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Title: Conversion Title Record # 43091
Author: Bob Shaw
Date: 1981-08-03
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: Makes use of a device that can only be described as a wormhole, though it's not called so. Through it a strange and horrifying lifeform runs loose alongside with the point of focus.
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Current Tags: alien visitation (1), cold (1), wormholes (1), first person point of view (1), oil well (1), horror (1), zombie (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1982Translated by Jürgen Langowski
German Der Durchbruch
1983Translated by Vittorio Curtoni
Italian Locus-Alfa, Locus-Zeta
1988
  • Translated by Aleksandar B. Nedeljković
Serbian Konverzija [as by
Bob Šo?Bob Sho
Bob So
]

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, August 3, 1981 1981-08-03 ed. George H. Scithers 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 Mattingly Checkmark
A Better Mantrap 1982-01-00 Bob Shaw Gollancz 0-575-03083-6
£6.95?£: UK pound
192
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazin 16. Folge 1982-12-00 ed. Friedel Wahren Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3940) 3-453-30866-2
DM 5.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
207+
[1]
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.
anth Karel Thole Checkmark
Urania #937 1983-02-06 ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini Mondadori 937
Lit 1,800?Lit: Italian lira
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 Karel Thole  
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
A Better Mantrap 1984-03-00 Bob Shaw Panther / Granada 0-586-05706-4
£1.50?£: UK pound
238
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 Tim White Checkmark
Alef, #10 1988-05-00 ed.
Boban Knežević?Boban Knezevic
Dnevnik  
Din 1,500?Din: Serbian and Yugoslavian dinar
132
A5?14.8 cm by 21 cm or 5.8" by 8.3" magazine, used by some UK and European magazines
mag
Dobrosav Bob Živković?Dobrosav Bob Zivkovic
Dobrosav Bob Zhivkovic
Checkmark
A Better Mantrap 2011-09-29 Bob Shaw Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-11114-1
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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