Archive for the ‘Fantasy’ Category
Thursday, May 20th, 2021
Here’s a Jack Vance limited edition that I’ve been looking to pick up for quite a while:
Vance, Jack. Cugel’s Saga. Underwood Miller, 1983. First limited edition hardback, a presentation copy of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine- copy with slight crimping at head, in a Near Fine+ dust jacket with some age darkening to the spine and touches of wear at head, heel and points, in a Fine- slipcase with a few traces of wear. Sequel to Eyes of the Overworld. Hewett A71b, which notes the slipcase was actually issued later than the book itself. Cunningham 19b, which notes that there were 50 PC copies. Bought off eBay for $202.50, which is about half of what normal copies usually go for, much less a presentation copy with the slipcase.
Tags:Books, Fantasy, Jack Vance, Science Fiction, small press publishers, Underwood/Miller
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
Two more signed Ellison firsts to replace unsigned copies.
Ellison, Harlan. Edgeworks 1: Over the Edge/An Edge in My Voice. White Wolf, 1996. First edition hardback thus (and first hardback edition of Over the Edge), a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Ellison.
Ellison, Harlan. Edgeworks 2: Spider Kiss/Stalking the Nightmare. White Wolf, 1996. First edition hardback thus, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, signed by Ellison.
Tags:Books, Fantasy, Harlan Ellison, Horror, Science Fiction
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Friday, May 7th, 2021
For those who still haven’t backed the new Mystery Science Theater 3000, they just roared past their $5.5 million goal to make 12 episodes and they still have (as of this writing) 13 hours left to go.
I previously covered The Gizmoplex, but here are few of the more interesting tidbits about Season 13 that have been revealed since the campaign launch:
Grand Poobah Joel Hodgson will reprise his role as test subject Joel Robinson for two episodes.
In addition to Jonah Ray returning as test subject Jonah Heston (and Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt returning as the Mads), Emily Marsh (who appeared on the most recent MST3K live tour) will be appearing as test subject Emily Crenshaw. Evidently there will be separate Jonah and Emily (and Joel) episodes.
They’re going to do at least one 3D movie.
Two of the films to be riffed will be Robot Wars and Demon Squad. Since the latter came out in 2019, that has to rank as the shortest release-to-MST3K gap ever.
If you haven’t backed the Kickstarter yet, now would be a good time…
Tags:Bad Movies, Emily Marsh, Joel Hodgson, Jonah Ray, Monster Movies, Movies, MST3K
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Monday, May 3rd, 2021
Two more Borderlands Little Books:
(King, Stephen, and Peter Straub) Chizmar, Richard, and Johnathon Schaech. A Little Silver Book: A Screenplay Borderland Press, 2021. First edition hardback, #498 of 1,000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. A screenplay based on Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Black House. Bought from the publisher at the usual discount.
Wagner, Karl Edward. A Little Ochre Book of Occult Stories. Borderlands Press, 2016. First edition hardback, #165 of 500 numbered copies signed by editor Stephen Jones. Short story collection. Bought for $30 off eBay.
Tags:Books, Borderlands Press, Fantasy, Horror, Karl Edward Wagner, Peter Straub, Richard Chizmar, small press publishers, Stephen King
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Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Here’s an item I picked up a while back that I’ve only just gotten around to blogging about:
(Moorcock, Michael) Cawthorn, James. The Stormbringer Sessions. Jayde Designs/Savoy Books, 2021. First edition hardback, an oversized graphic novel format. #30 of 100 numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine slipcase, with a sheet replicating the cover art laid in. A graphic novel reprinting Cawthorn’s rough sketch’s for Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Book of Stormbringer, a much more complete and elaborate graphic novel adaptation of the concluding Elric book than the version published by Savoy Books in 1976. At £100 plus transatlantic shipping, it’s a pricey item, but with such a small limitation (with only an additional 100 trade copies) for a Moorcock item, I thought it was better to snap it up when I could (and indeed, all copies are now sold out).
The scan chops off the very bottom of the cover, because that was all that would fit on my scanner.
The slipcase is embossed with a red foil version of Moorcock’s eight-arrowed chaos symbol:
Tags:Books, James Cawthorn, Jayde Design, Limited Editions, Michael Moorcock
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2021
Some nine years ago, I published this post on Andrew Ferguson’s NYRSF piece on unpublished R. A. Lafferty works. These included:
Loup Garou, a werewolf mystery
Civil Blood, an anti-communist novel
Antonio Vescovo, a very early novel described as “a cross between Rabelais and The Lives of the Saints”
Dark Shine, about gifted children and an evil protagonist, and
When All the World Was Young, a plague novel in which everyone over the age of 10 is killed.
I also knew about the unpublished “In a Green Tree” novels:
Grasshoppers and Wild Honey 1928-1942 (first two chapters published, the rest unpublished)
Deep Scars of the Thunder 1942-1960
Incidents of Travel in Flatland 1960-1978
(A project fifth volume, In the Akrokeraunian Mountains 1978-1990, was evidently started but never completed.)
I was also aware of the third and fourth volumes in the Coscuin Chronicles series:
Sardinian Summer
First and Last Island
However, this wiki (evidently created by Ferguson) includes still more novels I haven’t heard about before:
Esteban, “a historical novel tracking the life and travels of the African slave who was the first ‘white’ (i.e., non-Native) man to enter much of what would become the southwestern United States”
Fair Hills of Ocean, Oh!, “About a dolphin who is a quadruple-agent spy and the invasion of dry land by the king of the oceans.”
Iron Tongue of Midnight (I know nothing about, except it shares the same title as a 1988 Lafferty poem)
Mantis (evidently a mystery novel)
Not listed there, and only listed on a couple of dubious webpages, so I have my doubts as to whether it actually exists, is The Giant Ratchet of Sumatra (with Sharon Scott). There is a reference to a first chapter manuscript in the University of Tulsa archives, but I see no sign that it had ever been completed.
Excluding the dubious and unfinished, by my count that’s fourteen unpublished Lafferty novels…
Tags:Andrew Ferguson, Books, Fantasy, R. A. Lafferty, Science Fiction, unpublished works
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
The Carriger is the last book from the Subterranean PC sale, while the Hand and Smith are normal Lame Excuse Books stock purchases:
Carriger, Gail (pen name for Tofa Borregaard). Fan Service. Subterranean Press, 2019. First edition hardback, a PC copy of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. “Collected Supernatural Society Books.”
Hand, Elizabeth (edited by Bill Sheehan). The Best of Elizabeth Hand. Subterranean Press, 2021. First edition hardback, #225 of 1000 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.
Smith, Michael Marshall. The Best of Michael Marshall Smith. Subterranean Press, 2021. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Trade edition.
Tags:Books, Elizabeth Hand, Fantasy, Gail Carriger, Michael Marshall Smith, Science Fiction, Subterranean Press
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Monday, March 15th, 2021
More from the Subterranean PC sale:
Mieville, China. The Last Days of New Paris. Subterranean Press, 2017. First limited edition hardback (the Del Rey trade edition precedes), a PC copy of 26 lettered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a Fine traycase. Supplements a copy of the numbered edition. Long out of print. Bought for the original offering price of $250.
Tags:Books, China Mieville, Fantasy, Subterranean Press
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Monday, March 8th, 2021
Another book from the Subterranean Press PC sale:
Gaiman, Neil. Smoke & Mirrors. Subterranean Press, 2014. First edition hardback thus, a PC copy of 500 numbered copies signed by Gaiman and illustrator Dave McKean. Preceded by both the Dreamhaven Angels and Visitations in 1993 and the Avon Smoke and Mirrors from 1998 (both of which I have). Includes new art by McKean. Sold out quickly the year of publication. Bought for $250 (the offering price).
Tags:Books, Dave McKean, Fantasy, Neil Gaiman, Science Fiction, small press publishers, Subterranean Press
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