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Author:Ben Bova
Title:The Starcrossed
Publisher:  Methuen
Country:UK
Date:1985
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction, Humour
ISBN-10:0417058608
Total Editions:4
First Published:  1975
Rating:9.0  Rate
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Ben Bova - The Starcrossed - Pyramid Books - Paperback - USA - 051504105X (1976)

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23skidoo
26th Aug 2020
 @ppint. The experience with The Starlost TV series is why Ellison used the Cordwainer Bird credit instead of his own name. Bova took his experience on the series as scientific advisor to write Starcrossed, but sources such as q.v. and I believe at least one article by Ellison confirm that Bova's novel was inspired by the TV show.
 
 
ppint.
26th Aug 2020
 second uk p/b printing, first bearing the methuen imprint; re-uses the setting of the
1980 first uk p/b and first uk edition, which bore the magnum imprint of methuen paperbacks.

dedication: ''to cordwainer bird . . . may he fly high and strike terror in the hearts of the unjust.''

(''cordwainer bird'' is/was harlan ellison's screenwriters guild-registered pseudonym which he was thus able to insist be used upon film & t.v. productions as a warning to people that the studios concerned had wrecked his work so far that he did not want his own name associated with the released mess.
for further elucidation, ''somehow, i don't think we're in kansas, toto'' (nf) harlan ellison's afterword in ''phoenix without ashes'' edward bryant, harlan ellison(1975), q.v. may help provide you some context for the inspiration of this novel - but n.b. ''the starcrossed'' is entirely ben bova's work. - ppint.)

cover art by chris moore (credited, retained from magnum first uk p/b)
cover price £1.95 (bears no overseas territories prices)
224pp. including titles, indica, dedication etc; 1 blank end p.


(by the time of the 1990 uk p/b printing, methuen/abp had been sold to the octopus (previously the hamlyn) publishing group, and the main paperback-publishing imprint renamed ''mandarin''.
the p/b bore a new isbn, 0-7493-0390-5 and cover price £3.50, and will prob'ly eventually be a new bookcat item, but is really the same setting, titles & end pp. emended to encompass these changes.)
 

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