Fantastic Books is bringing Mike Resnick‘s The Dark Lady back into print.
First published in 1987, the book was the first foreign novel to win France’s largest literary prize, the Prix Eiffel. Resnick’s new introduction to the book tells the story of learning he’d won the award, and then getting to France to accept it.
Resnick offers this description of the story: “She was old when the world was young. She was there when Brutus slew Caesar, and when Picket made his suicidal charge up Cemetery Ridge. She was waiting when Man first landed on another planet, and was there when he finally reached the stars.
“Who is she, and what is her purpose?
“That’s what an alien named Leonardo must discover, before more men die and he himself is corrupted beyond salvation.
“Come along as he attempts to unravel the eternal mystery of the Dark Lady.”
Beginning with 1989’s “Kirinyaga”, Resnick has won five Hugo Awards (out of 34 nominations) as well as one Nebula and one Seiun.
SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock is the publisher of Fantastic Books.