3 new chapbooks from Sirius Fiction

New chapbooks! A chapbook on Gene Wolfe's PEACE! A chapbook on Gene Wolfe's THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS! A chapbook on all the fiction of John Crowley! Come see, come see! =mantis= <Too many exclamation points?! Nah!!> Sirius Fiction Catalog and errata sheet at http://www.sirius.com/~mantis/

I helped proofread the Crowley and PEACE chapbooks, and I can recommend both of them (nothing against the CERBERUS chapbook; I just haven't had time to look at it closely). The Sirius web catalog says of the Crowley chapbook, "No serious reader of John Crowley can be without this monumental chapbook," and it's not exaggerating. Most of the essays are by members of this list (mainly alga), and originally appeared in NYRSF. All of these are informative, and most are fascinating (in the interests of full disclosure, I should say that I'm mentioned in the acknowledgements to one of these essays). There are also a few marquee names: a compilation of John Clute's reviews of the Aegypt series so far, Thomas Disch's review of LITTLE, BIG, and a preface by Harold Bloom. The book finishes with a bang--a seven-page interview with John Crowley himself (the one alga solicited questions for on this list, but there's very little overlap between what was posted here and the printed interview). Crowley talks mainly about the Aegypt series, and to anybody who wants to understand or discuss that series, this interview is indispensable. The PEACE chapbook is more of a reference. It has a good essay by Doug Eigsti, family trees, a map and a timeline; but most of the book is taken up with two lists: one of characters (six pages long!) and one of various people, places, things and words mentioned in PEACE. Both lists have page and line references for each item: I was proofreading this while the big PEACE discussion was going on, and I found these lists invaluable for finding stuff in PEACE. --Adam

As long as we're making commercial endorsements here, I might as well chime in. I, too, did a bit of proofreading for the PEACE chapbook, and, other than an unsolicited mention with regards to the timeline therein, I have no vested interest in Sirius Fiction, so I feel free to endorse these booklets. Mantis was kind enough to send me the PEACE and CERBERUS chapbooks last month and I recommend them. I ordered the Crowley chapbook last week, on faith, because I like Crowley's work and most of the articles were written by list members. And hell's bells people, they're cheap! Buy them! Catalog and errata sheet at http://www.sirius.com/~mantis/ Roy