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Author:	Alfred Bester
Title:	Extro
Publisher:	Eyre Methuen
Country:	UK
Date:	1975
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0413344606
Total Editions:	5
Rating:	8.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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ppint. 21st Dec 2017		cover (d-j) art by peter tybus (credited on front flap) cover (d-j) price £2.95 224pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp.



ppint. 21st Dec 2017		aka "the computer connection", q.v. serialised as "the indian giver" in analog vol. xciv #3, #4, #5; 11, 12/1974, 1/1975, q.v.



ppint. 21st Dec 2017		eyre methuen = methuen and eyre & spottiswood = abp = associated british publishers: there is not a merkin in sight! should be re-flagged uk.



ppint. 14th Mar 2021		thanks, david. - quite a few british artists, like chris moore, found their ways into work on uk p/b publishers' sf lists starting off with an art director's brief ''do me a chris foss cover'' for their first commissions, just as others were told, ''do me a bruce pennington cover''; good art directors picked up on those that actually produced better cover art that wasn't simply pastiche - and were prepared to consider their more than merely competent artists' completely original work. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



David Whiteley 10th Mar 2021		Added covers (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Mar 2021		licensed from abp/eyre-methuen, who published the first uk edition the previous year, in 9/1975 not for sale to the general public nor via the book trade, only to members of the science fiction book club, initially, and then to members of other readers union ltd. book clubs. cover (d-j) art (should be b+w by tim newling (or possibly by terry james); seen reported to be by peter tybus - i'm not sure by whom - and it must surely be a mistake; peter tybus did the eyre methuen h/cvr full-colour d-j art) cover price (none) 224pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. renumbered cat# 5114 under david & charles's ownership of the readers union group: this mayn't've been explicit anywhere upon the book or its dust-jacket. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Mar 2021		third printing of the methuen/abp p/b setting, first mandarin imprint printing cover art unsigned, uncredited cover price £3.50, australia $8.95, new zealand $12.95 224pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising methuen/abp group received an out-of-the-blue unsolicited offer for the entire publishing group and the abp board decided that, if they were worth that much to one prospective buyer when they weren't trying to sell themselves off, they ought to see what the publishing group'd fetch in a public open auction... - ipc/reed hamlyn publishing group plc ended up with the spoils, and after a little waffling about, renamed themselves the "octopus publishing group" and ''methuen", "mandarin", sold off bits, booted elsbeth lindner, the general fiction editor, out into what was intended to be a dead-end h/cvr imprint of her own that mustn't publish commercial fiction - but mustn't lose money - and stopped paying yr hmbl srppnt. for work done - and that was that, for me. and, pretty soon, for the sf list i'd spent most of the decade or so - less the holocaust^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H *happy* hamlyn paperbacks period - working on. (elsbeth lindner embarrassed the octopus publishing group editorial board even more, by making her lime tree books imprint profitable in very short order, and was either sacked for this dreadful crime, or just made redundant. she's since moved to the states, where good commissioning editors are - mostly - properly appreciated.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Mar 2021		first methuen/abp group p/b printing, first uk p/b edition cover art by chris moore (unsigned, uncredited; in ''journeyman: the art of chris moore '' (2000), q.v.) cover price 60p, australia $1.90, new zealand $2.10 224pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 10th Mar 2021		second methuen/abp group uk p/b printing, first magnum books imprint printing cover art by chris moore (credited on back cover) cover price 85p, australia $2.95, new zealand $2.75, canada $2.50 224pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Alfred Bester - Extro - Magnum - Paperback - UK - 041334620X (1979)

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Alfred Bester - Extro - Methuen - Paperback - UK - 041334570X (1976)

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Alfred Bester - Extro - Mandarin - Paperback - UK - 0749301279 (1989)

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Alfred Bester - Extro - The Science Fiction Book Club / Readers Union - Hardcover - UK (1976)