[net.sf-lovers] ABA report I

N.NEFF@[36.48.0.5] (05/30/85)

From: randall neff <N.NEFF@[36.48.0.5]>



This is the first report on the American Booksellers Convention
that was held in San Francisco on Memorial Day weekend.

New American Library/ Signet/ DAW

The Backman Books  by Stephen King  October, trade paperback 9.95
   The four previous Richard Bachman novels

Angel with the Sword  by C. J. Cherryh  the first DAW hardcover.
   September  $15.95    Cherryh was at the ABA autographing bound galleys
   of the book,  will review later after I read it.

Tailchaser's Song   by Tad Williams   November $15.95  "a magical picaresque
   story sure to appeal to devotees of quality fantasy as well as to the
   millions of cat lovers nationwide"

July
   Null-A Three A. E. van Vogt  3.50
   The Song of Homana (Cheysuli book 2)  Jennifer Roberson 3.50
   I.A. presents Great SF: 13 ( 1951)   $3.50
   The Temple of Truth     E. C. Tubb  $2.95
   
August
   Changer's Moon     Jo Clyton  $3.50
   Kelly Country     A. Bertram Chandler   $3.50
   The Forest of Peldain   Barington J. Bayley  $2.75

September
   Warrior Woman     Marion Zimmer Bradley  $2.95
   Flamesong    M. A. R. Barker $3.50
   Ibis  Linda Steele  $2.95
   The Dragon of Mishbil   B. W. Clough  $2.95


Del Rey 
   David Eddings is working on a new fantasy saga, it will be a Del Rey
   hardcover about a year from now.  

   With a Tangled Skein   Piers Anthony   book 3 of Incarnations of Immortality
   October  $14.95

   Starquake      Robert L. Forward    sequel to Dragon's Egg
   October  $14.95

   The Atlas of the Land        Karen Wynn Fonstad    map of Thomas Covenant
   November    $19.95   and  $9.95

   The King's Justice     Katherine Kurtz     vol II of King Kelson
    November   $16.95

   THe Mars One Crew Manual      Kerry Mark Joels     plans of mars voyage
    November    $24.95   and $12.95

   Killashandra     Anne McCaffrey       sequel to Crystal Singer
    December  $ 16.95

   The Gnome King of Oz       Ruth Plumly Thompson     October  $5.95
   The Giant Horse of Oz       $5.95
   Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz      $5.95

July
   Vengeance of the Dancing Gods      Jack Chalker  3.50
   The Black Ship          Christopher Rowley  2.95
   The Remaking of Sigmund Freud    Barry N. Malzberg  $2.95
   
August
   The Bishop's Heir       Katherine Kurtz  3.50
   Procyon's Promise       Michael McCollum  2.95
   Red Flame Burning       Ward Hawkins  2.95

September
   Sentenced to Prism      Alan Dean Foster  3.50
   The Misenchanted Sword  Lawrence Watt-Evans  2.95
   The Gallatin Divergence    L. Neil Smith  2.95

Doubleday
   Robots and Empire    Isaac Asimov    $16.95   September


Bridge
   The Invaders Plan    book one of ten of Mission Earth  
    by L. Ron Hubbard   $18.95   October   100,000 first hardcover printing
    $1,000,000 promotion and advertising budget

Popular Library  ( Warner )
July
    Masters of Glass       M. Coleman Easton  2.95
    Doomstar      Richard S. Meyers  2.95
August
    Darkwar Trilogy 1:  Doomstalker     Glen Cook  2.95
    Meanwhile           Max Handley  3.50
September
    Warrior Witch of Hel     Asa Drake  2.95
    The Dushau Trilogy 2: Farfetch   Jacqueline Lichtenberg 2.95

Bantam
    The Dream Years     Lisa Goldstein    September  13.95
    The Proteus Operation   James P. Hogan   October  16.95
    The Postman      David Brin     November  14.95  (Brin autographed
       bound gallleys of the book)
The bad news is that Brin's Uplift War is delayed until spring 86.


More later as I ply through the catalogs.

Randy    NEFF@SU-SIERRA
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