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Mecca | Mettle

Alice Schmidt

First published 2005
Publisher Payseur & Schmidt
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Tim Kirk
Pages 102
Price $35.00

  • Limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the editor, authors and artist. On the signed limitation card glued to the FFEP: "This edition of Mecca|Mettle is limited to 300 numbered copies, all of which are signed by the editor, and the contributors. ... This copy is numbered ___ of 300", with hand-written copy number.
  • "First Payseur & Schmidt Edition, August 2005" on the copyright page.
  • Publication contains no ISBN or cover price.
  • PV2 was purchased at time of issue for $35.00. It includes a tipped-in publisher's card which notes "You may be wondering what to make of this release ... this is a true first edition ...."
  • "Mecca: A Vision of the Next Crusade" is described as an "excerpt from an unpublished novel", the other titles described as "excerpts" appear to be complete works in their own right.
  • Individual introductions to Tim Kirk, Thomas M. Disch and all the stories plus essays 'Some Notes on BlöödHag' and 'Edu-Core: Past and Future', are uncredited on the pages they appear but evidently written by Alice Schmidt.
  • Pages 96–98 contain lyrics to the BlöödHag songs "George Orwell", "Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore" and "Thomas M. Disch".
  • A CD of BlöödHag music is attached to the inside back cover.