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The Secret of This Book Brian Aldiss (HarperCollins UK 0-00-225364-X, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], £15.99, 334pp, hc, cover by Gary Embury); Collection of more than 20 stories and vignettes - several original - each introduced by a comment, vignette, or anecdote.

The Detached Retina Brian W. Aldiss (Liverpool University Press 0-85323-299-7, May ’95, £11.75, 224pp, tp, cover by Peder Balke); Collection of 23 essays, some revised from the earlier non-fiction collections The Pale Shadow of Science (1985) and ...And the Lurid Glare of the Comet (1986). A hardback edition (289-X, £25.00) was announced, but not seen.

The Giant Book of Myths and Legends ed. Mike Ashley (Parragon 1-75251-010-X, Oct ’95, £2.99, 564pp, tp, cover by Alan Baker); Anthology of 51 stories from myth and legend, some retold by classic authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Morris, others newly adapted by modern authors like Peter Tremayne and Jessica Amanda Salmonson. This is an “Instant Remainder” edition.

The Merlin Chronicles ed. Mike Ashley (Raven 1-85487-332-6, Oct ’95 [Sep ’95], £5.99, xviii+446pp, tp, cover by Julek Heller); Anthology of 22 short stories and novel excerpts — nine original — about Merlin, Arthur, and their world.

The Complete Stories: Volume Two Isaac Asimov (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648016-0, Jan ’95 [Dec ’94], £5.99, 464pp, pb, cover by Christopher Brown); Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990 as part of Complete Stories: Volume I) SF/fantasy collection. With its companion volume, Complete Stories: Volume One (HarperCollins UK, 1994) the pair make up all of the original omnibus. This collection contains Nightfall and Other Stories (Doubleday 1959), plus one more story, “The Ugly Little Boy”.

The Return of the Indian and The Secret of the Indian Lynne Reid Banks (Collins 0-00-675211-X, Dec ’95, £4.99, 304pp, pb) [Indian in the Cupboard]; Young-adult fantasy omnibus of the second and third novels in the “Indian” series. A film tie-in edition. The books are separately paginated.

New Legends ed. Greg Bear & Martin H. Greenberg (Legend 0-09-931881-4, May ’95, £15.99, x+419pp, hc); Anthology of fifteen original SF short stories and an article, by Le Guin, Anderson, Sheckley, Benford, McAuley, Egan, and others. Greenberg’s name is not used on the cover.

The Episodes of Vathek William Beckford (Dedalus 1-873982-61-5, Feb ’95, £6.99, 207pp, tp, cover by Lise Weisgerber); Reprint (Stephen Swift 1912) fantasy collection. Portions of Vathek which were suppressed before that book’s publication in 1787 (because of their contentious themes of homosexuality and sado-masochism) and not published until 1912. An extremely rare collection, this is only the third British edition, and the first in over 50 years. Using the 1912 version edited by Sir Frank T. Marzials (with minor corrections and alterations), this edition is edited with an introduction by Malcolm Jack. It is internally dated 1994.

Vathek and other stories William Beckford (Penguin 0-14-043530-1, May ’95 [Jun ’95], £5.99, xxxviii+314pp, pb, cover by Elihu Vedder); Reprint (Pickering & Chatto 1993) collection of essays, satires and stories, including the famous title novel. Edited and with an Introduction by Malcolm Jack. This version is slightly corrected from its limited first edition.

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