An alien heat / Michael Moorcock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moorcock, Michael, 1939-

Contributor:

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Moorcock, Michael, 1939- Dancers at the end of time ; vol. 1.

His The dancers at the end of time ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steampunk fiction, English.

Time travel--Fiction.

Time travel.

Science fiction, English.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (autograph, June 1973) (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

147 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, 1973.

Summary:

Volume one of a trilogy "The dancers at the end of time."

Contents:

A conversation with the iron orchid

A soiree at the Duke of Queens

A visitor who is less than entertaining

Carnelian conceives a new affectation

A menagerie of time and space

A pleasing meeting: the iron orchid devises a scheme

To steal a space-traveller

A promise from Mrs. Amelia Underwood: a mystery

Something of an idyll: something of a tragedy

The granting of her heart's desire

The quest for Bromley

The curious comings and goings of Snoozer Vine

The road to the gallows: old friends in new guises

A further conversation with the iron orchid.

Notes:

Book club edition--Dust jacket.

Jacket design by mark Rubin and Irving Freeman.

First printing has gutter code "D22" on page 145, indicates a printing in May 1973

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Has gutter code.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 2451

OCLC:

962438189

Publisher Number:

05763 Science Fiction Book Club