Or, to be more pedantically correct, two states of the same Michael Swanwick chapbook:
I will have a very small number of copies available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (which next on the to-do list after finishing my taxes).
Archive for the ‘Fantasy’ Category
Library Additions: Two Michael Swanwick Chapbooks
Tuesday, June 1st, 2021Library Addition: The Sandman Overture Absolute Edition
Thursday, May 27th, 2021An unexpected addition to my Absolute Sandman collection:
Gaiman, Neil and J. H. Williams III. The Sandman Overtures Absolute Edition. DC Comics, 2018. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine slipcase, sans dust jacket, as issued. Given to me as a birthday gift.
Honestly, I was unaware this even existed, as I haven’t kept up with Gaiman’s prodigious comics work. I think I already had all the other Absolute Sandman volumes, but I still lack the Absolute Death collection.
Library Addition: Signed, Limited Edition of Jack Vance’s Cugel’s Saga
Thursday, May 20th, 2021Here’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.
Library Additions: Two Signed Harlan Ellison Edgeworks Firsts
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021Two more signed Ellison firsts to replace unsigned copies.
MST3K Kickstarter Update: Fully Funded, New Joel Episodes, Dueling Hosts, More!
Friday, May 7th, 2021For 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:
If you haven’t backed the Kickstarter yet, now would be a good time…
Library Additions: Chizmar, Wagner Little Books
Monday, May 3rd, 2021Two more Borderlands Little Books:
Library Addition: The Stormbringer Sessions
Thursday, April 29th, 2021Here’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 sketches 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:
Unpublished Lafferty Novels Redux
Thursday, April 22nd, 2021Some nine years ago, I published this post on Andrew Ferguson’s NYRSF piece on unpublished R. A. Lafferty works. These included:
I also knew about the unpublished “In a Green Tree” novels:
(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:
However, this wiki (evidently created by Ferguson) includes still more novels I haven’t heard about before:
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…
Music Video: Mr. Weebl’s “Unicorn”
Friday, April 9th, 2021Today is evidently National Unicorn Day, so it gives me an excuse to post this:
I sort of wanted to post it for St. Patrick’s Day, but forgot…
Library Additions: Three Subterranean Press Firsts
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021The Carriger is the last book from the Subterranean PC sale, while the Hand and Smith are normal Lame Excuse Books stock purchases: