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Grand Masters of Sci Fi & Fantasy Part 3 (page 2)

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FICTION
Released: April 1, 1998
SLAN
by A.E. van Vogt

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FICTION
Released: April 1, 1998
PORTS OF CALL
by Jack Vance
"Time will tell."
 New galaxy-hopping, picaresque adventure from a master storyteller (Night Lamp, 1996, etc.). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1997
THE DEMON PRINCES: VOL. II
by Jack Vance
"Nonpareil."
 The final two Demon Prince novels (The Demon Princes, Vol. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: March 7, 1996
COMMON CLAY: 20 ODD STORIES
by Brian W. Aldiss
"Not to every taste, perhaps, but thoughtful and subtle, conveying the unnerving sense that there's always something else going on just beyond the reader's immediate apprehension."
 The latest collection from British grandmaster Aldiss (A Tupolev Too Far, 1994, etc.) includes six original stories among the reprints, 198795, the whole being knitted together with unsettling fictional-autobiographical musings and others comments. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1993
MORE THAN FIRE
by Philip José Farmer
"Though recent volumes have been presented for review in these pages, series fans will wish to investigate."
 Farmer's World of Tiers yarns—a mingling of classical and American Indian mythology, William Blake-ish romanticism, and Edgar Rice Burroughs-like high adventure—have been appearing variously since 1965; this book (according to the publishers) presents the ultimate showdown between the hero, Kickaha, and Lord Red Orc—one of the arrogant and decadent super-race that created the Tiers, a succession of pocket universes (the Tower of Babylon tier, the Atlantis tier, the Amerind tier, etc.). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 1974
THE DISPOSSESSED: A NOVEL-4
by Ursula K. Le Guin
"All through, this impresses with small but incalculably right choices which add up solidly and confirm Mrs. Le Guin as one of our finest projectionists of brave old and other worlds."
It's a few thousand years from now, a time of widened horizons but all too familiar contours. Read full book review >