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The Hitchhiker’s Trilogy Douglas Adams (Crown/Harmony 0-517-55200-0, Feb ’84 [Jan ’84], $15.95, 468pp, hc) [Hitchhiker]; Omnibus edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Pan 1979), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Pan 1980), and Life, the Universe and Everything (Pan 1982). There’s a new introduction by the author.

Fog Hounds, Wind Cat, Sea Mice Joan Aiken (Macmillan 0-333-36574-7, Aug ’84, £4.95, 64pp, hc); Collection of three juvenile tales of magic and the supernatural. Pagination from Piccolo 1987 edition. [Not seen]

A Whisper in the Night: Tales of Terror and Suspense Joan Aiken (Delacorte 0-385-29344-5, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $14.95, 203pp, hc); Collection of 13 tales of horror and the supernatural. A collection with the same title appeared in England (Fontana 1981, Gollancz 1982), but half the stories are different.

Ghostly Companions Vivien Alcock (Methuen 0-416-49330-0, Jul ’84, £5.95, 160pp, hc); Young-adult fantasy/horror collection. Pagination from Delacorte 1987 edition. [Not seen]

Seasons in Flight Brian W. Aldiss (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02271-7, Dec ’84 [Nov ’84], £7.95, 157pp, hc); Collection of 10 stories.

Annals of the Time Patrol Poul Anderson (SFBC #6217, May ’84, $5.98, 312pp, hc) [Time Patrol]; Omnibus edition of The Guardians of Time (Tor 1981) and Time Patrol (Tor 1983), both collections. A shorter version of the first book was published by Ballantine in 1960.

Past Times Poul Anderson (Tor 0-812-53081-0, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $2.95, 288pp, pb); Collection of 7 old stories, mostly from the fifties, plus an essay which is at least partially new.

The Unicorn Trade Poul & Karen Anderson (Tor 0-812-53085-3, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $2.95, 284pp, pb); Collection of miscellaneous stories, articles, and poems, some written together, some separately, with a blurb that makes it sound like a collaborative fantasy novel.

Chamber of Horrors [by Emma Blackley] ed. Anon. (Octopus 0-7064-2053-5, 1984, $4.98, 352pp, hc); Horror anthology from a British-based “instant remainder” publisher.

Space Odyssey: An Anthology of Great Science Fiction Stories ed. Anon. (Octopus 0-7064-1963-4, 1983 [May ’84], £2.99, 349pp, hc); No editor is listed for this low-cost British reprint anthology, which appeared in 1983 but was not seen until now. There are 25 stories, by Anderson, Bradbury, Clarke, Heinlein, Le Guin, etc.

Banquets of the Black Widowers Isaac Asimov (Doubleday 0-385-19541-9, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $13.95, 212pp, hc) [Black Widowers]; Non-sf/fantasy, of associational interest for Asimov fans. A collection of mysteries involving the “Black Widowers.”

Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov (Octopus 0-7064-2197-3, 1984, 298pp, hc); Reprint (Octopus 1981) omnibus edition of Foundation (Gnome 1951) and I, Robot (Gnome 1950). An “instant remainder” book. The 1981 edition also included Foundation and Empire (Gnome 1952), Second Foundation (Gnome 1953), The Stars, Like Dust (Doubleday 1951), and The Naked Sun (Doubleday 1957).

100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories ed. Isaac Asimov, Terry Carr & Martin H. Greenberg (Doubleday 0-385-18165-5, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $15.95, 311pp, hc); Anthology of short-shorts.

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