Title: Venus on the Half-Shell

Title: Venus on the Half-Shell Title Record # 11934
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Date: 1975-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: This novel is an expansion of a segment of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, which is an excerpt from a fictional novel, Venus on the Half-Shell, written by the character Kilgore Trout. The segment as written by Vonnegut is incorporated into the novel so that it became an excerpt of an actual novel of the same title, published under the pseudonym Kilgore Trout. Source: Wikipedia

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Year	Title
1975	Venus on the Half-Shell [as by Kilgore Trout]

Year	Language	Title
1975^ⓘTranslated by Gunnar Gällmo	Swedish	Stjärnsnäckan [as by Kilgore Trout]
1977^ⓘTranslated by Iawa Tate	French	Le privé du cosmos [as by Kilgore Trout]
1979^ⓘTranslated by Angela Campana	Italian	Lo spaziale errante
1980^ⓘTranslated by 藤井かよ (Kayo Fujii).	Japanese	貝殻の上のヴィーナス^?Kaigara no ue no vīnasu [as by キルゴア・トラウト^?Kirugoa Torauto ]
1984	Italian	Venere sulla conchiglia [as by Philip J. Farmer]
1984^ⓘTranslated by Joachim Körber	German	Geburt der Venus [as by Kilgore Trout]
1988^ⓘTranslated by Iawa Tate	French	Le privé du cosmos
1997^ⓘTranslated by Niculiță Damaschin	Romanian	Venus ieșind din valuri^?Venus ieshind din valuri Venus iesind din valuri

Year	Title
1974	Venus on the Half-Shell (Part 1 of 2) [as by Kilgore Trout]
1975	Venus on the Half-Shell (Part 2 of 2) [as by Kilgore Trout]

Year	Language	Title
1976	Italian	Venere sulla conchiglia (Complete Novel) [as by Kilgore Trout]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1974	1974-12-00	ed. Edward L. Ferman	Mercury Press, Inc.		$0.75^?$: US dollar	164	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	Ron Walotsky
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1975	1975-01-00	ed. Edward L. Ferman	Mercury Press, Inc.		$0.75^?$: US dollar	164	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	Mazey , Schell
Venus on the Half-Shell	1975-02-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	6149	C$0.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1975-02-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	6149	$0.95^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1975-03-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	440-06149 / #6149	$0.95^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1975-04-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	440-06149 / #6149	$0.95^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1975-11-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	0-440-06149-0 / 440-06149 / #6149	$0.95^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1976-00-00	Kilgore Trout	Star	0-352-39846-9	£0.50^?£: UK pound	207	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1976-01-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	440-06149 / #6149	$0.95^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1977-04-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	0-440-16149-5	$1.25^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1978-01-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	0-440-16149-5	$1.25^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1980-01-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell Laurel	044006149	$1.75^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel
Venus on the Half-Shell	1982-00-00	Kilgore Trout	Granada	0-586-05454-5	£1.50^?£: UK pound	207	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.	novel	Gareth Williams
Venus on the Half-Shell	1983-12-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	0-440-16149-5	$2.95^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1984-05-00	Kilgore Trout	Dell	0-440-16149-5	$2.95^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel	Gadino
Venus on the Half-Shell	1988-09-00	Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer	Bantam Spectra	0-553-27531-3	$3.95^?$: US dollar	xii+ 178	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.	novel	Enric
Venus on the Half-Shell	1996-10-01	Kilgore Trout	Buccaneer Books	0-89968-306-1	$27.95^?$: US dollar	204	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Venus on the Half-Shell and Others	2008-02-00	Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-142-2	$38.00^?$: US dollar	325	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Bob Eggleton
Venus on the Half-Shell and Others	2008-02-00	Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-142-2	$125.00^?$: US dollar	325	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Bob Eggleton
Venus on the Half-Shell and Others	2008-10-00	Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer	Subterranean Press	978-1-59606-142-2	$300.00^?$: US dollar	340	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Bob Eggleton
Venus on the Half-Shell	2013-12-00	Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer	Titan Books	978-1-78116-306-1	£7.99^?£: UK pound	314	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
Venus on the Half-Shell	2013-12-10	Philip José Farmer^?Philip Jose Farmer	Titan Books	978-1-78116-307-8	$9.95^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Venus on the Half-Shell	date unknown	Kilgore Trout	Dell	0-440-16149-5	$3.50^?$: US dollar	204	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.	novel

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Reviews

Review by David Pasko (1975) in The Science Fiction Review (Monthly), April 1975
Review by uncredited (1975) in Vertex, July 1975
Review by Richard E. Geis (1975) in Science Fiction Review, November 1975
Review [Dutch] by Rob Vooren (1975) in Holland-SF 1975, #5
Review by Spider Robinson (1976) in Galaxy, January 1976
Review [French] by Roger Bozzetto (1980) in Fiction, #306
Review [French] by Eric Sanvoisin (1988) in Fiction, #401