urban@trwspp.UUCP (07/16/84)
Here are the DEL REY hardcover announcements for Aug-Nov 1984. My goodness, hardbacks are expensive. Mike August: "Bearing An Hourglass -- Book Two of 'Incarnations of Immortality'" by Piers Anthony. "Norton had lost both the child and the woman he loved. So he didn't mind accepting when the position of Time was offered to him. But what started as an enjoyable experience--living backwards, from present to past--became a war with Satan himself" 288 pages $13.95 September: "JOB: A Comedy of Justice" by Robert A. Heinlein. "After a ritual fire walk in Polynesia, vacationer Alex Hergensheimer awakes to find the world changed: he is now Alec Graham, in love with the magnificent Margrethe. Before long, his world changes again--then again and again. Whatever the changes, Alec finds two constants--the Apocalypse is coming, and he must bring Margrethe to a state of grace before the end..." 384 pages $16.95. Special signed and numbered limited edition $75.00. October: "The Bishop's Heir. Volume I of `The Histories of King Kelson'" by Katherine Kurtz. "Kelson had been crowned king after a political and ecclesiastical upheaval. Now a new faction threatened the stability of the young king's realm. Led by ex-archbishop Loris, this force believed the Deryni a party of heresy and witchcraft--and pledged to bring its new leader low..." 352 pages. $14.95 November: "The Atlas of Pern" by Karen Wynn Fonstad, introduction by Anne McCaffrey. "The first-ever volume of `Pernography'! To the faithful followers of Anne McCaffrey and `The Dragonriders of Pern' series, the world of Pern is as real a place as earth. Now they can take an unprecendented tour of that world with a magnificent and completely detailed atlas." 176 pages. $19.95. November: "Lifeburst" by Jack Williamson. "When Halo Station was attacked by aliens, one inhabitant was eager to leave: young Quin Dain wished to find his father and receive the Sunmark, symbol of fitness for life in space. But once on Earth, Quin found himself framed for murder--and on the run from more than one evil adversary..." 288 pages. $12.95 ================================================================