John Joseph Adams of Sci Fi Weekly recently reported that Paizo Publishing has launched a new imprint, Planet Stories, to bring classic fantasy and science fiction adventure stories to a new generation of readers.
“Essays on the history of the genre are filled with references to people like Leigh Brackett, C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner,” Erik Mona of Paizo Publishing told Adams, “but finding their work in print is virtually impossible, and it’s got nothing to do with the quality of the stories themselves.”
Much of the legacy of the pulp-fantasy genre is being forgotten, Mona said. “Where does a modern reader turn to read a thrilling tale of swashbuckling and derring-do? Until Planet Stories, the answer has been ‘almost nowhere.’”
Planet Stories will launch in August 2007 with its first two releases, followed by a new title each month after. Each new title will be a currently out of print book. “These are books that were wildly popular in their time,” Mona told Adams, “many with numerous editions from multiple publishers. Most of them are of historical importance to the genre, as in the case of C.L. Moore’s ‘Jirel of Joiry’ stories, which feature the first significant female sword-and-sorcery protagonist by one of the earliest and most important female writers in the field.”
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