perelgut (08/15/82)
Sorry for the delay, but when you combine delivery through both the U.S.
and Canadian postal services arrival is a miracle and getting anything on time
is a sign that the Second Coming is near:
Ellison Book to be Recalled by Ace: copies of SPIDER KISS were
distributed with a mistake on the cover. Without me going into
too many details, Ellison does not appreciate being identified
as a science fiction author and made it a contractual obligation
that Ace not use the Ace Science Fiction or Ace Fiction logo
for his books. The contract specified the books were to use a
new logo, Ace Ellison #1, Ace Ellison #2, etc. For some reason,
perhaps due to the recent sale of Grosset/Ace to Putnam, the mistake
was noticed but not corrected.
Arthur C. Clarke has sold a collection of eight short stories to Byron
Preiss Visual Publications. Berkley will publish the book.
Clarke's home-produced reading of excerpts from 2010: ODYSSEY TWO will
appear as a Caedom record this fall.
Whispers Press plans November publication of a signed/slipcased
first edition of FOUNDATION'S EDGE. $50. list, $45 pre-publication.
Whispers will also do a trade hardcover and signed/slipcased edition
of Harlan Ellison's FROM THE LAND OF FEAR, possibly with new stories
added to the collection.
Berkley will publish Doc Smith's SUB-SPACE ENCOUNTER, sequel to
SUBSPACE EXPLORERS, along with a reissue of the earlier book.
[Why is it that dead author's seem to be among the most productive?]
AMAZING Science FIction Stories, the world's very first science fiction
magazine, has been acquired by Dragon Publishing, a division of TSR
Hobbies, Inc.
ACE: GOLDEN DREAM: A FUZZY ODYSSEY by Ardath Mayhar (September)
JANISSARIES: CLAN AND CROW by Jerry Pournell (November)
ARBOR HOUSE: WORLD OF A THOUSAND COLOURS collection by Robert Silverberg
BERKLEY: A BARNSTORMER IN OZ by Philip Jose Farmer (September)
DOUBLEDAY: FOUNDATION'S EDGE by Isaac Asimov (October)
Jack Chalker has sold THE RIVER OF DANCING GODS to Del Rey. It is the
first of an open-ended fantasy series. Chalker has also completed
his "Four Lords of the Diamond" tetralogy for Del Rey. CHARON: A
DRAGON AT THE GATE will appear in november, followed by MEDUSA: A
TIGER BY THE TAIL in spring 1983.
Marion Zimmer Bradley has sold an untitled fantasy novel, loosley based
on the libretto of Mozart's "Magic Flute" to Del Rey. She has also sold
two new Darkover novels, THENDARA HOUSE and THE CITY OF SORCERESSES to DAW.