ISFDB banner

The ISFDB is moving servers the week of 9/4.

Editing will be disabled on 9/6 until the database is migrated, and you may see either the old server or the new server while the domain name change propagates across the Internet.

You are currently on the NEW SERVER.

Publication: Child of Fortune

You are not logged in. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed.

picture
  • Publication: Child of FortunePublication Record # 6766
  • Author: Norman Spinrad
  • Date: 1985-10-00
  • Catalog ID: 06291
  • Publisher: Bantam Spectra / SFBC
  • Price:
    $6.50?$: US dollar
  • Pages: xii+467
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: Child of Fortune (1985) • by Yee Chea Lin and Mark Watts
  • Notes: • ©1985 No other date on copyright page. • First printing has gutter code "P039" [verified] on page 466, indicates a printing in August 1985. • An October selection of the SFBC. • Price from Locus1 which also has October but has the SFBC # as 6291 [all SFBC editions had 5-digit codes by this time]. • "Book Club Edition" on front flap, SFBC # on back cover. • "Flower illustration by Yee Chea Lin/Cover Typography by Mark Watts" on rear flap. • First printing 1/4 bound in black cloth with black boards and mauve lettering.
  • External IDs:
Cover art supplied by ISFDB on this Web page

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

Primary Verifications

Verifier Date Type Last User Activity Date
Hall3730 2007-02-25 21:04:10 Permanent 2010-12-09
Bluesman 2013-04-11 13:19:04 Permanent 2018-12-13

Secondary Verifications

Source Status Verifier Date
Bleiler Early Years Not Verified    
Bleiler Supernatural Not Verified    
Bleiler1 (Gernsback) N/A Bluesman 2010-05-20 20:28:40
Bleiler78 N/A Bluesman 2010-05-20 20:28:40
Clute/Grant N/A Bluesman 2013-04-11 13:19:04
Clute/Nicholls N/A Bluesman 2013-04-11 13:19:04
Contento1 (anth/coll) N/A Bluesman 2010-05-20 20:28:40
Currey N/A Bluesman 2010-05-20 20:28:40
Locus1 Verified Bluesman 2010-05-20 20:28:40
Miller/Contento N/A Bluesman 2010-05-20 20:28:40
OCLC/Worldcat Verified Bluesman 2010-05-20 20:28:40
Reginald1 N/A Bluesman 2010-05-20 20:28:40
Reginald3 N/A Bluesman 2013-04-11 13:19:04
Tuck N/A Bluesman 2010-05-20 20:28:40
Copyright © 1995-2022 Al von Ruff and the ISFDB team
ISFDB Engine - Version 4.00 (2006-04-24)
ISFDB is an Amazon Associate in order to have access to Amazon's product data. As an Amazon Associate ISFDB earns from qualifying purchases.