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
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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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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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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 | ||
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |