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Author:A. Bertram Chandler
Title:Alternate Orbits
Publisher:  Ace
Country:USA
Date:May 1971
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:13783
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ppint.
17th Sep 2024
 contents:

hall of fame (novelette) galaxy vol.28 #5, 7/1969 as "the kinsolving's planet irregulars"
the sister ships (ntte) galaxy vol.32 #2, 9-10/1971 sans the "the"
the man who sailed the sky (ntte) apparently original to this collection
the rub (ntte) galaxy vol.31 #1, 4/1970, universal-tandem bre 5/1970, both with a b+w illustration by jack gaughan
 
 
ppint.
12th Jan 2020
 charter communications, inc.° ace books mmpb first printing, first edition
half a classic "ace double" format mmpb with two front covers, contents tête-beché to each other

cover art by karel thole (re-used from urania #527, 11/1969, which "serialized" in one issue
the italian translation "nuove vie della frontiera" made by beata della frattina, q.v.)
b+w frontispiece by jack gaughan (signed with his digraph, uncredited)
cover price 75¢
256pp. including 2 x titles, indicia etc, advertising pp. in-between the "double"'s halves

° - check does not/does also state a grosset & dunlap company on title page nor in the indicia
 
 
ppint.
7th Jul 2018
 book #21 in the john grimes series, set in & around the rim worlds
(aka "the commodore at sea" (1979), q.v.):

a#1: "bring back yesterday" (1961), q.v. for the rim world series' listings, and links.
 
 
ppint.
28th Jun 2018
 reprints three john grimes novelettes from galaxy magazine 1970-71, edited by ejler jakobsson, adding one apparently original to this collection.
 
 
ppint.
6th Apr 2018
 doubled with "the dark dimensions" q.v.
 

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