Title: Vanguard from Alpha

Title: Vanguard from Alpha Title Record # 122
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1959-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: The Year Before Yesterday
Language: English

Note: According to Clute/Nicholls, this novella was revised when it was included in the "Equator" collection. Eventually incorporated into "The Year Before Yesterday" / "Cracken at Critical" (1987).

Synopsis: An alien generation ship from Alpha Centauri arrives on Earth seeking a place to recover from their voyage, but their true motives are mysterious enough that the United Nations must resort to espionage.

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Serializations

Year	Title
1958	Equator
1959	Equator [as by Brian Aldiss]

Year	Language	Title
1962^ⓘTranslated by Stéphane Rouvre	French	Equateur
1962^ⓘAccording to the copyright page notes in the Heyne publication "Chroniken der Zukunft Band 3" (1984), this is an abridged translation.	German	Feind aus dem Kosmos
1975	German	Äquator
1976^ⓘTranslated by Nikola Popović	Croatian	Ekvator [as by Brian Aldiss]
1984^ⓘUnabridged. Translated by Uta McKechneay.	German	Feinde aus dem Kosmos [as by Brian Aldiss]

Year	Title
1958	Equator (Part 1 of 2)
1958	Equator (Part 2 of 2)

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
New Worlds Science Fiction, #75 September 1958	1958-09-00	ed. John Carnell	Nova Publications Ltd.		2/-	132	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	Brian Lewis
New Worlds Science Fiction, #76 October 1958	1958-10-00	ed. John Carnell	Nova Publications Ltd.		2/-	128	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	Brian Lewis
Vanguard from Alpha / The Changeling Worlds	1959-00-00	Brian W. Aldiss, Kenneth Bulmer	Ace Books (Ace Double #D-369)	D-369	$0.35	109+ 145	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
Equator	1961-00-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Digit Books	R533	2/6	160	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
Feind aus dem Kosmos	1962-00-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Pabel (Utopia Zukunftsroman #315)	315	DM 0.70	63	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".	chap
Equateur	1962-00-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Denoël (Présence du Futur #58)			253	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
Equator	1963-00-00	Brian W. Aldiss	Digit Books	R695	2/6	157	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 Future Makers	1968-07-00	ed. Peter Haining	Sidgwick & Jackson	0-283-98040-0	18/-	191	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Future Makers	1969-09-00	ed. Peter Haining	New English Library	2516	5/-	142	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	Bruce Pennington
The Future Makers	1971-05-00	ed. Peter Haining	Belmont Books	B75-2125	$0.75	174	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	Bill Duca
The Future Makers	1971-05-00	ed. Peter Haining	Belmont Books	B75-2125	C$0.75	174	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	Bill Duca
Science Fiction Special 5	1971-07-00	uncredited	Sidgwick & Jackson (Science Fiction Special #5)	0-283-48483-7	£	254+ 190+ 191	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
Equator and Segregation	1973-06-00	Brian Aldiss	New English Library	0-450-01501-7	£0.30	127	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	Bruce Pennington
Equator and Segregation	1973-06-00	Brian Aldiss	New English Library	0-450-01501-7	£0.30	127	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	Bruce Pennington
The Future Makers	1974-06-00	ed. Peter Haining	Belmont Tower	50689	$0.95	174	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
The Future Makers	1974-06-00	ed. Peter Haining	Flamingo Books	50689	£0.30	174	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
The Future Makers	1975-00-00	ed. Peter Haining	Robert Hale	0-7091-4712-0		174	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Die Zukunftsmacher	1975-05-06	ed. Peter Haining	Pabel (Terra Taschenbuch #261)	TTB261	DM 2.80	144	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	Paul Lehr
Sirius, #4	1976-10-05	ed. Borivoj Jurković^?Borivoj Jurkovic Borivoj Jurkovich	Vjesnik		10 din.	148	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.	mag	Larry Kresek
Equator and Segregation	1977-01-00	Brian Aldiss	New English Library	0-450-03041-5	£0.50	127	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	Bruce Pennington
The Future Makers	1979-00-00	ed. Peter Haining	Magnum	0-417-03360-5	£0.90	174	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	Chris Moore
Equateur	1980-09-30	Brian W. Aldiss	Denoël (Présence du Futur #58)			217	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	Stéphane Dumont
Chroniken der Zukunft Band 3	1984-11-00	Wolfgang Jeschke	Heyne (Welten der Zukunft / Chroniken der Zukunft #3)	3-453-31149-3	DM 7.80	463	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.	omni	Rudolf Brammer
The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s	2013-10-10	Brian Aldiss	The Friday Project (The Brian Aldiss Collection)	978-0-00-748208-5	£19.99	864	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

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Reviews

Review by Frederik Pohl (1959) in If, November 1959
Review by Damon Knight (1959) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1959
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1960) in Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, May 1960