Wednesday 18 October 2023

The Planetary Anthology Series An Overview

The Planetary Anthology Series


This series has a long history. It was originally planned and started by Superversive Press, but before the series was completed the publisher could not continue and offered the series up. Thankfully for us Tuscany Bay Books picked up the series and saw it through to completion. There were 11 volumes planned and a twelfth Best of was released after the whole series. 

The Tuscany Bay Editions went out of print, but in October of 2023 they have brought them back in print. They are now available as paperbacks, hard covers, eBooks, and audio books.  The volumes in the order they were released are:

Luna
Uranus
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Sol
Neptune
Saturn

and

The Best of the Planetary Anthology Series

At the time of their rerelease, I had picked up all the original editions but had only read 2 of them. The original editions had 194 stories and 90 authors. Two authors decided to pull their stories for the reprint editions, and 6 stories were removed. I story was added to the Pluto edition that did not originally fit based on word count limits at the time. So the series now comprises 189 stories from 89 authors. The Best of volume contains 22 of those stories by 22 authors. There are numerous authors I love who have contributed to these books. Below is the specific information on each volume. And I will add links as I review each of them.

ISBN 9798862319583
ISBN 9798862319651
ASIN B081S745L7


Luna
ISBN 9798862041163
ISBN 9798862041309
ASIN B08462M5W8


Uranus
ISBN 9798862318999
ISBN 9798862319040
ASIN B084GXDBJK


Mercury
ISBN 9798861823210
ISBN 9798861823340
ASIN B08563Q67G


Venus
ISBN 9798861838382
ISBN 9798861838856
ASIN B08563KNL6


Earth
ISBN 9798861944243
ISBN 9798861944397
ASIN B08563QHGZ




Mars
ISBN 9798862201680
ISBN 9798862201833
ASIN B085644DYV


Jupiter
ISBN 9798862215830
ISBN 9798862215984
ASIN B0856436B5


Sol
ISBN 9798861702836
ISBN 9798861702973
ASIN B0856PWFK6
 

Neptune
ISBN 9798862319385
ISBN 9798862319439
ASIN B0856TLV47
 

Saturn
ISBN 9798862239447
ISBN 9798862239508
ASIN B0856PM1MW
 

The Best of the Planetary Anthology Series
ISBN 9798378196517
ISBN 1230006167301
ASIN B0BW97M726


Many amazing authors contributed to these collections. The stories I have read have been excellent. I can easily recommend these books. And highly recommend them. 

As an aside: I wrote a piece in a book column, Confessions of a Bibliophile many years ago called ‘Judge a Book by Its Cover’ I have to admit I prefer the original covers. And likely would have got around to reading them sooner if those had been the covers when I picked them up. Here are the original 5 covers from Superversive Press.






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