Red Jacket Press.

Red Jacket Press

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If you're seeking high-quality, deluxe reprints of solid science fiction classics to build a new collection or replace aging paperbacks, Red Jacket Press titles are for you: they are slipcased, they are solid, and they only pick the top-notch writers' works--plus, they are surprisingly affordable. Seabury Quinn's ROADS (097488958X, $29.95) provides a facsimile reproduction of the 1948 first edition as it re-imagines Santa Claus as a wonderous figure and a supreme example of selflessness. Virgil Finlay's illustrations spice a story line which remains as engrossing now as upon its first appearance. Almost every solid sci fi fan willrecognize Wilmar Shiras's CHILDREN OF THE ATOM (0974889504, $39.95) as a classic: it first appeared in 1953 by Gnome Press and is also a facsimile reproduction of the original, telling of a group of gifted children who are super-intelligent, all hiding the fact from adults--and all born as the result of an atomic explosion. One Dr. Welles discovers their existence and presses them into an experimental new school to harness their abilities, but can the rest of the world handle them? C.L. Moore's JUDGMENT NIGHT (0974889512, $39.95) also reprints a 1952 original from Gone: this one providing five different short stories set on five different worlds. These have been gathered from Astounding Science Fiction: they represent some of Moore's own favorites. Got a science fiction buff who 'has everything'? Give them any one of these as keepsake treasures.