Help Me, J T. Mcintosh, Wherever You Are

HELP ME, J.T. McINTOSH, WHEREVER YOU ARE By now you have to know that I’ve been acting as acquisitions editor/curator of fantasy and science fiction books for the brand new Prologue Books imprint from Adams Media/F+W Publications. I’ve called them out as a shopper on my web site. I’ve blogged about them here. I’ve retweeted their tweets. And I’ve even blogged on their website online. I’ve been working with them for about six months now and it’s been quite a watch-opening expertise. I’ve managed to secure the rights to some wonderful booksâ€"complete catalogs by authors I truly love. I’ve also felt quite a lot of slip by way of my fingers. I’ve even run up in opposition to a number of authors who appear to be as fictional as the characters that populated their pulp-period SF and fantasy. Surely in 2012 everyone will appear totally uncovered through Google, however believe it or not, a few of these authors have managed to elude even the thinnest tentacles of the ever-writhing internet. I’ve approached th e method of selecting books for Prologue in a number of methods. I gained’t bore you with my methodology, nor will I give away my secrets, however a few of these good misplaced novels got here to me from my own bookshelves. When we got here to Seattle I discovered one thing that didn’t exist on suburban Chicago, from whence I came: the used bookstore. The Seattle space, nonetheless, is foolish with them. A scan of my copy of Worlds Apart. I went on a mad, old-SF-paperback shopping for frenzy beginning in 1997 that has not abated in the least within the intervening years. Let’s put it this manner: When I moved here I had zero Ace SF Doubles. Now I actually have 179 of them. You know what’s actually awesome? Most Half Price Books locations don’t essentially have an ardent SF paperback collector on workers so you can find a book just like the 1954 Avon version of Worlds Apart by J.T. McIntosh at half off the duvet worth of . . . await it . . . thirty-5 cents! Speaking of J.T. McIntosh . . . On my shelf after I first began working with Prologue was a replica of Flight from Rebirth by J.T. McIntosh. My detective work began. I discovered that Mr. McIntosh passed away in 2008. Google to the rescue: His papers and letters are in a permanent collection at the National Library of Scotland. Their web site has an e mail contact. A few weeks of negotiation, plenty of help from the individuals at Adams Media, and we had itâ€"the e-guide rights to nineteen SF novels by J.T. McIntosh. Happiness! Success! Another of my own private possessions: the 1958 Pyramid Books edition of The Million Cities. Then we had to find copies of the books, text in any kind, to be scanned and proofread and was e-books. I mailed my copy of Flight from Rebirth off to Adams (sorry to see it go) and Adams’s Victoria Sandbrook went on a hunt for used copies of these out of print masterpieces from far and extensive. And came up two brief. Two SF novels by Scottish creator J.T. McIntosh still elude us. I want one copy every, in basically any situation, of the next books: Galactic Takeover Bid and Out of Chaos I’ve enlisted the assistance of associates in Canada, Australia, and the UK. I’m fairly sure neither of these books have been ever printed in the U.S. The sensible writer Jonathan Howard alerted me to an eBay UK public sale of Galactic Takeover Bid final night, but by the point I saw his email the auction had closedâ€"damn you, ever-revolving Earth and your pesky day/night time cycle and time zones and stuff. These two books still elude us. We have the best to publish them. All we'd like is the text. How irritating is that? So right here I am this week on Fantasy Author’s Handbook with this appeal for help. I NEED THESE BOOKS! Anyone . . . ? Anyone . . . ? McIntosh . . . ? â€"Philip Athans About Philip Athans Congrats on your J.T. McIntosh snag and the next line of success that adopted. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for the books you’re seeking; I’m certain they’ll turn up somewhere! Suggestion : JTM’s quick tales are totally uncollected and customarily extremely slick and thought-scary. You’d be doing us sci-fi nuts a fantastic service by collating them and publishing them. Presumably you’ve found Galactic TOB by now. Yes. I’ve left a chat message with Barnesandnoble about J. T McIntosh and a Claire Winger Harris book also. It seems nearly as if Out Of Chaos is a victim of underground censoring be- cause â€" unlike every thing else of his â€" it's simply not obtainable. Let us PRAY there usually are not too many more examples of this. This is an old submit, nevertheless it appears you never discovered ‘Out of Chaos’. Please contact me in case you are nonetheless trying, I actually have a duplicate. I don’t consider we ever obtained that e-book, no, but the imprint has more or less closed downâ€"at least to any additional publications. It’ll have to stay the one which obtained away! Fill in your particulars under or click an icon to log in: