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Author:	Paul Preuss
Title:	Breaking Strain
Publisher:	Avon
Country:	USA
Date:	Nov 1987
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0380753448
Cat#:	75344-8
Total Editions:	2
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Series: Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime: Volume 1.
265 numbered pages.
288 total pages.
Afterword by Arthur C. Clarke.
Includes 16 pages of Infopak Technical Blueprints, separately numbered.
Front cover painting by Jim Burns.

complete bar code no. 0 71001 00395 6 75344

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ppint. 3rd Nov 2024		the hearst corporation avon books mmpb first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first edition cover art by jim burns (signed, credited) cover price (canada $4.95) • u.s. $3.95 interior b+w diagrams, plans section by darrell anderson (credited on back cover), also inside front cover 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp: 3pp. nf afterword by arthur c. clarke, 16pp. separately-numbered diagrams section on finer quality paper a byron preiss book - packaged for avon books by this book packager refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian-or merkin-printed, and also to distinguish between at least five printings by progressive dropping of digits from printing number line; first printing line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1



ppint. 4th Nov 2024		("arthur c. clarke's") venus prime series #1: #1: "breaking strain" (1987), (this novel) #2: "maelstrom" (1988), q.v. #3: "hide and seek" (1989), q.v. aka "hide & seek" (1991 uk), q.v. #4: "the medusa encounter" (1990), q.v. #5: "the diamond moon" (1990), q.v. #6: "the shining ones" (1991), q.v. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 3rd Nov 2024		pan macmillan pan p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by david bergen (unsigned, credited on back cover; miscredited to jim burns in indicia) cover price £3.99, $10.99 australia, $14.99 new zealand (not for sale in canada) interior b+w diagrams, plans section by darrell anderson (credited on back cover), also inside front cover 288pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp: 3pp. nf afterword by arthur c. clarke, diagrams section between pp.90 & 91 first printing number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; i have not seen a second printing, which would be indicated by dropping the "1" from the printing number line (and so, on. . .) month of publication not given; taken from locus originally packaged for avon books by byron preiss, inc. book packager (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Paul Preuss - Breaking Strain - Pan - Paperback - UK - 0330306340 (1990)