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Title: The Star Pit

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Title: The Star Pit Title Record # 43765
Author: Samuel R. Delany
Date: 1967-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1967 The Star-Pit
Year Language Title
1982Translated by Waltraud Götting
German Das Sternenloch
1984Translated by William Olivier Desmond
French
La fosse aux étoiles?La fosse aux etoiles
1987<ul><li>Translated by Mirjana Živković </ul>
Serbian Zvezdani ponor [as by Semjuel Dilejni]

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Finalists 1968 Hugo Best Novella

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Driftglass 1971-07-00 Samuel R. Delaney Nelson Doubleday / SFBC 3381
$1.49?$: US dollar
274
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll David Wilcox Checkmark
Driftglass 1971-11-00 Samuel R. Delany Signet / New American Library Q4834
$0.95?$: US dollar
278
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 Bob Pepper Checkmark
Driftglass 1971-11-00 Samuel R. Delany Signet / New American Library of Canada Q4834
C$0.95?C$: Canadian dollar
278
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 Bob Pepper Checkmark
Alpha 5 1974-08-00 ed. Robert Silverberg Ballantine Books 0-345-24140-1
$1.25?$: US dollar
x+
267
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 Bruce Pennington Checkmark
Alpha 5 1974-08-00 ed. Robert Silverberg Ballantine Books 0-345-24140-1
C$1.25?C$: Canadian dollar
x+
267
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 Bruce Pennington Checkmark
Alpha 5 1974-09-00 ed. Robert Silverberg Ballantine Books 0-345-24140-1
$1.25?$: US dollar
x+
267
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 Checkmark
Driftglass 1977-11-00 Samuel R. Delany Signet 0-451-07415-7
$1.50?$: US dollar
278
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 Bob Pepper Checkmark
Driftglass 1977-12-00 Samuel R. Delany Gregg Press 0-8398-2395-9
$13.00?$: US dollar
xxxvi+
279
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Driftglass 1978-00-00 Samuel R. Delany Gollancz 0-575-02477-1
£4.25?£: UK pound
278
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Checkmark
Driftglass 1980-04-00 Samuel R. Delany Panther / Granada 0-586-04916-9
£1.25?£: UK pound
318
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 Chris Foss Checkmark
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 1980-11-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg Priam Books / Arbor House 0-87795-295-7
$9.95?$: US dollar
x+
768
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.
anth  
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 1980-12-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg Arbor House 0-87795-295-7
$19.95?$: US dollar
x+
768
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Antler & Baldwin, Inc. Checkmark
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 1981-05-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg Arbor House / SFBC 5754
$6.98?$: US dollar
753
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Antler & Baldwin, Inc. Checkmark
Driftglass 1983-00-00 Samuel R. Delany Signet / New American Library 0-451-12092-2
$2.95?$: US dollar
278
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  
Driftglass 1986-04-00 Samuel R. Delany Signet / New American Library 0-451-12092-2
$2.95?$: US dollar
278
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  
Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo / The Star Pit 1989-01-00 ed. Samuel R. Delany, John Varley Tor (Tor Double #4) 0-812-55956-8
$2.95?$: US dollar
101+
82
dos?Dos-a-dos or tete-beche formatted paperback books, such as Ace Doubles and Capra Press back-to-back books.
anth Tony Roberts , David Lee Anderson Checkmark
Worlds Imagined 1989-04-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg Avenel Books 0-517-68029-7
$8.98?$: US dollar
x+
704
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Driftglass/Starshards 1993-03-00 Samuel R. Delany Grafton 0-586-21422-4
£5.99?£: UK pound
535
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 John Harris Checkmark
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction 1994-02-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press 0-312-10504-5
$27.95?$: US dollar
xii+
657
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Kim Poor Checkmark
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction 1994-02-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press / SFBC 02508
$14.98?$: US dollar
xii+
657
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Kim Poor Checkmark
The Mammoth Book of Contemporary SF Masters 1994-07-00 ed. Gardner Dozois Robinson 1-85487-297-4
£5.99?£: UK pound
xii+
657
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.
anth Checkmark
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction 1994-09-01 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press 0-312-11317-X
$15.95?$: US dollar
657
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.
anth Kim Poor  
Aye, and Gomorrah: Stories 2003-04-08 Samuel R. Delany Vintage Books 0-375-70671-2
$14.00?$: US dollar
383
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.
coll Yukimasa Hirota Checkmark
Aye, and Gomorrah 2013-07-25 Samuel R. Delany Gateway / Orion (Gateway Essentials) 978-0-575-11928-4
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction 2014-10-28 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press 978-1-4668-8447-2
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth Kim Poor  
Driftglass 2021-06-03 Samuel R. Delany Penguin Books (Penguin Classics Science Fiction) 978-0-241-51057-5
£8.99?£: UK pound
400
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  
Driftglass 2021-06-03 Samuel R. Delany Penguin Books (Penguin Classics Science Fiction) 978-0-241-51058-2
£8.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Driftglass date unknown Samuel R. Delany Signet / New American Library 0-451-14424-4
$2.95?$: US dollar
278
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 Jim Warren  
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