@RUTGERS.ARPA:NEFF@SU-SIERRA.ARPA (02/21/85)
From: Randall B. Neff <NEFF@SU-SIERRA.ARPA> Bantam is increasing the visiblity of its science fiction/fantasy line with more advertising and an new logo. The line will now be called SPECTRA books. The line is introduced in multiple page color ads in Publishers Weekly, Feb 8, 1985. After touting their success with previous books such as WEST OF EDEN, STARTIDE RISING, TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON, VALENTINE PONTIFIX, BELOVED EXILE, they announce the following Summer/Fall list. Harlan Ellison, editor MEDEA: HARLAN'S WORLD. a dozen of the field's most honored talents share in the creation of a remarkable planet. June Trade Paperback $10.95 Norman Spinrad. CHILD OF FORTUNE. The star-flung odyssey of a young woman through the heights and depths of an exotic interstellar culture. August Hardcover $16.95 Parke Godwin. THE LAST RAINBOW. July Trade Paperback $6.95 BELOVIED EXILE. June Mass Market $3.95 James Hogan. THE PROTEUS OPERATION. A commando team sent back in time to prevent Hitler's victory in WWII. October Hardcover $16.95 Lisa Goldstein. THE DREAM YEARS. A stunning tour-de-force of fantasy of a young Surrealist of the 1920's and a woman from the 1968 Paris Riots who cross time to discover love and hope in a visionary future. September Hardcover $14.95 David Brin. THE POSTMAN. A major novel of one man's determination to rebuild America from the ashes of a devastating war. November Hardcover $14.95 THE UPLIFT WAR. The saga of the Progenitors begun in Sundiver and Startide Rising continues in this exciting tale of a planet resisting invastion. December Mass Market $3.50 Samuel R. Delany. THE SPLENDOR AND MISERY OF BODIES; OF CITIES. The concluding volume of the acclaimed science fiction epic begun in Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand. December Hardcover $16.95 STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND. September Mass Market $3.95 Harry Harrison. WEST OF EDEN. Last year's hardback bestseller... July Mass Market $3.95 A STAINLESS STEEL RAT IS BORN. At last! the never-before-published origin of the 25th Century's most lovable conman-turned-counterspy: "Slippery Jim" DiGriz. October Mass Market $2.95 R. A. Macavoy. THE BOOK OF KELLS. A magnificent story of a young artist transported to Tenth Century Ireland by the award-winning author of TEA ... and the Damiano trilogy. August Mass Market $3.50 Pamela Sargent. VENUS OF DREAMS. Beginning a generation-spanning sf epic of the struggle to colonize the planet Venus. October Mass Market $3.95 Robert Silverberg. GILGAMESH THE KING. November Mass Market $3.95 Warren Norwood. POLAR FLEET. June Mass Market $2.95 Somtow Sucharitkul. THE DARKLING WIND. A towering saga of the end of a millenia-old galactic empire. July Mass Market $3.50 Elizabeth Scarborough. THE CHRISTENING QUEST. The latest light-hearted fantasy in the bestselling Chronicles of Argonia. August Mass Market $2.95 David R. Palmer. THRESHOLD. Beginning a dazzling far-future epic of humanity's struggle to preserve itself against a deadly cosmic force. November Mas Market $2.95 Bantam books typically arrive in CA about the second week of the preceeding month. IE the March books arrived in the second week of Feb. Randy NEFF@SU-SIERRA. -------