November Publications

William Gibson fans will welcome the 20th-anniversary edition of Neuromancer, the SF novel that launched cyberpunk and anticipated the Internet age. Gibson provides a new introduction, "The Sky Above the Port." (Ace, $25 384p ISBN 0-441-01203-5)

As part of its Clifford D. Simak Centennial Edition, Old Earth Books (www.oldearthbooks.com) is reissuing two major works by this SF giant: his 1963 novel Way Station($27 232p ISBN 1-882968-27-1) and his 1952 story collection City($27 264p ISBN 1-882968-28-X). The same publisher also offers two classics by the late Edgar Pangborn: his 1964 postapocalyptic SF novel Davy($30 296p ISBN 1-882968-30-1) and his 1954 Martian-invasion novel A Mirror for Observers($25 256p ISBN 1-882968-29-8).

Finally, Old Earth is bringing out a volume of literary criticism, Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature, Second Edition, edited by Andrew M. Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. This expanded, revised edition includes three new essays on the bestselling author of the Discworld series. ($45 360p ISBN 1-882968-32-8; paper $22 ISBN 1-882968-31-X)

The latest entry in the Wesleyan Early Classics of Science Fiction series is a landmark future fiction, Émile Souvestre's The World as It Shall Be, edited by I.F. Clarke. Translated from the French by Margaret Clarke, this is the 1846 novel's first appearance in English. (Wesleyan Univ., $29.95 276p ISBN 0-8195-6615-2) Richard Matheson's Duel & The Distributor, edited by Matthew R. Bradley, includes both the two short stories, first published in Playboy, and the screenplays derived from them, as well as an interview with Dennis Weaver, the star of Duel, the movie that established a young director named Steven Spielberg. (Gauntlet [www.gauntletpress.com], $66 360p ISBN 1-887368-72-8)