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Author: Michael G. Coney Title: Syzygy Publisher:   Arrow Country: UK Date: Oct 1975 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction ISBN-10: 0099110202 Total Editions: 3 First Published:   1973 Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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3 fitzroy square, london w1 (uk)

an imprint of the hutchinson publishing group

first published by the elmfield press in association with shire publications ltd 1973
arrow edition 1975

© michael g. coney 1973

176pp. including 4 unnumbered, unpaginated pp. titles, indica; 5 end pp: 1 intro to: 4pp. advertising, 1p. each "the ruins of earth" ed. thomas m. disch, "antigrav" ed. philip strick, tge four "cities in flight" titles by james blish, "solaris" stanislaw lem.
cover art by david bergen (uncredited, signed "bergen" in bottom towards fly corner back cover)
cover price 45p, australia $1.40°, new zealand $1.20, malta 50c, canada $1.75 °recommended but not obligatory

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Michael G. Coney - Syzygy - The Elmfield Press - Hardcover - UK - 0705700232 (1973)

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ppint. ● 16th Jan 2019		(some authorities - and even some dictionaries - get this wrong, so:) syzygy is a quality that inheres, or may from time-to-time inhere, in a system of three or more than three objects that is, at least in theory, capable of forming or being formed up into different configurations or alignments: but it is not a configuration, nor an alignment. a system exhibits syzygy (or, "is syzygous") when its components are aligned in a straight line, or sometimes when its components are aligned upon straight lines parallel with one another, when no single unique line of alignment is possible (and perhaps, even should one be possible). the derivation from the ancient greek, "sun zugon" (where upsilon -> "y"), "with or by yoke", refers to the ways draught or ploughing animals may be yoked together: this would normally be with the animals all pointing in the same direction, of course, but does allow for some of them to be pointed in opposing directions: they remain oriented upon the same line, or set of parallel lines. in the simplest example, the ploughman or woman and two draught animals are the three elements who must all be pointed upon one line (or more parallel lines), for it to be syzygous. (having the two draught animals facing in the same direction is of course normal, even sensible, but is not technically required by the use of a yoke. . .) astronomically, lunar or solar systems exhibit their greatest degree of syzygy when all of their components (planet and moons, or sun and planets - or even sun, planets and moons) lie upon a straight line; this maximises e.g. their combined tidal effects upon one another - whether they all lie upon the same side of the system's primary, or are distributed to either side of it. (- more than you ever wished to know about syzygy. . . ;-)) )

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