SF Bookworm: Collecting Science Fiction Books

Dark Discoveries Publications is now taking pre-orders for the 750 copy limited editon of The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers anthology. This anthology features all-new/previously unpublished works. Here’s the lineup:
Cover and interior art by Kris Kuksi
Foreword – S.T. Joshi
Introduction – William F. Nolan and Jason V Brock
“Some Of My Best Friends Are Martians” [...]

Richard Davies of AbeBooks.com reports, “If money was no object and you wanted to create the ultimate modern science fiction and fantasy rare book collection in a single swoop, then The Fine Books Company in Rochester, Michigan, is offering first editions of all the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novels for a cool $116,530.
The listing [...]

The late 1940s and early 1050s saw the rapid decline of the old pulp magazines. Formerly the largest outlet by far for short fiction, these cheaply produced magazines suffered from the paper shortages of the Second World War era becoming increasingly more expensive to produce. Many publishers began either to close their doors outright or [...]

 It is generally accepted that a book signed by someone significant to the work, usually the author, increases its value. Frequently that value is considered to be simply the price the book can fetch on the open market but often there is another value that may be even more important – that of personal value.
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