December Publications

Five Star presents four story collections from some leading SF writers: George Zebrowski's In the Distance, and Ahead in Time, which includes "Heathen God," a Nebula finalist (Five Star, $23.95 293p ISBN 0-7862-4687-1); Dedalus winner Jack L. Chalker's Dancing in the Dark, which collects the short novel Dancers in the Afterglow and two tales ($24.95 285p -4680-4); Star Song and Other Stories, by Timothy Zahn, author of Manta's Gift (Forecasts, Oct. 7) ($24.95 266p -4696-0); and Esther Friesner's Death and the Librarian and Other Stories, which includes an unpublished tale, "Ilion," plus two Nebula Award—winning stories ($23.95 293p -4682-0).

Wildside Press offers a couple of provocative novels: David Bischoff's lurid The H.P. Lovecraft Institute, in which a small Rhode Island town is beset with cinematic sex and violence (Wildside [www.wildsidepress.com], $34.95 388p ISBN 1-59224-962-0); and Russell Davis's romantic Touchless, in which the hero must decide whether or not to bring back from the dead the woman he loved as an AI ($32.95 220p -987-6). The same publisher is also reissuing Avram Davidson's Mutiny in Space (1964), with an introduction by Michael Swanwick, the first in a new series to include all the early novels of this Hugo-, Edgar- and World Fantasy Award—winning author ($29.95 130p -641-5).