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Title: The Man Who Wasn't Home

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Title: The Man Who Wasn't Home Title Record # 729481
Author: Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
Date: 1960-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Terran Federation
Series Number: 1
Language: English
Synopsis: A man who had been seized as a child from his family and planet, along with many children of various planets in a program to supply children for adoption by wealthy and powerful couples, finds himself opposed by the interstellar government when he goes in search of his origins and native world.
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Current Tags: interstellar travel (1), adoption (1), child abduction (1), interstellar empire (1), faster than light travel (1), government corruption (1), coverups (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1972 Orphan of the Void
Year Language Title
1973Translated by Tony Westermayr
German Weltraumwaise [as by Lloyd Biggle]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, September 1960 1960-09-00 ed. Cele Goldsmith Ziff-Davis Publishing Company  
$0.35?$: US dollar
132
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag John Duillo Checkmark
The Metallic Muse 1972-07-00 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Doubleday 0-385-03830-5
$5.95?$: US dollar
228
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ed Nuckolls Checkmark
The Metallic Muse 1972-08-00 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Doubleday / SFBC 5298
$1.49?$: US dollar
218
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Ed Nuckolls Checkmark
Die Muse aus Metall 1973-09-00 Lloyd Biggle Goldmann (Goldmann Science Fiction #0174) 3-442-23174-4
DM 4.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
183
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Morris Scott Dollens Checkmark
The Metallic Muse 1974-06-00 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. DAW Books (DAW Collectors #106) 0-87997-115-0 / UY1115
$1.25?$: US dollar
220
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll George Barr Checkmark
The Metallic Muse 1974-06-00 Lloyd Biggle, Jr. DAW Books / New American Library of Canada UY1115
C$1.25?C$: Canadian dollar
220
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll George Barr Checkmark
Intergalactic Empires 1983-12-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Signet / New American Library 0-451-12624-6
$2.95?$: US dollar
303
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Paul Alexander Checkmark
Intergalactic Empires 1988-07-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Robinson 0-948164-97-2
£2.95?£: UK pound
303
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Jim Burns Checkmark
Intergalactic Empires date unknown ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Signet / New American Library 0-451-12624-6
$2.95?$: US dollar
304
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Paul Alexander Checkmark
Intergalactic Empires date unknown ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Signet / New American Library 0-451-12624-6
$2.95?$: US dollar
304
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Paul Alexander Checkmark
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