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Title: Coursing Title Record # 42896
Author: Barry N. Malzberg
Date: 1982-04-14
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: When the self-styled King of the Universe issues an ultimatum to humanity, a felon is dispatched in a ship to attempt to to bargain with him, or, failing that, destroy him by detonating an enormous suicide bomb. Things become complicated when the King notices a female personality programmed into the ship to provide company for the pilot.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1982Translated by Žarko Vodinelić
Croatian Osvajanje [as by Barry Malzberg]
1982Translated by Biggy Winter
German Wo ein Wille ist ...

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1982 1982-04-14 ed. Kathleen Moloney Davis Publications  
$1.50?$: US dollar
180
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".
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Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders 1983-03-00 ed. Shawna McCarthy Davis Publications  
$2.95?$: US dollar
288
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".
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Isaac Asimov's Aliens & Outworlders 1983-04-00 ed. Shawna McCarthy The Dial Press 0-385-27912-4
$12.95?$: US dollar
288
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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The Very Best of Barry N. Malzberg 2013-02-28 Barry N. Malzberg Nonstop Press 978-1-933065-55-7
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Very Best of Barry N. Malzberg 2013-02-28 Barry N. Malzberg Nonstop Press 978-1-933065-58-8
$7.49?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
The Very Best of Barry N. Malzberg 2013-07-00 Barry N. Malzberg Nonstop Press 978-1-933065-41-0
$14.95?$: US dollar
307
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.
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The Very Best of Barry N. Malzberg 2015-09-08 Barry N. Malzberg Nonstop Press 978-1-933065-50-2
$4.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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