CHEAP TRUTH TOP TEN

These new editions are readily available at your local smokestack-industry chainstore bookstand. You could do a lot worse.

1. SOFTWARE Rudy Rucker. Ace, 2.25. Pyrotechnic work by deranged math professor. The hottest thing going in contemporary SF.
2. UNIVERSE 10 Terry Carr, ed. Zebra, 2.50. Fine anthology reduced to utter penury. Should be bought for the good of the genre.
3. PAST MASTER R. A. Lafferty. Ace, 2.50. Classic Lafferty. His most decipherable SF novel.
4. THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS Ursula K. LeGuin. Brilliant LeGuin from her pre-didactic era. Has modern intro with words like "semiotic" and "positivist."
5. THE IRON DREAM Norman Spinrad. Timescape, 2.95. Biting parody of fascistic SF power fantasies. Genuinely bizarre.
6. THE MONSTER OF THE PROPHECY Clark Ashton Smith. Timescape, 2.50. Curious archaeological relic from the Golden Age. Outrageous, clotted prose.
7. THE KING IN YELLOW Robert W. Chambers. Ace, 2.50. What fantasy was like before its prostitution.
8. A WORLD OUT OF TIME Larry Niven. Del Rey, 2.50. Heartening indication that Niven may escape total artistic collapse.
9. CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS Roger Zelazny. Avon, 2.25. Self-indulgent pastiche of his best work. Flashes of brilliance. Beats being smothered in amber.
10. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK Mike McQuay. Bantam, 2.50. Surprisingly decent novelization. Makes more sense than the movie.