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Title: The Ancestral Home of Thought

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Title: The Ancestral Home of Thought Title Record # 497811
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1980-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Three Revolutionary Enigmas
Series Number: 3
Language: English
Note: First published in the magazine Something Else, Spring 1980. This story is also part of another Enigma series: Her Toes Were Beautiful on the [Hilltops|Mountains] but software limitations prevents a story for being displayed in two series.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1981Translated by Tony Westermayr
German Das archaische Heim des Geistes

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Tor zu den Sternen 1981-11-00 ed. Peter Wilfert Goldmann (Goldmann Science Fiction #23400) 3-442-23400-X
DM 19.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
205+
[48]
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
Jürgen F. Rogner?Juergen F. Rogner
Checkmark
Tor zu den Sternen 1982-00-00 ed. Peter Wilfert Bertelsmann / Book Sales Clubs 04700   207+
[48]
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 Checkmark
Bestsellers Vol. 3, No. 9: Best of Aldiss 1983-00-00 Brian W. Aldiss Viaduct Publications  
£0.95?£: UK pound
64
bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
coll  
New Pathways Into Science Fiction and Fantasy, May 1989 1989-05-00 ed. Michael G. Adkisson MGA Services  
$4.00?$: US dollar
70
quarto?8.5" by 11" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag  
Universe 2 1992-03-00 ed. Karen Haber, Robert Silverberg Bantam Spectra 0-553-35123-0
$10.00?$: US dollar
397
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 Jean-François Podevin Checkmark
Universe 2 1992-03-00 ed. Karen Haber, Robert Silverberg Bantam Books 0-553-08038-5
$22.00?$: US dollar
xv+
397
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Jean-François Podevin Checkmark
The Secret of This Book 1995-10-00 Brian W. Aldiss HarperCollins (UK) 0-00-225364-X
£15.99?£: UK pound
333+
[1]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Gary Embury Checkmark
Common Clay: 20-Odd Stories 1996-03-00 Brian W. Aldiss St. Martin's Press 0-312-13948-9
$24.95?$: US dollar
334
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Gary Embury Checkmark
The Secret of This Book 1996-11-00 Brian Aldiss HarperCollins (UK) 0-00-649793-4
£5.99?£: UK pound
333+
[1]
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 Gary Embury Checkmark
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