Title: Troubled Star

Title: Troubled Star Title Record # 9763
Author: George O. Smith
Date: 1957-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English

Note: While both are novel length, significant edits were made between magazine and book versions with the book version being expanded. The Project Gutenberg version is the magazine version.

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Serializations

Translated Serializations

Year	Language	Title
1961^ⓘTranslated by Walter Ernsting.	German	Die Sonnen-Ingenieure
1967^ⓘTranslated by 川村哲郎 (Tetsurou Kawamura).	Japanese	太陽移動計画^?Taiyō idō keikaku [as by ジョージ・Ｏ・スミス^?Jōji O Sumisu ]

Year	Title
1953	Troubled Star (Complete Novel)

Year	Language	Title
1959	Italian	Il semaforo delle stelle (Complete Novel)

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Startling Stories, February 1953	1953-02-00	ed. Samuel Mines	Better Publications, Inc.; Kokomo, IN		$0.25^?$: US dollar	148	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	Emsh
Troubled Star	1957-00-00	George O. Smith	Avalon Books		$2.75^?$: US dollar	220	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ric Binkley
Troubled Star	1959-00-00	George O. Smith	Beacon (Galaxy Science Fiction Novel #38)	256	$0.35^?$: US dollar	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.	novel	Emsh
I Romanzi del Cosmo #21	1959-02-01	ed. Marco Paini	Ponzoni	21	Lit 150^?Lit: Italian lira	144	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	Luigi Garonzi
Die Sonnen-Ingenieure	1961-06-09	George O. Smith	Moewig (Terra Sonderband #42)	TSB42	DM 1.00^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	95	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	Johnny Bruck
太陽移動計画^?Taiyō idō keikaku	1967-12-25	ジョージ・Ｏ・スミス^?Jōji O Sumisu	久保書店^?Kubo Shoten ( QTブックス SF^?QTbukkusu SF #5)		¥240^?¥: Japanese yen	198	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	加納光於^?Mitsuo Kanou
Die Sonnen-Ingenieure	1968-04-19	George O. Smith	Moewig (Terra Extra #181)	TE181	DM 0.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	63	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	Johnny Bruck
Troubled Star	2022-10-20	George O. Smith	Project Gutenberg	69190	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Troubled Star	2022-10-29	George O. Smith	Wildside Press	978-1-4794-7357-1	$19.99^?$: US dollar	124	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Troubled Star	2022-10-29	George O. Smith	Wildside Press	978-1-4794-7356-4	$9.99^?$: 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

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Reviews

Review by Anthony Boucher (1958) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1958
Review by Theodore Sturgeon (1958) in Venture Science Fiction Magazine, May 1958
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1958) in Astounding Science Fiction, June 1958
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1958) in Astounding Science Fiction, September 1958 (UK)
Review by Floyd C. Gale (1958) in Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1960) in Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, February 1960