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Arthur C. Clarke, Second Edition
, by Eric S. Rabkin.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 1. 80 p. LC 79-84709. ISBN 0-916732-22-3 cloth $9.95; ISBN 0-916732-21-5 paper $3.95.

Fabian in Color
, by Stephen E. Fabian. [8] leaves of colored art housed loose in a portfolio case. ISBN 0-916732-23-1 paper folio $17.50. A few copies were also released in a deluxe cloth rebinding at $35.

Frank Herbert
, by David M. Miller.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 5. 70 p. LC 80-20880. ISBN 0-916732-07-X cloth $9.95; ISBN 0-916732-16-9 paper $3.95.

Fritz Leiber
, by Jeff Frane.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 8. 64 p. LC 80-22107. ISBN 0-916732-02-9 cloth $9.95; ISBN 0-916732-10-X paper $3.95.

Joe Haldeman
, by Joan Gordon.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 4. 64 p. LC 80-21388. ISBN 0-916732-15-0 cloth $9.95; ISBN 0-916732-06-1 paper $3.95.

Philip José Farmer
, by Mary T. Brizzi.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 3. [ii]+80 p. LC 79-17691. ISBN 0-916732-14-2 cloth $9.95; ISBN 0-916732-05-3 paper $3.95.

1981

The Science Fiction Reference Book: A Comprehensive Handbook and Guide to the History, Literature, Scholarship, and Related Activities of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Fields
, edited by Marshall B. Tymn. viii+536 p. LC 80-28888. ISBN 0-916732-49-5 cloth $22.95; ISBN 0-916732-24-X paper $14.95. Probably the best-selling book of the entire Starmont list. Contents: “Introduction,” by Frederik Pohl; “Toward a History of Science Fiction,” by Thomas D. Clareson; “Children’s Fantasy and Science Fiction,” by Francis Molson; “Science Fiction Art: Some Contemporary Illustrators,” by Vincent Di Fate; “The Fantastic Cinema,” by Vincent Miranda; “Critical Studies and Reference Works,” by Tymn; “Science Fiction Fandom/A History of an Unusual Hobby,” by Joe Siclari; “The Writing Awards,” by Harlan McGhan; “Literary Awards in Science Fiction,” by Howard DeVore; “Science Fiction and Fantasy Periodicals,” by Tymn; “From the Pulps to the Classroom: The Strange Journey of Science Fiction,” by James Gunn; “Masterpieces of Modern Fantasy: An Annotated Core List,” by Roger C. Schlobin; “Outstanding Science Fiction Books: 1927-1979,” by Joe De Bolt; “Science Fiction and Fantasy Collections in U.S. and Canadian Libraries,” by Elizabeth Cummins Cogell; “Resources for Teaching Science Fiction,” by Tymn; “Doctoral Dissertations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1970-1979,” by Douglas R. Justus; “Science Fiction Organizations and Societies,” by Tymn; “Directory of Specialty Publishers,” by Tymn; “Definitions of Science Fiction and Fantasy,” by Roger C. Schlobin; Contributors; Index.

Theodore Sturgeon
, by Lahna Diskin.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 7. 72 p. LC 80-21423. ISBN 0-916732-09-6 cloth $9.95; ISBN 0-916732-18-5 paper $3.95.

1982

Alfred Bester
, by Carolyn Wendell.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 6. 72 p. LC 80-19655. ISBN 0-916732-17-7 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-08-8 paper $4.95.

Brede’s Tale
, by Julian May. 1982. [23] p., 2 x 3”. LC 82-5516. ISBN 0-916732-31-2 deluxe leather-bound edition $85; ISBN 0-916732-32-0 special edition $45. This short tale, which was excerpted from May’s novel,
The Many-Colored Land
, was produced as a miniature book housed in a box, limited to 300 copies signed and numbered by the author and illustrators, of which 100 copies were bound in leather. Without a doubt the most collectible of the Starmont books.

David Lindsay
, by Gary K. Wolfe.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 9. [ii]+64 p. LC 82-5563. ISBN 0-916732-29-0 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-26-6 paper $4.95.

Hal Clement
, by Donald M. Hassler.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 11. [ii]+64 p. LC 82-5577. ISBN 0-916732-30-4 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-27-4 paper $4.95.

H.P. Lovecraft
, by S. T. Joshi.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 13. 83 p. LC 82-10236. ISBN 0-916732-36-3 cloth $12.95; ISBN 0-916732-35-5 paper $5.95.

Philip K. Dick
, by Hazel Pierce.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 12. 64 p. LC 82-6005. ISBN 0-916732-34-7 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-33-9 paper $4.95.

Samuel R. Delany
, by Jane Branham Weedman.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 10. [ii]+79 p. LC 82-5545. ISBN 0-916732-28-2 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-25-8 paper $4.95.

Stephen King
, by Douglas E. Winter.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 16. 128 p. LC 82-10699. ISBN 0-916732-44-4 cloth $11.95; ISBN 0-916732-43-6 paper $5.95.

1983

C.S. Lewis
, by Brian Murphy.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 14. 95 p. LC 82-7346. ISBN 0-916732-38-X cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-37-1 paper $5.95.

Patterns of the Fantastic: Academic Programming at Chicon IV
, edited by Donald M. Hassler.
Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism
, No. 2. [vi]+105 p. LC 83-587. ISBN 0-916732-63-0 cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-62-2 paper $5.95. Contents: “Preface,” by Hassler; “Introduction: Science Fiction and Fantasy and the Academic Enterprise,” by Hassler; “Stephen King in Context,” by Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr.; “Science Fiction Women: Victims, Rebels, Heroes,” by Richard Law; “The Woman Science Fiction Writer and the Non-Heroic Male Protagonist,” by Jim Villani; “The Days of Future Past, or Utopians Lessing and Le Guin Fight Future Nostalgia,” by Kathe Davis Finney; “Narcissism and Romance in McCaffrey’s
Restoree
,” by Mary T. Brizzi; “Woman on the Edge of Narrative: Language in Marge Piercy’s Utopia,” by David L. Foster; “The Metalinguistic Racial Grammar of Bellona: Ethnicity, Language and Meaning in Samuel R. Delany’s
Dhalgren
,” by Marleen Barr; “Harlan Ellison’s Use of the Narrator’s Voice,” by Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr.; “The Social Science Fiction of Robin Cook,” by Thom Dunn; “Moon-Watcher, Man, and Star-Child:
2001
as Paradigm,” by Richard D. Erlich; “Science Fiction Theater the Moebius Way,” by Jane Bloomquist and William McMillan; “Freaking the Mundane: A Sociological Look at Science Fiction Conventions, and Vice Versa,” by Phyllis J. Day and Nora G. Day; Appendix: Academic Program at Chicon IV. The series title does not actually appear on the book.

Piers Anthony
, by Michael R. Collings.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 20. 96 p. LC 83-2466. ISBN 0-916732-53-3 cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-52-5 $5.95.

Robert Silverberg
, by Thomas D. Clareson.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 18. 96 p. LC 83-542. ISBN 0-916732-48-7 cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-47-9 $5.95.

Shadowings: The Reader’s Guide to Horror Fiction, 1981-1982
, edited by Douglas E. Winter.
Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism
, No. 1. x+148 p. LC 83-21326. ISBN 0-916732-86-X cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-85-1 paper $6.95. Contents: “Foreword,” by Winter; “The Art of Darkness,” by Winter; “The Cannibal and the Cop,” by Stephen King; “Many Years Ago, When We All Lived in the Forest,” by Charles L. Grant; “The Man Dog and Maine,” by Burton Hatlen; “Different Writers on
Different Seasons
,” by Charles L. Grant, David Morrell, Alan Ryan, and Douglas E. Winter; “The Sandman Will Still Be There,” by Alan Ryan; “Forgotten Words, Spoken by Forgotten Ancestors,” by Winter; “The North and South of Horror,” by Alan Ryan; “Whispersoft and Shadowfast,” by Roger C. Schlobin; “The Cold Beyond Bearing,” by Ronald L. Weston; “The Presence of Things Unseen,” by Jack Sullivan; “Rustlings and Slitherings in the Shadows,” by Alan Ryan; “Casting a Long Shadow,” by Melissa Mia Hall and Douglas E. Winter; “Billy Bob Burnette Buys Books,” by Billy Bob Burnette; “Ramsey Campbell: No Light Ahead,” by Jack Sullivan; “Dennis Etchison: The Unknown Writer,” by Karl Edward Wagner; “David Morrell: Tasting First Blood,” by Winter; “David Morrell’s
The Totem
: The Link Is Control,” by Brooks Landon; “Things That Go Bump in the Movies,” by Craig Shaw Gardner; “Held Over by Popular Demand: David Cronenberg,” by Richard Meyers; “Horror and the Limits of Violence: A Forum of Interviews,” edited by Douglas E. Winter; “I Want My Cake! Thoughts on
Creepshow
and E.C. Comics,” by Winter; “The Year in Review”; Notes on the Contributors.

Urania’s Daughters: A Checklist of Women Science-Fiction Writers, 1692-1982
, by Roger C. Schlobin.
Starmont Reference Guides
, No. 1. xiv+79 p. LC 83-2467. ISBN 0-916732-57-6 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-56-8 paper $6.95.

1984

Jack London
, by Gorman Beauchamp.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, No. 15. 96 p. LC 82-7345. ISBN 0-916732-40-1 cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-39-8 paper $5.95.

1985

America’s Secret Service Ace: The Operator 5 Story
, by Nick Carr.
Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies
, No. 2. 63 p. LC 85-26269. ISBN 0-930261-70-4 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-73-9 paper $9.95. A facsimile reprint of the 1974 Robert Weinberg edition.

The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures
, by Edward J. Gallagher.
Starmont Reference Guides
, No. 2. xxii+170 p. LC 84-16228. ISBN 0-916732-71-1 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-916732-70-3 paper $9.95.

Discovering Modern Horror Fiction
, edited by Darrell Schweitzer.
Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism
, No. 4. [iv]+156 p. LC 84-2763. ISBN 0-916732-94-0 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-916732-93-2 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Schweitzer; “The Other Side of Magic: A Few Remarks About Shirley Jackson,” by Mary Kittredge; “Urban Gothic: The Fiction of Ramsey Campbell,” by Gary William Crawford; “Russell Kirk: Ghost Master of Mecosta,” by Don Herron; “The Dark Side of the American Dream: Dennis Etchison,” by Michael E. Stamm; “Stephen King As an Epic Writer,” by Ben P. Indick; “T. E. D. Klein,” by Robert M. Price; “Karl Edward Wagner and the Haunted Hills (and Kudzu),” by Schweitzer; “Saberhagen’s New Dracula: The Vampire As Hero,” by Neal Wilgus; “The Recent Fantasies of Manly Wade Wellman,” by Robert Coulson; “John Coyne: The Craftsman and the Monsters,” by A. J. Montesi; “Roald Dahl: Nasty, Nasty,” by Alan Warren; “Jonathan Carroll: Galen to Vienna to the World,” by Edna Stumpf; “Appendix: Critical Studies in Horror Literature: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography,” by Marshall B. Tymn; Contributors; Index.

Discovering Stephen King
, edited by Darrell Schweitzer.
Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism
, No. 8. 219 p. LC 85-2821. ISBN 0-930261-07-0 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-06-2 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Schweitzer; “What Makes Him So
Scary
?” by Ben P. Indick; “Has Success Spoiled Stephen King?” by Alan Warren; “The Biggest Horror Fan of Them All,” by Don Herron; “Stephen King’s American Gothic,” by Gary William Crawford; “The Early Tales: Stephen King and
Startling Mystery Stories
,” by Chet Williamson; “Stephen King and Peter Straub: Fear and Friendship,” by Bernadette Bosky; “
The Stand
: Science Fiction into Fantasy,” by Michael R. Collings; “Stephen King with a Twist: The E.C. Influence,” by Debra Stump; “
Cycle of the Werewolf
and the Moral Tradition of Horror,” by Randall D. Larson; “Stephen King and the Lovecraft Mythos,” by Robert M. Price; “Three by Bachman,” by Don D’Ammassa; “A Matter of Choice: King’s
Cujo
and Malamud’s
The Natural
,” by Debra Stump; “The Ultimate Horror: The Dead Child in Stephen King’s Stories and Novels,” by Leonard G. Heldreth; “Collecting Stephen King,” by Schweitzer; “Synopses of Stephen King’s Fiction,” by Sanford Z. Meschkow; “Stephen King: A Bibliography,” by Marshall B. Tymn; Contributors; Index. An expanded and reworked version of
Essays Lovecraftian
, originally published by T-K Graphics in 1976

Gangland’s Doom: The Shadow of the Pulps
, by Frank Eisgruber, Jr.
Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies
, No. 1. 64 p. LC 85-26069. ISBN 0-930261-71-2 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-74-7 paper $9.95. A facsimile reprint of the 1974 Robert Weinberg edition.

James Tiptree, Jr.
, by Mark Siegel.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 22. 89 p. LC 85-17159. ISBN 0-916732-68-1 cloth $15.95; ISBN 0-916732-67-3 paper $7.95. Dated January 1986 on the copyright page.

J.G. Ballard
, by Peter Brigg.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 26. 138 p. LC 85-2724. ISBN 0-916732-84-3 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-83-5 paper $6.95.

The Many Facets of Stephen King
, by Michael R. Collings.
Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism
, No. 11. [vi]+190 p. LC 85-12598. ISBN 0-930261-15-1 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-14-3 paper $9.95.

Marion Zimmer Bradley
, by Rosemarie Arbur.
Starmont Reader’s Guide
, 27. [ii]+138 p. LC 85-2721. ISBN 0-916732-96-7 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-95-9 paper $6.95.

Naked to the Sun: Dark Visions of Apocalypse
, by Michael R. Collings. [x]+75 p. LC 85-30248. ISBN 0-930261-77-1 cloth $16.95; ISBN 0-930261-76-3 paper $8.95. Poetry.

Patterns of the Fantastic II: [Academic Programming at ConStellation]
, edited by Donald M. Hassler.
Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism
, No. 3. [vi]+90 p. LC 84-2683. ISBN 0-916732-88-6 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-916732-87-8 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction: Dangerous Tastes: Science and Fiction,” by Hassler; “The Hubris of Science: Wells’ Time Traveller,” by Merritt Abrash; “Ars Scientia = Ars Poetica,” by Rosemarie Arbur; “Thornton Wilder as Fantasist and the Science-Fiction Antiparadigm: The Evidence of
The Skin of Our Teeth
,” by Jared Lobdell; “The Mathematics in Science Fiction: Of Measure Zero,” by Edward A. Boyno; “Two Views of the Sentient Computer: Gerrold’s
When HARLIE Was One
and Ryan’s
The Adolescence of P-1
,” by Constance M. Mellott; “Binary First Contact,” by Lawrence I. Charters; “Creation Unfinished: Astronomical Realities in the Hainish Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin,” by Thomas P. Dunn; “Private Eye: A Semiotic Comparison of the Film
Blade Runner
and the Book
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
,” by Judith B. Kerman; “From Pessimism to Sentimentality:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Becomes
Blade Runner
,” by Philip E. Kaveny; “Fantastic Fictions at the Edge and in the Abyss: Genre Definitions and the Contemporary Cross-Genre Novel,” by Janice M. Bogstad; Contributors.