ReAnimus Press new releases [2021] - SFWA Grandmasters and more!

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New from ReAnimus Press: STATION IN SPACE by James Gunn

https://ReAnimus.com/1648 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L4S9M2J

Sign on as mankind conquers the last frontier, the final challenge to human ingenuity. Here is a novel of danger, despair, and pleasure as men and women begin to populate the first... Station in Space.

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: HUMAN VOICES by James Gunn

https://ReAnimus.com/1658 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MYVRWHB

An enthralling collection of SFWA Grandmaster James Gunn's later stories, showing the master at work on stories spanning spectrum of SF from retirement communities to time travel, fixing the past, pitching quantum leap before it existed, responses to The Bicentennial Man and The Diamond Lens. Includes:

• Introduction
• The Old Folks
• The Voices
• Fault
• Guilt
• Child of the Sun
• The North Wind
• Among the Beautiful Bright Children
• The Futurist
• Man of Parts
• The Gingerbread Man
• The Day the Magic Came Back
• The Lens of Time
• The End-of-the-World Ball
• The Giftie

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: THE SUN SABOTEURS by Damon Knight

https://ReAnimus.com/1675 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RF33GSL

Why did the aliens on a remote planet keep all the humans locked inside a section of the city? Humans are used to being the top dog wherever they are--what are they going to do about it?

(Also published as "The Earth Quarter.")

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: THE UNPUBLISHED GUNN by James Gunn

https://ReAnimus.com/1657 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LZWSNC6

An exciting collection of SFWA Grandmaster James Gunn's never before published stories. Includes:

• INTRODUCTION
• SANE ASYLUM
• JUDGMENT DAY
• BROKEN RECORD
• THE BLACK MARBLE
• THE WHIP
• JACKPOT FOR JULIE
• THE MAN WITH ONE TALENT
• THE BIG ONE
• PEST HOUSE

From the introduction: "This [book] is not about the stories I sold. Rather it is about the stories I didn't sell. It takes a bit of courage to present them here in this volume ... because they have about them the aura of failure. They weren't good enough. Even now, though, I'm not sure why. When I was writing them I couldn't tell the difference between the ones that sold and the ones that didn't. I wrote them all the same.

I don't make these stories available as object lessons in what not to do, although students of writing might analyze them, if they wish, for reasons why they were less successful than my others. Rather I think it would be good to give these stories a chance. They are only nine out of ninety-two, most of them among my earliest. It would feel good to have all my fiction out where people could see and judge it, not just those pieces that editors liked well enough to publish. These stories give me a feeling of something unfinished, of something I once loved and forgot for a while but now have rediscovered.

Here are [nine] stories ... Take them for what they are. If you find something to like about them, I will be pleased. If you find them flawed, perhaps you can learn from their mistakes.

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: TURNING ON by Damon Knight

https://ReAnimus.com/1684 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RCTKB2Q

Another excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's stories, including several classics.

What would happen if you could invent any vision you liked? If you could turn back time? If vampires were plants? Turn on your eyeballs and find out...

Contains:

SEMPER FI

THE BIG PAT BOOM

MAN IN THE JAR

THE HANDLER

MARY

AUTO-DA-FÉ

TO THE PURE

ERIPMAV

BACKWARD, O TIME

THE NIGHT OF LIES

MAID TO MEASURE

COLLECTOR'S ITEM

A LIKELY STORY

DON'T LIVE IN THE PAST

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: WHY DO BIRDS by Damon Knight

https://ReAnimus.com/1679 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P7WQ2H8

In the 21st century, Ed Stone says he's been in suspended animation since the 1930s--put there by aliens who have sent him on a mission: convince the nations of the world to build a massive vault, and put all the billions of humanity into suspended animation to survive the Earth's impending destruction. Strangest of all: Everybody believes him.

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SURFACE by J. A. Lawrence

https://ReAnimus.com/1698 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091J1YK8C

Everydays, Somedays, and Neverwhens...
An epic, once in a generation publishing event! The collected short stories of a major name in science fiction, and a book-end story to James Blish's classic "Surface Tension"!

"The short stories of J.A. Lawrence were among the best science fiction of her time, and here they are collected at last.

The keystone of the collection is "The Other Side of the Surface," her dazzling re-imagination of her late husband James Blish's classic story "Surface Tension." It is an extraordinary companion piece and a superb work in its own right. But nothing in this fine volume will fail to repay the reader's attention."
--Robert Silverberg

Contents include...

• Introduction
  
  ~~ Rumors from the Discontinuum ~~
• The Other Side of the Surface
• Opening Problem
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat
• This is My Beloved
• Nothing But
• Natural History
• Wild Rose
• Heir
• The Naughty Little Unicorn
• The Persistence of Memory
• Jungle Fever
• Natural Causes
• Nothing, to be Afraid of
  
  
  ~~ Turns of the Screwdriver ~~
• The Prillian Crisis
• On the Furside
• The Case of the Lost Lake
• Going Where in a What?
  
  
  ~~ Present Tensions ~~
• My Father's Eyes
• A Decrystallization of Emeralds
• Apple Trees
• Do Not Go Gentle
• Too Long a Sacrifice
• Dark Secrets
• Some Are Born Great
  
  
  ~~ Somewhen in Europe ~~
• Shadows
• The Chasm
• The Inkle Weavers of Middleborough
  
  
  ~~ Μεζεδάκια (Greek Snacks, to be Consumed With Wine Or Ouzo) ~~
• The Haunting of Ano Paleopolis
• The Bridal Path
• The Unknown Islands
• The Complete Greek Myth
• The Speech
  
  
  ~~ For the Very Young ~~
• Starstuff
• The Peepee Monster
• The Purple Hippopotamus
  
  
  ~~ Appendix ~~
• Surface Tension by James Blish

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: TIGER! TIGER! by James Gunn

https://ReAnimus.com/1655 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LQXXDZN

An object that shouldn't be there passed within a hundred yards of the space station.

No one deduced from the waving of the tall grass and the frightened chatter of birds the shape of the tiger moving silently through the jungle clearing.

Tiger!

You passed silently through the night, and we blundered upon you. You were fear, awe, hatred, and opportunity. You were knowledge; you were the shape of the unknown. We stopped; we reacted. And our awareness of your existence changed our lives.

It began at 2141 on June 14...

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: SOME DREAMS ARE NIGHTMARES by James Gunn

https://ReAnimus.com/1653 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LNPCPNH

Fiction is simply dreams written out. Science fiction consists of the hopes and dreams and fears (for some dreams are nightmares) of a technically based society.
--John W. Campbell

These stories share a common concept: man has dreamed for centuries about space flight, about happiness, about immortality. If only I could fly to the moon, he has told himself, if only I could find true happiness, if only I could live forever ... then I would be like a god. These stories, however, explore these dreams to the fullest... including the unforeseen consequences. The power of man to dream and make his dreams come true is unlimited, but each step forward must be paid for, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and some dreams are nightmares...

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: THREE NOVELS by Damon Knight

https://ReAnimus.com/1685 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SJGRCG9

An excellent collection of SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight's always-excellent stories--three short novels in this case:

Rule Golden--what if the Golden Rule were enforced in reverse by some force--the bad things you do to others are done to you?

Natural State--are cities doomed by genetic engineering?

The Dying Man--what would it be like to be immortal... then suddenly find out you'd become mortal?

(Note that Rule Golden and Other Stories includes these same three, plus two more.)

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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ew from ReAnimus Press: TURNING POINTS: ESSAYS ON THE ART OF SCIENCE FICTION by Damon Knight

https://ReAnimus.com/1693 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TM28CCV

SFWA Grandmaster Damon Knight edits and contributes to this incredible collection of essays on writing, reading, and the nature of science fiction, written by all the greatest science fiction writers ever. Contents include:

Introduction
I. A Walk Around the Topic
- Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults and Virtues - Robert A. Heinlein
- Social Science Fiction - Isaac Asimov
- What Is Science Fiction? - Damon Knight
II. History Without Tears
- Pilgrim Fathers: Lucian and All That - Brian W. Aldiss
- Science Fiction Before Gernsback - H. Bruce Franklin
- The Situation Today - Kingsley Amis
III. Criticism. Destructive and Otherwise
- On Science Fiction - C. S. Lewis
- Alien Monsters - Joanna Russ
- Cathedrals in Space - William Atheling, Jr. [James Blish]
- Contact - Pierre Versins
IV. S.F. and Science
- No Copying Allowed - John W. Campbell
- Scientists in S.F.: A Debate - Philip R. Geffe, Milton A. Rothman, John W. Campbell, James V. Mcconnell
V. How To. In Four Tricky Lessons
- On the Writing of Speculative Fiction - Robert A. Heinlein
- How To Build a Planet - Poul Anderson
- How To Collaborate Without Getting Your Head Shaved - Keith Laumer
- Writing and Selling Science Fiction - Damon Knight
VI. S.f. As Prophecy
- Chemical Persuasion - Aldous Huxley
- Pandora's Box - Robert A. Heinlein
- Gourmet Dining in Outer Space - Alfred Bester
VII. Confessions
- Why So Much Syzygy? - Theodore Sturgeon
- There's Nothing Like a Good Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- Son of Dr. Strangelove - Arthur C. Clarke
- Journey With a Little Man - Richard Mckenna

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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Introducing, from ReAnimus Press: THE MULTIPLE MAN by Ben Bova

https://ReAnimus.com/1208 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008B0L0AU

As the President is speaking inside an auditorium in Boston, the President's Press Secretary discovers a body in an alley outside: The body of the President.

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: THE READING PROTOCOLS OF SCIENCE FICTION: DISCOURSES ON READING SF by (SFWA Grandmaster) James Gunn and Michael R. Page

https://ReAnimus.com/1705 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098825XN7

"The invitation came online, probably an e-mail. I was aware of the existence of SFF.net, a website that specialized in discussions of science fiction issues, often by authors who were too impatient to get their opinions published in the SFWA Bulletin, which got published every two months and was the battleground for some classic debates and sometimes name-calling... The invitation was to join a discussion--in midstream--about the protocols for reading science fiction. One of the exchanges online included a reference to the fact that I had written about the protocols in a recent article... I didn't read the website regularly, mostly because I didn't have time; these were busy days for me, both teaching and publishing, and my days as president of SFWA and then of SFRA were long over, and the debates were still raging about mostly the same issues. But the debates about the protocols of reading science fiction were still fresh and the discussion about them, if they existed, was still fresh. And the discussion was brisk and sharp, particularly from Damon Knight, with whom I had an interesting relationship since I had read his fiction and his critical opinions... We had met in a bar at the World Science Fiction Convention..." And so begins James Gunn's definitive and fascinating study of the reading protocols of science fiction -- the way readers read science fiction differently than other kinds of fiction. (Or, do they?) The journey may seem academically dry, but is anything but, as it involves all sorts of beloved personalities and brawling debates about reading, writing, the very definition of science fiction itself, and what sets it apart from other fiction, and, ultimately, what makes us what we are as humans. The lively debate involves Damon Knight and many other professional science fiction writers and critcs. The book includes Samuel R. Delany's key essay on the subject, and several by James Gunn, to thoroughly explore the subject. This is James Gunn's second to last book, finished just before his death, and a most fitting capstone to his incredible career, all carefully put together with his friend and associate, Michael R. Page. It's a must-read for any fan of the science fiction genre and those who write and study it.

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: THE ROCKIN' SKYHORSE BLUES by Bruce Taylor

https://ReAnimus.com/1701 (available in both ebook and paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XK15XCJ

These stories from "Mr. Magical Realism" represent a wide variety of style and content, but most of them are explorations of self-expression that fit the definition of surrealism, and later, magic realism and then a blending of magic realist writing techniques and perspective with the three main branches of Imaginative Literature, science fiction, horror and fantasy. That being said, not all these stories in this collection are of magic realist persuasion; several are science fiction, or stories with unusual perspectives on the craft of writing.

But, no matter what Bruce writes, there is a theme that runs through much of his work: We don't see reality as bizarre, because we've all come to agree that the bizarre is "normal reality." Of course it isn't. What reality is--is incomprehensible, never mind life itself. But let's not let that get in the way of loving it, loving our fellow creatures who inhabit this world with us, loving the planet from whence we come and love being the mortal mammals that we are on this third planet--around a star.

"Works that are fascinating, insightful and downright fun to read"
--Ben Bova

"A writer of imagination and insight."
--Terry Brooks

"As rich and poetic as Bradbury at his finest."
--William F. Nolan, author, Logan's Run

"A very gifted, short fiction writer."
-- Jeff VanderMeer, author, The Southern Reach Trilogy

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new

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New from ReAnimus Press: MASTERS OF EVOLUTION by (SFWA Founder and Grandmaster) Damon Knight

https://ReAnimus.com/1673 (available in ebook + paperback)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08RZ9JXT2

SHOWDOWN WITH MONSTERS!

Alvah Gustad was typical of New York City's twenty million citizens. He took for granted such luxuries as synthetic food and robot-servants, and he knew beyond a doubt that the Cities offered the only acceptable way of life for civilized Man!

But roaming the vast plains between the continent's five Cities, ever growing and expanding, were the dreaded tribes of Muckfeet. In direct antithesis to the City dwellers, these illiterate savages actually grew food and raised animals. And how they smelled! It was so bad that Alvah could feel his stomach churn at the mere mention of their name.

There was one thing in the Muckfoot territory that the Cities did need, though--metal ores. And Alvah, faced with the job of liaison to the tribes around New York, had to somehow make his patriotism outweigh his nausea. If he succeeded, the Cities would be monuments to eternity; if he failed, the dreaded Muckfeet would become the MASTERS OF EVOLUTION.

Alvah Gustad: The fate of an empire rested on the condition of his stomach.

Beej Hofmeyer: She looked like a woman, but she smelled like a Muckfoot!

Doc Bither: When he raised a kitten, you couldn't be sure if it would turn out to be a cat or a tiger.

Manager Wytak: Bravery was something he always looked for in other people, but never in himself.

Artie Brumbacher: He couldn't read or write, but nevertheless he was a scholar.

Jerry Finch: To his way of thinking, there was nothing unusual about being a gardener in an Iron Pit.
(Note: Is an expansion of the novelette "Natural State.")

Lots more new books from ReAnimus Press - see the list at www.reanimus.com/new