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Title: Playing for Keeps

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Title: Playing for Keeps Title Record # 42908
Author: Jack C. Haldeman, II
Date: 1982-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: An alien invasion of earth is turned away when it encounters an eight year old boy.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1991Translated by Ronaldo Sergio de Biasi.
Portuguese Jogando Para Valer

Publications

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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, May 1982 1982-05-00 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".
mag David Schleinkoffer Checkmark
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".
anth Checkmark
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.
anth Checkmark
Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 1986-10-00 ed. Cynthia Manson, Sheila Williams Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-284209-8
$15.95?$: US dollar
ix+
298+
[1]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Stewart Daniels Checkmark
Isaac Asimov Magazine, #13 1991-00-00 ed. Ronaldo Sergio de Biasi Record     190
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.
mag  
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