15th March 2011, 08:13 PM
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| Prehistoric Irish Cynic  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: California
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17th March 2011, 11:39 PM
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| Re: SF Masterwork series continued... With two of Philip K. Dick's books in this series waiting for me, I've also today added Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama - something I probably should've read a long, long time ago. |
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27th March 2011, 03:19 PM
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| Re: SF Masterwork series continued... Finally thought it was enough with my lazy collection of the series so today i impulse bought added Joanna Russ novel. Emphyrio by Jack Vance The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester I Am Legend by Richard Matheson The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K.Dick The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Philip K.Dick A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick The Forever War by Joe Haldeman The Female Man - Joanna Russ(SF Masterworks) |
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28th March 2011, 02:07 PM
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Plus i have many SF books i havent had time to read cause of literary classes. The more books i read for school the less i read of my own and buy new SF books. | |
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28th March 2011, 02:32 PM
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28th March 2011, 02:40 PM
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By the way what do you think of their new coloring,look ? I think its extremly smart. When i impulse bought Female Man i was surprised by how their yellow SFM books was dominating the shelfs. I spent alot of time in the bookstore SF room,shelfes and SFM was drawing your eyes with their clear colours without you even looking for them. I could see clearly only SFM books. I was like there is a Vonnegut and a Priest and Matheson and Clarke and so on. Not as tasteful when it comes coloring,covers as the old SFM books but it works. | |
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28th March 2011, 02:59 PM
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However, the only one of the new cover styles I have read ("Inverted World"), I was disappointed by the fact that the plastic sheet on the cover has peeled away from the edges quite badly. If the next one I buy is like that, I shall be very disappointed. | |
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28th June 2011, 05:36 PM
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| Re: SF Masterwork series continued... Another update on the scheduled future releases in the series with those in bold being added: "Hellstrom's Hive" by Frank Herbert (Paperback - 14 Jul 2011) "Of Men and Monsters" by William Tenn (Paperback - 11 Aug 2011) "War With the Newts and R.U.R." by Karel Capek (Paperback - 8 Sep 2011) "The Affirmation" by Christopher Priest (Paperback - 13 Oct 2011) "Floating Worlds" by Cecelia Holland (Paperback - 8 Dec 2011) "Rogue Moon" by Algis Budrys (Paperback - 12 Jan 2012) "Dangerous Visions" by Harlan Ellison (Paperback - 9 Feb 2012) "Odd John" by Olaf Stapledon (Paperback - 1 Feb 2012) "The Fall of Hyperion" by Dan Simmons (Paperback - 1 Mar 2012) "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (Hardcover - 10 May 2012) "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells (Hardcover - 12 Jul 2012) The Invisible Man" by H.G. Wells (Hardcover - 8 Nov 2012) "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley (Paperback - 1 April 2012) "The First Men In The Moon" by H.G. Wells (Hardcover - 1 Jan 2013) "The Caltraps of Time" by David I. Masson (Paperback - 1 Mar 2013) "Unquenchable Fire" by Rachel Pollack (Paperback - 1 Apr 2013) "The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe" by D.G. Compton (Paperback - 1 May 2013) |
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28th June 2011, 07:50 PM
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28th June 2011, 09:24 PM
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28th June 2011, 09:45 PM
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I hope they publish The Day of the Triffids again with the new cover. I can't seem to get hold of a copy of the old hardback. | |
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28th June 2011, 10:45 PM
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| Re: SF Masterwork series continued... This is a gread thread. I might get round to checking exactly which titles I have read. I love this series of books. Personally, I am not bothered by the PKD titles in there. I remember painfully the 1990s when I had to get his books from the USA! Very glad to see "The Female Man" on there - love it. Also it's good that "The Food of the Gods" is on there. I really enjoyed this and it's not as well-known as some of Wells' other books. Just to pick up on some comments earlier in the thread: I am a UK reader and I had never heard of C. J. Cherryh until a week or so back, and I have been into SF since the 1980s. I am now reading "Downbelow Station" and lapping it up! It seems wrong that there is no John Wyndham on there [edit - oops just realised Triffids was there as a HBK - but still, what about "The Midwich Cuckoos"]. I have often wondered how they manage to sort out the publishing rights for all these titles! By the way "Man Plus" is absolutely amazing. I haven't read much other Pohl (Just "Drunkard's Walk"), but "Man Plus" blew me away.  a |
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