Title: Gather, Darkness! Title Record # 1883
Author: Fritz Leiber
Date: 1950-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Other Titles

Variant Titles	Translations	Serializations	Translated Serializations
Year Title 2000 Gather, Darkness	Year Language Title 1958ⓘTranslated by Janine Hérisson. French À l'aube des ténèbres?A l'aube des tenebres 1965ⓘTranslated by 川口正吉 (Shōkichi Kawaguchi). Japanese 闇よ、つどえ!?Yami yo, tsudoe! [as by フリッツ・ライバー?Furittsu Raibā ] 1977ⓘTranslated by Ruud Bal Dutch Verzamel, duisternis! 1978ⓘTranslated by Ugo Malaguti Italian L'alba delle tenebre 1983ⓘTranslated by an uncredited hand German Das Licht der Finsternis 1991ⓘTranslated by Elisabetta Moreolo Svaluto Italian L'alba delle tenebre	Year Title 1943ⓘTitle has exclamation point on cover and in body of magazine, but not on the TOC. Gather, Darkness! (Part 1 of 3) 1943 Gather, Darkness! (Part 2 of 3) 1943 Gather, Darkness! (Part 3 of 3)	Year Language Title 1965 Italian L'alba delle tenebre (Complete Novel)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	1995 Prometheus	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Nomination	1996 Prometheus	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
Preliminary Nominees	1997 Prometheus	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
2 ⓘ Finalist Pass 1 Pass 2 Pass 3 Pass 4 Pass 5 Gather, Darkness! 135 135 166 195 242 The Weapon Makers 146 146 163 189 239 Perelandra 135 136 147 175 Das Glasperlenspiel [The Glass Bead Game] 101 101 113 Earth's Last Citadel 90 91 No Award 10 33 nominations with 11 final points.	2019 Retro 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
Gather, Darkness!	1950-00-00	Fritz Leiber	Pellegrini & Cudahy		$2.75?$: US dollar	240	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Gather, Darkness!	1950-00-00	Fritz Leiber	McLeod		C$3.75?C$: Canadian dollar	240	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Gather, Darkness!	1951-00-00	Fritz Leiber	Grosset & Dunlap (Science Fiction Classics (G&D))		$1.00?$: US dollar	240	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Gather, Darkness!	1962-00-00	Fritz Leiber	Berkley Medallion	F679	$0.50?$: US dollar	174	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	Richard Powers
Gather, Darkness!	1966-06-00	Fritz Leiber	Four Square Books	1548	3/6?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).	192	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	James Holt
Gather, Darkness!	1969-03-00	Fritz Leiber	Pyramid Books	X-1976	$0.60?$: US dollar	189	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
Gather, Darkness!	1975-05-00	Fritz Leiber	Ballantine Books	0-345-24585-7	$1.50?$: US dollar	216	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	Darrell Sweet
Gather, Darkness!	1975-05-00	Fritz Leiber	Ballantine Books	0-345-24585-7	C$1.50?C$: Canadian dollar	216	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	Darrell Sweet
Gather, Darkness!	1979-05-00	Fritz Leiber	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-28073-3	$1.95?$: US dollar	216	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	Darrell Sweet
Gather, Darkness!	1979-05-00	Fritz Leiber	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-28073-3	C$2.50?C$: Canadian dollar	216	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	Darrell Sweet
Gather, Darkness!	1979-08-00	Fritz Leiber	New English Library	0-450-04349-5	£0.95?£: UK pound	192	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	Tim White
Gather, Darkness!	1980-12-00	Fritz Leiber	Gregg Press	0-8398-2639-7	$14.95?$: US dollar	xi+ 240	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Gather, Darkness!	1992-10-00	Fritz Leiber	Collier / Macmillan	0-02-022348-X	$9.00?$: US dollar	240	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	Peter Scanlon
Gather, Darkness!	1996-00-00	Fritz Leiber	The Easton Press (The Masterpieces of Fantasy #4)	120-004		240	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Peter Scanlon
Gather, Darkness!	2008-02-01	Fritz Leiber	Wildside Press	978-1-4344-9938-7	$14.95?$: US dollar	248	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
Gather, Darkness!	2008-02-01	Fritz Leiber	Wildside Press	978-1-4344-9939-4	$29.95?$: US dollar	248	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Gather, Darkness!	2012-06-18	Fritz Leiber	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-12395-3	£2.99?£: UK pound		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Gather, Darkness!	2014-04-01	Fritz Leiber	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4976-1662-2	$4.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Gather, Darkness!	2014-07-08	Fritz Leiber	Open Road Integrated Media	978-1-4976-0808-5	$11.99?$: US dollar	172	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

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Reviews

• Review by Frederik Pohl (1950) in Super Science Stories, July 1950
• Review by The Editors (1950) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fall 1950
• Review by uncredited (1950) in Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, November 1950
• Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1951) in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1951
• Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1951) in Other Worlds Science Stories, May 1951
• Review by Sam Merwin, Jr. (1951) in Amazing Stories, October 1951 , reprinted in:
•     Amazing Stories [UK], #18, April 1953 (1953)
• Review by uncredited (1951) in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1951
• Review by Joseph H. Crawford, Jr. and James J. Donahue and Donald M. Grant (1953) in '333': A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel , reprinted in:
•     '333': A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel (1953)
• Review [French] by
  Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein
  (1959) in Satellite [France], #13
• Review [French] by
  Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein
  (1959) in Fiction, #64
• Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1963) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, April 1963
• Review by John Carnell (1963) in Science Fantasy, April 1963
• Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1970) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1970
• Review by Baird Searles (1975) in The Science Fiction Review (Monthly), May 1975
• Review [Dutch] by Annemarie van Ewijck [as by Annemarie Kindt] (1978) in Holland-SF 1978, #1
• Review by Lynn C. Mitchell (1980) in Science Fiction Review, February 1980
• Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Pages 295 - 454)