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DETOUR TO OTHERNESS by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore
WITH FOLDED HANDS . . . AND SEARCHING MIND, THE COLLECTED STORIES OF
JACK WILLIAMSON, VOLUME SEVEN by Jack Williamson
** EARLY BIRD PROMOTION! **
Prepay for both DETOUR & WITH FOLDED HANDS in *advance of publication*
and receive a bonus chapbook . . .
"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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DETOUR TO OTHERNESS
In 1961, Ballantine Books published Bypass to Otherness, a paperback
collection of some of Henry Kuttner's (and C. L. Moore's) best short
stories. Several selections were drawn from Kuttner's popular series
such as the "Hogbens" (comedic otherworldly hillbillies living in
America), "Gallagher Galloway" (scientist who invents technical
marvels only when intoxicated), and the "Baldies" stories eventually
collected in Mutants. Bypass was projected as the first of three
"Otherness" collections of Kuttner's short fiction. Return to
Otherness followed in 1962 with 8 more stories. And then . . .
nothing. The third "Otherness" collection never appeared. Now,
almost fifty years later, Haffner Press announces DETOUR TO OTHERNESS:
a massive hardcover assembling the contents of both Bypass to
Otherness and Return to Otherness, and adding 8 additional stories
selected for their scarcity, quality, and sheer entertainment value.
Grand Masters Robert Silverberg and Frederik Pohl provide introductory
and afterword materials to the book, and the whole affair is decorated
with an unpublished painting by Richard Powers.
Contents
Introduction by Robert Silverberg
Bypass to Otherness
Cold War
Call Him Demon
The Dark Angel
The Piper's Son
Absalom
The Little Things
Nothing but Gingerbread Left
Housing Problem
Return to Otherness
See You Later
This Is the House
The Proud Robot
Gallegher Plus
The Ego Machine
Android
The Sky Is Falling
Juke-Box
Detour to Otherness
Open Secret
All Is Illusion
Rite of Passage
Baby Face
Happy Ending
The Children's Hour
Dream's End
Near Miss
Afterword by Frederik Pohl
Ordering information:
DETOUR TO OTHERNESS
By Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore
Introduction by Robert Silverberg
Afterword by Frederik Pohl
Cover art by Richard Powers
600+ page 6.25" x 9.25" Smythe-sewn Archival-quality Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-893887-18-3
1000-copy trade edition: $40.00 (U.S.)
Release date: May 2010
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WITH FOLDED HANDS . . . AND SEARCHING MIND, THE COLLECTED STORIES OF
JACK WILLIAMSON, VOLUME SEVEN by Jack Williamson
Grand Master Jack Williamson passed away in 2006 at the age of 98, but
the ambitious program to collect his short fiction continues.
Included are Williamson's acknowledged classics "The Equalizer" and
"With Folded Hands . . ." along with ". . . And Searching Mind," the 3-
part serial that JW rewrote into the dystopian classic, The Humanoids.
Fellow Grand Master Robert Silverberg supplies the forward, and the
author provides an afterword commenting on the genesis of these
stories, and reflecting on the science fiction market during and
immediately after World War II.
"Foreword" by Robert Silverberg
"Backlash" (Astounding Science Fiction, Aug '41)
"Breakdown" (Astounding Science Fiction, Jan '42)
"Conscience, LTD." (Unknown, Aug '43)
"Cold Front Coming" (Blue Book, Jun '45)
"The Equalizer" (Astounding Science Fiction, Mar '47)
"With Folded Hands . . ." (Astounding Science Fiction, Jul '47)
". . . And Searching Mind" Astounding Science Fiction, Mar, Apr, May
'48)
"The Moon and Mr. Wick" (Comet, Sum '50)
"The Cold Green Eye" (Fantastic, Mar/Apr '53)
"Hocus-Pocus Universe" (Science Stories, Oct '53)
"Operation Gravity" (Science Fiction Plus, Oct '53)
"The Hitch-Hiker's Package" (Fantastic Universe, May '54)
"Guinevere for Everybody" (Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, 1954)
"You Can't Beat a Marine" (El Portal, May '56)
"Beans" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nov '58)
"Afterword" by Jack Williamson
Ordering information:
WITH FOLDED HANDS . . . AND SEARCHING MIND, THE COLLECTED STORIES OF
JACK WILLIAMSON, VOLUME SEVEN
By Jack Williamson
Foreword by Robert Silverberg
Cover art by Hubert Rogers
500+ page 6.25" x 9.25" Smythe-sewn Archival-quality Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-893887-37-4
1000-copy trade edition: $40.00 (U.S.)
Release date: May 2010
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