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Title: Junkyard Title Record # 45710
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Date: 1953-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Synopsis: A spaceship finds some strange artifacts from an unremarkable planet. It seems like some unknown time ago an alien ship landed on the planet, and its' crew disassembled ship's engines, and used another, older alien ships' engines to replace them. And when the earth ship tries to leave, the crew discovers that all members the crew have forgotten how to fly the ship.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1953Translated by an uncredited translator
Italian Il cimitero delle astronavi
1957Translated by Michel Deutsch (likely not for Galaxie)
French La planète aux pièges
1959Translated by Lothar Heinecke for the first German publication in 1959
German Die Gedanken-Falle
1959Translated by Lothar Heinecke
German Die Raumschiff-Falle
1967Translated by D. T. Kosterman and H. M. Wenzing
Dutch Schroothoop

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Galaxy Science Fiction, May 1953 1953-05-00 ed. H. L. Gold Galaxy Publishing Corporation  
$0.35?$: 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 Mel Hunter Checkmark
Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction 1954-04-00 ed. H. L. Gold Crown Publishers  
$3.50?$: US dollar
vi+
[2]+
504
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Mel Hunter Checkmark
Galaxy Science Fiction Omnibus 1955-00-00 ed. H. L. Gold Grayson & Grayson  
13/6?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).
350
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth H. Johns  
Off-Planet 1988-08-00 Clifford D. Simak Methuen 0-413-18500-1
£10.95?£: UK pound
223
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Chris Moore Checkmark
Off-Planet 1989-09-00 Clifford D. Simak Methuen / Mandarin 0-7493-0099-X
£3.50?£: UK pound
223
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 Moore Checkmark
The Big Front Yard and Other Stories 2015-10-20 Clifford D. Simak Open Road Integrated Media 978-1-5040-1283-6
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Jason Gabbert Checkmark
The Big Front Yard and Other Stories 2016-08-02 Clifford D. Simak Open Road Integrated Media 978-1-5040-3945-1
$15.99?$: US dollar
xi+
315
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 Jason Gabbert Checkmark
The Works of Clifford D. Simak Volume Four 2018-12-18 Clifford D. Simak Open Road Integrated Media (The Works of Clifford D. Simak (Open Road) #4) 978-1-5040-5766-0
$22.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
omni  
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