Title: Frictional Losses Title Record # 47944
Author: John W. Campbell, Jr.
Date: 1936-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English User Rating: 6.00 (1 vote) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
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Year Title 1936 Frictional Losses [as by Don A. Stuart] 1936 Frictional Losses [as by John W. Campbell]	Year Language Title 1955ⓘTranslated by Alain Glatigny French Points de friction [as by John W. Campbell]	Year Language Title 1954ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator Italian Civiltà in cammino (Part 1 of 4) 1954ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator Italian Civiltà in cammino (Part 2 of 4) 1954ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator Italian Civiltà in cammino (Part 3 of 4) 1954ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator Italian Civiltà in cammino (Part 4 of 4)

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Who Goes There?	1948-00-00	John W. Campbell, Jr.	Shasta		$3.00?$: US dollar	230	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Hannes Bok
Who Goes There?	1951-00-00	John W. Campbell, Jr.	Shasta		$3.00?$: US dollar	230+ [1]	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Malcolm Smith
The Thing and Other Stories	1952-00-00	John W. Campbell, Jr.	Cherry Tree / Fantasy Books	408	1/6?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).	190	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	Terry Maloney
American Science Fiction, #17	1953-09-00	ed. uncredited	Malian Press		A -/9?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).	36	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	Stanley Pitt
Who Goes There?	1976-00-00	John W. Campbell, Jr.	Hyperion Press (Classics of Science Fiction)	0-88355-365-1	$12.50?$: US dollar	230	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Who Goes There?	1976-00-00	John W. Campbell, Jr.	Hyperion Press (Classics of Science Fiction)	0-88355-450-X	$3.95?$: US dollar	230	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
Who Goes There?	1991-06-00	John W. Campbell	Buccaneer Books	0-89966-734-1	$31.95?$: US dollar	230	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories	2003-02-00	John W. Campbell, Jr.	NESFA Press (NESFA's Choice #22)	1-886778-15-9	$26.00?$: US dollar	xvi+ 462	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Bob Eggleton
A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories	2003-02-00	John W. Campbell, Jr.	NESFA Press (NESFA's Choice #22)	1-886778-15-9	$26.00?$: US dollar	xvi+ 462	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Bob Eggleton
Who Goes There?	2010-07-01	John W. Campbell	RosettaBooks	978-0-7953-0066-0	$5.99?$: US dollar		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll

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Reviews

• Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years (Reviews: pages 266-522, M-Z)