Michael Walsh is donating OTHER WORLDS, BETTER LIVES is a retrospective collection of some the
best longer stories by Howard Waldrop. The contents are:

“A Dozen Tough Jobs” (1989)
“Fin de Cycle” (1990)
“You Could Go Home Again” (1993)
“Flatfeet” (1996)
“Major Spacer” (2001)
“The Other Real World” (2001)
“A Better World’s In Birth” (2003)

Along with an introduction to the collection, each story features an afterword by Howard Waldrop.

This collection complements the previously published THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME, a career retrospective of his short fiction.

The galley had a print run of 200 copies, most of went to reviewers.

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Bill Lindblad of Alien Motives Books is donating Dimension of Miracles Revisted, a short novel written by Robert Sheckley as a sequel to one of his most successful original novels. Due in large part to its length (107 pages) he had difficulty placing the novel in a market where longer novels have become the standard, and he decided to resort to self-publishing in hope to generate enough interest to facilitate professional publication.

The book was printed in runs of ten at a time. The exact number of copies produced is sketchy; he sold them through his e-mail and at conventions only. The initial format of the book was a perfect-bound, trade paperback sized edition. There were, according to Sheckley, two runs of that format, meaning twenty copies were produced. He then shifted to a cheaper, spiral-bound edition, of which he had printed another thirty copies. From a conversation a week before his ill-fated and final trip to Europe, he was looking to print another ten or twenty copies prior to travel. It is unknown as to whether those books were printed, or whether he printed ten or twenty. The full run was well short of a hundred copies, however, making this the rarest Bob Sheckley book produced.

This copy is in fine condition, and like most has been signed by the author.

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Stefan Dziemianowicz is donating Robert Bloch: The Fear Planet and other Unusual Destinations (Subterranean Press, 2005, hc). The latter features full-color tip on cover art by Gahan Wilson. Stefan Dziemianowicz says, “It’s definitely a collectible, limited to 750 signed copies and, I believe out of print on publication.” It is signed by Stefan.

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Editor Stefan Dziemianowicz is donating two rare books:
Bram Stoker: Best Ghost and Horror Stories, edited by Richard Dalby, Stefan Dziemianowicz and S.T. Joshi (Dover, 1997, tpb) and A. Merritt: The Metal Monster, with an introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz (Hippocampus Press, 2002, tpb). Stefan will sign both items.

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Peter Schneider of Hill House is kindly donating the signed, lettered edition of Ray Bradbury’s collection THE CAT’S PAJAMAS. It features five additional stories — stories that were not included in the trade edition. Four of these stories have never been published until now; the fifth has seen print only once before. The five new stories in THE CAT’S PAJAMAS: Stories + 5 are classic Ray Bradbury tales, with twists, turns, and surprises, filled with the joy that we experience through the simple act of living–and shadowed by the darkness that await us just around the corner.

THE CAT’S PAJAMAS Lettered Edition is a beautifully bound book (with die-cut slipcase), all nestled within a sturdy tray case. The book and clamshell case are bound in a forest green Japanese silk.

Also included with the lettered edition is a separate hand-bound hardcover book featuring Mr. Bradbury’s story “SAMURAI / KABUKI.” This story has never been published. The volume is signed by Mr. Bradbury. It comes in a handsome black presentation envelope featuring a full-cover inlay.

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This is the letter of provenance for the story in a bottle titled “Moon over Lubyanka,” which I am donating the KGB Fantastic Fiction fund raiser. The story begins:

We met in a smoky piano bar called Dissidents, high up in a building directly across from Lubyanka Prison. It was a gorgeous night. A full moon hung low over the yellow-walled building that had once housed the Cheka and then, later, the KGB. Moscow never looked better.

“Moon Over Lubyanka” was written on May 28, 2008. I placed it inside an old Perrier Jouet bottle which I titled, signed, and dated with a diamond-tipped pen. I then corked the bottle. Finally, my wife sealed it with sealing wax. After which I destroyed all other copies and files of the story.

The story within the sealed bottle is unique. The bottle can be kept as an artifact, or the story can be read, whichever you choose. It is not possible to do both.

This is the tenth piece of bottled fiction I have created, all of which (save one, which I kept) have been given away to worthy causes, institutions, or individuals. Ownership of the bottle entails possession of the physical story only. Copyright is specifically withheld.

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