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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 15:37:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 15:37:36 1985
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From: Randall B. Neff 

Bantam is increasing the visiblity of its science fiction/fantasy line
with more advertising and an new logo.  The line will now be called SPECTRA
books.  The line is introduced in multiple page color ads in Publishers
Weekly, Feb 8, 1985.  After touting their success with previous books such
as WEST OF EDEN, STARTIDE RISING, TEA WITH THE BLACK DRAGON, VALENTINE
PONTIFIX, BELOVED EXILE, they announce the following Summer/Fall list.

Harlan Ellison, editor MEDEA: HARLAN'S WORLD.  a dozen of the field's most
honored talents share in the creation of a remarkable planet.
June Trade Paperback $10.95

Norman Spinrad.  CHILD OF FORTUNE. The star-flung odyssey of a young woman
through the heights and depths of an exotic interstellar culture.
August Hardcover $16.95

Parke Godwin.  THE LAST RAINBOW.  July Trade Paperback $6.95
               BELOVIED EXILE.   June Mass Market $3.95

James Hogan.  THE PROTEUS OPERATION.  A commando team sent back in time to
prevent Hitler's victory in WWII.  October Hardcover $16.95

Lisa Goldstein.  THE DREAM YEARS.  A stunning tour-de-force of fantasy of a
young Surrealist of the 1920's and a woman from the 1968 Paris Riots who
cross time to discover love and hope in a visionary future.
September Hardcover $14.95

David Brin.  THE POSTMAN.  A major novel of one man's determination to rebuild
America from the ashes of a devastating war.  November Hardcover  $14.95
             THE UPLIFT WAR.  The saga of the Progenitors begun in Sundiver
and Startide Rising continues in this exciting tale of a planet resisting
invastion.  December Mass Market  $3.50

Samuel R. Delany.  THE SPLENDOR AND MISERY OF BODIES; OF CITIES.
The concluding volume of the acclaimed science fiction epic begun in 
Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand.  December Hardcover $16.95
         STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND.  September Mass Market $3.95

Harry Harrison.  WEST OF EDEN.  Last year's hardback bestseller...
July Mass Market $3.95
         A STAINLESS STEEL RAT IS BORN.  At last! the never-before-published
origin of the 25th Century's most lovable conman-turned-counterspy:
"Slippery Jim" DiGriz.  October Mass Market $2.95

R. A. Macavoy.  THE BOOK OF KELLS.  A magnificent story of a young artist
transported to Tenth Century Ireland by the award-winning author of
TEA ... and the Damiano trilogy.  August Mass Market $3.50

Pamela Sargent.  VENUS OF DREAMS.  Beginning a generation-spanning sf epic
of the struggle to colonize the planet Venus.  October Mass Market $3.95

Robert Silverberg.  GILGAMESH THE KING.  November Mass Market $3.95

Warren Norwood.  POLAR FLEET.  June Mass Market $2.95

Somtow Sucharitkul.  THE DARKLING WIND.  A towering saga of the end of a
millenia-old galactic empire.  July Mass Market $3.50

Elizabeth Scarborough.  THE CHRISTENING QUEST.  The latest light-hearted
fantasy in the bestselling Chronicles of Argonia.  August Mass Market $2.95

David R. Palmer.  THRESHOLD.  Beginning a dazzling far-future epic of
humanity's struggle to preserve itself against a deadly cosmic force.
November Mas Market $2.95


Bantam books typically arrive in CA about the second week of the preceeding
month.  IE the March books arrived in the second week of Feb.

Randy NEFF@SU-SIERRA.
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