No Place Like Earth - John Wyndham
(Available $40.00)
One
of the great masters of speculative fiction, John Wyndham was one of the first to leap from genre categorization to mainstream
popularity. While his novels such as Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, and Chocky have been perpetually
in print for most of the past fifty years and enjoyed adaptations for radio, film, and television; much of his short fiction
has not received the same attention. This book (first in a series of John Wyndham "readers") presents an eclectic
collection of stories that demonstrate the versatility of this remarkable writer. Many of the tales presented herein have
previously been available only in scarce publications; one ("Blackmoil") has never been published in any form at
all. An essential volume for the Wyndham collector or an excellent introduction for new readers.Star Changes - Clark Ashton Smith
(Available $45.00)
Clark Ashton Smith
is without question the Poet Laureate of Weird Fiction. Ranked with H.P. Lovecraft as one of the greats of Weird Tales magazine,
his collections of stories, (with the exception of Rendezvous in Averoigne) are long out-of-print, commanding steep prices
on the secondary market. This collection gathers the best of his science fiction, much of which has long been unavailable
in any form. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have, (whenever possible) worked from Smith's original manuscripts in order
to finally make the author's preferred versions of these classic stories available.
Physician to the Universe - Clifford D. Simak (Volume
II) (Available $45.00)
Voted
a Grand Master Award by SFWA, Clifford D. Simak was also honored with the Life Achievement Award from HWA and won numerous
other awards during his distinguished career. While his novels have seen numerous reprints, a comprehensive collection of
his short fiction has never been offered before. This is the second of a projected twelve-volume series which will at long
last gather all of the short fiction of Clifford D. Simak into book form. Editor Phil Stephensen-Payne has painstakingly assembled
all twelve volumes with an eye toward each book serving as an overview of the great author's output. This volume includes
such classics as "The Birch Clump Cylinder" and Horrible Example" and are accompanied by such rarities as "Mutiny
on Mercury" and Infiltration", as well as two fine examples of his western tales, "Gunsmoke Interlude"
and "The Reformation of Hangman's Gulch".
