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Editor:	Larry T. Shaw
Title:	Great Science Fiction Adventures
Publisher:	Lancer
Country:	USA
Date:	1968
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	74-944
Total Editions:	4
First Published:	1963
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 1 Wants
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Larry T. Shaw - Great Science Fiction Adventures - Lancer - Paperback - USA (1963)

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ppint. ● 11th Oct 2023		lancer books mmpb simultaneous second printings sharing merkin-printed covers cover art by (frank) kelly freas (unsigned, uncredited, retained from 1963 first printing) cover price 75¢ 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of the copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established nor liable to be, both state only a lancer book • 1968



ppint. ● 5th Oct 2023		contents: from three issues of science fiction adventures, whose editor was - larry shaw: the starcombers (novella) edmond hamilton, sfa vol.1 #6, 12/1956, b+w illustration by bowman; science fiction adventures (uk)° #5, 11/1958, with b+w illustration by ed emshwiller hunt the space-witch! (nlla) robert silverberg, as by ivar jorgenson, sfa vol.2 #3, 1/1958, a b+w illustration by bowman the man from the big dark (nlla) john brunner, sfa vol.2 #6, 6/1958 (an interstellar empire story), b+w illustration by ed emshwiller the world otalmi made (novelette) harry harrison, sfa vol.2 #6, 6/1958, a b+w illustration by martinez ° - the uk edition of science fiction adventures started off as a bre (british reprint edition) re-edited by john carnell, as a companion magazine to new worlds & science fantasy, the two other magazines he edited for nova publications; but when the merkin original closed down, instead of closing the bre, john carnell re-launched it as a british original sf magazine, specialising in publishing short sf novels (including novellas) complete in each issue, with short stories to fill the magazines' pages as required.



ppint. ● 5th Oct 2023		lancer books simultaneous second mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers reprint anthology of three novellas and a novelette cover art (unsigned, uncredited; reduced major detail of cover art by (frank) kelly freas for ''the end of eternity'' 72-107 (lancer ), q.v.) cover price 75¢ 288pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed no priority established, nor liable to be, both state only a lancer book • 1968 the card covers' printers seem to've been given inadequate or incorrect instructions - or else to've badly misunderstood lancer books production/art department's directions - and grossly overdone the size of the ''easy eye'' logo, to put it mildly... which didn't leave much room for the major detail of the re-used freas cover art, which had to be considerably over-reduced in consequence. . .



JimEss SUBS 4th Oct 2023		Covers added.

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