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Title: A Case of Conscience

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Title: A Case of Conscience Title Record # 719149
Author: James Blish
Date: 1953-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: After Such Knowledge
Language: English
Note: Incorporated into the novel as Book One.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1964Translated by Salvador Hertog
Dutch Een gewetensvraag

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
1 2004 Retro Hugo Best Novella

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
If, September 1953 1953-09-00 ed. James L. Quinn Quinn Publishing Company, Inc.; Buffalo, NY  
$0.35?$: US dollar
124
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 Ken Fagg Checkmark
Best SF 1955-02-00 ed. Edmund Crispin Faber and Faber  
15/-?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).
368
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Best SF 1958-00-00 ed. Edmund Crispin Faber and Faber (Faber Paper Covered Editions)  
6/-?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).
368
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 Checkmark
Best SF 1962-00-00 ed. Edmund Crispin Faber and Faber     368
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Best SF 1962-00-00 ed. Edmund Crispin Faber and Faber (Faber Paper Covered Editions)  
7/6?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).
368
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 Checkmark
Best SF 1964-00-00 ed. Edmund Crispin Faber and Faber (Faber Paper Covered Editions)  
8/6?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).
368
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 Checkmark
Best SF 1964-00-00 ed. Edmund Crispin Faber and Faber      
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
De beste SF 1964-00-00 ed. Edmund Crispin Bruna (Zwarte beertjes #694/695) 694/695
ƒ2.95?ƒ: Dutch guilder
267
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 Dick Bruna Checkmark
Best SF 1969-00-00 ed. Edmund Crispin Faber and Faber 0-571-06268-7   368
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Best SF (revised edition) 1972-08-00 ed. Edmund Crispin Faber and Faber (Faber Paper Covered Editions) 0-571-09880-0
£0.70?£: UK pound
215
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 Checkmark
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 1980-11-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg Priam Books / Arbor House 0-87795-295-7
$9.95?$: US dollar
x+
768
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  
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 1980-12-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg Arbor House 0-87795-295-7
$19.95?$: US dollar
x+
768
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Antler & Baldwin, Inc. Checkmark
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 1981-05-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg Arbor House / SFBC 5754
$6.98?$: US dollar
viii+
753
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Antler & Baldwin, Inc. Checkmark
Worlds Imagined 1989-04-00 ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg Avenel Books 0-517-68029-7
$8.98?$: US dollar
x+
704
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Checkmark
Sacred Visions 1991-07-00 ed. Michael Cassutt, Andrew M. Greeley Tor 0-312-85173-1
$12.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
363
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 Bob Eggleton  
Sacred Visions 1991-07-00 ed. Michael Cassutt, Andrew M. Greeley Tor 0-312-85025-5
$24.95?$: US dollar
xii+
363
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Bob Eggleton Checkmark
Works of Art 2008-02-00 James Blish NESFA Press 978-1-886778-70-2
$29.00?$: US dollar
524
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll John Berkey Checkmark
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