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Subject: New publication info for Gene Wolfe's FREE LIVE FREE
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 02:55:30 EST
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From: donn@utah-cs (Donn Seeley)

I'm not particularly up-to-date on the vagaries of the sf publishing
business, but I just received some publishing information that may be
of interest to fans of Gene Wolfe.  Wolfe's novel FREE LIVE FREE, which
was written in 1983, was not published as expected in 1984 because of
the demise of Pocket Books' Timescape sf line.  Instead Mark Ziesing
published a special limited edition of the book in late 1984.  I talked
to Mark Ziesing on the phone this week and asked him about the
prospects for a trade edition of the novel.  Ziesing said that he had
some information that he wasn't completely certain of; the gist of it
was that the book would appear as a Tor or Baen trade hardcover
sometime in late 1985.  (This may have something to do with the fact
that David Hartwell, Wolfe's editor at Timescape, is now an
'acquisitions editor' for Tor, among his other occupations, according
to Norman Spinrad's column in LOCUS #289.) I have a copy of Ziesing's
beautiful (and expensive) edition, but this new edition would mean that
more than 750 people would get to enjoy this warm, funny, STRANGE book...

Wishing I knew when THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN will come out,

Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    donn@utah-cs.arpa
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