Title: The Garments of Caean
Title Record # 4538
Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Date: 1976-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Barrington J. Bayley
Date: 1976-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first printing: "The Key to Power - Back on Old Earth there was saying that clothes make the man. But on the world called Caean this became literally true. On that colonized planet there was a material called Prossim. If your body came in contact with Prossim your personality changed. You became handsome, you had vast charisma, you had total self-confidence - you were always the power center of every enterprise.
So throughout the inhabited galaxy clothing from Caean was the sure key to success and men would kill to get such a suit. Peder Forbarth was such a man, prepared to turn space pirate to get his hands on some. But instead he found that - at the risk of world - the very secret of Prossim cloth itself was about to open before his eyes...
Barrington Bayley's unusual novel is a taut, suspense-filled science fiction adventure entirely different from any you may have ever read!"
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(as カエアンの聖衣?カエアンのきよい )
Kaean no Kiyoi |
1984 Seiun | Best Translated Long Story |
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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The Garments of Caean | 1976-02-00 | Barrington J. Bayley | Doubleday | 0-385-04397-X | $5.95?$: US dollar |
189 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Jan Esteves | |
The Garments of Caean | 1978-05-00 | Barrington J. Bayley | Fontana | 0-00-614862-X | £0.90?£: UK pound |
222 | 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 | Tony Roberts (artist) | |
The Garments of Caean | 1980-02-00 | Barrington J. Bayley | DAW Books (DAW Collectors #375) | 0-87997-519-9 / UJ1519 | $1.95?$: US dollar |
206 | 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 | H. R. Van Dongen | |
The Garments of Caean | 1980-02-00 | Barrington J. Bayley | DAW Books / New American Library of Canada | 0-87997-519-9 | C$2.25?C$: Canadian dollar |
206 | 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 | H. R. Van Dongen | |
The Pillars of Eternity and The Garments of Caean | 1989-12-00 | Barrington J. Bayley | Pan Books | 0-330-30835-1 | £3.99?£: UK pound |
414 | 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 | Chris Moore | |
The Garments of Caean | 2011-09-29 | Barrington J. Bayley | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-10209-5 | £4.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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Reviews
- Review by Fred Patten [as by Frederick Patten] (1976) in Delap's F & SF Review, July 1976
- Review by Angus Taylor [as by Angus M. Taylor] (1977) in Foundation, #11 and 12 March 1977
- Review by Andrew Darlington (1977) in Vector 83
- Review by Christopher Lampton [as by Chris Lampton] (1977) in Thrust, #8, Spring 1977
- Review by Phil Stephensen-Payne [as by Philip Stephensen-Payne] (1978) in Paperback Parlour, June 1978
- Review by Stephen E. Andrews and Nick Rennison (2006) in 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels, (2006) , reprinted in:
- 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels (2007)
- 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels (unknown)