How did Gollancz print Galaxies Like Grains of Sand?
I’ve been a casual collector of the SF Masterworks series since the (mostly) numbered hardback editions, though far from a completist. The latest I picked up was Brian W. Aldiss’ _Galaxies Like Grains of Sand_, a fix-up of short stories set in a common long history of Earth/the galaxy. It’s a great read in fact, think _Foundation_ but putting the galactic empire into the background and concentrating on how Earth adapts to its changing place in the galaxy.
Unlike most of the books in the series, which are usually well printed but sometimes have strange choices of typeface, this has lots of artifacts that look like letterpress printing. But it’s from 2025, and I doubt they actually did that, it would be too expensive. Does anyone know if this is an effect they’ve used to emulate older pulp novels, or if this edition is scanned from the earlier printings or reproduced from flongs?