Книжная серия «SF Rediscovery»

Годы существования: 1974 – 1977

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The Avon-Equinox Reprints.

Under its Equinox label Avon Books has published photographic reprints in paperback of unidentified editions of The Foundation Trilogy ($3.95) and (in an «SF Rediscovery» series at $1.95 each) of Algis Budrys's Rogue Moon (1960; a somewhat longer text than the magazine version reprinted in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame), Philip Jose Farmer's Strange Relations (1960; «Mother,« «Daughter,« «Father,« «Son,« and «My Sister's Brother»), C.M. Korbluth's The Syndic (1953), and a somewhat Dickian, somewhat Kornbluthian but never subtle novel by John T. Sladek that attracted very little attention when published in 1968 as Mechasm, retitled here The Reproductive System. Since new titles are to be added in this series each month, several more will be available by the time this issue of SFS reaches its readers.

From the standpoint of bookmaking these volumes stand somewhere between the ordinary mass-market paperback and the ordinary quality or trade paperback. The page size is 5 x 8, which allows an enlargement of the type, but the paper, although better than ordinary pulp, is still of dubious quality, and the reproductive process has not been carefully done: in Foundation, the designation of the publisher has been changed from Doubleday to Equinox on the first two of the four title pages but not on the other two; in The Reproduction System two pages of advertising have been reproduced (it will surely not make Ace Books happy to receive orders at 1968 prices); and more important, the copy of The Syndic used for photographing was one that had been printed from dirty type, so that the tops of the e's and s's are filled in; the same thing is true, though to a lesser degree, of Strange Relations.

--R.D.Mullen.

Ведущее издательство:

Avon Books

Все издательства:

Avon Books

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