BOOKCELLAR NOTES (5/2/03 Fri):
---Finally getting around to cataloguing the batch of Random House books sitting around here for an atrociously long time:
Adams, Douglas THE SALMON OF DOUBT: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time, Harmony, 7th, (chapters culled from novel-in-progress, other writings), new in dj 24.00
Brin, David & Kevin Lenagh CONTACTING ALIENS: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin's Uplift Universe, Spectra, 7/02, 1st, (essential companion), new 14.95
Burroughs, Edgar Rice THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, Modern Library '02, 1st thus, (Aldiss intro; with Reading Group Guide questions), new 12.95
de Bernières, Louis CORELLI'S MANDOLIN, Vintage International, 5th, new 14.00
Dick, Philip K.DR. BLOODMONEY, Vintage, 5/02, (post-nuclear holocaust), new 13.00
Lessig, Lawrence THE FUTURE OF IDEAS: The Fate of the Commons In a Connected World, Vintage, 2nd, (technology/law; with a 2002 preface), new 15.00
Lovecraft, H.P.MORE ANNOTATED LOVECRAFT, Dell, 2nd, (Joshi & Cannon [eds]), new 13.95
Robinson, Kim Stanley THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT, Bantam, 6th, (alternate history), new in dj 25.95
Starr, Jason HARD FEELINGS, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1/02, 1st, new 12.00
Sterling, Bruce TOMORROW NOW: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years, Random House '03, 1st edn, (what to expect next in culture, geopolitics, and business), new in dj 24.95
Vachss, Andrew THE GETAWAY MAN, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2nd, new 11.00
---ONLY CHILD, Knopf '02, 1st edn, (a Burke novel), new in dj 24.00

---And these back in stock:
Bear, Greg VITALS, Del Rey, 1/02, 1st edn, (biotech-murder continuum), new in dj 24.95
Blease, Kathleen (ed) ONE DARK NIGHT: 13 Masterpieces of the Macabre, Ballantine, 9/00, 1st edn, (full of gothic mood and ghastly haunts), new 10.00
Highsmith, Patricia THE BOY WHO FOLLOWED RIPLEY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 10th, (psychologicially intricate & hauntingly perverse masterwork), new $12
Jones, Stephen (ed) SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH, Del Rey, 9/01, (Lovecraft, others), new 14.00
Niven, Larry THREE BOOKS OF KNOWN SPACE, Del Rey, 7th, (3-in-1 edn), new 15.95
Stephenson, Neal THE DIAMOND AGE, Spectra, 5th, new 13.95
Vachss, Andrew BORN BAD: Stories, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2nd, new 13.00
---SACRIFICE, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 7th, (P.I. Burke), new 12.00
---SHELLA, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 10th, (Burke; boiled to hte bone), new 12.00
---STREGA, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 8th, (Burke), new 12.00
Wagner, Phyllis Cerf & Herbert A. Wise (eds) GREAT TALES OF TERROR & THE SUPERNATURAL, Modern Library, 6th, (orig: '44; 1034 pp), new in dj 24.95

---I don’t know if I will go to the trouble of setting up links to the descriptions of these books individually, but here are some publisher links to possibly follow: Random House, Bantam Dell, Del Rey, Knopf, Modern Library, or Vintage.

---A new one from PS Publishing :
Roberts, Adam JUPITER MAGNIFIED, PS, 3/03, (Lovegrove intro; 104 pp), new $16
---By the way, when I recently added a couple out of stock items to my order for upcoming PS releases, I received word that THE TAIN is sold out.

---Sent an order out to White Wolf, for things that had built up in my order file, mostly special orders and restocks. If I need to order from them again soon (as often proves to be the case, even though this order has been building up for literally years), I will pore over their more recent releases and whatnot to find out what I maybe should be getting. In the meantime, it looks like these guys are still in business, probably mostly with the game-related merchandise. I did not look to find out, not wanting to beef up my order any more than it is already. Although now that I think about it I should have at least checked to see if maybe they ever came out with more in their Harlan Ellison series. I know I am ordering some Moorcock and ROAD TO SCIENCE FICTION books but for all I am aware these may be long gone.

---CDs played (all week):
- Blue Oyster Cult AGENTS OF FORTUNE (LP, side two) (Xgau: B plus) - as good as I remember it (one of my favorites back in the day)
- LFTR-PLLR SOFT ROCK (2-CD) (Xgau: A Minus)
- King Sunny Ade THE BEST OF THE CLASSIC YEARS (Xgau: A Plus)
- Bach PASSIO SECUNDUM JOHANNEM (2 CD)
- Fela Anikulapo Kuti ROFOROFO FIGHT/THE FELA SINGLES (Xgau: ?)
- CITY HIGH (Xgau: A Minus)
- THE ROUGH GUIDE TO INDONESIA (Xgau: A Minus)
- Peter Tosh SCROLLS OF THE PROPHET: The Best of… (Xgau: A Minus)