SF Bookworm: Collecting Science Fiction Books

• From Hill House Publishers: THE WISH by Ray Bradbury

“The Wish” is a timeless story of a crystalline Christmas eve on which one man’s wish is granted—the chance to transcend the bounds of mortality and share with his father those words they never spoke in life.

The Hill House edition of “The Wish” also includes a new and original introduction by Mr. Bradbury, titled, “How I Wrote The Wish.”

THE WISH is the first volume in the Hill House Gift Edition series. We’ll be offering more titles (by Mr. Bradbury and other authors) in this format in the future.

Hill House, Publishers

• Arkham House still has a few IN LOVECRAFT’S SHADOW: THE CTHULHU MYTHOS STORIES OF AUGUST DERLETH available as well as copies of EVERMORE.

In EVERMORE, fifteen writers examine Edgar Allan Poe from as many different perspectives. Some who afford us glimpses into the poet’s life, as if to convince us they know certain secrets – some forbidding, some alluring – that that no one else could; others as participants in Poe’s own dreams, living and breathing within the works he created.

Arkham House

• Tartarus Press will release The Man Who Could Work Miracles: The Supernatural Tales of H.G. Wells come December 1

The short stories of H.G. Wells have been overshadowed by his longer science-fiction works, but contain just as many original and archetypal ideas. They are as satisfying to read now as when they were written a century ago, and have been acknowledged by Borges and Nabokov, among others.

Tartarus Press

• Wheatland Press still has copies of Bruce Holland Rogers’ World Fantasy Award winning collection, The Keyhole Opera.

Since January 2002, for five dollars a year, subscribers in sixty countries have been receiving short-short stories by Bruce Holland Rogers in their email boxes. The stories are an unpredictable mix of literary fiction, science fiction, fairy tales, mysteries, and work that is hard to classify. Many of the stories in The Keyhole Opera began as subscription stories and went on to be published in magazines and anthologies.

Wheatland Press

 Prime Books is still offering copies of Jeff Vandermeer’s City of Saints and Madmen.

“Examining VanderMeer one is reminded of the glories of Angkor and Anudhapura combined with the bustle and swagger of Captain Conrad’s Indonesia, the adventurous intrigues of Byzantium and Venice, the brutal Spice Wars of the Dutch. But sometimes it is as if Proust intrudes, insensed and reminiscent. VanderMeer describes a world so rich and exaggerated and full of mysterious life that it draws you away from any intended moral or pasquinade deep into the wealth of the world’s womb…we should admire the rare texture of the writing, the engaging vividness of his description and the quirks of his idiosyncratic mind which conducts its network of realities with celebratory panache. Make the most of the tapestry of tales and visions before you. It is a rare treasure, to be tasted with both relish and respect. It is the work of an original. It’s what you’ve been looking for.”
- Michael Moorcock

Prime Books

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