Centipede Press released a gorgeous edition of "Babel-17" and "Nova" - while not truly fine press those editions are gorgeous and will be hard to beat in terms of overall production value.Īnyway, what is on your list? The more obscure the title, the better IMO :) I love "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds" - but again, the LEC edition is going to be hard to beat - although I really think the Suntup editions are equally fabulous depending on your artistic taste. As for "The Martian Chronicles" and "451" - those already have the most amazing fine press editions possible - namely the LEC editions. Robots aside, other classics that I think really deserve the fine press treatment and readily come to mind are Solaris, The Black Cloud, We, Metropolis, and A Canticle for Leibowitz. It contributed the word 'robot' not only to English, but through English, to all the languages in which science fiction is now written." I'd love to read it.
According to wikipedia, Asimov said "Capek's play is, in my own opinion, a terribly bad one, but it is immortal for that one word. (Rossum's Universal Robots) the work that brought the word "robot" into our lexicon. All that said, one book that I have never seen a fine press edition and absolutely deserves it is R.U.R. "2001" of course comes to mind, although a good novel I would argue it's the movie that is the true classic.
There is also Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" which I personally thought is greatly overrated. That said, I am not a fan of PKD's writing - I read many of his short stories and the plots are interesting but the writing poor. What other sci-fi classics deserve the fine press treatment, or arguably a new fine press edition? There is of course PKD's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" - would be a huge hit if anyone produced a fine press edition (I am aware of the Folio Society's edition, which is nice, but still not fine press). Made me think of Samuel Butler's classic, Erewhon - the LEC produced a very nice edition, but is it time for a more modern take on the classic? Well, I think so :) Interesting article today on the dangers of AI.
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