are there any bookcatters as can fill in missing details from examining a copy in their collection ? (this comment is from another edition of this book)
cover art by eddie jones (uncredited, art is signed clearly in a very small hand just below the ringworld)
cover price 40p, australia 1.25c (sic), new zealand 1.25c (sic)
so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule
- or not so re-flagged, according to equally well-respected moderator's heartfelt plea
288pp. including titles, indica etc, 1 end p.
eddie jones' cover art retained through c. 1984-86 printings,
pagination and therefore typesetting retained through end of sphere & inheritor orbit books printings
second & third printings 3/1976, 6/1976:
reprinted 1976
isbn 0-7221-6393-2
cover price 70p,
reprinted 1976 (second 1976 printing)
isbn 0-7221-6395-9
cover price 75p,
fourth printing 3/1977 (month from locus #203, 8/77)
isbn 0-7221-6395-9
cover price 75p,
1978 (2) fifth & sixth, 1980 seventh printings
eighth printing 1981
isbn 0-7221-6406-8
cover price £1.50,
ninth printing 1982
isbn 0-7221-6406-8
cover price £1.50, malta £1.59, australia $4.95
fourteenth 1986 (second)
isbn 0-7221-6406-8
cover price £1.50,
fifteenth 4/1988 (month from locus)
isbn still 0-7221-6406-8
cover art by chris moore (uncredited, unsigned, it is reproduced in ''journeyman'' moore and stephen gallegher (11/2000), q.v.)
cover price £2.99, australia $9.95
sixteenth 1988 (second)
seventeenth 1990
eighteenth 1990 (1st)
isbn still sphere 07221-6406-8
but now an orbit book, and orbit logo on spine, still visibly a sphere book in part
cover art by chris moore
cover price £3.99,
nineteenth 1990 (second)
twentieth 8/1991 (month from locus)
isbn 0-7088-8374-5 (futura/orbit)
cover art
cover price £4.50,
288pp. including titles, indica etc, 1 end p.
twenty-first 1993,
twenty-second 1994
twenty-third 1995
isbn 1-85723-169-4 (orbit books) (retained 'til end of orbit printings)
cover art (new)
cover price £5.99,
twenty-fourth 1996
twenty-fifth 7/1997
cover art by barclay shaw (retained 'til end of orbit printings)
cover price £5.99,
twenty-sixth 1998
twenty-seventh 1999
twenty-eighth 2001
cover price £6.99
(uk p/b rights revert to gollancz, who held uk volume rights from 1972 & first uk h/cvr, who produced a new uk hardcover with the same sphere/orbit barclay shaw art on d-j late 2001, then b-format uk p/bs) (this comment is from another edition of this book)
one centrepiece of larry niven's known space taking beowulf shaeffer and louis wu from the story cycle stories (with general background stories) of "neutron star" onto greater things, requiring, inter alia, quite a slice of luck. . . (this comment is from another edition of this book)