Which series should FS continue?

Dune? Earthsea? Maddadam? What have you been waiting for?

Dune, Asimov's Robots, Le Guin's Hainish Cycle and Urth of the New Sun are the immediate ones that spring to mind.

Not part of a story series but of Folio's own rebinds include the Conrad standalones, would love if they released his other major novels that Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent started.

I know they said they were only going to do three Brontes, but i would really like to see more of them!

MaddAddam gets my vote. Having read the FS edition of Oryx & Crake, I’m holding off on the rest of the trilogy in the hope that FS will publish Year of the Flood and MaddAddam – I’d love to continue reading these in FS editions. But if Year of the Flood isn’t part of the autumn line-up, I fear it’s unlikely they’ll continue the trilogy.

Probably Earthsea but Dune Messiah would be stunning.

Need more Folio Poets. They're beautiful editions, and there are plenty more poets, especially some of the less well-known, that would be great to see added to the list.

More Discworld. Prattchet's DW can be grouped into collections. Small Gods is part of the Gods Collection and is in series with Pyramids. Mort is the first in the Death Collection followed by Reaper Man, Soul Music, Hogfather and Thief of Time. It would be amazing for FS to partner with the Prattchet Estate once more to complete both collections. Mort and Small Gods sold extremely well. I cannot see other DW books not having a similar run.

>7 Shaliza: Actually I would change mine...more Discworld would be really nice.

Earthsea and Discworld, although I understand from previous posts on the forum that there are copyright issues with both series.

* Cornish novels `Dauphne du Maurier` for the n`tenth time.
* Russian `buckram series`(Crime and Punishment is done) ..
* Agatha Christie
* Josephine Tey (Bret Farrar in the new binding)
* Dune Messiah
* Ancient Empires series
* Three Musketeers reprint

I don't care at all if they continue MaddAddam. I'm a pretty big Atwood fan, but Oryx and Crake is the only one of those books that's truly excellent, in my opinion. I read the other two once and will almost certainly never pick them up again.

Using 'series' loosely here:

-J.G. Ballard's other catastrophe novels The Drought and The Crystal World (skip The Wind from Nowhere)

-More Jules Verne in formats similar to the recent Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

-More Stevenson in formats similar to the recent Treasure Island

-Dune Messiah, but I could really do without the rest of the series beyond that

>2 wongie: I hope FS continues the Hainish Cycle as well. “The Word for World is Forrest” would be nice.

>11 Jason461: Which Atwood books do you want to see an edition of? The second and third books in Maddadam are very different from Oryx and Crake. The Crakers were always funny though.

>12 SolerSystem: Another vote for J.G. Ballard (in case mole is keeping count)

Dune (remaining 5 Frank Herbert). If they don't commit to publishing those with the movie coming out in December, then they never will.

I'd second the Brontes, especially Villette.

Discworld would be nice, though I doubt it will happen.

The same goes for Dune.

I guess you could call this a series, but not a continuing storyline. I would like FS to add more titles to their ancient empires series. I would like them to do "The Samurai", and the "Mongols".

>15 hotgandalf:

The Blind Assassin would be at the top of my list. I believe it to be her masterpiece. I'd also love to see an edition of Alias Grace.

I'd also love to see the Brontës completed.

And Jane Austen. All that's missing from the current run is the "minor works" collection. Just one more volume and we'd have a full set.

I'd also love to see them do the remaining Anne of Green Gables books, although that feels extremely unlikely except maybe as a boxed set.

I realize a full set is almost certainly not in the cards, but more Jeeves & Wooster would be awfully nice as well.

And a Folio edition of "The Book of Merlyn" would be a nice companion for their "Once & Future King."

>21 McLeanSloughter: FS has already published the complete Jeeves novels and short stories across 14 volumes.

All of the works of the Bronte sisters.
Earthsea Trilogy

Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot.

Not much of what they are currently doing that I want to see 'completed', mainly because they've not started anything I'm particularly after (I'm happy with the set of Brontes I've got for instance).

One that jumps to mind though is the Eagle of the Ninth sequence, of which they've published three. There are 7 in total. Not sure why they published Mark of the Horse Lord instead. I'm not holding my breath though.

I would also love them to do the complete George Eliot again, and get it right this time. The last set was naff. There are also several authors/series which they've barely touched on that I'd love to see them produce a complete run of. Highly unlikely though.

>25 Willoyd: For the Eagle of the Ninth series, I would recommend the very lovely Slightly Foxed editions. SF is publishing the whole series.

I quite liked the simplicity of the George Eliot series. What was it that you didn't like about them?

I would like FS to extend its unofficial "Booker Prize Winner" series (although little chance of that without robots and elves).

Robots and elves...or dinosaurs.

>26 Conte_Mosca: I would be very happy to see the "Booker Winners" series continue, and for those to be supplemented by National Book Award and/or Pulitzer winners. But not betting on it. As I recall a number of the Booker Winners were fixtures in various sales (Oscar and Lucinda, Midnight's Children and Disgrace). Atonement, short-listed if I recall correctly, also was a sale fixture. I'd love to be wrong, but I fear the audience may not be there for FS editions of such books.

Brontes and Folio Poets have my vote.

Finish Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy. Maybe a few other select Durrells after that

Finish the original Earthsea trilogy

Continue the Graham Greene series; start adding non-fiction to it, e.g. Journey without Maps or Ways of Escape

Continue or, preferably, start over the Hemingway series

Continue the Ancient Empires series. If I were calling shots, the next volume would be The Khmers, covering the Khmer Empire. Would be a good fit with plenty of archaeological info and gorgeous pictures of Khmer architecture and sculpture

Publish more books by Oliver Sacks in series with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; first I'd do Awakenings, then I'd like to see Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

>25 Willoyd:

I would have liked them to continue the Eagle of the Ninth series, too.

A second for complete Eagle 9th and Durrell Corfu series.

>26 Conte_Mosca:
I would recommend the very lovely Slightly Foxed editions. SF is publishing the whole series.
Yes, I'm a long term subscriber to SF, and love their books. Unfortunately they are only publishing four of the series - there are 7 in total.

I quite liked the simplicity of the George Eliot series. What was it that you didn't like about them?
I thought the portrait cartouches were decidedly amateur - and dislike that style of doing things (I didn't like the second Jane Austen series for the same reason). I have a copy of Middlemarch in the pale blue 'elephant hide', which I really like.

I would like FS to extend its unofficial "Booker Prize Winner" series (although little chance of that without robots and elves).
Definitely agree (on both points!). A Pulitzer Winner series would appeal too!

>33 Willoyd:
They are planning to publish all 7; all are on their website now, with publishing schedule running into 2021:
https://foxedquarterly.com/products/rosemary-sutcliff-classic-childrens-books/

As far as prizes go, I would also like them to pay attention to Nobel laureates, although probably not as a uniform series.

>33 Willoyd:
>34 elladan0891:

You beat me to it! Yes, the remaining 3 are on their way!



I have that pale blue version of Middlemarch too. I couldn't resist as Middlemarch is actually my Desert Island Discs book!

And yes, a Pulitzer Winner / Nobel Laureates series would get the thumbs up from me. I agree about non-uniform though. I prefer "thematic" series rather than uniform bindings, a bit like they did for the Bookers.

SF is a great outfit that seems to have taken up what FS left off doing - publishing editions of good and great lit, albeit GB centric, for serious readers. Would love to see them start to put out a more FS type, color illustrated product.

>36 foxtrot345:

I agree that SF is a great company, with a great product. But I think it is unlikely that they will fill any literary gap that FS might leave by publishing FS style products. Their core product is their (wonderful) quarterly magazine. Their lovely books are always going to be a small and highly focused part of what they do. Their main book series focuses only on memoirs, with just four publications a year. And similarly their Cub series of childrens' classics has just four publications a year too. I can't see them expanding materially beyond that, or changing the format, which allows them to offer high quality editions printed and bound by hand in the UK at less than £20 a book.

> 37 Agreed, and if they just continue what they’re doing so well that will be a godsend.

>21 McLeanSloughter: I'd love to see more of the Anne of Green Gables series as well.
>30 elladan0891: I'm a Gerald Durrell fan and would like to see more too.

Maybe more BB too. I know SF have produced these but it would be nice to have Down the Bright Stream to accompany the FS The Little Grey Men.

>22 Conte_Mosca:
Yes, but I much prefer the look of their more recent editions. I'd love a full matching set in the new style.

>40 McLeanSloughter: I much prefer the look of their more recent editions. I'd love a full matching set in the new style.

Yes, me too, highly unlikely though it is. I love Paul Cox as an artist but his binding designs are so busy that when you put a run of spines together it's headache-inducing. It's like an explosion at a psychedelic paint factory.

>41 folio_books:
And don't forget some of the ugliest spine lettering in Folio catalogue!
I too prefer the look of the recent re-issues. I just wish they were full cloth. And I don't know what they were thinking when they released Thank You, Jeeves without a slipcase.

>42 elladan0891: And don't forget some of the ugliest spine lettering in Folio catalogue

I was trying to ... Vying for the ugliest must be the Evelyn Waugh collection. Jeeves and Wooster looks good next to that monstrosity.

>42 elladan0891: I don't know what they were thinking when they released Thank You, Jeeves without a slipcase.

They were experimenting with all sorts of wacky ideas around that time, egged on by the Uncollectables. Thankfully they too are now lost is the mists of time.

>34 elladan0891: >35 Conte_Mosca:
They are planning to publish all 7; all are on their website now, with publishing schedule running into 2021:

Ooh - thank you. Missed that completely.

I couldn't resist as Middlemarch is actually my Desert Island Discs book!
Very serious contender for mine too!

>43 folio_books:

I know taste is a very personal thing, but surely Anansi Boys is the ugliest ever publication?! Am I missing some kind of post-modern satire? I can't believe how hideous it is, but everyone else seems to love it!

>45 Conte_Mosca: I love the design :) Currently holder of my library's "best slipcase" award.

>45 Conte_Mosca: I bought it and find the binding slipcase combination an excellent fit.

Confederacy of Dunces seems the consensus misfit, only bought when you find it ‘beautifully ugly’!

They absolutely should continue Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle with The Book of the Long Sun (4 volumes) and The Book of the Short Sun (3 volumes).

>43 folio_books: Vying for the ugliest must be the Evelyn Waugh collection
Yes. Very similar font, but even uglier, especially those volumes with pink, purple and sickly green "shadows" around letters. They are actually the reason why I called Wodehouse lettering only "some of the ugliest"

>45 Conte_Mosca: Not that Anansi is gorgeous, but we were talking about spine lettering specifically. I guess you could still nominate Anansi Boys as a contender anyway )

>47 NLNils: I actually prefer Confederation. At least ugliness is appropriate :) If only it weren't such offensive yellow/red!

>49 elladan0891:

Yes, I will still nominate it in relation to spine lettering specifically :-D

>41 folio_books: when you put a run of spines together it's headache-inducing. It's like an explosion at a psychedelic paint factory.
>42 elladan0891: And don't forget some of the ugliest spine lettering in Folio catalogue!

I was recently having a chuckle over this item on eBay. But having read your comments I now realise that perhaps there are potential buyers out there ;-)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JEEVES-WOOSTER-FOLIO-SOCIETY-1996-6-NOVEL-EMPTY-SLIPC...

>45 Conte_Mosca: I know taste is a very personal thing, but surely Anansi Boys is the ugliest ever publication?!

I'd have no problem in putting Anansi Boys on the shortlist for the ugliest ever binding but, as >49 elladan0891: said, at that point we were talking about the spines.

>47 NLNils: Confederacy of Dunces seems the consensus misfit

Definitely another one on the shortlist. Ugly +++

>41 folio_books:

I keep mine hidden on a bottom shelf behind the sub-woofer (which blows appropriate raspberries from time to time).

>53 boldface:

I have a few shelves which are hidden from view (eg behind an ancient computer my wife won't part with). All the "uglies" end up in those locations. Thankfully.

I thought that Anansi Boys looked pretty awful until I a) had it myself and could see it in person (feels good, looks great) and b) realised just how well it fits to the novel, too.

>55 SF-72:

I have it and I still thinks it looks hideous.

>56 folio_books:

There's no arguing about taste. There are definitely nicer cover motifs, but I think this one fits to the content and the spider web sides are very nice. I'd certainly welcome more of that kind of decoration in future books.

I think Anansi Boys is one of the coolest designs FS has, but to each their own. I actually love the spine design on it. It might be my favorite spine.

>45 Conte_Mosca:

In my collection, it is Roald Dahls Complete tales of the unexpected. It sticks out like a sore thumb. Ugly colours, glossy and downright weird.

>25 Willoyd: Finishing up The Eagle and the Ninth series by Rosemary Sutcliff would be a nice continuation and conclusion. The Slightly Foxed version looks very nice though too.

Some more Eric Ambler spy stories would be most welcome

Does anyone know if there are plans to continue the Rendezvous with Rama series?

>62 hotgandalf:

I didn't know it was one. That's frustrating.

>63 SF-72:
There is a bit of a proviso with the Rama series. In Clarke's later years he collaborated with up and coming authors; some have suggested this was to bolster their careers. At any rate Gentry Lee was the collaborating author on the next three Rama books and he actually did most of the writing, if not all. So these novels are incredibly different in writing, tone and idea. Many people consider them as a different series in the same world. They are good but I would not consider folio just releasing Rendezvous with Rama as incomplete.

>63 SF-72: Yeah there was 4. I don’t know if they’re necessary because I haven’t read them. Just wondering about it.

If FS were going to print another Arthur C. Clarke novel I would expect Childhood’s End instead of Rama 2.

>65 hotgandalf: Indeed the following 3 Rama books are really not that good. There's just places the mind shouldn't attempt to visit - Rama kept the imagination flowing, by Rama IV there wasn't much left to it.

>64 Jobasha:
>65 hotgandalf:
>66 bacchus.:

Thank you all. I'm glad to hear that it doesn't seem to be an incomplete story. I haven't read it yet, but that kind of thing is really irritating.

>67 SF-72: Rendezvous with Rama was published in 1973; Rama II not until 1989. I doubt Clarke had any intention of writing a sequel at the outset.

>65 hotgandalf: As well as Childhood's End I'd love them to do The Fountains of Paradise. Always was one of my favourites and there's great potential for illustration there.

I’d like to see them do at least 2 more of the Anne of Green Gables series.

I would love more Clarke! I’ve been told not to read on after the original Rama like others have said it’s rather popular suggested Clarke didn’t write any of it and is quite the let down.

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