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Title: The Mother of Necessity Title Record # 56973
Author: Chad Oliver
Date: 1955-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Translations
Year Language Title
1965Translated by uncredited
German Das neue System
1986Translated by Michael Nagula.
German Das neue System

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Another Kind 1955-00-00 Chad Oliver Ballantine Books H-113
$2.00?$: US dollar
170
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Richard Powers Checkmark
Another Kind 1955-00-00 Chad Oliver Ballantine Books 113
$0.35?$: US dollar
170
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 Richard Powers Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1962-06-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books AS 218
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1962-06-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books AS 218
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1962-06-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books AS 218
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Checkmark
Menschen auf fremden Sternen 1965-05-07 Chad Oliver Moewig (Terra Sonderband #96) TSB96
DM 1.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
98
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".
coll Karl Stephan Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1966-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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  
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1967-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1968-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1970-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$0.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz Checkmark
Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology 1972-00-00 ed. Willis E. McNelly, Leon E. Stover Goodyear Publishing 0-87620-003-X   viii+
387
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth B. Buerge Checkmark
Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology 1972-00-00 ed. Willis E. McNelly, Leon E. Stover Goodyear Publishing 0-87620-002-1   viii+
387
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 B. Buerge Checkmark
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1973-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 01903
$1.25?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz  
Great Science Fiction by Scientists 1978-00-00 ed. Groff Conklin Collier Books 0-02-019030-1
$2.95?$: US dollar
313
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 Don Ivan Punchatz Checkmark
Science Fiction A to Z: A Dictionary of the Great S.F. Themes 1982-08-00 ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh Houghton Mifflin 0-395-31285-X
$22.95?$: US dollar
xvii+
651
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Menschen auf fremden Sternen 1986-03-00 Chad Oliver Moewig (Utopia Classics #87) 3-8118-5033-4
DM 5.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
161
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
Hans-Günter Hauptmann?Hans-Guenter Hauptmann
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Auf fremden Sternen 1987-09-00 Chad Oliver Moewig (Moewig Science Fiction #3774) 3-8118-3774-5
DM 7.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
161
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 David Hardy  
A Star Above It and Other Stories 2003-08-00 Chad Oliver NESFA Press 1-886778-45-0
$24.00?$: US dollar
473
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Jane Dennis Checkmark
A Star Above It and Other Stories 2015-07-30 Chad Oliver Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-12606-0
£2.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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