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The Reluctant King L. Sprague de Camp (SFBC #1820, Feb ’85, $8.98, 533pp, hc) [Novarian]; Omnibus edition of the three “Jorian” fantasy novels.

Earth and Elsewhere ed. Roger DeGaris (Macmillan 0-02-518240-4, Feb ’86 [Dec ’85], $22.95 FPT, 315pp, hc); Anthology of five sf tales from Soviet authors including Kir Bulychev (the only “author” name listed on the cover), the Strugatskys, and Sever Gansovsky.

Flight from Neveryon Samuel R. Delany (Bantam 0-553-24856-1, May ’85 [Apr ’85], $3.95, 385pp, pb) [Neveryon]; Fantasy novel — or collection of related pieces; conclusion of the “Neveryon” trilogy. Sometimes difficult and literary, but fascinating. Read the appendices too. Recommended. (FCM)

I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon Philip K. Dick (Doubleday 0-385-19567-2, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $12.95, 179pp, hc); Collection with 10 stories and a previously unpublished speech. Edited by Mark Hurst and Paul Williams.

The Changes Trilogy Peter Dickinson (Puffin 0-14-031846-1, 1985 [Oct ’85], £2.95, 348pp, pb) [Changes]; Omnibus edition of three young-adult fantasy novels. An excellent group of related books about England under an anti-technological magic spell. Recommended. (FCM)

Beyond the Dar Al-Harb Gordon R. Dickson (Tor 0-812-53550-2, Nov ’85 [Oct ’85], $2.95, 253pp, pb); Collection of 3 stories, packaged as a novel. The title story seems to be an original novella, featuring Red Jamie in an Arabian fantasy land. Not mentioned on the cover are two other stories with entirely different settings, at least one of them sf.

Forward! Gordon R. Dickson (Baen 0-671-55971-0, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $2.95, 242pp, pb); Collection of 11 stories, mostly from the fifties, edited and with an introduction by Sandra Miesel.

Invaders! Gordon R. Dickson (Baen 0-671-55994-X, Nov ’85 [Oct ’85], $2.95, 253pp, pb); Collection of 8 stories (mostly from the ’50s), with an introduction by Sandra Miesel.

Steel Brother Gordon R. Dickson (Tor 0-812-53552-9, Dec ’85 [Nov ’85], $2.95, 236pp, pb); Reprint (NESFA Press 1984 as Dickson!) collection. This new version does not acknowledge the 1984 book. It adds one story, “The Man in the Mailbag,” plus an interview. The Sandra Miesel story introductions are used, but not credited.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Second Annual Collection ed. Gardner R. Dozois (Bluejay 0-312-94484-5, Apr ’85 [May ’85], $19.95, 573pp, hc); Sf anthology.

The Belgariad: Part One David Eddings (SFBC #4654, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $9.98, 759pp, hc) [Belgariad]; Omnibus edition of the first three novels in the “Belgariad” series.

The Belgariad: Part Two David Eddings (SFBC #3973, Aug ’85 [Jul ’85], $7.98, 626pp, hc) [Belgariad]; Omnibus edition of the fourth and fifth novels in the “Belgariad” series.

Medea: Harlan’s World ed. Harlan Ellison (Phantasia 0-932096-36-0, Jun ’85 [May ’85], $50.00 signed numbered 475-copy special edition; $20.00 725-copy trade edition, 532pp, hc) [Medea]; This small-press version is simultaneous with the one from Bantam Spectra and is the only hardcover. The special edition is sold out. It’s a fine job of bookbinding and should be a highly prized collector’s item. (CNB)

The Needle on Full: Lesbian Feminist Science Fiction Caroline Forbes (Onlywomen 0-906500-19-2, 1985 [Sep ’85], £3.95/$7.95, 267pp, pb); Collection of 9 stories from a “radical feminist and lesbian” publisher. The U.S. distributor is Inland Book Co.

Season of the Spellsong Alan Dean Foster (SFBC #01827, Nov ’85 [Dec ’85], $8.50, 730pp, hc) [Spellsinger]; Omnibus edition of the first books in the “Spellsinger” series.

Owl Time M. A. Foster (DAW 0-87997-992-5, Jan ’85 [Dec ’84], $2.95, 251pp, pb); Collection of four novellas written in four different styles.

Greystone Bay ed. Charles L. Grant (Tor 0-812-51852-7, Oct ’85 [Sep ’85], $2.95, 271pp, pb) [Greystone Bay]; Original anthology of connected stories, all set in “the city horror calls its own.” This book is The First Chronicles.

Midnight ed. Charles L. Grant (Tor 0-812-51850-0, Feb ’85 [Jan ’85], $2.95, 284pp, pb); Anthology of dark fantasy. Many of the stories are originals.

Night Visions 2 ed. Charles L. Grant (Dark Harvest 0-913165-06-9, Oct ’85, $45.00 signed, boxed numbered edition of 300; $18.00 trade edition, 327pp, hc); Original anthology of work by David Morrell, Joseph Payne Brennan, and Karl Edward Wagner, with illustrations by Robert W. Lavoie.

Shadows 8 ed. Charles L. Grant (Doubleday 0-385-19823-X, Oct ’85, $12.95, 191pp, hc); Original anthology with 17 tales of dark fantasy and horror.

Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind ed. Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu (The Women’s Press 0-7043-3973-0, Sep ’85 [Oct ’85], £2.50, 248pp, pb); Original anthology with sf stories by Tanith Lee, Raccoona Sheldon, Mary Gentle, Josephine Saxton, and others.

The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Richard Matheson & Charles G. Waugh (Avon 0-380-89601-X, Jul ’85 [Jun ’85], $8.95, 550pp, pb); Anthology of nearly all the stories which Rod Serling bought for the original Twilight Zone tv series, plus story adaptations of two of his own scripts.

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