The Washington Post June 26, 1988, Sunday, Final Edition SECTION: BOOK WORLD; PAGE X12; NEW IN PAPERBACK LENGTH: 1174 words NONFICTION The Face of War and The View From the Ground , by Martha Gellhorn (Atlantic Monthly, $ 9.95 each). These two books collect six decades of reporting by Martha Gellhorn, from the Spanish Civil War to Castro's Cuba. One of the first women foreign correspondents, Gellhorn reported on D-Day from the first hospital ship at Normandy. She covered the war in Vietnam and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Gellhorn describes The View From the Ground as "peace-time reporting. . . . the countries in the background were at peace at the moment of writing." Here, she writes about Christmas in London with the poor, a return to Cuba after 46 years, protests at the White House. "Writers work alone but I do not feel alone," she concludes. "I belong to a global fellowship, men and women concerned in the welfare of the planet and its least protected inhabitants." Straight on Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham , by Mary S. Lovell (St. Martin's/Vermilion, $ 10.95). In 1936, Beryl Markham became the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone from England to North America. Her book West With the Night, first published in 1942, was published again to widespread acclaim in 1983. Born in England, Markham grew up in Kenya, becoming a horse trainer and pilot. This is a panoramic portrait of her life in Africa and the United States, written by a woman who conducted extensive interviews with Markham before Markham's death. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir , by Joan Baez (NAL Plume, $ 8.95). Just the mention of Joan Baez' name conjures the sound of her voice: high and impossibly clear, fragile and yet strong. This is Baez' autobiography, the story of her journey from the coffee-house music scene of the 1950s to her activism in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, the decline of her career in the United States in the 1970s, and its resurgence in the '80s. Emily Dickinson , by Cynthia Griffin Wolff (Addison-Wesley, $ 15.95). Cynthia Wolff's exhaustively researched life of the reclusive poet of Amherst stands as a useful companion to Richard Sewall's authoritative Life (1974). Whereas Sewall's strength is in the evocation of Emily Dickinson's family and environment and the influence of these upon her work, Wolff's focus is more inward, more speculative. "As the woman becomes Poet," she says, "biography must shift its principal focus from the person to that Voice of the verse, for it was in her poetry and not in the world that Emily Dickinson deliberately decided to 'live.' " SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY Rumors of Spring , by Richard Grant (Bantam Spectra, $ 4.50). Reminiscent of the work of John Crowley (Little, Big), this is the story of Vesica and Tamlin, a mysterious boy of the forest, and their search for the secrets that will mean the renewal of the Earth. All of the planet's trees and grasses are gone, except for one forest. And now the forest is growing uncontrollably, and nature threatens to overtake man as man once overtook nature. Vesica and Tamlin's quest is a fine one, with fine companions, and a long, pleasingly digressive narrative whose skeins gradually come together. The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1930s , edited by Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg (Carroll & Graf, $ 8.95). This collection draws on the best of the pulp adventure magazines that flourished in the 1930s and '40s -- Astounding and Unknown -- and reprints some memorable, corny and occasionally genuinely classic fantasy and sf. Here are Lovecraft's sinister "The Shadow Out of Time," written in his usual style, that of a psychotic reader of the King James Bible; here too is John W. Campbell's famous "Who Goes There?," perhaps the finest sf horror story and basis for the film The Thing. Other writers featured include Cornell Woolrich, Jack Williamson, L. Sprague de Camp and Murray Leinster addressing such appealing matters as time travel, other dimensions and lycanthropy. The Year's Best Science Fiction: 1987 , edited by Gardner Dozois (St. Martin's, $ 12.95; cloth, $ 19.95). Gardner Dozois' annual anthology aims to gather the best science fiction short stories of the year -- even if it takes nearly 700 pages to do it. As usual there is a prefatory survey of the past season in sf and an appendix of honorable mentions; in between Dozois reprints such attention-winning tales as Pat Murphy's "Rachel in Love" (winner of one this year's Nebulas), along with outstanding stories by such current hot talents as Lucius Shepard, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, Octavia Butler, Orson Scott Card and Howard Waldrop. The old masters are here too: Robert Silverberg's retelling of "The Pardoner's Tale," Ursula Le Guin's "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" and Gene Wolfe"s "All the Hues of Hell." The Art of Dragon Magazine , edited by Jean Blashfield (TSR, $ 16.95). Basically a gaming magazine (with a particular focus on Dungeons and Dragons), Dragon is also a terrific marketplace for sf and fantasy illustrators. This album, drawing on the periodical's first 10 years, reprints every kind of artwork, though there are naturally enough a good many unicorns, scaley beasties, ogres, trolls and elves, many of them fighting or befriending heroic warriors and amazons. A lot of adolescent fantasy here, but it's still agreeable to day-dream now and then about the mighty-thewed or the silken-thighed. Remscela , by Gregory Frost (Ace, $ 3.50). In this companion volume to Frost's well-regarded Tain, he continues his retelling of adventures from the Ulster Cycle of Celtic mythology. Here, he notes in his foreword, his story is "that of a young man who knows he has achieved the greatest work of his life and now has nothing to look forward to." Hence these stories of the legendary warrior Cu Chulainn show him suffering madness, even murdering his son, ultimately falling into entanglements and enchantments that will lead to a Celtic twilight of the gods. For fantasy readers there are druids and wizards, riddles and spells, heroic swordsmen and fatal beauties, all of them expertly drawn against a landscape of mists and melancholy. The Official Prisoner Companion , by Matthew White and Jeffer Ali (Warner, $ 9.95). Just 17 episodes of this British television series (now 20 years old) ever aired, but The Prisoner was often repeated and remains a favorite of many. It concerns a spy who resigns, is kidnapped and taken to what appears to be an English resort by the sea. Through each episode, the man -- known only as Number Six -- tries to escape. This companion contains synopses of all 17 episodes, an interview with Patrick McGoohan (who starred in the show and directed and produced many of the episodes) and a section called "Notes, Anecdotes and Nonsense," wherein we learn that during the press conference after the screening of the initial episode, McGoohan stood in a prison cell, asking questions of the assembled journalists and refusing to answer their queries. 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