Fantasy Masterworks 2005

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Tangled Web UK: New Fantasy Masterworks Titles 2005

Ken Grimwood Replay Pbk published May 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07559 7

Jeff Winston was forty-three and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when he could be truly happy, when he died.
And then he woke up and he was eighteen, with all his memories of the next twenty-five years intact. He could live his life again, avoiding the mistakes, making money from his knowledge of the future, seeking happiness. Until he dies at forty-three and wakes up back in college again ...
Replayis a brilliant speculation on time and life, warm, wise and deeply satisfying.
Fantasy Masterworks is a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy.
‘Ken Grimwood’s Replay is one of the freshest, most engaging novels’ Dean Koontz
‘The story and writing are terrific and the end is a thoroughly satisfying answer to a great ‘What if’ question’ Bari Wood
‘Grimwood manages this whole complex story with great pizzazz… there’s not a false or melodramatic note in the whole thing… it’s a fantasy using the reality of our lives. This may be why it was such a pleasure to read, and why… it seemed so fresh’ Baird Searles

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by Ken Grimwood at Amazon.co.uk

Dan Simmons Song of Kali Pbk published March 2005 by Gollancz at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0 575 07659 3

The Indian poet M. Das, long thought to be dead, has mysteriously reappeared, and Robert Luczak is commissioned to write an article on him and to negotiate for the new poem that Das has written. So Luczak, his Indian wife and their baby daughter are soon engulfed in the foul, teeming, crime-ridden city of Calcutta, confronting the appalling possibility that M. Das really has come back from the dead to proclaim a new and horrific age and to sing the savage song of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction ... Fantasy Masterworks is a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy.
‘The best novel in the genre I can remember’ Dean R. Koontz
‘An absolutely harrowing experience’ F Paul Wilson
‘Dan Simmons understands terror and what it does to readers. Where Stephen King flinches, Simmons doesn’t’ Edward Bryant
‘Harrowing and ghoulish… Simmons makes the stuff of nightmares very real indeed!’ Locus
‘One of the most brilliant first novels I’ve read’ Harlan Ellison
‘A savage, powerful, nightmarish horror novel’ Amazing
‘Feverishly imagined horrors… stay in the mind long after the book is closed’ Paperback Inferno
‘Shock treatments abound’ Chattanooga Times
About The Author
Dan Simmons, a former teacher and director of programmes for gifted children, now writes full time. He lives with his wife and daughter in Colorado, USA. He has always been interested in writing/composing his first short stories at the age of nine. Since then he has been co- winner of the first Twilight Zone Magazine short story contest, winner of the Rod Serling Memorial Award and the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel with Song of Kali.
Dan Simmons is also the author of the internationally acclaimed Hyperion, winner of the 1990 Hugo Award and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Phases of Gravity and Carrion Comfort, winner of the 1990 Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award and Locus Award for Best Horror Novel.

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by Dan Simmons at Amazon.co.uk