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Title: Jesting Pilot Title Record # 45680
Authors: Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
Date: 1947-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: Citizens living in a city behind an impenetrable Barrier are hypnotized to lead a fulfilling existence. One man, however, is receiving inexplicable flashes, and wonders what lies beyond the Barrier.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1947 Jesting Pilot [as by Lewis Padgett]
1947First published in Astounding, May 1947.
Jesting Pilot [as by Henry Kuttner]
Year Language Title
1979 French
Une ville de ręve?Une ville de reve
[as by Henry Kuttner]
1982Translated by Joachim Körber.
German Spezialbehandlung [as by Henry Kuttner]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Astounding Science Fiction, May 1947 1947-05-00 ed. John W. Campbell, Jr. Street & Smith Publications, Inc.  
$0.25?$: US dollar
164
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 Rogers Checkmark
A Gnome There Was and Other Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy 1950-00-00 Lewis Padgett Simon & Schuster  
$2.50?$: US dollar
276
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Edd Cartier , K Chester Checkmark
Cities of Wonder 1966-00-00 ed. Damon Knight Doubleday  
C$4.95?C$: Canadian dollar
252
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Cities of Wonder 1966-02-00 ed. Damon Knight Doubleday  
$4.50?$: US dollar
[xii]+
252
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth John Rombola Checkmark
The Edge of the Chair 1967-00-00 ed. Joan Kahn Harper & Row 0-06-012238-2
$6.95?$: US dollar
xii+
560
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Cities of Wonder 1967-04-00 ed. Damon Knight Macfadden-Bartell 75-183
$0.75?$: US dollar
251
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 Jack Faragasso Checkmark
Cities of Wonder 1967-04-00 ed. Damon Knight Macfadden-Bartell 75-183
C$0.75?C$: Canadian dollar
251
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 Jack Faragasso Checkmark
Cities of Wonder 1968-05-00 ed. Damon Knight Dennis Dobson 0-234-77059-7
25/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
xi+
252
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Skeleton Keys: Tales from the Edge of the Chair 1969-08-00 ed. Joan Kahn Dell 8028
$0.75?$: US dollar
317
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 Lombadaro Checkmark
Cities of Wonder 1970-00-00 ed. Damon Knight Sphere 53058
6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
239
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
Cities of Wonder 1971-10-00 ed. Damon Knight Macfadden-Bartell 95-166
$0.95?$: US dollar
251
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 Jack Faragasso Checkmark
The City: 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction 1976-07-00 ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph Olander Fawcett Crest 0-449-22892-4
$1.95?$: US dollar
304
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 Larry Kresek Checkmark
Dans la cité future 1979-04-00 ed. Jacques Chambon Casterman (Autres temps, autres mondes) 2-203-22627-7   238
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Stryckman-Lybaert Checkmark
Metropolis brennt! 1982-09-00 ed. H. J. Alpers Moewig (Moewig Science Fiction #3591) 3-8118-3591-2
DM 7.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
287
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 Morris Scott Dollens Checkmark
Jesting Pilot 2021-04-19 Lewis Padgett Faded Page 20210453
C$0.00?C$: Canadian dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
chap Hubert Rogers Checkmark
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