WAHOO! Thanks, Paizo, ofr undertaking this! Too many of the great, imaginative, old-school sci-fi and fantasy novels are out of print, and too much of what is written today is too formulaic. PLEASE keep Planet Stories going!

Suggestions for future authors: Clifford Simak, L. Sprague DeCamp, Doc E.E. Smith (esp. Lensman!), Alfred Bester... you just can't find these guys in print anymore.

Thank you again - you've made this reader's day!

Suggestions for future authors: Clifford Simak, L. Sprague DeCamp, Doc E.E. Smith (esp. Lensman!), Alfred Bester... you just can't find these guys in print anymore.

Thank you again - you've made this reader's day!

We've strongly considered all of these authors, and there are books from all of them waiting to be read in the "for consideration" pile. I strongly suspect that much of Bester is still in print, and I know at least the first couple Lensmen books are in print. Which sort of stinks, because they would be perfect for the line.

--Erik Mona

Lensmen! Lennnnssmaaaaaan!

Awesome! I'm a huge Robert E. Howard Fan and while browsing in Amazon for his books I saw this and had to look up Planet Stories. It's past-due that someone did this.. As it’s already been stated, the sci-fi fantasy book market has become a mess of repetitiveness and overly-complex stories. This brings back the fun in the genre.

Now if someone would just do the same for Sword-and-Sorcery.

Brett Hubbard wrote:

Suggestions for future authors: Clifford Simak, L. Sprague DeCamp, Doc E.E. Smith (esp. Lensman!), Alfred Bester... you just can't find these guys in print anymore.

Thank you again - you've made this reader's day!

We've strongly considered all of these authors, and there are books from all of them waiting to be read in the "for consideration" pile. I strongly suspect that much of Bester is still in print, and I know at least the first couple Lensmen books are in print. Which sort of stinks, because they would be perfect for the line.

--Erik Mona

Erik:

I'm sure you and the staff have a mountain of suggested authors but I'd like to throw one more atop the heap: Henry Kuttner. Kuttner produced a lot of sci-fi. The STARTLING WORLDS OF HENRY KUTTNER collection from the late 80s was a great introduction to three of his fantasy worlds. Unfortunately, I don't see much of his work in print. There was a recent collection of some of his short sci-fi stories published to coincide with THE LAST MIMZY, which was based upon his work, but that collection didn't contain any of his fantasy worlds. Might be worth a look.

We are publishing Kuttner's "Elak of Atlantis" and "Prince Raynor" stories in November. Check out paizo.com/planetstories for more details. We're certainly considering additional Kuttner tales, and will also publish two books by his wife, C.L. Moore.

--Erik

We are publishing Kuttner's "Elak of Atlantis" and "Prince Raynor" stories in November. --Erik

You Rock, Erik.

I must have missed that entry. I'll definitely check it out.

Awesome! I'm a huge Robert E. Howard Fan and while browsing in Amazon for his books I saw this and had to look up Planet Stories. It's past-due that someone did this.. As it’s already been stated, the sci-fi fantasy book market has become a mess of repetitiveness and overly-complex stories. This brings back the fun in the genre.

Now if someone would just do the same for Sword-and-Sorcery.

Well, we've got C.L. Moore's "Jirel of Joiry" stories and Henry Kuttner's "Elak of Atlantis" and "Prince Raynor" stories, all of which are important to the sword and sorcery sub-genre. Did you have specific titles or authors in mind?

--Erik

Any reason this has been pushed back till December? The listing for Amazon still says August (which was the original publication date). I just ordered it from Amazon two days ago because it was supposed to be coming out on the 15th of August. Is the whole group of books being pushed back?

Nope. Just this one. It looks like we are on schedule for October now, but the other books in the line will all come out as announced. Amazon will most likely have updated release information shortly.

--Erik

This is great. Have to throw out Lin Carter, Burt Akers, and of course ERB (John Carter of Mars)!

This is great. Have to throw out Lin Carter, Burt Akers, and of course ERB (John Carter of Mars)!

I'm pretty sure John Carter of Mars is still in print. At least as of a year or two ago, when my brother went out and found a new copy.

A Princess of Mars is in print in at least three different editions from three different publishers. Including Penguin and Barnes & Noble.

So that's a no-go.

Akers is interesting. I got about two-thirds of the way into "Transit to Scorpio" last winter, and it was better than I expected. All of his books are available in e-format somewhere or other on the internet. Some of the later ones were only ever published in Germany, as I understand it. Akers died before finishing the final volume, something like the 43rd book.

I think it would be fun to get the rights to a series like this and release them very rapidly as a side project, but Planet Stories would need to get a lot more popular and profitable for me to seriously consider it.

You all can help with that, of course.

--Erik

Akers is interesting. I got about two-thirds of the way into "Transit to Scorpio" last winter, and it was better than I expected. All of his books are available in e-format somewhere or other on the internet. Some of the later ones were only ever published in Germany, as I understand it. Akers died before finishing the final volume, something like the 43rd book.

I think it would be fun to get the rights to a series like this and release them very rapidly as a side project, but Planet Stories would need to get a lot more popular and profitable for me to seriously consider it.

You all can help with that, of course.

--Erik

I will do my part. As a librarian, I order books for my library, including the SciFi/Fantasy section. I intend to order as many of the Planet Stories as I can. Please encourage your local libraries to consider ordering these books. I still intend to buy my own copies of many of the books, if not all of them.

I would also like to see new editions of the works of Clifford Simak and L. Sprague deCamp (non-conan works),as mentioned above.

WAHOO! Thanks, Paizo, ofr undertaking this! Too many of the great, imaginative, old-school sci-fi and fantasy novels are out of print, and too much of what is written today is too formulaic. PLEASE keep Planet Stories going!

Suggestions for future authors: Clifford Simak, L. Sprague DeCamp, Doc E.E. Smith (esp. Lensman!), Alfred Bester... you just can't find these guys in print anymore.

Thank you again - you've made this reader's day!

Please no de Camp. The guy's overbearing, pompous writing is nothing less than grating. That he also nearly devastated R E Howard's Conan in a mismanaged attempt to revive the series also means he should be left in rightful obscurity.

Thank you! For years I've been telling people about this awesome book, one of Howard's absolute best, and no one has ever heard of it. I'm loathe to loan out any of my sword & sorcery books, so it's great to see this genre classic back in print -- I can finally tell them where to pick it up!

Gardner Fox's "Warrior of Llarn" and "Theif of Llarn" also deserve to be in print again, having been sadly out of print for thirty years. And if you guys were really cool, you'd get your hands on reprint rights for "Transit in Scorpio." Now that's an awesome book.

Please no de Camp. The guy's overbearing, pompous writing is nothing less than grating. That he also nearly devastated R E Howard's Conan in a mismanaged attempt to revive the series also means he should be left in rightful obscurity.

The Reluctant King series is a hoot, however. But not hard enough to get for this imprint.

Whoa, Nellie. That Joe Lansdale isn't a shy one, is he? ;)

Heathy who would win? CONAN vs.ALMURIC

Erik... I must tell you... I hate you :P

please I know the purist idea of NO corecting the original mistakes, and that is truer and closer to the genr... I know.. but when the scene could be take for the worst by a simple change of words... can we edit that?

lol, sorry, there is a paragraph in the middle of the book... that has deeply pushed inside my mind, and the srenght of Howard's words is so great that I can't take it away... even when I know it WAS a doubt INSTEAD of a certainty...

It took me 2 days to be able to continue reading (when i began i returned to that paragraph in disbelief and rereadit al least 6 times! i know... its morbid ) until i discovered the ruth of the and my msitake 2 pages later and was certain 2 more ahead.