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The Queen of the
Legion
Jack
Williamson
Illustrated by Glenn
Barr
ISBN-10
1893887006
ISBN-13 9781893887008
$75.00
368 pages Hardcover
OUT OF PRINT
Description
Designed
to match the "Legion of Space" books from Fantasy Press, this is the
first title from Haffner Press. This title was originally published
under the "Timescape" imprint of Pocket Books in 1983. It is a
latter-day sequel to the previous "Legion of Space" stories:
The Legion
of Space (Astounding
Stories, 1934; book edition 1947)
The
Cometeers (Astounding Stories,
1936; book edition 1950)
One Against
the Legion (Astounding
Stories, 1939; included in the hardcover edition of The Cometeers)
"Nowhere
Near" (1969, included in the paperback edition of One Against the Legion)
Decades
after the murderous assaults on the civilized worlds by the
Medusae and the Cometeers--worlds protected by the Legion of Space--the
Hawkshead Nebula is a new setting of danger and intrigue.
Jil Gyrel is a lonely girl on a dismal planet at the edge of that
Nebula.
Her life is changed forever when her father's long missing spaceship
reappears.
The only survivor is her father's best friend Shon Macharn. Macharn's
sudden
marriage to Jil's mother sends Jil on a course of events that ends with
all of civilization at stake!
For AKKA--the cosmos' ultimate weapon--has been stolen by murderous
agents, and the horrors from within the Hawkshead Nebula have rendered
the Legion of Space powerless. Jil encounters the wonders of the galaxy
and leads a motley crew against the terrors of the Nebula in an effort
to find her father and recover the secret of AKKA!
The last-written story of the Legion, "The Luck of the Legion," was
published in
2002 and is included in The Worlds of Jack
Williamson. Chronologically, The
Queen of the Legion is the final adventure of Giles
Habibula.
Less than 8 copies remain of the
300-copy
print-run. Cover & interior artwork by Glenn Barr.
All copies signed by Jack
Williamson.
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Reviews
"It quite
honestly moves me that now, nearly a half-century later
in 1983, there is a new Legion of Space story by Williamson, just as
rousing, just as readable.”
—Baird Searles, Isaac Asimov's
Science Fiction Magazine
". . . a
novel whose mood and style is of a piece with its predecessors, even
given its innovative female protagonist. Pure and simple space opera .
. ."
—Publisher's Weekly
". .
. in 1983, Timescape published The
Queen of the Legion as a paperback original. This
novel introduced the plucky Jil Gyrel, a welcome distaff addition to
the good guys searching for the deadly secret of AKKA, your basic
cosmic ultimate weapon. Now it's 1998 and a start-up specialty
publisher, Haffner Press has put The
Queen of the Legion between welcome boards, with corrected text,
and done it in style. The book's been deliberately designed and
produced to fit into the format of the old Fantasy Press editions of
nearly a half century ago. All the familiar (at least to collectors)
touches are there, including a glossy stock tipped-in signed limitation
page. Glenn Barr's cover illustration has the right look, the
typography's correct, only the jacket paper stock isn't glossy enough.
The price is a bit sobering at $75, but then that would be cheap by
comparison with what old Fantasy press titles are getting onthe
collectors' market."
—Edward Bryant, Locus
Excerpts
TBA
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