INCOMING

A mixed bag this week, but a lot of good science fiction by some favorite authors, including Farmer, Lafferty,
and Spinrad.  Gilman, Hoffman, and Loomis are great Western finds, just as Warner and Yarbro are for fantasy. 

• Piers Anthony and Mercedes Lackey, If I Pay Thee Not in Gold.  Fantasy.
• Donald Bacon, The Midnight Hour.  Horror.
• Brian N. Ball, The Regiments of Night.  SF novel.  This one's an early DAW paperback (#19) witha great Freas cover.
• Philip Jose Farmer, The Stone God Awakens.  SF novel.
• Eric Flint and David Drake, In the Heart of Darkness.  Science fiction/fantasy.  Another in the saga of Belisarius, Roman general.
• George Gilman, Edge:  Slaughterday.  Adult western, #24 in the series.
• Donald Hamilton, The Devastators.  Spay novel, #9 in the Matt Helm series.
• John Hardin, Tar Heel Ghosts.  Non-fiction.  Stories of ghosts and such from North Carolina.
• Lee Hoffman, Nothing But a Drifter.  Western.  A brilliant writer, sadly forgotten.
• Hans Holzer, The Ghost Hunter's Strangest Cases.  Non-fiction.  I've made no bones about my feelings that Holzer was a humbug, but I do enjoy reading about his "cases".
• K. W. Jeter, Dr. Adder.  SF novel.
• Joan Kahn, editor, Some Things Dark and Dangerous.  Horror anthology.Electric forest  Sixteen stories, including crime, mystery, and non-fiction.
• Tanith Lee, Electric Forest.  Science fiction.
• R. A. Lafferty, Annals of Klepsis.  SF novel.  The rights to Lafferty's entire literary estate were recently auctioned off, with Locus Enterprises the winner; this is good news.
• Noel Loomis, Heading West.  Western collection of seven stories.  Introduction by Bill Pronzini; I wonder if this is one of the single-author collections that Pronzini has edited.  Also, unfortunately, there's no reference to where the stories were originally published.
• Nancy Martin, Some Like It Lethal.  Mystery novel.  Third in the Blackbird Sisters series.
• Jack McDevitt, Infinity Beach.  SF novel.  Nominated for the Nebula, Campbell, and Locus awards; published in England as Slow Lightning. 
• Thomas Mordane, Bloodroot.  Horror.
• Andre Norton, Zarsthor's Bane.  Science fiction.  A Witch World novel.
• Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.:  The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon.  Biography of a writer whose tragic death is still mourned.
• Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron.  The classic SF novel that was denounced on the floor of Parliament.
• Ramsay Thorne, Renegade #11:  Citadel of Death.  Adult western actually written b y Lou Cameron.
• Robert W. Walker, Disembodied.  Horror.
• Richard S. Wheeler, Second Lives:  A Novel of the Gilded Age.  Historical novel/western. 
• Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes.  Fantasy.  Interestingly, this novel (Warner's first) was the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ariosto (fantasy) and Sins of Omission (horror).  I used to devour Yarbro's novels like peanuts, but for some reason, got out of the habit.  She's a solid writer I have to revisit.
• Roger Zelazny and Gerald Hausman, Wilderness.  Historical novel/western.