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Author:	Robert A. Heinlein
Title:	Orphans Of The Sky
Publisher:	Signet
Country:	USA
Date:	1967
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	P3344
Total Editions:	4
First Published:	1963
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Notes

Magazine publication as a two-part serial ("Universe", "Common Sense") in Astounding Science Fiction, © 1941 by Street and Smith Publications
© 1963 by Robert A. Heinlein
Signet Books edition, authorized reprint of G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover edition
- 1st printing, Apr 1965
- 5th printing [1967]
Two parts: "Universe", "Common Sense", 128 pp.
cover photo: Sidney Kramer
cover price 60c

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Robert A. Heinlein - Orphans Of The Sky - Mayflower - Paperback - UK (1965)

Comments and Reviews


ppint. 6th Oct 2022		the date of this printing is wrong and should be corrected - presumably to 1967 as given in notes the cover art by sidney kramer was *not* used on the simultaneous first two signet mmpb printings of 4/1965, which were both indicated as the first printing, and which shared merkin-printed covers: cover art unsigned, uncredited; largely typographical with silhouette of rocket rising next to pink sun cat# D2618 cover price 50¢. 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. one of these two declared first printings - conventionally the canadian printing - was subsequently deemed by signet books in new york to've been the second printing, so the next merkin mmpb printing is accounted the third printing; however the ~simultaneous next canadadian printing is accounted the second printing in its indicia; this clash was a common occurrence in the accounting of signet mmpb printings for a while: the undated third (merkin) and identical second (canadian) (12/1967) ~simultaneous signet mmpb printings are the first to bear the depicted cover art by sidney kramer (unsigned, credited for photograph on back cover) cat# P3344 cover price 60¢ 128pp. the anomalous declared second canadian printing seems to've been retrospectively deemed the fourth signet books mmpb printing by signet/new american library in new york, because the next known mmpb printing is the: undated (merkin) declared ''fifth printing'', it and the undated (merkin) declared ''sixth printing'' also share the cover art by sidney kramer (unsigned, credited for photograph on back cover) cat# P3344 cover price 60¢ 128pp. 4/1970 third (canadian) printing and undated but ~simultaneous (merkin) declared ''seventh printing'' both share cover art by gene szafran (signed szafran, uncredited) cat# P3344 cover price 60¢ 128pp. doubtless the third (canadadian) printing would automagically retrospectively've been deemed the eighth signet mmpb printing over-all by signet/new american library in new york, and the next merkin mmpb printing been declared the ninth printing, except: the next known mmpbs are the two simultaneous 11/1970 first berkley medallion mmpb printings. berkley medallion and later berkley mmpbs run through 1985, then ace (by then an imprint of the berkley publishing group) 1987-1992; then baen books mmpb & tp/b omnibus printings from 2001