Title: The Eleventh Commandment

Title: The Eleventh Commandment Title Record # 513711
Author: Lester del Rey
Date: 1962-01-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English

Note: According to the German (Moewig) edition from 1981, the 1970 edition was revised by del Rey. The Del Rey / Ballantine Books 1981 printing has the following: Copyright 1962 by Lester Del Rey Revised Edition Copyright 1970 by Lester Del Rey First Edition: November 1970 Third Printing: September 1981

Synopsis: From the back cover of the Del Rey Books third printing: Earth was a teeming, desperate hellhole... overpopulated beyond the wildest nightmare and rife with starvation and disease. And still the people multiplied. They had no choice. The Eleventh Commandment ordained it, and the militant ruling religion enforced it. For the billions of devout and dutiful, life was merely unbearable. For Martian-born Boyd Jensen, it was a seething pulsating hell. Nefariously deported to his ancestral homeland, Boyd was now trapped on a world of unholy horrors from which there was no escape. All his medical and scientific training was less than useless... it was even dangerous. There seemed no point in trying to fight the new, omnipotent church. The he fell in love and had to learn to understand... or to perish!

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Translated Serializations

Year	Language	Title
1975^ⓘTranslated by Charles Canet	French	Le onzième commandement^?Le onzieme commandement
1981^ⓘTranslated by Johannes Jaspert and Joachim Körber based on the revised edition from 1970.	German	Das elfte Gebot
2001	Italian	L'undicesimo comandamento

Year	Language	Title
1964^ⓘTranslated by A. Del Prato	Italian	L'undicesimo comandamento (Complete Novel)

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Eleventh Commandment	1962-01-00	Lester del Rey	Regency Books	RB 113	$0.50^?$: US dollar	159	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.	novel	Diane Dillon , Leo Dillon
The Eleventh Commandment	1970-11-00	Lester del Rey	Ballantine Books	0-345-02068-5	$0.95^?$: US dollar	186	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.	novel	Dean Ellis
The Eleventh Commandment	1970-11-00	Lester del Rey	Ballantine Books	0-345-02068-5	C$0.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	186	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.	novel	Dean Ellis
The Eleventh Commandment	1976-02-00	Lester del Rey	Ballantine Books	0-345-23987-3	$1.50^?$: US dollar	186	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.	novel	Dean Ellis
The Eleventh Commandment	1981-09-00	Lester del Rey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-29641-9	$2.50^?$: US dollar	186	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.	novel	Diane Dillon , Leo Dillon
The Eleventh Commandment	1981-09-00	Lester del Rey	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-29641-9	C$2.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	186	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.	novel	Diane Dillon , Leo Dillon

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Reviews

Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1962) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, September 1962
Review by James Blish (1971) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1971
Review by David G. Hartwell [as by Dave Hartwell] (1971) in Locus, #100 November 11, 1971
Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer