Title: Segregation
Title Record # 325911
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1958-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1958-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: Word count is around 16,500, a novelette. The cover of New Worlds (US), July 1960 also describes it as a "novelet" [sic].
Synopsis: A crew of three men sent to survey the ecology of a planet where a human had lived among an apparently sentient reptile race for decades find that his theories regarding the aliens and the planetary ecology don't stand up to rigorous scrutiny, and resolve to solve the riddle.
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| New Worlds Science Fiction, #73 July 1958 | 1958-07-00 | ed. John Carnell | Nova Publications Ltd. | 2/-?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 | Brian Lewis |  |
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| Equator | 1961-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Digit Books | R533 | 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). |
160 | 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 | Chesley Bonestell | |
| Equator | 1963-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Digit Books | R695 | 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). |
157 | 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 | |