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Destination Unknown ed. Peter Crowther (White Wolf 1-56504-941-1, Jan ’97, $12.99, 316pp, tp, cover by Douglas Winter); Original anthology of 16 stories set in other realities. Authors include Charles De Lint, Terry Dowling, Ian McDonald, and Kathleen Ann Goonan. Introduction by Anne McCaffrey.

Tales in Time ed. Peter Crowther (White Wolf 1-56504-989-6, Apr ’97, $12.99, 284pp, tp); SF anthology of 13 stories of time travel. Authors include Ian Watson, Jack Finney, H.G. Wells, and Harlan Ellison. Introduction by John Clute.

Timegates ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois (Ace 0-441-00428-8, Mar ’97 [Feb ’97], $5.99, 244pp, pb, cover by Jean-François Podevin); Anthology of 12 stories of time travel. Authors include Damon Knight, Nancy Kress, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Three in Time ed. Jack Dann, Pamela Sargent & George Zebrowski (White Wolf 1-56504-985-3, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $14.99, 587pp, tp); Anthology/omnibus of three time-travel novels: The Winds of Time by Chad Oliver (1957), The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker (1970), and There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson (1972). Each editor introduces one of the novels; there is a foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. The Oliver has an afterword by William F. Nolan.

Black Swan, White Raven ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Avon 0-380-97523-8, Jun ’97 [May ’97], $23.00, 366pp, hc, cover by Thomas Canty); Original anthology of 21 adult fairy tales. Authors include Michael Cadnum, Karen Joy Fowler, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Crowley. A list of recommended reading is included.

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s/Griffin 0-312-15701-0, Jul ’97, $17.95, 538pp, tp, cover by Thomas Canty); Best-of-the-year anthology of 39 stories and four poems. There are also 100 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 1996 fantasy and horror by the editors, a media summary by Edward Bryant, and a comics summary by Seth Johnson. Also available as a St. Martin’s hardcover (-15700-2, $29.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates.

The Cthulhu Mythos August Derleth (Barnes & Noble 0-7607-0253-5, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $9.98, 448pp, hc); Collection of 17 Lovecraftian stories, containing all of Derleth’s non-collaborative contributions to the Mythos, including the contents of The Mask of Cthulhu (1958), and The Trail of Cthulhu (1962), plus six others. There is an introduction by Ramsey Campbell, copyrighted 1977.

Destroy All Brains! Paul Di Filippo (Pirate Writings 0-964-01687-7, Oct ’96 [Jan ’97], $4.95, 48pp, ph, cover by Dave Barnett); Chapbook collection of five SF stories. Order from Pirate Writings Publishing, PO Box 329, Brightwaters NY 11718; add $1.50 postage.

Fractal Paisleys Paul Di Filippo (Four Walls Eight Windows 1-56858-032-0, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], $20.00, 289pp, hc, cover by Christine A. Francis); Collection of 10 stories, two original, each with an introduction by the author.

The Philip K. Dick Reader Philip K. Dick (Carol Publishing Group/Citadel Twilight 0-8065-1856-1, Feb ’97, $14.95, 422pp, tp, cover by Zina Saunders); Collection of 24 stories and excerpts. The first 20 stories are the same as collected in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: The Father Thing (Underwood-Miller 1987); this drops the introduction and last three stories of the U-M edition, and adds four stories.

Star Wars: Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire William C. Dietz (Dark Horse Comics/Boulevard Putnam 0-399-14198-7, Apr ’97, $24.95, 127pp, hc, cover by Dean Williams) [Star Wars: Dark Forces]; Star Wars novellazation, first in a trilogy based on the CD-ROM game based on the movies. This is a “graphic story album” with 25 full-page, full-color illustrations by Dean Williams. The copyright page shows the Putnam ISBN above; the back jacket has Dark Horse ISBN 1-56971-155-0. Copyrighted by Lucasfilm Ltd.

A Child’s Garden of Grammar Thomas M. Disch (University Press of New England 0-87451-850-4, Sep ’97 [Aug ’97], $9.95, 88pp, tp, cover by Dave Morice); Associational non-fiction, a collection of 37 “poetry comics” about grammar, illustrated by Dave Morice. The poems originally appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine; some have been revised for this edition.

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