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Announcing The Very Best of Gene Wolfe, plus Secret Histories launches and gift box upgrades
Posted by Peter Crowther on March 10th, 2009 at 21:00
Hi everyone!
It’s a stripped-down-for-speed newsletter this time out, because we know you folks have things to do and places to be…
Announcing The Very Best of Gene Wolfe – available for pre-order now
Observant visitors to the PS Webstore should already have noticed the appearance of one or two new pieces of cover artwork over the past couple of weeks (Spook City, The Witnesses Are Gone, Mystery Hill, Starfall, and R.I.P. to name a few) but right now we’d like to draw your attention to just one of them — The Very Best Of Gene Wolfe.
Featuring gorgeous wraparound cover art from J.K. Potter plus the special inclusion of Gene’s masterful novelette Christmas Inn (which we put out as our very first Winter Chapbook, issued free to Postscripts subscribers) plus the fact that all copies are signed by Gene (with the deluxe edition additionally signed by introducer Kim Stanley Robinson) . . . well, we reckon this is going to be one to cherish.
The book is due in next month but from now until then, all pre-ordered copies will be post-free.
Don’t miss out! Click through below, take advantage of the savings and pre-order your copy right away!
- The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (hardcover) – £50 [ US$75 approx. ]
- The Very Best of Gene Wolfe (deluxe slipcased hardcover) – £100 [ US$150 approx. ]
Secret Histories launch events
The monolithic leviathan that is John Berlyne’s Secret Histories: A Bibliography Of The Works Of Tim Powers trundles on inexorably towards its launch at EasterCon in Bradford, England, where Tim will be guest of honour.
We’ll certainly have (from my mouth to God’s ear!) copies there of the trade edition, though the availability of the two-volume deluxe edition and the super-deluxe three-volume lettered edition (most of which are pre-sold) is frankly doubtful. We’ll do what we can but the signing sheets for the two top editions are still out… plus Tim is still busy drawing individual artwork for each of the lettered sets. So those who have pre-ordered copies will just need to be patient a few weeks longer – which, after eight years in preparation, shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
Oh, and for those who can’t make it to Bradford, John Berlyne has persuaded Tim to come along to the next British Fantasy Society Open Night for a second celebration — the date is Friday 17 April and the venue is The George public house in Fleet Street (the closest tube station is Temple). Copies of the Secret Histories trade edition will be on sale for the one-off knock-down price of £35; there’s even a Facebook event page.
Anniversary Gift-Box upgrades – now including latest titles!
And finally, a word on our Anniversary Gift Boxes. To call them a resounding success would be understating the facts… so, in order to preserve dwindling pre-2008 stocks – and to avoid disappointment on the part of all those readers who want to read ten fabulous books for a fraction of their published cost – we’re sweetening the cake just a little.
From here on, each month we’ll be changing the line-up slightly: instead of ten pre-2008 titles, we’re altering it to nine pre-2008 titles… plus one of our latest books.
This month, for the two ‘novella’ Gift Boxes, it’s Zoran Zivkovic’s wonderful The Bridge and, in the two ‘novel’ Gift Boxes, we’ll be including Paul Di Filippo’s latest collection, Harsh Oases (which came in only last week).
Click through on the links below to grab yourself a real bargain before the month is out!
- Ten trade novellas, including Zoran Zivkovic’s The Bridge – £40 [ US$60 approx. ]
- Ten jacketed hardcover novellas, including Zoran Zivkovic’s The Bridge – £100 [ US$150 approx. ]
- Ten trade novels, including Paul Di Filippo’s Harsh Oases – £100 [ US$150 approx. ]
- Ten slipcased novels, including Paul Di Filippo’s Harsh Oases – £200 [ US$300 approx. ]
Inaugural giveaway winners
As promised, we drew two random email addresses from the PS mailing list last month and sent them some free special editions.
Mika Pehkonen from Finland snared a three-book Ray Bradbury gift set, and Nicholas Bergeron from Minnesota received the last slipcased deluxe edition of Joe Hill’s Gunpowder… just for receiving the PS newsletter once a month.
Will you be a winner this time out? We’ll announce the two lucky individuals in our next newsletter!
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We’ve got more exciting news for you but it’ll just have to wait until April. Until then, look after each other… and happy reading.
Pete