photos
courtesy of Phototake; SS, editor
LAST SWORD OF POWER by David Gemmell (F)
345-37901-2
Paperback, 320 pp; cover art by Royo; SWS, editor
HUNT THE HEAVENS by Chris Bunch (SF)
345-38736-8
Paperback, 256 pp; cover art by Nicholas Jainschigg; SS, editor
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OCTOBER 1996:
MOTHER OF WINTER by Barbara Hambly (F)
345-39722-3
Hardcover, 352 pp; cover art by Donato Giancola; VC, editor
TARZAN: THE EPIC ADVENTURES by R.A. Salvatore (SF)
345-40810-1
Trade paperback, 256 pp; cover photo by Michelene Keller; SWS, editor
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY by Ray Bradbury (SF)
345-40785-7
Trade paperback, 336 pp; cover art by Janet Woolley; CL, editor
THE QUOTABLE STAR WARS: I'D JUST AS SOON KISS A WOOKIEE by
Stephen J. Sansweet (SF)
345-40760-1
Trade paperback, 128 pp; cover art from Lucasfilm Ltd.; SWS, editor
THE ROAD TO MADNESS: THE TRANSITION OF H.P. LOVECRAFT by H.P.
Lovecraft (SF)
Third of our short-story collection series; 345-38422-9
Trade paperback, 384 pp; cover art by John Jude Palencar; SWS, editor
MID-FLINX by Alan Dean Foster (SF)
Mass-market edition of our 11/95 hardcover edition;345-40644-3
Paperback,352 pp; cover art by Bob Eggleton; SS, editor
DEVIL'S TOWER by Mark Sumner (SF)
345-40209-X
Paperback, 352 pp; cover art by Sanjulian; VC, editor
A GUIDE TO THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE, SECOND EDITON, REVISED & EXPANDED
by Bill Slavicsek (SF)
345-38625-6
Trade paperback reissue, 495 pp; cover art by Ralph McQuarrie, SWS, editor
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DRIN AVAILABILITY (Lots of ways to get the DRIN online)
1. read it the first few days of the month on rec.arts.sf.written,
Delphi's Science Fiction and Fantasy SIG (Upcoming Books and Magazines
topic), America Online's SF Library or OmniPurpose Library,* or
CompuServe's SFLit Library 2*;
2. send a message to majordomo@www.randomhouse.com to be added to
the subscriber list and have the DRIN delivered to your mailbox the
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should read: subscribe DRIN-dist e-mail-address;
3. read it and more on our World Wide Web site*,
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4. get a copy from the Del Rey fileserver* (delrey@tachyon.com) by
sending e-mail with "SENDME newsletter.current" as the body of
the message (or send "HELP" for full instructions);
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Books directory);
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7. read the current issue in the science-fiction area on BIX;
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WORKS IN PROGRESS: Changes, Additions, Updates
The DRIN lists only the changes to the Works in Progress report. The
entire current report can be found on the Panix gopher (gopher.panix.com)
in the Del Rey Books subdirectory, under Publishing Information.)
No updates this month except for news on Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: THE FINAL
ODYSSEY (see News and Announcements below).
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SIGNING, READINGS, CONVENTION ATTENDANCE BY DEL REY AUTHORS
MARK COTTA VAZ will be signing SECRETS OF STAR WARS: SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE
at the following locations:
June 1: Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, California, 1PM-3PM.
June 14: East Bay Books, San Leandro, California, 4PM-6PM.
FRANCINE WOODBURY will be signing SHADE AND SHADOW at the following stores:
June 1: Waldenbooks, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, 1PM-2:30PM.
June 1: Pandemonium Books and Games, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 4PM-6PM.
June 7: Worchester Common Fashion Outlet, Worchester, Mass, 12PM-2PM.
June 8: Waldenbooks, Auburn, Massachussets, 1PM-2:30PM.
June 9: Waldenbooks, Manchester, Connecticut,, 1PM-2:30PM.
June 15: Tatnuck Bookseller, Worcester, Massachussets, 1PM-4PM.
STEVE SAFFEL, Del Rey Senior Editor, VERONICA CHAPMAN, Del Rey Senior
Editor, KUO-YU LIANG, Del Rey Associate Publisher, and J. GREGORY KEYES,
author of Discovery of the Year THE WATERBORN, will be attending DragonCon
in Atlanta, Georgia, June 20-23.
DEL REY NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS===================================
NEW HARRY HARRISON ALTERNATE-HISTORY TRILOGY
Del Rey has just purchased a sweeping alternate-history trilogy by Harry
Harrison, tentatively titled _The Stars and Stripes_. We plan to publish
the first volume in 1998. Here's what it's about:
The change of history begins as Prince Albert, who in the real timeline
averts a diplomatic crisis, dies an untimely death--which leads to a
British invasion of America's northern border...smack in the middle of the
Civil War. The Civil War is in a stalemate; Abe Lincoln and Jefferson
Davis have been in secret meetings to discuss a resolution when the Brits
show up. When the Brits accidentally attack a Southern stronghold, North
and South unite against the invaders. General Sherman becomes the
commanding General and leads Grant, Lee, McClellan, Jackson, etc. into a
series of fantastic battles the Brits, including the Battle of New York and
Sherman's march through Canada. Britain, furious at its defeat, begins a
second, massive invasion through the Gulf of Mexico as it pulls in all of
its resources from colonies worldwide. We'll leave what happens next a
mystery, but let's just say it involves Ireland.
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DEL REY BOOKS ACQUIRES ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S 3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY
3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY is the concluding installment of a story that began
with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and continued with 2010: ODYSSEY TWO and 2061:
ODYSSEY THREE. Arthur Clarke says: "To put the Odyssey series in
perspective, it must be remembered that when Stanley Kubrick and I started
planning what we privately called 'How the Solar System Was Won,' the Space
Age was barely seven years old and no human had traveled more than a
hundred kilometers from the home planet. In 1965, travel to the moon still
seemed to most people like a far-off dream. We did not even know what the
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lunar surface looked like at close quarters. There were still fears that
the first word uttered by an emerging astronaut would be 'Help!' as he
disappeared into a talcum-powder-like layer of moondust.
"This new work will discard many of the elements of its precursors, but
develop others--and I hope more important ones--in much greater detail.
I've never had so much fun writing, and the ideas are pouring out."
Progress on the novel was hindered by the Challenger space shuttle disaster
in 1986. The shuttle was to have launched the Galileo space probe to
Jupiter, a journey of some 390 million miles during which the vessel would
have transmitted detailed observations to Earth. Without the information
from Galileo, Clarke was unable to continue his research for the concluding
volume of the Odyssey series. It was not until NASA successfully launched
the probe years later that the author was able to obtain the data he
needed to proceed with 3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY.
There is no publication date as yet, but watch this space for news.
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SEMIANNUAL, BILATERAL, HEXADECIMAL SF/F WEB SITE ROUND-UP
In standard World Wide Web fashion, I set off looking for SF/F publishers'
sites and ended up with few of what I sought but lots of related stuff
instead--stores, fan sites, and even a site for those of you who watch TV
when you're not reading books. Thus, the following items:
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia Page, which I found out
about by reading SF Weekly (see below):
http://www.uic.edu/~lauramd/sf/femsf.html
Weekly Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List (compiled from votes by readers):
www.clark.net/pub/iz/Books/Top100/top100list.txt
Northwest Science Fiction Resources, including convention information,
writer and fan resources, links to clubs and bookstores, and more:
http://www.seanet.com/Users/warlock/
Science Fiction Weekly, a Web-based SF/F magazine with book, game, and TV &
movie reviews, plus interviews etc.:
http://www.scifiweekly.com/
Mysterious Galaxy SF/F/Mystery bookstore (at their newish address):
http://www.mystgalaxy.com/mg.html
The House of Speculative Fiction (an Ottawa bookstore), including staff
picks with reviews, forthcoming books list, ordering by e-mail:
http://www.cyberus.ca/specfic/
Dominion, the Sci-Fi Channel's site, mostly TV-oriented but with some book
and merchandise stuff:
http://www.scifi.com/
A site put together by author Mark Sumner to promote DEVIL'S TOWER, his
forthcoming Del Rey book:
http://www.inlink.com/~range/
An unofficial David Gemmell site,with bibliography by series:
http://www.home-spun.com/gemmell/
A detailed J.R.R. Tolkien timeline, covering events in his life and career:
http://www.lights.com/tolkien/timeline.html
Note: I'm happy to publicize good new SF/F sites and will be doing
another round-up sometime soon, so feel free to send me suggestions.
Thanks!
LATEST EXCERPTS ONLINE=============================================
Sample chapters of some of our upcoming and recent (and some of our
favorite, neither upcoming nor recent) books are available online (for
free, of course). This month's books are BELGARATH by David and Leigh
Eddings and GENELLAN: IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON by Scott G. Gier.
Descriptions above in "What's New in the Stores."
You can get the sample chapters a few different ways: they're on the Del
Rey Web site (http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/) and on the Panix gopher
(gopher.panix.com) in the Del Rey Books directory; you can request them via
e-mail from the Del Rey fileserver (delrey@tachyon.com; SENDME
sample.belgarath or sample.in_the_shadow) and they'll be available in
CompuServe's SFLit Library 2 and AOL's SF and Fantasy libraries, too. (For
a list of all sample chapters available via the fileserver, send a message
to delrey@tachyon.com with "LIST sample" as the body of the message.)
IN DEPTH========================================================
Since turning to the arts full-time in 1978, Barclay Shaw has painted well
over 350 book and magazine cover illustrations--including many covers for
Del Rey. His career as an artist began with commissions to do the cover
illustrations for sixteen Harlan Ellison titles. Since then, he has worked
for virtually every major publishing house. His work has been nominated for
Hugo and Chesley Awards and has been displayed in museum and gallery shows
as well as numerous Science Fiction Convention art shows. He recently
created the cover art for Larry Niven's THE RINGWORLD THRONE, using digital
tools instead of paint and brushes. Below are his comments on the
experience, in the context of technological changes in the art scene:
THE RINGWORLD THRONE AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Acrylic paint and photography were two major new developments in art media
