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Author:Ben Bova
Title:THX 1138
Publisher:  Paperback Library
Country:USA
Date:Apr 1971
Format:Paperback
Class Number:823.91
Genre:Science Fiction, Cinema, Fiction
Cat#:64-624
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Community: 1 Owns, 1 Wants
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Novelization of the film THX-1138, based on the screenplay by George Lucas and Walter Murch. Early-generation ISBN number 446-64624-075. 160 pages, 75 cent cover price.

Although the film title is hyphenated, and is displayed as such on the back cover, the front cover, spine and title page do not display a hyphen; nor does the OCLC listing.

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23skidoo
30th Oct 2022
 @ppint. With respect no corrections will be made on any of your requests unless you file a correction request through the system. The mods do not monitor the comments for such things.
 

 
ppint.
29th Oct 2022
 genre: cinema is still wrong and should still be deleted.
 

 
ppint.
26th Sep 2020
 (i)sbn is^W was wrong and should^W has been deleted: does not bear an isbn nor an sbn on spine or cover. the number-string quoted in notes is neither an isbn nor an sbn.

not actually a novel about film - or the cinema - in any way, shape or form, so 'genre: cinema' is wrong.
 

 
ppint.
26th Sep 2020
 simultaneous near-identical first mmpb printings, first (incomplete) edition
sharing merkin-printed covers, and hence also:

cover art from film still
cover price 75¢
160pp. including titles, indica etc.

refer to printing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed
no priority established nor liable to be, both stating first printing: april, 1971

ben bova, established author of traditional, "hard" sf (and editor of the equally traditional, "hard" sf magazine, analog after the death of john campbell, jr.), was reportedly mystified by his receipt of a message from a friendly fellow sf author and editor with a decidedly more radical approach to sf, congratulating him for the publication of his latest, "new wave" sf novel; upon investigation, ben bova discovered that it had been published incomplete: the final three pp. of his ms. (typescript) novel had accidentally omitted...
 


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