1 |
George R Stewart |
Earth Abides |
March 1953 |
|
2 |
Ray Bradbury |
The Martian Chronicles |
May 1953 |
|
3 |
Olaf Stapledon |
Last and First Men |
July 1953 |
|
4 |
F G Rayer |
Tomorrow Sometimes Comes |
September 1953 |
|
5 |
Andrew Marvell |
Minimum Man |
November 1953 |
|
6 |
John Carnell [editor] |
No Place Like Earth |
January 1954 |
|
7 |
Isaac Asimov |
I, Robot |
March 1954 |
|
8 |
A E van Vogt |
The Voyage of the Space Beagle |
May 1954 |
|
9 |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Player Piano |
July 1954 |
|
10 |
Olaf Stapledon |
Odd John |
September 1954 |
|
11 |
Alfred Bester |
The Demolished Man |
November 1954 |
|
12 |
Murray Leinster [editor] |
Great Stories of Science Fiction |
January 1955 |
|
13 |
John Wyndham |
The Kraken Wakes |
March 1955 |
|
14 |
Ray Bradbury |
Fahrenheit 451 |
May 1955 |
|
15 |
Arthur C Clarke |
Childhood's End |
July 1955 |
|
16 |
Theodore Sturgeon |
More Than Human |
September 1955 |
|
17 |
Henry Kuttner |
Fury |
November 1955 |
|
18 |
Isaac Asimov |
Caves of Steel |
January 1956 |
|
19 |
Samuel Mines [editor] |
Moment Without Time |
March 1956 |
|
20 |
Wilson Tucker |
Wild Talent |
May 1956 |
|
21 |
E C Tubb |
Alien Dust |
July 1956 |
|
22 |
Edgar Pangborn |
A Mirror for Observers |
September 1956 |
|
23 |
J T McIntosh |
One in Three Hundred |
November 1956 |
|
24 |
Judith Merril [editor] |
Beyond the Barriers of Space and Time |
January 1957 |
|
25 |
Margot Bennet |
The Long Way Back |
March 1957 |
|
26 |
Philip K Dick |
World of Chance |
May 1957 |
|
27 |
John Christopher |
The Death of Grass |
July 1957 |
|
28 |
John Mantley |
The Twenty-Seventh Day |
September 1957 |
|
29 |
W Grey Walter |
Further Outlook |
November 1957 |
|
30 |
James Blish |
Earthman, Come Home |
January 1958 |
|
31 |
Alfred Bester |
Tiger, Tiger |
March 1958 |
|
32 |
C M Kornbluth |
Christmas Eve |
May 1958 |
|
33 |
Robert Heinlein |
The Robert Heinlein Omnibus |
July 1958 |
|
34 |
Edmund Crispin [editor] |
Best SF Two |
September 1958 |
|
35 |
Patrick Moore |
Science and Fiction |
November 1958 |
|
36 |
Isaac Asimov |
The Naked Sun |
January 1959 |
|
37 |
Wilmar H Shiras |
Children of the Atom |
March 1959 |
|
|
SFBC 37 was wrongly advertised as being Jean-Paul Clebert's not obviously
scientifictional novel THE BLOCKHOUSE. See here.
|
|
38 |
Clifford D Simak |
Strangers in the Universe |
May 1959 |
|
39 |
David Duncan |
Occam's Razor |
July 1959 |
|
40 |
Charles Eric Maine |
The Tide Went Out |
September 1959 |
|
41 |
Robert Heinlein |
Double Star |
November 1959 |
|
42 |
Jack Finney |
The Clock of Time |
January 1960 |
|
43 |
Brian W Aldiss |
Non-Stop |
March 1960 |
|
44 |
Ray Bradbury |
The Day it Rained Forever |
May 1960 |
|
45 |
James Blish |
A Case of Conscience |
July 1960 |
|
46 |
Edmund Crispin [editor] |
Best SF Three |
September 1960 |
|
47 |
Arthur C Clarke |
The Deep Range |
November 1960 |
|
48 |
Wilson Tucker |
The Lincoln Hunters |
January 1961 |
|
49 |
Eric Frank Russell |
Wasp |
February 1961 |
|
50 |
John Wyndham |
The Outward Urge |
March 1961 |
|
51 |
Brian W Aldiss |
The Canopy of Time |
May 1961 |
|
52 |
Walter M Miller |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
July 1961 |
|
53 |
Frank Herbert |
The Dragon in the Sea |
September 1961 |
|
54 |
Philip K Dick |
Time Out of Joint |
October 1961 |
|
|
Change of cover and dustjacket here
- from the 'swirly' to the 'tree-ring' pattern for the
d/j
|
|
55 |
Clifford D Simak |
City |
November 1961 |
|
56 |
James Blish |
Galactic Cluster |
December 1961 |
|
57 |
Henry Kuttner |
Mutant |
March 1962 |
|
58 |
John Wyndham |
Trouble With Lichen |
February 1962 |
|
59 |
C M Kornbluth & Frederik Pohl |
Wolfbane |
March 1962 |
|
60 |
Arthur C Clarke |
The Other Side of the Sky |
April 1962 |
|
61 |
Kingsley Amis |
New Maps of Hell |
May 1962 |
|
62 |
Agnew H Bahnson |
The Stars are too High |
June 1962 |
|
63 |
Edmund Crispin [editor] |
Best SF Four |
July 1962 |
|
64 |
Frederik Pohl |
Slave Ship |
August 1962 |
|
65 |
Hal Clement |
Needle |
September 1962 |
|
66 |
Poul Anderson |
Guardians of Time |
October 1962 |
|
67 |
Clifford D Simak |
Aliens for Neighbours |
November 1962 |
|
68 |
Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest [editors] |
Spectrum |
December 1962 |
|
69 |
Frederik Pohl |
Drunkard's Walk |
January 1963 |
|
70 |
Algis Budrys |
The Unexpected Dimension |
February 1963 |
|
71 |
Eric Frank Russell |
The Great Explosion |
March 1963 |
|
72 |
Clifford D Simak |
Time is the Simplest Thing |
April 1963 |
|
73 |
Arthur C Clarke |
A Fall of Moondust |
May 1963 |
|
74 |
Poul Anderson |
Twilight World |
June 1963 |
|
75 |
Zenna Henderson |
Pilgrimage |
July 1963 |
|
76 |
Olaf Stapledon |
Last Men in London |
August 1963 |
|
77 |
Alan E Nourse |
Tiger by the Tail |
September 1963 |
|
78 |
Robert P Mills [editor] |
Best of Fantasy and SF - Ninth Series |
October 1963 |
|
79 |
Brian W Aldiss |
Hothouse |
November 1963 |
|
80 |
Daniel F Galouye |
Dark Universe |
December 1963 |
|
81 |
John Brunner |
No Future in It |
January 1964 |
|
82 |
J G Ballard |
The Drowned World |
February 1964 |
|
83 |
Charles Eric Maine |
The Darkest of Nights |
March 1964 |
|
84 |
William Tenn |
Time in Advance |
April 1964 |
|
85 |
Robert Heinlein |
Orphans in the Sky |
May 1964 |
|
86 |
Arthur C Clarke |
Tales of Ten Worlds |
June 1964 |
|
87 |
J G Ballard |
Four-Dimensional Nightmare |
July 1964 |
|
88 |
Frederik Pohl [editor] |
The Expert Dreamers |
August 1964 |
|
89 |
Robert Heinlein |
Methuselah's Children |
September 1964 |
|
90 |
James Gunn |
The Joy Makers |
October 1964 |
|
91 |
Walter M Miller |
Conditional Human |
November 1964 |
|
92 |
Isaac Asimov |
9 Tomorrows |
December 1964 |
|
93 |
Brian W Aldiss |
The Airs of Earth |
January 1965 |
|
94 |
Frederik Pohl & C M Kornbluth |
Gladiator-at-Law |
February 1965 |
|
95 |
Gerald Heard |
Dopplegangers |
March 1965 |
|
96 |
Damon Knight |
In Deep |
April 1965 |
|
97 |
Clifford D Simak |
Way Station |
May 1965 |
|
98 |
Daniel F Galouye |
Counterfeit World |
June 1965 |
|
99 |
Robert Heinlein |
Revolt in 2100 |
July 1965 |
|
100 |
Lloyd Biggle Jnr |
All the Colours of Darkness |
August 1965 |
|
101 |
Poul Anderson |
Time and Stars |
September 1965 |
|
102 |
Cyril Judd |
Gunner Cade |
October 1965 |
|
103 |
Arthur Sellings |
The Uncensored Man |
November 1965 |
|
104 |
Brian W Aldiss |
Greybeard |
December 1965 |
|
105 |
Leonard Daventry |
A Man of Double Deed |
January 1966 |
|
106 |
Lan Wright |
Space Born |
February 1966 |
|
107 |
Charles Harness |
The Paradox Men |
March 1966 |
|
108 |
Frederick Pohl [editor] |
The Seventh Galaxy Reader |
April 1966 |
|
109 |
C M Kornbluth |
The Syndic |
May 1966 |
|
110 |
Theodore Sturgeon |
The Joyous Invasions |
June 1966 |
|
|
Next cover and dustjacket change
- d/j changes from the 'tree-ring' to the 'grey' from
issue 111, and then to the 'black and white'
patterns with issue 117.
|
|
111 |
John Brunner |
Telepathist |
July 1966 |
|
112 |
Rick Raphael |
The Thirst Quenchers |
August 1966 |
|
113 |
Louis Charbonneau |
The Specials |
September 1966 |
|
114 |
William R Burkett |
Sleeping Planet |
October 1966 |
|
115 |
Daniel F Galouye |
The Lost Perception |
November 1966 |
|
116 |
Robert F Young |
The Worlds of Robert F Young |
December 1966 |
|
117 |
Angus MacLeod |
The Eighth Seal |
January 1967 |
|
118 |
Clifford D Simak |
All Flesh is Grass |
February 1967 |
|
119 |
Zenna Henderson |
The Anything Box |
March 1967 |
|
120 |
Poul Anderson |
Shield |
April 1967 |
|
121 |
Poul Anderson |
The Star Fox |
May 1967 |
|
122 |
Brian W Aldiss |
The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths |
June 1967 |
|
123 |
Frederik Pohl |
A Plague of Pythons |
July 1967 |
|
124 |
John Rankine |
Interstellar Two-Five |
August 1967 |
|
125 |
Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest [editors] |
Spectrum V |
September 1967 |
|
126 |
Fred Hoyle |
October the First is Too Late |
October 1967 |
|
127 |
Poul Anderson |
The Corridors of Time |
November 1967 |
|
128 |
Robert Sheckley |
Mindswap |
December 1967 |
|
129 |
Arthur Sellings |
The Quy Effect |
January 1968 |
|
130 |
Clifford D Simak |
Why Call Them Back From Heaven? |
February 1968 |
|
131 |
Anon |
Path into the Unknown -Best Soviet
SF |
March 1968 |
|
132 |
Colin Wilson |
The Mind Parasites |
April 1968 |
|
133 |
Louis Charbonneau |
Antic Earth |
May 1968 |
|
134 |
L P Davies |
Twilight Journey |
June 1968 |
|
135 |
Jack Vance |
The Killing Machine |
July 1968 |
|
136 |
Richard Cowper |
Breakthough |
August 1968 |
|
137 |
M K Joseph |
Hole in the Zero |
September 1968 |
|
138 |
Harry Harrison |
War With the Robots |
October 1968 |
|
139 |
Damon Knight |
Three Novels |
November 1968 |
|
140 |
Samuel R Delany |
Babel-17 |
December 1968 |
|
141 |
Poul Anderson |
The Trouble Twisters |
January 1969 |
|
142 |
Algis Budrys |
The Iron Thorn |
February 1969 |
|
143 |
Clifford D Simak |
The Werewolf Principle |
March 1969 |
|
144 |
J T McIntosh |
Six Gates from Limbo |
April 1969 |
|
145 |
Theodore Sturgeon |
Starshine |
May 1969 |
|
146 |
W F Nolan |
Logan's Run |
June 1969 |
|
147 |
Richard Cowper |
Phoenix |
July 1969 |
|
148 |
Philip E High |
Invader on My Back |
August 1969 |
|
149 |
Chloe Zerwick & Harrison Brown |
The Cassiopeia Affair |
September 1969 |
|
150 |
Keith Roberts |
Pavane |
October 1969 |
|
151 |
R W Mackelworth |
Firemantle |
November 1969 |
|
152 |
Larry Niven |
Worlds of Ptavvs |
December 1969 |
|
153 |
Richard Wilson |
The Girls from Planet 5 |
January 1970 |
|
154 |
R A Lafferty |
Past Master |
February 1970 |
|
155 |
Theodore Sturgeon |
Venus Plus X |
March 1970 |
|
156 |
John Boyd |
The Last Starship From Earth |
April 1970 |
|
157 |
Thomas M Disch |
Echo Round His Bones |
May 1970 |
|
158 |
Samuel R Delany |
Nova |
June 1970 |
|
159 |
Alexei Panshin |
Rite of Passage |
July 1970 |
|
160 |
Brian N Ball |
Timepiece |
August 1970 |
|
161 |
John Rankine |
Binary Z |
September 1970 |
|
162 |
Bob Shaw |
The Two-Timers |
October 1970 |
|
163 |
Larry Niven |
A Gift From Earth |
November 1970 |
|
164 |
Fritz Leiber |
A Spectre is Haunting Texas |
December 1970 |
|
165 |
Cordwainer Smith |
Space Lords |
January 1971 |
|
166 |
Frederick Pohl |
The Age of the Pussyfoot |
February 1971 |
|
167 |
Damon Knight |
Off Centre |
March 1971 |
|
168 |
Harry Harrison |
Captive Universe |
April 1971 |
|
169 |
Bob Shaw |
The Palace of Eternity |
May 1971 |
|
170 |
Jacob Hay & John M Keshishian |
Death of a Cosmonaut |
June 1971 |
|
|
Number 170 is the last of the classic numbered
series. An SFBC imprint of varying type on the dustjacket
and book spine remains in
various forms until KILLER PINE (May 1974), then with THE GOLD AT STARBOW'S
END (June 1974) the SFBC logo is on the dustjacket
only and the following book - RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA
- is identified only by the 'Readers
Union' logo in all positions. Then from WONDERWORLDS
(November 1977)
a 'Science Fiction Book Club' logo appears on
the upper front d/j of each issue until TIN WOODMAN(October
1980) when it disappears. The 'New series' volume
and issue numbering first appears with THE AVATAR -
Poul Anderson - Autumn 1980; why it starts with Vol
1 No 12 is as yet unexplained. And may never be, frankly.... All numbering from
number
171 on is
essentially conjecture - no numbers actually appear
on the books or dustjackets except the 'new series'
numbering referred to above. The only numbers that apply
are Readers Union stock numbers that are not necessarily
consecutive.. See Wm Seabrook's
explanatory note. Also note - from January 1980 onwards
several SFBC monthly issues are NOT SFBC reprints, being instead
the standard publishers edition, entirely unchanged
and without any specific SFBC markings or numbering.
These are indicated below. Any numbering allocated is
assumed.
Please note - all numbers
and dates from No 170 onwards are subject to revision!
|
|
171 |
James H Schmitz |
The Demon Breed |
July 1971 |
|
172 |
Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny and James Blish |
Three For Tomorrow |
August 1971 |
|
173 |
Murray Leinster |
The Listeners |
September 1971 |
|
174 |
Ben Bova |
The Weather-makers |
October 1971 |
|
175 |
William F Nolan |
A Wilderness of Stars: Stories of Man in Conflict with Space |
November 1971 |
|
176 |
Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle |
Seven Steps to the Sun |
December 1971 |
|
177 |
Harry Harrison |
In Our Hands the Stars |
January 1972 |
|
178 |
Philip K Dick |
The Preserving Machine and Other Stories |
February 1972 |
|
179 |
John Boyd |
The Pollinators of Eden |
March 1972 |
|
180 |
Lee Hoffman |
The Caves of Karst |
April 1972 |
|
181 |
R W Mackelworth |
Tiltangle |
May 1972 |
|
182 |
Frederik Pohl |
Day Million |
June 1972 |
|
183 |
Poul Anderson |
Tau Zero |
July 1972 |
|
184 |
Piers Anthony |
Prostho Plus |
August 1972 |
|
185 |
Frederick Pohl [editor] |
The Eleventh Galaxy Reader |
September 1972 |
|
186 |
Vincent King |
Candy Man |
October 1972 |
|
187 |
Mark Adlard |
Interface |
November 1972 |
|
188 |
Rene Barjavel |
The Ice People |
December 1972 |
|
1068 |
Stanislaw Lem |
Solaris |
January 1973 |
|
1069 |
Larry Niven |
Ringworld |
February 1973 |
|
1070 |
Joseph Green |
Conscience Interplanetary |
March 1973 |
|
1071 |
John Brunner |
Timescoop |
April 1973 |
|
1072 |
Clifford D Simak |
Out of Their Minds |
May 1973 |
|
1073 |
Harry Harrison |
One Step From Earth |
June 1973 |
|
1074 |
Bob Shaw |
Other Days, Other Eyes |
July 1973 |
|
1075 |
Isaac Asimov |
The Gods Themselves |
August 1973 |
|
1076 |
Richard Cowper |
Clone |
September 1973 |
|
1077 |
Edmund Cooper |
The Overman Culture |
October 1973 |
|
1078 |
Robert Sheckley |
Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? |
November 1973 |
|
1079 |
Harry Harrison |
A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! |
December 1973 |
|
1080 |
? |
? |
|
|
1081 |
? |
? |
|
|
1082 |
Hilary and Dik Evans |
Beyond the Gaslight |
|
|
|
Beyond the Gaslight is a
normal publisher's edition, not an SFBC reprint. |
|
1083 |
Wilson Tucker |
The Time Masters |
January 1974 |
|
1084 |
William Hjortsberg |
Grey Matters |
February 1974 |
|
1085 |
Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle |
The Inferno |
March 1974 |
|
1086 |
Larry Niven |
Inconstant Moon |
April 1974 |
|
1087 |
Lindsay Gutteridge |
Killer Pine |
May 1974 |
|
1088 |
Frederick Pohl |
The Gold at the Starbow's End |
June 1974 |
|
1089 |
Arthur C Clarke |
Rendezvous with Rama |
|
|
1090 |
Roger Zelazny |
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth |
|
|
1091 |
? |
? |
|
|
1092 |
Harry Harrison |
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World |
September 1974 |
|
1093 |
Michael G Coney |
Mirror Image |
October 1974 |
|
1094 |
Edmund Cooper |
The Tenth Planet |
November 1974 |
|
1095 |
Lester del Rey [editor] |
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year |
December 1974 |
|
1096 |
Thomas Page |
The Hephaestus Plague |
January 1975 |
|
1097 |
D G Compton |
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe |
February 1975 |
|
1098 |
Michael G Coney |
Friends Come in Boxes |
March 1975 |
|
1099 |
David Gerrold |
Yesterday's Children |
April 1975 |
|
1100 |
William Jon Watkins |
The God Machine |
May 1975 |
|
1101 |
L T Peters |
The 11th Plague |
June 1975 |
|
1102 |
Christopher Priest |
Inverted World |
July 1975 |
|
1103 |
Richard Cowper |
Worlds Apart |
August 1975 |
|
1104 |
Michael G Coney |
Winter's Children |
September 1975 |
|
1105 |
Patrick Wyatt |
Irish Rose |
October 1975 |
|
1106 |
Philip K Dick |
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said |
November 1975 |
|
1107 |
Barry Malzberg |
Beyond Apollo |
Dec75 |
|
1108 |
Bob Shaw |
Orbitsville |
January 1976 |
|
1109 |
Curt Siodmak |
City in the Sky |
February 1976 |
|
1110 |
Philip K Dick |
The Man in the High Castle |
March 1976 |
|
1111 |
Lester del Rey [editor] |
Best SF Stories (3rd Year) |
April 1976 |
|
1112 |
Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis |
The Dynostar Menace |
May 1976 |
|
1113 |
Michael G Coney |
Hello Summer, Goodbye |
June 1976 |
|
1114 |
Alfred Bester |
Extro |
July 1976 |
|
1115 |
Charles Logan |
Shipwreck |
August 1976 |
|
1116 |
Ian Watson |
The Jonah Kit |
September 1976 |
|
1117 |
Joseph Green |
Star Probe |
October 1976 |
|
1118 |
Bob Shaw |
A Wreath of Stars |
November 1976 |
|
1119 |
Robert Silverberg |
The Stochastic Man |
December 1976 |
|
1120 |
John Brunner |
The Stone that Never Came Down |
January 1977 |
|
1121 |
Martin Sherwood |
Maxwell's Demon |
February 1977 |
|
1122 |
Keith Roberts |
The Grain Kings |
March 1977 |
|
1123 |
Terry Greenhough |
The Wandering Worlds |
Spring 77 |
|
1124 |
Lester del Rey [editor] |
Best SF Stories (4th Year) |
Apr/May 1977 |
|
1125 |
Frederik Pohl |
Man Plus |
May/June 1977 |
|
1126 |
Robert A Smith |
The Kramer Project |
June /July 1977 |
|
1127 |
Ian Watson |
The Martian Inca |
July /August 1977 |
|
1128 |
Michael Elder |
Oil Seeker |
August /September 1977 |
|
1129 |
Robert Silverberg |
Shadrack in the Furnace |
Sep/October 1977 |
|
1130 |
Clifford D Simak |
Shakespeare's Planet |
Oct/November 1977 |
|
1131 |
William F Nolan |
Wonderworlds |
Nov/December 1977 |
|
1132 |
Wilson Tucker |
The Lincoln Hunters |
December 1977/January 1978 |
|
|
This above IS a repeat publication of issue
48 in a new and less attractive form. Malcolm Edwards,
once and future editor at Gollancz, reports "The
reason why the club issued THE LINCOLN HUNTERS again
in 1978 was that Gollancz had reissued the book round
about then, and routinely offered book club rights in
everything they published. Whoever bought it,
I'm sure they had no idea the club had issued it before.
" Amazing. So who was SFBC selector
at that time and why did they have so little familiarity
with the series' past? The world may never know...
|
|
1133 |
Lester del Rey [editor] |
Best SF Stories (5th Year) |
January 1978 |
|
1134 |
Alan Dean Foster |
Midworld |
February 1978 |
|
1135 |
Philip K Dick and Roger Zelazny |
Deus Irae |
March 1978 |
|
1136 |
Algis Budrys |
Michaelmas |
Spring 78 |
|
1137 |
R A Lafferty |
Arrive at Easterwine |
April 1978 |
|
1138 |
Colin Kapp |
The Survival Game |
May 1978 |
|
1139 |
Ian Watson |
Alien Embassy |
June 1978 |
|
1140 |
Christopher Priest |
A Dream of Wessex |
July 1978 |
|
1141 |
Joe Haldeman |
All My Sins Remembered |
Summer 78 |
|
1142 |
Clifford D Simak |
A Heritage of Stars |
August 1978 |
|
1143 |
Spider Robinson |
Telempath |
September 1978 |
|
1144 |
Richard Cowper |
The Road to Corlay |
October 1978 |
|
1145 |
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky |
Roadside Picnic |
November 1978 |
|
1146 |
Bob Shaw |
Ship of Strangers |
December 1978 |
|
|
NB - from January 1979 on the details of books
and dates have been crosschecked with the relevant issues
of SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB NEWS. Any apparent discrepancies
are 'real' and not transcription errors. On our part
anyway... Well, probably not.
|
|
1147 |
Ian Watson |
Miracle Visitors |
January 1979 |
|
1148 |
Garry Kilworth |
The Night of Kadar |
February 1979 |
|
1149 |
Harry Harrison |
The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You |
March 1979 |
|
1150 |
Gordon R Dickson [editor] |
Futurelove |
Spring 1979 |
|
1151 |
A E van Vogt |
The Anarchistic Colossus |
April 1979 |
|
1152 |
John Morressy |
Frostworld and Dreamfire |
May 1979 |
|
1154 |
Richard F Francis |
Blackpool Vanishes |
June 1979 |
|
1153 |
Harlan Ellison |
Ellison Wonderland |
July 1979 |
|
1155 |
Terry Carr |
Cirque |
August 1979 |
|
1156 |
Kate Wilhelm |
Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions |
Summer 1979 |
|
1157 |
D F Jones |
Xeno |
September 1979 |
|
1158 |
Christopher Priest |
An Infinite Summer |
October 1979 |
|
1159 |
C J Cherryh |
The Faded Sun: Kesrith |
November 1979 |
|
1160 |
John Grant [editor] |
Aries 1 |
December 1979 |
|
1161 |
Clifford D Simak |
The Fellowship of the Talisman |
January 1980 |
|
|
The Fellowship of the Talisman is
the standard publishers edition (Sidgwick & Jackson) not
an SFBC edition and is not numbered or otherwise SFBC-identified. |
|
1162 |
Gregory Benford |
The Stars in Shroud |
February 1980 |
|
1163 |
C J Cherryh |
The Faded Sun: Shon'jir |
March 1980 |
|
1164 |
Edmund Cooper |
Jupiter Laughs and Other Stories |
Spring 1980 |
|
1165 |
Elizabeth A Lynn |
A Different Light |
April 1980 |
|
1167 |
Bob Shaw |
Dagger of the Mind |
May 1980 |
|
1166 |
Theodore Sturgeon |
Visions and Ventures |
June 1980 |
|
1168 |
B Chetwynd-Hayes |
The Brats |
July 1980 |
|
1169 |
Jayge Carr |
Leviathan's Deep |
August 1980 |
|
1170 |
C J Cherryh |
The Faded Sun: Kutath |
September 1980 |
|
1171 |
David F Bischoff and Dennis R Bailey |
Tin Woodman |
October 1980 |
|
1174 |
Poul Anderson |
The Avatar |
Autumn 1980 |
1.12 |
1173 |
Frank Herbert |
The Priests of Psi |
November 1980 |
1.13 |
1172 |
Michael Bishop |
Transfigurations |
December 1980 |
|
|
Transfigurations is the standard
publishers edition (Gollancz), not
an SFBC edition and is not numbered or otherwise SFBC-identified. |
|
1175 |
Walter Tevis |
Mockingbird |
January 1981 |
2.1 |
1176 |
Clifford D Simak |
The Visitors |
February 1981 |
2.2 |
|
The Visitors is the standard
publishers edition (Sidgwick & Jackson) not
an SFBC edition and is not numbered or otherwise SFBC-identified. |
|
1177 |
Isaac Asimov [editor] |
The Science Fiction Solar System |
March 1981 |
2.3 |
1178 |
Jack Vance |
The Face |
April 1981 |
2.4 |
1179 |
Leonard Daventry |
You Must Remember Us? |
Spring 1981 |
2.5 |
1180 |
Robert Silverberg [editor] |
The Crystal Ship |
May 1981 |
2.6 |
1181 |
Anne McCaffrey |
The Worlds of Anne McCaffrey |
June 1981 |
2.7 |
|
The Worlds of Anne McCaffrey is the
standard publishers edition (Andre Deutsch), not
an SFBC edition and is not numbered.
|
|
1182 |
Garry Kilworth |
Gemini God |
July 1981 |
2.8 |
|
Gemini God is the standard publishers
edition (Faber), not an SFBC edition and is not numbered
or otherwise SFBC-identified.
|
|
1183 |
Jo Bannister |
The Matrix |
August 1981 |
2.9 |
1184 |
Douglas R Mason |
The Typhon Intervention |
September 1981 |
2.10 |
1185 |
Clifford D Simak |
Project Pope |
October 1981 |
2.11 |
|
Project Pope is the standard publishers
edition (Sidgwick & Jackson), not an SFBC edition
and is not numbered or otherwise SFBC-identified.
|
|
1186 |
Charles C Ryan [editor] |
The Best of Galileo: Starry Messenger |
September 1981 |
2.12 |
1187 |
Robert Holdstock |
Where Time Winds Blow |
November 1981 |
2.13 |
1188 |
Ian Watson and Michael Bishop |
Under Heaven's Bridge |
December 1981 |
2.14 |
1189 |
David Gerrold |
Deathbeast |
New Year 1981 |
2.15 |
1190 |
Roger Zelazny |
Roadmarks |
January 1982 |
3.1 |
1191 |
Jack Rhys |
The Five Doors |
February 1982 |
3.2 |
1192 |
Bob Shaw |
The Ceres Solution |
March 1982 |
3.4 |
1193 |
Adrian Cole |
The Lucifier Experiment |
April 1982 |
3.5 |
1194 |
Richard Cowper |
The Dream of Kinship |
Spring 1982 |
3.6 |
1196 |
Ian Watson |
Deathhunter |
May 1982 |
3.7 |
1195 |
C J Cherryh |
Serpent's Reach |
June 1982 |
3.8 |
1197 |
Frederik Pohl |
The Cool War |
July 1982 |
3.9 |
1198 |
Joan D Vinge |
Eyes of Amber and Other Stories |
August 1982 |
3.10 |
1199 |
Jerry Pournelle |
King David's Spaceship |
September 1982 |
3.11 |
1200 |
Ronald A McQueen |
Mardoc |
October 1982 |
3.12 |
1202
|
Terry Pratchett
|
Strata
|
Autumn 1982
|
|
|
Strata is the standard publishers
edition (Colin Smythe), not an SFBC edition
and is not numbered or otherwise SFBC-identified.
|
|
1202 |
Jo Bannister |
The Winter Plain |
November 1982 |
3.12 |
|
Misnumbering of The
Winter Plain is correct as on book.
|
|
1181
|
Anne McCaffrey
|
The Worlds of Anne McCaffrey
|
December 1982
|
|
|
This December 1982 issue is
a repeat of the June 1981 issue!
|
|
|
And that seems to be it
- The
End.
|
|
|
The Extras -
these were titles issued
as optional extras for purchase by SFBC members.
THE NEON HALO was definately the first, according
to the SFBC newsletter SCIENCE
FICTION NEWS for January 1960. The
early Extra issues I have seen conform with the SFBC style
of the day, except for being un-numbered. Please note
that I have not seen all the later books
so there may be variations, and certainly many later
(post 1965) Extras were the original publishers editions
not identified in any way as being issued via the SFBC.
(The intention here is to list only those Extras
which were actually SFBC reprints and not the bought-in
stock - there were a lot of optional extras offered in
the end-years of SFBC).
Much of the information on the Extras is taken
from issues of the SFBC's SCIENCE FICTION NEWS
and Donald Tuck's Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, which
has a cut-off date of December 1968 - there
were Extras issued after that but they were rarely genuine
SFBC reprints.
The assertion in Tuck that LORD OF THE RINGS
was offered as an SFBC Extra twice - in December 1960
and December 1961 - is almost certainly an
error. The information to hand certainly shows the December
1960 offer of a Readers Union reprint (not in SFBC
guise) of LOTR, but there is nothing yet to show either an Extra
offer
in 1961 nor a RU reprint in that year.
Please note - there is no mention of Mitchison's
MEMOIRS OF A SPACEWOMAN in Tuck, but according
to SCIENCE FICTION NEWS it was issued
on October 1963, and copies do exist. Similarly the
ARTHUR C CLARKE OMNIBUS, SPECTRUM 4 and ANALOG ANTHOLOGY
are
not in Tuck ; regarding this last it seems the copies distributed were the normal publisher's (in this case
Dennis Dobson) edition. Certainly many later, post-1970,
'Extras' were regular publishers
editions sold at discount via the bookclub, they were
not SFBC editions.
There are at least two other arguable Extras known -
one was in a sense unrelated to SFBC but was heavily
promoted as an optional extra to SFBC Members. This
is Kurt Vonnegut's CAT'S CRADLE, issued as part of the
Contemporary Fiction Book Club but cross-promoted at
a special rate to SFBC members for obvious reasons for
a period after July 1965. Also a non-fiction work, Rudolf
Thiele's AND THERE WAS LIGHT, a popular astronomy book,
was also promoted as an Extra, but it is unclear as
to whether it was a specifically SFBC issue.
|
|
|
Jean-Louis Curtis
|
The Neon Halo
|
January 1960
|
|
|
JRR Tolkien
|
Lord of the Rings
|
December 1960
|
|
|
John Wyndham
|
Jizzle
|
October 1961
|
|
|
JRR Tolkien
|
Lord of the Rings
|
December 1961
|
|
|
Mark Clifton
|
Eight Keys to Eden
|
February 1963
|
|
|
Naomi Mitchison
|
Memoirs of a Spacewoman
|
October 1963
|
|
|
Amis & Conquest
|
Spectrum 2
|
December 1963
|
|
|
Amis & Conquest
|
Spectrum 3
|
September 1964
|
|
|
Robert A Heinlein
|
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
|
August 1965
|
|
|
Arthur C Clarke
|
Arthur C Clarke Omnibus (Childhood's End, Prelude
to Space, Expedition to Earth)
|
January 1966
|
|
|
Poul Anderson
|
Trader to the Stars
|
February 1966
|
|
|
Amis & Conquest
|
Spectrum 4
|
March 1966
|
|
|
John W Campbell
|
Analog Anthology
|
June 1966
|
|
|
Arthur C Clarke
|
Voices from the Sky
|
1967
|
|