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Title: To Bell the Cat

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Title: To Bell the Cat Title Record # 43467
Author: Joan D. Vinge
Date: 1977-04-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1978Translated by Birgit Reß-Bohusch
German Der Sträfling [as by Joan Vinge]
1979 French Un grelot pour le chat
1983Translated by <a href="https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin//se.cgi?arg=Joachim%20K%F6rber&amp;type=Name&amp;mode=exact">Joachim Körber</a>
German Die Katze locken

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Summer 1977 1977-04-00 ed. George H. Scithers Davis Publications  
$1.00?$: US dollar
196
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 Checkmark
Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 1. Folge 1978-08-00 ed.
Birgit Reß-Bohusch?Birgit Ress-Bohusch
Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3608) 3-453-30515-9
DM 3.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
143
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 Karel Thole Checkmark
Univers 18 1979-08-03 ed.
Yves Frémion?Yves Fremion
J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Science Fiction #977) 2-277-11977-6   159
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
Dominique Fagès?Dominique Fages
Checkmark
Eyes of Amber and Other Stories 1979-09-00 Joan D. Vinge Signet / New American Library 0-451-08863-8
$1.95?$: US dollar
248
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 Checkmark
Eyes of Amber and Other Stories 1979-09-00 Joan D. Vinge Signet / New American Library of Canada 0-451-08863-8
C$2.25?C$: Canadian dollar
248
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 Checkmark
Eyes of Amber and Other Stories 1981-07-00 Joan D. Vinge Macdonald Futura 0-354-04747-7
£5.95?£: UK pound
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Peter Jones  
Eyes of Amber and Other Stories 1981-08-00 Joan D. Vinge Orbit / Futura 0-7088-8082-7
£1.75?£: UK pound
288
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 Peter Jones Checkmark
Eyes of Amber and Other Stories 1982-08-00 Joan D. Vinge Readers Union / The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) 1198   288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Eyes of Amber and Other Stories 1983-02-00 Joan D. Vinge Signet / New American Library 0-451-12083-3
$2.75?$: US dollar
248
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 Tom Kidd  
Bernsteinaugen und Zinnsoldaten 1983-06-00 Joan D. Vinge Moewig (Moewig Science Fiction #3615) 3-8118-3615-3
DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
302
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 Rowena Morrill Checkmark
Aliens and UFO's: Extraterrestrial Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact 1993-00-00 ed. Charles Ardai, Cynthia Manson Smithmark Publishers 0-8317-0436-5
$9.98?$: US dollar
ix+
464
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Angus McKie Checkmark
Sci Fiction, September 6, 2000 2000-09-06 ed. Ellen Datlow SciFi.com     0
webzine?Used for Internet-based periodical publications which are otherwise not downloadable as an "ebook".
mag  
Eyes of Amber and Other Stories date unknown Joan D. Vinge Signet / New American Library of Canada 0-451-12083-3
C$2.95?C$: Canadian dollar
248
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 Tom Kidd Checkmark
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