".
Also published in August is Fantastic
Universe Super Pack #3, with Farmer's story "Rastignac the Devil". I
ordered this one just now. I had not seen it before.
Both books are published by Positronic
Publishing, in their series 'Fantastic Stories Presents', as trade
paperbacks for $14.99 each.
Just received a few minutes ago a note from Amazon that my copy of Fantastic Universe Super Pack
is on its way to me.
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Books |
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| Statistics |
These are the
numbers for the book pages this month.
 1854
publications
1215 different
covers
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