Title: Orbitsville Title Record # 1432
Author: Bob Shaw
Date: 1975-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Orbitsville
Series Number: 1
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Language: English
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Other Titles

Translations	Serializations
Year Language Title 1976 German Orbitsville 1976 Italian Sfera orbitale 1976 French Orbitville 1979 Dutch Het Stalen Paradijs	Year Title 1974 Orbitsville (Part 1 of 3) 1974 Orbitsville (Part 2 of 3) 1974 Orbitsville (Part 3 of 3)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	1975 BSFA	Best Novel
3	1976 Campbell Memorial	Best Science Fiction Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog#	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Galaxy, June 1974	1974-06-00	ed. James P. Baen	UPD Publishing Corporation		$0.75	180	digest?	mag	Rick Sternbach
Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], June 1974	1974-06-00	ed. James P. Baen	Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd.		£0.30	180	digest?	mag	Rich Sternbach
Galaxy, July 1974	1974-07-00	ed. James Baen	UPD Publishing Corporation		$0.75	180	digest?	mag	Wendy Pini
Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], July 1974	1974-07-00	ed. James P. Baen	Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd.		£0.30	180	digest?	mag	Wendy Pini
Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1974	1974-08-00	ed. James Baen	UPD Publishing Corporation		$0.75	180	digest?	mag	Wendy Pini
Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], August 1974	1974-08-00	ed. James P. Baen	Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd.		£0.30	180	digest?	mag	Wendy Pini
Orbitsville	1975-01-00	Bob Shaw	Gollancz	0-575-01909-3	£2.60	224	hc?	novel
Orbitsville	1976-00-00	Bob Shaw	Goldmann (Goldmann Science Fiction #0216)	3-442-23216-3	DM 4.00	158	pb?	novel	Jürgen Rogner
Orbitsville	1976-01-00	Bob Shaw	Readers Union / The Science Fiction Book Club (UK)	1108		224	hc?	novel
Sfera orbitale	1976-09-00	Bob Shaw	Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #55)		2,000 Lit	iv+ 166	hc?	novel
Orbitville	1976-09-15	Bob Shaw	OPTA (OPTA - Anti-mondes #27)	2-7201-0063-3		259	tp?	novel	Dider Gaillard
Orbitsville	1977-01-00	Bob Shaw	Ace Books (Ace SF Special, Series 2 #10)	63780	$1.95	243	pb?	novel	David Schleinkofer
Orbitsville	1977-02-00	Bob Shaw	Pan Books	0-330-25013-2	£0.60	187	pb?	novel	Colin Hay
Het Stalen Paradijs	1979-00-00	Bob Shaw	Gradivus (Gradivus SF)	90-6317-881-6	ƒ12.90	220	tp?	novel	Ruud Bal
Orbitsville	1982-05-00	Bob Shaw	Ace Books	0-441-63781-7	$2.95	243	pb?	novel
Orbitsville	1985-01-00	Bob Shaw	Panther	0-586-06208-4	£1.95	186	pb?	novel	Tim White
Farmer im All / Orbitsville	1989-00-00	Robert A. Heinlein, Bob Shaw	Das Beste (Unterwegs in die Welt von Morgen #115)	3-87070-341-5	DM 26.90	351	hc?	omni
Orbitsville	1989-04-00	Bob Shaw	Baen	0-671-69816-8	$2.95	219	pb?	novel	Bob Eggleton
Orbitsville	1991-07-00	Bob Shaw	Orbit	0-7088-4917-2	£3.99	219	pb?	novel	Keith Scaife
Orbitsville	2000-05-00	Bob Shaw	Gollancz (SF Collectors' Editions)	0-575-07098-6	£9.99	187	tp?	novel
Orbitsville	2011-09-29	Bob Shaw	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-11092-2	£4.99		ebook?	novel
Orbitsville / A Wreath of Stars / The Ragged Astronauts	2013-08-15	Bob Shaw	Gollancz (SF Gateway Omnibus)	978-0-575-11120-2	£18.99	xi+ 519	tp?	omni	Guy Warley

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Reviews

• Review by Bruce Gillespie (1975) in SF Commentary, #41/42
• Review by Tom Shippey (1975) in Foundation, #9 November 1975
• Review by Chris Morgan (1977) in Vector 79
• Review [French] by Dominique Douay (1977) in Fiction, #278
• Review by Philip Stephensen-Payne (1977) in Paperback Parlour, April 1977
• Review by John Harvey (1980) in Matrix, #31
• Review by Joseph Nicholas (1985) in Paperback Inferno, #52
• Review by David Pringle (1985) in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , reprinted in:
•     Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1985)
•     Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1986)
•     Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1987)
•     Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1997)
•     Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (2014)
• Review by Lynne Bispham (1991) in Paperback Inferno, #92
• Review by Jack Fennell (unknown) in A Short Guide to Irish Science Fiction