Title: The Reefs of Space
Title Record # 3516
Authors: Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
Date: 1964-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Starchild
Series Number: 1
Language: English
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Authors: Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson
Date: 1964-09-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Starchild
Series Number: 1
Language: English
Synopsis: From the first page of the Ballantine first edition: "Steve Ryeland knew that he was a criminal, who had failed the Plan of Man... but he could not remember his crime. Around his neck he wore an iron collar containing an explosive charge that would destroy him if he tried to escape; but what he had done that had put it there he could only remember in tantalizing fragments.
And the Steve, still a prisoner, was given the world's most important job - to develop a "jetless drive", a new space propulsion system that would permit the forces of man to expand into the Reefs of Space, the half-mythical bodies that circled the solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Ryeland had to succeed - or be relegated to the horrors of the living Body Bank."
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Awards
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Nominations Below Cutoff | 1964 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 |
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If, July 1963 | 1963-07-00 | ed. Frederik Pohl | Galaxy Publishing Corporation | $0.40?$: US dollar |
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 | Emsh | ||
If, September 1963 | 1963-09-00 | ed. Frederik Pohl | Galaxy Publishing Corporation | $0.40?$: US dollar |
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 | Wenzel | ||
If, November 1963 | 1963-11-00 | ed. Frederik Pohl | Galaxy Publishing Corporation | $0.40?$: US dollar |
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 | Jack Gaughan | ||
The Reefs of Space | 1964-09-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Ballantine Books | U2172 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
188 | 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 | Jacques Wyrs | |
The Reefs of Space | 1964-09-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Ballantine Books | U2172 | C$0.50?C$: Canadian dollar |
188 | 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 | Jacques Wyrs | |
The Reefs of Space | 1965-00-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Dennis Dobson (Dobson Science Fiction) | 15/-?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). |
182 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
The Reefs of Space | 1969-00-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Penguin Books | 2778 | £0.20?£: UK pound |
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 | Franco Grignani | |
The Reefs of Space | 1973-08-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Ballantine Books | 0-345-23448-0 | $1.25?$: US dollar |
188 | 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 | Jacques Wyrs | |
The Starchild Trilogy | 1977-10-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Nelson Doubleday / SFBC | 1310 | $3.98?$: US dollar |
436 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | Gary Viskupic | |
The Starchild Trilogy | 1977-12-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Pocket Books | 0-671-81105-3 | $1.95?$: US dollar |
442 | 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. |
omni | ||
The Starchild Trilogy | 1977-12-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Pocket Books | 0-671-81105-3 | C$1.95?C$: Canadian dollar |
442 | 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. |
omni | ||
The Starchild Trilogy | 1980-06-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Penguin Books | 0-14-005249-6 | £1.95?£: UK pound |
508 | 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. |
omni | Adrian Chesterman | |
The Starchild Trilogy | 1983-02-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Timescape / Pocket Books | 0-671-46904-5 | $3.95?$: US dollar |
442 | 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. |
omni | ||
The Starchild Trilogy | 1985-01-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Nelson Doubleday / SFBC | 01310 | 436 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | Gary Viskupic | ||
The Starchild Trilogy | 1986-03-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Baen Books | 0-671-65558-2 | $3.95?$: US dollar |
442 | 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. |
omni | Alan Gutierrez | |
The Starchild Trilogy | 1991-12-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Baen Books | 0-671-65558-2 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
442 | 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. |
omni | Alan Gutierrez | |
The Starchild Trilogy | 1992-00-00 | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Baen Books | 0-671-65558-2 | $4.99?$: US dollar |
448 | 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. |
omni | Alan Guitierrez | |
The Starchild Trilogy | date unknown | Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson | Pocket Books | 0-671-82284-5 | $2.50?$: US dollar |
442 | 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. |
omni |
Reviews
- Review by Algis Budrys (1965) in Galaxy Magazine, February 1965
- Review by Ian McAulay [as by Ian MacAulay] (1965) in Vector 35
- Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1966) in Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, July 1966
- Review [Dutch] by Eddy C. Bertin [as by Eddy Bertin] (1972) in Holland-SF 1972, #5
- Review
[German]
by
Hermann Urbanek
(1982)
in Die Androidenjäger?Die Androidenjaeger
- Review
[German]
by
Michael Nagula
[as by uncredited]
(1982)
in Perry Rhodan, #271: Die Welt der Körperlosen?Perry Rhodan, #271: Die Welt der Koerperlosen