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Publication: Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction

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  • Publication: Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science FictionPublication Record # 174181
  • Authors: Brian W. Aldiss, David Wingrove
  • Date: 1986-11-00
  • ISBN: 0-689-11839-2 [978-0-689-11839-5]
  • Publisher: Atheneum
  • Price:
    $24.95?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 511
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Cover: Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction by Mike Stromberg
  • Notes:
    • Stated "First American Edition"
    • No date other than year. Publication date from Locus1.
    • No number line
    • No price on Primary verifier's copy (frequent price location on top right of front inside dust jacket flap has been cut off). Price from Library of Congress catalog record.
    • Cover artist credit per front inside dust jacket flap
    • Cover has only Aldiss' name, but title page credits Aldiss and Wingrove.
    • Introduction is credited per closing signature. It is listed separately as credited to Aldiss only.
    • There are 8 unnumbered pages of photographs printed on slick paper bound between pages 160 and 161, and another 8 between pages 352 and 353. Only artwork specific to written speculative fiction has been listed. Artwork in these sections is numbered as [last page + count] (ex. [160+2] would be the second one in the set between pages 160 and 161).
    • Artwork is titled per the List of Illustrations (p. 9) as on actual page, artwork does not have a title, but rather a descriptive paragraph.
    • "Cover of Edward S. Ellis's The Huge Hunter" is the cover of an unknown edition of "The Steam Man of the Prairies" (titled as "The Huge Hunter; or, The Steam Man of the Prairies")
  • External IDs:
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Nonfiction Title: Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction • (1986) • nonfiction by Brian W. Aldiss and David Wingrove

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