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Title: The Eye of the Lens Title Record # 57965
Author: Langdon Jones
Date: 1968-03-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English
Note: Novelette "The Eye of the Lens" is a concatenation of three short stories, "The Hall of Machines", "The Coming of the Sun", and "The Eye of the Lens." Each is subtitled as a section in the novelette, and each contains subsubsections.
Synopsis: Three sections: "The Hall of Machines" is a Kafkaesque/Borgesian description of an enormous hall filled with exotic machines and a detailed description of each. In "The Coming of the Sun" a man sets fire to a building and the event is then described from various points of view outside the building. "The Eye of the Lens" describes an impressionistic film pondering life, death, and rebirth.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1983Translated by Joachim Körber
German Der Blick durch die Linse

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6 1970-04-00 ed. Michael Moorcock Panther 0-586-03283-5
5/-?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).
176
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.
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The Best SF Stories from New Worlds 6 1971-07-00 ed. Michael Moorcock Berkley Medallion 0-425-02075-4
$0.75?$: US dollar
176
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.
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New Worlds: An Anthology 1983-09-00 ed. Michael Moorcock Flamingo / Fontana Paperbacks 0-00-654003-1
£3.50?£: UK pound
512
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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New Worlds: An Anthology 2004-09-00 ed. Michael Moorcock Thunder's Mouth Press 1-56858-317-6
$18.95?$: US dollar
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386
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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