perelgut (09/22/82)
Once again, the Locus summary. You may have noted by now that I have a certain bias toward some authors and do not report everything. If you have a favourite who I keep missing, let me know and I will try and add him/her/them/ it to the list of those summarized. Marion Zimmer Bradley: sold THE INHERITOR, a contemporary occult novel, to Tor books. Her fantasy based on Mozart's "Magic Flute", recently sold to Del Rey, is tentatively titled NIGHT'S DAUGHTER. THE MISTS OF AVALON is a "massive Arthurian novel" scheduled for January paperback release. Samuel R. Delaney: has stopped the October publication by Bantam of his new novel NEVERYONA because he and his agent didn't like the cover. Frederick Pohl: has finished MIDAS WORLD. It will contain five new stories plus "The Midas Plague" and "The Man who Ate the World". Pohl is also two-thirds of the way through a new novel set in the same universe as GATEWAY and BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON and he has sold a new novel to Timescape. YESTERDAY'S TOMMORROWS is scheduled for October trade publication. Clifford D. Simak: WHERE THE EVIL DWELLS is now available in hardcover for $11.95US. Larry Niven: (and Steven Barnes) The October issue of Analog will feature an excerpt from THE DESCENT OF ANANSI. This is also scheduled for October release. Piers Anthony: has sold a new five book series "Bio of a Space Tyrant" to Avon. The proposed titles are REFUGEE MERCENARY POLITICIAN EXECUTIVE and STATESMAN. He has also sold the first book in a serious hardcover quintology, ON A PALE HORSE, to Del Rey. The series, "Incantations of Immortaility", will have personifications of Death, Time, Fate, War, etc. as the lead characters but will not be horror novels. The fifth book in the Xanth "trilogy", OGRE, OGRE will be out from Del Rey in November, the sixth, NIGHT MARE, in January, the seventh DRAGON ON A PEDASTAL next year. He is quoted as saying that the pun in the eighth title is too horrible to mention yet. Roger Zelazny: EYE OF CAT is a fall hardcover. DILVISH THE DAMNED is a November paperback. Gene Wolfe: CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH is a November hardcover. Poul Anderson: ORION SHALL RISE March trade and hardcover MAURI & KITH is schedded for November paperback and THE GODS LAUGHED for December paperback release. Alan Dean Foster: NOR CRYSTAL TEARS is available in paperback now (and it seems pretty good according to reviews and the few pages I have had a chance to peruse.) J. R. R. Tolkein: UNFINISHED TALES is a paperback for September John Brunner: CATCH A FALLING STAR is an October paperback. BEDLAM PLANET is a November paperback. Jack L. Chalker: CHARON: A DRAGON AT THE GATE is a November paperback. Harry Harrison: has finally got another Stainless Steel Rat book on the presses. THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT FOR PRESIDENT is scheduled for December paperback release. E. E. "Doc" Smith: (most books by a dead person) (with Stephen Goldin) IMPERIAL STARS is scheduled for October release. There are so many other things to report that it would just about kill me (and my fingers) to enter them all. SF is booming for the fall publication season, or so it seems. On the lighter side, if you haven't already bought MINDKILLER (Spider Robinson) then you might want to wait for paperback publication. The plot is fairly thin and (to let the obvious cat out of the see-through wrapper) the good guys wear white hats and win in the end. The bad guys aren't all that bad, and they do feel bad about it. The book was fun to read buttttt..... David Kyle is reputed to be a good friend of E. E. "Doc" Smith, but I have my doubts after reading the latest "Lensmen" book. The first was about Worsel. It wasn't too hard to swallow, but I had hopes the writing would mature. In the latest (second) book, the main figure is Tregonsee. However the writing has degraded drastically in my opinion. The characters now all sound like D&D players from Newark NJ who are trying very hard to overcome their inherent shyness and take on some alien personalities. Can any of you Triplanetary fans picture Nadrek making a human like joke, or even bothering to comment on one? --- Stephen Perelgut --- P.S. I would appreciate comments on what you think of my sneaking my own biases and opinions into this "summary". Perhaps I should just call it my monthly entry to the network.
puder (09/22/82)
I saw a copy of OGRE, OGRE yesterday. (A friend had it. I don't know where he got it. (bookstore/con)) Official publication dates apparently don't mean much these days.
dennis (09/22/82)
Ogre, Ogre has been in the bookstores (paperback) for about a week now. I've seen it in Annapolis and here in Durham.