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In the early 1970s New English Library reissued a selection of the late Brian Aldiss's novels and short-story collections, with fabulous covers by Bruce Pennington. Here are seven of them (I'm missing The Interpreter).
posted by Paul McAuley at 9:42 am
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If you'd like to complete the set Paul, I'd be happy to send you my second hand copy of The Interpreter.
That's very kind - but I've just checked abe books and copies can be had for a couple of quid. Only just realised that I was one short of the set (unless there are even more; listing in the books is a bit erratic)!
I think I bagged mine from a charity shop for about the same. Sadly the charity shops seem to be full of Patterson or Dan brown these days.
I just bought a nice pb of Vance's The Pnume. But 70s stuff is definitely getting harder to find.
I have a couple of these. 70's books really are getting rare indeed, even at the conventions I am struggling to find any Brunner books, as a sample.
Here in the US, you see more 1970s-era books -- a small group of Vances or Brunners appearing on the shelves in a second-hand bookstore, for instance -- as some people have ditched their dead-tree editions of these particular authors because all their books have now been published in ebook form (effectively the case with Brunner and Vance).
However, I'm not sure how representative my experience is since I live in Berkeley, California, where at least ten or so bookstores still exist within a mile or so of my apartment. Bookstores have been decimated in other parts of the US, and not just in flyover country -- in Boston and Cambridge, MA, major stores were already closed when I went there a decade back.
The mass-market paperback is passing into history, at any rate.
Wonderful. I don't remember any of these covers. Thanks for posting them!
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