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Author:Alfred Bester
Title:Extro
Publisher:  Mandarin
Country:UK
Date:Dec 1989
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0749301279
Total Editions:5
First Published:  1975
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Alfred Bester - Extro - Eyre Methuen - Hardcover - UK - 0413344606 (1975)

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ppint. ●
10th Mar 2021
 third printing of the methuen/abp p/b setting, first mandarin imprint printing

cover art unsigned, uncredited
cover price £3.50, australia $8.95, new zealand $12.95
224pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising

methuen/abp group received an out-of-the-blue unsolicited offer for the entire publishing group and the abp board decided that, if they were worth that much to one prospective buyer when they weren't trying to sell themselves off, they ought to see what the publishing group'd fetch in a public open auction...

- ipc/reed hamlyn publishing group plc ended up with the spoils, and after a little waffling about, renamed themselves the "octopus publishing group" and ''methuen", "mandarin", sold off bits, booted elsbeth lindner, the general fiction editor, out into what was intended to be a dead-end h/cvr imprint of her own that mustn't publish commercial fiction - but mustn't lose money - and stopped paying yr hmbl srppnt. for work done - and that was that, for me. and, pretty soon, for the sf list i'd spent most of the decade or so - less the holocaust^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H happy hamlyn paperbacks period - working on.

(elsbeth lindner embarrassed the octopus publishing group editorial board even more, by making her lime tree books imprint profitable in very short order, and was either sacked for this dreadful crime, or just made redundant. she's since moved to the states, where good commissioning editors are - mostly - properly appreciated.)
 

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