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Yeah, I've been meaning to update those lists for some time now.  I guess I'll just tack them on the end in publication order since they did away with the numbering.

Strange decision to kill the numbers.  I think the numbering is a great incentive to collect them all.  Having gaps in the sequence would drive me nutty and I'd have to buy them just to have a complete set.  No numbers means I can skip volumes on purpose or even accidentally.  Bad idea.

I've added a bunch of the new additions to the SF Masterworks list:

1. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
2. The Inverted World by Christopher Priest
3. Arslan by M. J. Engh
4. Helliconia by Brian Aldiss
5. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
6. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
7. The Female Man by Joanna Russ
8. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
9. The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells
10. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
11. The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

Graybeard by Brian Aldiss is on the Wikipedia list that dabeef111 posted above but it comes out next year.  I'll keep adding them if you guys help me find them.

I've added Greybeard by Brian Aldiss to the Masterworks list now that I've found a cover for it.  It should be out in a matter of months.

These are the books listed as forthcoming on Wikipedia:

• The Difference Engine  - William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
• The Prestige  - Christopher Priest
• Sirius  - Olaf Stapledon
• Hyperion  - Dan Simmons
• Of Men and Monsters  - William Tenn
• Hellstrom's Hive  - Frank Herbert
• War with the Newts and R.U.R.  - Karel Capek
• The Affirmation  - Christopher Priest
• The Star Beast  - Robert A. Heinlein
• Odd John  - Olaf Stapledon
• The Fall of Hyperion  - Dan Simmons
• Frankenstein  - Mary Shelley

Only a few of these are missing from our DB.  When I find the new covers I'll add them to the list.

Of these, I've only read Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion.  I'm OK with them being labeled Masterworks.  What do you guys think about the others?

I've just added 4 more books to the SF Masterworks list - three of which are new to WWEnd.  While I was at it I re-arranged the un-numbered volumes (those after 73) because apparently they are still numbered but not on the covers, go figure.

Yeah, I was going to just tack them on the end but the problem is that it will mess up the sequencing.  Since there's no solution I like I'm going to ignore the hardbacks for now.  It does pain me not to have those 3 excellent books in the list but they just don't seem to fit.

Yes.  There are only 10 hardcover SF Masterworks and 7 of those are also in the softcover series.  I'm guessing they didn't sell so they discontinued them early on.

I CAN tack them on the end but more books are coming out still that have to be kept in order.  The best I can do is tack them on the end and then as new ones come out I can insert them between the last paperback in the series and the 3 hardcovers - thus keeping the hardcovers always at the end. 

The problem is that it will require explanation and people who don't know why we did it that way will tell me I've got it wrong.  I'd rather the list be correct - as it is now - and not need explanation because of 3 books that are not part of the softcover series.  The hardcover books are a separate series with only 3 unique books out of a mere 10 with no more coming.  It's a dead end.

I thought about that some time ago but decided to keep them together since the new ones are a continuation of the old series name.  If they had re-named the series to "New SF Masterworks" or something like that then maybe.

I'm glad they didn't mess with the name at least.  I like a list that keeps growing.  It keeps the conversation going which makes it more interesting to me.