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Title: Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction

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Title: Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction Title Record # 126211
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Date: 1998-04-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English
Note: Originally published in the Village Voice Literary Supplement, April 1998.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1998 Why Can't We All Just Live Together? A Vision of Genre Paradise Lost
2004 The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction
Year Language Title
2005Translated by Luis G. Prado.
Spanish Las posibilidades desperdiciadas de la ciencia-ficción

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 1998 1998-09-00 ed.
Ariel Haméon?Ariel Hameon
, David G. Hartwell, Kevin J. Maroney
Dragon Press  
$3.50?$: US dollar
24
quarto?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag Checkmark
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 2000-04-00 ed. Gregory Benford Harcourt 0-15-100479-X
$28.00?$: US dollar
xxiii+
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Ellen Schuster Checkmark
Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 2000-04-00 ed. Gregory Benford Harcourt 0-15-600705-3
$14.00?$: US dollar
xxiii+
288
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.
anth Ellen Schuster Checkmark
War of the Words 2001-10-09 Joy Press Three Rivers Press 0-609-80853-2
$14.00?$: US dollar
xvii+
318
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.
non-fic Checkmark
Projections: Science Fiction in Literature & Film 2004-12-00 Lou Anders MonkeyBrain Books 1-932265-12-0
$15.95?$: US dollar
328
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.
non-fic John Picacio Checkmark
Jabberwock 1: Anuario de ensayo fantástico 2005-10-00 Arturo Villarrubia Bibliópolis (Bibliópolis Bolsillo #4) 84-96173-33-X
€9.95?€: Euro
352
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.
non-fic Maciej Garbacz Checkmark
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