Publication Series: Présence du Futur

Publication Series:
Présence du Futur^?Presence du Futur
Pub. Series Record # 212
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Note:
- Name : Denoël - Présence du Futur.
- Publisher : Éditions Denoël 9 rue du Cherche-Midi 75006 Paris.
- Period of activity : 1954 to 2000.
- Series' editors : Robert Kanters then Elisabeth Gilles then a few others for shorter periods.
- Number of titles in the series : a little more than 600.
- Numbering system : numeric from 1 to 666 with holes (#632 to #665 don't exist; #666 was humorously used to accommodate Zelazny's Damnation Alley, in French Route 666, thus bringing the series to a cataclysmic end) and a few (15) double or triple volumes (e.g. #130-131 or #137-138-139).
- Format : three successive sizes; 14 x 20.5 cm (the first 21; here assimilated to pb, for simplicity's sake), 12 x 18 (22 to 112) and mostly 10.8 x 18.
- Length : extremely variable, from less than 200 to more than 400 pages.
- Presentation : globally three periods, the first was without illustration (only a colored planet with its shadow), then an image or a photograph in a circle, then a full cover. Note that there are rare titles which were sometimes issued with a dust-jacket (e.g. a kind of tie-in of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 with Truffaut's film).
- Artists : Original covers when illustrated with a long "Stéphane Dumont" period.
- Reprinting policy : frequent reprints of the bestsellers (Asimov, Bradbury) which explains why some titles exist under a variety of presentations.
- Origin of texts : Generally first French publications (excepting some early titles). Note a large range of authors' nationalities.
- Bibliographical data present on the books : AI is always present. The ISBNs were introduced quite late in the series, illustrators are credited. The English titles of the books are generally given.
- Content : A fair percentage of collections and even regular anthologies.
- Other bibliographical data : the books are rarely priced (except for the first titles and some promotional operations). A detailed catalog of the series is frequently present which allows the determination of the printing rank. This series was referred to by the publisher as being "semi-poche" (this being more classy than simple PBs) but this is only a marketing ploy to explain the fact that the books were significantly more expensive than standard French PBs.
- Note that some titles (the five first Amber books) were reprinted with new numbers (in the #460 range) and that titles with initially multiple numbers were reprinted with only the first one (#137-138-139 becoming simply #137).
- Note that some titles in the 200-210 range exist with two different covers (but the same printing date), one illustrated, one not (with the usual planet-and-shadow motif); the illustrated one may be a rebinding of old sheets (see here or here).

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Publication Series: Présence du Futur

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