March Publications

The Nebula Awards Showcase 2005: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy, selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and edited by Jack Dann, presents the usual quality mix of literary SF and fantasy with critical essays. Contributors include Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Jeffrey Ford, Elizabeth Moon and Lucius Shepard, who delivers a provocative, witty movie survey. Agent, Eleanor Wood.(Roc, $14.95 paper 336p ISBN 0-451-46015-4)

Robert Silverberg fans will welcome the reissue of his Star of Gypsies (1986), a classic space opera novel. The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, Silverberg received SF's highest award, the Grand Master Nebula, in 2004. (Pyr [www.prometheusbooks.com], $15 paper 508p ISBN 1-59102-309-2)

For dark fantasy aficionados there's the reissue of Nancy Kirkpatrick's Near Death: Power of the Blood World (1994), the second in her acclaimed vampire series after Child of the Night. (Mosaic [www.mosaic-press.com], $15 paper 248p ISBN 0-88962-839-4)

Lovecraftians will hail the reissue of S.T. Joshi's H.P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), which includes new cover art by Jason C. Eckhardt and an afterword that surveys the major contributions to Lovecraft scholarship since the initial publication of this definitive biography. (Necronomicon [www.necropress.com], $29.95 paper 708p ISBN 0-940884-88-7)

British author Stan Nicholls' Orcs collects three novels (Bodyguard of Lightning; Legion of Thunder; Warriors of Tempest), plus one short story ("The Taking"), in an omnibus edition for all those who feel orcs got a raw deal in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. (Gollancz [Trafalgar Sq., dist.], $14 paper 720p ISBN 0-575-07487-6)

In Kealan Patrick Burke's disturbing coming-of-age story, The Turtle Boy, 11-year-old Ohio native Timmy Quinn encounters an awfully odd-looking kid sitting by Myers Pond one hot summer day in 1979. Burke has edited a number of horror anthologies, including Taverns of the Dead. (Necessary Evil [www.necessaryevilpress.com], $35 97p ISBN 0-9753635-0-6)