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Author:	Poul Anderson
Title:	The Star Fox
Publisher:	Doubleday
Country:	USA
Date:	1965
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Total Editions:	10
Rating:	10.0 Rate
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ppint. 12th May 2021		doubleday h/cvr first printing, first edition cover (d-j) art by johannes regn (credited on rear flap of d-j) cover (d-j) price $4.50 280pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. bound with endpapers between covered boards stated first edition in indicia publishing history distinguish from 7/1965 near-identical doubleday sfbc edition which differs: cover (d-j) price (none reported, should instead state book club edition) indicia publishing history should not state first edition, but i've not checked this, nor seen report of it) doubleday printers gutter code 19G on p.273 indicates printed 5/1975 (for 7/1965 publication) on first sfbc edition printing



ppint. 4th Mar 2022		there was also a j. m. dent-owned(?) readers union science fiction book club h/cvr of this in 1967, cat# 121; but yr hmbl srppnt. has no memory of ever having seen the dust-jacket of this, and may never have seen this sfbc h/cvr edition at all. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 12th May 2021		(slight fix-up?) novel originally published in f&sf as three separate novellas as "marque and reprisal" vol.28 #2, 2/1965; the cover story, art by jack gaughan "arsenal port" vol.28 #4, 4/1965; the cover story, wrap-around art by bert tanner "admiralty" vol.29 #1, 6/1965; the cover story, art by james roth (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 18th Sep 2020		gunnar heim reappears in the also excellent novel, ''fire time'' (1974), q.v.; but this is not an immediate sequel to the events of ''the star fox''. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 19th Aug 2019		cover art by karl stephan (signed "stephan", credited) cover price dm 2.40, s 16.50 österreich, fr 2.90 schweiz, lire 450 italien so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule; or not so re-flagged, according to respected moderator's heartfelt plea. 160pp. including titles, indicia etc. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Mar 2019		signet mmpb near-identical simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition cover art uncredited, unsigned, sfaik as-yet still unattributed cover price 60¢ 208pp? including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising refer to indicia to see if carcass of copy held was canadadian- or merkin- printed. no priority established, nor liable to be, both bear statement first printing, july, 1966 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 16th Mar 2019		signet simultaneous near-identical canadadian second and merkin third mmpb printings sharing merkin-printed covers and hence cat#, cover art by gene szafran (uncredited, art is signed "szafran") cover price 75¢ 208pp? including titles, indicia etc, end p. advertising refer to indicia publishing history to see which is held. no priority established, nor now liable to be. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



JPGR&B SUBS 16th Mar 2019		Corrected (Mod). (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Mar 2019		cat# is^W was wrong, should^W has been corrected to T4763 (see cover) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Mar 2019		berkley publishing group berkley books mmpb thrid printing: cover art by david egge retained from 5/1980 previous berkley mmpb printing cover price $2.25 252pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Mar 2019		berkley publishing group berkley books imprint undated° second mmpb printing cover art by david egge (rather unlikely-looking, and very green) cover price $1.75 252pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising ° - publication date taken from locus #234, 6/1980 (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 15th Mar 2019		granada publishing group panther books imprint second printing 1975 cover art by anthony (tony) roberts (credited on rear cover) cover price 40p, australia $1.20, new zealand $1.20, canada $1.50 so should be re-flagged "international" according to respected moderator's rule - or not so re-flagged, according to equally respected moderator's heartfelt plea 204pp. including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising may give full isbn, 0586026312 in indica (i didn't note this) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 9th Jul 2018		berkley publishing group first berkley mmpb edition/printing cover art by tony roberts previously graced a futura publications ltd. orbit books uk p/b: "space relations: a slightly grothic interplanetary tale" donald barr, q.v. cover price $1.75 252pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising second (undated) printing on same isbn bears new cover art by david egge (uncredited, reported signed "egge 1979", and very green...) cover price $1.75 252pp? including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (will^W presumably^W eventually^W be^W now a separate bookcat item) david egge's very green art retained for 4/1981 berkley mmpb thrid printing, isbn 0-425-05177-3 cover price $2.25 same pagination (this comment is from another edition of this book)



nanocyar 10th Nov 2017		Third Printing (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Jan 2016		Rated 10/10 one of poul anderson's best thought-out, plotted and realised adventure-thriller sf series of novellas/fix-up novels of the fifties-through-sixties, which means one of the best such by any sf writer of the period. humanity and the young, expanding and militarist alerion empire have rubbed up against each other, and alerion has conquered the fairly recently human-colonised planet, christened "new europe" - saying that there were, alas, no human survivors. this being so, the world federation on earth sees no point in turning a highly regrettable incident into a war - but retired captain gunnar heim is amongst a passionate minority who believe alerion's expansionism must be faced, and halted - and he meets a man who says he knows the settlers are not dead, but retreated into the haute garance - which heim already knows as good guerilla country from earlier visits to the settler-world, and where friends, perhaps including an old flame of his, are still holding out - for a while. - unable to gain any official support for military action by the world federation, nor from any of its member states, the gunnar heim of heimdall space motors outfits a ship at his own expense - and sets out "armed" with letters of marque and reprisal - for no-one has thought to close a loophole of national powers unexploited since the nineteenth century, and never since used - nor ever contemplated by anyone as being seriously even in possibility being applicable in space... - after initial successes, gunnar heim discovers unexpectedly that time is not on the colonists' side, as he had thought it would be - and therefore, nor can it be on his side; and he must bring matters to a critical decision point where the advantage is not his: how he responds, and how his moves are answered by the alerion commander he faces, eventually presents him with a decision difficult on more than one level, on top of the gamble he and his comrades've been prepared to make, of their own lives. - good, absorbing adventure sf with food for thought, in which the aleriona are not evil; nor are they depicted as being so. (this review is from another edition of this book) 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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