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the full sime~gen series to date listed,

and

all the mmpb editions i've sold/read/seen listed,

and all the links to & fro made & tested;

i've also seen & held two or three of the doubleday h/cvr first editions, but didn't record which, let alone the vital statisticia of these, and i don't yet know the contents of ''fear and courage'', the 2015 anthology.

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sime~gen main series #4:

#01: ''first channel'' (1980), q.v. for series' listings, and links.

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playboy press playboy paperbacks mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by kirk reinert (signed, uncredited)
cover price $2.50
240pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

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playboy press playboy paperbacks imprint mmpb stated second printing (account includes the playboy press paperbacks imprint mmpb first p/b edition) with new cat#, isbn but retaining

cover art by h. r. van dongen (signed, still credited to richard van dongen)
cover price $2.50
320pp. (check) including titles, author's note, dramatis personae, vocabulary etc.

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sime~gen series:

the prequel trilogy:
#01: ''first channel'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah (1980), (this novel)
#02: ''channel's destiny'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah (1982), q.v.
#03: ''ambrov keon'' jean lorrah (1986), q.v.

the main series: novels:
#1: ''house of zeor'' jacqueline lichtenberg (1974), q.v.
#2: ''zelerod's doom'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah (1986), q.v.
#3: ''unto zeor, forever'' jacqueline lichtenberg (1978), q.v.
#4: ''mahogany trinose'' jacqueline lichtenberg (1981), q.v.
#5: ''rensime'' jacqueline lichtenberg (1984), q.v.

omnibus editions:
omnibus of #1, #03, #2:
#O1: ''sime~gen: the unity trilogy'' #1 jacqueline lichtenberg, #03 jean lorrah, #2 by both (2003), q.v.
announced but unpublished omnibus editions:
to have been of #6, #5, & ''best of fools'' (novelette), which appeared in #C:
scheduled for publication in 2005 but did not appear;
#O2: ''sime~gen: to kiss or to kill''
to have been of #3, #4, #5:
#O3: ''digen farris ambrov zeor'' (title may've been provisional) (not known to've been scheduled)
meisha merlin, the publisher, ceased trading completely in 2007

there was then a brief hiatus in the publishing - and perhaps in the authors' writing - schedule(s):

#6: ''personal recognizance'' jacqueline lichtenberg (2011), q.v.
#7: ''to kiss or to kill'' jean lorrah (2011), q.v.
#8: ''the farris channel'' jacqueline lichtenberg (2011), q.v.

#6 published in a ''double'' with:
#C: ''the story untold: and other sime-gen stories'' jean lorrah (2011), q.v.

original anthology:
#A: ''fear and courage: fourteen writers explore sime-gen'' eds. zoe farris, karen l. macleod (2015), q.v.

there are two more later titles which seem to be sime~gen-related, but which yr hmbl srppnt.'s never seen - and about which, knows next-to-nothing:

clear springs chronicles trilogy:
CS#1: ''a change of tactics'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah, mary lou mendum (2017), q.v.
CS#2: ''a shift of means'' jacqueline lichtenberg, jean lorrah, mary lou mendum (2019), q.v.
CS#3: (naught yet known)

possibly as-yet uncollected sime~gen stories°:
by jacqueline lichtenberg:
''operation high time'' (novelette) if vol.19 #1, 1/1969
''the channel's exemption'' (novelette) galileo #4, 7/1977, with illustration by stephen fabian

° - i don't - yet - know the contents of ''fear and courage'', the anthology published in 2015

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playboy press playboy paperbacks imprint mmpb first printing, first p/b edition

cover art by paul alexander (signed alexander)
cover price $2.50
372pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising