paizo.com - Worlds of Their Own (Trade Paperback)

About the Editor

James Lowder has worked extensively on both sides of the editorial blotter, with both shared world and creator-owned projects. He’s authored several bestselling novels, including Prince of Lies (1993) and Knight of the Black Rose (1991), published short fiction in such anthologies as Truth Until Paradox (1995) and Shadows Over Baker Street (2003), and written comic book scripts for DC, Devil’s Due, Moonstone, and the city of Boston. He’s written hundreds of feature articles and book, film, and game reviews for such diverse magazines as Dragon, Sci-Fi Universe, and The New England Journal of History, and published roleplaying game material for AD&D, Call of Cthulhu, Marvel Super Heroes, and the World of Darkness. As an editor, he’s directed book lines or series for TSR, Green Knight Publishing, and CDS Books, and has helmed a dozen critically acclaimed anthologies, including The Book of All Flesh (2001), Path of the Bold (2004), and Hobby Games: The 100 Best (2007). He’s been a finalist for the International Horror Guild Award and the Stoker Award, and is a multiple Origins Award winner. While he cannot claim to have written the book on shared world fiction, he can at least say that he penned the entry on the subject for The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2005).


Talion09, Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 02:27 PM

Are these original short stories or ones that have been published elsewhere and are being reprinted in this collection? Specifically, I'm wondering what Stackpole story it is, if it is indeed one that was published earlier.


Erik Mona (Publisher), Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 03:49 PM

Worlds of Their Own collects existing stories from a wide variety of sources (some of them very obscure). We'll post a contents list in the coming months.


Talion09, Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 05:19 PM

Eric, going by the "massive" description and the higher price, is this going to be a trade paperback the same height/width as the other Planet Stories trade paperbacks, albeit with a higher pagecount? Or is it going to be one of the larger size of trade paperbacks? (roughly the height/width of a typical hardcover, but softcover) PS. This has to be the one that I'm most interested in for 2008, as Michael Stackpole is one of my favorite authors, hands down.


Ed Healy (Contributor), Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 03:15 PM

This looks sooo tasty. Jim Lowder editing? I'm in!


Vic Wertz (Technical Director), Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 06:29 PM

I've added the full author and story listing as well as the final cover image (if you don't see a person walking a fantastic landscape, reload your browser's image cache).