SF/Fantasy/Horror Notes

Orson Scott Card fans will welcome the reissue of Wyrms (1987), an early SF novel by the bestselling author of Shadow Puppets (Forecasts, July 15, 2002) and other titles in his Ender series. "A wonderful, textured novel," PW said of this futuristic tale of honor and self-sacrifice. (Orb, $14.95 paper 304p ISBN 0-765-30560-7)

Aye, and Gomorrah, by Samuel R. Delaney, collects all the significant short SF and fantasy fiction this SF Hall of Famer published between 1965 and 1988, except for tales in his Return to Nevron series. An expanded edition of Driftglass (1971), it includes four stories previously uncollected in the U.S. (Vintage, $14 paper 400p ISBN 0-375-70671-2)

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929–1964, edited by Robert Silverberg, features 26 stories selected as the best of their era by members of the SFWA. It's an all-star roster, including such greats as Stanley G. Weinbaum, John W. Campbell, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Arthur C. Clarke and Roger Zelazny. (Tor, $27.95 560p ISBN 0-765-30536-4)

K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot concludes Gene Brewer's K-PAX trilogy, featuring a psychiatric patient, prot, from another planet. Kevin Spacey played prot in the movie based on the first novel in the series. (Bloomsbury [Trafalgar Square dist.], $12 paper 275p ISBN 0-7475-5783-7)

British rock singer and punk precursor Mike Farren wrote three SF cult classics in the mid '70s. Now The Quest of the DNA Cowboys, Synaptic Manhunt and The Neural Atrocity are available in one omnibus volume, The DNA Cowboys Trilogy. (Do-Not Press [Dufour dist.], $29.95 128p ISBN 1-85585-972-6)

Paul di Filippo's Babylon Sisters and Other Posthumans gathers 14 fantastical tales by the acclaimed author of Strange Trades, Ribofunk and A Mouthful of Tongues: Her Totipotent Tropicanalia. (Prime [www.primebooks.net], $29.95 324p ISBN 1-894815-80-7; $17.95 paper -81-5)

The same publisher also offers Nowhere Near Milkwood, a collection of 34 stories and vignettes by absurdist Welsh author Rhys Hughes, who's garnered praise from the likes of Michael Moorcock, T.E.D. Klein and Jeff VanderMeer. ($15 paper 264p ISBN -11-4)

Gelion and Rire, two rival empires, stand on the brink of war in Throne Price, a stand-alone SF novel that reads like a sequel, by Canadian authors Lynda Williams and Alison Sinclair. Readers who persist through the confusing verbiage at the opening will find a decent, if not particularly memorable, yarn. (Edge [www.edgewebsite.com], $13.95 paper 334p ISBN 1-894063-06-6)