Books Update: Science Fiction For All Tastes
*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: Here’s a large SF update, with editions ranging from the 1960s to (unusually) 2010. The 2010 book is John Wyndham’s Plan For Chaos, written contemperaneously with The Day Of The Triffids, but published much later. From the 1960s we have The Sword Of Rhiannon (Leigh Bracket), The Immortals (James Gunn), She (H Rider Haggard), The Green Planet (J Hunter Holly), Colossus (D F Jones), It Was The Day Of The Robot (Frank Belknap Long), Tomorrow Sometimes Comes (F G Rayer), Our Man In Space/Ultimatum In 2050 A. D. (Bruce W Ronald/Jack Sharkey) and Future For Sale (Richard Saxon). From the 1970s we have Tomorrow And Tomorrow (Hunt Collins), Floating Worlds (Cecelia Holland), Master Of The Dark Gate (John Jakes), The Mind Trap (Dan Morgan), Mindswap (Robert Sheckley) and To Die In Italbar (Roger Zelazny). Finally there’s one 1980s book, The Proud Robot by Henry Kuttner (suggested to be the ‘role model’ for Marvin the Paranoid Android) and one from the 1990s, Strength Of Stones by Greg Bear. Notable amongst these are The Sword Of Rhiannon, an early imitator/homager of Burroughs’ Mars stories, Floating Worlds, a truly enormous volume in the style of Dune, Master Of The Dark Gate featuring a Steranko cover and the Ace Double, Our Man In Space/Ultimatum In 2050 A. D., with cover art by Veligursky and by Schoenherr.
PICTURED:
THE SWORD OF RHIANNON (LEIGH BRACKET) GD £5
MASTER OF THE DARK GATE (JOHN JAKES) VG £5
COLOSSUS (D F JONES) VG £10
OUR MAN IN SPACE/ULTIMATUM IN 2050 A. D. (BRUCE W RONALD/JACK SHARKEY) GD £4