Pinnacle / Futorian - Latest Updates

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Comment by ppint.:

publisher should^W has been varied to "pinnacle / futorian" as per all other pinnacle / futorian series editions, which bookcat will^W then^aW now sorts together correctly.

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Comment by ppint.:

pinnacle books mmpb first printing, first edition
pinnacle/ futorian science fiction series

cover art by ron walotsky (unsigned, mis-credited to wilotsky)
cover price $1.75
168pp. (check) including unnumbered/unpaginated titles, indicia, etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

pinnacle books mmpb first printing, first edition
pinnacle/ futorian science fiction series

text revised from that of the serialised novel published in 1959

cover art by howard darden (signed darden(? - "squiggle", really), credited)
cover price $1.75
278pp. (check) including unnumbered/unpaginated titles, indicia, etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

author field should^W has been varied to editor

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Comment by ppint.:

contents:

molly zero (novella) keith roberts (later extended by keith into a fine novel, victor gollancz (1985) q.v.)
if i forget thee... (nlla) james (e.) gunn (later included in his "the dreamers" (1981) retitled "the volunteer")
freitzke's turn (nlla) jack vance (a miro hetzel story, the second-published) (the two novellas later collected and published as "galactic effectuator" (1980 & ff.), q.v.

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Comment by ppint.:

pinnacle books mmpb first printing, first edition
pinnacle/ futorian science fiction series

original anthology of three novellas with introduction by robert silverberg

cover art by randy weidner (unsigned, credited)
cover price $1.95
224pp. (check) including (i-viii) titles, indicia, etc, end pp. advertising

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Comment by ppint.:

pinnacle / futorian science fiction was a brief pinnacle books series edited by roger elwood from end 1977-mid 1978; his somewhat restrictive version of christianity may have contributed to its brevity.

pinnacle books' manglement may've intended to extend their "futorian" series into the sub-imprint for all of their sf titles, but this did not happen - and roger elwood's career as the most active original sf anthologist of his time also collapsed, with some established sf (& fantasy) editors taking over the work on a number of his then uncompleted projects already sold to various publishers.

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Comment by ppint.:

pinnacle's rather brief - five titles - futorian science fiction series did not evolve into an imprint.
this may have had a little - or somewhat more than a little - to do with roger elwood's christian beliefs.

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Comment by ppint.:

pinnacle books mmpb first printing, first edition
pinnacle/ futorian science fiction series

cover art by carl lundgren (signed in his signature square, credited)
cover price $1.75
192pp. (check) including unpaginated titles, indicia, etc, end pp. advertising