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Editor:Jack Dann
Co-editors:Gardner Dozois
Title:Aliens!
Publisher:  Pocket Books
Country:USA
Date:Apr 1980
Format:Paperback
Genre:Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:0671831550
Cat#:83155
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ppint.
31st Mar 2021
 reprint anthology of eight short stories, five novelettes and a novella dealing with the central title theme

contents:
foreword (nf introduction) jack dann and gardner dozois
assimilating our culture, that's what they're doing (short story) larry niven - destinies vol.1 #1, 10/1978
grammar lesson (ss) larry niven - ''3 vignettes'':
the subject is closed (ss) larry niven - ''3 vignettes'':
cruel and unusual (ss) larry niven - ''3 vignettes'' - cosmos vol.1 #1, 5/1977
we purchased people (ss) frederik pohl - ''final stage'' eds. edward l. ferman & barry n. malzberg (1974/5)
guesting time (ss) r. a. lafferty - if vol.15 #5, 5/1965
and i awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side (ss) james tiptree, jr. - f&sf vol.42 #3, 3/1972
angel's egg (novelette) edgar pangborn - galaxy vol.2 #3, 6/1961
oh, to be a blobel! (ntte) philip k. dick - galaxy vol.22 #3, 2/1964
be merry (ntte) algis budrys - if vol.16 #12, 12/1966
pattern (ss) fredric brown - ''angels & spaceships'' fredric brown (1954) (aka ''star shine'')
an honorable death (ntte) gordon r. dickson - galaxy vol.19 #3, 2/1961 (bre #84)
the reality trip (ntte) robert silverberg - if vol.20 #5, 5-6/1970 (bre 6-7/1970)
rule golden (novella) damon knight - science fiction adventures vol.2 #4, 5/1954
alien--human relations: a guide to further reading (nf bibliography) uncredited
 
 
ppint.
28th Mar 2021
 this themed reprint anthology led to a series of such "exclamation mark anthologies''
edited by the same editors, but published by ace books (listed in order of publication):

1: "aliens!" (1980), (this book, published by pocket books)
2: "unicorns!" (1982), q.v.
3: "magicats!" (1984), q.v.
4: "bestiary!" (1985), q.v.
5: "mermaids!" (1986), q.v.
6: "sorcerers!" (1986), q.v.
7: "demons!" (1987), q.v.
8: "dogtales!" (1988), q.v.
9: "seaserpents!" (1989), q.v.
10: "dinosaurs!" (1990), q.v.
11: "little people" (1991), q.v.
12: "magicats II" (1991), q.v.
13: "unicorns II" (1992), q.v.
14: "dragons!" (1993), q.v.
15: "invaders!" (1993), q.v.
16: "horses!" (1994), q.v.
17: "angels!" (1995), q.v.
18: "dinosaurs II" (1995), q.v.
19: "timegates" (1997), q.v.
20: "clones" (1998), q.v.
21: "immortals" (1998), q.v.
22: "nanotech" (1998), q.v.
 
 
ppint.
28th Mar 2021
 simultaneous first pocket books mmpb printings sharing (?merkin-printed?) covers, first edition

cover art by michael whelan (i think that's his m/w "sigil" on the black area of background)
b+w interior illustrations by jack gaughan (credited on back cover, illustrations also signed jg)
cover price $2.50 on canadian-carcassed copies intended for distribution north of the parallel
(these copies also bear a black maple leaf on front cover, stating "printed in canada")
cover price $2.25 on wholly merkin-printed copies for general distribution
320pp. including titles, indica, table-of-contents etc, end pp. advertising
refer also to indica publishing history to confirm whether carcass (book) is printed in canada
no priority established nor liable to be, both indicate first printing by number line, 10--1
 

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