Simmons, Dan. SONG OF KALI. NY: Bluejay Books, 1984. 1st edition. With “First Bluejay printing: November 1985” printed on the copyright page, which indicates that this is the correct 1st edition, 1st printing. This is NOT a book club book. This is NOT an ex-library book.
Buyer beware: there may have been a 2nd Bluejay printing of SONG OF KALI that would have been published in this exact hardcover format (although I have not ever seen one). In any case, this is the real deal: the true 1st edition, 1st printing.
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SONG OF KALI is Dan Simmons’ 1st book. It was the winner of the 1986 World Fantasy Award.
Dan Simmons is one of the best and most famous genre writers in the world. He writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, and detective novels and stories. He is the author of such great and famous books as SONG OF KALI (Simmons’ 1st book and 1st novel; offered here), PHASES OF GRAVITY, CARRION COMFORT (one of the earliest Dark Harvest books), HYPERION (the 1st “Hyperion Cantos” novel), THE FALL OF HYPERION (the 2nd “Hyperion Cantos” novel), ENTROPY’S BED AT MIDNIGHT, PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONES, SUMMER OF NIGHT, THE HOLLOW MAN, CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, SUMMER SKETCHES, LOVEDEATH, FIRES OF EDEN, ENDYMION (the 3rd “Hyperion Cantos” novel), THE RISE OF ENDYMION (the 4th “Hyperion Cantos” novel), THE CROOK FACTORY, DARWIN’S BLADE, HARDCASE, A WINTER HAUNTING, WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME, HARD FREEZE, ILIUM, HARD AS NAILS, OLYMPOS, and many others.
Some of the awards and award nominations that Dan Simmons has been honored with:
1983: “The River Styx Flows Upstream.” Locus Poll Award nominee
for Best Short Story.
1984: “Remembering Siri.” Locus Poll Award nominee for Best Novelette.
1986: SONG OF KALI. World Fantasy Award winner
for Best Novel.
1986: SONG OF KALI. Locus Poll Award nominee for
Best First Novel.
1987: SONG OF KALI. Crawford Award nominee for
Best Novel.
1989: “Metastasis.” World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Short Fiction.
1990: CARRION COMFORT. Bram Stoker Award winner for Best
Novel.
1990: CARRION COMFORT. British Fantasy Award winner for Best
Novel.
1990: CARRION COMFORT. World Fantasy Award nominee for
Best Novel.
1990: CARRION COMFORT. Locus Poll Award winner for Best
Horror Novel.
1990: HYPERION. Hugo Award winner for Best Novel.
1990: HYPERION. Locus Poll Award winner for Best Novel.
1990: HYPERION. British Science Fiction Award nominee for
Best Novel.
1990: THE FALL OF HYPERION. Nebula Award nominee for
Best Novel.
1990: PHASES OF GRAVITY. Locus Poll Award nominee for Best
Science Fiction Novel.
1991: HYPERION. Ignotus Award winner for Best Novel.
1991. THE FALL OF HYPERION. Hugo Award nominee for Best
Novel.
1991: THE FALL OF HYPERION. British Science Fiction Award
winner for Best Novel.
1991: THE FALL OF HYPERION. Locus Poll Award winner for Best
Novel.
1991: THE FALL OF HYPERION. Science Fiction Chronicle Award
nominee for Best Novel.
1991: “Entropy’s Bed at Midnight.” Locus Poll Award winner for Best
Novelette.
1991: SUMMER OF NIGHT. Locus Poll Award winner for Best
Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel.
1991: PRAYERS OF BROKEN STONES. World Fantasy Award
nominee for Best Collection.
1991: PRAYERS OF BROKEN STONES. Bram Stoker Award
nominee for Best Collection.
1991: PRAYERS OF BROKEN STONES. Locus Poll Award nominee
for Best Collection.
1991: “All Dracula’s Children.” Locus Poll Award winner for Best
Novelette.
1992: HYPERION. Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee for Best Novel.
1992: SUMMER OF NIGHT. British Fantasy Award nominee for
Best Novel.
1992: CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT. Locus Poll Award nominee for
Best Horror Novel.
1992: THE HOLLOW MAN. Locus Poll Award nominee for
Best Science Fiction Novel.
1992: PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONES. Bram Stoker Award winner
for Best Collection.
1992: “The Hyperion Cantos.” (Consisting of HYPERION and THE
FALL OF HYPERION). Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee for
Best Novel.
1993: “This Year’s Class Picture.” Bram Stoker Award winner for
Best Short Story.
1993: “This Year’s Class Picture.” Locus Poll Award winner for Best
Short Story.
1994: “Death in Bangkok.” Bram Stoker Award winner for Best
Novelette.
1994: “Death in Bangkok.” World Fantasy Award nominee for Best
Short Story.
1994: “Death in Bangkok.” Locus Poll Award winner for Best
Novelette.
1994: “Flashback.” Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novella.
1994: “Flashback.” Locus Poll Award nominee for Best Novella.
1994: LOVEDEATH. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection.
1994: LOVEDEATH. Locus Award nominee for Best Collection.
1995: FIRES OF EDEN. Locus Poll Award winner for Best Horror/
Dark Fantasy Novel.
1995: HYPERION. Seiun Award winner for Best Foreign Novel.
1996: ENDYMION. Locus Poll Award nominee for Best Novel.
1996: THE FALL OF HYPERION. Seiun Award winner for Best
Foreign Novel.
1996: “The Great Lover.” (le Grand amant). Imaginaire Award winner
for Best Translated Story.
1996: “Looking for Kelly Dahl.” Locus Poll Award nominee for Best
Novella.
1998: THE RISE OF ENDYMION. Locus Poll Award winner for
Best Science Fiction Novel.
1998: THE RISE OF ENDYMION. Hugo Award nominee for Best
Novel.
1998: THE RISE OF ENDYMION. Science Fiction Chronicle Award
winner for Best Novel.
1999: THE RISE OF ENDYMION. Prix Ozone Award winner for Best
Foreign Science Fiction Novel.
2000: THE RISE OF ENDYMION. Italia Award nominee for Best
International Novel.
2000: THE RISE OF ENDYMION. Seiun Award nominee for Best
Overseas Long Fiction.
2000: “Orphans of the Helix.” Locus Poll Award winner for Best
Novella.
2001: “On K2 With Hanakaredes.” Locus Poll Award nominee for Best
Novelette.
2003: A WINTER HAUNTING. Locus Poll Award nominee for Best
Horror Novel.
2003: A WINTER HAUNTING. International Horror Guild Award
winner for Best Novel.
2004: ILIUM. Locus Poll Award winner for Best Novel.
2004: ILIUM. Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel.
2004: ILIUM. Science Fiction Site Poll Award winner for Best
Science Fiction/Fantasy Book.
2006: OLYMPOS. Locus Poll Award nominee for Best Novel.
2007: THE TERROR. British Fantasy Award nominee for Best Novel.
2007: THE TERROR. Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Novel.
2008: THE TERROR. International Horror Guild Award winner for
Best Novel.
2008: THE TERROR. Shirley Jackson Award nominee for Best Novel.
2010: DROOD. Locus Award 3rd-place winner for Best Fantasy Novel.
2010: DROOD. Phantastik Preis Award nominee for Best Foreign
Novel.
2013: Dan Simmons is honored by being named a World Horror
Grandmaster for being an Outstanding Contributor to the
Horror Genre.
2017: “The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz.” Seiun Award
nominee for Best Translated Story.
Clearly Dan Simmons is one of the best, most famous, most important, and most collectible science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers of all time.
From the dust jacket: “ . . . SONG OF KALI . . . Kali, Goddess of Death and Destruction, eight-armed, eternal, her song is the sound of death. In a novel both shocking and appallingly real, a powerful new storyteller, Dan Simmons, weaves a terrifying tale of violence and psychological horror about the ultimate violation, the raising of the dead to life to bring more death into the world . . . In the steaming, shuttered city of Calcutta, a Westerner, Robert Luczak, seeks to meet with M. Das -- a poet not seen for over ten years, reported to have been found alive after all this time. Travelling with his half-Indian wife, Amrita, and their infant baby girl, Luczak is determined to find Das so that he may interview him on assignment from The New Yorker . . . But nothing is simple in Calcutta. A routine assignment turns into a nightmare of terror as Luczak is alternately fed lies and half-truths by those who aren’t who they claim to be, and buffeted by official indifference when he seeks help from the authorities . . . He is subjected to the bizarre and unreal story of one who claims to have been a recruit of the cult of Kali, a secret and outlawed sect. The cult, says the man, still exists and has brought back to life the dead poet M. Das, in a bloody and grisly ceremony of human sacrifice . . . Luczak just wants to interview Das and take his family back to the U.S.A., but he is caught instead in the dark design of forces ancient and inexorable, in a vortex of violence that threatens to engulf not only him and his family, but the entire world, in an apocalyptic orgy of death . . . SONG OF KALI is a spellbinding storytelling achievement that will hold you breathless in horrified fascination . . . “
From the rear panel of the dust jacket: “God, what a book! It’s more than just a novel -- it’s an experience! An absolutely harrowing experience. I actually felt as if I were in Calcutta -- the sounds, the reek, the cloying humidity . . . I was ready to start slapping at non-existent insects buzzing around my head. Dan Simmons is a compelling writer.” -- F. Paul Wilson, author of THE KEEP.
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CONDITION:
A FINE book in a FINE dust jacket. The book is tight and square in its black full-cloth binding with bright gilt lettering on the spine. This is actually an unread copy of this book. I bought it when it was brand new, put a Brodart dust jacket protector on the dust jacket, put it on a bookshelf, and it has been there ever since. There is no writing in the book; no bookplates; no remainder marks. The dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and shows the correct 1st issue price of $15.95. There are no chips or tears or wrinkles to the dust jacket.
The iconic and famous and great dust jacket artwork is by the great Jill Bauman.
This is a superior copy of this book and dust jacket. Copies of this book often show up with foxing at the edges of the pages; that is not the case here. Also, it is common for copies of the dust jacket to show up with tears and rubbing; that is not the case here.
A MUST FOR THE COLLECTOR OF IMPORTANT MODERN HORROR FICTION 1st EDITIONS AND/OR THE COLLECTOR OF AWARD WINNING HORROR FICTION 1st EDITIONS AND/OR THE COLLECTOR OF DAN SIMMONS 1st EDITIONS!
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Note:
I own the following two books:
Leckie, Anne. ANCILLARY JUSTICE. Subterranean
Press, 2014. 1st limited edition. (#2/500).
Leckie, Anne. ANCILLARY MERCY. Subterranean
Press, 2016. 1st limited edition. (#2/500).
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Leckie, Anne. ANCILLARY SWORD. Subterranean
Press, 2015. 1st limited edition. (#2/500).
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