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OTHER SPACES, OTHER TIMES

A life spent in the future

by Robert Silverberg

“For all SF devotees and novelists in training
who relished Stephen King’s similarly autobiographical On Writing.”

—Libraryjournal.com

Robert Silverberg is one of the most important American science fiction writers of the 20th century. He rose to prominence during the 1950s at the end the pulp era and the dawning of a more sophisticated kind of science fiction. As one of the most prolific of writers, early on he would routinely crank out a story a day. By the late 1960s he was one of the small group of writers using science fiction as an art form and turning out award-winning stories and novels. In 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. OTHER SPACES, OTHER TIMES: A LIFE SPENT IN THE FUTURE is the first collection of his autobiographical writings. Fully illustrated with many rare photos and ephemera — from Silverberg’s own archives — and also includes a new Silverberg bibliography.

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Cult Magazines: A to Z

A Compendium of Culturally Obsessive
& Curiously Expressive Publications

Edited by Earl Kemp & Luis Ortiz

The secret life of America in the 20th century is displayed in the thousands of specialized magazines produced between 1925 and 1990. This period can be seen as a precursor to the cyberspace age where every fad, taste, obsession, and hush-hush desire is gratified. The list of cult magazines is legion: Black Silk Stockings, Castle of Frankenstein, Gee-Whiz, Jaybird, Amazing Stories, boing boing, Bronze Thrills, Ballyhoo, Doctor Death, Dream World, Eyeful, Exposé, Fate, Flying Saucers From Other Worlds, Magazine of Horror, Monster Times, Phantom Detective, Humorama, Psychotronic, Search & Destroy, Satana, Red Channels, Mobster44 Times, Sexology, Spicy Stories, The Spider, The Nudist, True Thrills, Spy, Sunshine & Health, Tiger Beat, True Strange, Web Terror, Whisper, Weird Tales, and Zest, to name just a few. Nothing was beyond the scope of imaginative publishers and eccentric editors whose main goal was to make a profit by giving their readers the magazines they really wanted to read. In the process they also created exuberant populist art and literature. CULT MAGAZINES: A to Z is an encyclopedia of mid-century America at its sub-culture best. Illustrated with over 500 magazine covers. 224 pages.

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Paint or Pixel

THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN ILLUSTRATION ART

EDITED BY JANE FRANK

This collection of art and essays, by the best of today’s science fiction and fantasy artists, presents candid opinions behind the revolution now taking place in the field. Are computers creating a seismic shift in the creation of sf&f art, or are they just another tool in the artist’s paint box?

“A controversy is running amongst artists and art ‘experts’: can the output of a computer really be considered to be ‘fine art,’ or is it limited to illustration? If it is difficult for the lay public to know, --simply by looking at a piece, how much is the work of the artist and how much was the result of a series of zeros and ones, should that matter?“

— David A. Hardy

“There will be really cool effects, an extraordinary number of choices, and little substance underneath the sleek hardware.”

— Chris Moore

“Composing digitally has enabled me to ward off the onset of staleness or, perhaps boredom with the genre with which I’m most connected — namely science fiction.”

— Jim Burns

“One’s artistic effort can become more a process than a creation, where the artist gets lost in the machine. “

— Don Maitz

“… perhaps we need to do nothing more complicated than to simply stop using the phrase ‘computer-generated art’ and start calling it by its right name: ‘computer-aided art’. “

— Ron Miller

“Put another way, is a computer as flexible as a person’s brain?”

— John Berkey

“The greatest challenge to preserving the legacy of digital artists today is the lack of a product, method or material which encodes their work as a unique creation in a permanent way.”

— Donato Giancola

Edited by Jane Frank

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ESSAYS & ART BY: • JOHN BERKEY • JAEL • JOE DEVITO • DON MAITZ• RICHARD BOBER • JOHN HOWE • TOM KIDD • JANNY WURTS • CHRIS MOORE • EGGLETON • DONATO • MATTINGLY • JIM BURNS • RON MILLER • DAVID CHERRY • FRANK WU • PAT WILSHIRE • BARCLAY SHAW • DAVE SEELEY • JIM VADEBONCEUR JR. • ROBERT WEINBERG • JERRY WEIST • ALBERT LORENZ • LES EDWARDS • JOHN HARRIS • ROMAS KUKALIS • ARNIE FENNER • JILL BAUMAN • JASON VON HOLLANDER • FRED GAMBINO • TODD LOCKWOOD • STEVE BURG • ALAN M CLARK • BEN BALDWIN • GEORGE HAGENAUR • SUSAN SHWARTZ • ALAN LYNCH • JACOB McMURRAY • DOUG ELLIS • DAVID LEUCHT • JOE MANNARINO • JANE FRANK •

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Hugo Award nominee

EMSHWILLER: INFINITY x TWO

The Art & Life of Ed & Carol Emshwiller

“Inspirational to aspiring artists and awesome for sf/fantasy fans.”

– Booklist

“[Ortiz] writes with the grace and skill that makes you want to go out and track down Emshwiller’s films and the art that isn’t reproduced in the book.”

– Charles de Lint,
Magazine of FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION

“...meticulously researched...hits the high points of his subject’s career, commenting knowledgeably on such topics as the influence of the surreal artists Dalí and Tanguy on Emsh’s work.”

– Publishers Weekly

FROM ALEX EISENSTEIN’S FOREWORD: It can be said that Ed Emshwiller did it all in his 14-year, 700-odd-cover career in illustration, including men’s adventure work and mystery mag covers. Simultaneously, he conducted a modestly successful career as a New York gallery painter in the Abstract mode. After 1965 ... he left illustration and gallery painting to be a full-time creator of art cinema .... Although he was more than competent at all forms of drawing and painting, and a skilled incidental portraitist, it is probably safe to say that, outside film and video art, Ed will be remembered best for his science fiction work. Especially that vast, varied array of stunning SF covers. In the words of Samuel R. Delany: “for thousands on thousands of readers, Emsh provided the vision of a vivid, material, and living world, a world that ranged from newly imagined subjects to newly imagined objects, a nature and a culture, an organicism and a technology, that ... no one had seen before.”

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by Luis Ortiz

with introductions by Carol Emshwiller and Alex Eisenstein

Price: $39.95; 176 pages; Hardcover

ISBN-13: 978-1-933065-08-3

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