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About Time Jack Finney (S&S/Fireside 0-671-62887-9, Aug ’86 [Jul ’86], $7.95, 219pp, pb); Collection of 12 time travel stories originally published in either The Third Level (Rhinehart & Co. 1957) or I Love Galesberg in the Springtime (Simon & Schuster 1962).

Paper Thin Philip First (Paladin 0-586-08555-6, May ’86, £2.95, 174pp, tp); Enigmatic, perverse, and bizarre collection of short stories. (SJ/JF)

Spaceways: An Anthology of Space Poetry ed. John Foster (Oxford University Press 0-19-276056-4, Nov ’86, £5.95, 128pp, hc); Sf poetry anthology.

Artificial Things Karen Joy Fowler (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26219-X, Dec ’86 [Nov ’86], $2.95, 218pp, pb); Collection of 13 stories.

A Malady of Magicks Craig Shaw Gardner (Ace 0-441-51661-0, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], $2.95, 235pp, pb) [Ebenezum]; Humorous fantasy novel of a wizard allergic to magic and his ernest apprentice; first in a trilogy. Portions of the novel appeared earlier “in substantially different form.” Curiously, the story “A Malady of Magicks” (Fantastic Oct ’78) is not in this volume.

A Bag of Moonshine Alan Garner (Collins 0-00-184403-2, Oct ’86, £8.95, 144pp, hc); Collection of retold folktales from England and Wales.

The Gandalara Cycle I Randall Garrett & Vicki Ann Heydron (Bantam Spectra 0-553-25942-3, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $4.95, 516pp, pb) [Gandalara]; Omnibus edition of the first three books in the “Gandalara” fantasy adventure series.

The Gandalara Cycle II Randall Garrett & Vicki Ann Heydron (Bantam Spectra 0-553-25943-1, Jun ’86 [May ’86], $4.95, 439pp, pb) [Gandalara]; Omnibus edition of the second three books in the “Gandalara” fantasy series.

Burning Chrome William Gibson (Arbor House 0-87795-780-0, Apr ’86, $15.95, 200pp, hc); Collection of 10 stories (3 of them collaborations), showing Gibson’s vivid modernism at its best. Recommended. (FCM)

The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame (Marilyn Malin 0-233-98041-5, Oct ’86, £4.95, 64pp, hc); Reprint (U.K. 1938) juvenile fantasy tale, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.

After Midnight ed. Charles L. Grant (Tor 0-812-51854-3, Apr ’86 [Mar ’86], $2.95, 276pp, pb); Anthology of 18 horror/dark fantasy tales. 10 Stories are original, 8 are from earlier sources.

Shadows 9 ed. Charles L. Grant (Doubleday 0-385-23486-4, Oct ’86 [Sep ’86], $12.95, 182pp, hc); Original anthology of 18 tales of horror and dark fantasy.

Amazing Stories: Vision of Other Worlds ed. Martin H. Greenberg (TSR 0-88038-302-X, Sep ’86 [Nov ’86], $7.95, 253pp, pb); Anthology of 15 stories. Includes a center insert (unpaginated) of color reproductions of 16 “Amazing” covers from 1930-1985.

101 Science Fiction Stories ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. & Jenny-Lynn Waugh (Crown/Avenel 0-517-60669-0, Jun ’86, $7.98, 651pp, hc); Anthology of 101 stories, mostly short-shorts. An “instant remainder” book.

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