German edition, EftS: Wachterin der Sterne

Spanish edition, EftS: La Hechicera de las Estrellas

Portuguese edition, EftS: A Feiticeira das Estrelas

Finnish edition, EftS: Lumotar

Chinese edition, EftS

Hebrew edition, EftS

Korean edition, EftS

News About My Books and Site

• October 12, 2009 - I have just issued the e-book edition of Promise of the Flame, which is available at Mobipocket.com. For a limited time, the e-book edition of Stewards of the Flame is on sale there for $4.99 (both books are regularly $7.99 each).

• October 3, 2009 - I will be making a virtual blog tour to promote my adult novel Stewards of the Flame during the month of October. See my blog for a list of my scheduled blog stops, There will be guest posts, interviews, or reviews at all of them, and at some there will be a chance to win a free book. So please visit them and comment!

• September 20, 2009 - Promise of the Flame is now available at Amazon.com. Signed copies can be ordered from me at 20% off.

• September 16, 2009 - I'm now offering sale prices as well as free shipping on signed copies of all my books except Children of the Star. Start thinking about Christmas gifts!

• August 24, 2009 - A new edition of Stewards of the Flame formatted to match the forthcoming sequel has just been published. The text is unchanged except for minor error corrections, but the book is slightly smaller with wider page margins, on off-white paper, and the lettering on the cover is larger. Its website, www.stewardsoftheflame.com, has been redesigned.

• July 14, 2009 - I'm happy to announce that Promise of the Flame, the sequel to Stewards of the Flame, will be published soon, probably in September. Click on the book cover above for more information.

• April 19, 2009 - Shipping within the U.S. of all copies of books purchased from me is now free. See the Purchase page for international shipping cost.

• February 10, 2009 - An e-book edition of Journey Between Worlds is now available at Mobipocket.com and for Kindle.

• November 5, 2008 - I have received a copy of a Korean edition of Enchantress from the Stars published by BIR.

• September 29, 2008 - Stewards of the Flame and the three novels of my Children of the Star trilogy are now available at Bookshare.org in special formats for people with visual handicaps. (You must have proof of disability to read copyrighted books there.)

• September 8, 2008 - The three novels of my Children of the Star trilogy are now available as e-books at Mobipocket.com and for Kindle.

• September, 2007 - Librarians please note: I will sell copies of Children of the Star, The Far Side of Evil, and Journey Between Worlds to public and school libraries at 50% off, since they are now unobtainable through distributors. I will also sell my adult novel Stewards of the Flame to libraries at 50% off. Purchase orders are okay.

• August 7, 2008 - I have just acquired a few more brand new copies of the hardcover edition of Children of the Star from a bookstore that closed. Less than 300 copies of this edition were printed and they have been unavailable for a long time -- there will never be any more. The price is $50. They can be ordered on my "Purchase" page or via e-mail.

• May 21, 2008 - Stewards of the Flame has won an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY) bronze medal in the Visionary Fiction category.

• April 10, 2008 - my adult novel Stewards of the Flame is now available as an e-book at Mobipocket.com. It is also available at Amazon.com for Kindle.

• December 8, 2007 - I'm now on Facebook -- if you enjoy my books, then be my friend!

• November 10, 2007 - Take a look at the video trailer I've created for Stewards of the Flame. If you don't have high-speed Internet access, you can see stills.

• September 13, 2007 - My new adult novel Stewards of the Flame is now available from Amazon.com. Signed copies can be ordered from me.

• September 4, 2007 - I have just started a blog, Toward Tomorrow, in which I'll be writing several times a week. In the past I've discussed only space on the Web, but the blog will deal with a lot of other topics, too. So please read it and add your comments!

• July 31, 2007 - I am now accepting preorders for signed copies of my forthcoming adult novel Stewards of the Flame. Click on the flame in the box at the top of this page for more information.

• July 15, 2007 - A Hebrew edition of Enchantress from the Stars has just been published by Yanshuf Publishing in Israel.

• June 22, 2007 - Journey Between Worlds is now available in a Firebird paperback edition as well as in hardcover.

• April 27, 2007 ­- Sadly, Meisha Merlin -- the publisher of Children of the Star -- is going out of business due to distribution problems. So before long the book may be listed as out of print. However, new copies will continue to be available both from Amazon.com and from me.

• April 9, 2007 - The Firebird paperback edition of Journey Between Worlds will be released in June. The recent hardcover editions of Enchantress from the Stars and The Far Side of Evil are now out of print, but new copies can still be obtained from me (and of course, their Firebird paperback editions are in print).

• March 25, 2007 - The 10th anniversary of the opening of my website! It's hard to believe it has been online that long.

• March 17, 2007 - Today is the 50th anniversary of the story that became Enchantress from the Stars. I wrote short portions of it in 1957, many years before I turned it into a novel, and I remember very well the day the idea came to me because it was St. Patrick's day, and I went out with some friends that evening after spending the afternoon writing a brief summary of what struck me as a good idea for a story. It didn't have much of the action -- just the main concept of the three civilizations and how it would be told from three viewpoints, and how the advanced people could get the invaders to leave by teaching the natives to use their latent paranormal abilities. But when I got home that night I read it over and decided it was worth keeping.

• February, 2007 - I have recently learned that the audio version of Enchantress from the Stars is available to download at Audible.com. Also, it is now available on CD as well as cassettes from RecordedBooks.com.

• December 20, 2006 - I have received copies of a German paperback edition of Enchantress from the Stars published by CBT, an imprint of the Random House group. It has the same cover art as the Arena hardcover edition.

• November 2, 2006 - I have recently joined the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping humankind survive threats from natural disasters (such as asteroid strikes) and misuse of emerging technologies (such as biochemical weapons accessible to terrorists). Among other things, it advocates building a self-sustaining space colony as insurance. For more about my reasons for involving myself with this organization, please read my new page Achieving Human Commitment to Space Colonization.

• May 18, 2006 - The new edition of Journey Between Worlds is now available. I received my first copies yesterday and they look great!

• May 14, 2006 - I have just created a profile page at MySpace.com. If you have read any of my books (or even if you haven't) find me on MySpace and add me as a friend! And please encourage teens you know to do so, too.

• April 26, 2006 - I have just learned that the audiocassette version of Enchantress from the Stars is now available at RecordedBooks.com. I don't know whether Amazon and other stores are going to carry it.

• April 17, 2006 - A long review by John Joseph Adams of the new edition of Journey Between Worlds is in the April issue of the online science fiction magazine Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. For more new reviews on the Web, keep checking my Review page.

• March 7, 2006 - An unabridged audiobook version of Enchantress from the Stars will be available later this year.

• February 18, 2006 ­- Take a look at my Listmania Lists at Amazon.com -- I have just made some new ones and may be adding more from time to time. These are lists of books on subjects that interest me, in most cases annotated. I have fun creating them and it's a good way to help readers find information.

• October, 2005 - A new, updated hardcover edition of Journey Between Worlds will be published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in May, 2006.

• October, 2005 - An anthology Extraterrestrial Life that I edited will be published this month by Greenhaven Press. This is in their Contemporary Issues Companion series and is intended for high schools; its aim is to present a variety of current opinions on the subject without revealing the editor's own opinion. So read it for information, but don't expect to find out what I personally think about ET life. (I am also editing anthologies about Cloning and Genetic Engineering for Greenhaven Press.)

• January 13, 2005 - I have received the first copy of the Firebird paperback edition of The Far Side of Evil. It looks great--it's by far the best paperback edition the book has ever had, besides being the 2003 revised version, more timely in its arguments for progress in space than previous paperback editions. Please, everybody, discard those old paperbacks and get the new one! It will be in stores by February.

• August 21, 2004 - Recently I added some pages with pictures of Camp Sweyolakan on Coeur d'Alene Lake in Idaho as it was 50 years ago when I worked there. These are mainly for people who've been to the camp rather than for readers of my books, but I find a link on my home page is needed to make Google index them.

• August 3, 2004 - I have received a cover proof for the Firebird edition of The Far Side of Evil, which will be available in January, 2005.

• June 10, 2004 - My "Space Quotes to Ponder" page now has its own domain name: www.spacequotes.com. (It is still part of my space subsite and can still be reached via its normal URL as well as its separate one.) Please visit!

• January, 2004 - Most chapters of my 1974 nonfiction book The Planet-Girded Suns are now online at this site.

• November 24, 2003 - Thai translation rights to both Enchantress from the Stars and The Far Side of Evil have been purchased.

• November 3, 2003 - I have received copies of the Finnish edition of Enchantress from the Stars, published by Tammi.

• November 1, 2003 - This home page and some of the other pages at the site were redesigned.

• October 8, 2003 - The Space section of this site was expanded and given its own subsite home page.

• July 2, 2003 - Paperback rights to The Far Side of Evil have been purchased by Penguin for publication under the Firebird Books imprint.

• July 2, 2003 - Korean translation rights to both Enchantress from the Stars and The Far Side of Evil have been purchased.

• July 2, 2003 - I have received copies of the Portuguese edition of Enchantress from the Stars, published by Circulo de Leitores.

• May 1, 2003 - I have received copies of the Chinese edition of Enchantress from the Stars, published by Cite Publishing Ltd., Taiwan.

• March 25, 2003 - Orders for The Far Side of Evil are now being shipped.

• March 14, 2003 - I have received an advance copy of the new hardcover edition of The Far Side of Evil from Walker, and I'm now taking orders for signed copies of the book.

• February 25, 2003 - The Firebird paperback edition of Enchantress from the Stars is now available at amazon.com so has probably arrived at other booksellers also. Look for it on both teen and adult science fiction shelves. It has the same cover art as the hardcover edition.

• January, 2003 - Two Spanish editions of Enchantress from the Stars, a Castilian version and a Catalan version, were published in late 2002. They have the same cover art as the Walker edition.

• December 24, 2002 - I have received an advance copy of the Firebird paperback edition of Enchantress from the Stars. This edition, priced at $6.99, will be available in bookstores beginning in February.

• October 10, 2002 - Jacket art by Jody Hewgill for the forthcoming edition of The Far Side of Evil is now online at this site.

• August 24, 2002 - I have received copies of the German edition of Enchantress from the Stars, published by Arena.

• July, 2002 - Chinese translation rights to Enchantress from the Stars have been purchased.

• Spring, 2002 - my autobiography, which appeared in Volume 122 of Something About the Author (see August 2001 news below), now also appears in Volume 195 of Contemporary Authors, a reference series that more libraries have. Minor updating of the last section reflects the forthcoming reprinting of The Far Side of Evil. This is a detailed autobiography of about 20,000 words.

• March 25, 2002 - Portuguese translation rights to Enchantress from the Stars have been purchased by Circulo de Leitores.

• March, 2002 - Enchantress from the Stars is included in the Children's Book Council "Not Just For Children Anymore" bibliography in the Classics section, beginning with the 2002 edition.

• February 14, 2002 - The American Booksellers Association has announced that Enchantress from the Stars is a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year Award in the Rediscovery category. This category includes both adult and children's books that have recently been republished.

• February, 2002 - The Walker hardcover edition of Enchantress from the Stars is now in its 4th printing. (Signed copies obtained from me will be the 1st printing until my supply is gone.)

• January, 2002 - The Scholastic Book Club paperback edition of Enchantress from the Stars is now available for sale in schools through the Trumpet (intermediate) and Tab (teen) clubs.

• November, 2001 - Enchantress from the Stars is being recorded by the Library of Congress Talking Books program for the blind (this recording will be available only to the visually handicapped).

• August, 2001 - my autobiography, which originally appeared in the now-discontinued Something About the Author Autobiography Series, has been reprinted with an update in Volume 122 of Something About the Author, a reference series published by Gale Group that's found in many large libraries. (It's slightly outdated already, since it went to press before I knew that The Far Side of Evil will be republished.) If you want to see pictures of me when I was younger, that's where to look!

• August 17, 2001 - Trade paperback rights to Enchantress from the Stars have been purchased by Penguin. It will be issued under their new Firebird Books imprint, which will offer fantasy and science fiction to both teenagers and adults.

• August 3, 2001 - World Spanish-language rights to Enchantress from the Stars have been purchased by Grup 62.

• July 28, 2001 - British author and editor John Grant's review of Children of the Star is now at the international science fiction/fantasy site InfinityPlus. Spoiler warning: This review summarizes the plot of the first novel in the book, so you may not want to read it before you read This Star Shall Abide.

• July 26, 2001 - The Far Side of Evil will be reprinted by Walker in 2003.

• Summer, 2001 - Enchantress from the Stars appeared in the summer issue of "Children's Book Sense 76," a listing of recommended books available nationally in independent bookstores, and in the June/July issue of the Barnes & Noble science fiction/fantasy magazine Explorations.

• June 22, 2001 - Scholastic's Trumpet Book Club, which distributes books through schools, has purchased rights to Enchantress from the Stars.

• June 22, 2001 - Finnish translation rights to Enchantress from the Stars have been purchased by Tammi Publishing.

• June, 2001 - Enchantress from the Stars is now available in several e-book formats.

• May 26, 2001 - A long review of Enchantress from the Stars by British author and editor John Grant is now at the international science fiction/fantasy site InfinityPlus.

• May 25, 2001 - Enchantress from the Stars appeared on the "TPBC Top 10" list of the Teen People Book Club's June member magazine.

• May 24, 2001 - This site moved to a virtual domain server. (Teleport, where it was previously located, was taken over by Earthlink and the redirection may not always work. Update your bookmarks!)

• May 5, 2001 - German rights to Enchantress from the Stars have been purchased by Arena Verlag.

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