First edition, first printing. Signed by 15 of the contributors. Original quarter black cloth with blue boards and titles to the spine in silver, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, there is a little faint spotting to the top edge of the closed text-block and three ink spots to the bottom edge, the contents are otherwise clean and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped ($23.95 on the front flap).
Signed by Tad Williams, Joe Haldeman, Kage Baker, Gregory Benford, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Scheckley, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stephen Baxter, Nancy Kress, David Gerrold, Kay Kenyon, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Dean Wesley Smith and Harry Turtledove to the contents pages beside each author's respective story. An anthology of new science fiction stories inspired by the songs of the singer-songwriter Janis Ian, who is a lifelong science fiction fan.
Stock code: 27652
£55
New York: Daw Books.
2003