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Author:	Joanna Russ
Title:	And Chaos Died
Publisher:	Ace
Country:	USA
Date:	1970
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	02268
Total Editions:	3
Rating:	7.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 28th Jun 2023		Rated 7/10 this is a very well written, but always difficult to keep tracking, wildly uncommercial book; and it's probably the least popular of joanna russ' books: though it's a single story, it isn't a novel. it isn't a novel, because it doesn't - and couldn't, by its very nature - follow the rules-of-thumb that simplified longer works of fiction, making them more easily read and so more widely-saleable to people lacking the time or inclination to - for particular example - puzzle out and follow a story repeatedly jumping from one character's viewpoint to another's; ''and chaos died'' is confusing - and that's even though there is only one central character. she's a young woman finding it increasingly impossible to cope with the emotional and spiritual crowding of inner-city life, as she becomes ever more assailed by the needs, desires, hopes, lusts and hatreds of the strangers streaming by her in the constant crush - - she's becoming ever-increasingly sensitive mentally - to the point of feeling she may be going mad - - she's becoming a receiving telepath - - and she can't cut the constant bombardment of subconscious and conscious thoughts and emotions - - or even be certain which are her own. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 2nd Apr 2023		(possibly charter communications, inc.°, check) ace books mmpb first printing, first edition an ace science fiction special (original series) cover art by diane dillon, leo dillon (unsigned, credited on back cover) cover price 75¢ 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end p. ° - they bought ace books, inc. in 1970, not necessarily with the intent of ripping off ace books' authors...



ppint. 2nd Apr 2023		the cat# of this third printing should've been increased by one from the previous number, to 02270 - but in the ace books five-digit cat# system, a cat# ending in 0 or 5 would (normally) have indicated a first printing of (whatever; but a different title, almost certainly by a different author). the second printing had been increased by one from the previous cat#, but not from the five-digit system cat# ending in ''0'' or ''5'' the first printing bore°, because it didn't: it was 02268 - to 02269 - so why the cat# of this third printing was actually decreased from the first's 02268 to 02267 is anyone's guess. ° - or had been deemed to've born, if stocks of a non-five-digit system printing were still on hand when the ace books five-digit cat# system was introduced - the ace books five-digit cat# system was not well understood by the new owners/manglement. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 2nd Apr 2023		grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb undated° third over-all ace mmpb printing cover art unsigned, uncredited, retained from previous printing cover price $1.50 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - date of publication 1977 or 1978 from interpolation into known dates of ace mmpbs of this cover price and this extent, and before the next mmpb edition in berkley books (5/1979) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 2nd Apr 2023		charter communications, inc. ace books imprint undated° mmpb first printing, second ace books printing over-all, with new cover art unsigned, uncredited; still sfaik as-yet unattributed cover price $1.25 192pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising° ° - date taken from the known publication dates of the latest books advertised in the end pp. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Joanna Russ - And Chaos Died - Ace - Paperback - USA (1978)