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Mutant 59 : the plastic-eaters / Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Pedler, K.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pedler, Kit.
- Davis, Gerry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plastics--Biodegradation--Fiction.
- Plastics.
- Science fiction, English.
- Horror tales.
- Plastics--Biodegradation.
- Genre:
- Horror tales.
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book Club Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Viking Press, [1972]
- Summary:
- A life-sized robot gone berserk in a Christmas toy display, a computerized traffic system hopelessly snarled, an Apollo capsule lost in space, a jet plane crashing in the middle of a crowded supermarket, a nuclear sub missing with all hands on board, the Underground exploding in an inferno of gas and flame, all plastic substances swiftly dissolving into rot, its consuming foam laying waste the entire center of London--what has gone wrong?
- Notes:
- Jacket design by Hal Siegel.
- First printing has gutter code "C15" on page 250, indicates a printing in March 1972. Known reprint code: "28N" (July '72).
- 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 28N on page 247.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 23153
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pedler, Kit. Mutant 59.
- OCLC:
- 262185
- Publisher Number:
- 02253 Science Fiction Book Club
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