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Title: They'd Rather Be Right Title Record # 186614
Authors: Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
Date: 1957-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Bossy
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
User Rating: 5.50 (2 votes) Including variants and translations: 4.50 (4 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations Serializations Translated Serializations
Year Title
1958 The Forever Machine
Year Language Title
1967ⓘTranslated by Walter Brumm
 German Computer der Unsterblichkeit
1988 Italian La macchina dell'eternità
Year Title
1954 They'd Rather Be Right (Part 1 of 4)
1954 They'd Rather Be Right (Part 2 of 4)
1954 They'd Rather Be Right (Part 3 of 4)
1954 They'd Rather Be Right (Part 4 of 4)
Year Language Title
1971 Italian La macchina dell'eternità (Complete Novel)

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
1 1955 Hugo Best Novel

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Astounding Science Fiction, August 1954 1954-08-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.35?$: US dollar
 164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
 mag Freas Checkmark
Astounding Science Fiction, September 1954 1954-09-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.35?$: US dollar
 164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
 mag Freas Checkmark
Astounding Science Fiction, October 1954 1954-10-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.35?$: US dollar
 164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
 mag Dongen Checkmark
Astounding Science Fiction, November 1954 1954-11-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.35?$: US dollar
 164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
 mag Freas Checkmark
Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955 (UK) 1955-01-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
1/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
 128
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
 mag  
Astounding Science Fiction, February 1955 (UK) 1955-02-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
1/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
 132
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
 mag Freas Checkmark
Astounding Science Fiction, March 1955 (UK) 1955-03-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
1/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
 132
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
 mag Van Dongen Checkmark
Astounding Science Fiction, April 1955 (UK) 1955-04-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd  
1/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
 132
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
 mag Freas Checkmark
They'd Rather Be Right 1957-00-00 Mark Clifton, Frank Riley Gnome Press  
$3.00?$: US dollar
 189
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 novel W. I. Van der Poel Checkmark
The Forever Machine 1958-00-00 Mark Clifton, Frank Riley Galaxy Publishing Corp. (Galaxy Science Fiction Novel #35) 35
$0.35?$: US dollar
 159
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 Wallace A. Wood Checkmark
They'd Rather Be Right 1981-00-00 Mark Clifton, Frank Riley Starblaze / The Donning Company (Starblaze Editions #SB17) 0-89865-165-4
$4.95?$: US dollar
 173
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 M. W. Carroll Checkmark
They'd Rather Be Right 1983-04-00 Mark Clifton, Frank Riley Nelson Doubleday / SFBC 5055
$3.98?$: US dollar
 181
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 novel Dawn Wilson Checkmark
They'd Rather Be Right 1990-00-00 Mark Clifton, Frank Riley The Easton Press (The Masterpieces of Science Fiction)     ix+
189+
[2]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
 novel Checkmark
The Forever Machine 1992-06-00 Mark Clifton, Frank Riley Carroll & Graf (Masters of Science Fiction (Carroll & Graf)) 0-88184-842-5
$4.95?$: US dollar
 351
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 Gudynas Checkmark
The Second Golden Age of Science Fiction Megapack 2014-05-28 Mark Clifton Wildside Press 978-1-4794-0294-6
$0.99?$: US dollar
  
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
 coll Joel Fernandes  
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