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Five fates / Keith Laumer [and others].
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi 5 fates
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Doubleday science fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 252 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1971.
- Summary:
- One of the most bizarre and original fictional concepts ever attempted, this book is a remarkable tour de force for a quintet of today's top writers of speculative fiction. From a common storyhook--Bailey's death at the Euthanasia Center--each author was commissioned to extrapolate his own individual vision of Bailey's fate. No two even remotely resemble one another, and with consummate individuality each of the stories validates beyond doubt the incredible fertility of both the science fiction genre and its singular practitioners.
- Contents:
- The fatal fulfillment / Poul Anderson
- Murder will in / Frank Herbert
- Maverick / Gordon R. Dickson
- The region between / Harlan Ellison
- Of death what dreams / Keith Laumer.
- Notes:
- Short stories.
- Edition statement from dust jacket.
- Cover art: Anita Siegel.
- First printing has gutter code "46L" on page 251, indicates a printing in November 1970.
- 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, 255809
- OCLC:
- 1732977
- Publisher Number:
- 02741 Science Fiction Book Club
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