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Legends from the End of Time Michael Moorcock (Orion 0-75280-649-1, Jun ’97, £6.99, ii+404pp, pb, cover by Mark Reeve) [Dancers at the End of Time]; Reprint (Harper & Row 1976) fantasy collection, significantly revised from its 1993 Millennium edition. Includes the complete novel Constant Fire (a revised retitle of The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming W.H. Allen 1977), and the full text of the story “Elric at the End of Time”. The 1993 edition mistakenly omitted all of the novel except a revised chapter, and missed the last six lines of the “Elric” story.

The New Nature of the Catastrophe ed. Michael Moorcock & Langdon Jones (Orion 0-75280-600-9, Mar ’97, £6.99, 500pp, pb, cover by Mark Reeve) [Jerry Cornelius]; Reprint (Millennium 1993) revised edition of an anthology of Jerry Cornelius stories, including the entire contents (bar two James Sallis stories) of The Nature of the Catastrophe (Hutchinson 1971), The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (revised edition Harrap/Grafton 1987), and ten further stories in the canon (four by Moorcock). This edition drops the comic strip from International Times, adds a 1995 Moorcock story (with a significant change in its last line), retitles two stories, and revises the article/bibliography by John Davey which puts it all in context. Volume nine in “The Tale of the Eternal Champion”.

The X-Files #1: The Calusari Garth Nix (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648324-0, May ’97 [Jul ’97], £3.99, 100pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [X-Files]; Young-adult novellasation of the Chris Carter series. Simultaneous with the US (HarperCollins) edition.

The Complete Borrowers Mary Norton (Puffin 0-140-38416-2, Nov ’97, £6.99, 820pp, pb) [Borrowers]; Young-adult fantasy omnibus of all six “Borrowers” books, the five novels: The Borrowers (1952), The Borrowers Afield (1955), The Borrowers Afloat (1959), The Borrowers Aloft (1961), The Borrowers Avenged (1982), and the collection Poor Stainless, with an introduction by Norton. A film tie-in edition.

Boy in Darkness Mervyn Peake (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-67822-4, Apr ’97, £3.99, 115pp, tp, cover by P. J. Lynch) [Gormenghast]; Reprint (Hodder Children’s Books 1996) fantasy novella about Titus Groan, originally published in the anthology Sometime, Never in 1956.

The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings ed. Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press 0-19-278151-0, 1997 [Dec ’97], £12.99, 216pp, hc); Young-adult horror anthology.

The Last Vampire 1 and 2 Christopher Pike (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-70397-0, Dec ’97, £4.99, 394pp, pb, cover by Paul Davies) [Last Vampire]; Young-adult horror omnibus of The Last Vampire and The Last Vampire 2: Red Dice (both Pocket Archway 1994). The books are separately paginated.

Dark Waters Tessa Potter (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-68754-1, 1996 [Mar ’97], £3.99, 166pp, pb, cover by Alan Fraser); Reprint (Spindlewood 1995) young-adult collection of four original fantasy stories.

Nightcomers Susan Price (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-65605-0, Nov ’97, £3.99, 154pp, tp, cover by Graham Bence); Young-adult collection of nine original ghost stories.

The Best of Interzone ed. David Pringle (Voyager 0-00-648243-0, Jan ’97, £5.99, xviii+518pp, pb, cover by Mehau Kulyk); SF anthology.

The Time Out Book of New York Short Stories ed. Nicholas Royle (Penguin 0-14-027007-8, Nov ’97, £6.99, 236pp, tp); Original anthology of 23 mainstream and genre stories set in New York, by authors including Jonathan Carroll, Michael Moorcock, Kim Newman, Christopher Fowler, and Joyce Carol Oates.

The Body in the Driveway and Other Stories ed. Penny Scown (Scholastic UK 0-590-13644-5, Apr ’97, £3.50, 124pp, pb); Reprint (Ashton Scholastic New Zealand 1995) original young-adult dark fantasy anthology of six stories. Each has an Afterword by its author. [First U.K. edition]

Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories Lucius Shepard (Orion/Millennium 1-85798-500-1, Mar ’97, £9.99, 292pp, tp); Collection of seven long stories, including the Nebula Award-winning title novella. A hardcover edition (-501-X, £16.99) is also available.

The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Volume Five: Ringing the Changes Robert Silverberg (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-586-21373-2, Jul ’97, £6.99, 359pp, tp, cover by Fred Gambino); SF collection of 20 stories published between 1963 and 1971. Each has an introduction on its genesis and place in Silverberg’s hectic writing and personal life.

The Civilisation Game and Other Stories Clifford Simak (Severn House 0-7278-5169-1, Jul ’97, £16.99, 250pp, hc); SF collection of seven stories, edited and with an introduction by Francis Lyall. Most of these relatively early stories have not been previously reprinted, and the Hugo Award-winning, novella “The Big Front Yard” has not been in any previous UK Simak collection.

Slow Chocolate Autopsy Iain Sinclair & Dave McKean (Phoenix House 1-861-59088-1, Nov ’97, £9.99, 193pp, tp, cover by Dave McKean); Literary dark fantasy collection about an unstable observer unstable in time, but restricted to London, and its darkest deeds. Subtitled “Incidents from the Notorious Career of Norton, Prisoner of London”. Graphic sections and illustrations by Dave McKean. A hardcover edition (£17.99) was announced but not seen.

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