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Editor: Roger Elwood Title: Continuum 1 Publisher:   Star Country: UK Date: 1977 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction ISBN-10: 0352396644 Total Editions: 3 First Published:   1974 Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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"wyndham over double open book w" logo. (back cover)
(star colophon) over a star book (title page)
a star book published in 1977 by wyndham publications ltd.
a howard & wyndham company
123, king street. london w6 9jg (uk)

copyright © 1974 by roger elwood

printed in great britain by
richard clay (the chaucer press), ltd., bungay, suffolk

192pp including 6 pp titles, indica, table of contents, 1 blank p, 2pp introduction; 2 end pp: 1p advertising bits and pieces from the wyndham publications catalogue/order list, "science fiction" (2) star; "science fantasy" (1) star; "science fantasy" (1) tandem; "the fantastic for series" (8) (tandem isbns); "planet of the apes" (13 including 6 actually from that series, 4 titles by jane gaskell and 3 by john jakes nothing whatsoever to do with it); 1p. 2 mail-order services' information, wyndham's at 123 king street, london (uk) and (?arrow books/hutchinson's, uncredited) at pp box douglas, isle of man, british isles (arguably not uk)
cover art by patrick woodroffe (in "mythopoeikon" patrick woodroffe)(q.v.)
cover price 60p, °australia $2.20, malta 65c, new zealand $2.05
° recommended price

#1 of 4 in original anthology series edited by roger elwood
contents:

introduction by the editor
"stations of the nightmare - part one: the two-edged gift" philip josé farmer
"my own, my native land" poul anderson
"shaka!" chad oliver
"the armageddon tapes - tape I" thomas n. scortia
"prelude to a crystal song" anne mccaffrey
"the dark of the june" gene wolfe
"the children's crusade" edgar pangborn
"the night of the storm" dean r. koontz

stand-alone stories continuing on in later volumes, more or less directly from, and in the same setting as, the stories by the same authors (or by other hands, in the round-robin final story): in "continuum 2" (1974), "continuum 3" (1975), and "continuum 4[

Primary Edition

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Roger Elwood - Continuum 1 - G. P. Putnam's Sons - Hardcover - USA - 399112839 (1974)

Comments and Reviews

ppint. 24th May 2018		Review this original anthology series was touted by roger elwood as being set to take over the mantle of frederik pohl's "star sf" (and e. j. carnell's "new writings in sf", which saw some merkin availability via bantam books' mmpbs) and to run indefinitely; the reality, as with most of elwood's mid-seventies' sf anthology "bubble", was rather different. . . ...but this quartet is still worth investigating: nearly all the authors are good, most are distinctive - they write, or wrote, in uniquely their own voice(s) - and some of these are classics - "minor gems" - more easily and cheaply obtained by picking up all four "continua", rather than searching for e.g. edgar pangborn's "still i persist in wondering" (1978), q.v. - which, though wonderful, as well as full of wonder, is getting rather rare, and consequently a little pricey.° the anne mccaffrey novellas were later rewritten into two books of her "killashandra" trilogy, mostly the first, q.v., but in substantially different form - and with a very different, and iynshs's o, far better, ending: one that is fitting to killashandra's story and her development. ° - the pangborn stories are set in the world of "davy" (1964), q.v. and "the judgement of eve" (1966), q.v., which ought to be enough to make any lover of fine sf who's not read them salivate, at least mentally. . . 5 people found this review helpful.   ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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