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Isaac Asimov reading oder for the Robot series and Foundation series.

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SFBC September 1977 

The 1977 Annual World's Best SF highlights 10 outstanding stories of the past year by some of the most gifted authors in the genre - Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Joanna Russ and more! Appearance of Life, Natural Advantage and Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are just some of the tales found in this volume. The 1977 Annual World's Best SF was edited by Donald Wollheim, a true pioneer of science fiction.

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SFBC January/February 1969

This 1969 SFBC catalog featured The Mercy Men, by Alan E. Nourse. Dr. Nourse incorporates his medical background to produce this fast-paced science fiction adventure that presents a startling picture of medical research in the future.

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SFBC 1998

This Omnibus includes Alvin Journeyman and Heartfire, the fourth and fifth book in the series, The Tales of Alvin Maker. Written by Orson Scott Card, this series tells the experiences of Alvin Miller who discovers his supernatural abilities to create and shape matter around him.  Artwork by Stephen Hickman. 

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SFBC December 1977

The Adventures of The Stainless Steel Rat contains a trio of topflight Sci-fi adventures in one volume! This omnibus includes The Stainless Steel Rat, The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge, and The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World, all written by renowned author Harry Harrison. This series was filled with wild action and wry humor!

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SFBC November 1977

Written by Stephen R. Donaldson, The Illearth War stands as a powerful tale of adventure and imagination. This book was part of the trilogy, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. The Illearth War was featured on the cover of SFBC's November 1977 catalog. 

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SFBC September 1969

The stories in WORLD's BEST SF: 1969 - such as "Masks" by Damon Knight; "The Worm that Flies" by Brian W. Aldiss; "The Square Root of Brain" by Fritz Leiber; plus fourteen others - comprise a fat volume of not only this year's top tales, but what must surely be accepted as among the greatest, most thrilling ever turned out by today's leading science fiction writers! Edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr

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SFBC 1998

This 5-in-1 SFBC Omnibus edition, The Demon Princes, includes 5 classic books by Jack Vance. The titles included are The Star King, The Killing Machine, The Palace of Love, The Face and The Book of Dreams. Art by Ron Walotsky. 

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SFBC 1999

Science Fiction Book Club's 2-in-1 omnibus edition titled "Winterlands" features Dragonbane and Dragonshadow, two books by Barbara Hambly. This artwork by Donato Giancola brings sci-fi, fantasy, dragons and knights together! 

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SFBC 1998

Science Fiction Book Club's omnibus edition titled "Heart of Bronze" includes two books by Matthew Woodring Stover; Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon. Art by Romas. 

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Special Collectors Issue, 1991

Our book-hoarding dragon mascot meets a bespectacled knight-errant on the cover of the SFBC Special Collectors Issue, 1991. Two stellar anthologies were featured in this issue: Adventures in Time and Space, over a thousand pages of Golden Age SF edited by Raymond J. Healey and J. Francis McComas, and Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by the peerless Marvin Kaye.

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January 1993

Harry Turtledove’s The Guns of the South, about an alternate Civil War in which the Confederacy is supplied with weapons from the future, predates by only a few years the first books of what fans are calling his Southern Victory series. This January 1993 catalog contained a mixed bag of SF/F thrills, from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams, to The Turing Option by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minksky, to The Goblin Mirror by C.J. Cherryh, to Rescue Run by Anne McCaffrey.

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February 1990 This art for Desperate Measures by Joe Clifford Faust (February 1990 issue) is by Walter Velez. And, if we remember correctly, the guy depicted on the right was the SFBC art director at the time.

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January 1991

The January 1991 issue of our Things to Come catalog presented on its redesigned pages Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams and The Folk of the Fringe by Orson Scott Card.

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From the April 1993 catalog, Nancy Kress' Hugo and Nebula Award winner Beggars in Spain, with stunning artwork from Kenneth Jackson.