![]() ![]() ![]() It was rave reviews and word of mouth that did the rest.īantam made up for it two years later, after the thunderous accolades for the book made the magnitude of their mistake obvious. They hadn’t even planned a mass market edition. Bantam Books hadn’t bothered with a hardcover release - or cover art - for Little, Big instead they published it in a nondescript trade paperback edition and snuck the book into stores under the cover of night in September 1981. It’s fair to say the book’s popularity took its publisher by surprise. When Locus repeated the poll eleven years later, it moved up two slots into 8th place. Six years later, when Locus surveyed its readers on the All-Time Best Fantasy Novel, it placed 10th. In 1981 Bantam Books published John Crowley’s masterwork Little, Big, which Matthew David Surridge calls “the best post-Tolkien novel of the fantastic.” It was an unexpected hit, receiving nominations for every major fantasy prize, including the Hugo, Balrog, BSFA, Locus, and Nebula awards, and winning both the Mythopoeic Award and the World Fantasy Award. ![]() Four John Crowley paperbacks published in rapid succession by Bantam: Little, Big, Beasts,Įngine Summer, The Deep (October, November, December 1983, and January 1984). ![]()
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