Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams

Overview:

  • Title: Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams
  • Author: Sean Williams
  • Year: 2008
  • ISBN-10: 9780980353167
  • Publisher: Ticonderoga Publications
  • Price: A$
  • Pages: 348+[2]
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: A Map of the Mines of Barnath
  • Notes:
    • Edited by Russell B. Farr
    • No printed price.
    • Limited edition of 50 numbered copies signed by the author, and 1000 other [numbered] copies. The latter copies are numbered on the copyright page "This is copy:", then, hand-written: ".../1000".
    • The photographs on the cover are part of the artist's series "Asphalt Archeology"
    • Nearly all the stories have an introduction of up to 1 page written by the author (before the page number given for the story). Some stories have an Afterword by the author also, of up to a page.
    • The poems are on the bottom of some of the story intros plus one on the end of the Acknowledgements.
    • The subtitle of the Introduction is definitely "Ludic Dreaming" both above the Introduction's text and in the TOC. Although this is possibly a typo - there's nothing in the Introduction's text to explain why it's not Lucid, and the Acknowledgements uses Lucid - ISFDB's rules apply, so Ludic it is.