My sexy space romp Scavenger Hunt has just had a face lift. The content is still the same fun story, a race across the galaxy to visit exotic worlds and acquire strange objects, but the paperback version now sports a gorgeous new wraparound cover (a breathtaking Hubble photo of an area of new star formation). As someone with a love of astronomy, I think it's terrific.
The new price, I hope, is a little sexier, too: $17.99, two dollars off the previous price.
For those unfamiliar with the book's history: When the story was first published by Laser Books in 1976, they thought it was too long to appear in one volume, so they asked me to break it into 2 parts and make each part look like an independent novel. The results were Scavenger Hunt and Finish Line. While the story was still a lot of fun, it wasn't the story I'd originally envisioned. With today's more flexible publishing options, I was able to take out the artificial break in the narrative, update it a bit, and remove the bowdlerization that had toned it down. The old editions are still around as used books, but the new version is what I always wanted it to be. Visit Parsina Press to pick up a copy, either in paperback or ebook format.
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