DAW 1973 (long)


This is derived from Steven Silver's DAW list at
http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/daw1-100.html


Once again my hit rate will be low, because this is before
I started being able to buy SF.


37 Ron Goulart Talent for the Invisible

The problem with Goulart is that he found his comfort zone
and stuck with it, with the result his books from this period tend
to blur together (His books from after this period tend to have
other people's names on them). I know I have read this but don't
ask me what it was about, beyond "wacky capers in an absurd world."


38 James H. Schmitz The Lion Game

A Telzey collection, I believe, containing "Goblin Night",
"Sleep No More" and "The Lion Game". Tezley is a power psionic
whose new powers always seem to be just what she needs to get out
of this week's problem, which for me undermines the suspense.

Telzey was note-worthy in her day because female protagonists
who got to save the day were very rare.


39 Frank Herbert The Book of Frank Herbert

Seed Stock

The Nothing

Rat Race

Gambling Device

Looking for Something?

The Gone Dogs

Passage for Piano

Encounter in a Lonely Place

Operation Syndrome

Occupation Force

And I have read none of them. In fact, I don't think I ever read
any short work by Herbert.


40 Brian Ball Planet Probability

I apologise, Mr. Ball, for never taking the chance to read your
books.


41 Fred Saberhagen Changeling Earth

This is the third book in the Empire of the East series,
I believe, a fantasy set long after technological civilization was
destroyed. I liked it at the time.

It's interesting how DAW didn't hesitate to take over pre-
existing series.



42 Jerry Pournelle A Spaceship for the King

This involves a desperate plan on the part of the new planetary
government of a backwater world to avoid the worst the Empire has to
offer by stealing the secret of space-flight from an even more backward
planet before the colony's status is settled. Oddly, it ends in mid-
story, very abruptly. The later version, KING DAVID'S SPACESHIP, is
the better version.

I'd love to know why this version stops so suddenly. It's
very atypical for Pournelle.

43 Barrington J. Bayley Collision Course

I missed it. Bayley is a taste I never quite acquired.


44 Philip K. Dick The Book of Philip K. Dick

Nanny

The Turning Wheel

The Defenders

Adjustment Team

Psi-Man [Psi-Man Heal My Child!]

The Commuter

A Present for Pat

Breakfast at Twilight

Shell Game

No idea. Just not a PKD fan.



45 Andre Norton Garan the Eternal

I missed this. Sounds like a fantasy, since the one thing one
can say about her SF settings is that "eternal" generally doesn't apply.


46 John T. Phillifent King of Argent

I missed this.


47 Stuart Gordon Time Story

And this.


48 Philip Jose Farmer The Other Log of Phileas Fogg

I probably read this and even if I didn't, I can guess from
other material from this period that this is a PJF re-imagining
of AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS.


49 Alan Burt Akers The Suns of Scorpio

Another Bulmer offering, the second Dray Prescott book (which
I never read).


50 R.A. Lafferty Strange Doings

Rainbird

Camels and Dromedaries, Clem

Continued on Next Rock

Once on Aranea

Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas

The Man with the Speckled Eyes

All But the Words

The Transcendent Tigers

World Abounding

Dream [Dreamworld]

Ride a Tin Can

Aloys

Entire and Perfect Chrysolite

Incased in Ancient Rind [Encased in Ancient Rind]

The Ugly Sea

Cliffs That Laughed

I am not a Lafferty fan and so cannot comment.


51 Paul van Herck Where Were You Last Pluterday?

I think I read this. I am pretty sure it is about a man who
discovers that the rich get more days to the week than the poor do (which
reminds me of an old Bob Shaw short about coffee that tastes the way
coffee smells).


52 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Light That Never Was

I am ashamed to say I am drawing a blank on this one, nor
do I appear to own it.


53 Donald A. Wollheim & Arthur W. Saha The 1973 Annual World's Best
Science Fiction

Introduction Donald A. Wollheim

Goat Song Poul Anderson

A SFnal retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. One of
my favourite Andersons, although I have not reread it recently.


The Man Who Walked Home James Tiptree, Jr.

The story of a time traveller, episodically told from the points
of view of the people who witness his journey home.


Oh, Valinda! Michael G. Coney

The Gold at the Starbows End Frederik Pohl

A crew of very smart people is sent to Alpha Centauri in one
of those plans where you know the planners never considered what would
happen if it worked.

I believe that the story had one major science error, which Pohl
owned up to, prompted a discussion of a point of mathematics and had a
nice bit of imagery undermined by those nasty astromers. Worth reading,
though.


To Walk a Citys Street Clifford D. Simak

Rorqual Maru [Nebishes] T. J. Bass

This probably became GODWHALE, one of two novels set on an
Earth with over a trillion humans. Worth reading, even if everyone
talks like first year med students.


Changing Woman Wallace Macfarlane

Willies Blues Robert J. Tilley

Long Shot Vernor Vinge

The life story of a long range space probe, which I quite liked
at the time.


Thus Love Betrays Us Phyllis MacLennan


54 E.C. Tubb Mayenne

I never saw this. It's the 9th Dumarest novel. Old time TRAVELLER
fans will recognise some elements of Dumarest's world, including the
crying need for some health and safety organization to take a close look
at cold sleep.


55 Gordon R. Dickson The Book of Gordon R. Dickson

Danger Human!

Just one entry in a long line of stories whose moral is that any
alien that encounters a human should just shoot them. I think this is
the one where the aliens discover that humans secrete acid.


Dolphins Way

And Then There Was Peace

The Man from Earth

Black Charlie

Something about alien art? Maybe got expanded into a novel?


Zeepsday

Lulungomeena

An Honorable Death

Flat Tiger

James

The Quarry

Call Him Lord

Most of these have been erased from my memory but this one is
memorable. This is one answer to how a monarchal system can reduce the
risk of an unsuitable heir making it to the throne.

Ben Bova did a number of sequels to this, I think, a short and
two novels.


Steel Brother



56 Michael G. Coney Friends Come in Boxes

I never saw this but I do remember an outraged review of it.


57 Hal Clement Ocean on Top

One of the very few Clements I have yet to get to.


58 Sam J. Lundwall Bernhard the Conqueror

I missed this.


59 Brian M. Stableford Rhapsody in Black

The second Grainger novel, which takes place in a cave-riddled
planet with a very dark little secret. Despite his best efforts, Grainger
finds himself forced to play protagonist. Part of his problem is that he
is just a bit too observant for his own good.


60 Ron Goulart What's Become of Screwloose?

What's Become of Screwloose?

Junior Partner

Hardcastle

Into the Shop

Prez

Confessions [Jose Silvera]

Monte Cristo Complex

The Yes-Men of Venus

Keeping an Eye on Janey

Hobo Jungle [Ben Jolson]

This was one of the very few Goulart collections a high school might
be inclined to have but although I read it dozens of times, nothing sticks
in my mind except a faint memory that this and AFTER THE FALL are the two
Goularts to own.


61 John Brunner The Wrong End of Time

First contact comes at a very bad time, since a paranoid US,
long isolated behind stupendous defenses, might well simply open fire
on the aliens. The fact that the alien message appears to show them
blasting us back to the stone age doesn't help. One lone agent of
the Rest of the World is sent into the USA to do what he can to
prevent the Americans from ending the world as we know it.

Well, I liked it at the time but those wacky aliens have
no excuse for the impression that they left.


62 Lin Carter When the Green Star Calls

I missed this.


63 Philip Jose Farmer The Book of Philip Jose Farmer

Foreword

My Sisters Brother [Open to Me, My Sister]

Skinburn

The Alley Man

Fathers in the Basement

Toward the Beloved City

Polytropical Paramyths

Totem and Taboo

Dont Wash the Carats

The Sumerian Oath

The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix

Brass and Gold, or Horse and Zeppelin in Beverly Hills

Only Who Can Make a Tree?

An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke [Tarzan Lives; Tarzan]

Sexual Implications of the Charge of the Light Brigade

The Obscure Life and Hard Times of Kilgore Trout

Thanks for the Feast: Notes on Philip Jose Farmer Leslie A. Fiedler

Most of these I never read or soon forgot but I would like to
point out that the essays that appeared in these collections discussing
the author were often very useful to a young reader.


64 Guy Snyder Testament XXI

I missed this.



65 Alan Burt Akers Warrior of Scorpio

Another Drey Prescott, which of course I never read. I am a little
surprised to see two in one year.


66 Christopher Anvil Pandora's Planet

Aliens conquer Earth and soon wish that they had not.


67 David Walker The Lords' Pink Ocean

Wow. Not only did I never read this, until now I had never heard
of it.


68 Gerard Klein Starmaster's Gambit

I missed this. It's interesting how willing DAW was to import and
translate SF from other nations (This was originally published in French,
I believe).


69 Gordon R. Dickson The Pritcher Mass

I read it. Other than that, have I said how much I hate my memory?


70 Michael G. Coney The Hero of Downways

I missed it.


71 Marion Zimmer Bradley & Paul Edwin Zimmer Hunters of the Red Moon
I missed this as well but I believe it got very positive reviews.


72 John Brunner From This Day Forward

From This Day Foreword, as It Were fw

The Biggest Game [as by Keith Woodcott]

The Trouble I See

An Elixir for the Emperor

Wasted on the Young

Even Chance

Planetfall

Judas

The Vitanuls

Factsheet Six

Fifth Commandment

Fairy Tale

The Inception of the Epoch of Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid

The Oldest Glass

I remember the Factsheets as mildly amusing pseudo-factual articles
and of course the Vitanuls is an examination of what happens when the demand
for a certain resource outsrips the supply.


73 James E. Gunn Breaking Point

I missed this.


74 E.C. Tubb Jondelle

And this, which is another Dumarest (And I think was collected
with the previous one in the early 1980s).


75 Andre Norton The Crystal Gryphon

No idea. What makes this worse is that I am 99% sure I read it
in 2002.


76 Stuart Gordon One-Eye Tim Kirk

I missed this.


77 Philip Wylie The End of the Dream

Mind-numbingly depressing examination of what would happen if
every worst case scenario concerning pollution came true. Really, after
this, THE SHEEP LOOK UP came as a nice relief. It's also fairly short,
so you get about a dozen TSLU's worth of downer packed into about 1/5th
the space.


78 John Rackham Beanstalk

I missed this.


79 Herbert W. Franke The Orchid Cage

And this.


80 Ron Goulart The Tin Angel

And with Goulart, who can tell? It may well include the phrase "I've
seen them bigger and I've seen them greener but I have never seen them
bigger and greener," from a supporting character who is obsessed with large
green breasts, because he or someone like showed up in a number of Goulart
books.


81 Alan Burt Akers Swordships of Scorpio

Hello, Mr. Prescott. Goodbye, Mr. Prescott.


82 James H. Schmitz The Telzey Toy

The Telzey Toy

Resident Witch

Compulsion [Trigger Argee]

Company Planet

I don't remember these and will not comment.



83 Pierre Barbet Games Psyborgs Play

Another entry from America's traditional ally, France.



84 Brian Ball Singularity Station

And another chance to giver Mr. Ball money that I missed.


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