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Blue Rose Peter Straub (Underwood-Miller 0-88733-005-3, Sep ’85, $35.00, 92pp, hc) [Blue Rose]; Novella of horror/dark fantasy. Signed, slipcased, limited edition of 600 numbered copies.

Wolf of Shadows Whitley Strieber (Sierra Club/Knopf 0-394-87224-X, Sep ’85, $9.95, 105pp, hc); Young-adult sf novella of a wolf pack during a nuclear winter.

The Praesidium of Archive Jefferson P. Swycaffer (Avon 0-380-89663-X, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $2.95, 197pp, pb); Collection of 6 connected sf stories. They all seem to be originals. This is the fourth book set in the “Concordat” universe.

The True Game Sheri S. Tepper (Corgi 0-552-12620-9, Aug ’85 [Oct ’85], £4.95, 543pp, pb) [True Game]; Omnibus edition of a fantasy trilogy set in the land of the True Game.

Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories James Tiptree, Jr. (Doubleday 0-385-19653-9, Nov ’85, $12.95, 177pp, hc); Collection of eight stories with an introduction by Michael Bishop. The stories are partly from earlier collections and are gathered as a “best of.”

The Lays of Beleriand: The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. III J. R. R. Tolkien (Allen & Unwin 0-04-82377-7, Aug ’85 [Oct ’85], £14.95, 393pp, hc) [Middle-Earth]; Third book in the edition of previously unpublished materials from Tolkien’s writings on Middle Earth. This volume has two long poems plus exhaustive comments by the editor, Tolkien’s son, Christopher.

The New World: An Epic Poem Frederick Turner (Princeton University Press 0-691-06641-8, Sep ’85 [Oct ’85], $26.00, 182pp, hc); A narrative poem set in 2376. Flawed, but sometimes astonishingly beautiful. (FCM)

The New World: An Epic Poem Frederick Turner (Princeton University Press 0-691-01420-5, Sep ’85 [Oct ’85], $9.95, 182pp, pb); Paperback edition of the above.

The Science Fiction of Mark Twain Mark Twain (Shoe String/Archon 0-208-02036-5, Oct ’84 [Dec ’84], $27.50, xxxiii + 305pp, hc); Collection edited by David Ketterer, with introduction and bibliography.

Daughters of the Sunstone Sydney J. Van Scyoc (SFBC #04729, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $8.50, 697pp, hc) [Darkchild]; Omnibus edition of a sf trilogy.

The Complete Magnus Ridolph Jack Vance (Underwood-Miller 0-934438-98-6, Jan ’85 [Dec ’84], $30.00 signed/numbered edition of 200; $15.95 trade edition of 500, 204pp, hc) [Magnus Ridolph]; Collection, the first to include all 10 of Vance’s sf stories of Ridolph.

The Last Castle Jack Vance (Berkley 0-425-08478-7, Jan ’86 [Dec ’85], $2.75, 113pp, pb); Reprint (Ace 1966) sf novella. It won both Hugo and Nebula when it first appeared. Recommended. (CNB)

Light from a Lone Star Jack Vance (NESFA Press 0-915368-31-5, Aug ’85 [Sep ’85], $13.00, 125pp, hc); Guest of Honor publication for the 1985 NASFiC in Austin TX. It includes reprinted stories (one original), an interview, and an introduction to Vance’s work. A smaller signed edition sold out at Austin.

Rhialto the Marvellous Jack Vance (Baen 0-671-55991-5, Nov ’85 [Oct ’85], $3.50, 219pp, pb) [Dying Earth]; Reprint (Underwood-Miller 1984) fantasy collection of 3 novellas billed as a novel. Bound in at the end of it is a story “Basileus” by C.J. Cherryh and Janet Morris, excerpted from the forthcoming original anthology Heroes in Hell — another headache for short-fiction bibliographers.

Phoenix in the Ashes Joan D. Vinge (Bluejay 0-312-94364-4, Jan ’85, $14.95, 230pp, hc); Collection of 6 stories with new afterwords for each. There are some awful illustrations by Susan Collins and there is no contents page or previous publication acknowledgements. (CNB)

The Book of Kane Karl Edward Wagner (Donald M. Grant 0-937986-72-0, Oct ’85 [Nov ’85], $40.00 deluxe, signed edition, 224pp, hc) [Kane]; [trade edition -73-9, $20.00] Collection of 5 stories featuring fantasy anti-hero Kane, with color illustrations by Jeff Jones. These stories are mostly from semi-pro sources.

The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series XIII ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW 0-88677-086-6, Oct ’85 [Sep ’85], $2.95, 251pp, pb); Anthology of 18 horror and fantasy stories from 1984. Wagner searches out some totally obscure sources.

The Book of Ian Watson Ian Watson (Mark V. Ziesing 0-9612970-4-2, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $35.00 signed, 366pp, hc); Collection of fiction and essays, mostly culled from a wide variety of magazines, put together as a sort of autobiography.

Slow Birds and Other Stories Ian Watson (Gollancz 0-575-03675-3, Oct ’85, £8.95, 190pp, hc); Collection of 11 stories. Recommended. (FCM)

The Adventures of Terra Tarkington, R.N. Sharon Webb (Bantam 0-553-24862-6, Mar ’85 [Feb ’85], $2.95, 203pp, pb) [Terra Tarkington]; Episodic sf novel; the adventures of an interstellar nurse. The listed pieces appeared previously. Somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

Grimalkin’s Tales Stella Whitelaw, Judy Gardiner & Mark Ronson (St. Martin’s 0-312-35057-0, Sep ’85, $10.95, 160pp, hc); Reprint (U.K. 1983) original anthology of 12 stories, 4 by each author, dealing with cats; the tales include sf and fantasy.

Fire Watch Connie Willis (Bluejay 0-312-94162-5, Feb ’85 [Jan ’85], $14.95, 274pp, hc); Collection of 12 stories by a major new talent. There is one new story, “All My Darling Daughters”. Recommended. (CNB)

Faery! ed. Terri Windling (Ace 0-441-22564-0, Jan ’85 [Dec ’84], $2.95, 308pp, pb); Anthology including both original and reprint material.

The 1985 Annual World’s Best SF ed. Donald A. Wollheim (DAW 0-88677-047-5, Jun ’85 [May ’85], $2.95, 302pp, pb); Sf anthology.

Dragonfield and Other Stories Jane Yolen (Ace 0-441-16622-9, Sep ’85 [Aug ’85], $2.95, 241pp, pb); Collection of stories and poems.

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