Title: Bow Down to Nul

Title: Bow Down to Nul Title Record # 120
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1960-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English

Note: First serialized as X for Exploitation in three parts in New Worlds beginning March 1960. Reprinted as Bow Down to Nul as an Ace Double with The Dark Destroyer, also in 1960. Then reprinted in the UK as The Interpreter.

Synopsis: When an official of the alien Empire which rules Earth visits to investigate allegations against the alien governor in charge, various human individuals and rebel organizations take advantage of the opportunity to try to throw off the alien rule.

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Translated Serializations

Year	Title
1960	Interpreter [as by Brian Aldiss]
1960	The Interpreter
1960	The Interpreter [as by Brian Aldiss]

Year	Language	Title
1962^ⓘTranslated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Clark%20Darlton&type=Name&mode=exact">Clark Darlton</a> (as Walter Ernsting)	German	Unter dem Terror fremder Sterne
1962^ⓘTranslated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Clark%20Darlton&type=Name&mode=exact">Clark Darlton</a> (1962; as Walter Ernsting)	German	Unterdrücker der Erde [as by Brian Aldiss]
1967	German	Die Herrschaft der Nul
1970	Portuguese	Nulos [as by Brian Aldiss]
1976^ⓘTranslated by H. S. Ch. Bosch	Dutch	De tolk
1980^ⓘTranslated by C&L Meistermann	French	L'interprète^?L'interprete
1993^ⓘTranslated by Н. Гузнинов / N. Guzninov. Russian title means "The Interpreter/The Translator".	Russian	Переводчик^?Perevodchik [as by Брайан Олдисс^?Brayan Oldiss Brian Aldiss ]

Year	Title
1960	X for Exploitation (Part 1 of 3)
1960	X for Exploitation (Part 2 of 3)
1960	X for Exploitation (Part 3 of 3)

Year	Language	Title
1963	Italian	Un despota sulla Terra (Complete Novel)

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Bow Down to Nul / The Dark Destroyers	1960-00-00	Brian W. Aldiss, Manly Wade Wellman	Ace Books (Ace Double #D-443)	D-443	$0.35^?$: US dollar	145+ 111	dos^?Dos-a-dos or tete-beche formatted paperback books, such as Ace Doubles and Capra Press back-to-back books.	omni	Ed Emshwiller , Ed Valigursky
Bow Down to Nul	1966-00-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Ace Books	F-382	$0.40^?$: US dollar	146	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	Jack Gaughan

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Reviews

Review by S. E. Cotts (1960) in Amazing Stories, October 1960
Review by Frederik Pohl (1960) in If, #7 [UK] , reprinted in:
If, November 1960 (1960)
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1961) in Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, May 1961
Review [French] by Jean-Marc Ligny (1980) in Fiction, #309