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I've ever seen. These are masterpieces in every
way.”
—Ed Gorman
DETOUR
TO OTHERNESS Henry
Kuttner & C.L. Moore ISBN:
978-1-893887-18-3 Introduction by
Robert Silverberg
Afterword by Frederik
Pohl Cover art by Richard
Powers 600+
pages $40.00 Archival-quality
smythe-sewn hardcover
WITH
FOLDED HANDS . . .
AND SEARCHING MIND The
Collected Stories of
Jack Williamson
Volume Seven ISBN:
978-1-893887-37-4 Foreword by Robert
Silverberg Cover art by Hubert
Rogers 500+
pages $40.00 Archival-quality
smythe-sewn hardcover
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"1951"
which
includes Williamson's 1951 novel Dragon's
Island as it appeared in
abridged form in Startling
Stories
June 1952 along with the unreprinted Kuttner/Moore novelette, "We Shall
Come Back" from Science Fiction
Quarterly, November
1951.
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NOW SHIPPING! THE WORLDS OF JACK
WILLIAMSON - Limited Edition
THE
WORLDS OF JACK WILLIAMSON A
Centennial Tribute (1908-2008) ISBN-13:
978-1-893887-29-9 Edited by Stephen
Haffner Foreword by Frederik
Pohl Introduction by James
Gunn Cover art by Vincent
Di Fate 720 pages Archival-quality
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$150.00
A truly special state
of an incredible book (which missed a Hugo nomination by *two* votes)!
The 75-copy slipcased edition of The
Worlds of Jack Williamson is signed
on two limitation sheets (decorated with
specially commissioned artwork by Vincent Di Fate) by all living
contributors:
• Frederik Pohl • James Gunn • Alfred D. Stewart, PhD • Alan C. Elms, PhD • Stephen Haffner • Vincent Di Fate
Contributor Vicky L. Medley signed the
heading to her contribution, "Queens of Space," prior to her passing in
2008.
Also
housed in the matching teal-green Brillianta cloth-covered slipcase are:
• Opposites--React! A 150+ page chapbook collecting the
never-reprinted two-part serial novel of "seetee" (aka antimatter)
adventure, "Opposites--React!" (from Astounding
Science-Fiction, Jan & Feb 1943)
with an 18-page arc of Williamson's 1950s newspaper comic-strip BEYOND
MARS; a 1988 esay by Williamson on antimatter, and an
honest-to-god atom-smasher from Fermi Laboratories (and sf-ethusiast),
William S. Higgins provides an introduction
documenting the early use of antimatter in speculative fiction. This
chapbook is also signed by Mr. Higgins. • The Man From
Somewhere. This 2006 chapbook from Richard Hauptmann's
Cacahuete Press reprints Williamson's novella from 2003. 300 copies
were produced for sale. Now out-of-print, this chapbook, signed by Jack Williamson, is also
included.
The
Worlds of Jack
Williamson celebrates the 100th
birthday of one of the Grand
Masters of science fiction. While Jack Williamson passed away in 2006
at the age of 98, his incredible body of work continues to be enjoyed
by legions of fans and admirers. Assembled in this centennial tribute
are several unpublished stories: “The Moon Bird,” “The Forbidden
Window,” “The Golden Glass,” and a film treatment from 1957, “The
Planets are Calling.” Also included are
several classics in the Williamson canon such as the
original novella-length version of Darker
Than You Think; “Minus Sign,” an
unreprinted “seetee” story of
anti-matter and terraforming; and a tale with the first use of
“psionics,” “The Man from Outside.” Contemporary stories include “The
Hole in the World,” “Afterlife,” and “The Luck of the Legion,” the last
Legion of Space adventure. Included are four essays from academics and
scholars who have studied
Williamson’s works, as well as Dr. Williamson’s 1957 Master’s
Thesis, “A Study of the Sense of Prophecy in Modern Science
Fiction.”
2010
Jack Williamson
Lectureship
Guest Speaker: IAN TREGILLIS
34th Annual Williamson Lectureship
Friday, April 9, 2009 • Luncheon, 11:45 a.m.
ENMU Campus Union Ballroom
Ian Tregillis's parents, a bearded
mountebank and a discredited tarot-card
reader, settled in the Minnesota Territory after fleeing the wrath of a Flemish prince.
(The full story involves taconite
ore and a stolen horse.) He attended the University of Minnesota for too many years, but
finally departed after finagling a
doctorate out of the physics department for his research on radio galaxies and quasars. His
research background brought him to New Mexico, where he works at Los
Alamos National Laboratory by
day and pens moderately entertaining tales by night.
His first novel, Bitter Seeds, is forthcoming
from Tor books in April,
2010. He is also a contributor to the Wild Cards novels Inside
Straight, Busted Flush, and Suicide
Kings.
For
more information and lunch reservations, email or call Patrice Caldwell at
575.562.2315.
High-tail
it over to Chicago this Spring for . . .
Absolutely
Amazing!
It's hard to believe, but 2010 brings the 10th year of the Windy City Pulp and
Paper Convetion. How time flies.
Once again, Doug Ellis, Jon Gunnison, Ed Hulse and their talented staff
bring their high degree of professionalism.
This year also sees the 100th Anniversary of ADVENTURE Magazine.
(Edmond Hamilton remarked on several occasions that ADVENTURE was the
"perfect" pulp.)
This year's show takes place two weeks after the Jack Williamson
Lectureship, and we plan to bring copies of the latest releases
(including the signed/limited editions) of DETOUR TO OTHERNESS and WITH
FOLDED HANDS . . . AND SEARCHING MIND for sale at the show.
NOW SHIPPING!
THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON, Vols. 1 & 2
&
THE COLLECTED CAPTAIN FUTURE, Vol. 1
Edmond Moore
Hamilton (1904-1977) was one of the early pioneers of American science
fiction. For fifty years his stories established and popularized many
of the tropes in modern science fiction. Later this year, Haffner Press
will launch the first salvo in a program authorized by the Estate of
Edmond Hamilton to collect all the prose work of this neglected master.
All of his science fiction, all the fantasy, all the mysteries--all the
stories and novels (including the entire run of the "Captain Future"
adventures) will be assembled in this multi-volume set. • The Metal
Giants and Others: The Collected Edmond Hamilton, Volume One • The Star
Stealers: The Complete Tales of the Interstellar Patrol, The Collected
Edmond Hamilton, Volume Two • The
Collected Captain Future, Volume One: Captain Future and the Space
Emperor As with all Haffner
Press titles, quality is of prime importance.
Each volume of THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON will be printed on
acid-free archival-quality paper with smythe-sewn hardcover bindings
using full-cloth covered boards. Full-color dust jackets will reproduce
digitally restored covers from the original pulp magazines. EARLY
FEEDBACK:
• "I am finally able to hold in my hands a book that I have
been begging some fan publisher to do for decades. Even better, it is
just the
first in a long series. Cannot tell you how
thrilled I am."
--Dan Chow
• "Mr. Haffner,
I wanted to thank you for the hard work and effort you put into the
first three Edmond Hamilton books. I received them yesterday and am way
beyond happy. Thanks again and look forward to future volumes. Best
Regards,"
--Geof Darrow
• "To Haffner Press,
Just a quick
note to let you know that I received the three Edmond
Hamilton books (Captain Future Vol 1 and The Complete Edmond
Hamilton
Vol 1 & 2) and I couldn't be more
pleased. I've been a long time fan of Ed's work and have been anxiously
waiting the release of these books for months. I love the
quality and the attention to details that is being put
in the project. Things like correspondence letters, readers comments,
insightful introductions and reproductions of the pulp illustrations
makes this truly special. The typeset is perfect and the book feel
sturdy. Wonderful. You can count me in for the entire collection! Keep
up the great work. Regards,"
--Michel Gagné
• "I simply couldn't
resist buying the first volume of THE COLLECTED
EDMOND HAMILTON partly because it's a great collection of stories, and
partly because it's such a beautiful book. In this brave new world of
"instant" trade paperbacks and publisher's editions that can barely be
distinguished from book club editions it is a rare and welcome treat to
see a carefully designed and wonderfully bound volume such as is the
minimum standard with Haffner Press publications. The book is an
absolute joy to hold in my hands. Once I had picked it up, I couldn't
put it back down without wanting to own my
own copy. Thank you Stephen Haffner for your obvious dedication to
quality and excellence in book publishing. I am a dedicated fan of
Haffner Press publications, and I deeply appreciate the chance to own
such beautifully made editions of some of my favorite SF stories."
--Curt Phillips
• "Dear Big Poobah, The Hamilton books
are magnificent!!!! I am deep into "Captain Future right now and Doris
is reading Hamilton, book one. We
know you work your ass off to bring us these wonderful pieces of
Science Fiction's history. We appreciate what you do more than you will
ever know.
Did you ever stop to think of how much pleasure you
bring folks like myself and my wife? I certainly hope so. My day is
made better when I read your books. All the stresses of life just melt
away in your pages. I thank all the
powers that be for dedicated
publishers like you (and there aren't too many) . This is how we relax
and face our daily problems, by getting away from it all for a few
hours and losing ourselves in these wonderful stories. Doris and I value
your publishing efforts more than any other books we have. You deliver
mystery, adventure, great scariness (sometimes) and help us get through
life by having quality entertainment for our leisure time. Thanks again for all
you do.
We love you man,
--David and Doris Salley, Haffner press fans forever
THE HIDDEN
WORLD was originally published in the Fall 1929 issue of Science Wonder Quarterly (and is included in Haffner Press' The
Star-Stealers: The Complete Tales of the Interstellar Patrol, the
second volume of THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON), and a
"modernized" version was reprinted in Fantastic
Story Quarterly,
Spring 1950.
HaffnerPress.com
will serialize the 1950 version of this exciting adventure online with
two new chapters posted each week.
Your
adventure begins HERE as
our hero, Arnold Vance, and three other scientists seek to outguess a
baffling phenomena, and find themselves prisoners of an Earth within
Earth! Facing inevitable doom, flesh-creatures set
their plans for the destruction of mankind!*
*this is from the original magazine blurb
-- I mean, really, who could make this stuff up?
