Over the decade encompassing 1999-2009 Victor
Gollancz Ltd. published a wonderful, numbered collection of 73 classic
Science-Fiction novels as part of their SF Masterworks series. For me this
series provided a gateway into the amazing worlds and futures created by the
brilliant minds of the genre. It was with no little sadness then, that I
learned of the impending discontinuation of the series sometime before Gollancz
ceased publication of the series (It would be rebranded in 2010 with different
titles and colouring.)
By the time the books began to disappear from
bookshops I had collected 53 of the 73 titles available, and had always planned
to complete the collection at a future date. Now, with 2016 in its infancy, I’ve
decided to follow my dream and collect the remaining books from the SF
Masterworks series. Just this week the latest book for my collection arrived
after I found a listing for it on eBay. The
First Men in the Moon (SF Masterworks #38) by H.G. Wells has become the 54th
title to be added to my collection; hopefully it will be followed by others
soon enough.
A list of the remaining titles I need;
A list of the remaining titles I need;
#09 Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
#10 The
Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith
#17 The
Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
#24 The
Time Machine & The War of the
Worlds by H.G. Wells
#30 A
Case of Conscience by James Blish
#31 The
Centauri Device by M. John
Harrison
#37 Nova by
Samuel R. Delany
#41 Jem by
Frederik Pohl
#45 The
Complete Roderick by John Sladek
#47 The
Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
#49 A
Fall of Moondust by Arthur. C. Clarke
#53 The
Dancers at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock
#59 Dying
Inside by Robert Silverberg
#61 The
Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
#64 Tau
Zero by Poul Anderson
#66 Life
During Wartime by Lucius Shepard
#67 Where
the Sweet Birds Sing by Kate Wilhelm
#69 Dark
Benediction by Walter M. Miller Jr.
#73 The
Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
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