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  • Publication: StarshipsPublication Record # 622004
  • Editors: Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh
  • Date: 1983-05-00
  • ISBN: 0-449-20126-0 [978-0-449-20126-8]
  • Publisher: Fawcett Crest / Ballantine
  • Price:
    C$4.25?C$: Canadian dollar
  • Pages: 342
  • 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: Starships by Rick Sternbach
  • Notes: • "First Ballantine Books Edition: May 1983" • Printing not stated, no number line • The artist is not credited, Sternbach's S inside a box is on the artwork • The TOC is split into three sections [not repeated in the book], each section with subtitles [also not repeated in the book] for each story in the section
      The Complement:
    • Captain [Cordwainer Smith]
    • Crew [Richard McKenna]
    • Passengers [Robert Sheckley]
    • Cargo [Christopher Anvil]
      The Type:
    • Time Relativity Ships [Doris Pitkin Buck]
    • Generation Ships [Frank M. Robinson]
    • Suspended Animation Ships [A. E. Van Vogt]
    • Cybernetic Ships [Anne McCaffrey]
    • Faster Than Light/Hyperspace Ships [James V. McConnell, note that the story title page drops the 'V.']
      The Events:
    • First Contact [A. Bertram Chandler]
    • Inspection [Eric Frank Russell]
    • Disaster [Isaac Asimov]
    • Combat [Fred Saberhagen]
    • The page numbers in the TOC correspond to a brief one-paragraph 'about-the author' that precedes the story title page and text by two pages, the latter numbers are used in the contents below • Cover printed in the US, book in Canada
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Anthology Title: Starships • anthology by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh [as by Isaac Asimov and Martin Harry Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh]

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