Title: All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories

Title: All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories Title Record # 23323
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Date: 1962-00-00
Type: COLLECTION
Language: English

Note: The British editions have fewer/different stories, the remainder appearing in The Night of the Puudly. Both editions have "All the Traps of Earth", "Drop Dead", and "The Sitters". Some US editions have "Good Night, Mr. James", "Installment Plan", and "Condition of Employment". The UK editions have "No Life of Their Own". And some US editions also have "No Life of Their Own", "Project Mastodon", and "Crying Jag".

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Year	Title
1964	All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories [as by Clifford Simak]
1968	All the Traps of Earth

Year	Language	Title
1962^ⓘAbridged: only six of the original nine shortfiction pieces are included. Translated by Tony Westermayr.	German	Der einsame Roboter
1963^ⓘTranslated by Denise Rousset. Drops two stories from the original US collection.	French	Tous les pièges de la Terre

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories	1962-01-00	Clifford D. Simak	Doubleday		$3.95^?$: US dollar	287	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Lawrence Ratzkin
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories	1962-03-00	Clifford D. Simak	Doubleday		$3.95^?$: US dollar	287	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Lawrence Ratzkin
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories	1962-05-00	Clifford D. Simak	Doubleday / SFBC		$1.20^?$: US dollar	287	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Lawrence Ratzkin
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories	1963-06-00	Clifford D. Simak	Macfadden Books	50-165	$0.50^?$: US dollar	158	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.	coll	Richard Powers
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories	1964-00-00	Clifford Simak	Four Square Books	993	2/6^?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).	143	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.	coll	Curtis
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories	1965-04-00	Clifford Simak	Four Square Books	1351	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).	143	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.	coll	Curtis
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories	1967-09-00	Clifford D. Simak	Macfadden Books	50-388	$0.50^?$: US dollar	158	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.	coll	Richard Powers
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories	1967-09-00	Clifford D. Simak	Macfadden Books	50-338	C$0.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	158	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.	coll	Richard Powers
All the Traps of Earth	1968-08-00	Clifford D. Simak	New English Library	2230	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).	143	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.	coll
All the Traps of Earth	1974-03-00	Clifford D. Simak	Manor Books	95315	$0.95^?$: US dollar	158	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.	coll
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories	1979-08-00	Clifford D. Simak	Avon	0-380-45500-5	$2.25^?$: US dollar	278	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.	coll	Jan Esteves
All the Traps of Earth	1988-07-00	Clifford D. Simak	Avon	0-380-45500-5	$3.50^?$: US dollar	278	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.	coll	Jim Warren

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Reviews

Review by S. E. Cotts (1962) in Amazing Stories, April 1962
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1962) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, June 1962 , reprinted in:
Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, October 1962 (UK) (1962)
Review by Floyd C. Gale (1963) in Galaxy Magazine, April 1963
Review [French] by Jacques Goimard (1963) in Fiction, #121
Review by Bruce Gillespie (1989) in SF Commentary, #67
Review [French] by Gilles Goullet (2001) in Bifrost, #22
Review by Lin Carter (2004) in The Best of Xero , reprinted in:
The Best of Xero (2005)