John M. Ford: Books, Part I

[rachelmanija]

John M. Ford was a marvelous writer, one of my favorites. I never met him, but was a great fan of his work; so my memorial will be to see if I can stir up a bit of discussion about his books

Comments

[nbardsley]

I did not know you were lacking JMF books. Other than SCHOLARS, which ones are needed?

--Nathan

[rachelmanija]

I think just Scholars, Heat of Fusion, and From the End of the Twentieth Century now. But it turns out that Scholars is not as hard to find as I had thought (see above) so I will order myself a copy.

[nbardsley]

Just in case anyone didn't know...

From the End of the Twentieth Century is from NESFA Press on the occasion of JMF being the Boskone GoH in 1997. Cheap second hand copies are likely to be uncommon, but the book is available directly from NESFA, and others.

Heat of Fusion has only had the initial Tor hardcover release I think, and has already been remaindered. I suppose it's possible remainder copies are still around in the big chain stores. There's probably a good number of used/second-hand copies around, as well as new copies from SF&F specialists.

There's no overlap between the two collections, I seem to recall that NESFA coordinated with Tor as to the contents, e.g., NESFA published the Alternities stories, Tor "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station".

[kate_nepveu]

There's no overlap between the two collections

Not quite; they have "Preflash" (which I have never understood) and "The Lost Dialogue" in common. Which is little enough that both should be bought, without question.

[nbardsley]

Yep, that's right. Thanks for catching that!

[kate_nepveu]

I have written up _From the End of the Twentieth Century_ as a supplement to this post: http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/203516.html