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Stealing My Rules Don Webb (Cyber-Psychos AOD 1-886988-05-6, Oct ’97, $5.00, 71pp, tp, cover by Christian Patchell); Collection of 12 stories and vignettes, five previously unpublished. Introduction by Paul Di Filippo. Illustrations by Christian Patchell. Order from Cyber-Psychos AOD, PO Box 581, Denver CO 80201; make checks payable to Jasmine Sailing; add $1.50 postage.

Gothic Ghosts ed. Wendy Webb & Charles Grant (Tor 0-312-86130-3, Oct ’97, $23.95, 256pp, hc, cover by Steven Johnson); Original anthology of 19 ghost stories. Authors include Esther M. Friesner, Brian Stableford, Nancy Holder, and Rick Hautala.

More than Honor David Weber, David Drake & S. M. Stirling (Baen 0-671-87857-3, Jan ’98 [Dec ’97], $5.99, 371pp, pb, cover by David Mattingly); Anthology of three novellas set in the “Honor Harrington” universe, but not featuring Honor herself. Weber provides a story of humans’ first meeting with tree cats, and an 80-page article on “The Universe of Honor Harrington”.

A Magic-Lover’s Treasury of the Fantastic ed. Margaret Weis & Martin H. Greenberg (Warner Aspect 0-446-67284-X, Jan ’98 [Dec ’97], $13.99, 422pp, tp, cover by Keith Birdsong); Anthology of 20 fantasy stories. Authors include Larry Niven, Orson Scott Card, Katherine Kurtz, and Fritz Leiber. Introduction by Weis.

Treasures of Fantasy ed. Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman & Martin H. Greenberg (HarperPrism 0-06-105327-9, Jun ’97 [May ’97], $14.00, 401pp, tp, cover by Paul Youll); Fantasy anthology of 24 stories. Authors include Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lacky, Larry Niven, and Poul Anderson.

Diplodiners Dan Weiss (Black Plankton Press, Jun ’97 [Jul ’97], $8.00, 102pp, tp, cover by Rick Potts); Humorous SF mystery novelette. Earth’s sole purpose is providing television entertainment to the rest of the galaxy. Available from Black Plankton Press, PO Box 1351, Cobb CA 95426; email: HLSG94A@prodigy.com; postage free.

The Essential World of Darkness ed. Stewart Wieck & Anna Branscome (White Wolf 1-56504-864-4, Sep ’97 [Aug ’97], $15.99, 719pp, tp, cover by Omaha Perez) [World of Darkness]; Omnibus of five novelizations based on the “World of Darkness” role-playing games. One is a reprint: Vampire Diary: The Embrace by Robert Weinberg and Mark Rein-Hagen (1995). The remainder are original to this edition: Shaman Moon by Owl Goingback, Lightning Under Glass by Scott Ciencin, Except You Go Through Shadow by David Niall Wilson, and Playing With Fire by Esther Friesner. Copyrighted by White Wolf.

Revelations ed. Douglas E. Winter (HarperPrism 0-06-105246-9, May ’97 [Apr ’97], $24.00, 450pp, hc, cover by Thomas Canty); Anthology of 12 dark (mostly) fantasy stories, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, including a framing pair of “meditations” by Clive Barker, and an afterword by Winter. Authors include Poppy Z. Brite & Christa Faust, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, and David Morrell. Simultaneous with UK edition (Voyager, as Millennium).

Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction ed. Leonard Wolf (Oxford University Press 0-19-511593-7, Oct ’97, $25.00, 379pp, hc, cover by Gary A. Lippincott); Anthology of 27 vampire stories, by authors including Edward Bryant, Roger Zelazny, Tanith Lee, and Stephen King. Illustrated by Max Douglas. Packaged and copyrighted by Byron Preiss Visual Publications.

Epiphany of the Long Sun Gene Wolfe (SFBC #14536, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $14.98, 640pp, hc, cover by Ron Walotsky) [Long Sun]; Omnibus of the final two novels in the “Long Sun” series: Caldé of the Long Sun (Hodder & Stoughton 1994) and Exodus from the Long Sun (Hodder & Stoughton 1996). This lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket; it has ISBN 1-56865-275-5.

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XIII ed. Dave Wolverton (Bridge 1-57318-064-5, Oct ’97, $6.99, 490pp, pb, cover by Frank Frazetta); Original anthology of 13 stories by contest winners, illustrated by “Illustrators of the Future” winners. There are articles on writing and art by L. Ron Hubbard, Ron Lindahn, Ed Gorman, and Janet Berliner.

Shadows Over Lyra Patricia C. Wrede (Tor 0-812-56759-5, Nov ’97 [Oct ’97], $11.99, 535pp, tp, cover by Yvonne Gilbert) [Lyra]; Omnibus of three fantasy novels in the “Lyra” series: Shadow Magic (1982), Daughter of Witches (1983), and The Harp of Imach Thyssel (1985). Also includes a timeline and overview of Lyran history.

S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories S. Fowler Wright (FWB 1-900848-00-7, 1996 [Jul ’97], $20.00, 216pp, tp); Collection of 19 poems and stories, with forewords by Brian Stableford and S. Fowler Wright, and a compiler’s note. All stories but one (two pages) appeared in The Throne of Saturn (1951); all the other material is new. There is an extensive bibliography that also notes books available on CD. This is a worldwide edition listed for the first time. Order from PO Box 3, Ludlow SY8 4ZZ, England; email: http://www.sfw.org.uk

The Books of Great Alta Jane Yolen (Tor/Orb 0-312-86258-X, Apr ’97 [Mar ’97], $16.95, 438pp, tp, cover by Dennis Nolan) [Great Alta]; Reprint (SFBC 1990) fantasy omnibus of Sister Light, Sister Dark (Tor 1988) and White Jenna (Tor 1989).

Dove Isabeau Jane Yolen (Harcourt Brace 0-15-201505-1, Mar ’97, $6.00, 32pp, tp, cover by Dennis Nolan); Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1989) children’s fairy story illustrated by Dennis Nolan.

Merlin Jane Yolen (Harcourt Brace 0-15-200814-4, Mar ’97, $15.00, 91pp, hc, cover by Bryan Leister) [Young Merlin]; Children’s Arthurian novella, third volume in “The Young Merlin” trilogy for younger (ages 7-10) readers. Young Merlin joins the wild folk of the woods, and finds his survival depends on a child king-to-be.

Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast Jane Yolen (Harcourt Brace 0-15-201524-8, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], $17.00, 175pp, hc, cover by August Hall); Young-adult collection of 12 modern myths and fairy tales, three original to this volume. The introduction and afterword describe how the stories came to be.

A Handful of Gold Joan Aiken (Red Fox 0-09-968361-X, Aug ’97, £3.99, 236pp, pb, cover by Quentin Blake); Reprint (Cape 1995) young-adult collection of 15 stories.

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