Title: Fallen Star

Title: Fallen Star Title Record # 100011
Author: John Collier
Date: 1951-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Synopsis: A devil, escaped from Hell, traps an angel and sends her to Earth as a teenager, believing she will sin and thereby lose her soul to him.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1969^ⓘTranslated by Else Hoog	Dutch	Gevallen Ster

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Fancies and Goodnights	1951-11-00	John Collier	Doubleday		$4.00^?$: US dollar	364	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Margot Tomes
Fancies and Goodnights	1953-04-00	John Collier	Bantam Books (Bantam Giant)	A1106	$0.35^?$: US dollar	506	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	Charles Binger
Argosy (UK), November 1955	1955-11-00	ed. Editors of Argosy (UK)	The Amalgamated Press		1/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	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
Fancies and Goodnights	1957-12-00	John Collier	Bantam Books	F1703	$0.50^?$: US dollar	375	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
Tall Short Stories	1960-00-00	ed. Eric Duthie	Ace Books	K-113	$0.50^?$: US dollar	352	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	Mona Moore
Fancies and Goodnights	1963-00-00	John Collier	Bantam Books (Bantam Classic)	SC91	$0.75^?$: US dollar	418	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
Of Demons and Darkness	1965-00-00	John Collier	Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers	FS7126	5/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	xii+ 303	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
Fancies and Goodnights	1969-00-00	John Collier	Bantam Books	N4614	$0.95^?$: US dollar	xii+ 418	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
The John Collier Reader	1972-11-00	John Collier	Alfred A. Knopf	0-394-46186-X	$10.00^?$: US dollar	xv+ 571	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Best of John Collier	1975-09-00	John Collier	Pocket Books	0-671-80076-0	$1.95^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 492	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	Ed Soyka
Fancies and Goodnights	1981-03-00	John Collier	Doubleday / SFBC	5749	$5.50^?$: US dollar	396	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Tony Fiyalko
Fancies and Goodnights	2003-05-00	John Collier	New York Review of Books (NYRB Classics)	1-59017-051-2	$14.95^?$: US dollar	xi+ 418	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.	coll	Neo Rauch

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Reviews

Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction