Publication: Alternating Currents

Publication: Alternating CurrentsPublication Record # 200945
Author: Frederik Pohl
Date: 1966-03-00
Catalog ID: 2452
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price:
3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 190
Format:
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.
Type: COLLECTION
Cover: Alternating Currents by Erich Hartmann
Notes: "This collection copyright © Frederik Pohl, 1956, 1964" "First published in the U.S.A. 1956" "Published in Penguin Books 1966", month from the Penguin website Printing not stated, no number line; first known Penguin edition The Children of Night replaces Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus from the 1956 Ballantine edition. "Cover photograph by Erich Hartmann" on back cover, though the artwork does not appear to be a photo [author photo on back cover is separately credited] Note that The Ghost Maker is titled The Chost-Maker (sic) on title page and The Ghost-Maker (with a dash between the words) everywhere else in the book.
External IDs:
- OCLC/WorldCat: 270858345

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Collection Title: Alternating Currents • (1956) • collection by Frederik Pohl

Contents (view Concise Listing)

7 • The Children of Night • (1964) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
46 • The Chost-Maker • short fiction by Frederik Pohl (variant of The Ghost Maker 1954)
59 • Let the Ants Try • (1949) • short story by Frederik Pohl
71 • Pythias • (1955) • short story by Frederik Pohl
77 • The Mapmakers • (1955) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
113 • Rafferty's Reasons • (1955) • short story by Frederik Pohl
127 • Target One • (1955) • short story by Frederik Pohl
139 • Grandy Devil • (1955) • short story by Frederik Pohl
144 • The Tunnel Under the World • (1955) • novelette by Frederik Pohl
177 • What to Do Until the Analyst Comes • (1956) • short story by Frederik Pohl (variant of Everybody's Happy But Me!)

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OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Bluesman	2009-10-04 17:57:56
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Publication: Alternating Currents

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