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Corum Michael Moorcock (Millennium 1-85798-030-1, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], £10.99, 393pp, tp, cover by Yoshitaka Amano) [Corum]; Reprint (Grafton 1986 as The Swords of Corum) omnibus of The Knight of Swords (Mayflower 1971), The Queen of Swords (Berkley 1971) and The King of Swords (Berkley 1971). A hardcover edition (-029-8, £14.99) is also available. Volume four in “The Tale of the Eternal Champion”.

The Eternal Champion Michael Moorcock (Millennium 1-85798-026-3, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], £10.99, 530pp, hc, cover by Yoshitaka Amano) [John Daker]; Omnibus of The Eternal Champion (Dell 1970), Phoenix in Obsidian (Mayflower 1970) and The Dragon in the Sword (Ace 1986). The first two are slightly revised, and The Eternal Champion contains the foreword from the revised 1978 Harper & Row edition. A hardcover edition (-025-5, £14.99) is also available. Volume two in “The Tale of the Eternal Champion”.

Hawkmoon Michael Moorcock (Millennium 1-85798-028-X, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], £10.99, 533pp, hc, cover by Yoshitaka Amano) [Runestaff]; Reprint (Granada 1979 as The History of the Runestaff) omnibus of The Jewel in the Skull, The Mad God’s Amulet, The Sword of the Dawn and The Runestaff, each using the slightly revised US text of the 1977 DAW editions. A hardcover edition (-027-1, £14.99) is also available. Volume three in “The Tale of the Eternal Champion”.

Von Bek Michael Moorcock (Millennium 1-85798-024-7, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], £10.99, 504pp, hc, cover by Yoshitaka Amano) [Von Bek]; Omnibus of The War Hound and the World’s Pain (Timescape 1981), The City in the Autumn Stars (Grafton 1986) and “The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius”. The short story is slightly revised to make it fit into the canon. A hardcover edition (-023-9, £14.99) is also available. Volume one in “The Tale of the Eternal Champion”.

Red Dwarf Omnibus Grant Naylor (Penguin 0-14-017466-4, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], £7.99, 590pp, tp) [Red Dwarf]; Omnibus of the first two books in the “Red Dwarf” series, plus the radio script that inspired the series and the script of the pilot episode.

The Gormenghast Trilogy Mervyn Peake (Mandarin 0-7493-1426-5, Oct ’92, £9.99, 953pp, tp, cover by Stephen Player) [Gormenghast]; Reprint (Overlook 1988) fantasy omnibus. [First U.K. edition]

Kaeti on Tour Keith Roberts (The Sirius Book Company 1-874689-01-6, Sep ’92, £13.95, 320pp, hc, cover by Jim Burns) [Kaeti Fredericks]; Collection of nine stories, seven original, about Kaeti, the protagonist of Kaeti and Company, with a linking narrative by Roberts.

Kaeti on Tour Keith Roberts (The Sirius Book Company 1-874689-00-8, Sep ’92, £40.00, 366pp, hc) [Kaeti Fredericks]; Collection of eleven stories, with a linking narrative by Roberts. This edition is limited to 150 signed copies and contains two stories that were not in the trade edition.

Down and Out in the Year 2000 Kim Stanley Robinson (Grafton 0-586-21497-6, Nov ’92, £5.99, 351pp, tp, cover by Chris Moore); Collection of two long novellas, “A Short, Sharp Shock” and “The Blind Geometer”, each previously published separately, and nine stories from last year’s US collection Remaking History (Tor). Recommended (PSP).

Shady Customers Bertram Rota (Tartarus Press 1-872621-10-4, Dec ’92, no price, 20pp, ph); Being a report by Bertram Rota of the proceedings at the annual re-union of certain old friends at Bodley House at midnight on Christmas Eve, 1937.

Darklands 2 ed. Nicholas Royle (Egerton Press 0-9518520-1-9, Oct ’92, £4.99, 206pp, tp, cover by Giuliana Becciu); Anthology of 23 original horror stories, including pieces by Garry Kilworth and Kim Newman.

Daughter of Tintagel Fay Sampson (Headline 0-7472-3894-4, Sep ’92, £5.99, 824pp, pb, cover by Gary Blythe) [Daughter of Tintagel]; Omnibus of the five fantasy novels in the sequence about Morgan Le Fay.

Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Everyman’s Library 0-460-87149-8, Oct ’92 [Nov ’92], £3.99, 243pp, tp) [Frankenstein]; Reprint (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818) classic horror novel. This edition contains the original 1818 text, the play Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s 1831 account of the composition of Frankenstein, and an introduction by Paddy Lyons. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $2.95.

The Dracula Book of Classic Horror Stories ed. Leslie Shepard (Robert Hale 0-7090-4843-2, Jul ’92, £14.95, 288pp, hc, cover by Helen Hale); Reprint (Citadel 1981) horror anthology. [First U.K. edition]

The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Volume One: Pluto in the Morning Light Robert Silverberg (Grafton 0-586-21369-4, May ’92, £6.99, 396pp, tp, cover by John Howe); Collection of fifteen stories published between 1983 and 1988, with an introduction and notes on each story by Silverberg.

The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales ed. Brian M. Stableford (Dedalus 0-946626-77-4, Mar ’92, £7.99, 283pp, tp, cover by Lynette Hemmant); Literary fantasy anthology, including an essay on the genre and 10 original stories.

The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence: The Black Feast ed. Brian M. Stableford (Dedalus 0-946626-80-4, Mar ’92, £8.99, 337pp, tp, cover by Gustave Moreau); Literary fantasy anthology.

Euro Temps ed. Alex Stewart (Roc UK 0-14-016713-7, Nov ’92, £4.99, 366pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant); Anthology of 13 original sf stories about the secret agents with psi powers, first introduced in Temps, with a linking narrative by Alex Stewart.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula Omnibus Bram Stoker (Orion 1-85797-041-1, Dec ’92, £9.99, 543pp, tp, cover by George Underwood) [Dracula]; Omnibus of Dracula, The Lair of the White Worm, “Dracula’s Guest” and an introduction by Fay Weldon. A hardcover edition (-040-3, £14.99) was announced but not seen.

Dark Voices 4: The Pan Book of Horror ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones (Pan 0-330-32476-4, Oct ’92 [Sep ’92], £4.99, 317pp, pb, cover by Les Edwards); Original horror anthology.

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