Title: Tom's A-Cold
Title Record # 1017980
Author: John Collier
Date: 1933-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: John Collier
Date: 1933-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Note:
Collier's second novel
Several reviews and notices of Collier's third novel, Defy the Foul Fiend, or The Misadventure of a Heart (see), contrast this second with his first, usually as a disappointment.
Evidently the first and third feature amusing, satirical commentary on the current scene.
London correspondence in one US newspaper observed that "he was not content to repeat a success, and his second book Tom's A-Cold was a peep into a somewhat bleak future for the human race."
--Frank Swinnerton, Chi. Tribune 1934-06-30 p6
Synopsis:
"Radically dissimilar to his most familiar work is Tom's A-Cold (1933; vt Full Circle 1933), a remarkably effective Ruined Earth novel set in the 1990s, long after an unexplained Disaster has decimated England's (and presumably the world's) population and thrust mankind back into rural barbarism, a condition out of which the eldest survivors, who remember civilization, are trying to educate the young third generation. The simple plot plays no tricks on the reader: the young protagonist, a born leader, rises through raids and conflict to the chieftainship, undergoes a tragedy, and reconciles himself at the novel's close to the burdens of a government which will improve the lot of his people. Throughout the novel, very movingly, Collier renders the reborn, circumambient natural world with a hallucinatory visual intensity found nowhere else in his work. Along with Alun Llewellyn's The Strange Invaders (1934), Tom's A-Cold can be seen, in its atmosphere of almost loving conviction, as a genuine successor to Richard Jefferies's After London (1885)."
--SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Tom's A-Cold | 1933-00-00 | John Collier | Macmillan and Co. | 7/6?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). |
320 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
Full Circle | 1933-04-28 | John Collier | D. Appleton & Company | $2.00?$: US dollar |
vi+ 290 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
Tom's A-Cold | 1936-00-00 | John Collier | Macmillan and Co. | 3/6?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). |
320 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
Tom's A-Cold | 2020-12-10 | John Collier | Bruin Books | 978-1-7349759-4-9 | $14.00?$: US dollar |
296 | 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 |
Reviews
- Review by C. A. Brandt (1933) in Amazing Stories, October 1933
- Review by John Kessel (2004) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2004