Title: What Should an SF Novel Be About?

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Title: What Should an SF Novel Be About? Title Record # 124658
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1986-04-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English

Note: Subtitled "A Frank Assessment of SFville in the Last Years of Our Century"

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Year	Language	Title
1991^ⓘTranslated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Kurt%20Bacharz&type=Name&mode=exact">Kurt Bacharz</a>	German	Wovon sollte ein SF-Roman handeln?

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Fantasy Review, April 1986	1986-04-00	ed. Robert A. Collins, Carol McGuirk	Florida Atlantic University		$2.75^?$: US dollar	52	quarto^?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued	mag	James Christiansen
Synergy: New Science Fiction #1	1987-11-00	ed. George Zebrowski	Harvest / HBJ	0-15-687700-7	$5.95^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 243	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	Catherine Deeter
Synergy 1: Neue Science Fiction	1991-07-00	ed. George Zebrowski	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4815)	3-453-05004-5	DM 12.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	265+ [1]	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	Zoltán Boros^?Zoltan Boros , Gábor Szikszai^?Gabor Szikszai

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