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  • Publication: TesseractsPublication Record # 301092
  • Editor: Judith Merril
  • Date: 1988-08-00
  • ISBN: 0-88878-279-9 [978-0-88878-279-3]
  • Publisher: Press Porcépic
  • Price:
    C$4.95?C$: Canadian dollar
  • Pages: 292
  • Format:
    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.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Cover: Tesseracts (1985) • by Ron Lightburn
  • Webpages: s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com
  • Notes:
    • "First Quality Paperback (Trade) edition printed September 1985"
    • "This edition printed August 1988"; no number line
    • Cover art credited to Lightburn on back cover
    • "The Early Education of the Num-Nums" should be "The Early Education of the Num-nums". "La maison au bord de la mer" appears here as "Home by the Sea", and was translated by Jane Brierley.
    • "Stardust Boulevard" was translated by Jane Brierley. The original French version, "Boulevard des Etoiles" first appeared in Daniel Sernine's collection Le vieil homme et l'espace (1981).
    • "The Train" is as by Marc Sévigny, and was translated by Frances Morgan. The original French version, "Le Train", first appeared in Aurores Boréales 1 (1983).
    • "Report on the Earth-Air Addicts" first appeared in The Man Who Broke Out of the Letter X (1984).
    • "The Early Education of the Num-nums" first appeared in Sadness of Spacemen (1980).
    • "Letter from Mars-Dome #1" first appeared in The Literary Storefront Newsletter (October 1978).
    • "Instinct" first appeared in Pierian Spring (Spring 1980).
    • "Anthropology 101" first appeared in Bibliofantasiac #9 (1983).
    • "Variation" first appeared in From Zero to One (1973).
    • "The Man Doll" is revised from an earlier version under the same title, which first appeared in Descant #38 (Fall 1982).
    • "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer" first appeared in Orion, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1982).
    • "Report from the Front" first appeared in Poems: New and Selected (1957-1983) by Robert Sward (1983).
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Anthology Title: Tesseracts • [Tesseracts: Canadian Science Fiction • 1] • (1985) • anthology by Judith Merril

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