Steven Silver has posted an insightful new review of Diana Glyer’s The Company They Keep on his website at http://www.stevenhsilver.com/reviews.html.
And if you’re looking for a library that can lend you a copy, the chances of finding one are improving daily. According to WorldCat, as of June 2 The Company They Keep has been catalogued in 414 libraries. It is now in all 50 states and in 10 countries. Taking other Kent State University Press books as a yardstick, Diana’s seems to be doing pretty well with libraries. The stats are behind the cut.
Here are some top performers from KSUP over the past few years (asterisks mark scholarly work about sf/fantasy subjects):KSUP 2008 *Charles Williams Ashenden 162 libraries
Politician Extraordinaire Vazzaro 121 libraries
KSUP 2007 *The Company They Keep Glyer 414 libraries
Dreaming Baseball Farrell 335 libraries
KSUP 2006 The Birth of Development Staples 375 libraries
*Mesmerists, Monsters and Machines Willis 372 libraries
KSUP 2005 Under Kilimanjaro Hemingway 465 libraries
A New Book of Grotesques Dunne 423 libraries
KSUP 2004 *Ray Bradbury Eller 530 libraries
Democracy and Religion Odell-Scott 518 libraries
Here are the top six KSUP books in libraries, published any year:
*Dorothy L. Sayers (1979) Hone 1214 libraries
Dressed for the Photographer (1995) Severa 1123 libraries
*Many Futures (1977) Clareson 1088 libraries
*As Her Whimsey Took Her (1979) Hannay 1066 libraries
*The Longing for a Form (1977) Schakel 991 libraries
It is interesting that of the top sixteen KSUP titles listed here, eight of them (*) are related to the science fiction field in some way.
WorldCat’s top three books about C.S. Lewis/J.R.R. Tolkien from any publisher and any year:
Tolkien: A Biography (1977) Carpenter 2230 libraries
C.S. Lewis: A Biography (1990)
Master of Middle-earth (1972) Kocher 1088 libraries
[Thanks to Steven Silver and Diana Glyer.]
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