Title: The Monitor, the Miners, and the Shree
Title Record # 7258
Author: Lee Killough
Date: 1980-04-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Lee Killough
Date: 1980-04-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the back cover of the Del Rey first edition
The team from the Department of Surveys and Charters wasn't anticipating anything special on Nira. DSC policy called for periodic studies of developing races on proscripted worlds, and it was merely time for another look at the winged, stone-age Shree.
The team of scientists were curious about how far the Shree might have come in their slow climb toward intelligence: Monitor Chemel Krar was mainly concerned with enforcing the absolute rule against any contact or interference with Nira's natives. The hardest part of the job would be sticking out the full five years of the study.
As it turned out, the study lasted five days. At the end of that time, one team member had died violently, and the rest were scattered over the face of Nira. Suddenly it was the Shree who were doing the studying...
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Monitor, the Miners and the Shree | 1980-04-00 | Lee Killough | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-28456-9 | $1.95?$: US dollar |
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. |
novel | Wayne Barlowe | |
The Monitor, the Miners and the Shree | 1980-04-00 | Lee Killough | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-28456-9 | C$2.50?C$: Canadian dollar |
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. |
novel | Wayne Barlowe |
Reviews
- Review by Greg Costikyan (1980) in Ares, #3 July 1980
- Review by Dean R. Lambe (1980) in Science Fiction Review, August 1980
- Review by John Clute (1980) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1980
- Review by Allan Magnus (1980) in Megavore 12 , reprinted in:
- The Science-Fiction Collector, Volume Three (1981)