06/21/05 TUE:
---Here today from Consortium, kind of a heterogeneous assortment:

Alcalay, Ammiel MEMORIES OF OUR FUTURE: Selected Essays 1982-1999, City Lights ('99), 1st, (forges unique intellectual and political path; mix of personal narrative, political commentary and literary criticism; surveys such diverse subjects as Mediterranean culture, Arabic literature, the destruction of Carthage, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the war in Bosnia), new 17.95

DeMarinis, Rick APOCALYPSE THEN: Stories, Seven Stories '04, 1st edn, (unforgettable addition to author's growing body of work), new in dj 22.95

Dinh, Linh BLOOD AND SOAP: Stories, Seven Stories '04, 1st edn, (breakthrough collection of modern-day fables; on the vanguard of American fiction), new 16.00

Dorfman, Ariel MASCARA, Seven Stories '04, 1st pb edn, (taut, eerie novel; a postmodern version of Jekyll and Hyde; new afterword by J.M. Coetzee), new 8.95

Fowler, Christopher DEMONIZED, Serpent’s Tail '04, 1st, (stories; situations that become increasingly disturbing), new 15.00

Gifford, Barry AMERICAN FALLS: The Collected Short Stories, Seven Stories, 5/03, (a summer road-trip of a book: steamy, deiverse and a wild ride), new 12.95

Lewis, Heather NOTICE, Serpent’s Tail '04, 1st, (unrelenting meditatioin on psychic entrapment, chaos and pain; author’s last novel; Gurganus postscript), new 14.00

Plate, Peter FOGTOWN, Seven Stories '04, 1st edn, (San Francisco novel; muckraking, gritty take on the fellahin-strewn streets of Fogtown), new $13

Sennitt, Stephen CREATURES OF CLAY and Other Stories of the Macabre, Diagonal/Headpress '03, (author's best work exhumed from the small press underground), new 12.99

Thornburg, Newton CUTTER AND BONE, Serpent’s Tail, 2nd, (a whacking good thriller), new 14.00
---DREAMLAND, Serpent’s Tail '04, (murder, intrigue, sexual shenanigans, thrills), new $14
---TO DIE IN CALIFORNIA, Serpent’s Tail '02, (taut thriller; the dark side of the American dream, etched with pathos and a deep understanding of the infallibility of human nature), new 14.00

Toop, David EXOTICA: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World, Serpent’s Tail '99, (music/popular culture; brings together the words, images and sounds of an extraordinary moment in the culture; changes the way we hear), new 19.99
---HAUNTED WEATHER: Music, Silence and Memory, Serpent’s Tail, 2nd, (maps 21st century sound), new 20.00
---RAP ATTACK 3: African Rap to Global Hip Hop, Serpent’s Tail, 2nd, (the one classic standout), new 22.00

---Discount I can give on these is 30%.

---Email rec'd:

Dear Chris,
I have a query concerning the book THE BEST FROM UNIVERSE,
edited by Terry Carr. Does that collection include a story by Harlan
Ellison? I will look forward to your reply. Thanks.

---My reply:

The Best from Universe ed. Terry Carr (Doubleday 0-385-17512-4, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $11.95, 209pp, hc); Anthology of 9 stories from the “Universe” series, plus an index to vol.s 1-10.
• vii • Introduction • Terry Carr • in
• 1 • Good News from the Vatican • Robert Silverberg • ss Universe 1, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1971
• 10 • Nor Limestone Islands • R. A. Lafferty • ss Universe 1, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1971
• 23 • On the Downhill Side • Harlan Ellison • ss Universe 2, ed. Terry Carr, Ace, 1972
• 39 • Schrödinger’s Cat • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss Universe 5, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974
• 47 • The Death of Dr. Island • Gene Wolfe • na Universe 3, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1973
• 101 • The Night Wind • Edgar Pangborn • nv Universe 5, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974
• 118 • A Rite of Spring • Fritz Leiber • nv Universe 7, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1977
• 153 • Options • John Varley • nv Universe 9, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1979
• 181 • The Ugly Chickens • Howard Waldrop • nv Universe 10, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1980
• 204 • An Index to Universe Volumes 1-10 • Misc. Material • ix

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