145 books worth $250000 stolen.
ILAB has requested that its offices be contacted if the items reappear in the trade.
List of books stolen: https://file770.com/wp-content/uploads/stolen-book-full-list.pdf
"Deep inside the watermoon, two hundred tons of mass converted into raw energy in under a second. The massive globe of water absorbed it, transforming to hyper-energized vapor – a waternova expanding outward at high velocity, loosing density as it went until it reduced to a rolling plasma sphere seventy thousand kilometers in diameter. For the first few minutes, its intensity overwhelmed that of the star. The radiation that the waternova mass had initially absorbed began to dissipate, bombarding the adjoining moons. Their membranes withered and broke, leaving the surface to boil away in cataracts of coronal-sized arches of steam.
From the omniscient viewpoint of the framework, the waternova’s corona began to fade down into mere sensor-burning violet – a process that would take weeks to complete. Meanwhile the otherwise uniform sphere of light was beset with internal sparkles as the hexagonal prisms of mass rivers caught inside the blast front dissolved away and their own component atoms fluoresced violently. There was one slim flare of dazzling light racing ahead of the insubstantial wavefront, its already dangerous velocity accelerating at ten gees. When it reached half a million kilometers away from the waternova’s periphery, the drive switched off.
A quiescent Arcadia’s Moon shot through the center of the framework grid and raced on outward."
I have a more or less complete collection of Reggie Oliver's books, but I did miss the hardcover edition for Wings of Night which was really dissapointing. It's not unusual for his books, e.g. from Tartarus, to sell out pre publication, but I tried to order this book the day after is was announced and it was all gone already.
Wrote to PS at once and asked if they expected to have any PC copies that I could get and they said that they would put me on a waiting list, but I never heard back from them.
Then I've watched for it from sellers afterwards but I have never seen a single copy sold anywhere, which is also strange.
So, is there any copies of this edition out there, or is it, like I'm starting to imagine, just a myth?