Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Never finished it: Edge of Light by Robert Silverberg #bookaday

Today the #bookaday request is for a book you've not finished.

As you can see below, I had quite a lot to choose from. I'll get around to finishing all one hundred and thirty-six of them eventually, but I've gone for Edge of Light by Robert Silverberg as my book of the day.

It's an omnibus of five novels. I read the first two, and they were brilliant, but I never read the other three. (I've read a lot of his other books in the meantime, just not those ones.)

I love an omnibus, but as shown below I hardly ever finish them. Many of these are books I'm very fond of, like Songs of the Dying Earth.

(Titles and credits are from Goodreads and not checked; only first credited contributor listed; apologies for any errors in titles or attribution.)

  • 52: Companion, Grant Morrison
  • A Journey: My Political Life, Tony Blair
  • A Logic Named Joe, Murray Leinster
  • A Long Night at Abu Simbel, Penelope Lively
  • A Pair From Space, James Blish
  • Army of Darkness Omnibus, Volume 1, Sam Raimi
  • Avant l'Incal (l'intégrale), Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Barnacle Bill The Spacer, And Other Stories, Lucius Shepard
  • Be a Sex-Writing Strumpet, Stacia Kane
  • BFS Journal Spring 2011, Allen Ashley
  • BFS Journal Autumn 2011, Peter Coleborn
  • BFS Journal Autumn 2012, Ian Hunter
  • BFS Journal Spring 2012, Lou Morgan
  • BFS Journal Summer 2011, Peter Coleborn
  • BFS Journal Winter 2010, Sam Stone
  • BFS Journal Winter 2011/2012, Peter Coleborn
  • Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams, C.L. Moore
  • Book of Prefaces, Alasdair Gray
  • Bull Running for Girls, Allyson Bird
  • Carmen et autres nouvelles, Prosper Mérimée
  • Cities In Dust (Wasteland, #1), Antony Johnston
  • Citizen Rex, Mario Hernandez
  • Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady, Samuel Richardson
  • Colomba et autres nouvelles, Prosper Mérimée
  • Complete Stories, Rudy Rucker
  • Darkness, Mist And Shadows: Volume 1 And 2: The Collected Macabre Tales Of Basil Copper, Basil Copper
  • Do Not Pass Go, Joel Lane
  • Doctor Who: The Child of Time, Jonathan Morris
  • Doctor Who: Vanishing Point, Stephen Cole
  • Don Juan, George Gordon Byron
  • Don Quixote de La Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • Edge of Light: The Robert Silverberg Omnibus, Robert Silverberg
  • Empire Star / The Tree Lord of Imeten, Samuel R. Delany
  • Essential Killraven, Vol. 1, Neal Adams
  • Essential Punisher, Vol. 1, Gerry Conway
  • Essential Works of Foucault (1954-1984), Volume 3: Power, Michel Foucault
  • Fever Dream And Other Fantasies, Robert Bloch
  • Filboid Studge, The Story Of A Mouse That Helped, Saki
  • Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein, Horace Walpole
  • Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
  • Gotrek & Felix: The First Omnibus, William King
  • Great Stories of Crime and Detection Volume II (The Twenties and Thirties), Various
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7), J.K. Rowling
  • How I Escaped My Certain Fate, Stewart Lee
  • Isis Unbound, Allyson Bird
  • La Compagnie des glaces 1, Georges-Jean Arnaud
  • Let the Galaxy Burn, Marc Gascoigne
  • Lieut. Gulliver Jones: His Vacation, Edwin Lester Arnold
  • Lion Time In Timbuctoo (The Collected Stories, Volume 6), Robert Silverberg
  • Maps and Legends, Michael Chabon
  • May We Borrow Your Husband & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life, Graham Greene
  • McSweeney's #10, Michael Chabon
  • McSweeney's #27, Dave Eggers
  • McSweeney's #45, Dave Eggers
  • Mrs. Pepperpot Stories, Alf Proysen
  • Nancy Drew Files: #66,96, Carolyn Keene
  • Night Watch (Discworld, #29), Terry Pratchett
  • Noddy: A Classic Treasury, Enid Blyton
  • NOS4A2: A Novel, Joe Hill
  • Odyssey, William Shatner
  • Postscripts 14, Nick Gevers
  • Ragmop, Rob Walton
  • Rain, Conrad Williams
  • Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy
  • Rising Stars Compendium, J. Michael Straczynski
  • Rupert: A Collection Of Favourite Stories, Alfred Bestall
  • Rustblind and Silverbright - A Slipstream Anthology of Railway Stories, David Rix
  • Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories, Leigh Brackett
  • Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Rutherford
  • Showcase Presents: Ambush Bug, Keith Giffen
  • Showcase Presents: Green Arrow, Jack Kirby
  • Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex, Vol. 1, John Albano
  • Showcase Presents: Justice League of America, Vol. 2, Gardner F. Fox
  • Showcase Presents: Phantom Stranger, Vol. 1, Robert Kanigher
  • Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery, Vol. 1, Len Wein
  • Showcase Presents: The Unknown Soldier, Vol. 1, Joe Kubert
  • Showcase Presents: The War That Time Forgot, Vol. 1, Robert Kanigher
  • Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin
  • Space War (Professor Jameson Space Adventure #3), Neil R. Jones
  • Star Trek: Logs 7–10, Alan Dean Foster
  • Starstruck Deluxe Edition, Elaine Lee
  • Stonewielder, Ian C. Esslemont
  • Teatro Grottesco, Thomas Ligotti
  • Test Pattern: Jonathan Hickman Collection, Volume 1, Jonathan Hickman
  • The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3), Philip Pullman
  • The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, John Kessel
  • The Best American Comics 2011, Alison Bechdel
  • The Best Of Fritz Leiber, Fritz Leiber
  • The Best of McSweeney's, Dave Eggers
  • The Book of the Thousand and One Nights. Volume 1, Anonymous
  • The Burning Circus, Johnny Mains
  • The Carl Hiaasen Omnibus: Tourist Season, Double Whammy And Skin Tight, Carl Hiaasen
  • The Centauri Device, M. John Harrison
  • The Chandler Collection: Volume 1, Raymond Chandler
  • The Collected Stories, Katherine Mansfield
  • The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard
  • The Dark is Rising Sequence, Susan Cooper
  • The Dirty Dozen: The Best 12 Commando Books Ever!. Edited by George Low, George Low
  • The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2), Stephen King
  • The Dudley Smith Trio, James Ellroy
  • The Ends of the Earth, Lucius Shepard
  • The Expelled (Penguin Mini Modern Classics), Samuel Beckett
  • The Finder Library, Volume 1, Carla Speed McNeil
  • The Five Great Novels Of James M. Cain., James M. Cain
  • The Halfling: And Other Stories, Leigh Brackett
  • The John Franklin Bardin Omnibus, John Franklin Bardin
  • The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 19, Stephen Jones
  • The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16, Gardner R. Dozois
  • The Mammoth Book of Contemporary SF Masters, Gardner R. Dozois
  • The Matrix Comics Vol 1, Geof Darrow
  • The New Avengers Vol. 1, Brian Michael Bendis
  • The New Nature of the Catastrophe (Tale of the Eternal Champion, #9), Michael Moorcock
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  • The Planet of the Double Sun (Professor Jameson #1), Neil R. Jones
  • The Polish Officer, Alan Furst
  • The Richard Laymon Collection, Volume 4: Beware / Dark Mountain, Richard Laymon
  • The Sam Gunn Omnibus, Ben Bova
  • The Savage Sword of Conan, Volume 3, Roy Thomas
  • The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (Penguin Classics), Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Very Best of Gene Wolfe, Gene Wolfe
  • The Weird: A Compendium of Dark and Strange Fictions, Ann VanderMeer
  • The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, Timothy Ferris
  • Them: Adventures with Extremists, Jon Ronson
  • Time Patrol, Poul Anderson
  • Un Lun Dun, China Miéville
  • Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks
  • Unexpected Journeys, Juliet E. McKenna
  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Alasdair Gray
  • Valérian et Laureline l'Intégrale, volume 2, Pierre Christin
  • Voice of the Fire, Alan Moore
  • War and Peace (Konemann Classics), Leo Tolstoy
  • Warlock, Andre Norton
  • Yesterday's Tomorrows, Rian Hughes
  • Young Miles (Vorkosigan Omnibus, #2), Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottings, Sam Stone

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