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Title: The Garments of Caean

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Title: The Garments of Caean Title Record # 4538
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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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1978Translated by Annemarie Kindt
Dutch De klederen van Cajan
1980Translated by Maurizio Nati
Italian Le vesti di Caean
1983Translated by 冬川亘
Japanese
カエアンの聖衣?カエアンのきよい
Kaean no Kiyoi
[as by
バリントン・J・ベイリー?Barinton J. Beirī
Barinton J. Beirii
]

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Win (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
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 Checkmark
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) Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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 Checkmark
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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