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Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works
Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.
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The Best of Jeffrey Ford: Available Copies
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Seller: Book Deals (Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
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Like New condition. Great condition, but not exactly fully crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. 1.92
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The Best of Jeffrey Ford - Hardcover in custom slipcase by Ford, Jeffrey
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ISBN: 9781786364401
Publisher: PS Publishing, Hornsea, East Yorkshire (2020)
Seller: Rare Books Honolulu (Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.)
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Book Price: $54.00
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PS Publishing, A COLLECTION by Jeffrey Ford, January 2020, hardcover in customized slipcase. COVER ART Derek Ford 562 pages Ships from Hawaii. These are Jeffrey Fords personal selections spanning the decades of his career and representing his many stylesgenre hybrids, literary approaches to SF/F/H tropes, forays into the New Weird as one of its early practitioners, realist-auto-biographical/fantastic/ horror mash-ups, and straight-on fantasy stories. Ford is at home across the map of speculative fiction but is tied to, and claims allegiance to, no country. If you are looking for a collection in which every story is a window on a new world, this book is for you. Within these pages, youll visit with the mythic jinmenkins of Japan (dogs with human heads), the great poet of Amherst, Emily Dickinson, the Beautiful Gelreesh, a monster of sympathy, a young man who suffers from a rare form of synaesthesia, Stoodtladdle, the enormous flea mayor of Exo-skeleton town, and Charon, the boatman of Hell. You will travel to strange localesa bottled city, under the bottom of the lake, the Hotel Lacrimose, and the Idiot Planet. In the words of Joyce Carol Oates: Jeffrey Ford is a beautifully disorienting writer, a poet in an unclassifiable genrehis own. This volume includes an entirely new tale (Mr. Sacrobatus), an eloquent note on each story, and brilliant header sketchesby Derek Ford, the noted fantastic artist and son of Jeffrey Ford. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Blameless, Word Doll, Daltharee, Creation, Daddy Long Legs of the Evening 86 Deathdick Road, The Beautiful Gelreesh, Under the Bottom of the Lake The Honeyed Knot, Exo-Skeleton Town, The Angel Seems, The Night Whiskey The Seventh Expression of the Robot General, Blood Drive, The Dismantled Invention of Fate Bright Morning, At Reparata, The Dreaming Wind, The Boatmans Holiday, A Man of Light A Terror, Mount Chary Galore, The Empire of Ice Cream, A Natural History of Autumn Relic, The Annals of Eelin-Ok, Mr. Sacrobatus.
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Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER (Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom) New Book
Book Price: $66.77
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TOTAL Cost: $92.70
The best of Jeffrey Ford means the best from the mind of a writer who has won numerous international awards. This selection has been made by the author. Widely admired - especially by hard bitten fans of the genres covered here. This means SF, Fantasy, and Horror. This is a new and unread copy of the hardback first edition. Perfect book. Perfect jacket. No smells, no dog hairs; but a definite whiff of FEAR.
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