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Title: The Impossibles Title Record # 1731
Authors: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer
Date: 1963-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Psi-Power
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Synopsis: An FBI agent goes to New York city to investigate reports of seemingly impossible crimes, such as red Cadillacs driving themselves.
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Current Tags: near future (1), 1973 (1), teleportation (1), FBI (1), New York City (1), police (1), teenagers (1), crime (1), humor (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations Serializations
Year Title
1960 Out Like a Light [as by Mark Phillips]
1963 The Impossibles [as by Mark Phillips]
2010 Out Like A Light [as by Randall Garrett]
2010 The Impossibles [as by Randall Garrett]
2022 The Impossibles [as by Gordon Randall Garrett and Laurence Mark Janifer]
Year Language Title
1961Translated by Gerhard Hoffmann
German Die Geisterbande [as by Mark Phillips]
1975Translated by Otto Kuehn.
German Kampf gegen die Unsichtbaren [as by Mark Phillips]
Year Title
1960 Out Like a Light (Part 1 of 3) [as by Mark Phillips]
1960 Out Like a Light (Part 2 of 3) [as by Mark Phillips]
1960 Out Like a Light (Part 3 of 3) [as by Mark Phillips]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, April 1960 1960-04-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
180
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 Freas Checkmark
Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, May 1960 1960-05-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
180
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 Van Dongen Checkmark
Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, June 1960 1960-06-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
180
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 Schoenherr Checkmark
Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, August 1960 (UK) 1960-08-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
2/-?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).
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 Freas Checkmark
Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, September 1960 (UK) 1960-09-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
2/-?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).
128
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 Van Dongen Checkmark
Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, October 1960 (UK) 1960-10-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
2/-?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).
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 Schoenherr Checkmark
Die Geisterbande 1961-10-17 Mark Phillips Pabel (
Utopia Großband?Utopia Grossband
#162)
UGB162
DM 1.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
80
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".
novel R. S. Lonati Checkmark
The Impossibles 1963-06-00 Mark Phillips Pyramid Books F-875
$0.40?$: US dollar
157
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.
novel John Schoenherr Checkmark
The Impossibles 1966-02-00 Mark Phillips Pyramid Books R-1299
$0.50?$: US dollar
157
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.
novel John Schoenherr Checkmark
Kampf gegen die Unsichtbaren 1975-03-00 Mark Phillips Ullstein (Ullstein 2000 #88 (3119)) 3-548-03119-6
DM 3.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
126
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.
novel Paul Lehr Checkmark
The Impossibles 2007-08-16 Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer Project Gutenberg 22338    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
Out Like a Light 2008-01-28 Mark Phillips Project Gutenberg 24444    
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
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The Best of Randall Garrett: 43 Novels and Short Stories 2010-01-31 Randall Garrett Halcyon Press (Halcyon Classics)  
$1.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
omni Checkmark
The Impossibles 2011-02-00 Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer Resurrected Press 978-1-935774-53-2
$12.99?$: US dollar
220
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel  
The Second Randall Garrett Megapack 2013-04-06 Randall Garrett Wildside Press 978-1-4344-4675-6
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
omni Checkmark
The Impossibles 2014-09-01 Mark Phillips Spastic Cat Press 978-1-4837-0625-2
$10.99?$: US dollar
124
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel John Schoenherr  
The Impossibles 2015-12-17 Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer Gateway / Orion 978-1-4732-0120-0
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
Mistress of Machine-Age Madness / The Impossibles 2018-02-06 uncredited Armchair Fiction (Armchair Sci-Fi & Horror Double Novels #223) 978-1-61287-396-1 / D-223
$12.95?$: US dollar
224
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
omni  
The Impossibles 2020-03-20 Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer Otbebookpublishing (Classics to Go)  
$1.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
The Impossibles 2022-10-27 Gordon Randall Garrett, Laurence Mark Janifer Legare Street Press 978-1-01-664704-5
$26.95?$: US dollar
181
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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