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Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams

Sean Williams

First published 2008
Publisher Ticonderoga Publications
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Cover art Mike Mission
Pages 348+[2]
Price A$
ISBN 9780980353167

Note the the award given to this title also credited the book's editor, which is why we have two title records for this book: one under Sean Williams alone and one for Williams and Russell B. Farr.

  • Edited by Russell B. Farr
  • No printed price.
  • Limited edition of 50 numbered copies signed by the author, and 1000 other [numbered] copies. The latter copies are numbered on the copyright page "This is copy:", then, hand-written: ".../1000".
  • The photographs on the cover are part of the artist's series "Asphalt Archeology"
  • Nearly all the stories have an introduction of up to 1 page written by the author (before the page number given for the story). Some stories have an Afterword by the author also, of up to a page.
  • The poems are on the bottom of some of the story intros plus one on the end of the Acknowledgements.
  • The subtitle of the Introduction is definitely "Ludic Dreaming" both above the Introduction's text and in the TOC. Although this is possibly a typo - there's nothing in the Introduction's text to explain why it's not Lucid, and the Acknowledgements uses Lucid - ISFDB's rules apply, so Ludic it is.

Year Reviewer Publication
2008 Keith Stevenson Aurealis, #41

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams Cover 2013 Ticonderoga Publications Hardcover Collection 402
Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams Cover 2013 Ticonderoga Publications Trade Paperback Collection 402