"A" of course is for Isaac Asimov. Any self respecting old SF book collector will have a few of his books in their libraries. I have four - the Foundation Trilogy and I Robot all in Panther editions. I did have The Rest of the Robots once upon a time, but it has disappeared.
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Hands up who's read James Blish. He's not an author you hear much about these days, but he did write some very interesting books. I see him in my mind as the forerunner to James Morrow's apocryphal writing in Towing Jehovah and its sequels.
Anyway, even though I have not read James Blish for years myself, it was pleasurable to rediscover his books on the bookshelf. I have an omnibus version of Cities In Fight also known as the "Okies" stories.
Also I have his After Such Knowledge series which began with A Case of Conscience, followed by Doctor Mirabilis, Black Easter or Faust Aleph-null and The Day After Judgement.
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And to finish, Leigh Brackett's The Halfling and Other Stories in a 1973 Ace books edition.
More SF coming soon...
4 comments:
I have seen many different covers for Asimov's books but I've never seen those. Very interesting. Have such a great feel to them. My favorites are Second Foundation and Foundation's Edge covers by Michael Whelan.
James of Auxilary Memory just posted a review of a Blish book, if you are interested:
http://jameswharris.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/a-case-of-conscience-by-james-blish/
I bought my first Leigh Brackett book last night and look forward to snagging more of her books in the future.
Thanks for the link to the Blish review.
Nice to see he hasn't been totally forgotten.
I mean to reread his books again soon - ideal for commuting.
We are paying homage to Blish this month on ZapTown...www.zaptownmag.com
Nice eye candy! Those Asimov covers are amazing.
Thanks Andrew, will check out Zap Town.
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