Title: What's the Name of That Town?
Title Record # 59023
Author: R. A. Lafferty
Date: 1964-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Institute for Impure Science
Language: English
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Author: R. A. Lafferty
Date: 1964-10-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Series: Institute for Impure Science
Language: English
Synopsis: A researcher who believes he has found a strange historical mystery consults a superintelligent computer for help.
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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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| Galaxy Magazine, October 1964 | 1964-10-00 | ed. Frederik Pohl | Galaxy Publishing Corporation | $0.50?$: US dollar |
196 | 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 | Schelling |  |
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| Science Fiction Oddities | 1966-11-00 | ed. Groff Conklin | Berkley Medallion | S1311 | $0.75?$: US dollar |
256 | 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 Punchatz | |
| Science Fiction Oddities | 1969-06-00 | ed. Groff Conklin | Rapp & Whiting | 0-85391-082-0 | 21/-?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). |
x+ 156 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | |
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| Nine Hundred Grandmothers | 1970-00-00 | R. A. Lafferty | Ace Books (Ace SF Special, Series 1 #58050) | 58050 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
318 | 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 | Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon | |
| Nine Hundred Grandmothers | 1975-05-00 | R. A. Lafferty | Dennis Dobson | 0-234-77286-7 | £3.50?£: UK pound |
318 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||
| Inside Information: Computers in Fiction | 1977-00-00 | ed. Abbe Mowshowitz | Addison-Wesley | 0-201-04929-5 | $7.95?$: US dollar |
xxiii+ 345 |
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 | ||
| Nine Hundred Grandmothers | 1982-01-00 | R. A. Lafferty | Ace Books | 0-441-58051-3 | $2.50?$: US dollar |
318 | 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 | Charles Mikolaycak | |
| Fantastic Chicago | 1991-08-00 | ed. Martin H. Greenberg | Chicon V | $15.00?$: US dollar |
136 | 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 | Richard Powers | ||
| Nine Hundred Grandmothers | 1999-00-00 | R. A. Lafferty | Wildside Press | 1-880448-97-1 | $15.00?$: US dollar |
318 | 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 | |
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| Nine Hundred Grandmothers | 2016-01-29 | R. A. Lafferty | Gateway / Orion | 978-1-4732-1366-1 | £2.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
coll | |||
| The Man Who Never Was | 2021-03-14 | R. A. Lafferty | Centipede Press | 978-1-61347-266-8 | $65.00?$: US dollar |
383 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Jacob McMurray | |
| The Man Who Never Was | 2021-03-14 | R. A. Lafferty | Centipede Press | 978-1-61347-266-8 | $65.00?$: US dollar |
383 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | Jacob McMurray | |