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The second link, to Orions website is broken, but I cannot find a suitable replacement on their redone page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.224.28.253 (talk) 20:30, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Future updates[edit]

After much cross-checking and research, I've completed the numbered paperbacks table and set up a 'new design' table. For anyone editting this in the future, I suggest keeping the style similar to the SF Masterworks page.

See my post on the SF Masterworks talk page for how I finished this table and where to go to find info on future releases. Ckrauser (talk) 08:31, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A note on collections...[edit]

I'm making this post to try and clear some things up about collections. I used the general guideline of having the original publication be the range of years from the earliest published story to the latest, unless the collection was published previously. This is something that might want to get changed in the future so all the stories are from their original publications before being included into any collections, but it might be a case-by-case basis.

i.e. With Time and the Gods, the earliest publication was The Gods of Pegāna in 1905, and the latest, The Last Book of Wonder, in 1916. However, with The Book of the New Sun, Volume 1: Shadow and Claw, I chose 1983.

While on this example, I should mention that books such as The Gods of Pegāna can be tricky, since it was not published in it's complete form until 1972 in another collection. In these cases, I would go for the earliest publication.

Then there are collections for which information on publication can be hard to find, such as The Mark of the Beast and Other Fantastical Tales, or The Conan Chronicles Volumes. If incomplete information was available, I just chose the date of original publication to be the same as the masterworks publication. Ckrauser (talk) 08:30, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"While on this example, I should mention that books such as The Gods of Pegāna can be tricky, since it was not published in its complete form until 1972 in another collection." This is not what the Wikipedia article on the book actually says; it says that in addition to the original publication, the complete text appaeared in other collections as well.213.100.1.69 (talk) 11:39, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the point "information on publication can be hard to find", it's not so hard to find information about the earliest published story included in each collection. I added those earliest publication to the range of "Originally Published" for several collections, Kipling, Howard, Walton, Brackett, Smith. I left the masterworks publication date as the ending point in that field. E.g. for the first Conan volume I replaced "2000" with "1933-2000". At least one of those stories was definitely published in 1933, and we know none of them was published before 1933. If a reader orders the table by that column, they will get a much truer picture as to when these works appeared. PatConolly (talk) 05:30, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Series cancelled?[edit]

I've just added 5 further titles, the latest of which had a publication date of January 2016, roughly 18 months ago as I type this. Given that period of inactivity, plus the second volume of The Book of the New Sun seemingly never been published (but both volumes have been published subsequently under the SF Masterworks banner), I'm inclined to think the series has been cancelled, or put on hiatus. Has anyone seen any confirmation of this? I couldn't find anything definitive or official online - closest I could find was a Sep 2016 tweet directed at @Gollancz that they never responded to [1]. ErsatzCulture (talk) 20:11, 21 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]