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| ppint. 20th Sep 2023 | contents: introduction (nf) and on fairy chess (nf) by the editor chessboard planet (novella) astounding vol. xxxvi #5, #6; 1/1946, 2/1946, as ''the fairy chessmen'', as by lewis padgett - part one is the cover story, art by timmins; - part one has five, part two has seven b+w illustrations by paul orban camouflage (novelette) astounding vol. xxxvi #1, 9/1945; four b+w illustrations by paul orban android (ntte) f&sf vol.2 #3, 6/1951, as by c. h. liddell or else (short story) amazing vol. 27 #6, 8-9/1953 | |
| ppint. 9th Aug 2018 | both entries in the sub-title field are^W were incorrect and should^W have been deleted. they are not sub-titles of, nor alternative titles for, this collection. | |
| ppint. 9th Aug 2018 | titles is "chessboard planet and other stories" - even though the last three words are writ small. hutchinson group arrow books hamlyn paperbacks imprint° first printing, first edition reprint collection of the title short novel†, two novelettes and a short story. cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price £1.75, $5.50 australia 192pp. including titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising ° - a hamlyn paperback published by arrow books ltd. after ipc/reed made their permission to poach hamlyn paperbacks' founding editorial director, peter lavery, conditional upon arrow's purchasing the hamlyn paperbacks division: hence the arrow isbn publisher prefix, "009-" to arrow cat#/rest of isbn.. - and why the trademark red hamlyn paperbacks "H" logo/colophon on the cover has turned blue. . . † - yr hmbl srppnt. chose "chessboard planet" as the title to use out of the three under which this short novel has been published, the other two being "the far reality", under which it was first published in book form°°, and its original title, "the fairy chessmen", as being more evocative of its sfnal nature, and as not only the popularity, but even knowledge of the existence of "fairy chess" - variant forms of chess with different rules, some involving different pieces and even a very restricted knowledge of the position of the other player's pieces - had faded since the forties and fifties, whilst "fairy" had become more widely used as a synonym for (male) homosexual, for a while. it included a note upon the existence and nature of fairy chess, and reference to a dover trade p/b available worldwide upon the subject. °° - "tomorrow and tomorrow and the far reality" lewis padgett (pseudonym of henry kuttner or - often - of henry kuttner & c. l. moore) (1951), q.v. | |
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