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The synthetic man / Theodore Sturgeon.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sturgeon, Theodore, author.
Contributor:
Schoenherr, John, illustrator.
Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Pyramid books ; R-1126.
Pyramid books ; R-1126
Standardized Title:
Dreaming jewels
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
Human-alien encounters.
Runaway children--Fiction.
Runaway children.
Circus--Fiction.
Circus.
Genre:
Fiction.
Science fiction.
Novels.
Penn Provenance:
Adams, Mark B. (autograph) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
Physical Description:
174 pages ; 18 cm.
Edition:
Third printing.
Place of Publication:
New York : Pyramid Books, [1965]
Summary:
Eight-year-old Horty Bluett runs away from home and joins a traveling circus where he discovers that he must stop a plot by the circus owner to destroy mankind using a crystalline extraterrestrial life form he has discovered.
Notes:
Originally issued under the title; "The dreaming jewels."
"Third printing, January 1965," with cover art by John Schoenherr.
Local Notes:
Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
OCLC:
36894417
Publisher Number:
R-1126 Pyramid Books

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