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Title: Foreword: Attempting to Please

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Title: Foreword: Attempting to Please Title Record # 623401
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 2001-00-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
2001 Foreword: Attempting to Please [as by Brian Aldiss]
Year Language Title
2001Translated by Alexandra Santos Tavares
Portuguese Prólogo: Tentando Agradar (Inteligência Artificial) [as by Brian Aldiss]
2001Translated by Riccardo Valla
Italian Introduzione. Genialità e insoddisfazione: i "Supertoys", da Stanley Kubrick a Steven Spielberg (A.I. Intelligenza artificiale)
2001Translated by Eduardo García Murillo.
Spanish Prólogo: Intentar complacer
2001Translated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Usch%20Kiausch&amp;type=Name&amp;mode=exact">Usch Kiausch</a>
German Einleitung: Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg und ein kleiner Roboter [as by Brian Aldiss]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time 2001-01-00 Brian Aldiss Orbit 1-84149-043-1
£6.99?£: UK pound
xix+
232
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 Checkmark
Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time 2001-02-00 Brian Aldiss Orbit 1-84149-043-1
£6.99?£: UK pound
xix+
232
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 Checkmark
Inteligência Artificial 2001-04-00 Brian Aldiss Livros do Brasil (Argonauta #524) 972-38-1860-4   278
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 A. Pedro Checkmark
Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time 2001-06-00 Brian Aldiss St. Martin's Griffin 0-312-28061-0
$13.95?$: US dollar
xix+
232
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 Checkmark
Urania #1415 2001-06-03 ed. Giuseppe Lippi Mondadori 1415
Lit 6,900?Lit: Italian lira
252
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.
mag Franco Brambilla  
AI: Super-Toys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time 2001-09-00 Brian Aldiss Orbit 1-84149-094-6
£5.99?£: UK pound
xix+
232
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 Checkmark
Los superjuguetes duran todo el verano y otras historias del futuro 2001-09-00 Brian W. Aldiss Plaza & Janés (Éxitos) 84-01-32875-6   235
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  
Künstliche Intelligenzen 2001-10-00 Brian Aldiss Heyne (Heyne Allgemeine Reihe #20078) 3-453-19100-5
DM 15.55?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
368
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
Jürgen Rogner?Juergen Rogner
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Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time date unknown Brian Aldiss St. Martin's Griffin 0-312-28061-0
$13.95?$: US dollar
xix+
232
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 Checkmark
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