Novels

Quicksilver

Advance Reader's Edition

Release Date: September 2021
Copyright: Text Copyright © by The Koontz Living Trust
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Page Count: 356
States: "ADVANCE READER'S COPY" on front
Cover image via eBay listing.

Trade Hardcover

Release Date: January 25, 2022
Copyright: Text copyright © 2022 by The Koontz Living Trust
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Page Count: 356
ISBN-13: 978-1542019880
Cover Price: $28.99
States: "First Edition"

Large Print Hardcover

Release Date: February 23, 2022
Copyright: Copyright © 2022 by The Koontz Living Trust.
Format: Hardcover without dust dacket
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Page Count: 521
ISBN-13: 978-10-4328-9453-5
Original List Price: $37.99
States: "Print Number : 1 Print Year : 2022"

Trade Paperbcak

Release Date: July 19, 2022
Copyright: Text copyright © 2022 by The Koontz Living Trust
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Page Count: 356
ISBN-13: 978-1542019903
Cover Price: $16.99
States: "First edition"

Large Print Trade Paperback

Release Date: October 5, 2022
Copyright: Copyright © 2022 by The Koontz Living Trust
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Gale
Page Count: 519
ISBN-13: 979-8-8857-8213-5
Cover Price: $21.99
States: "Published in 2022 by arrangement with Thomas and Mercer."
No statement of printing. POD barcode on last unnumbered page.

Notes

The original release date was March 15, 2022 but in August 2021, this was changed to January 25, 2022.

Errors

“[In Quicksilver, p254] he said that the town name Ajo is pronounced Ah-joe.  It is not. It is originally a Native American word that was changed to Spanish and in neither iteration was it pronounced Ah-joe. It is pronounced Ah-hoe and if you can give it just a hint of a gargle in the back of your throat in the middle, then you’ll have it. It means garlic in Spanish.”
-Cindy Burke

“He referred to the TV show Family Guy as ‘The Family Guy,’  used Jackie Chan and jujitsu as verbs, he described the creature from Alien as a ‘face clutcher’ instead of facehugger, and ‘Galactic Invaders’ instead of Space Invaders”
-Noah Mitchell

p283: “The word megalomaniac did not exist in 1970, when the novel was published; it wouldn’t come into use for another two decades.”
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, it was first used in 1982 a mere 12 years later. However, according to my Compact Oxford English Dictionary, its first use was in 1980. I’ll give Dean this one.

p311: “We located him in a neon-dazzled arcade with at least a dozen pinball machines as well as early stand-alone consoled like Ms. Pac-Man and Galactic Invaders.”
The console was named Space Invaders, but there was a pinball machine named Galactic Invaders.

“Tigers are physically incapable of purring.”
-Christopher Hatridge

I’m going to disagree with this last one about the tiger. Here it is in context:

“So I ran after her, and when I found her, she had her back to a tree, and the tiger was growling at her, and the only weapon I had was a four-inch rip blade.”
“No melodrama now. Alphonse wasn’t growling, he was purring.”

It’s a child saying that the tiger was purring, not growling, to her grandfather. The fact that tigers can’t purr just shows that the grandfather’s opinion is the correct one.

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Last updated on December 20th, 2025