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The earth book of Stormgate / by Poul Anderson.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Anderson, P. 9
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Outer space--Exploration--Fiction.
- Outer space.
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 366 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berkley Pub. Corp. : Distributed by G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1978]
- Summary:
- "These twelve adventures chronicle the expansion of earthmen out into the inhabited galaxy, meetings with alien races, the growth and decay of the first interstellar government (a trading association governed by trader-adventurers), followed by the foundation pf the first intersteallar empire."--Dust jacket flap.
- Contents:
- The earth book of stormgate
- Wings of victory
- The problem of pain
- How to be ethnic in one easy lesson
- Margin of profit
- Esau
- The season of forgiveness
- The man who counts
- A little knowledge
- Day of burning
- Lodestar
- Wingless
- Rescue on Avalon.
- Notes:
- Jacket illustration, Tony Roberts.
- Short stories and one complete novel (The man who counts).
- Gutter code "I39" on page 365 indicates a printing in September 1978.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy wanting dustjacket. Has gutter code.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 38986
- OCLC:
- 4285950
- Publisher Number:
- 05439 Science Fiction Book Club
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