Old Venus

New York: Bantam, 2015. First. hardcover. Very Good/very Good. Stephen Youll. First edition. Dust jacket is in excellent condition, with a small closed tear on back but no other tears or chips; now in new removable protective cover. Green boards with gold print on brown spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bantam hard cover with dust jacket, First edition (stated), first printing March 2015, complete number line. ISBN: 9780345537287, 586 pages, cover art by Stephen Youll. 8vo (6.5"" x 9.5"") Winner, 2016 Locus Award for Best Anthology. Introduction: Return to Venusport, by Gardner Dozois. Stories: Frogheads, by Allen M. Steele; The Drowned Celestial, by Lavie Tidhar; Planet of Fear, by Paul McAuley (16th place, 2016 Locus Award); Greeves and the Evening Star, by Matthew Hughes; A Planet Called Desire, by Gwyneth Jones; Living Hell, by Joe Haldeman; Bones of Air, Bones of Stone, by Stephen Leigh; Ruins, by Eleanor Arnason (10th place, 2016 Locus Award); The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss, by David Brin (13th place, 2016 Locus Award); By Frogsled and Lizardback to Outcast Venusian Lepers, by Garth Nix (winner, 2015 Aurealis Award); The Sunset of Time, by Michael Cassutt; Pale Blue Memories, by Tobias S. Buckell; The Heart's Filthy Lesson, by Elizabeth Bear (5th place, 2016 Locus Award); The Wizard of the Trees, by Joe R. Lansdale; The Godstone of Venus, by Mike Resnick; Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan, by Ian McDonald (6th place, 2016 Locus Award; Nominated, 2016 Sturgeon Award).