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Title: Vanguard from Alpha

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Title: Vanguard from Alpha Title Record # 122
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1959-00-00
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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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations Serializations
Year Title
1961 Equator
1969 Equator [as by Brian Aldiss]
Year Language Title
1962Translated by Stéphane Rouvre.
French
Équateur?Equateur
1962Translated by Horst Mayer. 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
1975Translated by Monika Hahn
German
Äquator?Aequator
1976Translated by Nikola Popović
Croatian Ekvator [as by Brian Aldiss]
1984Unabridged. 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 Verif
Vanguard from Alpha / The Changeling Worlds 1959-00-00 Brian W. Aldiss, Kenneth Bulmer Ace Books (Ace Double #D-369) D-369
$0.35?$: US dollar
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 Checkmark
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