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Editor:	George H. Scithers
Co-editors:	Darrell Schweitzer
Title:	Tales From The Spaceport Bar
Publisher:	New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton
Country:	UK
Date:	1988
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN-10:	0450489094
Barcode:	9780450489099
First Published:	1987
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reprint anthology edited by george h. scithers & darrell schweitzer
cover flash advising "uk original publication" is perhaps misleading:
originally published 1/1987 by avon books (the hearst corp.) usa.

new english library edition published by hodder & stoughton paperbacks,
a division of hodder and stoughton ltd.,
mill road, dutton green, sevenoaks, kent tn13 2ya
editorial office: 47 bedford square, london wc1b 3dp

"dedicated to john b. gaughan a good man"

256pp, 6 unnumbered + vii-xv + 3 unnumbered titles, indica, acknowledgements, table of contents, etc; 1-235; 3 end pp. advertisements: 1p. each for george alec effinger's "the nick of time" & "the bird of time", qq.v. 1p. listing of these and four other fantasy & sf titles by other authors, with cat#s, prices, plus mail-order information (barnicoats uncredited).
cover art unattributed
cover price £2.99

contents
4pp preface by the editors
"the green marauder" larry niven
"don't look now" henry kuttner's
"getting even" isaac asimov
"what goes up" arthur c. clarke
"social lapses" (poem) darrell schweitzer
"one for the road" gardner dozois
"elephas frumenti" l. sprague de camp & fletcher pratt
"unicorn variation" (novelette) roger zelazny
"strategy at the billiards club" lord dunsany
"through time and space with ferdinand feghoot!" ("...a saloon called the bilge pump") (short short) grendel briarton (pseud. reginald bretnor)
"on the rocks at slabs" john gregory bretancourt
"hands of the man" r. a. lafferty
"endurance vile" steven barnes
"the centipede's dilemma" spider robinson
"the causes" margaret st. clair
"for a foggy night" larry niven
"they loved me in utica" avram davidson
"a pestilence of psychoanalysts" janet o. jeppson
"the regulars" robert silverberg
"the man who always knew" algis budrys
"infinite resources"" randall garrett
"what's wrong with this piece?" barry b. longyear, john m. ford, & george h. scithers

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ppint. 14th Sep 2018		reference copy provided by courtesy of tony at the old pier bookshop, morecambe seafront.



ppint. 12th Sep 2018		john gaughan, the dedicatee, is better known as "jack gaughan", a prolific artist of especial interest to readers and collectors of science fiction & fantasy magazines and paperbacks (and active in most other publishing categories): john brian francis "jack" gaughan 24/9/1930 - 21/7/1985.

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