Carroll, Jonathan :
Outside The Dog Museum
(Orb 0-765-31185-2, $13.95, 267pp, trade paperback, June 2005, cover by Brad Holland)
(First edition: UK: Macdonald, 1991)
Surreal fantasy novel about an architect, recovering from mental collapse and a divorce, who accepts a commission to build a dog museum for a Middle Eastern sultan.
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The book was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, and winner of the 1992 British Fantasy Award.
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Carroll's website has this description with links to reviews.
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Brad Holland's cover art for this Orb edition won a Spectrum Award earlier this year for best book cover art.
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Farland, David :
Worlds of the Golden Queen
(Tor 0-765-31315-4, $14.95, 556pp, trade paperback, June 2005, cover art Matt Stawicki)
Omnibus of two novels originally published under the author's real name, Dave Wolverton: The Golden Queen (1994) and Beyond the Gate (1995). They're about a queen, cloned from her dead mother, who uses a system of teleportation gateways to battle the insectoid Dronans that threaten humanity.
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There was one later novel in the series, Lords of the Seventh Swarm (1997).
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Amazon has the publisher's description, and reader reviews.
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Leinster, Murray :
A Logic Named Joe
(Baen 0-7434-9910-7, $7.99, 600pp, mass market paperback, June 2005, cover art Kurt Miller)
Collection/omnibus of humorous SF adventure stories and novels by a 'Golden Age' writer who also published as Will Jenkins. The three novels are Gateway to Elsewhere (1954), The Duplicators (1964), and The Pirates of Zan (1959). The last title was a 1960 Hugo Award nominee. The stories include "A Logic Named Joe", a 1946 story that foreshadowed home computers and the Internet.
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The book is edited by Eric Flint and has a preface by Barry N. Malzberg. Baen's website has a description with links to Malzberg's preface and to "A Logic Named Joe".
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Quinn, Seabury :
Roads
(Red Jacket Press 0-9748895-8-x, $29.95, 110pp, hardcover, June 2005, cover by Virgil Finlay)
Facsimile reproduction of a book first published in 1948 by Arkham House, of a story first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1938. The book itself resembles the original, with a printed price of $2.00, no ISBN, etc; it comes in a box that has the new price and the ISBN.
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The story imagines the origin of Santa Claus as a Roman gladiator who, returning from service in Judea, saves the lives of a certain poor family.
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Amazon has the publisher's description and several glowing reader reviews. The publisher's site has the same description with a larger image of the book and its gift box.
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Stephenson, Neal, & J. Frederick George :
The Cobweb
(Bantam Spectra 0-553-38344-2, $14, 416pp, trade paperback, June 2005, cover illustration Bruce Jensen)
Political thriller first published under the joint pseudonym 'Stephen Bury' in 1996 (after Stephenson published Snow Crash and The Diamond Age). It's about an investigation of a murder at an Iowa University that leads to a plot in the Middle East.
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Bantam's site has this description and an excerpt.
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SF Site ran this review by Rodger Turner.
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Stephenson, Neal, & J. Frederick George :
Interface
(Bantam Spectra 0-553-38343-4, $14, 618pp, trade paperback, June 2005, cover illustration Bruce Jensen)
SF political thriller first published under the joint pseudonym 'Stephen Bury' in 1994 (after Stephenson published Snow Crash but before The Diamond Age). It's about a presidential candidate with a biochip in his head giving him access to polling information.
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Bantam's site has this description and an excerpt.
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Rick Klaw posted this review back in 2002.
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Turtledove, Harry :
A Time of Troubles I
(Baen 1-416-50904-6, $26, 757pp, hardcover, June 2005, cover painting Gary Ruddell)
Omnibus of two novels in the alternate history fantasy Videssos series about Roman legionnaires trapped in a magical realm: The Stolen Throne (1995) and Hammer and Anvil (1996).
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Steven H Silver maintains this page about the series with a description, map, and cover images.
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Baen's site has this description with links to excerpts. A second omnibus volume is due from Baen in September.
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Wells, H. G. :
The War of the Worlds
(New York Review Book 1-59017-158-6, $16.95, 251pp, hardcover, May 2005, cover by Edward Gorey)
(First edition: UK: Heinemann, 1898)
Reprint of a 1960 Looking Glass Library edition of Wells' 1898 novel, with illustrations by Edward Gorey -- the wraparound cover, a frontispiece, 27 chapter headings, and headings for each of the novel's two 'books'.
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The book is hardcover with no dust jacket.
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Wells, H. G. :
The War of the Worlds
(Penguin Classics 0-141-44103-8, $7, 36+199pp, trade paperback, May 2005)
(First edition: UK: Heinemann, 1898)
New edition of Wells' classic 1898 SF novel, edited by Patrick Parrinder, who provides a Biographical Note, Further Reading, and Note on the Text (with a list of variant passages).
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The 17-page introduction by Brian Aldiss places Wells in the context of Darwin, Malthus, and sensation novels, discusses and films and radio adaptations of the book, and describes the various "nineteenth-century concerns" that inform the novel.
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Andy Sawyer provides an appendix and notes, with maps showing places in the novel, and footnotes of explanatory text.
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This is one of several new editions of Wells novels from Penguin Classics with introductions by contemporary writers; others are
The Time Machine (introduction by Marina Warner) available now, Tono-Bungay (introduction by Edward Mendelson) also available now, The Island of Dr. Moreau (introduction by Margaret Atwood) also available now, The Invisible Man (introduction by Christopher Priest) due in September, and Kipps (introduction by David Lodge) due in December.
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Wells, H. G. :
The War of the Worlds
(Modern Library 0-375-75923-9, $5.95, 17+190pp, trade paperback, March 2002, cover design Gabrielle Bordwin)
(First edition: UK: Heinemann, 1898)
This edition of Wells' novel, available since 2002, has a 7-page introduction by Arthur C. Clarke, reprints of two reviews of the original edition, and a 2-page Reading Group Guide.
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Clarke's introduction focuses on Wells' background, describes his 1940 meeting with Orson Welles, and suggests an inspiration for the conclusion of this novel in which the Martians are brought down by Earthly infection.
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