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Sojan the Swordsman

Michael Moorcock

First published 2013
Publisher Gateway / Orion
Format eBook
Type Collection
Price £2.99
ISBN 9780575078901

Amazon Kindle's page count 180. Data from Amazon UK as of 2014-05-06. Price from W. H. Smith as of 2014-05-06.
Title page:

  • "Sojan the Swordsman"
  • "Michael Moorcock"
  • "Edited by John Davey"
  • Gateway colophon
  • "www.sfgateway.com"
Copyright page:
  • "A Gollancz eBook"
  • "Copyright © Michael and Linda Moorcock 1957, 1958, 1977, 2010"
  • "Revised edition © Michael and Linda Moorcock 2013"
  • "Artwork copyright © 1957/58, 1976 James Cawthorn"
  • "This eBook first published in Great Britain in 2013 by [over] Gollancz [over] The Orion Publishing Group Ltd [over] Orion House [over] 5 Upper St Martin's Lane [over] London WC2H 9EA [over] An Hachette UK Company"
  • "ISBN 978 0 575 07890 1
Additional comments:
  • John Clute's "Introduction to the Michael Moorcock Collection" states the author under the title and is signed "John Clute [over] September 2012" at the end.
  • Dedication credits Graeme Talboys with "restoring the text to electronic form" and John Davey with resurrecting "the texts from their original appearances together with Jim Cawthorn's illustrations".
  • Dedication states, "Parts of this book originally appeared in ''Burroughsania'' (1954), ''Tarzan Adventures'' (1957/'58), and ''[https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?38429 Sojan]'' (1977), publishers Britton and Butterworth, who were the first to discover the stories, reprint a version of them and commission fresh illustrations from Jim Cawthorn."
  • Author's Note states that the serialized stories in ''Tarzan Adventures'' were illustrated by Jim Cawthorn and that "Jim's illustrations are taken both from the magazine and the reprinted but unrestored stories commissioned by Savoy Books in 1977."
  • A short untitled note signed "Michael Moorcock" between "Sojan the Swordsman" and "Klan the Spoiler" states that "The Strange Ones" chapter of "Dek of Noothar" appears "in book form for the first time", meaning that this version of "Dek of Noothar" differs from the one printed in ''Sojan'' (1977)
  • "Klan the Spoiler" is dated "(1958)" after the title and is signed "(Written c. 1955)"
  • "Dek of Noothar" states "(with John Wisdom)" under the title. Its individual chapters are dated "The Sword of Life [over] (1957)", "The Strange Ones [over] (1957)", and "The Siege of Noothar [over] (1958)"
  • "Rens Karto of Bersnol" states "(1958, with Richard W. Ellingsworth)" under the title

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