The Best of Michael Moorcock, the Best of Kirby, and, er, Wicked Plants

UPDATE: Review in the Guardian, which reads in part, "The author's compassion for his fellow humans comes through in every story, from the wrenching study of a mad rock star's long-suffering girlfriend in 'The Opium General' to a gentle vignette of sword and sorcery hero Elric in 'A Portrait in Ivory'. A long-overdue retrospective."The cover, and interior detail, from Tachyon's The Best of Michael Moorcock, edited by John Davey with assistance from Ann and me. As I discuss in the afterword, it's nearly impossible to do a 150,000-word best-of for Mike's short fiction, but we were helped out by Del Rey's Elric series. It seemed ridiculous to reproduce much Elric material, given that series. So think of this as the best of Moorcock mostly minus Elric--but including a lot of his best mainstream and non-series material--that makes a nice volume to sit alongside the Del Rey volumes. I really love much of the less fantastical stuff, too. Only thing I would've wanted to include is "Casablanca," but it was way too long, and not truly part of the core World War III cycle, since it's a prequel. John Coulthart did the brilliant interior design.A couple additional really cool books below...'scuse my gnarly thumb