In my Inbox, courtesty Diversion

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[coffeeandink]

Thank you for the heads up on the Moore!

[michaelgr.livejournal.com]

Those covers are really classy! and it appears both "The Best of" and "Judgement Night" (a personal favorite) are free on the Kindle store at the moment.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

The first one, at least, is $0.00 on Amazon.

Are these legit?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I believe so.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Nice. They put out a bunch of Kuttner last year, but only one was a Moore collaboration.

I guess I should do one of my periodic checks for classic authors who've been been reprinted digitally.

ETA: Ooo, somebody's republished D.F. Jones' Colossus (AKA The Forbin Project). Oddly, though, they've put out second sequel but not the first. They also have The Earth Has Been Found, a fun Wyndhamesque cozy catastrophe -- but none of the Jones novels I haven't read.

Colossus

[raja1999.livejournal.com]

Ooo, somebody's republished D.F. Jones' Colossus (AKA The Forbin Project). Oddly, though, they've put out second sequel but not the first.

Thanks for the pointer; I'll go snatch up Colossus and The Fall of Colossus as ebooks.

It's been years since I've read them but isn't Fall the second book, and thus the first sequel, in the series?

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Re: Colossus

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

You're right. I got confused because "Colossus and the Crab" is a horrible name for the final book of a trilogy (and the plot's not much better -- I mean, the Crab Nebula as a threat to the solar syster?)

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

I remember "Earth Has been Found" as more creepy than cozy (extra-dimensional insect-like parasites?) but it has been a while since I read it.

[malkaesther.livejournal.com]

I love all this older stuff coming back in print.

[dryadinthegrove]

Oh, those covers! *love*

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

If "courtesty" isn't a word already, it should be.

[calcinations.livejournal.com]

WHo is this Paul Preuss and should I read some of his work?
I guess I'll find out.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I was going to say you might have heard of his Venus Prime collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke but aaaaactually the book you're most likely to have encountered (as a movie) is The Core.

[michaelgr.livejournal.com]

I read Core back when, but for some reason all I remembered of the plot was that it featured an antagonist in the form of none other than dear old Saddam Hussein, who hatches a plot to use a deep diagonal borehole and an H-bomb to trigger earthquakes and wipe out Israel, so I never made the connection to the movie. Preuss doesn't even have a story credit on IMDB for the film - I wonder if it's really based on his novel at all.

[scentofviolets.livejournal.com]

I'm clearly in the minority, but all those covers save one are hideous. Numbers four and five particularly so.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

They beat the hell out of those hideous Joan Vinge and Gwyneth Jones covers from a few weeks ago.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

I actively like the Moore covers. The Preuss covers, well, could be worse.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

Is the Moore "Best Of" a reprint of the 1970s Ballantine?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I believe so.

[malkaesther.livejournal.com]

I downloaded it earlier so I looked for you. Copyright page says 1975 & reprinted 2015.