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Title: Drop Dead Title Record # 45910
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Date: 1956-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1964 Drop Dead [as by Clifford Simak]
Year Language Title
1957 French Trop facile !
1959 Italian Creatura
1963Translated by Denise Rousset
French Raides mortes
1966Translated by Clark Darlton under his legal name Walter Ernsting
German Die Viecher
1974Translated by Gisela Stege
German Die Mehrzweck-Tiere
1989Translated by Barbara Piccioli
Italian La Creatura

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, July 1956 1956-07-00 ed. H. L. Gold Galaxy Publishing Corporation  
$0.35?$: US dollar
148
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 Jack Coggins Checkmark
Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], No. 42 1956-09-00 ed. H. L. Gold Strato Publications  
2/-?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).
132
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 Jack Coggins Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1962-01-00 Clifford D. Simak Doubleday  
$3.95?$: US dollar
287
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Lawrence Ratzkin Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1962-03-00 Clifford D. Simak Doubleday  
$3.95?$: US dollar
287
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Lawrence Ratzkin Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1962-05-00 Clifford D. Simak Doubleday / SFBC  
$1.20?$: US dollar
287
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Lawrence Ratzkin Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1963-06-00 Clifford D. Simak Macfadden Books 50-165
$0.50?$: US dollar
158
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1964-00-00 Clifford Simak Four Square Books 993
2/6?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).
143
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 Curtis Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1965-04-00 Clifford Simak Four Square Books 1351
3/6?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).
143
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 Curtis Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1967-09-00 Clifford D. Simak Macfadden Books 50-388
$0.50?$: US dollar
158
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1967-09-00 Clifford D. Simak Macfadden Books 50-338
C$0.50?C$: Canadian dollar
158
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth 1968-08-00 Clifford D. Simak New English Library 2230
3/6?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).
143
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 Checkmark
The Science Fiction Bestiary 1971-00-00 ed. Robert Silverberg Thomas Nelson 0-8407-6172-4
$5.95?$: US dollar
256
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth John R. Gibson Checkmark
The Science Fiction Bestiary 1971-00-00 ed. Robert Silverberg Thomas Nelson (Weekly Reader Book Club) 0-8407-6172-4   256
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth John R. Gibson Checkmark
The Science Fiction Bestiary 1973-03-00 ed. Robert Silverberg Thomas Nelson 0-8407-6172-4   256
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth John R. Gibson Checkmark
The Science Fiction Bestiary 1974-02-00 ed. Robert Silverberg Dell Laurel 8139
$0.95?$: 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 Gervasio Gallardo Checkmark
The Science Fiction Bestiary 1974-02-00 ed. Robert Silverberg Dell Laurel 8139
$1.25?$: 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 Gervasio Gallardo Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth 1974-03-00 Clifford D. Simak Manor Books 95315
$0.95?$: US dollar
158
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 Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories 1979-08-00 Clifford D. Simak Avon 0-380-45500-5
$2.25?$: 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 Jan Esteves Checkmark
All the Traps of Earth 1988-07-00 Clifford D. Simak Avon 0-380-45500-5
$3.50?$: 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 Jim Warren Checkmark
New Folks' Home and Other Stories 2016-03-01 Clifford D. Simak Open Road Integrated Media 978-1-5040-2318-4
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Jason Gabbert  
Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction 2020-08-27 ed. Mike Ashley British Library Publishing (British Library Science Fiction Classics) 978-0-7123-5357-1
£9.99?£: UK pound
352
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  
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