Title: Mutant 59 The Plastic Eater

Title: Mutant 59 The Plastic Eater Title Record # 857123
Authors: Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler
Date: 1971-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English

Note: "Pedler and Davis reused the plot of the first episode of the series, "The Plastic Eaters", for their 1971 novel Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater, This was not technically a Doomwatch novel, however, and did not contain the characters from the series." [info from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomwatch]

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Year	Title
1971	Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters

Year	Language	Title
1972^ⓘTranslated by Kees van den Broek	Dutch	Mutant 59: De plasticvreter
1972	Portuguese	Mutante 59: a morte dos plásticos
1972^ⓘTranslated by Michel Deutsch	French	Mutant 59 ou la mort du plastique [as by Jerry Davis and Kit Pedler]
1974^ⓘTranslated by Rolf Palm	German	Die Plastikfresser
1974^ⓘTranslated by Rolf Palm (just as the first german edition).	German	Mutant 59: Der Plastikfresser
1975^ⓘTranslated by К. Сенин (K. Senin)	Russian	Мутант-59^?Mutant-59 [as by Дж. Дэвис^?Dzh. Devis and К. Педлер^?K. Pedler ]
1976^ⓘTranslated by Z. Inesis	Latvian	Mutants-59: Plastmasu ēdājs^?Mutants-59: Plastmasu eedaajs [as by Džerijs Deiviss and Kits Pedlers]
1977^ⓘTranslated by Beata Della Frattina	Italian	Lebbra antiplastica

Year	Language	Title
1974^ⓘTranslated by Beata Della Frattina	Italian	Lebbra antiplastica (Complete Novel)

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Mutant 59 The Plastic Eater	1971-00-00	Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler	Souvenir Press	0-285-62032-0	£1.80^?£: UK pound	295	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	S. R. Boldero
Mutant 59: The Plastic-Eaters	1972-02-00	Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler	The Viking Press	0-670-49662-6	$5.95^?$: US dollar	246	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Hal Siegel
Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters	1972-05-00	Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler	The Viking Press / SFBC	2253	$1.49^?$: US dollar	251	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Hal Siegel
Mutant 59 The Plastic Eater	1973-00-00	Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler	Pan Books	0-330-23796-9		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.	novel
Mutant 59: The Plastic-Eaters	1973-02-00	Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler	Bantam Books	T7499	$1.50^?$: US dollar	[i]+ 249	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
Mutant 59 The Plastic Eater	1974-00-00	Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler	Pan Books	0-330-23796-9		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.	novel
Mutant 59 The Plastic Eater	1974-00-00	Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler	Pan Books	0-330-23796-9	£0.40^?£: UK pound	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.	novel	Julian Cottrell
Mutant 59 The Plastic Eater	2012-04-01	Gerry Davis, Kit Pedler	Souvenir Press	978-0-285-64108-2	£2.39^?£: UK pound	[295]	ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Malcolm Edwards (1972) in Vector 60
Review by George Hay (1972) in Foundation, #2 June 1972
Review by Theodore Sturgeon (1972) in Galaxy Science Fiction [UK], September-October 1972 , reprinted in:
Galaxy Magazine, September-October 1972 (1972)
Review by Thomas F. Monteleone (1973) in Amazing Science Fiction, January 1973
Review by Richard E. Geis (1973) in The Alien Critic, May 1973
Review by Lester del Rey (1973) in Worlds of If, November-December 1973 [UK] , reprinted in:
Worlds of If, November-December 1973 (1973)