A limited numbered edition (1000 copies signed by the artists) housed in an illustrated slipcase and including the collections R IS FOR ROCKET and S IS FOR SPACE with each story featuring a specially commissioned greyscale illustration from Glenn Chadbourne.
Short stories were the form where Bradbury did much of his best work and clearly the form in which he preferred to write most often. He produced eleven novels, many of which were fix-ups of earlier short stories, while he produced between 400 and 600 individual short stories.
The collection titled 'R is for Rocket’ was first published back in 1962, specifically for a burgeoning new book audience: Young Adult readers. He intended it as a greeting card to young readers of SF as they were aging into the adult sections, saying, “Hey, if you like these stories, check out my other books when you’re old enough.” And what a greeting card it is…
Rocket takes some of the best stories from previous collections and places them into one book. Such classics include “The Fog Horn,” “A Sound of Thunder,” “The Long Rain,” “The Exiles,” “Uncle Einar,” “Here There Be Tygers,” and “The Dragon.”
It’s the literary equivalent of a sample platter. Four years later Bradbury followed it up with a companion collection ‘S is for Space’.
Only seven Nationals have won Hero Colours and fine sandships from the rival tribes that rule Australia a thousand years from now. We join the Blue Captain, Tom Tyson, and his crew aboard the magnificent kite-drawn charvolant Rynosseros as he strives to discover his true identity in a world of strange and dangerous desert states, orbiting battle stations, mind war and the most bizarre terraforming and genetic experiments imaginable.
We travel with Tom to the islands of the Inland Sea, to the great fighting ground of the Air, to deserted carnivals, haunted artists’ colonies, fire-chess contests and the abandoned arcologies of the interior, all while searching for clues to the meaning of the three signs he carries with him from his time in the Madhouse.
For that is the great mystery here, and Tom’s search to discover who he is, and why he has come to be in this place at this time is one of the most memorable journeys in modern fantastic fiction.
The exciting first volume of 'The Complete Rynosseros' brings us the first two collections in the momentous saga, ‘Rynosseros' and 'Blue Tyson', together with the unforgettable novella “The Library” and the never before collected “Marmordesse,” presented in the intended reading order for the very first time.
The Adventure Continues:
Events are fast nearing crisis point for the seven Coloured Captains. While Tom strives to learn the meaning of his three signs from the Madhouse, he continues to test the patience and goodwill of the tribes who rule this amazing Australia of the future.
As he roams the dream-ridden streets of Twilight Beach, travels the strange wind river called the Soul, wanders the shores of the Inland Sea and visits the desert wastes of Totem Rule and Pentecost, his very existence cannot help but provoke the tribal Princes and their powerful allies.
Going walkabout doesn’t help either, for Tom cannot be other than the man he is. By aiding outcasts, travellers, fellow captains, even rogue belltrees in his search for his forgotten past, the point is finally reached where something must be done and a deadly plan is put in place that will deal with the Captains once and for all.
The question is: will Tom find answers before it’s too late.
There are fascinating insights into the parts played by boyhood movies, picture books, comics and SF magazines, by the work of the Surrealists and Scheherazade’s tales from the Thousand and One Nights, everything from Jacobean song lyrics, modern-day movie soundtracks and a child’s drawing of a robot to the fiction of Cordwainer Smith, Ray Bradbury and J.G. Ballard, as well as that of his long-time writer friends Jack Vance and Harlan Ellison.
Whether through the support and wise counsel of editors like Peter McNamara and Philip Gore, the artwork and design input of friend and colleague Nick Stathopoulos, or the titles, questions and suggestions offered by many interested companions along the way, Songs from the Inland Sea focuses, too, on learning the craft.
It highlights the role of hard work, improvisation and—in true Surrealist fashion— serendipity, the part played by chance so prized by Max Ernst and other luminaries in the movement.
Published by PS Australia in three individual volumes housed in an leather slipcase with embossed Rynosseros logo.
Heavy artistic involvement from Nick Stathopoulos with three wraparound colour covers
Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by the author and artist.
The things one learns along the way right?, like how Terry Dowling and 2020 Archibald Prize winning artist Nick Stathopoulos go way back, in fact the artwork for the original Rynosseros paperback back in 1990 was Nick’s. So when PS Publishing set about releasing a complete edition of the Tom Rynosseros adventures in hardcover Nick was lured back once again, and wow! what a beautiful set. The signed limited edition is probably the cheapest way to get a signed print with the bonus of one of the genre’s epic stories to boot.
A Thousand and One Nights of Tomorrow:
It’s no surprise that 'The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros' has been called “The best and most ambitious Australian science fiction series ever written, and one of the best, ever, period” or that Locus magazine in the US saw it as placing its author “among the masters of the field.”
Every Great Adventure Begins Somewhere:
In this special companion volume to 'The Complete Rynosseros', author Terry Dowling discusses the origins and development of every story in the classic saga of the Blue Captain.
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An ongoing series published as limited editions signed by the artists. They are something! Both PS Publishing and Cemetery Dance started issuing anniversary editions of King’s classics around the same time. You can’t buy everything so we made our choice and stuck with PS Publishing. Each book is slipcased and has stunning artwork throughout. We are particularly happy with Salem’s Lot which was split into three novella-length standalone volumes each with specially commissioned jacket artwork, containing the associated short stories as well.
The Tommyknockers:
• three individual volumes housed in an illustrated slipcase, a la the PS treatment of ‘SALEM’S LOT;
• a specially commissioned Introduction from Angela Slatter, winner of the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and five Aurealis Awards,
• heavy artistic involvement from British Fantasy Award-winning artist Daniele Serra with three wraparound colour covers;
• a colour slipcase housing the three volumes that make up the novel; six double-page endpapers; and thirty black and white interior pieces, ten per volume;
• strictly limited to one thousand numbered copies signed by the artist and the introducer.
The Stand:
three individual volumes housed in an illustrated slipcase, a la the PS treatment of ‘THE TOMMYKNOCKERS'; heavy artistic involvement from Don Maitz with three wraparound colour covers; a colour slipcase housing the three volumes that make up the novel; six double-page endpapers; and thirty interior pieces, ten per volume;
strictly limited to one thousand numbered copies signed by the artist and the introducer.
CONTENTS
Book 1 - Captain Trips [370 pages]
Book 2 – On the Border [380 pages]
Book 3 – The Stand [383 pages]
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