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Title: A Message from Mars Title Record # 2415531
Author: John Munro
Date: 1895-03-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: 'A Message from Mars' was translated to French by Paul Combes and published in serialized form in 'La Science Illustrée', december 1897 under Paul Combes' pseudonym, C. Paulon. Subsequently, Brian Stableford translated the French version back to English, and published it in his Anthology Nemoville where he attributed it to C. Paulon, not realizing the original English work was by John Munro.
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Variant Titles Translated Serializations
Year Title
1895"A Message from Mars" is the first chapter of A Trip To Venus (1897).
A Message from Mars [as by J. Munro, C.E.]
2011Translated by Brian Stableford from the 1897 French translation of the 1895 English original.
A Message from the Planet Mars [as by C. Paulon (I)]
Year Language Title
1897Translated by Paul Combes, using his pseudonym C. Paulon as author (instead of crediting the rightful author, John Munro)
French Un message de la planète Mars [as by C. Paulon (I)]
1897Translated by Paul Combes, using his pseudonym C. Paulon as author (instead of crediting the rightful author, John Munro)
French Un message de la planète Mars (2) [as by C. Paulon (I)]
1897Translated by Paul Combes, using his pseudonym C. Paulon as author (instead of crediting the rightful author, John Munro)
French Un message de la planète Mars (3) [as by C. Paulon (I)]
1897Translated by Paul Combes, using his pseudonym C. Paulon as author (instead of crediting the rightful author, John Munro)
French Un message de la planète Mars (4) [as by C. Paulon (I)]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Cassell's Family Magazine, March 1895 1895-03-00 ed. Editors of Cassell's Family Magazine Cassell & Company  
-/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).
80
quarto?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag  
La Science Illustrée, 4 décembre 1897 1897-12-04 ed. Louis Figuier        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
La Science Illustrée, 11 décembre 1897 1897-12-11 ed. Louis Figuier        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
La Science Illustrée, 18 décembre 1897 1897-12-18 ed. Louis Figuier        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
La Science Illustrée, 25 décembre 1897 1897-12-25 ed. Louis Figuier        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Nemoville 2011-12-30 ed. Brian Stableford Black Coat Press (Black Coat French Science Fiction #65) 978-1-61227-070-8
$24.95?$: 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.
anth Mandy  
Nemoville 2012-07-19 ed. Brian Stableford Black Coat Press (Black Coat French Science Fiction #65)  
$5.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Mandy  
French Tales of Alien Encounters 2022-02-01 ed. Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier Black Coat Press 978-1-64932-109-1
$29.95?$: US dollar
400
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 Mike Hoffman  
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