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2 unusual facts about Ace Books


More Things in Heaven

More Things in Heaven is a science fiction novel written by John Brunner and based in part on an earlier work, The Astronauts Must Not Land copyrighted in 1963 by Ace Books, revised version published in 1973 by Dell Books.

The Conan Grimoire

Most of the material in the three volumes, together with some additional material, was later reprinted in two de Camp-edited paperback anthologies from Ace Books; The Blade of Conan (1979) and The Spell of Conan (1980).


Empire Star

Delany hoped to have it first published as part of an Ace Double with Babel-17, but instead it was published with Tree Lord of Imeten by Tom Purdom.

Little Fuzzy

In the wake of Piper's suicide, rumor spread of a lost "second sequel"; at the behest of Ace Books William Tuning produced the critically acclaimed Fuzzy Bones.

Peter Heck

Heck has also been an editor at Ace Books (where he edited Lynn S. Hightower and Robert J. Sawyer, among others), and created the SF newsletter Xignals and its mystery equivalent Crime Times for the Waldenbooks chain.

The Flame Knife

It was published by itself in paperback book form by Ace Books in 1981, in an edition profusely illustrated by Esteban Maroto.

The Hour of the Dragon

In the hardcover Gnome Press edition of the Conan stories, Conan the Conqueror follows the short stories collected as King Conan; in the paperback Lancer/Ace edition, it follows the short stories collected as Conan the Usurper.

The Virgin of Zesh

For the later standard edition of Krishna novels it was published together with The Tower of Zanid in the paperback collection The Virgin of Zesh & The Tower of Zanid by Ace Books in 1983.


see also

Midori Snyder

Snyder's first novel, Soulstring (Ace Books, 1987), was a fairytale fantasy loosely inspired by the Scottish legend of Tam Lin.