Title: The Makeshift Rocket
Title Record # 5342
Author: Poul Anderson
Date: 1962-00-00
Variant Title of: A Bicycle Built for Brew (1958) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Current Tags: None
Author: Poul Anderson
Date: 1962-00-00
Variant Title of: A Bicycle Built for Brew (1958) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Note: Having compared the original Ace text and the version in 'Door to Anywhere: The Collected Short Works Vol. 5', they are identical, so this isn't an expansion of A Bicycle Built for Brew, simply a republication. Length: around 31600 words, thus a novella.
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Un-Man and Other Novellas / The Makeshift Rocket | 1962-00-00 | Poul Anderson | Ace Books (Ace Double #F-139) | F-139 | $0.40?$: US dollar |
158+ 97 |
dos?Dos-a-dos or tete-beche formatted paperback books, such as Ace Doubles and Capra Press back-to-back books. |
omni | Ed Emshwiller , Ed Valigursky | |
The Makeshift Rocket | 1969-09-00 | Poul Anderson | Dennis Dobson | 0-234-77369-3 | 18/-?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). |
97 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | Richard Weaver (artist) | |
The Makeshift Rocket | 1978-05-00 | Poul Anderson | Hamlyn Paperbacks | 0-600-37609-5 | £0.70?£: UK pound |
114 | 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. |
chap | Peter Jones | |
The Makeshift Rocket | 2011-09-29 | Poul Anderson | Gateway / Orion | 978-0-575-10913-1 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap | |||
The Makeshift Rocket | 2014-12-30 | Poul Anderson | Open Road Integrated Media | 978-1-4976-9427-9 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
120 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap | ||
The Makeshift Rocket | 2014-12-30 | Poul Anderson | Open Road Integrated Media | 978-1-4976-9590-0 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
chap |
Reviews
- Review by Philippa Grove-Stephensen (1978) in Paperback Parlour, June 1978