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Black star rising / Frederik Pohl.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Pohl, F.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pohl, Frederik.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Interstellar travel.
- Interstellar travel--Fiction.
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Space warfare--Fiction.
- Space warfare.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book Club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, [1985]
- Summary:
- After a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, China rules the Americas. Then an alien spaceship appears, demanding to meet the president of the now-defunct United States.
- Notes:
- "A Del Rey book."
- Edition statement from dust jacket.
- Cover art: Michael Whelan.
- Gutter code "P046" [verified] on page 213 indicates a November '85 printing date.
- 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, 4684
- OCLC:
- 12855978
- Publisher Number:
- 01730 Science Fiction Book Club
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