Title: Showboat World Title Record # 1229
Author: Jack Vance
Date: 1975-03-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Big Planet
Series Number: 2
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Language: English
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Translations

Year Title 2005 The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet 2011 The Magnificent Showboats

Year Language Title 1976ⓘTranslated by Pon Ruiter Dutch Circuswereld 1980ⓘTranslated by Lore Straßl German Showboot-Welt 1981ⓘTranslated by Françoise Serph, revised and completed by Pierre-Paul Durastanti and Arlette Rosenblum for the omnibus La planète géante L'intégrale. French Les baladins de la Planète Géante?Les baladins de la Planete Geante 1983ⓘTranslated by Pon Ruiter Dutch Spelevaren op Grote Planeet 1993ⓘTranslated by Nemes István and Pákozdy Andrea Hungarian Folyóvilág 2006ⓘTranslated by Andreas Irle German Showboot-Welt 2009 Italian Il mondo degli Showboat

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
13	1976 Locus	Best SF Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Showboat World	1975-03-00	Jack Vance	Pyramid Books	0-515-03698-6 / V3698	$1.25?$: US dollar	188	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	Vincent Di Fate
Showboat World	1975-03-00	Jack Vance	Pyramid Books	0-515-03698-6	C$1.25?C$: Canadian dollar	188	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	Vincent Di Fate
Showboat World	1977-00-00	Jack Vance	Coronet Books	0-340-21252-7	£0.65?£: UK pound	171	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	Jim Burns
Showboat World	1981-10-00	Jack Vance	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #453)	0-87997-660-8 / UE1660	$2.25?$: US dollar	188	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	David B. Mattingly
Showboat World	1981-10-00	Jack Vance	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	0-87997-660-8 / UE1660	C$2.50?C$: Canadian dollar	188	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	David B. Mattingly
Showboat World	1982-09-00	Jack Vance	Coronet Books	0-340-21252-7	£1.25?£: UK pound	171	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	Jim Burns
Showboat World: The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet	1983-00-00	Jack Vance	Underwood-Miller	0-934438-76-5	$15.00?$: US dollar	171	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ned Dameron
Showboat World: The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet	1983-00-00	Jack Vance	Underwood-Miller	0-934438-76-5	$30.00?$: US dollar	171	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ned Dameron
Showboat World	1989-09-00	Jack Vance	Tor	0-812-50093-8	$3.95?$: US dollar	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.	novel	Rodney Matthews
Showboat World	1990-09-00	Jack Vance	VGSF	0-575-04393-8	£3.50?£: UK pound	171	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	Peter Elson
The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet	2005-00-00	Jack Vance	Vance Integral Edition (Vance Integral Edition #19)	0-9712375-1-4		[viii]+ 219	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Magnificent Showboats	2011-09-29	Jack Vance	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-10959-9	£4.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet	2012-04-17	Jack Vance	Spatterlight Press (Vance Digital Edition #6)	978-1-61947-005-7	$5.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet	2017-02-04	Jack Vance	Spatterlight Press (Signature Series #5)	978-1-61947-120-7	$13.49?$: US dollar	182	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	Marcel Laverdet

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Reviews

• Review by Cerrulia Kent (1975) in The Science Fiction Review (Monthly), May 1975
• Review [Dutch] by Rob Vooren (1976) in Holland-SF 1976, #2
• Review by Lynne Holdom (1976) in Science Fiction Review, May 1976
• Review by Mike Dickinson (1977) in Vector 81
• Review by Robin Marcus (1977) in Paperback Parlour, June 1977
• Review [German] by uncredited (1980) in SF Perry Rhodan Magazin, 7/80
• Review [French] by Richard D. Nolane (1981) in Fiction, #320
• Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer
• Review [French] by Alain Garguir (1987) in Fiction, #388
• Review by Benedict S. Cullum (1991) in Paperback Inferno, #88