2009
Jack Williamson Lectureship
One of our favorite events of the
year!
NALO HOPKINSON
New
Moon Rising
Telling
Science Fiction
33rd Annual Williamson Lectureship
Friday, April 10, 2009 • Luncheon, 11:45 a.m.
ENMU Campus Union Ballroom
$8 at the door • Reservation deadline: April 8
This
award-winning author mingles storytelling traditions, Caribbean folk
tales and legends, and the
Creole language in her science fiction and fantasy.
Panel Discussions
In Golden Library’s Special Collections 3:30-6 p.m
•
New Directions for Sci-Fi and Fantasy
• Cross-Cultural Sci-Fi
• Sci-Fi/Fantasy in Film and TV
For more information and lunch reservations, call Patrice Caldwell at
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THE COLLECTED EDMOND
HAMILTON
Multi-volume
Collected Works of Edmond Hamilton coming in 2009
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It
is with great regret that we announce a slight delay in the publication
of the first three volumes of The Collected Edmond Hamilton. This delay
will ensure that these books will not only have all the stories you're
looking for by ol' "World-Wrecker" Hamilton, but the original interior
illustrations, as well as the letter columns from the source magazines.
Another new feature: reproductions of letters between Hamilton
and editor Farnsworth
Wright on Weird Tales
letterhead!
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SPECIAL
BONUS!
To thank those who
pre-order the first three volumes--in
advance of publication--we will include a facsimile of Edmond
Hamilton's first "book," The Metal Giants. This
fragile 40-page rarity was an early mimeograph effort by Jerry Siegel
(co-creator of Superman) and was advertised as
available in Science Fiction
Digest, October 1932.
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The Saga Continues .
. .
 GATEWAY
TO PARADISE
The
Collected Stories of Jack Williamson
Volume Six
ISBN-13:
978-1-893887-27-5
Foreword by Frederik
Pohl
Cover art by Rudolph
Belarski
500+
pages
Archival-quality
smythe-sewn hardcover
The ambitious program
to collect the short fiction of Grand
Master Jack
Williamson continues! Of the 10 tales in
this collection drawn
from classic pulp magazines--Unknown,
Thrilling Wonder Stories, Super Science Stories, Marvel Stories, Comet,
Argosy Weekly, Startling Stories, and the rare fanzine
Stardust
(three of
which are full-length novels!)--nearly half have never been reprinted
before.
Featured is the
original
novella-length version of "Darker Than You Think" and the magazine
texts of
"The Reign of Wizardry" and "Gateway to Paradise" (previously published
as Dome Over America.)
Also included is Williamson's
afterword with his recollections on the genesis of these tales and the
pre-World War II science fiction field.
Like previous volumes
in this series, the
full-color endpapers
reproduce the original magazine covers (with artwork by pulp masters
including Belarski, Cartier, Rogers, Bergey and Scott) of the stories
herein,
and the
binding is designed to match the 1940s editions of Williamson's works
published by Fantasy Press. The book
is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper,
with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover
art.
With a foreword by
author, editor, collaborator, and long-time friend of
Williamson (and fellow Science Fiction Grand Master), Frederik Pohl, Gateway to
Paradise contains the sense
of wonder
from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the
documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.
Click
here for additonal details on this title or to place your order!
HAFFNER PRESS
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE . . .
THE COLLECTED EDMOND HAMILTON
AUTHORIZED EDITION
 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.
We are currently lining up a stellar group of writers, editors,
historians, and friends of Hamilton to provide insightful introductions
for each volume.
Keep Watching the Skies and check this site frequently for updates on
this project. We have a lot of neat tie-ins to this particular program,
and you won't want to miss a thing.
HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY JACK
WILLIAMSON
 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
smythe-sewn hardcover
Planned for an April
11th debut at the 2008 Williamson Lectureship, 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.”
Fellow Grand Masters
of science fiction Frederik Pohl and James Gunn
provide introductory remarks on reading, knowing, collaborating with,
and admiring Jack Williamson.
SAIL THE CRIMSON
SEAS OF MARS—or it is VENUS?
 LORELEI
OF THE RED MIST
Planetary
Romances
ISBN-13:
978-1-893887-29-9
Foreword by Ray
Bradbury
Introduction by Harry
Turtledove
Illustrated by Frank
Kelly Freas
496 pages
Archival-quality
smythe-sewn hardcover
Picking up
where Martian
Quest: The
Early Brackett left off, this
volume collects 12 more tales of
strange adventures on other worlds from the undisputed "Queen of Space
Opera." Drawn from Planet
Stories
and Thrilling
Wonder
Stories
pulp magazines, this tome revels in the 1946 titular collaboration with
Ray Bradbury--who also contributes an original poem about Leigh
Brackett as well as an essay about meeting & working with
Brackett. Harry Turtledove, the modern master of "alternate
history," provides the introduction and the book is adorned with Frank
Kelly Freas' vintage illustrations from the 1953 reprint of "Lorelei of
the Red Mist."
In a review of Martian Quest: The Early Brackett,
Paul di Filippo says "Plainly, Brackett was growing with every story
she wrote, not yet 30 years old
by the volume's end, with the best yet to come." Lorelei
of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances
is where some of that "best" can found.
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