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Weird Tales [v49 #2, Winter 1985] ed. Gordon M. D. Garb (The Bellerophon Network, $2.95, 96pp, 8½" x 11" pb)

Worlds of If [v23 # 1, No.176, September-November 1986] ed. Clifford R. Hong (STF Corp., $1.95, 132pp, digest, cover by Bob Eggleton)

_SF in Non-Genre Publications [1986]

Friends of the Horseclans ed. Robert & Pamela Crippen Adams (NAL/Signet 0-451-14789-8, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $3.50, 284pp, pb) [Horseclans]; Shared-world original sf anthology set in Robert Adams’ world of the Horseclans. 12 stories.

Robert Adams’ Book of Alternate Worlds ed. Robert & Pamela Crippen Adams & Martin H. Greenberg (NAL/Signet 0-451-14894-0, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $3.95, 366pp, pb); Anthology of 9 alternate-world stories, both sf and fantasy.

A Goose on Your Grave Joan Aiken (Gollancz 0-575-03985-X, May ’87 [Dec ’87], £6.95, 159pp, hc); Collection of stories, many of them fantasy or supernatural.

The Moon’s Revenge Joan Aiken (Knopf 0-394-89380-8, Oct ’87, $12.95, unpaginated, hc); Children’s fantasy tale, illustrated by Alan Lee.

The Moon’s Revenge Joan Aiken (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02477-9, Oct ’87 [Nov ’87], £5.95, 32pp, hc); Juvenile fantasy story. Illustrated throughout by Alan Lee.

The Magic of the Past Brian W. Aldiss (Kerosina 0-948893-13-3, Aug ’87, £4.50, 48pp, tp); Original sf collection.

Ruins Brian W. Aldiss (Hutchinson 0-09-167860-9, Sep ’87, £7.95, 85pp, hc); Mainstream novella, billed as “a modern parable”.

The Year Before Yesterday Brian W. Aldiss (Franklin Watts 0-531-15040-2, Apr ’87 [Mar ’87], $16.95, 227pp, hc); Sf alternate world novel composed of Equator (Brown, Watson 1958) and “The Impossible Smile” (Science Fantasy May & June 1965 as by Jael Cracken) plus a new framework.

Collected Short Stories Kingsley Amis (Hutchinson 0-09-172737-5, Apr ’87, £11.95, 321pp, hc); Collection of most of Amis’s short fiction, including some sf.

Einstein’s Monsters Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape 0-224-02435-3, Apr ’87 [May ’87], £5.95, 127pp, hc); Collection of stories, including some sf. Simultaneous with American edition.

Andersen’s Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen (NAL/Signet Classic 0-451-52107-2, Jun ’87 [May ’87], $3.95, 381pp, pb); Reissue (NAL/Signet 1966) selection from The Snow Queen and Other Tales; selected, translated, and with an afterword by Pat Shaw Iverson. Illustrations by Sheila Greenwald.

The Enemy Stars Poul Anderson (Baen 0-671-65339-3, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $2.95, 218pp, pb) [David Ryerson]; Contains the novel The Enemy Stars (Lippincott 1959) plus a novelette coda, “The Ways of Love” (1979).

Gollancz/Sunday Times SF Competition Stories [by Malcolm Edwards] ed. Anon. (Gollancz 0-575-04074-2, Aug ’87, £10.95, 200pp, hc); Collection of best stories entered for the recent Gollancz & Sunday Times SF Short Story Competition. Actually edited by Malcolm Edwards.

Mad and Bad Fairies ed. Anon. (Attic Press 0-946211-40-X, Jul ’87 [Oct ’87], £3.50, 60pp, tp); Anthology of feminist fairy tales. Volume 3 in the “Fairytales for Feminists” series.

Night Visions 4 ed. Anon. (Dark Harvest 0-913165-20-4, Oct ’87, $49.94, 275pp, hc); Original anthology with horror stories by Dean R. Koontz, Edward Bryant, and Robert McCammon (several stories each), plus an introduction by Clive Barker, and illustrations by Kevin Davies. Signed, boxed, limited edition of 500 copies.

Rhysling Anthology 1987 ed. Anon. (SF Poetry Assc., Sep ’87, $2.00, 30pp, ph); Anthology of sf poetry, finalists for the 1987 Rhysling Awards.

Tarot Piers Anthony (Ace 0-441-79841-1, Nov ’87, $8.95, 616pp, tp) [Tarot]; Omnibus edition of a fantasy trilogy: God of Tarot (Jove 1979), Vision of Tarot (Berkley 1980), and Faith of Tarot (Berkley 1980); they’re combined, with new, continuous chapter numbering.

Philip K. Dick: The Dream Connection ed. D. Scott Apel (Permanent Press, Mar ’87 [May ’87], $19.95, 296pp, hc); Mostly non-fiction, a collection of memoirs and essays on Dick, an interview with him, and a Dick short story. It’s a handsome, well printed book and a useful addition to collections, among the Dick flood. (CNB) Available only by mail (add $2.00 postage/handling) from D. Scott Apel, Box 700305, San Jose CA 95170. [Philip K. Dick]

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