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Title: Is That What People Do? Title Record # 58562
Author: Robert Sheckley
Date: 1978-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1979Translated by Beata Della Frattina
Italian E' "Questo" Che Fa La Gente?
1980Translated by Maud Perrin
French Que font donc les gens quand ils se croient seuls ?
1981Translated by Michael Görden (likely)
German Wenn Leute ganz allein sind
2015Translated by Marcheto; first published on the blog Cuentos para Algernon.
Spanish ¡Menudas cosas hace la gente!

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Anticipations 1978-00-00 ed. Christopher Priest Faber and Faber 0-571-11207-2
£4.60?£: UK pound
214
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Dave Griffiths Checkmark
Anticipations 1978-09-00 ed. Christopher Priest Charles Scribner's Sons 0-684-15634-2
$8.95?$: US dollar
214
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Dave Griffiths Checkmark
The Robot Who Looked Like Me 1978-10-00 Robert Sheckley Sphere 0-7221-7758-5
£0.85?£: UK pound
189
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 Checkmark
Urania #768 1979-01-28 ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini Mondadori 768
Lit 900?Lit: Italian lira
156
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".
mag Karel Thole  
Anticipations 1980-00-00 ed. Christopher Priest Pan Books 0-330-25545-2
£0.95?£: UK pound
214
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
Endstation Zukunft 1981-07-00 Robert Sheckley
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special
#24020)
3-404-24020-0
DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
236
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 Carl Lundgren Checkmark
Endstation Zukunft 1982-03-00 Robert Sheckley
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special
#24020)
3-404-24020-0
DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
236
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 Carl Lundgren Checkmark
The Robot Who Looked Like Me 1982-07-00 Robert Sheckley Bantam Books 0-553-13031-5
$2.50?$: US dollar
179
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 Thompson Checkmark
Endstation Zukunft 1983-08-00 Robert Sheckley
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Special?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Special
#24020)
3-404-24020-0
DM 6.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
236
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 Carl Lundgren Checkmark
Is That What People Do? 1984-08-00 Robert Sheckley Holt, Rinehart and Winston 0-03-063707-4
$19.95?$: US dollar
402
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll David Gambale Checkmark
Le robot qui me ressemblait 1987-05-15 Robert Sheckley J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Science Fiction #2193) 2-277-22193-7   215
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 Tiziano Cremonini Checkmark
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley 1991-09-00 Robert Sheckley Pulphouse Publishing  
$150.00?$: US dollar
331+
380+
360+
275+
344
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Checkmark
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Five 1991-09-00 Robert Sheckley Pulphouse Publishing     344
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley: Book Five 1992-07-00 Robert Sheckley Pulphouse Publishing 1-56146-424-4
$12.95?$: US dollar
344
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  
Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley 2012-05-01 Robert Sheckley New York Review of Books (NYRB Classics) 978-1-59017-494-4
$17.95?$: US dollar
xi+
396
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 Keith Carter Checkmark
Cuentos para Algernon: Año III 2015-10-22 ed. Marcheto    
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
anth  
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