The Collectible Dan Simmons

[idlewarnings]

From Amazon:

It's 1925, and the desire to summit Mt. Everest has reached a fever-pitch after the disappearance of George Mallory the year before. A young man and his climbing friends, eager to take their shot at the top, accept funding from a grieving mother whose son fell to his death on Mallory's expedition. She is not convinced he is dead, and she wants them to bring him back alive.

Once on the mountain, the climbers discover that the young man's death was no accident--and something he was carrying with him could and will change the course of the 20th century. They also learn that they are not alone on Everest. Someone else--or something else--is up there. And it is stalking them.

A bone-chilling and exquisitely researched story of historical high-climbing suspense, THE ABOMINABLE is Dan Simmons at his best, and it will thrill the many readers who made The Terror a bestseller.

Looks like I'll be getting that one.

John

Kind of sounds like The Terror on a mountain. I'll be checking it out.

[Ari_Racing]

Dan Simmons announced on his forum that he's working on a new novel. The title is THE FIFTH HEART

[barlow]

I have been a huge fan and a collector of Simmons for a long time. I have a PC of the lettered edition of Carrion Comfort that I purchased from DreamHaven books over a decade ago. I know that there were problems with Dark Harvest flooding the market with PC copies of the numbered states of their titles, but I have not herd of another copy out there and several large dealers I have talked to have said they can't recall seeing PC copies of the lettered (woody) states of the Dark Harvest books. Does anyone know anything about this state? Or any other PC lettered from them?

[Randall Flagg]

I only have 3 of the "woodies", and I need to confirm, but I don't believe they are PC versions.

[RC65]

The PC debacle by Dark Harvest was, as far as I know, limited to the numbered editions. I've not seen a PC lettered for sale, so if there are any, I would have to believe there are substantially fewer than the numbered PCs (of which there are many).

[barlow]

Judjing from the Items in the collection DreamHaven was selling when I purchased it rom them I had the feeling the person they got the books from worked for Dark Harvest. The collection had a lot of odd Darkharvest items in it.

[Ben Mears]

Maybe some day soon we'll finally see a Summer Of Night limited edition...

[Brice]

Is that a hoping post or an I know something post?

[Ben Mears]

Is that a hoping post or an I know something post?

More of one than the other!

[herbertwest]

So, Ari, have you got a proof yet of his upcoming book?

[herbertwest]

AMC Developing ‘Terror’ Drama Produced By Scott Free, TV 360 & Alexandra Milchan

http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/amc-...andra-milchan/

[Bev Vincent]

I had the honor of presenting Dan with the Grand Master Award at the World Horror Convention in New Orleans last night. Alas, he was unable to attend, but sent me a thank you message to read to the gathering. My tribute to him and his career, "Dan Simmons: Grand Master of Everything," appears in the convention Souvenir Book.

[Bev Vincent]

The program book also contains "Vastation," a nearly 40-page excerpt of "an in-progress horror novel" by Simmons.

[barlow]

Hey Bev is that the bro gram for last nights festivities or for the convention?


Ken

[Bev Vincent]

For the convention

[Patrick]

Nice honor to present the honor, Bev!

[carlosdetweiller]

Got the numbered edition of Simmons' THE FALL OF HYPERION the other day from Subterranean Press. I don't have many #1's in my collection so I was pleasantly surprised that Bill matched the #1 I got in HYPERION a few months ago. Just my lucky day, I guess.

[jhanic]

Nice, Bob!

John

[Dan]

Awesome! I haven't read these yet.

[barlow]

Congrats, that's a sweet set of books!


Ken

[Patrick]

Congrats on the matching #1's, Bob. We sure don't see that number often.

[Lauterer]

Woooow, number 1´s,,, this is very very crazy...! Wish i only had one 1 in my collections...!

[willie3]

Wanting to purchase an arc of The Abominable.
I am willing to send you a Paypal gift, PM asking price.

Thanks,
Karl

[Ari_Racing]

Are they out?
Didn't see one yet. I'm also supposed to get one from the publisher.

[carlosdetweiller]

There have been a couple on eBay that I have seen. I think both went for around $100. I can wait.