Dennis Dobson - Latest Updates

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dennis dobson first printing, first uk h/cvr & first uk edition

thematic reprint anthology of four novelettes and seven short stories, nf introduction by damon knight

cover (dj) art unsigned, probably by richard weaver (check if credited, which i didn't note in 1968)
cover (dj) price 25/- (= £1 5s; may well have been raised by dennis during the life of the print-run)
264pp. including xii pp. titles, indicia, 3pp. nf introduction by damon knight, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned, credited for jacket design on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price 30/-
224pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

timepiece series #3:

#1: ''timepiece'' (1968), q.v. for series listing, and links.

(seen stated to've been intended to be a pentalogy, but no source for this statement was given)

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Comment by ppint.:

the d-j bears dennis dobson's full in-print science fiction catalogue°, as was usual: brian ball's "timepiece" is listed, but not "timepivot" - and i do not recall ever seeing a dennis dobson edition of the second novel in this series.

° - listed by author/editor and title only, no (i)sbn or cover price

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson h/cvr first printing, first edition

cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned b+w art, credited for design on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price c. £1.75 (check)
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, not first uk edition (preceded by mayflower p/b edition)

cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £2.75
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, may have been preceded by the mayflower uk p/b edition

cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £2.75
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition (preceded the mayflower p/b edition, just)

cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £2.75
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson first printing, first h/cvr edition, first uk edition (preceded the mayflower p/b by a year)

cover (d-j) art by richard weaver (unsigned, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j) price £2.75
160pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

*nods* - so it was a bit rich for one of the "new worlds gang" to put down "traditional" sf as old-fashioned & boring, when you consider that, the odd arts council grant aside, the primary finance of new worlds post- roberts & vinter were the advances michael moorcock received from granada publishing, allison & busby and the like for his interminable° trilogies of trilogies piled ever higher and higher, until they toppled willy-nilly into an inconsistent, incoherent multiverse. . .

° - but commercially successful - the granada publishing mayflower, then granada, later grafton (and eventually harpercollinspublishers) & namara group quartet books uk p/bs and the berkley publishing group & lancer books mmpbs are still around on secondhand bookstalls and in charity shops...

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Comment by David Whiteley:

The review in New Worlds SF was by James Cawthorn.

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Comment by ppint.:

it'd be worth noting by whom the review published in new worlds was written:
the magazine was by then a flag-waver for "the new wave" and for "speculative fiction", and rather prone to get very sniffy about perfectly good "traditional" sf that did not adhere to their - somewhat ironically - rather narrow definitions of what "speculative fiction" was, or ought to be - or, was simply written by the "wrong (/wrong kind of) writers".

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson h/cvr first printing, first edition (as scheduled: possibly preceded by corgi books p/b)

original anthology of two short stories, three novelelettes and a novella, introduction by john carnell

cover (d-j) art none: typographical in black on dennis dobson's long-time uniform two-colour "new writings in sf" design by eric ayers (credited on d-j front flap)
cover price 21/-
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

6/1969 was presumably the month in which dennis dobson first advertised this original anthology would be published° - but the copyright date of 1970 does seem pretty conclusive, doesn't it - ?

° - traditionally, publishers advertised their new titles lists seasonally; this may've started off as a direct consequence of the link between the ecclesiastical and law terms, and a considerable proportion of early book publishing's catering to these two of the three oldest professions.

by nineteen-sixties & seventies, this had long since settled down into a spring and an autumn list, with titles having their scheduled month of publication noted, where this had been decided upon (plus a dedicated christmas list from those publishers as indulged themselves in such).
so titles might commonly be announced up to six months before their provisionally scheduled publication date - and then other factors might intrude, including matters from the real world™. . .

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Comment by David Whiteley:

Added cover and some page images, plus, a review by James Cawthorn from New Worlds SF magazine, #200 April 1970.

The copyright page shows a 1970 publication date and the New World review is from the April 1970 edition.

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson first printing, first uk edition

cover (d-j) art unsigned
cover (d-j) price 15/-
184pp. including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between cloth-covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art by richard weaver
b+w interior illustration by jack gaughan signed with his jg digraph, retained from the daw books mmpb
cover (d-j) price £4.25
208pp.(check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition

cover (d-j) art by richard weaver
cover (d-j) price £3.85
216pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards

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contents:

introduction (nf) john w. campbell, jr.
subjectivity (short story) norman spinrad (vol.lxxii #5, 1/1964)
the permanent implosion (novelelette) dean mclaughlin (vol.lxxii #6, 2/1964)
sunjammer (ntte) poul anderson (vol.lxxii #2, 4/1964) as by winston p. sanders) aka the rogue (flying mountains series)
a day in the life of kelvin throop (ss) r. a. j. phillips (vol.lxxiii #5, 7/1964)
genus traitor (ntte) mack reynolds (vol.lxxiii #6, 8/1964)
a case of identity (novella) randall garrett (vol.lxxiv #1, 9/1964) (a lord darcy story)
the mary celeste move (ss) frank herbert (vol.lxxiv, #2, 10/1964)

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contents:

"scientists are stupid!" (introduction nf) john w. campbell, jr.
computers don't argue (short story) gordon r. dickson (vol.lxxvi #1, 9/1965)
the adventure of the extraterrestrial (novelette) mack reynolds (vol.lxxv #5, 7/1965)
fighting division (ss) randall garrett (vol.lxxv #6, 8/1965)
mission "red clash" (novella) joe poyer (vol.lxxvi #4, 12/1965)
countercommandment (ss) patrick meadows (vol.lxxvi #4, 12/1965)
coincidence day (ss) john brunner (vol.lxxiv #6, 2/1965)
balanced ecology (ss) james h. schmitz (vol.lxxv #1, 3/1965) (the hub) aka "the diamondwood trees"
overproof (ntte) randall garrett (vol.lxxvi #2, 10/1965 as by jonathan blake mackenzie)
say it with flowers (ss) poul anderson (vol.lxxvi #1, 9/1965 as by winston p. sanders) (flying mountains series)

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contents:

frost animals (novelette) bob shaw
nuclear fission (ntte) paul david novitski
time shards (short story) gregory benford
the captain and the kid (ss) marta randall
the back road (ss) mary c. pangborn
will the chill (ntte) john shirley
chicken of the tree (ss) juleen brantingham
the white horse child (ss) greg bear
options (ntte) john varley (an eight worlds story)

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contents:

old folks at home (novella) michael bishop (urban nucleus)
david and lindy (novelette) cynthia felice
vermeer's window (short story) gordon eklund
scattershot (ntte) greg bear
the ecologically correct house (ss) charles ott
hunting (ntte) michael cassutt
nooncoming (ss) gregory benford
selenium ghosts of the eighteen seventies (ntte) r. a. lafferty

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contents:

a rite of spring (novelette) fritz leiber
my lady of the psychiatric sorrows (short story) brian w. aldiss
probability storm (ntte) julian reid
people reviews (ss) robert (rob) chilson
ibid. (ss) george (geo.) alec effinger
the marvellous brass chessplaying automaton (ntte) gene wolfe
brain fever season (ss) r. a. lafferty (men who knew everything)
the ninth symphony of ludwig van beethoven and other lost songs (ntte) carter scholz

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contents:

custer's last jump (novelette) stephen uttley, howard waldrop
journey to the heartland (ntte) brian w. aldiss
shifting parameters in disappearance and memory (short story) charlie haas
stars and darkness (ss) glenn chang
the wine has been left open too long and the memory has gone flat (ss) harlan ellison
under the generator (ntte) john shirley
what did you do last year? (ss) gregory benford, gordon eklund

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contents:

if this is winnetka, you must be judy (novelette) f. m. busby
schrödinger's cat (short story) ursula k. le guin
how it felt (ss) george (geo.) alec effinger
the night is cold, the stars are far away (ss) mildred downey broxon
mysterious doings in the metropolitan museum (ss) fritz leiber
m is for the many (ss) (john) j. j. russ
the night wind (novelette) edgar pangborn (a tale of the darkening world)
but as a soldier, for his country (ss) stephen goldin
survival problems (ss) kris neville
passion play (ss) j. michael reaves
the rubber bend (ntte) gene wolfe
the ramparts (ntte) hilary bailey

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contents:

assault on a city (novella) jack vance
a sea of faces (short story) robert silverberg
and read the flesh between the lines (ss) r. a. lafferty (the men who knew everything)
my sweet lady jo (ss) howard waldrop
stungun slim (ss) ron goulart
desert places (ss) pamela sargent
if the stars are gods (novelette) gregory benford, gordon eklund (later rewritten into a novel of same title)
when the vertical world becomes horizontal (ss) alexei panshin

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contents:

introduction (nf) terry carr
the death of dr. island (novella) gene wolfe (an archipelago variation)
the ghost writer (ss) geo. alec effinger
many mansions (ntte) robert silverberg
randy-tandy man (ss) ross rocklynne
the world is a sphere (ntte) edgar pangborn (tales of a darkening world)
the legend of cougar lou brandis (ss) edward (ed) bryant
free city blues (ntte) gordon eklund

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contents:

full-page b+w interior illustrations (one per story) by alicia austin (all but one signed, credited)
retroactive (novelette) bob shaw (an a.e.s.o.p. story)
when we went to see the end of the world (ss) robert silverberg
funeral service (ss) gerard f. conway
a special condition in summit city (ss) r. a. lafferty
patron of the arts (ntte) william rotsler (later rewritten into a novel bearing the same title)
useful phrases for the tourist (ss) joanna russ
on the downhill side (ss) harlan ellison
the other perceiver (ss) pamela sargent
my head's in a different place now (ntte) grania davis
stalking the sun (ntte) gordon eklund
the man who waved hello (ss) gardner r. dozois
the headless man (ss) gene wolfe
tiger boy (ntte) edgar pangborn (set in the world of "davy"/tales of a darkening world)

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contents:

interior full-page b+w illustrations by alicia austin (one to each story) (signed, credited)
introduction (nf) terry carr
west wind, falling (novelette) gregory benford, gordon eklund (the ace books mmpb cover story)
good news from the vatican (short story) robert silverberg
jade blue (ss) edward (ed) bryant
nor limestone islands (ss) r. a. lafferty
time exposure (ntte) wilson tucker
mindship (ss) gerard f. conway
notes for a novel about the first ship ever to venus (ss) barry n. malzberg
poor man, beggar man (ntte) joanna russ
the romance of dr. tanner (ss) ron goulart
the human side of the village monster (ss) edward (ed) bryant
mount charity (ntte) edgar pangborn
all the last wars at once (ss) george (geo.) alec effinger

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Comment by ppint.:

dennis dobson first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition

original anthology of five short stories and four novelettes

cover (d-j) design by richard weaver (unsigned typographical, credited on d-j front flap)
cover (d-j ) price
192pp. (check) including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards