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(Baen Books), by Mark Geston; Divisions (Orb), by Ken MacLeod; Exile and Glory (Baen Books), by Jerry Pournelle; Fires of Freedom (Baen Books), by Jerry Pournelle; Triplanetary (Cosmos Books), by E.E. Smith; This Fortress World (Fantastic Books), by James Gunn; and VALIS and Later Novels (Library of America), by Philip K. Dick, as well as many omnibus novel volumes published by the Science Fiction Book Club. (Omnibuses that contain both short stories and novels can be found listed in the short story section.)
    A lot of long out-of-print stuff has come back into print in the last couple of years in commercial trade editions. Not even counting Print on Demand books from places such as Wildside Press, the reprints issued by the Science Fiction Book Club, and the availability of out-of-print books as electronic downloads from Internet sources such as Fictionwise, that makes this the best time in de cades to pick up reissued editions of formerly long-out-of-print novels. Here are some out-of-print titles that came back into print this year, although producing a definitive list of reissued novels is probably difficult to impossible:
    Tor Books reissued The Currents of Space , by Isaac Asimov. Orb Books reissued The Stars, Like Dust , by Isaac Asimov; Beyond the Blue Event Horizon , by Frederik Pohl; Flashforward , by Robert J. Sawyer; Bone Dance , by Emma Bull; and Dying Inside and A Time of Changes , both by Robert Silverberg. Baen Books reissued The Puppet Masters , by Robert A. Heinlein; Rx for Chaos , by Christopher Anvil; and A Sense of Infinity , by Howard L. Myers. Pyr reissued Desolation Road , by Ian McDonald. Orbit reissued Against a Dark Background , by Iain M. Banks; and The Naked God and The Neutronium Alchemist , both by Peter F. Hamilton. Cosmos reissued The Moon Pool , by A. Merritt; and The 13th Immortal , by Robert Silverberg. Ace reissued Ariel , by Steven R. Boyett. Paizo Publishing reissued Robots Have No Tails , by Henry Kuttner; and The Sword of Rhiannon , by Leigh Brackett. Fantastic Books reissued Pennterra , by Judith Moffett; and The Dreaming and The Judas Mandala , both by Damien Broderick. New York Review Books Classics reissued Inverted World , by Christopher Priest; and The Chrysalids , by John Wyndham. Crippen & Landru reissued A Little Intelligence , by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett. Wyrm Publishers reissued Shriek: An Afterword , by Jeff VanderMeer. Hippocampus Press reissued The Hound Hunters , by Adam Niswander. Penguin Group reissued The Prisoner , by Thomas M. Disch. MonkeyBrain Books reissued Two Hawks from Earth , by Philip José Farmer.
    As has been true for several years now, this was a good year for short story collections, and it was a particularly good year for career-spanning retrospective collections. The year’s best nonretrospective collection may have been Cyberabad Days (Pyr), by Ian McDonald, although it was given a run for its money by Wireless (Ace), by Charles Stross, and two collections by Greg Egan, Oceanic (Gollancz) and Crystal Nights and Other Stories (Subterranean Press). Also first-rate were We Never Talk About My Brother (Tachyon Publications), by Peter S. Beagle; The Buonarotti Quartet (Aqueduct Press), by Gwyneth Jones; Thousandth Night/Minla’s Flowers (Subterranean Press), by Alastair Reynolds; The Radio Magician and Other Stories (Fairwood Press), by James Van Pelt; Are You There and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press), by Jack Skillingstead; Vacancy & Ariel (Subterranean Press), by Lucius Shepard; and Uncle Bones (Fantastic Books), by Damien Broderick. Also good are Everland and Other Stories (PS Publishing), by Paul Witcover; A is for Alien (Subterranean Press), by Caitlín R. Kiernan; Collected Stories (Subterranean Press), by Lewis Shiner; Dreamwish Beasts and Snarks (Golden Gryphon Press), by Michael D. Resnick; Tides from the New Worlds (Wyrm Publishing), by Tobias S. Buckell; Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight (Paper Golem Press), by Cat Rambo; A