Title: The Village Swindler
Title Record # 56902
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1968-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1968-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in The International, October 1968.
Not really genre. Atmospheric/disturbing.
Synopsis: An Englishman has a heart attack on a train in India, so he and his daughter stay briefly at a Hindu doctor's house, where she has some unsettling encounters with a poor man of the scheduled (untouchable) caste.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Moment of Eclipse | 1970-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Faber and Faber | 0-571-09570-4 | £1.50?£: UK pound |
215 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Jerome Gask | |
Moment of Eclipse | 1972-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Doubleday | $5.95?$: US dollar |
[10]+ 224 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Margo Herr | ||
L'instant de l'éclipse | 1973-02-19 | Brian W. Aldiss | Denoël?Denoel (Présence du Futur?Presence du Futur #164) |
247 | 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 | ||||
The Moment of Eclipse | 1973-11-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Panther | 0-586-03776-4 | £0.35?£: UK pound |
187 | 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 | Bob Haberfield | |
Decade: The 1960s | 1977-01-00 | ed. Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison | Macmillan UK | 0-333-19002-5 | £3.95?£: UK pound |
287 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | Ken Leader | |
The Moment of Eclipse | 1979-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Panther | 0-586-03776-4 | £1.25?£: UK pound |
187 | 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 | Peter Goodfellow | |
The Moment of Eclipse | 1979-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Panther | 0-586-03776-4 | £0.90?£: UK pound |
187 | 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 | ||
Decade: The 1960s | 1979-06-00 | ed. Brian W. Aldiss, Harry Harrison | Pan Books | 0-330-25767-6 | £0.90?£: UK pound |
287 | 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 | Chris Moore | |
Der Moment der Eklipse | 1983-10-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe (Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special #24049) |
3-404-24049-9 | DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
253 | 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 | Tim White | |
The Moment of Eclipse | 1985-00-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Panther / Granada | 0-586-03776-4 | £1.95?£: UK pound |
187 | 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 | Vincent Di Fate | |
A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories | 1989-09-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Gollancz | 0-575-04211-7 | £13.95?£: UK pound |
vi+ 345 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Lanfranco | |
A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories | 1990-04-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | Atheneum / Macmillan | 0-689-12053-2 | $18.95?$: US dollar |
345 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Lanfranco | |
A Romance of the Equator: Best Fantasy Stories | 1990-05-00 | Brian W. Aldiss | VGSF / Gollancz | 0-575-04778-X | £3.99?£: UK pound |
345 | 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 | Lanfranco | |
The Moment of Eclipse | 2000-00-00 | Brian Aldiss | House of Stratus | 0-7551-0079-4 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
207 | 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 | Derek Edwards | |
El Momento del Eclipse | 2002-04-11 | Brian W. Aldiss | Minotauro | 84-450-7367-2 | $12.35?$: US dollar |
238 | 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 | ||
The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s (Part 4) | 2015-09-24 | Brian Aldiss | Harper Voyager (UK) | 978-0-00-814896-6 | £10.99?£: UK pound |
620 | 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. |
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