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7th Apr 2023
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James White - Lifeboat (1972)
''heaven is not my home.''

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7th Apr 2023
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James White - Lifeboat (1972)
this book's sbn is actually 345-02797-3, also quotable as 345027973;

the sbn is / was defined as being nine digits in extent, the ninth being the checksum digit.

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7th Apr 2023
Book
James White - Tomorrow Is Too Far (1971)
this book's sbn is actually 345-02150-9, also quotable as 345021509;

the sbn is (was) nine digits in extent by definition, with the ninth being the checksum digit.

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7th Apr 2023
Book
Elizabeth Moon - Trading In Danger (2003)
vatta's war pentalogy listed, links to & fro done and tested.

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7th Apr 2023
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Elizabeth Moon - Victory Conditions (2008)
vatta's war #5:

#1: ''trading in danger'' (2003), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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7th Apr 2023
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Elizabeth Moon - Command Decision (2007)
vatta's war #4:

#1: ''trading in danger'' (2003), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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7th Apr 2023
Book
Elizabeth Moon - Engaging The Enemy (2006)
vatta's war #3:

#1: ''trading in danger'' (2003), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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7th Apr 2023
Book
Elizabeth Moon - Victory Conditions (2008)
hachette group uk orbit books imprint first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition

cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £6.99 (?or £7.99 ? check)
464pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from at least three near-identical reprintings, stating progressively reprinted 2009, appending (twice), and then modifying this to (three times)

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7th Apr 2023
Book
Elizabeth Moon - Command Decision (2007)
hachette group uk orbit books imprint first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition

cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £6.99
460pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history printing number line to distinguish from at least six near-identical undated reprintings

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7th Apr 2023
Book
Elizabeth Moon - Engaging The Enemy (2006)
little, brown (warner books uk) orbit books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition, possibly simultaneous first edition

cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £6.99
460pp? (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from at least two near-identical reprintings which add the line, reprinted 2006, and then append (twice)

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7th Apr 2023
Book
Walter M. Miller Jr. - A Canticle For Leibowitz (1963)
title is^W was still incorrect and should^W has been corrected to ''a canticle for leibowitz''

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7th Apr 2023
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Elizabeth Moon - Moving Target (2004)
vatta's war #2:

#1: ''trading in danger'' (2003), q.v. for series listing, and links.

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7th Apr 2023
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Elizabeth Moon - Moving Target (2004)
little, brown (warner books uk) group orbit books imprint p/b first printing, first uk, first p/b edition

cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £6.99
440pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to distinguish from near-identical 2005 second printing, which adds a line noting reprinted 2005
eventually dated notings of reprints cease, after which refer to printing number line to distinguish from further, undated, near-identical reprintings

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7th Apr 2023
Book
Elizabeth Moon - Trading In Danger (2003)
#1 of the vatta's war pentalogy:

#1: ''trading in danger'' (2003), (this novel)
#2: ''marque and reprisal'' (2004), q.v.
aka ''moving target'' (uk 2004), q.v.
#3: ''engaging the enemy'' (2006), q.v.
#4: ''command decision'' (2007), q.v.
#5: ''victory conditions'' (2008), q.v.

to which series there is a sequel, preceded by a short story and an ''interquel'':

''all in a day's work'' (short story) in ''infinite stars'' ed. bryan thomas schmidt (2017), q.v.

and, cut by elizabeth moon from the end of the above both to keep it to the length required for the original anthology, and also because it did not make a good ending for that story, is the episode:

''an interquel for ''cold welcome'' '' q.v.


vatta's peace series:

2#1: ''cold welcome'' (2017), q.v.
2#2: ''into the fire'' (2018), q.v.

yr hmbl srppnt. does not as-vet know vether there vill be vurther vatta volumes.

ppint.
7th Apr 2023
Book
Elizabeth Moon - Trading In Danger (2003)
little, brown (warner books uk) group orbit books imprint p/b first printing, first uk edition, first p/b edition

cover art by fred gambino (unsigned, credited on back cover)
cover price £6.99
424pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
6th Apr 2023
Book
Norvell W. Page - Sons Of The Bear-God (1979)
berkley-putnam publishing group berkley books imprint mmpb first printing, second mmpb edition

cover art by wayne barlowe (signed with his initials in a line-drawn box, uncredited?)
cover price $1.75
168pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
6th Apr 2023
Book
Damon Knight - A For Anything (1965)
publisher is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected to berkley medallion, as per the cover image

ppint.
5th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - The Shape Of Space (1969)
contents:

the warriors (short story), if vol.16 #2, 2/1966 (known space)
safe at any speed (ss), f&sf vol.32 #5, 5/1967 (known space)
how the heroes die (novelette), galaxy vol.25 #1, 10/1966, cover story, art by dember, 2 b+w illustrations by virgil finlay (known space)
at the bottom of a hole (ntte), galaxy vol.25 #2, 12/1966; galaxy gold star bre vol.25 #2, 7-8(/1967) (known space)
bordered in black (ss), f&sf vol.30 #4, 4/1966 (a proto-known space story)
like banquo's ghost (ss), if vol.18 #9, 9/1968
one face (ntte), galaxy vol.23 #5, 6/1965, cover story art by george schelling (a proto-known space story)
the meddler (ntte), f&sf vol.35 #4, 10/1968
dry run (ss), f&sf vol.34 #5, 5/1968
convergent series (ss), f&sf vol.32 #3, 3/1967 as ''the long night''
the deadlier weapon (ss), ellery queen's mystery magazine 6/1968
death by ecstasy (novella), galaxy vol.27 #6, 1/1969 as ''the organleggers'' (known space, a gil the arm story), with three b+w illustrations by jack gaughan

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5th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - The Shape Of Space (1969)
ballantine books mmpb simultaneous first printings, first edition

reprint anthology of seven short stories, four novelettes and a novella

cover art by peter bramley (signed p. bramley, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
248pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both state first printing: september, 1969

i've seen this catalogued stating it bears an isbn, but it has neither isbn nor sbn

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5th Apr 2023
Book
Larry Niven - The Draco Tavern (2006)
contents:

introduction (nf) larry niven
the subject is closed, cosmos vol.1 #1, 5/1977
grammar lesson, cosmos vol.1 #1, 5/1977
assimilating our culture, that's what they're doing!, destinies vol.1 #1, 11-12/1978
the schumann computer, destinies vol.1 #2, 1-2/1979
the green marauder, destinies vol.2 #1, 2-3/1980
the real thing, as ''echt'' in ''tor zu den sternen'' ed. peter wilfert (1981), q.v.; iamsf vol.6 #11, 11/1982
war movie, in ''stellar 7'' ed. judy-lynn del rey (1981), q.v.
limits, iamsf vol.5 #10, 28/9/1981
table manners, in ''far frontiers'' (#1), 1/1985; as ''folk tale'' in ''niven's laws'' larry niven (1984), q.v.
one night at the draco tavern, in ''playgrounds of the mind'' larry niven (1984), q.v.
the heights, analog vol. cxxi #5, 5/2001
the wisdom of demons, analog vol. cxx #7, 7/2000
smut talk, playboy 1/2000
ssorohghod's people, in ''redshirt'' ed. al sarrantonio (2001), q.v.
the missing mass, analog vol. xxx #12, 21/2000; see also larryniven.org/stories/Draco13.shtml
the convergence of the old mind, analog vol. cxxii #7-8, 7-8/2002
chrysalis, analog vol. cxxii #9, 9/2002
the death addict, analog vol.123 #5, 5/2003
storm front, analog vol.124 #3, 3/2004
the slow ones, analog vol.125 #12, 12/2005
cruel and unusual, cosmos vol.1 #1, 5/1977
the ones who stay home, analog vol.123 #1, 1/2003
breeding maze, 1980, analog vol.125 #9, 9/2005
playhouse, analog vol.126 #3, 3/2006
lost, eeriecon chapbook 3 (2004) 150 copies
losing mars, 2006 (orig.)
playground earth, 2006 (orig.)

ppint.
5th Apr 2023
Book
Stephen Baxter - The Long War (2013)
thank-you.

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5th Apr 2023
Book
Stephen Baxter - The Long Mars (2014)
thank-you.

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5th Apr 2023
Book
Stephen Baxter - The Long Utopia (2015)
thank-you.

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5th Apr 2023
Book
Stephen Baxter - The Long Cosmos (2016)
thank-you.

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5th Apr 2023
Book
Harlan Ellison - Dangerous Visions (1975)
author field should^W has been varied to editor.

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5th Apr 2023
Book
Harlan Ellison - Dangerous Visions (1987)
author field should^W has been varied to editor.

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5th Apr 2023
Book
Harlan Ellison - Dangerous Visions (1987)
contents:

forward 1: the second revolution (nf introduction) iamsf
foreword 2: harlan and I (nf introduction) iamsf
introduction: thirty-two soothsayers (nf) harlan ellison
evensong (short story) lester del rey
flies (ss) robert silverberg
the day after the day the martians came (ss) frederik pohl (aka ''the day the martians came'')
riders of the purple wage (novella) philip josé farmer
the malley system (ss) miriam allen deford
a toy for juliette (ss) robert bloch
the prowler in the city at the edge of the world (novelette) harlan ellison
the night that all time broke out (ss) brian w. aldiss
the man who went to the moon - twice (ss) howard rodman
faith of our fathers (ntte) philip k. dick
the jigsaw man (ss) larry niven (a known space story)
gonna roll the bones (ntte) fritz leiber
lord randy, my son (ss) joe l. hensley
eutopia (ntte) poul anderson
incident in moderan (ss) david r. bunch (unsurprisingly, a moderan story)
the escaping (ss) david r. bunch
the doll-house (ss) james cross
sex and/or mr morrison (ss) carol emshwiller
shall the dust praise thee? (ss) damon knight
if all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? (nlla) theodore sturgeon
what happened to auguste clarot? (ss) larry eisenberg
ersatz (ss) henry slesar
go, go, go said the bird (ss) sonya dorman
the happy breed (ss) john t. sladek
encounter with a hick (ss) jonathan brand
from the government printing office (ss) kris neville
land of the great horses (ss) r. a. lafferty (an institute of impure science story)
the recognition (ss) j. g. ballard
judas (ss) john brunner
test to destruction (ntte) keith laumer
carcinoma angels (ss) norman spinrad
auto-da-fé (ss) roger zelazny
aye, and gomorrah (ss) samuel r. delany

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
Harlan Ellison - Dangerous Visions (1987)
victor gollancz gollancz b-format (check) p/b first printing, first uk one-volume edition, with new

cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon (who are credited on the back cover for all the book's illustrations)
cover price £6.95
576pp. (check) including xxix pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp.

precise publication date from victor gollancz ltd. review copy slip requesting (as was once traditional) that reviews not appear before the quoted publication date.

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4th Apr 2023
Book
Harlan Ellison - Dangerous Visions (1975)
new american library signet books imprint mmpb first printing, not first mmpb edition
(not even the first one-volume mmpb edition, which were the 12/1972 berkley medallion mmpb edition)

original anthology of two novellas, five novelettes, twenty-six short stories, two forwards by isaac asimov, and introduction by harlan ellison; the stories each has an introduction by harlan ellison and an afterword by the author, and an illustration by diane & leo dillon

cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon (unsigned, credited in general illustrations credit)
cover price $1.95
548pp. (check) including xviii pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising

ppint.
4th Apr 2023
Book
Harlan Ellison - Again, Dangerous Visions (1976)
author field should^W has been varied to editor.


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