Haffner Press‘s Stephen Haffner tells us of their Super Early Bird offer, for their first three titles of 2011:
Tale of Super-Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg
At the Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Eight
Thunder in the Void by Henry Kuttner
Customers who pre-pay their orders for all three titles ($110.00) will receive free shipping and a bonus chapbook not available with any other offer. The contents of the chapbook will be announced soon. He also notes that they are only accepting pre-orders for the set. They’ll be taking orders for individual titles soon.
Tales From Super-Science Fiction, edited by Robert Silverberg and illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas & Ed Emshwiller, will be a 360-page hardcover. “Robert Silverberg had assembled a collection of 14 stories from Super-Science Fiction. S-SF was launched during the sf boom of the mid-1950s. Paying a princely rate of 2 cents a word the magazine attracted fiction by Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison. James Gunn, Jack Vance, and Donald Westlake, and featured cover art by Frank Kelly Freas and Ed Emshwiller. Running for 18 bi-monthly issues (Dec 1955 to Oct 1959), the magazine eventually devolved into a publication capitalizing on the then-current craze of ‘monster’ stories.
“Editor Silverberg traces the genesis of Super-Science Fiction from it’s beginnings as an outlet for numerous colonization/expedition stories to its conclusion with such stories as ‘Creatures of the Green Slime’, ‘Beasts of Nightmare Horror’, and ‘Vampires from Outer Space’. It’s fun, it’s cheesy, and we’re really looking forward to it!”
Table of Contents:
“Introduction” by Robert Silverberg
“Catch ’em All Alive” by Robert Silverberg
“Who Am I?” by Henry Slesar
“Every Day is Christmas” by James E. Gunn
“I’ll Take Over” by A. Bertram Chandler
“Song of the Axe” by Don Berry
“Broomstick Ride” by Robert Bloch
“Worlds of Origin” by Jack Vance
“The Tool of Creation” by J.F. Bone
“I Want to Go Home” by Robert Moore Williams
“Hostile Life-Form” by Daniel L. Galouye
“The Gift of Numbers” by Alan E. Nourse
“First Man in a Satellite” by Charles W. Runyon
“A Place Beyond the Stars” by Tom Godwin
“The Loathsome Beasts” by Dan Malcolm (aka Silverberg)
Thunder in the Void by Henry Kuttner will have an introduction by Mike Resnick and cover art by Norman Saunders. It will be a $40.00 hardcover.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
“Raider of the Spaceways” (first published in Weird Tales, July 1937)
“Avengers of Space” (Marvel Science Stories, August 1938)
“The Time-Trap” (Marvel Science Stories, November 1938)
“The Lifestone” (Astonishing Stories, February 1940)
“Monsters of the Atom” (Super-Detective, April 1941)
“Red Gem of Mercury” (Super Science Stories, November 1941)
“The Crystal Circe” (Astonishing Stories, June 1942)
“War-Gods of the Void” (Planet Stories, Fall 1942)
“Thunder in the Void” (Astonishing Stories, October 1942)
“We Guard the Black Planet” (Super Science Stories, November 1942)
“Soldiers of Space” (Astonishing Stories, February 1943)
“The Black Sun Rises” (Super Science Stories, 1926)
“Crypt-City of the Deathless One” (Planet Stories, Winter 1943)
“The Eyes of Thar” (Planet Stories, Fall 1943)
“What Hath Me” (Planet Stories, Spring 1946)
“Carry Me Home” (Planet Stories, 1950)
Data on At the Human Limit is forthcoming.